Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/8/2019

British Prime Minister Theresa May is resisting calls from her party to resign, and maintains that the failure of Brexit and the disintegration of the “Conservatives” are not her fault. Meanwhile, Mrs. May is reportedly considering a second Brexit referendum if her deal with Labour doesn’t pan out.

In other news, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has signed a law that will ease restrictions on citizens who want to purchase firearms and ammunition.

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Financial Crisis
» EU Not Working for Workers: High Employment, But Jobs Bad and Pay Low
 
USA
» Anti-Car Policies Mean Even More People Are Dying on LA’s Highways
» Bilderberg Elites Planned Free Speech Crackdown Prior to Trump Win, Internet ID Next Step
» CAIR Puts Bull’s-Eye on ‘Islamophobic’ Organizations
» Censorship: Facebook Completely Removes Bounding Into Comics’s 250k+ Strong Fan Page
» ‘Click-Gap’ Is Facebook’s Latest Tool to Favor Establishment Media
» CNN Further Normalizes Leftist Antifa Terrorists
» CNN Host in Interview With Antifa Member: ‘F*** Tucker Carlson’
» College Students Support Censorship of Conservatives
» Colorado Shooting Updates: Heroic Details Emerge About Incident at School
» Facebook Says it Will Still Allow Holocaust Denial, Just Not InfoWars Links
» Facebook Hired Former Hillary Press Director to Inform Media of Alex Jones Ban
» Facebook Calls Me ‘Dangerous’. Imagine My Shock. No, Really…
» Instagram to “Fact Check” & Remove Memes
» Journalist Andy Ngo Posts Video of Possible Antifa Member Allegedly Assaulting Him and Stealing His Phone
» Liberal Says it’s Not OK to be White
» Microsoft’s “ElectionGuard”: Doublespeak for ElectionTheft
» MSM Releases Fake Polls to Rig 2020 Election
» MSNBC Shows Clear Bias in Support of Biden Over Trump
» Offended by What Someone Said? Now You Can Report Them to Law Enforcement
» Pelosi Warns: “We Cannot Accept a 2nd Term for Donald Trump” [Video]
» President Trump Pardons Army Ranger Who Killed Al Qaeda Explosives Transporter… Here Are the Details
» Progressives Attack Tiger Woods Over Presidential Medal of Freedom Award
» Steele’s Stunning Pre-FISA Confession: Informant Needed to Air Trump Dirt Before Election
» STEM School Shooter Hated Christians, Trump
» Twitter Bans One AOC Parody Account. Five More Take Its Place.
» Why Scientists Are Betting on Light Therapy to Cure Alzheimer’s: Study Finds an Hour a Day of Flashing Light Stopped the Disease in Mice by Thwarting Two Proteins — as Human Trials Get Under Way
 
Europe and the EU
» Commercial Desertification Grows in Italy’s Remote Villages
» France: Hostages Freed and Young Gunman Arrested in Toulouse
» French Police Arrest Man in Connection to Faeces Smearing Church Attack
» French Business Owners Call on Government to Help Deal With Expected Ramadan Violence
» Italy: Fresh Protests Against Council House for Roma
» Juncker: EU Should Have ‘Interfered’ In Brexit Vote to ‘Destroy’ Leave ‘Lies’
» Le Pen Ahead of Macron in Latest EU Election Polls
» Notorious Islamic Hate Preacher Deported From Switzerland
» ‘Orban and Salvini Did the Job!’ German MEP’s Claim Migration Was ‘Success of EU’ Trashed
» Outcry as 65,000 German Students Sign Petition Saying End-of-School Maths Exam Was Too Difficult — But Teaching Union Boss Dismisses Them as ‘Snowflake Generation Wrapped in Cotton Wool’
» Paris: Islamist Bus Driver Refuses to Pick up Woman Because of Short Skirt
» Salvini, Orban Alliance: “if the Left Wins, Europe Will Become an Islamic Caliphate”
» Theresa May Faces Tory Ultimatum: Pick Your Resignation Date or We Will
» Theresa May Secretly be Considering a New Brexit Referendum
» Theresa May Rejects Calls to Resign, Disowns Brexit Failures
» UK: ‘Totally Sick’: Holocaust Survivor Family Brexit Party Candidate’s Business Daubed With Swastika
» UK: Rotherham: 40 Arrested in Latest Child Sex Abuse Probe
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» See How Unknown 19-Year-Old Became Palestinian Hero
 
Middle East
» On the Brink of an Apocalyptic War With Iran, And Most Americans Don’t Seem to Care
 
Far East
» Here’s Why the China Trade Deal Fell Apart
» New Species of Bat Winged Dinosaur Discovered
 
Australia — Pacific
» ‘Can You Marry Your Brother-in-Law?’ Accountant’s Chilling Posts About Burying His Wife Before He Murdered Her — After Sending Thousands of Messages to Her Sister
» Exclusive: ‘Egg Girl’ Was on a Good Behaviour Bond for Another Assault Just Weeks Before She ‘Egged the PM’ — As Her Employer Says She’s is ‘Entitled to Hold Her Own Opinions’ And Will Keep Her Job
» ‘Lawless’ Teenagers Run Riot Through a Shopping Street — But Business Owners Fear They Can’t be Stopped Because They See Being Arrested as a ‘Badge of Honour’
 
Latin America
» Brazil’s Bolsonaro Signs Decree Easing Gun Laws
 
Immigration
» Arizona Democrats Claim No Border Crisis — Then Beg Trump for Help With Flood of Migrants
» Migrants at Southern Border Top 100k for 2nd Month in a Row
» Paris Taxi Drivers Avoiding Migrant Areas so as Not to Shock Tourists
» Trump Can Enforce Asylum Policies Says… the Ninth Circuit?
 
Culture Wars
» After the Boomers Are Gone, The Bloodshed Begins
» Anti-Christian Group Sues Dept of Veteran Affairs Over Bible Display
» Assault Charge for Student Who Punched Campus Pro-Life Activist
» CNN Contributor: ‘When Woman is Pregnant, That’s Not Human Being Inside Her’
» Converse Launches LGBT Shoe Line Featuring Preteen ‘Drag Kid’
» Fall of the West: Met Gala Highlights Decadence & Degradation of Society
» Female Athletes Speak Out When Transgender Athletes Join Their Team [Video]
» Gay State Rep Offers People $100 to Dox Teen Girls Praying for Babies at Planned Parenthood
» Govt Lets Pedophiles Go Free in the Name of National Security
» ‘I Stand With Israel Folau’: Mark Latham Blasts Political Correctness, ‘White Privilege’ And the ‘LGBTQIWTF Alphabet’ In His Maiden Speech to Parliament
» Men’s Rights Activist Roosh V Banned From Instagram, Chase Wepay After Announcing US Speaking Tour
» Our Brave New World: Aldous Huxley Tried to Warn Us
» Pro-Life College Student Hit/Kicked by Deranged Leftist: “This is Triggering!” [Video]
» Royal Baby Reported as “Boy”? Children’s Rights Advocates Furious
» Texas A&M Event Blames Christianity for Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia
» The Religion of Feeling: A Warning to Conservatives
» ‘We No Longer Subscribe to a Binary World’: Primary School Renames Its Mother’s Day Stall in Case it Offends Children Who Don’t Have a Mum
 

EU Not Working for Workers: High Employment, But Jobs Bad and Pay Low

The Financial Times has admitted that the European working class have seen few gains from the post-crash recovery, fuelling a continued sense of grievance against the political establishment ahead of the EU Parliament elections.

