Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/29/2019

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini says that Carola Rackete, the captain of the Sea-Watch 3, attempted to sink a police launch. Ms. Rackete has been arrested and is now in Italian custody. Mr. Salvini has ordered the deployment of additional patrol vessels to block attempted incursions by migrant ferries.

In other news, the governor of Montana, Steve Bullock (D), vetoed a bill that would have guaranteed free speech on college campuses.

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Financial Crisis
» Dow Celebrates Best June in 81 Years, S&P Best in 64 Years
» Risk of Hungary’s Booming Economy Overheating is Very Low: Central Banker
 
USA
» 3 Arrested as Downtown Portland Protests Escalate Into Civil Disturbance
» 70 Climate Change Protestors Arrested Outside New York Times Building
» A New Series of Lawsuits Allege a Serial Murder Suspect’s Path of Violence Through Dallas and Collin Counties Was Even Wider Than Previously Believed.
» Contractor Details the Sickening Soundproof Dungeon With Hooks in the Walls Which Man Accused of Murdering Mackenzie Lueck Asked Him to Build
» Democrat Montana Governor Vetoes Campus Free Speech Bill
» Echo Dot Owner Claims Amazon’s Alexa Assistant Began Swearing at Him After He Quit His Prime Membership
» Far Left Hate Group Outraged After Jack Posobiec Exposes Their Terroristic Threats Against Tucker Carlson — and Twitter Bans Their Accounts
» Fugitive Who Kept Attack-Squirrel Hopped-Up on Meth Found and Arrested
» Indictments Charge Widespread Voting Fraud Scheme on Skid Row in Los Angeles
» Just Three Percent of 2019 Dartmouth Grads Support Trump
» Kamala Harris Pretends She Didn’t Know She Was Raising Her Hand to Abolish All Private Healthcare
» Michelle Malkin Raises Over $30,000 in a Few Hours for Journalist Attacked and Robbed by Antifa
» Missing University of Utah Student Mackenzie Lueck is Dead; Man Charged With Murder
» New York Police Sergeants Union to Commie Mayor De Blasio: You’re “Full of S***!… Save the Sympathy Card for the Clowns That Believe Your Cr*p”
» None Dare Call it Conspiracy
» NYPD Catch Serial Subway Pervert After He ‘Reached Up a Woman’s Dress and Groped Her’ On Board a Crowded Train — as it’s Revealed He’s Been Arrested at Least 169 Times Before
» Octopus Arms Can Operate Without Any Input From the Brain
» Portland Police: Milkshakes Thrown (By Antifa) Reportedly Made With Quick-Drying Cement
» Republicans Start Donating to Marianne Williamson to Keep Her in Future Democratic Debates
» Trump at G-20: Democratic Party ‘Has Become the Socialist Party’
» Watch: Man Stumps Dem Sen on Gun Control, So She Threatens to Take His Guns Away
» ‘What a Disgrace’: Crenshaw Nukes Waters for ‘Repeating Lies’ From Iran to Attack President Trump
» Who is Ayoola A. Ajayi? Suspect Charged With Murder in Mackenzie Lueck Case
» Without a GUI — How to Live Entirely in a Terminal
 
Canada
» Vancouver Housing Unaffordability Due to Foreign Ownership, Chinese Funds, & Migrant Millionaires, Study Says
 
Europe and the EU
» Council of Europe Following CSM Case
» EU Court Says Poland’s Supreme Court Reforms Unlawful
» Europe’s Missing Islamic State Fighters
» Germany & Netherlands Agree to Create Joint ‘Military’ Internet as NATO Eyes Unified Network
» Islam, Terrorism, And Censorship
» Italian Children ‘Brainwashed’ To Believe Parents Abused Them
» Italy: Parents Get 2 Yrs in Death of Girl Denied Chemo
» Online Reseller Markets Thrive in Italy
» ‘Post-Truth’ and the Truth of the Political: Freedland vs. Dugin
» Sea-Watch 3 Captain Rackete Probed, As Deadlock Continues
» UK: Anti-Brexit Narrative on Ford Cuts Unravels as Jobs Axe Falls on Germany, France
» UK: Teenage ISIS Supporter Who Bought 15-Inch Hunting Knife Jailed for Preparing Act of Terrorism
» War Graves Found Smashed on D-Day Anniversary Restored to Former Glory
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Palestinians Unleash Largest-Ever Barrage of Incendiary Balloons From Gaza Strip on Southern Israel Sparking Dozens of Fires Throughout the Area
 
Middle East
» US Central Command Orders a Fleet of F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighters to Middle East as Threat From Iran Continues to Build Towards Military Conflict
 
Russia
» In an Astounding Interview, Putin Says Globalism is the Enemy of Humanity
 
South Asia
» 17 Years After Being Declared Extinct in the Wild, Turtle Species is Saved by Caretakers of Hindu Temple
» PETA Activist: Police Attacked and Severely Injured in Badlapur by Illegal Cow Slaughter-House Owners and Muslim Butchers
 
Australia — Pacific
» Australia’s Vegan Lie Revealed: How Plant-Based Diets Still Result in Hundreds of Thousands of Animal Deaths a Year
» University Bans ‘Inappropriate’ Scientific Data About the Arrival of Humans in Australia Because it is Offensive to Aboriginals Who Believe They Have Been Here ‘Forever’
» ‘We’d Have No Sponsors at All’: Rugby Australia Boss Slams Israel Folau and Says Not Sacking Him Would Have Put the Game’s Future at Risk
 
Latin America
» This Was the Moment a Car-Size Asteroid Exploded Above Puerto Rico
 
Immigration
» Free Health Care for Illegal Aliens Could Cost American Taxpayers Up to $660b a Decade
» Immigrant Who Was Given $98,000 to Start a New Life in Cambodia Slams the Australian Government Because the Money ‘Wasn’t Enough’
» Italy: Salvini Launches Ships to Block Incoming Migrant Boats
» Italy’s Trump: Salvini Wants to Build a Wall to Stop Illegal Migration From Balkans
» Italy Migrant Boat: Rescue Captain Accused of Trying to Sink Police Boat
» Latinos for Trump Break Out in ‘Build the Wall’ Chant at Pence’s Miami Event
» Obama-Appointed Judge Blocks White House From Allocating Military Funds to Build a Border Wall
» Ocasio-Cortez Unleashes Her Fury at Pelosi for Caving on McConnell Border Bill
» Over Half of Arab Young Adults Want to Migrate
» Sweden Alarmed by Migrant Kids Sent Abroad on ‘Educational Trips’ To Avoid Westernisation
» Swedish Youth Face Housing Shortage as Migrants Given Priority
» Ten Migrants “Unrepentant” During Trial for Gang Rape of German Girl
» The German Bild on Seawatch: “Italian Plebeians”
 
Culture Wars
» Ascend With Pride: New York City Unveils Largest LGBTQ+P for Pedophile 6-Color Rainbow Pride Flag in Its History at Four Freedoms State Park
» Atheist Group Protests Ten Commandments Plaque That’s Been Displayed in School for Over 90 Years. And Just Like That, It’s Gone.
» Chrislam Update: Pope Francis Calls for Major Theological Reforms in Catholic Schools in Order to Promote ‘Common Mission’ With Islam and Muslims
» Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Donates $1 Million to Planned Parenthood to Fight ‘Draconian’ Abortion Laws
» Joel and Victoria Osteen Are Honored Guests at Lady Gaga SiriusXM and Pandora Pride Concert in New York City on Monday
» Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati Invites Drag Queen ‘Sparke Leigh’ To Read LGBTQ+P for Pedophile Literature From the Pulpit
» Poland Rules in Favour of Printer Convicted Over Refusing LGBT Posters
» Why Israel Folau Wants $3 Million: Star is Now the Face of a New Culture War That is Ripping the Nation Apart — and He’s Preparing for a Mammoth Legal Battle That Could Change Australia Forever
 

Dow Celebrates Best June in 81 Years, S&P Best in 64 Years

Investors soaked up U.S. stocks during the month giving the Dow Jones Industrial Average its best June in 81 years while the S&P notched its best in 64 years.

