Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/10/2019

Attorney General William Barr said today that intelligence and law enforcement agencies spied on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016. Mr. Barr made his remarks in answers to questions at a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

In other news, in Italy two Moroccans are being investigated as suspects in the January bombing of a local office of the Lega, Matteo Salvini’s party.

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USA
» AG Barr: The Obama Administration Was ‘Spying’ on the Trump Campaign
» Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Reportedly Won an Audition by a Radical Leftist Group to Become a US Congresswoman
» Candace Owens Flips the Script at Dem Hearing on White Nationalism: The ‘Goal’ Here is to Scare Minorities Into Supporting Censorshi
» Digital Carjackers Show Off New Attacks
» Eric Swalwell Pushes Licensing, Insurance Requirements for Gun Owners
» Final Verdict: Liberal Concedes Defeat to Conservative in Wisconsin Supreme Court Election
» Gaming Channel Says it’s “Not OK” To Use the OK Hand Sign
» Hands on With Microsoft’s Chromium Edge Browser
» Man Randomly Handing Out $20 Bills, Paying for Meals at Waffle House Shot Dead…you Won’t Believe Why
» Oregon Woman Lived Until 99 With Organs in the Wrong Places
» PewDiePie Picks DLive as Exclusive Live-Streaming Platform, Will Donate Up to $50,000 to Other Creators (Exclusive)
» Presidential Candidate Calls for Mandatory Buyback of ‘Assault Weapons’
» Rashida Tlaib and Her Friends… Frightening Evidence Ties Friends of US Congresswoman to Extreme Terrorists
» Report: Google Manually Manipulates Search Results to Exclude Conservative Sites
» Report: Consumers Still Don’t Understand That Google is Always Watching Them
» Rockefeller Foundation to Disband ‘100 Resilient Cities Project’, Lay Off Staff
» Socialism or Communism: Call it What You Will
» Trump Order Will Clear the Way for Stalled Constitution Pipeline
» Twitter Rep. Grilled for Refusing to Explain ‘Deplatforming’ Protocols
» Warm Weather Sparks Out of Control Chicago Shooting Spree
» Watch: Maxine Waters Battles Steven Mnuchin — ‘This is a New Way, ‘ ‘I Have the Gavel’
» Watch: Candace Owens Savages Dem Rep. Ted Lieu After He Plays Edited Audio to Make Her Look Like a Hitler Supporter
» Your Car is Watching You. Who Owns the Data?
 
Canada
» Assessing Islamist Radicalization in Canada New MLI Report
» Climate Barbie Warns: Global Warming is Targeting Canada
 
Europe and the EU
» Brexit: IDS Rages Against ‘Arrogant’ Parliament ‘At Odds’ With British People
» ‘Cthulhu’ Fossil Reconstruction Reveals Monstrous Relative of Modern Sea Cucumbers
» France: Police Inadvertently Tear Gas Screaming Children During Yellow Vest Protest
» Germany: Islamic State Member on Trial for Allowing Enslaved Child to Die of Thirst
» Hungarian PM Announces Bold Seven-Point Action Plan to Fight Population Decline
» Italian NGO Founder Under Investigation for Child Sex Abuse
» Nationalist Alliances Forming in Europe Pose Threat to Globalism
» ‘Party for 17.4m People’: Brexit Party Polling Third Place for EU Elections
» Spain: Muslim Population in Catalonia Grew by 20% in 4 Years
» Study Claims ‘Anti-Muslim Sentiment’ May be Behind ‘White Flight’ Trends in Glasgow
» Terror in Germany: Investigators Have Foiled 13 Attacks Since 2010
» Town Hall Rich List: 2,440 UK Local Govt Employees Paid Over £100,000 a Year
» UK and EU Agree Brexit Delay to 31 October
» UK: Fury as Pregnant Shetland Pony Falls Over and Suffers a Miscarriage After Being Ridden by a Teenage Yob for Vile Snapchat Video
» UK: Roger Scruton Fired for Accurately Stating Word “Islamophobia” Was Invented by the Muslim Brotherhood
» UK: Teacher at Catholic London Secondary School is Suspended After it’s Discovered He ‘Can’t Read or Write’
» Wikileaks’ Julian Assange at Ecuadorian Embassy in London Target of ‘Extensive’ Spying Operation: Group
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» New York Times Declares ‘Setback’ For Netanyahu as He Wins Israeli Election
 
Far East
» New Species of Ancient Human Discovered in the Philippines
 
Australia — Pacific
» Exclusive: Star Pupil of ‘Centrelink School’ Scammer Rorted $66,000 of Taxpayer Money by Claiming Her Daughter Had ADHD and Doctoring Her Medical Reports With Liquid Paper
» New Zealand Passes Gun Laws Banning Semi-Automatic Weapons
 
Latin America
» Video: Dead Person Stripped of Their Pants in Lawless Venezuela
 
Immigration
» DHS Releases Nearly 8,000 Border Crossers, Illegal Aliens in One Week
» How Chicago Democrats Created Trump’s Border Wall Problem
» Italy: Migrants Investigated Over Bombing of Populist Salvini Party Office
» Ocasio-Cortez Says Climate Change is ‘Fueling’ The Immigration Crisis
» Tests Reveal That “Child Refugee” Seeking Asylum in France is 47 Years Old
» Video: Eighteen States Offer in-State Tuition for Illegals… and Legal Resident Students Are Not Happy About That
 
Culture Wars
» “If I Were the Devil” — America’s Culture War
» Buttigieg Tries to Stone Christians From His Glass House
» Operation Gender-Snip: Government Hormone Experiments on Children
» UK: ‘Conservatives’ Ignore Public, Introduce Quickie, No-Fault Divorce
» Video: Leftist Cries When Confronted by “It’s OK to be White” Sign
 

AG Barr: The Obama Administration Was ‘Spying’ on the Trump Campaign

On Wednesday, Attorney General William Barr insisted that intelligence agencies under former President Barack Obama spied on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election. He did not declare that this spying was illegal, but the spying is unsettling regardless.