“The trend is clear across EU countries: workers are losing economic ground,” begins the salmon-pink newspaper, a normally studiously europhile gazette which is part of the unofficial uniform of the typical City of London worker.

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

Anti-Car Policies Mean Even More People Are Dying on LA’s Highways

Fatal car crashes are now almost one-third higher than in 2015

In an April 29 Los Angeles Times article titled, “More dying on L.A. streets,” Laura Nelson reported on Mayor Garcetti’s Vision Zero plan and the City Council’s corresponding Mobility Plan 2035 so far.

Vision Zero intended to eliminate traffic fatalities by 2025 through street system management. Echoing its vision of improving accident safety as the primary criterion for transportation investments, Mobility Plan 2035 is a 20-year initiative to remove automobile lanes, reducing car carrying capacity and speed, create more bus and bike lanes and improve pedestrian safety.

Unfortunately, after three and a half years, Vision Zero has been far from a success in achieving its interim benchmark (a 20% fatality reduction by 2017).

While there has been a slight decline in fatalities over the past two years, Nelson reports that fatal car crashes are now almost one-third higher than in 2015, when the program began (although the city measures progress since 2016, the deadliest traffic year in L.A. history, in a questionable effort to bolster claims of success).

Despite failing to meet its goals, so far, Vision Zero supporters are still on board, though given the electoral costs to political careers of admitting errors, that is hardly surprising.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Bilderberg Elites Planned Free Speech Crackdown Prior to Trump Win, Internet ID Next Step

In June of 2016, Prior to the current social media purge, Bilderberg elites discussed implementing an Internet ID in Dresden, Germany.

The Bilderberg group has served as a secretive gathering of world elites for decades. Decisions made at the meetings are often implemented by attendees working to establish a world order.

Paul Joseph Watson reported on the 2016 meeting, “According to our source, the creation of a virtual passport that web users will need to obtain before they can use many Internet services is high on the agenda.”

As Infowars reported based on sources within the meeting, the proposed Internet ID would allow Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to “use the online passport to revoke posting permission if a user violates terms of agreement.”

Under the Obama administration, a National Internet ID was proposed. CBS News reported in 2011,

“President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans.”

The program was sold as being “voluntary”, and was never fully implemented.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

CAIR Puts Bull’s-Eye on ‘Islamophobic’ Organizations

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, named an unindicted co-conspirator in a terror funding trial and designated a terrorist group by the United Arab Emirates, has issued a report blasting individuals and groups that fund charitable work it labels “Islamophobic.”

While the term is defined as having or showing a dislike of or prejudice against Islam, it has been applied to anyone who criticizes its holy book’s teaching that violence for the sake of establishing Shariah worldwide is justified.

The report is endorsed by Heidi Beirich of the discredited Southern Poverty Law Center. She states CAIR’s report “should serve as a wake up call to those foundations and donor advised funds that have helped funnel resources to individuals and organizations that” support “the rising tide of hatred against the Muslim community.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Censorship: Facebook Completely Removes Bounding Into Comics’s 250k+ Strong Fan Page

Facebook has censored Bounding Into Comics and completely removed our 250k+ strong Facebook page.

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

‘Click-Gap’ Is Facebook’s Latest Tool to Favor Establishment Media

Facebook received a lot of attention for overt censorship last week. But the social network is engaging in covert suppression of independent media too — most recently with its introduction of “Click-Gap,” a way of favoring established websites and suppressing non-established ones.

The Click-Gap system will penalize websites that haven’t established “authority” outside Facebook, where “authority” is measured by the number of clicks they receive from sources outside the platform, such as mainstream media sources.

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

CNN Further Normalizes Leftist Antifa Terrorists

It’s been over three years since the FBI and the Department of Homeland security referred to the radical leftist Antifa movement’s behavior as that of a “domestic terrorist” organization, but that hasn’t stopped CNN from promoting their activities. Just days after CNN host Chris Cuomo argued that Antifa was a “true” and “good cause,” social justice warrior Kamau Bell on Sunday’s United Shades of America offered a national platform to an Antifa member while offering no pushback against their violent tactics.

Completely ignoring the terrorist designation, Bell sat down with a young woman who only went by the name Ariel. As they began their discussion, Bell allowed her to twist and lie about what Antifa actually was:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

CNN Host in Interview With Antifa Member: ‘F*** Tucker Carlson’

CNN host W. Kamau Bell cursed out Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Sunday night, during an interview with an Antifa activist on his show “United Shades of America.”

Bell, who spoke at an Antifa rally in the summer of 2017, was interviewing a woman who goes by the name Ariel, and he began by disclosing his history with Carlson on the subject of Antifa.

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

College Students Support Censorship of Conservatives

This is why the establishment gets away with whatever they want

Kent State University students tell Kaitlin Bennett they support the censorship of conservative voices on social media.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Colorado Shooting Updates: Heroic Details Emerge About Incident at School

Kendrick Castillo was about to graduate from high school. Then a classmate began shooting.

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. — He was a high school senior, set to graduate this week.

But instead of celebrating Kendrick Castillo’s graduation, the family of the 18-year-old will be mourning his death.

Castillo, a senior at STEM School Highlands Ranch in suburban Denver, was killed in a classroom Tuesday in a shooting that police say was carried out by a pair of his classmates: 18-year-old Devon Erickson and a younger classmate who has not been identified because she is a juvenile. Eight other students were injured.

The shooting happened at the end of the school year during a British literature class. The toll exacted by the shooters could easily have been worse. Deputies arrived within two minutes of the first call, officials said. A security guard restrained a shooter. And accounts provided by students and by a military official suggest that Castillo and several classmates sprang into action when the shooters began firing.

It marked the second time in a week that targets of a shooting at a school appeared to play a role in quelling it: One of the students killed in a shooting last week at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte has been hailed for his role in thwarting the attacker there.

Nui Giasolli was in class in Colorado when she said a classmate began shooting. She told NBC’s “Today” that Castillo lunged at the man who opened fire and was shot. Several other classmates also worked to take down the shooter, she said.

“The next thing I know, he’s pulling a gun and telling nobody to move,” Giasolli said. “That’s when Kendrick lunged at him, and he shot Kendrick, giving us all enough time to get underneath our desks to get ourselves safe, to run across the room to escape.”

Another student, Brendan Bialy, who is 18 and a member of the Marine Corps Delayed Entry Program, helped subdue one of the shooters, the U.S. Marine Corps confirmed. Leadership and “a bias to action” were things Bialy, who is expected to ship out to boot camp this summer, had been talking about with his recruiter since he joined the program in July and began training and preparing for the Corps, said Capt. Michael Maggitti.

Maggitti said Bialy was in class when the attack happened “and he decided to step up and take action” to protect his classmates and teachers. Maggitti said his understanding is that Bialy and several other students “helped put an end to the tragedy.”…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Facebook Says it Will Still Allow Holocaust Denial, Just Not InfoWars Links

Seems fair

After announcing that it will remove Infowars links, Facebook has said that holocaust denial is still acceptable on the platform.

Let that sink in.

Last week, Facebook not only removed a group of people it claimed (with no evidence) to be “dangerous people”, it announced that mere positive discussion of Alex Jones or Infowars would be verboten.

“Infowars is subject to the strictest ban,” reported the Atlantic. “Facebook and Instagram will remove any content containing Infowars videos, radio segments, or articles (unless the post is explicitly condemning the content), and Facebook will also remove any groups set up to share Infowars content and events promoting any of the banned extremist figures.”

But while Infowars content will be completely blacklisted, Facebook users remain free to engage in holocaust denial.

In a letter obtained by Jewish Insider, Facebook’s vice president of global public policy, said the site would still allow users to “say things on Facebook that are wrong or inaccurate, even when they are offensive.”