The rally, which continued on the final trading day of the month, gave the Dow Jones Industrial Average a 7.2 percent jump, the best since 1938, the S&P 500 added 6.9 percent, the strongest June since 1955 and the Nasdaq 7.4-percent — its best showing since 2000 as tracked by the Dow Jones Market Data Group.

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

Risk of Hungary’s Booming Economy Overheating is Very Low: Central Banker

BUDAPEST (Reuters) — Hungary’s economy is in a high-pressure phase with strong wage and output growth, but the risk of overheating is very low as investments are booming and it is running a current account surplus, a senior central banker said on Wednesday.

National Bank of Hungary deputy governor Marton Nagy told Reuters the bank was committed to reaching its inflation target over its forecast horizon of 5 to 8 quarters, which was also key to guarding against overheating.

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

3 Arrested as Downtown Portland Protests Escalate Into Civil Disturbance

Rival demonstrators clashed Saturday afternoon in downtown Portland, resulting in myriad injuries and three arrests.

Protesters from the left and right held separate demonstrations that eventually resulted in roving marches throughout the downtown core, halting traffic and public transit for much of the early afternoon amid the busy tourist season. Police declared a civil disturbance and unlawful assembly shortly after 3 p.m., and crowds dispersed before the afternoon concluded.

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

70 Climate Change Protestors Arrested Outside New York Times Building

Seventy climate change protesters were arrested after they blocked traffic outside the New York Times building on Saturday, police said. The protesters from the group Extinction Rebellion hung banners on the skyscraper in midtown Manhattan on Saturday and on the outside of the Port Authority Bus Terminal across the street.

The NYPD took 67 protesters into police custody after they laid down on Eighth Avenue and blocked traffic, CBS New York reports. The Port Authority said they arrested three of the protesters. Charges are pending.

A spokeswoman for Extinction Rebellion, Eve Mosher, said the group wants the media to report on “the climate emergency” so that “people can start pushing for more radical responses.”

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

A New Series of Lawsuits Allege a Serial Murder Suspect’s Path of Violence Through Dallas and Collin Counties Was Even Wider Than Previously Believed.

Billy Chemirmir, 46, was already accused of killing 12 elderly women in Dallas and Collin counties. The lawsuits allege six more elderly victims, including one man.

Family members filed the six separate lawsuits Tuesday against The Tradition-Prestonwood, an upscale senior living complex where eight of the people died. The complex is operated by The Tradition, a company that owns four senior living communities in Dallas and Houston.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Contractor Details the Sickening Soundproof Dungeon With Hooks in the Walls Which Man Accused of Murdering Mackenzie Lueck Asked Him to Build

The man charged with murdering Utah woman Mackenzie Lueck and burning her body in his backyard had tried to have a secret sex dungeon built in his basement, a contractor says.

Meanwhile, cops said on Friday night that they had located the mattress missing from the suspect’s home and considered key evidence. They did not offer further information about the mattress, however.

Contractor Brian Wolf says that Ayoola Adisa Ajayi, 31, reached out to him in April and asked him to build a ‘soundproof’ room in the basement of his Salt Lake City home.

Ajayi first proposed that Wolf build a ‘secret door’ to a space that was about four feet by nine feet, the contractor told Fox News.

But Wolf says that Ajayi ‘slowly started sidestepping into more stuff, like wanting a thumb lock on it with a fingerprint lock, and soundproofing it, and putting hooks in the concrete — it was just weird what he was asking me.’

Pressed for an explanation, Ajayi said he wanted a secret room for alcohol to hide it from his Mormon girlfriend, and soundproof so that he could sit inside and listen to music, according to Wolf.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Democrat Montana Governor Vetoes Campus Free Speech Bill

The Democrat Governor of Montana, Steve Bullock, vetoed a bill that would have expanded free speech rights on campus across the state.

[Comment: While rural Americans were working hard, communists have infiltrated political offices all over the heartland.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Echo Dot Owner Claims Amazon’s Alexa Assistant Began Swearing at Him After He Quit His Prime Membership

An Echo Dot owner claims that Amazon’s Alexa assistant has started calling him a ‘s*******’ whenever he asks the personal assistant to play him music.

Micheal Slade, 29, was reportedly shocked when his Echo Dot speaker began to swear at him following his cancellation of his Amazon Prime subscription.

The incident has reportedly left Amazon engineers puzzled — with the tech firm offering Mr Slade gift cards and a year of free Prime membership in compensation.

Software is available for the Echo Dot speaker that can make Alexa curse — but it is unclear whether someone might have deliberately uploaded this to the device.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Far Left Hate Group Outraged After Jack Posobiec Exposes Their Terroristic Threats Against Tucker Carlson — and Twitter Bans Their Accounts

Far left hate group Antifa DC is outraged after conservative author, pundit and OANN reporter Jack Posobiec exposed them on Twitter.

The group was posting terroristic threats against Tucker Carlson and several conservatives online and in a Washington DC poster campaign.

Twitter took down their accounts following their public threats last week.

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

Fugitive Who Kept Attack-Squirrel Hopped-Up on Meth Found and Arrested

Police have finally tracked down and arrested a fugitive who kept an “attack squirrel” caged and hopped up on methamphetamine at his house for protection, according to the NY Post.

The man, identified as 35 year old Mickey Paulk, was arrested on Thursday after authorities caught him leaving a hotel in a stolen ambulance. Paulk eventually rammed into an investigator’s vehicle after a short chase and was arrested.

He was booked on drug and gun charges, as well as charges of attempting to elude, criminal mischief, receiving stolen property and felon in possession of a pistol.

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

Indictments Charge Widespread Voting Fraud Scheme on Skid Row in Los Angeles

An indictment unsealed in Los Angeles charged nine people accused of participating in voting fraud schemes — in which homeless people were allegedly offered cash or cigarettes in exchange for forged signatures on initiative petitions and voter registration forms.

Seven of the accused pleaded not guilty early Friday. The two others have not yet appeared in court on the new case.

Prosecutors have accused the group of 14 felonies for a variety of alleged acts during the 2016 and 2018 election cycles, including charges of circulating an initiative with forged or fictitious names, signing fictitious names, registering fictitious persons, and making payment for signatures, according to the indictment. None of the defendants faces all of the charges.

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

Just Three Percent of 2019 Dartmouth Grads Support Trump

A Dartmouth newspaper found that only three percent of seniors at the school have a favorable view of President Donald Trump.

Student-run publication The Dartmouth posted its Senior Survey in early June, detailing various opinions and trends for the graduating class. This annual survey includes the seniors’ political leanings and preferences.

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

Kamala Harris Pretends She Didn’t Know She Was Raising Her Hand to Abolish All Private Healthcare

On Thursday night ALL TEN COMMUNIST CLOWNS on the debate stage were asked if they would support giving government-run health care to illegal aliens — and ALL TEN said YES.

But after the debate Kamala’ s team tried to play defense by saying she Kamala did not understand the question. But (on another healthcare question, abolishing all private healthcare,) after the debate Kamala’s team tried to play defense by saying she Kamala did not understand the question.

Oh, please!