“I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal. It’s a big deal,” Barr said in a Senate hearing on Wednesday. “There are a lot of rules put in place to make sure that there’s an adequate basis before our law enforcement agencies get involved in political surveillance. I’m not suggesting that those rules were violated but I think it’s important to look at that.”

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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Reportedly Won an Audition by a Radical Leftist Group to Become a US Congresswoman

Originally, the idea of Ocasio-Cortez auditioning for her role as a US Congresswoman seemed a bit off-the-rails, but as it turns out, it’s not really that crazy after all.

“Who are the brains behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?” asks “Mr. Reagan.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not really the congresswoman of New York’s 14th Congressional District. She is, essentially an actress. She’s merely playing the part of a New York Congresswoman.

I know this sounds crazy…but bear with me.

In 2017, a group called the Justice Democrats held auditions for potential congressional candidates that they would run on their platform for various congressional seats throughout the country. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s brother, Gabriel, submitted her for the role.

“Mr. Reagan” explains that he has also auditioned for many acting roles and has cast many people for roles. He claims that the Justice Democrats casting was perfect, saying that Ocasio-Cortez has “star power.” He explains that she’s “a superstar—the most famous person in Congress—maybe ever.” Mr. Reagan admits that he didn’t have to “go digging” for proof that Ocasio-Cortez was selected from a casting call for the part of US Congresswoman, saying, “They freely admit it. They brag about it,”

The video flips to Alexandra Rojas, the soft-spoken, very radical, executive director of “Justice Democrats.” “Back in 2016, we put out a call for nominations. We got over 10,000 nominations. Out of those 10,000 nominations, we found Alexandria.”

“My brother told me that he had sent my nomination in the summer, but I was literally working out of a restaurant. I was like, no way!” Ocasio can be seen saying, as she sits at a table with her now chief of staff, 33-year-old Saikat Chakrabarti, who is currently under investigation for FEC violations, after it was discovered that he funneled over $1 million in political donations into two of his own private companies. Seated next to Cahkrabarti, is the radical executive director of Justice Democrats, the group behind the casting call for Ocasio-Cortez’s job. Next to Ocasio-Cortez is Corbin Trent, is a Saul Alinsky disciple and is also Ocasio-Cortez’s top aide, or puppet master.

A casting call…they had a casting call. They cast Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the role of Congresswoman. And they did they so they could promote their own agenda.

In this video, I’m going to make three very serious accusations against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

1. She did not actually run for Congress.

2. She is a puppet Congresswoman.

3. The people controlling her are very dangerous.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Candace Owens Flips the Script at Dem Hearing on White Nationalism: The ‘Goal’ Here is to Scare Minorities Into Supporting Censorshi

The whole hearing was a farce but Owens managed to successfully flip the script and stole the show!

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Digital Carjackers Show Off New Attacks

A couple of hackers show off a series of nasty new attacks on cars—with Forbes’ Andy Greenberg behind the wheel.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Eric Swalwell Pushes Licensing, Insurance Requirements for Gun Owners

During his April 9, 2019, town hall in Florida, 2020 presidential hopeful Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said that he thinks licensing and insurance requirements for gun owners are worthy pursuits.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Final Verdict: Liberal Concedes Defeat to Conservative in Wisconsin Supreme Court Election

A conservative victory in Wisconsin now is a done deal in the election to replace retiring uber-liberal Justice Shirley Abrahamson.

We previously reported on the victory by conservative appeals court Justice Brian Hagedorn, Wisconsin Sup Ct election has Democrats worried for 2020 — Conservative has unexpected lead heading into possible recount.

There will be no recount, not that it would have made a difference since recounts rarely change more than a couple of hundred votes. Here, Hagedorn won by almost 6000 votes.

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

Gaming Channel Says it’s “Not OK” To Use the OK Hand Sign

According to gaming commentator Daniel Rosen, using the OK hand sign is “not OK”.

Last week, video game developer Blizzard banned people from making the OK hand gesture gesture at the Overwatch League venue after someone in the audience flashed it up in the background of a video.

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

Hands on With Microsoft’s Chromium Edge Browser

After weeks of leaks, Microsoft has finally dropped the first official preview build of its shiny new Chromium-based browser.

We took a look at the “Dev Channel” branded browser, version 74.1.96.24, currently for 64-bit Windows 10 (although the likes of Windows 7 will also see support eventually) to get a glimpse of the future. Unsurprisingly, that future looks a lot like Chrome.

Just with an Edge icon.

[Comment: Another reason not to use edge.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Man Randomly Handing Out $20 Bills, Paying for Meals at Waffle House Shot Dead…you Won’t Believe Why

Americans have been brainwashed into believing that they are somehow entitled to what others have earned. Today, a 41-year old good Samaritan had his life taken away when he decided to randomly pay for customers meals and pass out $20 bills to perfect strangers at a Gainesville, FL Waffle House. In normal times, every stranger would have been appreciative, they would have expressed their gratitude to the good Samaritan, and likely would have told several others about their good fortune. But we’re not living in normal times. We’re living in an era where it is now expected that if someone has more than you, it’s your right to take the excess amount from them. Such was the case with 25-year-old Ezekiel Hicks, who wasn’t satisfied with the gift of a perfect stranger, he wanted more.