“We take down any content that celebrates, defends, or attempts to justify the Holocaust,” Kaplan wrote. “But we do not remove lies or content that is inaccurate — whether it’s denying the Holocaust, the Armenian massacre, or the fact that the Syrian government has killed hundreds of thousands of its own people,” he added.

So denying one the greatest mass murders in history, which is a crime in some countries, is fine on Facebook — just don’t speak kindly about Alex Jones!

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Facebook Hired Former Hillary Press Director to Inform Media of Alex Jones Ban

The Facebook press contact has deep ties to the Clinton family and Obama White House

When Big League Politics contacted Facebook to clarify why Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer, and Milo Yiannopoulos were banned by Facebook and Instagram, we discovered the Facebook employee assigned to handle these communications is the former Press Director of Hillary For America.

Sarah Pollack is the Policy Communications Manager for Facebook who responded to Big League Politics when we sought comment on why Jones, Watson, Loomer, and Yiannopoulos were banned. She explained that users are no longer allowed to share videos or links including videos of Jones, and explained that this decision was made, in part, because Jones interviewed Gavin McInnes on his radio and TV program.

According to her LinkedIn history, Pollack was hired by Facebook in October of 2017 as a Policy Communications Associate Manager, and was promoted to her current role in February of this year.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Facebook Calls Me ‘Dangerous’. Imagine My Shock. No, Really…

Facebook will shortly be put on legal notice about the harm that their actions have caused and will be mandated to turn over all information and internal discussions as to why I was designated as a “dangerous” person and why I was banned.

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

Instagram to “Fact Check” & Remove Memes

Because the left can’t meme

Instagram has announced that it will begin “fact checking” and removing memes.

The social media giant, which is owned by Facebook, will use its 52 global “fact checking partners” to censor “false photos and memes on its platform,” according to Poynter.

“Instagram is taking those fact checks and applying them to the same false photos and memes on its platform,” according to the report.

Memes deemed factually incorrect will no longer appear under tabs where they can be discovered by random users.

The Poynter Institute, which partners with Facebook, recently had to shut down its own database highlighting unreliable news sites “after discovering inconsistencies between sources used to build the database and its final report.”

So you can trust them.

Quite why memes have to be “fact checked” given that are almost always satirical and are not intended to be statements of fact may be a mystery to some.

It’s actually not a mystery at all.

Studies have repeatedly shown that the political right is far better at spreading memes.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Journalist Andy Ngo Posts Video of Possible Antifa Member Allegedly Assaulting Him and Stealing His Phone

Journalist Andy Ngo posted a video on Twitter of a man he claimed to recognize from “Antifa rallies” allegedly assaulting him and stealing his phone.

“Was just assaulted & had my phone stolen at @24hourfitness Hollywood Portland by someone I recognize at Antifa rallies,” Ngo wrote via Twitter. “He first dumped liquid on me then stole my phone. Reporting to @PortlandPolice. I don’t know his identity & gym wouldn’t tell me. They got my phone back.”

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

Liberal Says it’s Not OK to be White

More blatant racism from the left

Infowars reporter Will Johnson triggers liberals when he tells them “It’s OKAY to be White!”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Microsoft’s “ElectionGuard”: Doublespeak for ElectionTheft

DARPA is working with Microsoft to “secure” elections. Do you see a problem with that?

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

MSM Releases Fake Polls to Rig 2020 Election

Media desperately attempting to influence 2020 outcome

Similar to the months ahead of the 2016 election, the mainstream media has begun spreading fake polls downplaying President Trump’s chances at re-election. Guests Dylon Suggs, Will Johnson and Dane Wigington join Owen Shroyer on War Room LIVE from 3PM-6PM CT.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

MSNBC Shows Clear Bias in Support of Biden Over Trump

MSNBC showed clear bias in support of Democrat Joe Biden’s assessment of the Chinese government over President Donald Trump’s, ignoring the many experts who assess the national security and surveillance risk posed by the Chinese government, as well as the Chinese government’s extensive use of tariffs, unfair business practices and intellectual property theft.

“Biden offers welcome corrective to Trump narrative on China,” an MSNBC video from Morning Joe said.

“Former VP Joe Biden said that China was not an economic threat to the U.S., and the president pushed back saying that Biden was naive on China.”

During the segment, host Joe Scarborough called Biden’s assessment “Reagan-style optimism” and asked if it would be a “positive for him in the Democratic primary.”

The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson said it absolutely would be and said it was “ridiculous” that President Trump should be sounding the alarm against China, despite the Communist regime’s aggression in the South China Sea, its wildly ambitious “Belt and Road” initiative, murderous persecution of its Muslim and Falun Gong minorities.

Scarborough gave the false analogy of comparing China to Japan during the 1980s when many in the United States feared Japan. Yet the analogy doesn’t fit, given the vast population differential in China’s favor (Japan’s population is less than half that of the United States and China’s is more than four times the United States’) and the fact that Japan is a democracy that respects human rights and freedom of speech while China is a communist oligarchy.

[NOTE: If Biden gets the Democrat nomination, he’ll have to face many questions about his own financial dealings with China while he was vice-president. Stay tuned…]

           — Hat tip: Dora [Return to headlines]
 

Offended by What Someone Said? Now You Can Report Them to Law Enforcement

Soon free speech will be a thing of the past in paranoid America.

DIGIT Lab’s “Hate Incident Reporting” app promises to turn complete strangers into secret, hate speech/bias spies.

Watch what you say, because the person sitting next to you could be reporting you to law enforcement.

Gone are the days when Americans were unafraid to voice their opinions or make snide comments in public. Because DIGIT Labs will turn smartphones into bias reporting devices.

According to a PHYS.org article, DIGIT LAB’s new app allows strangers to report someone for exercising their first Amendment rights.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Pelosi Warns: “We Cannot Accept a 2nd Term for Donald Trump” [Video]

It’s hard to believe but Nancy Pelosi just said, “We cannot accept a second term for Donald Trump”…

This is not the only outrageous comment from the Majority Leader in the House in the video below from a discussion about Democrat priorities at Cornell University’s Institute of Politics & Global Affairs on 5/7/19

Watch the video and hear Pelosi claim that we need to defeat Trump because we need to remain “faithful” to the Constitution…HUH?

[Comment: Turn it around — “we cannot accept a single term of any commicrat president”.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

President Trump Pardons Army Ranger Who Killed Al Qaeda Explosives Transporter… Here Are the Details

Michael Behenna is a former Army First Lieutenant from Oklahoma who was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a military court in 2009, for unpremeditated murder in a combat zone.