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Michelle Malkin Raises Over $30,000 in a Few Hours for Journalist Attacked and Robbed by Antifa

Journalist and political commentator Michelle Malkin has raised over $6,000 to hire security and buy new camera equipment for Quillette editor Andy Ngo in less than hour.

Ngo was viciously attacked and robbed by Antifa thugs while covering a Portland protest on Saturday.

The GoFundMe campaign immediately went viral and over 100 people contributed in the first half hour to help the brave and intrepid journalist as he sat in an emergency room.

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

Missing University of Utah Student Mackenzie Lueck is Dead; Man Charged With Murder

Suspect wanted secret room with hooks on its wall built in home, contractor reveals

Police have charged a man with aggravated murder in the “tragic and horrific” killing of missing University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck, officials announced Friday.

The suspect, identified as 31-year-old Ayoola Ajayi, was taken into custody Friday morning after an investigation uncovered a fresh dig area, charred female human tissue and items belonging to the missing student in the backyard of his Salt Lake City home, police said. His neighbors, they added, had informed detectives they noticed Ajayi burning something with the help of gasoline around June 17, when Lueck was last seen.

“After an exhaustive week of investigation, we are filing charges of aggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping, obstruction of justice and desecration of a body in the homicide of Mackenzie Lueck,” Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown told reporters.

“I will not be saying the killer’s name again,” he added, noting that the crimes were “tragic and horrific”…

Lueck, 23, disappeared after meeting an unknown individual around 3 a.m. on June 17 near a park in Salt Lake City after being dropped off by a Lyft driver, according to police. Brown said Ayaji was the last person Lueck was communicating with before her disappearance and that phone records indicated they were both in the area around 3 a.m.

Brown said Lueck’s parents were “devastated and heartbroken” when they were informed about her death.

“Salt Lake City is a tight-knit, caring, family-oriented community and I hope we can all work together to prevent this from ever happening again,” he said.

Lueck’s uncle, reading a statement on behalf of her family Friday, also said they would like to “express their gratitude” to all the law enforcement agencies that assisted in the investigation. He said her family is “grateful” of those who supported it.

The investigation into Lueck’s death is now focusing on whether Ayaji acted alone or had help, Brown said.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

New York Police Sergeants Union to Commie Mayor De Blasio: You’re “Full of S***!… Save the Sympathy Card for the Clowns That Believe Your Cr*p”

On Wednesday night New York Mayor Bill de Blasio used his son as an example to trash police officers as racist.

Again, de Blasio used his own son to trash police during the debate.

Then on Friday commie Mayor de Blasio posted this tweet after a New York City Police Officer committed suicide.

We’re devastated by the news out of the NYPD this morning. An officer took his own life — one of four in recent weeks.

The job of protecting this city demands so much from the officers who serve. Our city is here for them. https://t.co/JBFmC5tepi

— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) June 27, 2019

The New York Sergeants Benevolent Association, comprised of approx 13,000 active and retired sergeants of the NYPD, responded to de Blasio’ s tweet on the dead officer. They did not hold back!

New York Sergeants Benevolent Association: Your (you’ re) full of s***! You bashed every cop in the country last night in the DNC debate. You use cops for your own gain. Truth is you could care less about cops, so save the sympathy card for the clowns who believe your cr*p.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

None Dare Call it Conspiracy

by Gary Allen

If you and your clique wanted control over the United States, it would be impossible to take over every city hall, county seat and state house. You would want all power vested at the apex of the executive branch of the federal government; then you would have only to control one man to control the whole shebang. If you wanted to control the nation’s manufacturing, commerce, finance, transportation and natural resources, you would need only to control the apex, the power pinnacle, of an all-powerful SOCIALIST government. Then you would have a monopoly and could squeeze out all your competitors. If you wanted a national monopoly, you must control a national socialist government. If you want a worldwide monopoly, you must control a world socialist government. That is what the game is all about. “Communism” is not a movement of the downtrodden masses but is a movement created, manipulated and used by power-seeking billionaires in order to gain control over the world … first by establishing socialist governments in the various nations and then consolidating them all through a “Great Merger,” into an all-powerful world socialist super-state probably under the auspices of the United Nations. The balance of this book will outline just how they have used Communism to approach that goal.

Have you ever had the experience of walking into a mystery movie two-thirds of the way through? Confusing wasn’t it? All the evidence made it look as if the butler were the murderer, but in the final scenes you find out, surprisingly, that it was the man’s wife all along. You have to stay and see the beginning of the film. Then as all the pieces fall into place, the story makes sense.

This situation is very similar to the one in which millions of Americans find themselves today. They are confused by current happenings in the nation. They have come in as the movie, so to speak, is going into its conclusion. The earlier portion of the mystery is needed to make the whole thing understandable. (Actually, we are not really starting at the beginning, but we are going back far enough to give meaning to today’s happenings.)

In order to understand the conspiracy it is necessary to have some rudimentary knowledge of banking and, particularly, of international bankers. While it would be an over-simplification to ascribe the entire conspiracy to international bankers, they nevertheless have played a key role. Think of the conspiracy as a hand with one finger labelled “international banking,” others “foundations,” “the anti-religion movement”

“Fabian Socialism,” and “Communism.” But it was the international bankers of whom Professor Quigley was speaking when we quoted him earlier as stating that their aim was nothing less than control of the world through finance.

[Comment: Boook available in text, pdf and epub formats.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

NYPD Catch Serial Subway Pervert After He ‘Reached Up a Woman’s Dress and Groped Her’ On Board a Crowded Train — as it’s Revealed He’s Been Arrested at Least 169 Times Before

New York police have arrested a man after he allegedly groped an off-duty traffic officer on board a crowded subway train.

Gian Verdelli, 67, was taken into custody Friday morning over the incident which is said to have occurred on a Manhattan-bound service shortly before 9 am on Wednesday.

The NYPD say Verdelli reached under a 37-year-old woman’s dress and touched her her genitals.

He quickly fled when the train arrived at the next station, but the distressed victim still managed to snap a picture of her alleged assailant.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Octopus Arms Can Operate Without Any Input From the Brain

The octopus is already an impressive creature (and probably knows it) and it certainly doesn’t need any help from humans reinforcing that notion. Yet we keep studying them — possibly to prove to ourselves that we really are superior to them. Good luck with that — especially after a new study found that an octopus’ arms can and do operate independently from their brains, making snap decisions on their own. Who’s the sucker now?

“It’s an alternative model for intelligence. It gives us an understanding as to the diversity of cognition in the world, and perhaps the universe.”

Uh-oh. Is Dominic Sivitilli, a graduate student in behavioral neuroscience and astrobiology at the University of Washington in Seattle who presented the new research at the 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon 2019) hinting that octopuses are from another part of the universe? Perhaps he’s implying that their arms are.

“The octopus’ arms have a neural ring that bypasses the brain, and so the arms can send information to each other without the brain being aware of it. So while the brain isn’t quite sure where the arms are in space, the arms know where each other are and this allows the arms to coordinate during actions like crawling locomotion.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Portland Police: Milkshakes Thrown (By Antifa) Reportedly Made With Quick-Drying Cement

Portland, Oregon police posted a warning to Twitter Saturday evening that “milkshakes” thrown during the violent Antifa protests contained quick-drying cement. Police officers, Quillette journalist Andy Ngo and others were hit with milkshakes. Commenters online noted the high alkaline content of the moistened quick-drying cement would cause chemical burns when it hit exposed skin.

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

Republicans Start Donating to Marianne Williamson to Keep Her in Future Democratic Debates

WASHINGTON — Author Marianne Williamson’s quirky, love-conquers-all approach on the Democratic debate stage Thursday drew applause, ridicule and confusion.

On Friday, she was attracting donations. From Republicans.