44-year-old Craig Brewer, a good Samaratin, was shot to death at a Waffle House in Gainesville, Florida, after paying for random customers meals and handing out $20 bills to patrons in the restaurant.

According to the Political Insider — Craig Brewer, 41, was fatally shot after a man allegedly became upset because Brewer’s generosity didn’t include the woman he came to the restaurant with, according to witnesses, ABC News reported.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Oregon Woman Lived Until 99 With Organs in the Wrong Places

A US woman who died at 99 of natural causes unknowingly lived with her organs on the wrong side of her body due to a rare congenital condition.

Rose Marie Bentley, a pet feed store owner who passed away in October 2017, donated her body to research at a university in Portland, Oregon.

Students in an anatomy class were the first to notice many of her organs were not where they were supposed to be.

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

PewDiePie Picks DLive as Exclusive Live-Streaming Platform, Will Donate Up to $50,000 to Other Creators (Exclusive)

PewDiePie, YouTube’s most popular individual creator, is throwing his weight behind DLive — a live-streaming video service that promises far better economic terms for creators than other major platforms.

The vlogger-gamer-comedian, whose name is Felix Kjellberg, says he will use DLive exclusively (for the next several months, anyway) to present weekly live-streams. PewDiePie is slated to kick off his first official DLive stream on Sunday, April 14, at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET, at dlive.tv/pewdiepie and the DLive app.

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

Presidential Candidate Calls for Mandatory Buyback of ‘Assault Weapons’

Dem 2020 hopeful once hinted at nuking gun owners.

[Comment: Communists always seek to disarm their opponents before killing them.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Rashida Tlaib and Her Friends… Frightening Evidence Ties Friends of US Congresswoman to Extreme Terrorists

Now, the Israel Advocacy Movement has created a stunning video showing the close ties U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) has with not one, not two, but multiple friends who are supporters and even friends of extreme terrorists.

Here’s a post on Rashida Tlaib’s close friend and hard-left activist, Ahlam Jbara’s Facebook page, with images of Jbara posing with convicted terrorist, Rasmea Odeh

Here’s a video of Rashida Tlaib getting into the backseat of a vehicle with Ahlam Jbara.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Report: Google Manually Manipulates Search Results to Exclude Conservative Sites

Google manually manipulates search results in an effort to exclude conservative websites, such as the American Spectator, the Conservative Tribune, and the Gateway Pundit, according to documents leaked to the Daily Caller.

The documents leaked to the Daily Caller, which were reportedly approved by Google executives who report directly to CEO Sundar Pichai, detail two Google policies, known as the “misrepresentation policy” and the “good neighbor policy,” which determine what websites end up in the “XPA news blacklist.” …

In December, Google CEO Sundar Pichai claimed during a hearing before Congress, “we don’t manually intervene on any particular search result.”

Last year, a Google document titled “The Good Censor” was leaked to Breitbart News.

In the Good Censor document, Google admitted that tech companies were on a “shift toward censorship,” and should “police tone” of users.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Report: Consumers Still Don’t Understand That Google is Always Watching Them

According to recent industry research, a large number of Google users do not expect the site to track their activities, locations and browsing history on other platforms — all of which Google does on a regular basis.

An investigation by the Nieman Lab has found that many users do not expect Google to track their actions and movements, something which the tech giant has been known to do for some time. This presents a serious question: is Google failing to meet users expectations around consumer privacy?

Companies such as Google and Facebook have been at the center of a number of user data scandals in recent years, the most notable being Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal which appeared to shock most of the public after the personal details of 87 million users was left vulnerable. Nieman Labs reports that the Cambridge Analytica scandal was not, however, an isolated incident: …

Most people appear to expect Google to collect some data about them in order to better personalize products such as Google Search but Google’s continued tracking of users across multiple platforms appears to bother many consumers:

Google’s personal data collection practices affect the more than 2 billion people who use devices running their Android operating software and hundreds of millions more iPhone users who rely on Google for browsing, maps, or search. Most of them expect Google to collect some data about them in exchange for use of services.

However, as our research shows, a significant majority of consumers do not expect Google to track their activities across their lives, their locations, on other sites, and on other platforms. And as the AP discovered, Google continues to do some of this even after consumers explicitly turn off tracking. With new laws in Europe and California and with federal discussions about how to bring similar protections to the rest of America, it’s critical to understand what consumers actually demand, align expectations to those demands, and rebuild trust in our industry. Consumers expect nothing less.

Read the full report from the Nieman Lab here.

[ https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/04/does-google-meet-its-users-expectations-around-consumer-privacy-this-news-industry-research-says-no/ ]

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Rockefeller Foundation to Disband ‘100 Resilient Cities Project’, Lay Off Staff

But, it’s not what you think. They say the major objectives of 100RC have been met and that the resources are going to be repurposed to other projects. The Rockefeller Foundation will shift some funding to the Atlantic Council, another hotbed of Trilateral Commission members.

The Rockefeller Foundation will end funding and dismiss the staff at its 100 Resilient Cities program, the largest privately funded climate-adaptation initiative in the U.S., the foundation announced Monday.