Here is the timeline and details of the case from his defense fund site:

September 2007: 1st Lieutenant Michael Behenna deployed to Iraq for his first combat experience April 21, 2008: Lt. Behenna’s platoon was attacked by Al Qaeda operatives. The attack resulted in death of two of Lt. Behenna’s platoon members, two Iraqi citizens, and wounded two additional soldiers under Lt. Behenna’s command. May 5, 2008: Known terrorist Ali Mansur was detained at his home for suspected involvement in the attack on Lt. Behenna’s platoon May 16, 2008: Army Intelligence orders the release of Mansur Lt. Behenna, who lost two members of his platoon just weeks earlier, was ordered to transport Mansur back to his home Lt. Behenna attempts a final interrogation of Mansur prior to his release During the interrogation, Behenna is attacked by Mansur and is forced to defend himself. During the altercation, the terrorist is killed. Lt. Behenna failed to properly report the incident July 2008: The U.S. Army charges Lt. Behenna with premeditated murder for the death of Al Qaeda operative and terrorist Ali Mansur. February 23, 2009: Lt. Behenna’s trial begins Government and defense experts agree on the trajectory of the bullets killing Mansur Prosecution expert Dr. Herbert MacDonnell initiated contact with defense attorneys explaining his agreement with the testimony of Lt. Behenna and his presentation to prosecutors supporting Lt. Behenna’s version of events. Dr. MacDonnell is not called to testify in the case and instead is sent home. Just before leaving the courthouse he picks up his coat from the prosecution room and says to the three prosecutors (Megan Poirier, Jason Elbert, and Erwin Roberts), ‘The explanation that Lt Behenna just testified to was the exact same scenario I told you yesterday. Lt Behenna is telling the truth.’ Jack Zimmermann, defense counsel, asks prosecutors if they have any exculpatory evidence that should be provided to the defense (referring to Dr. MacDonnell’s demonstration). Prosecutors deny having any such evidence despite having been told by their own expert witness that Lt Behenna’s explanation was the only logical explanation. Prosecutors withholding of this evidence allowed them to argue that Lt. Behenna executed Ali Mansur while seated when the forensic experts, including Dr. MacDonnell, agree that Ali was standing with his arms outstretched when shot Lt. Behenna is convicted of unpremeditated murder and assault by a military panel of seven officers, none of whom had combat experience. Dr. MacDonnell contacts prosecution requesting that the information provided in his demonstration be given to the defense. Prosecutors provide such information after a verdict was rendered, but prior to sentencing. At the request of the presiding judge, Dr. MacDonnell provides his information to the court via telephone The judge orders both sides in the case to file briefs relating to a possible mistrial After reading the briefs the judge set an additional hearing and ordered additional briefs, including one from the defense requesting a new trial. On March 20, the judge denied defense motions to declare a mistrial and to order a new trial Lt. Behenna was paraded in handcuffs through the Nashville airport, the Milwaukee airport, and the Kansas City airport enroute to Fort Leavenworth Prison

On Monday, May 6, Behenna was granted clemency from President Trump, per a press release from the White House. The press release reads:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Progressives Attack Tiger Woods Over Presidential Medal of Freedom Award

On Monday, President Donald Trump gave golf great Tiger Woods the Presidential Medal of Freedom (MOF). It was an event many progressives found upsetting.

New York Times economist Paul Krugman, for instance, seemed blissfully unaware that numerous actors, athletes, and entertainers have been the recipient of the MOF since it was first implemented under President John. F. Kennedy.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Steele’s Stunning Pre-FISA Confession: Informant Needed to Air Trump Dirt Before Election

If ever there were an admission that taints the FBI’s secret warrant to surveil Donald Trump’s campaign, it sat buried for more than 2 1/2 years in the files of a high-ranking State Department official.

Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec’s written account of her Oct. 11, 2016, meeting with FBI informant Christopher Steele shows the Hillary Clinton campaign-funded British intelligence operative admitted that his research was political and facing an Election Day deadline.

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

STEM School Shooter Hated Christians, Trump

Motivation behind rampage remains unknown

18-year-old Devon Erickson, who killed one student and injured seven more during a shooting at a public charter school in Colorado, previously posted on social media about his hatred for Christians and President Trump.

Erickson and a younger accomplice walked into the STEM School Highlands Ranch yesterday and opened fire on students in two classrooms.

While the motivation behind the attack remains unknown, according to Heavy, Erickson was a leftist who despised Christians and opposed Donald Trump.

[Comment: 100% a product of communist indoctrination centers — previously known as schools.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Twitter Bans One AOC Parody Account. Five More Take Its Place.

On Monday night, Twitter suspended the parody account “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Press Release (parody)” in the latest crackdown on conservative accounts. Like a hydra, however, accounts parodying Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) have leapt into existence, with at least five emerging from the beheaded husk of the AOCPress account.

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

Why Scientists Are Betting on Light Therapy to Cure Alzheimer’s: Study Finds an Hour a Day of Flashing Light Stopped the Disease in Mice by Thwarting Two Proteins — as Human Trials Get Under Way

The therapy by MIT scientists improved cognitive skills such as spatial memory in both mice with dementia and in older, healthy peers. The team says it should work for humans, too.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Commercial Desertification Grows in Italy’s Remote Villages

Shops, bars, and pharmacies become rarer and rarer in the municipalities. The National Union of Mountain Towns and Communities appeals to Parliament for tax concessions to curb commercial depopulation, which has grown by 30 percent since 2015

By Filippo Femia and Nicola Pinna In Camerana, a tiny village of 600 people in the hilly Alta Langa, in province of Cuneo, even a fresh loaf of bread is a luxury. To buy it, you need to hop in your car and drive ten kilometers on a winding road. In villages like these, which are devoid of any shops or amenities, this is how people live. They drive everywhere, even for basic necessities. From their experience, having access to a corner store or a coffee shop is a privilege. This reality is a snapshot of the commercial desertification currently underway across Italy. There are about 350 inhabited centers without shops, and in 500 others there is the risk the few surviving stores close.

These are small villages, sometimes with only a handful of houses, scattered throughout the country but mainly in remote, inland areas, from the Dolomites to the Sila Mountains in Calabria. The National Union of Mountain Towns and Communities (UNCEM) has expressed concerns for some time now, but the phenomenon accelerated sharply recently. “In the last four years, commercial desertification has skyrocketed by 30 percent. And within ten it could double,” says Marco Bussone, UNCEM’s national president. The Piedmont region takes the lead, representing about 40 percent of the total commercial desertification, followed by Lombardy (15 percent), Liguria (6 percent), and Abruzzo (5 percent).

A few weeks ago, the Ministry of Economy began providing contributions from the National Fund for mountain municipalities, which total 12 million in Italy. But for UNCEM, the money is only a temporary fix. In their appeal to Parliament, they said they need a more organic and structural approach. At the top of the list, there is a tax concession…

“A bar in a remote village in the mountains pays the same fees as one that’s a stone’s throw from the Duomo in Milan. It’s madness. We need to identify tax instruments that allow entrepreneurs to invest in peripheral areas. These are more effective measures than one-off contributions”, says Bussone. He references Sicily’s virtuous program ‘Free mountain zones’ which offers tax breaks in the form of a tax credit. Other requests that UNCEM has long insisted on are the reduction of IRAP rates (taxes on corporate income, ed) and the elimination of sector studies in mountain areas, which are distorted by seasonal tourism and the presence of increasingly smaller communities. They’re also requesting to be exempted from electricity bills, which add more financial strain to the elderly managers of suburban or mountain shops.

“By fighting commercial desertification you can also fight against the depopulation of small villages. And this way maybe, why not, you can re-launch tourism in peripheral areas new accommodation facilities”, explains Marco Bussone. Saving shops in small towns means keeping important social institutions alive. The clearest example is that of village bars, which are real gathering centers. Add to that, the future of the most isolated communities is at stake, since saving services may help curb the emigration of young people to cities.

But not all hope should be lost. There are many examples of municipalities, like Ostana—a town at the foot of Monviso in Cuneo—that can be saved through the joint efforts of the municipality, private initiatives, and state policies. At the beginning of the 20th century, Ostana had 1,200 inhabitants, but then it risked disappearing in the 1950s when that number dropped to a shocking low of 10 residents. Today there are about a hundred people, including a dozen children, three bars, a restaurant, and a furniture store. In Pertica Alta, where 500 people live in Valle Sabbia (Brescia), the mayor has long sought for a bar or shop manager, but no one came forward. Instead, the reopening of the small shop was entrusted to a social cooperative.