GOP strategist Jeff Roe, who ran Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’ 2016 presidential campaign, tweeted out to his 16,000 followers asking fellow Republicans “to donate $1 to keep this vibrant democrat on the debate stage. One debate performance is not enough.”

At least several people appear to have taken up the challenge based on responses to Roe, accompanied by copies of receipts of their campaign donations.

Because qualifying for future debates requires a certain level of fundraising and support, Republicans say they want to keep her offbeat presence on stage.

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

Trump at G-20: Democratic Party ‘Has Become the Socialist Party’

Before the start of the bilateral meeting, Trump said he had watched portions of Democratic primary debates on TV.

“I wasn’t impressed,” Trump said. “It’s become the socialist party.”

“I heard a rumor that the Democrats are going to change their name from the Democratic Party to the Socialist Party,” he added.

[Comment: That’s at a minimum. It is actually closer to a full bore communist party.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Watch: Man Stumps Dem Sen on Gun Control, So She Threatens to Take His Guns Away

For a party that seems to scream “Constitutional crisis!” at virtually every move President Donald Trump makes, Democrats sure love trampling upon the rule of law.

Earlier this month, elected officials in Illinois held a town hall meeting over whether or not to enact fines for individuals who keep commonly owned semi-automatic firearms in their homes.

The meeting quickly devolved with Democratic state Sen. Julie Morrison ultimately threatening a full-fledged firearm confiscation. Initially, a local gun owner, obviously and justifiably unhappy with the idea, challenged the fines proposed by Illinois Senate Bill 107 — noting that its purpose was to “to take away semi-automatic firearms.”

Morrison responded, claiming that the legislation wasn’t about confiscating firearms, rather, it was meant to deter future sales of said firearms.

The man shot back that it was more than a simple sales deterrent, referencing the bill’s fines against those who already own semi-automatic firearms.

“You want me to turn them over to the state police unless I pay a fine for each firearm and register them, then I get to keep them,” he said.

The constituent continued and stumped Morrison in the process: “If I get to keep it — if I pay a fine and register it — then, how dangerous is it in the first place and why do you need to ban it all?”

Talk about a mic drop moment.

Instead of Morrison simply cutting her losses and moving on, she doubled-down in an utterly tyrannical tirade.

“Well, you just maybe changed my mind,” she said. “Maybe we won’t have a fine at all, maybe it’ll just be a confiscation and we won’t have to worry about paying the fine.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘What a Disgrace’: Crenshaw Nukes Waters for ‘Repeating Lies’ From Iran to Attack President Trump

Mad Maxine Waters has met her match after being smacked down for taking up with Iran by a patriotic member of Congress who was wounded in combat and has little tolerance for loudmouthed ignoramuses trying to score cheap political points.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Who is Ayoola A. Ajayi? Suspect Charged With Murder in Mackenzie Lueck Case

Ayoola A. Ajayi, 31, was arrested and charged with aggravated murder, kidnapping and desecration of a body in the death of Lueck, Salt Lake City police Chief Mike Brown said.

Ajayi, of Salt Lake City, met Lueck at a park where she was last seen after taking a Lyft ride from the airport at 3 a.m. June 17, police said.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Without a GUI — How to Live Entirely in a Terminal

Sure, it may be hard, but it is possible to give up graphical interfaces entirely—even in 2019.

About three years back, I attempted to live entirely on the command line for 30 days—no graphical interface, no X Server, just a big-old terminal and me, for a month.

I lasted all of ten days.

Why did I attempt this? What on Earth would compel a man to give up all the trappings and features of modern graphical desktops and, instead, artificially restrict himself to using nothing but text-based, command-line software, as if he were stuck in the early 1980s?

Who knows. Clearly, I make questionable decisions.

But you know, if I’m being honest, the experience was not entirely unpleasant. Sure, I missed certain niceties from the graphical side of things, but there were some distinct benefits to living in a shell. My computers, even the low-powered ones, felt faster (command-line software tends to be a whole lot lighter and leaner than those with a graphical user interface). Plus, I was able to focus and get more work done without all the distractions of a graphical desktop, which wasn’t bad.

What follows are the applications I found myself relying upon the most during those fateful ten days, separated into categories. In some cases, these are applications I currently use over (or in addition to) their graphical equivalents.

Quite honestly, it is entirely possible to live completely without a GUI (more or less)—even today, in 2019. And, these applications make it possible—challenging, but possible.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Vancouver Housing Unaffordability Due to Foreign Ownership, Chinese Funds, & Migrant Millionaires, Study Says

A new study has provided evidence linking unaffordable housing in Vancouver to foreign ownership, Chinese capital and millionaire migrants, according to the SCMP.

A white paper published by Josh Gordon, an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University’s school of public policy, found a stunning 96% correlation between metro Vancouver municipalities’ price to income ratios and the proportion of their detached houses in which at least one owner was a non-resident. The correlation was called “unimpeachable” by a leading research who commented on the paper.

In short, this means that the more that a Vancouver municipality was sought after by non-resident owners, the more unaffordable it became.

Gordon said: “When I plugged the numbers in it blew my mind … I mean, holy smokes.”

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

Council of Europe Following CSM Case

Has asked for update by end of December

(ANSA) — Strasbourg, June 25 — The Council of Europe is following a case of judicial cronyism and alleged corruption that has embroiled the Italian judiciary’s self-governing body, the Supreme Council of Magistrates (CSM), ANSA learned Tuesday.

The council’s anti-corruption organ GRECO has asked Italian authorities for information on the latest developments in the case, sources said.

Italy’s responses were discussed last week by GRECO, the sources said.

GRECO has decided, they said, “also in light of an evolving situation and the difficulty of expressing a judgment,” to ask Rome for an update by the end of the year.

President Sergio Mattarella, the titular head of the CSM, told an extraordinary meeting of the CSM on Friday that he was alarmed by a Perugia probe into alleged cronyism in the Italian judiciary.

The meeting of CSM, the judiciary’s self-governing body, was called to appoint two new members following the resignations of people implicated in the probe.

“Today the CSM turns a new leaf,” said Mattarella, the nominal head of the council, as he chaired the meeting.

The president expressed “great concern” about the investigation into allegedly attempts to manipulate the appointments of prosecutors.

He said the probe “revealed an disconcerting, unacceptable picture” and had “produced seriously negative consequences for the prestige and authoritativeness of the whole judiciary”.

He also called for the CSM to “react firmly to any form of degeneration”.

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EU Court Says Poland’s Supreme Court Reforms Unlawful

WARSAW, Poland (AP) “ The European Union’s top court ruled Monday that a Polish law that pushed Supreme Court judges into early retirement violates EU law, a setback for Poland’s right-wing government but a move welcomed by critics who worried the measure would cause a serious erosion of democratic standards.

In its ruling, the European Court of Justice said the measures breach judicial independence. An interim decision from the court in November ordered the Polish government to reinstate judges who were forced to retire early, about one-third of the Supreme Court’s justices.

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Europe’s Missing Islamic State Fighters

The German government has lost track of scores of Germans who travelled to Iraq and Syria in recent years to join the Islamic State (IS). The revelation comes amid growing fears that some of these fighters are returning to Germany undetected by authorities.

The German Interior Ministry, in response to a question from the Secretary General of the classical liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), Linda Teuteberg, revealed that German authorities lack information on the whereabouts of at least 160 Germans who left to fight with the IS, according to Welt am Sonntag. The ministry said that while some had probably been killed in combat, others have gone into hiding and may be trying to resettle in Germany.

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Germany & Netherlands Agree to Create Joint ‘Military’ Internet as NATO Eyes Unified Network

Berlin and Amsterdam have agreed to set up ‘military’ internet, paving the way for a unified network shared by NATO states. The ambitious program is expected to come with a hefty price tag attached,RT.com reports.