[Comment: Goals met via traitorous politicians, now shifting their resource to implement more oppression using “pretend laws” implemented via their puppet politicians.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Socialism or Communism: Call it What You Will

For decades, Bernie Sanders has proclaimed that he is a socialist, but is he a communist? A common definition of communism is a system in which all means of production are owned, and all workers employed, by the state. A familiar definition of socialism is a system in which all means of production are owned or regulated by the state and all workers, therefore, employed or regulated by the state. Except for the qualification of “owned or regulated,” there is no difference between socialism and communism. Some might view socialism as “communism lite,” but there is nothing “lite” about the government takeover of all major industries that Bernie and other leading Democrats advocate.

The Left has already socialized America’s educational system, with SAT scores declining since their peak in 1964 and declining markedly since 2006. From what was traditionally local schools governed by local school boards, the American system of education became increasingly regulated by the federal government beginning in the 1960s as stipulations on curricula, standards, and treatment of race and sex were attached to the explosive rise in federal funding of education. By shifting funding away from state and local sources, the federal government was able to gain control of nearly every aspect of public education…

It’s not surprising that flashy politicians like Ocasio-Cortez, or seemingly attractive ones like Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris, can attract Millennial voters. “Free everything” and a sympathetic view of those struggling in the economy go a long way toward earning votes. Those were the same enticements employed by communists and fascists in the past. Hugo Chavez began as a populist who promised a better life for the masses. Today there is little food in Venezuela for those masses.

With the election of Democrats across the board in 2020, America would become a fully socialist country, not at all different from all socialist and communist countries of the past or present. Socialism means not just control of the economy; it means the annulment of all our freedoms. This includes revocation of the Second Amendment; universal government-funded abortion; elimination of religion from the public sphere; expansion of “hate speech” laws and other forms of censorship; use of the IRS, the FBI, and other agencies to suppress political opposition; expansion of the EPA, Fish and Wildlife, and other environmental agencies to control land use and restrict property rights; confiscation of wealth via taxation at 70% and more; and other assaults on the freedoms we enjoy.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Order Will Clear the Way for Stalled Constitution Pipeline

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to streamline energy projects like the Constitution Pipeline, a 124-mile natural gas pipeline from Pennsylvania to New York. Despite winning federal approval in 2014, the pipeline has yet to be built, thanks to New York regulators who denied the pipeline a permit under the Clean Water Act.

Trump will unveil the order at the International Union of Operating Engineers International Training and Education Center in Crosby, Texas, on Wednesday, Bloomberg News reported. Another executive order will promote cross-border energy infrastructure, like the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

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

Twitter Rep. Grilled for Refusing to Explain ‘Deplatforming’ Protocols

Twitter representative Carlos Monje refused to reveal what the social media giant’s protocols were on deplatforming users and banning ‘offensive’ content during a hearing today on Capitol Hill.

Monje, who is Twitter’s Director of Public Policy and Philanthropy, was grilled by Senator Josh Hawley during a committee on investigating political bias at Twitter and Facebook.

“Will you make the protocols public for the review of when you ban people like the Unplanned movie and Jesse Kelly?” asked Hawley.

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

Warm Weather Sparks Out of Control Chicago Shooting Spree

The warm weather is back, and with it Chicago’s iconic weekend mass shootings (which somehow never make it to the front pages).

Twenty four people were shot in 24 hours in Chicago between April 6-7, including three adults and three children, who died from gunshot-related injuries, according to the Chicago Police Department. The mayhem started early Saturday morning and continued into the afternoon hours on Sunday.

Police, and common sense, both allege that warmer weather was responsible for the surge in violent crime.

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

Watch: Maxine Waters Battles Steven Mnuchin — ‘This is a New Way, ‘ ‘I Have the Gavel’

Tuesday at the House Financial Services Committee hearing, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s battled with committee chairwoman Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA).

After explaining he had a meeting to go to, Mnuchin said, “I have sat here for over three hours and 15 minutes. I have told you I’ll come back. I just don’t believe we’re sitting here negotiating when I come back. We’ll follow up with your office. How long would you like me to come back for next time? I have told you I’ll accommodate you.”

Waters said, “I appreciate that, and I appreciate you reminding us of the length of the time the secretaries have been here. This is a new way and a new day, and it’s a new chair, and I have the gavel at this point. If you wish to leave, you may.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Watch: Candace Owens Savages Dem Rep. Ted Lieu After He Plays Edited Audio to Make Her Look Like a Hitler Supporter

When it was Democrat Rep. Ted Lieu’s turn to talk, instead of discussing the topic of hate crimes, he used his opportunity to use an audio clip of Candace Owens speaking about nationalism and attempted to smear her with it, by falsely accusing Owens of expressing her support for Adolph Hitler.

Watch, as the smug little Democrat lawmaker holds up his phone and knowingly plays an edited clip of Owens, in hopes of smearing her character, while Owens’ elderly grandfather sits behind her. Owens told the committee and guests in the chamber, “I don’t know Ms. Owens. I’m not going to characterize her. I’m going to let her own words do the talking. So, I’m going to play for you the first 30 seconds of a statement she made about Adolf Hitler.”

Instead of giving Owens a chance to respond, the arrogant Lieu moved directly to Eileen Hershenov, Senior Vice President Policy, Anti-Defamation League to ask her opinion on Owens’ support of Adolph Hitler, never once giving Candace Owens the opportunity to defend his vile mischaracterization of her to the committee and to the public watching the hearing.