“We are talking about fragile areas”, concludes Marco Bussone. “A possible collapse would have consequences for the whole country”. The mission is to prevent the OECD forecasts which predict that by 2050, 95 percent of the world population would be concentrated in urban areas.

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France: Hostages Freed and Young Gunman Arrested in Toulouse

All four of the people taken hostage during an attack yesterday (May 7) by a gunman in Blagnac, near Toulouse (Haute-Garonne, Occitanie) have now been freed, and the 17-year-old perpetrator arrested.

He has been described as a minor “aged almost 18”, who was wearing a helmet equipped with a GoPro camera. He entered a PMU bar-tabac along a line of small shops in the town at around 16h20, and shot into the air, taking four women hostage.

He then demanded to speak with a negotiator, and later shot into gathered police outside. The hostages were all freed just after 20h, with the minor himself arrested at about 23h45.

The incident is not being described as terrorism.

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French Police Arrest Man in Connection to Faeces Smearing Church Attack

French police in the city of Nîmes say they have arrested a man in connection to a particularly vulgar church attack that occurred in February in which the suspect smeared faeces on the wall of the church.

Police say they arrested a 21-year-old man who they have not formally identified in connection with the church attack, saying they expect him to be the person behind the smearing of faeces on the walls of the Notre-Dame des Enfants church back in February of this year, 20 Minutes reports.

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French Business Owners Call on Government to Help Deal With Expected Ramadan Violence

French business owners in the city of Montpellier are calling on local government to provide increased security, arguing that violence has increased markedly during the Ramadan month over the last four years.

The business owners all operate in the neighbourhood of Gambetta and say that when Ramadan comes every year, they see an increase of violence that could negatively affect their businesses, French local news network Actu reports.

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Italy: Fresh Protests Against Council House for Roma

In Rome

(ANSA) — Rome, May 6 — There were fresh protests Monday against the allocation of a council house in Rome to a 14-strong Roma family who recently left a camp.

Some 40 residents of the Casal Bruciato area, on the capital’s eastern outskirts, took to the streets together with militants from the far-right CasaPound group.

Residents and CasaPound prevented a Roma family entering a council house last year.

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Juncker: EU Should Have ‘Interfered’ In Brexit Vote to ‘Destroy’ Leave ‘Lies’

The European Commission chief has said he regrets not intervening in Britain’s 2016 EU referendum, claiming Brussels could have ‘destroyed the lies’ which supposedly led to Brexit.

Speaking in the Belgian capital on Monday, Jean-Claude Juncker said that the UK’s then Prime Minister David Cameron was wrong to have warned Eurocrats against meddling in the EU referendum campaign.

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Le Pen Ahead of Macron in Latest EU Election Polls

Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is topping the polls, ahead of French President Emmanuel Macron’s party, less than three weeks away from European Parliament elections, Breitbart reports.

An Ipsos poll last weekend places Le Pen’s populist-right party on 22 per cent, ahead of Macron’s progressive La République En Marche! which is at 21.5 per cent. In third place is the right-establishment Republicans at a distant 13.5 per cent.

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Notorious Islamic Hate Preacher Deported From Switzerland

The imam of the infamous An’Nur mosque in the Swiss city of Winterthur has been deported from the country after Somalia recognized him as a citizen and agreed to take him back.

The imam, who was sentenced to an 18 month suspended sentence in 2017 for preaching hate and calling on worshippers to enact violence against non-believers, was not cooperative with Swiss authorities when they attempted to determine which country he had originally come from, radio broadcaster RFJ reports.

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‘Orban and Salvini Did the Job!’ German MEP’s Claim Migration Was ‘Success of EU’ Trashed

GERMAN MEP Jo Leinen’s claim that the recent drop in the number of migrants coming to Europe was a “great success of the EU” was dismantled by AfD politician Maximilian Krah who reminded the Socialist MEP “Merkel wouldn’t be Chancellor” if it was not for Matteo Salvini’s and Victor Orban’s interventions.

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Outcry as 65,000 German Students Sign Petition Saying End-of-School Maths Exam Was Too Difficult — But Teaching Union Boss Dismisses Them as ‘Snowflake Generation Wrapped in Cotton Wool’

Some 65,000 people have signed a petition in the state of Bavaria calling for the grade boundaries to be changed after they struggled with the test (file photo).

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Paris: Islamist Bus Driver Refuses to Pick up Woman Because of Short Skirt

A bus driver in Paris described as an “Islamist” refused to pick up the daughter of a famous Algerian poet because her skirt was too short.

According to a report by Italian newspaper Il Giornale, the incident occurred last Tuesday at the Botzaris stop near the Buttes Chaumont park in the 19th arrondissement.

In a Facebook post (which was subsequently censored), Algerian poet Kamel Bencheikh revealed how his 29-year-old daughter Elise and her friend attempted to board the bus at 11pm in the evening.

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Salvini, Orban Alliance: “if the Left Wins, Europe Will Become an Islamic Caliphate”

The Hungarian Prime MinisterViktor Orban and the Italian Interior Ministe Matteo Salvini are planning to fight the current EU agenda.

Salvini visited Orban to inform himself about the border fence between Hungary and Serbia. Orban even referred to Salvini as the most important man in Europe.

Orban stated that he is ready to work with dynamic and vital men while calling the EU tired and powerless.

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Theresa May Faces Tory Ultimatum: Pick Your Resignation Date or We Will

The Independent reported 80% of Conservative supporters want Theresa May to stand down before next general election, survey finds.

Despite that unprecedented sentiment, May still hangs on. However, the 1922 committee is reconsidering after devastating local elections were Tories were clobbered. Even Labour lost seats, but only a handful.

The message is “deliver Brexit”.

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Theresa May Secretly be Considering a New Brexit Referendum

Currently, May is said to be close to offering the Labour Party a comprehensive but temporary “customs arrangement,” which would theoretically last until the next general election. After that election, the winning party could decide on a more permanent arrangement with the EU.

Reportedly, the new referendum idea will only come into play if the ongoing talks with the Labour Party break down and no deal can be reached. But many in the Labour Party have said they will back no deal going forward unless the issue is put back to the public in a referendum. More than a hundred Labour MPs have signed a letter that they would not back a Tory/Labour deal unless it was put to the people in a new referendum.

There is also pushback on a Tory/Labour deal from May’s own party. Nigel Evans of the powerful 1922 Committee of Tory backbenchers claims that “more than a 100” Tory MPs would “never support” a customs deal like the one the Labour Party insists upon.

So, it seems that the prime minister may have painted herself into a corner.

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Theresa May Rejects Calls to Resign, Disowns Brexit Failures

British Prime Minister Theresa May has again faced calls to resign but has brushed them off, insisting the disintegration of the Conservative party and the failure to deliver Brexit aren’t her fault.

After Sir Graham Brady, the Conservative boss who represents non-government Tory MPs went to the prime minister on Tuesday to ask her to set a firm departure timetable — a request that has as of yet gone unheeded — May faced a series of more direct challenges Wednesday, including from a leadership rival, and an urgent call to resign in the debating chamber from her own benches.

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UK: ‘Totally Sick’: Holocaust Survivor Family Brexit Party Candidate’s Business Daubed With Swastika

The son of a Holocaust survivor who is standing for Nigel Farage’s new Brexit party has seen his business premises vandalised with a 30-foot Swastika in a suspected anti-Semitic attack.

The attack on Lance Forman’s salmon smokery — a business set up by his Holocaust survivor father — came just weeks after Mr Forman was announced as a candidate for the Brexit Party.