The two European states signed an accord earlier this week in Brussels making the new Dutch-German project, called Tactical Edge Networking (TEN), official.

Headquartered in Koblenz, Germany, TEN will merge communications between the German and Dutch militaries. That would incorporate some 25,000 vehicles, while Dutch and German troops will also be outfitted with identical, linked computers, radios, tablets and telephones.

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Islam, Terrorism, And Censorship

In his newest book, Paul Cliteur, author and jurisprudence professor at Leiden University, examines a largely forgotten 1987 German television comedy skit that sparked Muslim protests. Cliteur asserts that the incident, involving Dutch comedian Rudi Carrell, became the forerunner for other protests, many of them deadly violent, that now characterize the ongoing conflict between Islamic theoterrorism and Western free speech. In Theoterrorism v. Freedom of Speech: From Incident to Precedent (Amsterdam University Press, 2019), Cliteur calls the Carrell incident a turning point in global politics. It made the West conclude that offending Islam was a global capital offense and it brought about the start of a precipitous decline in Western civil liberties…

Common to all incidents cited by the author in Theoterrorism is that “Islamophobia” accusations and retaliation threats can be instruments of hostage-taking of entire populations, spreading fear among targeted citizens, entire societies and governments. They impose Islamic blasphemy laws or sharia on non-Muslim societies, democracies that honor citizen rights to free expression without censorship or restraint.

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Italian Children ‘Brainwashed’ To Believe Parents Abused Them

Mayor, doctors and social workers arrested in scheme to brainwash children into believing they had been abused and sell them

Network fabricated evidence and made children believe they had been abused in adoption scheme worth hundreds of thousands of euros.

Italian police have arrested 18 people, including a mayor, social workers and psychologists for allegedly “brainwashing” children into believing their parents had abused them, in a scheme to take them away from their families and sell them to foster parents.

Authorities in the central Italian city of Reggio Emilia revealed how a network of carers allegedly used hours of psychotherapy sessions and electroshocks to convince children their parents had sexually abused them and “alter their memory ahead of the trials”, Italy’s Ansa news agency reports.

They then allegedly sold the children on to friends and acquaintances in a scheme worth hundreds of thousands of euros.

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Italy: Parents Get 2 Yrs in Death of Girl Denied Chemo

Eleonora Bottaro died of leukemia after using ‘Hamer method’

(ANSA) — Padua, June 20 — The parents of an 18-year-old Italian girl who died after they denied her chemotherapy for leukemia and instead ordered the untried ‘Hamer method’ both got two years in jail for her death Thursday.

Lino and Rita Bottaro were found guilty of culpable negligence in the death of Eleonora.

The girl contracted a severe form of leukemia in 2015 and decided on her parents’ advice to refuse chemotherapy.

She died a year later.

The Hamer method, using vitamins and cortisone, was found to have led to her early death.

The parents were found to have contacted a Padua-based family doctor who had been struck off because of his ‘alternative’ cancer treatments, Paolo Rossaro.

The mother reacted to the verdict by saying “I believe in divine justice, I didn’t do anything wrong, I’d do over again everything that I did, only God knows how much my daughter suffered.” Sentences of up to two years are normally suspended in Italy.

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Online Reseller Markets Thrive in Italy

The economic and environmental crisis caused an uptick in digital resale platforms. The reseller market is now worth 23 billion euros and has grown by 28 percent in the last 7 years.

Remember flea markets flooded with antique dealers and bargain shoppers? Well, forget about them. Today’s marketplace is virtual and global. Some are selling their stuff to get rid of clutter, some are driven by conscious consumption, and others simply want to earn a bit of extra cash money to buy a superior model of the same item. But the practice of reselling, reusing, and recycling objects—the second-hand market—is gaining ground and today is worth 23 billion euros, i.e, 1.3 percent of GDP, with a 28 percent growth over the last seven years.

One in two Italians bought or sold a used item in the last year, and 43 percent did so online. Online resale markets are boosting the second-hand economy, with a turnover of 9.8 billion, up 81 percent from 2014. The conservation of mass law implies that mass can neither be created nor destroyed, although it may be transformed. Similarly, this concept in chemistry can be applied to the afterlife certain objects enjoy through virtue of recycling…

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‘Post-Truth’ and the Truth of the Political: Freedland vs. Dugin

by Di Lorenzo Disogra

The term “post-truth”, which appeared for the first time in 1992, has known a considerable diffusion in the political commentary after two important political events of 2016: the EU referendum in the United Kingdom and the presidential election in the United States. For this reason , the Oxford Dictionaries have decided to elect it as “Word of the Year 2016”. They affirm that it is an adjective defined as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”. In the present article, I will compare two different visions (perhaps completely opposite) on the phenomenon of “post-truth”: the one of the liberal journalist Jonathan Freedland and the one of the Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin. In the end, I will try to make some conclusions…

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Sea-Watch 3 Captain Rackete Probed, As Deadlock Continues

Several States ready to take in migrants on board search-and-rescue ship says Conte

(ANSA) — Agrigento, June 28 — Carola Rackete, the captain of the Sea-Watch 3 migrant-rescue ship, has been put under investigation by prosecutors in the Sicilian city of Agrigento, sources said on Friday.

The ship is currently anchored in front of the port of Lampedusa after Rackete defied an order to stay out of Italian waters on Wednesday. The migrants were picked up by it off Libya over two weeks ago.

Rackete, 31-year-old German, is being probed for allegedly aiding illegal immigration for refusing to obey a military vessel, the sources said. Premier Giuseppe Conte said Friday that several EU States have agreed to take some of the around 40 migrants on board the Sea-Watch 3 to end the deadlock regarding the search-and-rescue ship. “Three or four countries are willing to take part in the redistribution of the Sea-Watch migrants,” Conte told reporters at the G20 summit in Osaka. Foreign ministry sources said that, actually, more than four EU countries were willing to take some of the Sea-Watch migrants, including France, Germany, Luxembourg and Portugal.

Conte had a long meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte about the Sea-Watch case on the sidelines of the G20. The ship is run but a German NGO but it is flies the Dutch flag and Rome says the Netherlands should have intervened in this case. This week the Italian embassy in The Hague took a formal step about a possible dereliction of duty by the Dutch authorities.

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UK: Anti-Brexit Narrative on Ford Cuts Unravels as Jobs Axe Falls on Germany, France

The anti-Brexit narrative on expected job losses at Ford’s facilities in Wales is unravelling as the car manufacturer announces further cutbacks in Continental Europe and Russia.

Mainstream broadcasters and Remain-leaning politicians and commentators made much of the U.S. firm’s announcement that it will likely be closing its Bridgend engine plant in South Wales, strongly suggesting that Brexit was to blame for the decision.

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UK: Teenage ISIS Supporter Who Bought 15-Inch Hunting Knife Jailed for Preparing Act of Terrorism

A teenage Isis supporter who claimed he would launch a stabbing attack on a London train has been jailed.

Haider Ahmed was 16 when he was reported to police, who discovered he had purchased a large hunting knife while planning to commit either a terror attack or robbery to fund his travel to Syria.

In a message sent to contacts in September 2016, he said he would launch a “martyrdom” attack the next day if he had the “equipment”.

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War Graves Found Smashed on D-Day Anniversary Restored to Former Glory

A group of First and Second World War military graves that were discovered smashed on the D-Day 75th Anniversary have been restored by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), which vowed to maintain the graves “today, tomorrow and forever.”