Big mistake.

When it was time for Rep. Reschenthaler, the next Republican member of the committee to speak, he explained that he wanted to give Owens the opportunity to respond to Rep. Lieu’s vile accusation. Candace Owens began, “I think it’s pretty apparent that Mr. Lieu believes that black people are stupid and will not pursue the full clip in its entirety. He purposely presented an extracted clip…” Democrat House Judiciary Committee Chair, Jerry Nadler loudly banged his gavel and admonished Candace Owens, saying, “The witness will suspend for a moment. It is not proper to refer disparagingly to a member of the committee. Uh, the witness will not do that again.” Of course, Owens never called Lieu “stupid,” she only suggested that Mr. Lieu believes that black people are stupid, and therefore unable to defend themselves from his sort of trickery and deceit used to assassinate her character. After Chairman Nadler finished admonishing her, he told Owens to go ahead with her response. Owens responded, “Sure, even though I was called ‘despicable.’“ Nadler responded, “the witness may not respond to a member of the committee as stupid.” “I didn’t refer to him as stupid. That’s not what I said. That’s not what I said at all. You didn’t listen to what I said. May I continue?” Nadler was clearly shaken by Owens, who refused to be bullied by the leftist lawmakers, conceded, telling her to go ahead.

As I said, he is assuming that black people will not go pursue the full two-hour clip. He’s trying to present as if I’m launching a defense of Hitler in Germany, when in fact, the question that was asked of me was pertaining to whether or not I believed in nationalism and if nationalism was bad? What I responded was that I do not believe that we should not be characterizing Hitler as a nationalist, he was a homicidal, psychopathic, maniac, that killed his own people. A nationalist would not kill their own people. That is exactly what I was referring to in the clip and he purposely wanted to give you a cut-up, similar to what they do to Donald Trump to create a different narrative. That was unbelievably dishonest, and he did not allow me to respond to it, which is worrisome and should tell you a lot about where people are today in terms of trying to drum up narratives.” Owens went on to admonish the dirty Democrat by reminding him that she sat for 18 hours on a plane to travel to Israel to attend the US Embassy opening. Owens gave the smug lawmaker one last shot before ending her savage response to the dishonest Dem, “I’m deeply offended by the insinuation of revealing that clip without the question that was asked of me.”

Watch the epic takedown of Rep. Ted Lieu here:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Your Car is Watching You. Who Owns the Data?

If you’re driving a late model car or truck, chances are that the vehicle is mostly computers on wheels, collecting and wirelessly transmitting vast quantities of data to the car manufacturer not just on vehicle performance but personal information, too, such as your weight, the restaurants you visit, your music tastes and places you go.

A car can generate about 25 gigabytes of data every hour and as much as 4,000 gigabytes a day, according to some estimates. The data trove in the hands of car makers could be worth as much as $750 billion by 2030, the consulting firm McKinsey has estimated. But consumer groups, aftermarket repair shops and privacy advocates say the data belongs to the car’s owners and the information should be subject to data privacy laws.

Yet Congress has yet to pass comprehensive federal data privacy legislation. And although Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, has said he would like to see federal privacy legislation passed by the end of the year, it is unclear if that goal can be met.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Assessing Islamist Radicalization in Canada New MLI Report

With ISIS facing complete collapse, Canada is now forced to deal with an uncomfortable reality; there are Canadians who joined or supported movements such as ISIS and Al-Qaeda who are coming home or are already here.

What do we know about these individuals? Who are they, and how many are living here? And, by better understanding those things, what can we glean about the process of Islamist radicalization in Canada? .

MLI Munk Senior Fellow Alex Wilner, with MLI research intern Irfan Yar, sets out to answer these questions and more in a new report titled Canadian Terrorists by the Numbers: An Assessment of Canadians Joining and Supporting Terrorist Groups. Wilner has developed a dataset of Canadian Islamist radicalization in order to provide a detailed sketch of individuals suspected of having facilitated, sponsored, or participated in terrorism between 2006 and 2017.

Using open sources, the authors were able to find “95 individuals with a nexus to Canada who have, or are suspected of having, radicalized, mobilized, and/or participated in Islamist terrorist activity between 2006 and 2017.”

The report takes a deep dive into the existing literature and data on European and US radicalization, examining both the contemporary and historical trends when it comes to jihadist activity. They find that factors pushing individuals toward radicalization include the difficulty of minority groups properly integrating into Western society, friendship or family bonds, and poor education outcomes.

But Canada is not Europe and Canadian radicals have their own characteristics.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Climate Barbie Warns: Global Warming is Targeting Canada

“The science is clear. Canada is warming faster than the rest of the world from human-caused climate change,” said Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, in a Wednesday morning tweet.

Canada’s disproportionate warming “is an alarming reminder of the need to take real action and continue fighting climate change. We can, we must, and we will,” Ms. McKenna said.

McKenna, affectionately known as “Climate Barbie,” was referencing a claim by the World Economic Forum that “Canada is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world.”

One might be tempted to think that a little warming might do Canada some good.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Brexit: IDS Rages Against ‘Arrogant’ Parliament ‘At Odds’ With British People

Former Conservative Party leader and Brexiteer Iain Duncan Smith MP condemned Britain’s “arrogant” Parliament for abusing the sovereignty lent to it by the British people to ram through legislation aimed at stopping Brexit.

Speaking to Sky News’s Adam Boulton on Wednesday morning, Mr Duncan Smith warned that the House of Commons is at odds with the majority of the British people who voted for Brexit because “an overwhelming majority of MPs are mostly people who don’t want to leave.”