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UK: Rotherham: 40 Arrested in Latest Child Sex Abuse Probe

Police have arrested 40 suspects over the last two months in relation to a probe into allegations of serious child sex abuse in Rotherham, detectives have said.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed the two women and 38 men from Sheffield, Rotherham, Leeds, Dewsbury and Maidstone were questioned over historic sexual abuse and exploitation of victims as young as 11, alleged to have taken place between 1997 and 2015.

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See How Unknown 19-Year-Old Became Palestinian Hero

The story of an unknown 19-year-old who within two weeks became a hero shows how terrorism is valued in Palestinian culture, reports Palestinian Media Watch.

“This is a classic example of how the [Palestinian Authority] and Fatah motivate Palestinians — and particularly the youth — to carry out terrorist attacks and to kill Israelis,” the article explained. “They show Palestinians that terrorism is the fast track to fame.

“If you kill Israelis, you will have streets and mosques named after you, monuments erected in your honor and masses will participate in rallies to express their admiration.

“You will be the newest Palestinian hero.”

On March 17, Omar Abu Laila, “an ordinary unknown 19-year-old Palestinian,” murdered Israeli soldier Gal Keidan by stabbing and Rabbi Ahiad Ettinger, a father of 12, by shooting.

Two days later, Laila was shot and killed while shooting at Israeli soldiers.

“Within just two weeks after he committed the murders, PA President Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah had already turned murderer Omar Abu Laila into the newest symbol and role model for Palestinians,” PMW said.

The Fatah deputy chairman, Mahmoud Al-Aloul, “publicly declared him the new role model for young Palestinians.”

Fatah, the party of President Mahmoud Abbas, posted a video of Al-Aloul on Facebook.

Later, the town of Brukin named a street and a square after the murderer.

Again, it was posted on Facebook.

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On the Brink of an Apocalyptic War With Iran, And Most Americans Don’t Seem to Care

This is the closest that the U.S. has been to a war with Iran in decades, and yet most Americans are either clueless or they don’t seem to believe that it could actually happen. And I certainly don’t think that President Trump wants a war, but he is surrounded by war hawks that have been pushing an extremely aggressive “get tough” policy with Iran. The Trump administration just canceled the waivers that were allowing other nations to continue purchasing Iranian oil, and the goal of that move is to reduce Iranian exports to zero. But oil exports are 40 percent of the Iranian economy, and the Iranians understand that this move could absolutely cripple their economy. The Iranians have threatened to close the straight of Hormuz in retaliation, and that would almost certainly provoke a U.S. military response. In addition, it is being reported that on Wednesday the Iranians will announce that they are taking steps to restart their nuclear program…

Of course the truth is that the Iranians never fully abandoned their nuclear program in the first place, but that is supposed to be a big secret.

In any event, tensions between the U.S. and Iran have now reached frightening levels.

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Here’s Why the China Trade Deal Fell Apart

Readers who have been paying close attention to every leak related to the ongoing US-China trade talks might remember this FT story from six weeks ago about Beijing’s penchant for returning trade-deal draft proposals to Washington riddled with red-line stikeouts.

We only bring it up now because, according to a play-by-play published by Reuters Wednesday morning, it appears President Trump finally lost his patience with Beijing when they returned a draft trade deal with strikeouts eliminating virtually all of the major concessions made during the past few weeks.

Though reports about Beijing’s unwillingness to compromise had begun appearing with more regularity during the preceding week, according to Reuters, it appears Beijing was deliberately trying to provoke President Trump. And if this was indeed China’s goal, it appears it succeeded.

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New Species of Bat Winged Dinosaur Discovered

More than 160 million years ago, the forests of ancient China were home to a bizarre predator: a tiny dinosaur that glided from tree to tree with leathery, bat-like wings. The newfound fossil, unveiled today in the journal Nature, is just the second feathered dinosaur found with signs of large membranes on its wings. Fitting, then, that the animal’s newly assigned genus name is Ambopteryx: Latin for “both wings.”

“The most exciting thing, for me, is that it shows that some dinosaurs evolved very different structures to become volant,” or capable of some form of flight, says lead study author Min Wang, a paleontologist at China’s Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology.

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‘Can You Marry Your Brother-in-Law?’ Accountant’s Chilling Posts About Burying His Wife Before He Murdered Her — After Sending Thousands of Messages to Her Sister

Ahmed Dawood Seedat, 37, pleaded guilty to killing 32-year-old Fahima Yusuf at their Carlisle home in Perth on August 31, 2018, while their two children, aged five and two, were asleep.

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Exclusive: ‘Egg Girl’ Was on a Good Behaviour Bond for Another Assault Just Weeks Before She ‘Egged the PM’ — As Her Employer Says She’s is ‘Entitled to Hold Her Own Opinions’ And Will Keep Her Job

The activist who allegedly threw an egg at Scott Morrison previously pleaded guilty to an assault charge and was ordered to seek counselling, court records show.

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‘Lawless’ Teenagers Run Riot Through a Shopping Street — But Business Owners Fear They Can’t be Stopped Because They See Being Arrested as a ‘Badge of Honour’

Vendors in Frankston, south-east Melbourne claim the suburb is rampant with drinking, fighting and swearing.

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro Signs Decree Easing Gun Laws

RIO DE JANEIRO — President Jair Bolsonaro is loosening Brazil’s strict gun laws with a new decree, delivering on a campaign promise to make it easier for Brazilians to buy guns and ammunition.

The far right president signed the decree in a ceremony Tuesday night surrounded by supporting lawmakers who applauded and made finger-gun gestures with their hands.

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Arizona Democrats Claim No Border Crisis — Then Beg Trump for Help With Flood of Migrants

Five Arizona House Democrats who have repeatedly denied that there is a crisis at the border have asked acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan to help with the flood of immigrants at the southern border by appointing a “federal crisis coordinator.”

In a Monday letter to McAleenan, the Democrats suggested that the Trump administration’s border security policies were setting up “a range of other catastrophic issues,” according to The Hill.

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Migrants at Southern Border Top 100k for 2nd Month in a Row

The number of migrants apprehended at the Southern border topped 100,000 for the second month in a row, as the Trump administration manages an ever increasing number of Central American families streaming to the U.S.

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Paris Taxi Drivers Avoiding Migrant Areas so as Not to Shock Tourists

Taxi drivers in the French capital have been avoiding some of the areas of the city where many migrants live on the streets so as not to “shock” tourists coming into the city.

The drivers who pick up tourists from Roissy airport told French news outlet 20 Minutes that they purposely avoid areas where homeless migrants live in makeshift tent camps as to not give the tourists a bad initial impression of the city, with one driver named Mordi commenting: “The first image tourists have when arriving in Paris, the most beautiful city in the world, are the tents, refugees, drug addicts.”

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Trump Can Enforce Asylum Policies Says… the Ninth Circuit?

Did somebody spike the water in San Diego this week? A very unusual ruling was handed down from the Ninth Circuit yesterday. President Trump’s recent policy of having asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their cases are heard had been put on hold last month when a federal judge in San Francisco agreed with immigration advocacy groups who challenged it. But the government appealed the decision and yesterday the Ninth Circuit reversed the decision, saying the policy could remain in effect while the challenge plays out in the courts. Since when does the Ninth Circuit agree with Donald Trump? (Associated Press)

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After the Boomers Are Gone, The Bloodshed Begins

The Boomer Age is drawing to its close. When one speaks of this group, it tends to mostly focus on white Boomers (not that others are outside the group, but to such a great extent, it really does mean those of mostly European background, if for no other reason than they have been the largest demographic group). When that age does end, we will see an ever dwindling European demographic majority in many Western nations (Canada and the USA are almost certainly the first, soon followed by a variety of European nations). That significant point of majority will be fading, as the numbers precipitously drop until below 50%. The question looming then is, what is next? Will it be the glorious Brave New World of harmonious multiculturalism or an uneasy balkanization that trends ever more to tribalism and violence? Based on existing evidence and studies, I believe that it will be closer to the latter.