The six graves found smashed on the day people from around the world gathered to remember the sacrifice made by allied troops on D-Day were in a cemetery that locals said had been a regular target for vandalism. A local speaking to the Telegraph and Argus highlighted how symbols of the cross had been the main focus of the attacks, with crosses marking graves being destroyed while others “disappeared altogether”.

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Palestinians Unleash Largest-Ever Barrage of Incendiary Balloons From Gaza Strip on Southern Israel Sparking Dozens of Fires Throughout the Area

Massive waves of balloon-borne incendiary devices were launched from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel throughout Thursday, sparking over two dozen fires throughout the area, according to estimates by Israeli authorities.

Can you imagine for a moment what the reaction from the United Nations might be if Israel launched 49 incendiary balloon attacks on the Gaza Strip in a 24-hour period? Why they would call an immediate emergency session, condemn the attacks, and send in UN Peacekeeping Forces to restore order. But Israel did not do that, the Palestinians did, and the silence coming out of the United Nations is absolutely deafening.

There are two standards of justice in the Middle East that contains one set of rules of conduct for Israel and another set for everyone else. This is why Israel does not consult with other nations when they have trouble, and when attacked, they strike back without ever once seeking anyone’s permission or approval. They know they wouldn’t get it anyway.

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US Central Command Orders a Fleet of F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighters to Middle East as Threat From Iran Continues to Build Towards Military Conflict

Nearly a dozen Air Force F-22 stealth fighters have deployed to the Persian Gulf state of Qatar, part of a force buildup requested by U.S. Central Command in May in response to what it called heightened Iranian threats against American forces in the region.

If you think this current situation in Iran is going to just go away any time soon, you would be quite mistaken. The United States as of this writing now has a massive buildup of military force in and around the Persian Gulf. It is not only expensive to use that equipment in battle, but even just sending it there is an incredibly expensive proposition. What we have there now well exceeds any type of mere sabre rattling or muscle flexing.

In a very interesting and related story from The Hill, we read that ‘senators blocked an effort on Friday to restrict President Trump’s ability to go to war with Iran, handing a victory to Republicans and the White House. Senators voted 50-40 on the proposal from Democratic Sens. Tim Kaine(Va.) and Tom Udall (N.M.) to block the president from using funding to carry out military action without congressional authorization.’ My, my, now what does that tell you?

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In an Astounding Interview, Putin Says Globalism is the Enemy of Humanity

And liberalism is a vehicle for tyranny

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that liberalism has “outlived its purpose” and that multiculturalism is “no longer tenable:”

[Comment: Putin speaks the truth.]

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17 Years After Being Declared Extinct in the Wild, Turtle Species is Saved by Caretakers of Hindu Temple

It has been 17 years since the black softshell turtle species was declared extinct in the wild — but thanks to the caretakers of a Hindu temple in India, the tiny reptile has been given a chance at recovery.

Due to habitat loss and over-exploitation as a food source, the turtle species disappeared from the northeastern state of Assam, prompting the International Union for the Conservation of Nature to declare the turtle “extinct in the wild” in 2002.

However, the caretakers of the Hayagriva Madhav temple have been nurturing dozens of the little turtles in the ponds around the centuries-old temple.

The temple’s religious residents say they feel called to protect the species because the turtles are believed to be the reincarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu.

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PETA Activist: Police Attacked and Severely Injured in Badlapur by Illegal Cow Slaughter-House Owners and Muslim Butchers

Here a Hindu rescued from Mob-lynching by peaceful Muslims….

Upendra Bharti | HENB | Thane | June 26, 2019:: When the secular media and liberal intellectuals are always vocal about the painted lynching etc by the cow vigilantes in India; People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) activist Chetan Sharma sustained severe injuries after he was allegedly assaulted in Badlapur in Maharashtra on Monday night last. The reporting about the incident even not reported in the main media streams.

Mr. Sharma a known PETA activist and controvertial ‘Gorakshak’ was investigating a lead about an illegal slaughterhouse in the area of Badalpur when he and a police team accompanying him were attacked.

According to Mr. Sharma, he has been following up on the information about illegal slaughterhouses operating in the area for around six months. After several attempts, the Badlapur police finally heeded his words and sent a team with him to look into the matter, he said.

The issue of cow-slaughtering in unauthorized slaughter-house at Badlapur has been in news since many months. More than 350 fanatics brutally attacked ‘Gorakshak’ Shri. Chetan Sharma who was trying, with the help of police, to stop slaughtering of cows carried out in illegal manner. He has been seriously injured and under treatment in ICU at a private hospital in Dombivali. Police have registered case under Sect. 147, 143, 149 and 353 of IPC against unknown assailants who even beat up police at Badlapur. Search for assailants is going on.

Different stands were taken against unauthorized slaughter-houses in Badlapur by various animal-friendly organizations, ‘Gou-sevaks’ and organizations; but no concrete action has been taken so far…

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Australia’s Vegan Lie Revealed: How Plant-Based Diets Still Result in Hundreds of Thousands of Animal Deaths a Year

While many Australians refuse to eat meat and adopt the vegan philosophy, Tasmanian Gourmet Farmer Matthew Evans says it isn’t as simple as it seems.

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University Bans ‘Inappropriate’ Scientific Data About the Arrival of Humans in Australia Because it is Offensive to Aboriginals Who Believe They Have Been Here ‘Forever’

Science lecturers at the University of New South Wales have been told to stop telling students that Indigenous peoples arrived in Australia 40,000 years ago.

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‘We’d Have No Sponsors at All’: Rugby Australia Boss Slams Israel Folau and Says Not Sacking Him Would Have Put the Game’s Future at Risk

Chairman Cameron Clyne said corporate sponsors and the federal government would have deserted the game had Rugby Australia not sacked Israel Folau.

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This Was the Moment a Car-Size Asteroid Exploded Above Puerto Rico

The GOES-16 weather satellite is designed to detect flashes of lightning. On Saturday, it saw an asteroid.

At 4:25pm Saturday afternoon, meteorologists noticed an unusually bright flash signature over the Caribbean waters 170 miles south of Puerto Rico.

Its light was visible in an area as large as Rhode Island — far too big to be a lightning strike. Plus there were no clouds in the area.

It had to be something else. The answer turned out to be something out of this world.

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Free Health Care for Illegal Aliens Could Cost American Taxpayers Up to $660b a Decade

Providing free health care for all illegal aliens living in the United States could cost American taxpayers an additional $660 billion every decade in expenses.

This week, half of the 24 Democrats running for their party’s presidential nomination confirmed that their healthcare plans would provide free health care to all illegal aliens at the expense of American taxpayers — including former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY).

Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research Steven Camarotta told Breitbart News that only rough estimates are available for what health care for illegal aliens will cost American taxpayers, and though a comprehensive study has yet to be conducted on this specific issue, taxpayers can expect to pay a “significant” amount.

“If we offered Medicaid for illegal immigrants, it is possible the costs could be over tens of billions of dollars,” Camarotta said. “However, it would depend on eligibility criteria as well as how many illegal immigrants actually sign up for program once it was offered. So while the actual costs are uncertain, the size would be significant for taxpayers.”

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Immigrant Who Was Given $98,000 to Start a New Life in Cambodia Slams the Australian Government Because the Money ‘Wasn’t Enough’

Abdullah Zalghani fled Syria in 2013 and when he tried to enter Australia via boat, he was detained and sent to Nauru. Upon being resettled in Cambodia, he said the cost of support his family is too high.

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Italy: Salvini Launches Ships to Block Incoming Migrant Boats

Populist Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini has sent two patrol vessels to stop a pair of ships with migrants on board from entering Italian national waters.