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

‘Cthulhu’ Fossil Reconstruction Reveals Monstrous Relative of Modern Sea Cucumbers

An exceptionally-preserved fossil from Herefordshire in the UK has given new insights into the early evolution of sea cucumbers, the group that includes the sea pig and its relatives, according to a new article published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Palaeontologists from the UK and USA created an accurate 3D computer reconstruction of the 430 million-year-old fossil which allowed them to identify it as a species new to science. They named the animal Sollasina cthulhu due to its resemblance to monsters from the fictional Cthulhu universe created by author H.P. Lovecraft.

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

France: Police Inadvertently Tear Gas Screaming Children During Yellow Vest Protest

Footage out of Nantes, France shows police inadvertently tear gassing screaming children on a merry-go-round during a Yellow Vest protest.

The demonstration took place near a public park where children were enjoying fairground rides.

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

Germany: Islamic State Member on Trial for Allowing Enslaved Child to Die of Thirst

A German Islamic State member is facing trial for murder after she allowed a five-year-old child who had been enslaved in Iraq to die of thirst.

The woman, identified as 27-year-old Jennifer S., left Germany in 2014 to travel to Iraq where she joined the terror group and worked as a member of the morality police in Fallujah and Mosul, allegedly undertaking her patrols armed and wearing a suicide vest, 20 Minutes reports.

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Hungarian PM Announces Bold Seven-Point Action Plan to Fight Population Decline

BUDAPEST — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced here on Sunday in his annual speech a bold seven-point action plan on helping families with children in order to tackle population decline.

According to Orban, whose speech has been broadcast by public television channel M1, the first point of his plan is to support young couples, with each woman under 40 years old to receive a loan of 10 million forints (around $35,000). After giving birth to three children, the loan would not have to be paid back, and would become a non-refundable support.

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Italian NGO Founder Under Investigation for Child Sex Abuse

The founder and president of a major Italian NGO operating in Africa has been arrested after allegedly sexually abusing a young boy in Togo.

The alleged abuse is said to have taken place over the span of seven years from 2007 to 2014 and occurred under threats from the NGO head towards the victim, Il Giornale reports.

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Nationalist Alliances Forming in Europe Pose Threat to Globalism

Italy’s Matteo Salvini recently said his nationalist party, The League, is here to stay. Dan Lyman with Infowars Europe joins Owen to discuss the future of Europe and solutions for the immigration crisis.

[Comment: Next step for banksters — using their privately owned central bank to collapse economies of western countries and blame it on “populism”.]

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‘Party for 17.4m People’: Brexit Party Polling Third Place for EU Elections

The Nigel Farage-led Brexit Party is polling in third place ahead of European Parliament elections, with Tory Party numbers “significantly squeezed” by the emergence of the new eurosceptic group.

The poll by the Open Europe think tank ranked Labour in pole position with a considerable lead over the Conservatives, 37.8 per cent to 23 per cent, while the new Brexit Party has 10.3 per cent of voters’ support.

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Spain: Muslim Population in Catalonia Grew by 20% in 4 Years

Catalonia has the fastest growing Muslim population in Spain — and more Islamic centres than any other region in the country.

Here, the left has total hegemony and the patriotic forces are being literally persecuted by the leftists, Defend Europa reports.

From 2011 to 2015, the number of Muslims in Catalonia has grown by 19.5%. That translates to 83,000 more people than 4 years ago.

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Study Claims ‘Anti-Muslim Sentiment’ May be Behind ‘White Flight’ Trends in Glasgow

A study has found that white British homeowners in Glasgow, Scotland, were more likely to move house when people from Pakistani or other Muslim backgrounds moved into the neighbourhood.

Professor of Urban Economics and Social Statistics at the University of Sheffield, Gwilym Pryce, said the data left researchers “with the uncomfortable possibility” that the “white flight” trends they observed having taken place in the Scottish city could be partly driven by “anti-Pakistani or anti-Muslim sentiment”.

Using property registration data for 40 per cent of the most deprived areas of Glasgow, the study noted the names of both buyers and sellers in every property purchase between 2003 and 2014 in order to look at the impact that inflows of “ethnically ‘other’ name-group” homeowners had on home buying in the local areas.

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Terror in Germany: Investigators Have Foiled 13 Attacks Since 2010

Authorities have prevented 13 terror attacks planned on German soil in the last nine years, new figures revealed on Wednesday show.

According to the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), which coordinates state and nationwide police investigations in Germany, the attacks prevented since 2010 are linked to Islamic extremism.

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Town Hall Rich List: 2,440 UK Local Govt Employees Paid Over £100,000 a Year

Local council bosses are being paid up to half a million pounds a year, salaries more than three times that of the Prime Minister, according to the annual town hall rich list.

The report by the Taxpayer’s Alliance found that 2,440 council bosses are paid more than £100,000 a year — this means on average, each of the 408 local authorities in the country has six staff being paid these high sums.

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UK and EU Agree Brexit Delay to 31 October

The UK and the EU have agreed a “flexible extension” of Brexit until 31 October, European Council president Donald Tusk has said.

Speaking after five hours of talks at an EU summit in Brussels, Mr Tusk said his “message to British friends” was “please do not waste this time”.

Theresa May said the UK would still aim to leave the EU as soon as possible.