A major demographic shift is impacting most Western nations, some more than others. This shift will lead to a far more multicultural/ethnic scenario, with those of European background as the minority within the next few decades. At first blush, many will say this is not a problem, holding out the wonders of civic nationalism and existing relative stability and prosperity with an already highly mixed demographic. The problem here is that this position doesn’t really hold water in the long term, as can be demonstrated by existing nations who have not been able to sustain a similar state of peaceful existence and by studies that point in the same direction.

In the case of historical examples, we can point to places such as South Africa, Brazil, and the Rwandan and Yugoslavian debacles of the 1990s as a counterpoint to the belief in a multicultural paradise, as each has had great disharmony and violence between the different ethnicities who live there. The balkanization of Yugoslavia is a likely outcome facing a large number of Western nations — something that has been the case throughout history. (Even those of much more similar ethnocultural background have had difficulties assimilating and living together, such as the Irish and Italians who first arrived in the New World with significant tensions and clashes with the already existing citizens of North America.) Another case in point in history is the former Soviet Union’s policy of population transfer, which was meant to break down nationalist sentiment but created various degrees of disharmony throughout its former “empire” (notably in Ukraine).

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Anti-Christian Group Sues Dept of Veteran Affairs Over Bible Display

An anti-Christian organization filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the Department of Veterans Affairs over a Bible displayed as part of a POW/MIA memorial, calling the Bible’s presence an “outrage.”

“From our perspective, it’s a repugnant example of fundamentalist Christian triumphalism, exceptionalism, superiority, and domination, and it cannot stand,” saidMikey Weinstein, the founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).

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Assault Charge for Student Who Punched Campus Pro-Life Activist

Police have cited University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill student Jillian Alexandra Ward with misdemeanor assault for attacking a pro-life campus activist working a display showing graphic images related to abortion.

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CNN Contributor: ‘When Woman is Pregnant, That’s Not Human Being Inside Her’

A California biology class last month showed students being taught how fetuses are similar to cancers and parasites

Commentator goes full retard

A pregnant woman isn’t carrying a human being inside her, CNN contributor Christine Quinn said Tuesday.

According to the former New York city councilwoman, the baby growing inside an expectant mom is merely an extension of her body.

“When a woman is pregnant, that is not a human being inside of her,” said Quinn, a registered Democrat.

The statement comes as a PowerPoint presentation at a California biology class last month showed students being taught how fetuses are similar to cancers and parasites.

Quinn’s words highlight the total disconnect from reality and mental gymnastics required by the Left to deny basic science in support of so-called “women’s rights.”

[Comment: Stupid woman. An extension? Sort of like a tentacle? Another DNA denier. Babies have a different DNA than the mother.]

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Converse Launches LGBT Shoe Line Featuring Preteen ‘Drag Kid’

Child used for woke marketing campaign

Converse has announced the release of a new line of shoes celebrating LGBT culture alongside a marketing campaign featuring characters of various sexual orientations, including an 11-year-old ‘drag kid’ who goes by the stage name ‘Desmond Is Amazing.’

“We’re happy to launch our Pride Collection, partnering with six individuals connected to the LGBTQ+ community who show the power of expressing one’s true self,” the apparel company tweeted on Monday.

by Dan Lyman Tuesday, May 07, 2019

Converse has announced the release of a new line of shoes celebrating LGBT culture alongside a marketing campaign featuring characters of various sexual orientations, including an 11-year-old ‘drag kid’ who goes by the stage name ‘Desmond Is Amazing.’

“We’re happy to launch our Pride Collection, partnering with six individuals connected to the LGBTQ+ community who show the power of expressing one’s true self,” the apparel company tweeted on Monday.

Desmond is highlighted on the Converse website wearing a flamboyant outfit and make-up, striking a dramatic dance pose alongside a quote stating, “There is no normal.”

A brief bio describes him as a “drag kid / lgbtq+ advocate.”

Desmond Napoles has autism, according to his parents, who say that his ‘drag performances’ help him to cope with his disability.

He began to garner attention in 2015 after dancing in the NYC Pride Parade, and amid rising popularity on social media, Napoles was invited to appear on Good Morning America, where he danced for the audience and was paid a visit from three adult drag queens.

In late 2018, disturbing video footage surfaced of Desmond performing at gay bars in Brooklyn and San Francisco, while grown men threw bills at him, and shortly afterwards, journalists discovered Desmond had appeared in a interview with infamous 90s “club kid” Michael Alig, who had spent 17 years in jail for the killing and dismemberment of a fellow clubber and drug dealer.

[Comment: Buy noname shoes from Walmart, much cheaper and without the “woke” garbage.]

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Fall of the West: Met Gala Highlights Decadence & Degradation of Society

Modern fashion corrupting, bastardizing beauty and decency

The elite celebrated their bizarre decadence and lavish lifestyles during the 2019 Met Gala fashion benefit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday, highlighting how divorced the Hollywood culture is from the rest of America.

The annual fundraising event, attended by everyone from rapper Cardi B and actor Jared Leto to Clinton aide Huma Abedin, showcased the left’s twisted psychology and their proclivity for corrupting art and fashion by sexualizing, gender-bending, and injecting occult themes into the event.

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Female Athletes Speak Out When Transgender Athletes Join Their Team [Video]

The video below is one example of a high school track athlete’s life after transgender females joined their sport.

Selina speaks about how two places were taken by transgender athletes where female athletes would have been included.

Selina came in 8th instead of 6th because of the two athletes killing her dream.

She points out that the recruiters only see the times of races and recruit the transgender athletes over the female athletes.

The female athletes are pressured to just accept this arrangement.

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Gay State Rep Offers People $100 to Dox Teen Girls Praying for Babies at Planned Parenthood

Three weeks ago, openly gay Democratic Pennsylvania State Rep. Brian Sims harassed four women and one man outside of what looks like Planned Parenthood Center City in Philadelphia. In a despicable act, the lawmaker offered $100 to people to dox three teenage girls who were praying outside the abortion clinic, making their identities, addresses, and perhaps even phone numbers public so they could be harassed even further. He also slandered them as “pseudo-Christians” because they value the babies killed in the clinic.

Sims started filming himself on Facebook and accosted the people praying.

“What we’ve got here is a bunch of protesters — a bunch of pseudo-Christian protesters who’ve been out here shaming young girls for being here. And so here’s the deal: I’ve got $100 to anybody who will identify any of these three,” he said, approaching three teenage girls. What would he do with the $100? Donate it to Planned Parenthood, of course!

“Hi,” a protective woman said, approaching him to keep him away from the teenage girls. “So we’re actually here just praying for the babies,” she explained.

Ignoring the woman, Sims kept talking to the audience on his phone. “So look, a bunch of white people standing out in front of Planned Parenthood, shaming people,” he said, as if the women’s races were at all relevant.

[…]

The woman and the teen girls left, but Sims approached a young man who remained. He asked the man to give him his name and address. The naive young man gave his name and the city he lives in, and then the lawmaker went on to insult and dismiss him.

“What makes you think that it’s your job to tell women what’s right for their bodies?” Sims asked.

Before the young man could answer, the lawmaker cut him off. “The truth is I’m not really asking, because I don’t care. Shame on you!” Then the coward walked away from the young man as though he were a disgusting bug squashed on the sidewalk.