Salvini ordered the two vessels to block the migrant ships, which were recently sighted near the coast of Malta, saying that he did not think the Maltese government would act to stop them, Italian newspaper Il Giornale reports.

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Italy’s Trump: Salvini Wants to Build a Wall to Stop Illegal Migration From Balkans

Italy’s populist deputy prime minister and minister of the interior Matteo Salvini has proposed a border barrier to halt illegal immigration from the Balkans, similar to the one U.S. President Donald Trump wants along the Mexican-American frontier.

Salvini, whose League (La Lega) turned in one of the best performances of any European political party in the recent European Parliament elections, has proposed the barrier — which may be similar in design to the protective fences built by Hungarian premier Viktor Orban, which slashed illegal migrant numbers by over 99 per cent — after increased activity on the Balkan migrant route.

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Italy Migrant Boat: Rescue Captain Accused of Trying to Sink Police Boat

Italy’s far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has accused the captain of a ship carrying rescued migrants of trying to sink a police boat.

Carola Rackete was arrested at the Italian port of Lampedusa after a two-week stand-off with police at sea.

Her vessel, Sea-Watch 3, was banned from docking, but it eventually entered the port on Friday night.

On Saturday, Mr Salvini called Ms Rackete a “rich, white, German woman” who had committed “an act of war”.

“She tried to sink a police launch with officers on board at night,” he said. “They say ‘we’re saving lives’, but they risked killing these human beings who were doing their job, it’s clear from the videos.”

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Latinos for Trump Break Out in ‘Build the Wall’ Chant at Pence’s Miami Event

Chants of “build the wall” broke out at Tuesday’s rollout of the Donald J. Trump for President Latino Coalition event in Miami, Florida.

Vice President Mike Pence was headlining the launch of the Trump 2020 presidential campaign event when chanting broke out among what was described by New York Times Miami Bureau Chief Patricia Mazzei as a largely Cuban/Venezuelan/Nicaraguan American crowd, “Build the wall.”

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Obama-Appointed Judge Blocks White House From Allocating Military Funds to Build a Border Wall

A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump from allocating military funds to build a border wall.

The permanent injunction was issued on Friday by US District Judge Haywood Gilliam in California.

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Ocasio-Cortez Unleashes Her Fury at Pelosi for Caving on McConnell Border Bill

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) unleashed her fury at the announcement from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) that Democrats will pass a border funding bill without amendments to the Republican version.

[Comment: Comrade AOC is just outraged to find out that she is not important. ]

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Over Half of Arab Young Adults Want to Migrate

More than half of the young people in the Arab world are looking to leave the area and migrate elsewhere, according to a survey by BBC Arabic and the Arab Barometer.

The survey revealed that an average of 52 per cent of those aged 18 to 29 said that they were looking to migrate abroad. With some countries surveyed the proportion is much higher, such as Morocco, where 70 per cent — more than two-thirds — claiming to be considering emigrating, The Jerusalem Post reports.

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Sweden Alarmed by Migrant Kids Sent Abroad on ‘Educational Trips’ To Avoid Westernisation

In absence of comprehensive national statistics, the existing data is feared to merely scratch the surface of this phenomenon, where hundreds of migrant kids are believed to be sent “home” each year to avoid immersion in Swedish culture.

So-called “educational trips” for migrant boys and young men, who are taken to their home countries, often against their will, in order to prevent them from becoming “too Westerinsed” have become an increasingly larger problem in Sweden.

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Swedish Youth Face Housing Shortage as Migrants Given Priority

A survey from the Swedish National Board of Housing, Building, and Planning has shown that while young people are struggling to find homes, half of the local governments give new migrants priority.

The survey, which saw data gathered from 290 Swedish municipalities, highlighted the fact that young Swedes are having an increasingly difficult time finding housing with 230 saying they had a shortage for young people, Nyheter Idag reports.

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Ten Migrants “Unrepentant” During Trial for Gang Rape of German Girl

Trial has begun for 11 suspects in the alleged gang rape of a German girl last year, with some of the defendants described as indifferent and even belligerent in the court room.

A total of 11 men have been accused of participating in the rape of an 18-year-old girl in the bushes outside a nightclub in Freiburg on October 13, 2018, with 10 of them hailing from Syria, Iraq, and Algeria, and one more from Germany.

One of the defendants reportedly shouted, “Whoever photographs me will go to hell!” while raising his middle finger to court room observers.

“Also in court there was no question of repentance among the defendants,” SCEPTR reports. “When the charges against them were read out, they stared uninterested at the ceiling. They then refused to cooperate or to make confessions and showed no respect for the victim, or for women in general.”

One person present described the men as “really arrogant.”

The defendants claim that not only did the girl have sex with them consensually — she demanded it.

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The German Bild on Seawatch: “Italian Plebeians”

Andrea Indini on newspaper.it reports the article of the German newspaper “Bild”, which attacks our Government for the affair of the Sea Watch. To attack our government, the Bild insults all Italians. Not that it’s the first time. But the words he has chosen to treat the subject are extremely violent. He has defined us “Pöbel”. Which means, roughly speaking, plebs, pleabaglia, rabble. And it wasn’t limited to this. In the article signed by Albert Link and Nicholas Scharlak he also defended the NGO, which for years has been dumping illegal immigrants on our shores, and the captain Carola Rackete that forced the blockade of the Interior Ministry illegally entering Italian territorial waters and making waste paper of our laws.

Sea Watch is a German non-governmental organization based in Berlin and Hamburg. The same commander is German. Yet Chancellor Angela Merkel has been careful not to intervene in this harsh attack on our country. Only Interior Minister Horst Seehofer intervened. But he did it to silence those progressive mayors who had offered to host the 43 illegal immigrants loaded on board the vessel led by Rackete. Not a word was spent to condemn the forcing of the blockade, nor was a single minute spent, at European level, trying to resolve the situation. And while the stall continues, we also find ourselves having to put up with the invectives of the image. In the article Pöbel-Attacke gegen deutsche Kapitänin (The attack of the mob on the German captain) the newspaper takes it, primarily, with Salvini accusing him of spending so much time on social media and working little and accusing him of attacking migrants to obtain the consent of the Italians…

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Ascend With Pride: New York City Unveils Largest LGBTQ+P for Pedophile 6-Color Rainbow Pride Flag in Its History at Four Freedoms State Park

New York is coming out in a larger-than-life way this Pride Month, unveiling the biggest pride flag in the city’s history on Friday. But it won’t be a traditional cloth flag.

Pride Month is nearly over, but in its last week be prepared for a 6-color-rainbow onslaught as the festival of Sodom comes to a close. Speaking of that, have you ever wondered why the LGBTQ+P for Pedophile Movement chose a 6-color rainbow as their battle banner instead of the 7-color rainbow that God created? Gilbert Baker, the flag’s creator, will tell you it’s because of size and space constraints. Hmm. The Bible tells a different story.

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Atheist Group Protests Ten Commandments Plaque That’s Been Displayed in School for Over 90 Years. And Just Like That, It’s Gone.

After receiving word from a concerned parent, national atheist activist group the Freedom From Religion Foundation sent an April letter of complaint to an Ohio school district taking issue with a Ten Commandments plaque display, the Times-Reporter said. The FFRF took issue with the plaque near an auditorium entrance in Welty Middle School in New Philadelphia, saying the Constitution doesn’t allow public schools to advance or endorse religion, the paper said.

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Chrislam Update: Pope Francis Calls for Major Theological Reforms in Catholic Schools in Order to Promote ‘Common Mission’ With Islam and Muslims

Pope Francis has issued a Chrislam call for reform within “the way theology is taught in Catholic schools, saying students must learn about dialogue with Judaism and Islam” and establish “the relationship between Catholics and Muslims as brothers, with a common mission to promote peace.”