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UK: Fury as Pregnant Shetland Pony Falls Over and Suffers a Miscarriage After Being Ridden by a Teenage Yob for Vile Snapchat Video

This is the horrific moment a pregnant Shetland pony falls to the ground and loses her foal after being ridden by a teenage yob.

Distressing footage, shared on Snapchat, shows the teen straddling the animal and waving at the person filming on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall.

The mare eventually falls to the ground after struggling to take the weight and she subsequently suffered a miscarriage.

Pictures of the stricken mare lying next to her dead foal were then shared on social media as part of an appeal to bring the culprits to justice.

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UK: Roger Scruton Fired for Accurately Stating Word “Islamophobia” Was Invented by the Muslim Brotherhood

Author and philosopher Roger Scruton was fired from his position as an adviser to the UK government on housing after he accurately stated that “Islamophobia” was “a propaganda word invented by the Muslim Brotherhood”.

Scruton lost his role as chair of the Building Better Building Beautiful Commission over comments he made to the New Statesman during an interview.

Scruton said Islamophobia was “a propaganda word invented by the Muslim Brotherhood in order to stop discussion of a major issue.”

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UK: Teacher at Catholic London Secondary School is Suspended After it’s Discovered He ‘Can’t Read or Write’

Struggling to read and write was not enough to stop a teacher getting a job at a top secondary school.

Faisal Ahmed was given the green light by elite teacher training program TeachFirst despite having ‘extreme difficulty with handwriting’, problems with reading and understanding ‘written tests’.

Just days into his new job at St Thomas More Catholic school in leafy Wood Green, north London, he was summoned by the headmaster and suspended, reported The Sun.

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Wikileaks’ Julian Assange at Ecuadorian Embassy in London Target of ‘Extensive’ Spying Operation: Group

The founder of WikiLeaks has been the target of a protracted spying operation from inside the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he has been holed up since 2012, the anti-secrecy group claimed Wednesday.

WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson said at a news conference that images, audio recordings, and security videos of Julian Assange were recovered by Spanish police in Madrid during a sting operation. The unnamed individuals in the sting had threatened to start publishing the items unless they were paid $3.4 million, according to WikiLeaks.

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New York Times Declares ‘Setback’ For Netanyahu as He Wins Israeli Election

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won an historic fifth term in Israeli’s national elections Tuesday, with his Likud Party narrowly edging the opposition Blue and White Party and the right-wing bloc of parties likely to form the next government.

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New Species of Ancient Human Discovered in the Philippines

Humankind’s tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch: Researchers in the Philippines announced today that they have discovered a species of ancient human previously unknown to science.

The small-bodied hominin, named Homo luzonensis, lived on the island of Luzon at least 50,000 to 67,000 years ago. The hominin—identified from a total of seven teeth and six small bones—hosts a patchwork of ancient and more advanced features. The landmark discovery, announced in Nature on Wednesday, makes Luzon the third Southeast Asian island in the last 15 years to bear signs of unexpectedly ancient human activity.

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Exclusive: Star Pupil of ‘Centrelink School’ Scammer Rorted $66,000 of Taxpayer Money by Claiming Her Daughter Had ADHD and Doctoring Her Medical Reports With Liquid Paper

A star pupil of an expert Sydney welfare cheat rorted $66,000 from Centrelink in an outrageous scam.

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New Zealand Passes Gun Laws Banning Semi-Automatic Weapons

New Zealand’s Parliament on Wednesday passed sweeping gun laws that outlaw military style weapons, less than a month after mass shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch left 50 people dead and dozens wounded.

A bill outlawing most automatic and semi-automatic weapons and banning components that modify existing weapons was passed by a vote of 119 to 1 in the House of Representatives after an accelerated process of debate and public submission.

The bill needs only the approval of New Zealand’s governor general, a formality, before becoming law on Friday.

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Video: Dead Person Stripped of Their Pants in Lawless Venezuela

A horrific video out of Venezuela shows a person being stripped of their pants as they lay dead in the street.

The clip shows the dead person, who was reportedly shot, being stripped of their clothing as people scream in the background.

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DHS Releases Nearly 8,000 Border Crossers, Illegal Aliens in One Week

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released nearly 8,000 border crossers and illegal aliens over the last week, new federal data confirms.

According to catch and release numbers obtained by Breitbart News, DHS has released about 7,935 border crossers and illegal aliens into the interior of the United States in the last seven days.

The catch and release process often entails federal immigration officials busing border crossers into nearby border cities and dropping them off with the promise that they will show up for their immigration and asylum hearings, sometimes years later. The overwhelming majority of border crossers and illegal aliens are never deported from the country once they are released into the U.S.

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How Chicago Democrats Created Trump’s Border Wall Problem

President Trump’s initiative to build a border wall on the southern border of the U.S. is meeting with an extraordinary amount of resistance from the Democratic Party. The Democrats have gathered their forces and are exerting an unprecedented resistance to Pres. Trump’s efforts to control illegal immigration, when only a few years ago they voted for a border wall.

In order to understand the anti-wall effort, it’s necessary to briefly review the history of the Democratic Party’s immigration model of politics. Only an historical perspective can provide the necessary background essential to comprehending the hysterical nature of the DNC’s resistance to President Trump’s border wall project.

The Democrats have a long history of endeavoring to manipulate political power. Since the governmental leaders of the U.S. are elected, and each person has an equal vote in local, state, and national elections, the Democrats have always attempted to manipulate the numbers of Democrat voters.