“Planned Parenthood here faces attacks daily from people like this, from pseudo-Christians saying that they are here to somehow protect their own version of Christianity,” Sims insisted. He then encouraged his audience to donate $100 to Planned Parenthood.

The video is more likely to encourage viewers to donate to pro-life organizations, especially Christian ones.

Brian Sims harassed this woman, these teen girls, and the young man. He slandered their faith as “pseudo-Christianity.” He offered money to an online audience in order to make the teen girls vulnerable to harassment.

Sims did not present any evidence to support his contention that the women were “shaming young girls.” He did not show them protesting or even approaching people on their way to the abortion clinic. Instead, he himself accosted them, demonizing their faith without giving them an opportunity to respond.

[Note: this Dem represents the “City of Brotherly Love” in Pennsylvania]

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Govt Lets Pedophiles Go Free in the Name of National Security

A judge has just said that WARRANTLESS surveillance of ALL Americans is a matter of national security. Feds are dropping child pornography cases rather than reveal surveillance tactics or programs.

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‘I Stand With Israel Folau’: Mark Latham Blasts Political Correctness, ‘White Privilege’ And the ‘LGBTQIWTF Alphabet’ In His Maiden Speech to Parliament

Mark Latham has announced he will push for new freedom of speech laws in the wake of controversy surrounding rugby player Israel Folau — as he criticised ‘white privilege’ and the ‘LGBTQIWTF alphabet’ in his maiden parliamentary speech.

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Men’s Rights Activist Roosh V Banned From Instagram, Chase Wepay After Announcing US Speaking Tour

“I just got banned from Instagram,” Roosh announced on Twitter. “My account was private.”

Men’s rights activist Roosh Valizadeh said he was banned from Instagram and Chase Wepay “within 19 minutes of each other” on Tuesday evening.

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Our Brave New World: Aldous Huxley Tried to Warn Us

Bleak globalist endgame revealed

Tonight’s Banned Broadcast delivers a cutting-edge break down of Aldous Huxley’s 1958 interview with Mike Wallace. Huxely, the author of the novel Brave New World, warned that people would be conditioned to love their own enslavement.

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Pro-Life College Student Hit/Kicked by Deranged Leftist: “This is Triggering!” [Video]

This is how leftists deal with something they don’t like.

The woman in the video below obviously hasn’t had to deal with real-life differences of opinion.

She walks up to a pro-life student and assaults him while yelling “This is triggering!”

This happened at UNC during a ‘Created Equal’ event where the group showed the “gruesome reality of abortion” on posters.

Snowflakes like this 19-year old woman are lucky they get off easy when they assault people. She was charged with simple assault and that’s it.

Hard to believe…

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Royal Baby Reported as “Boy”? Children’s Rights Advocates Furious

Ontario, NZ, Colorad, California — all affirm the basic premise of the UN Convention on the Rights of the CHILD. David Knight breaks down the agenda behind the breaking down of the family. Prince Harry & Meghan better stick to the plan of “gender fluid”.

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Texas A&M Event Blames Christianity for Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia

A late April roundtable event at Texas A&M University cited the phrase “Where [sic] your Sunday best,” as well as Christian traditions, as causes of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in America.

Called “Anti-Semitism and Other Forms of Prejudice and Discrimination,” the roundtable discussion occurred a few days after the California synagogue shooting.

“We…felt the Pittsburgh massacre was not just about anti-Semitism, but it was also about immigration,” Texas A&M professor Ashley Passmore told The Battalion. “If we look at the kinds of issues the attacker was going after, they were also anti-Muslim and kind of Islamophobic. We decided we wanted to talk about anti-Semitism in the United States and its connections with other types of hate discourses [by] looking at it intersectionality between anti-Semitism and other struggles in this country.”

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The Religion of Feeling: A Warning to Conservatives

For a vast percentage of those on the left, all the rhetoric comes down to one basic and very emotional platform: they are the good guys, facts be damned. And despite the tendency of the rational to dismiss it, this is not a platform to be trifled with.

When asked what their political beliefs are, liberals all repeat the same chant: the right is evil, corporate, racist, intolerant, and homophobic, and the left is “humane,” “tolerant,” and “nice.” They don’t even use the word “good” because that lexicon is fraught with the implication of a moral code that does not pay homage to the new religion of feeling…

In the last election cycle, while the Democrats were flooding the airwaves with emotion-laden ads, the Republicans were deathly silent. In this manipulation of emotion, the Democratic pontiffs are perpetrating the grandest, most insidious cultural revolution in modern history.

So, what are the Republicans doing about this? Not a whole lot. The passivity of the protectors of the republic is beyond my understanding.

The Tenets of the New Cultural Revolution

What are we actually in for if we don’t take progressives seriously and don’t fight back?

We will have no moral code at all. In the new world order, there is no single morality because there is no one God. Morality in a pantheistic universe is relative. Our feelings are the baseline and the compass. I have debated this point of view even with people who still profess to believe in the God of the bible and have come away with the understanding that the ruler is now made of rubber.

As there is no absolute Good, there will be no absolute Evil… Instead of sin, we will have only trauma. Instead of sinners, we will have the underserved, dispossessed, and impoverished. No one will be accountable for their own behavior. Instead, they will blame corporations, which will become the dumping grounds of their own inadequacies.

The state will be the new parent… All that is good must proceed from the governmental breast. The most poignant and recent end result of this is the new Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) program in Canada that targets four-year-olds, teaching them they have a right to question their biological sexuality before they even know what sexuality is.

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‘We No Longer Subscribe to a Binary World’: Primary School Renames Its Mother’s Day Stall in Case it Offends Children Who Don’t Have a Mum

Brunswick East Primary School in Melbourne will call the stall an ‘appreciation stall’ instead. Now children can buy gifts for any special person in their life, not just a mother.

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3 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/8/2019

  1. “British Prime Minister Theresa May is resisting calls from her party to resign, and maintains that the failure of Brexit and the disintegration of the “Conservatives” are not her fault. Meanwhile, Mrs. May is reportedly considering a second Brexit referendum if her deal with Labour doesn’t pan out.”

    They really didn’t expect the vote to go the way it did. Now they have to reveal their treachery in the open and not veiled behind some façade of a “democratic” norm.

    Labour and Tories laughing at the people behind the scenes and both accepting that one or the other will hold the reigns from time to time to give an appearance of choice and legitimacy whilst the hidden real agenda proceeds apace.

    Revealed they now are……

  2. One can only comment concerning Prime Minister Mrs T May’s possible consideration of a second referendum as complete Treachery against those of the British Public who voted to LEAVE the EU. It has been disgraceful behaviour by the British cabinet to have repeatedly differed to the EU’s demands as to how we should withdraw-apart from the Withdrawal Agreement leaving Britain as inside the EU as we are at present, any such agreement on Britain’s leaving, should have been laid out succinctly by Britain in the first place and presented to Brussels-preferably a NO Deal Brexit-as from that standpoint Britain could negotiate far more strongly than as now. The only way forward in my opinion is for Mrs May to leave forthwith, a new Leave Prime Minister installed with a cabinet of mostly leavers. Business is business said one director of major UK concern, and was quite adamant that the European Union as a whole needed to trade with the UK as much if not more so than the UK with it. The future of the EU as it stands now is to move towards Communism, as controlling such a number of nations can only survive this way, which certainly is not what Britain wants, however I favour that the present EU set up will fail to be replaced by a smaller group of trading nations within 5 yrs, these nations reconstructuring their own nation cultures and own sovereignty.

  3. PM May clings to power like a drunk clings to a bottle of Val-U-Rite vodka. It is quite unattractive and short-sighted, except for the donor class parasites. They love to extract the money from the UK.

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