We have been showing you for years now how Pope Francis has been working double overtime to bring Islam and the muslims in under the umbrella of Vatican City and the Catholic Church. We showed you how back in February the pope signed a “universal declaration of brotherhood” with the grand imam Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb that didn’t include even a single mention of the name of Jesus Christ. We have been showing you over, and over and over again how this pope is forming an end times alliance with Islam. This article today, however, takes this effort to a whole new level…

The Pope is pushing for Catholic students to be taught the lie that normative Islam is a religion of peace and so, it follows that anyone who disagrees with this lie would be deemed “intolerant”, opposed to dialogue and pluralism. It is Islam that is intolerant, supremacist and resistant to diversity. If the Pope is genuine about dialogue, then he should be mutually calling for Islamic States and Islamic schools (beginning with Al Azhar University in Cairo) to establish and preach equal status to all disbelievers, for women, gays etc., and promote dialogues with unbelievers like Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists etc.

In his promotion of Islam, the Pope has become “the Grand Sheikh Francis of Al Vatican”, and is dismissing the sufferings of persecuted Christians, victims of jihad terror and assaults. The Pope’s call for reform within “the way theology is taught in Catholic schools” is a continuation of his dogged efforts which are subjugating Christianity under Islam. His call for reform came “during a speech at the Jesuit-run theology university in Naples. It follows his outreach this year to the Muslim world with the signing of a joint statement with the imam of Cairo’s Al Azhar, the seat of Sunni learning, establishing the relationship between Catholics and Muslims as brothers, with a common mission to promote peace”, ie. so-called ‘peace’. Ahead of the Pope’s trip to Morocco in March, the Vatican media went so far as to abandon the traditional papal insignia. Vatican News explained that a new specially created symbol — a cross and a crescent — “are symbols of Christianity and Islam which highlight the interreligious relation between Christians and Muslims.” Also in preparation of this trip Pope Francis met in the Vatican with Dr. Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa, the secretary general of the Muslim World League (MWL), a group that has been linked to the financing of jihad terror…

Rick Warren is seen slyly referring to Pope Francis as “our pope”, and then going on to brag about what a great job he is doing. He wants you to blithely assume that of course Pope Francis is the “spiritual head” over all of Christianity and not simply over the Roman Catholic corporation. He slips it in like that’s what everyone already thinks and believes. This is nothing more than mental conditioning. A bible believing Christian under no circumstances ever would acknowledge that any pope in the Roman system had any sort of rule over them of any kind. This is how Chrislam got started in the first place. Remember we told you about Rick Warren and ‘A Common Word’ which was the start of Chrislam? This is why Warren pushes and promotes the Catholic pope, they both have the same goal of creating the One World Religion of Chrislam.

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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Donates $1 Million to Planned Parenthood to Fight ‘Draconian’ Abortion Laws

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg says she is donating $1 million to Planned Parenthood’s political advocacy arm to help fight “draconian” abortion restrictions passed in some states.

“I think this is a very urgent moment where the rights and the choices and the basic health of the most vulnerable women — the women who have been marginalized, often women of color — are at stake,” Sandberg told HuffPost in an interview. “And so all of us have to do our part to fight these draconian laws.”

Sandberg said she is trying to “protect women.”

[Comment: Except for those would grow to be women but are currently in the womb.]

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Joel and Victoria Osteen Are Honored Guests at Lady Gaga SiriusXM and Pandora Pride Concert in New York City on Monday

Megachurch false teacher Joel Osteen and his wife Victoria were among a number of celebrities, including drag queens, actors and music industry personalities, who attended the “SiriusXM and Pandora Present Lady Gaga at the Apollo” concert on Monday night in New York City. The two posed on the carpet for a photograph next to a SiriusXM/Pandora/Lady Gaga backdrop

Joel Osteen has fallen so far down into apostasy that his seared conscience doesn’t even alert him anymore when trouble is on the horizon, such was the case on Monday night at the SiriusXM and Pandora merger event in New York City. Joel and his wife Victoria were in attendance at the Lady Gaga Pride concert featuring drag queens, amazingly foul language and the endless glorification of the LGBTQ+P for Pedophile agenda. It seems that the Osteens had no problems at all attending such an event, which is not surprising considering how they have been creeping ever closer to supporting same-sex marriage.

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Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati Invites Drag Queen ‘Sparke Leigh’ To Read LGBTQ+P for Pedophile Literature From the Pulpit

The building caretaker at Mount Auburn Presbyterian church in Cincinnati, Ohio dressed up as a drag queen to read a book in scheduled children’s time during the Sunday, June 16 worship service.

All Christians should be aware of and be prepared for the arrival of the ‘gay church’ that will rewrite the Bible and begin to push the narrative that God loves you “just the way you are” with no change required on your part. We will be writing about this in detail in the coming weeks., and have already begun to tell you about in articles like this one here and many others as well. In case you haven’t figured it out by now, the Church Age is coming to a close, and things are getting ready to break into tiny, little pieces as the Bible has warned us it would.

“For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.” Romans 1:26,27 (KJV)

I wish I could sit here and tell you that one, last, big end times revival was coming, but sadly I cannot. Neither do we find that idea anywhere in Paul’s writings or the book of Revelation. Jesus Himself said that the last days church before the Rapture would be lukewarm, self-focused, and wealthy. And where does Jesus say that He would be? Locked outside of the very thing He shed His blood to create. So with that in mind, not only is the ‘gay church’ possible, it’s a guarantee.

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Poland Rules in Favour of Printer Convicted Over Refusing LGBT Posters

WARSAW, June 26 (Reuters) — A Polish printer who refused to make posters for an LGBT foundation because of his religious beliefs should not have been convicted because workers have a right to act according to their conscience, a court ruled on Wednesday.

LGBT rights have become a hot-button issue in Poland ahead of an election scheduled for October or November, with conservatives depicting campaigners as a threat to traditional Polish values.

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Why Israel Folau Wants $3 Million: Star is Now the Face of a New Culture War That is Ripping the Nation Apart — and He’s Preparing for a Mammoth Legal Battle That Could Change Australia Forever

Israel Folau has become the face of a culture war which could simmer for a decade and top experts say the rugby star’s case will likely land in the High Court.

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3 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/29/2019

  1. Re: Italian children “brainwashed” to believe parents abused them.

    Sadly, we’ve been here before, in the UK and the US, in (roughly) 1987-94. It’s well documented in “Scared to Death”, by Christopher Booker and Richard North (2007); satanic rituals, babies being eaten… It’s particularly good on the asbestos scam (most forms are harmless, if handled properly).

    • in italy there are 2 hot stories now which have been greatily shadowed by SeeWatch3 last trip. One is this one: an organization (Centro Studi Hansel e Gretel) for abused children has made the children removed from their parents with the aid of psychologists and the falsifications of the drawings made by children during psychotherpy, to open a path for adoption to LGBT and unisex married couples. This already resulted in the arrest of 16 people. The other one is a huge fight inside the judiciary system for the nominees of high state responsibility. In both stories the democratic party of italy (PD) political party is involved.

      Because the SeaWatch3 is quite strange story, looking form the perspective that some courts impounded the boat while some other freed it on 1st of June, and considering also the huge fight going on in the judiciary system, I thought, that could be a artificially aided by the judiciary system (which is in greatly way colluded with the PD democratic party), to divert the attention.

  2. At the end of last week, I couldn’t connect to links on Jihad Watch; some digging revealed that it was caused by Windows Defender, which had installed itself, without permission, during a regular update (it conflicts with my preferred anti-virus provider). JW have since flagged the problem; I mention it here as I don’t comment there.

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