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Italy: Migrants Investigated Over Bombing of Populist Salvini Party Office

A pair of Moroccan migrants in Italy are under investigation in connection with the bombing of an office of populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s League party.

The attack occurred in January and saw the front door of the League office in San Valentino Torio damaged following an explosive blast that was downplayed by left-wing politicians as “Christmas fireworks,” Il Giornale reports.

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Ocasio-Cortez Says Climate Change is ‘Fueling’ The Immigration Crisis

AOC said climate change was a “major factor” behind the wave of migrants making their way to the U.S. southern border.

[Comment: Is there no end to her parroting and pushing a globalist agenda?]

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Tests Reveal That “Child Refugee” Seeking Asylum in France is 47 Years Old

Two men recently attempted to claim asylum in France stating that they were both minors until fingerprint tests revealed that they were not even close to being under 18.

They presented themselves to officers at a police station in the commune of Angoulême with both claiming that they were 16-years-old in order to take advantage of measures aimed at helping underage asylum seekers, Charente Libre reports.

One of the men, who claimed to be from the African nation of Mali, was revealed to be 21 years old, while the other man, who presented police with a birth certificate from Guinea, was revealed to be 47 years old, after his fingerprints were connected to a passport he had used to enter Spain.

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Video: Eighteen States Offer in-State Tuition for Illegals… and Legal Resident Students Are Not Happy About That

The Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that colleges in Georgia are not required to admit illegal immigrant students.

The decision further sparked a national conversation about the rights of Dreamers, as well as the legality of offering them in-state tuition benefits, which usually allow students attending college in their home states to pay far less than their peers from different states.

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“If I Were the Devil” — America’s Culture War

Some of you from my generation, maybe earlier maybe later, remember Paul Harvey. Even during my younger days, I enjoyed his commentaries and his “Rest of the Story” broadcasts. In 1965, he broadcast a rather prophetic warning to Americans. “If I Were the Devil” was apparently reworked by him over the years, but the message delivered as only Paul Harvey could is more appropriate today than any other time I can recall. And as they say here in the hills, “I’ve been around here a day or two.” Another great one is, “So God Made a Farmer.” Take a couple of minutes and listen to both. You may want to listen to them more than once.

As he did with most every topic, Paul Harvey grasped the heart of America. He aptly zeroed in on what truly makes America great. It is her boundless middle-class people like our farmers who still feed the world, but he just as aptly pointed out what may destroy us. The loss of our God, Family, and Country culture. Today he’d be reviled by large segments of our society. He’d be branded with the whole list of phobic epithets we read or hear broadcast across today’s major media platforms and reserved for the voices declaring love of America. Branded by the people determined to shred our binding fabric ripping us from our cultural foundation and replacing it with something wholly unrecognizable. Not only unrecognizable to our founders, but also unrecognizable to the ignorant cheering for it.

God, Family, and Country buttress our free and civil society. Remove them or damage them so severely they become meaningless, and you destroy America.

[Comment: This is why leftists aka communists assaulted Christianity, family and branded nationalism as equivalent to National Socialism. Leftist and their globlist handlers seek to destroy the Republic of the USA, to transform it into a USSA — a Union of Socialist States of America.]

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Buttigieg Tries to Stone Christians From His Glass House

Dem candidate calls Christian supporters hypocritical for supporting Trump.

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Operation Gender-Snip: Government Hormone Experiments on Children

Globalists want full control of your children

No consent, no testing, no concern.

In both the US & UK, dangerous hormone therapy is being given to kids as young as 8 — in an off label use — by our governments.

Why did we have Nuremberg Trials?

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UK: ‘Conservatives’ Ignore Public, Introduce Quickie, No-Fault Divorce

The UK’s Conservative government will introduce no-fault divorce laws and abolish a spouse’s ability to contest a divorce, the justice minister has announced, despite widespread public opposition to the plans.

David Gauke said that legislation to introduce divorce on demand, with “irretrievable breakdown” of a marriage left as the only grounds for a split, will be introduced “as soon as parliamentary time allows”.

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Video: Leftist Cries When Confronted by “It’s OK to be White” Sign

A Houston woman was literally shaking when she came across a group of people holding a sign reading, “It’s OK to be white.”

In a video shot by Houston Infowars Army members Sunday, a bicyclist approaches the group asking why they’re waving the banner.

“It’s not OK,” she tells them.

When one of the group members tells the woman it’s OK to be any skin color, the leftist concedes, “Yes, it’s OK to be white,” but adds, “but you have not faced oppression.”

“It hurts my heart to see people do this,” the woman claims as she starts hyperventilating.

As the conversation continues, the woman predictably reveals she is not a supporter of President Donald Trump.

“Her message is loud and clear, it’s not OK to be white?,” one person wrote in YouTube comments.

“Wow. Her brainwashing is coming to a moment where she doesnt know how to process something. F*ckin NPC,” another user said.

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4 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/10/2019

  1. Re: Oregon woman lived… with organs in wrong places.

    Lewis Carroll, of “Alice” fame, had reversed organs, and could “mirror write” with his left hand as easily as doing it the “right” way round with his right. See “Though the Looking Glass” (of course), but also many reversals of “normality” in his works.

  2. Yes, if the idea is that the globe is warming, surely it is good for greater warming to happen in Canada. Mind you, another report seemed to warn that things were also warming up twice as fast in Sweden. Well, they could use it too. What is ridiculous, of course is that they must be talking about mere fractions of a degree. Has anyone revealed what this “twice as fast” in fact amounts to?

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