More than 500 “rescued” migrants are stranded on two separate NGO ships in the Mediterranean. The vessels are unable to land because Italy and Malta have refused to grant them access to their ports.
In other news, according to the latest polls, 54% of Britons want Brexit by any means, even if it means that the prime minister has to suspend parliament.
To see the headlines and the articles, click “Continue reading” below.
Thanks to JD, Reader from Chicago, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.
Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.
Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. I check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.
We haven’t seen anything like this since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Leading up to this year, farm incomes had been trending lower for most of the past decade, and meanwhile farm debt levels have been absolutely exploding. So U.S. farmers were desperate for a really good year, but instead 2019 has been a total disaster. As I have been carefully documenting, due to endless rain and catastrophic flooding millions of acres of prime farmland didn’t get planted at all this year, and the yields on tens of millions of other acres are expected to be way, way below normal. As a result, we are facing the worst farming crisis in modern American history, and this comes at a time when U.S. farms are drowning in more debt than ever before. In fact, the latest numbers that we have show that the average U.S. farm is 1.3 million dollars in debt…
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
The Trilateral Commission: Helping Driving America’s Bankers Coup d’Etat
While James Carter became America’s 39th president in 1977, the Trilateral Commission was actually created in 1973 under the nominal head of David Rockefeller III (president of Chase Manhattan Bank) and a coterie of international financiers and imperialistically-minded ideologues who believed religiously in the utopian doctrine of global governance under a master-slave ethic. The idea of consolidating three global zones of power (North America, Western Europe and Japan) during the height of the Cold War under a unified command structure was the motive behind the creation of this think tank at that time.
A leading figure in the Trilateral Commission who later became Carter’s National Security Advisor was named Zbigniew Brzezinski who referred to this agenda as the “Technetronic era” which he described in 1970 as an age involving “the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values.” Who would these specialists represent? In his Between Two Ages, Brzezinski made it very clear: “The nation-state as a fundamental unit of man’s organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multi-national corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state”.
Senator Barry Goldwater called out this foreign beast transforming America in his 1979 autobiography With No Apologies by saying “The Trilateralist Commission is international…(and)…is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateralist Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power — political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical.”
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
UK Employment Rate Joint-Highest on Record
More positive economic news has been released today, the UK has matched its highest employment rate since records began, with the figure now standing at 76.1%.
New figures from the Office for National Statistics show that the good news doesn’t stop there. Britons’ wages grew faster than at any time since the financial crisis in the three months to June, annual growth in average weekly earnings for employees in Great Britain increased to 3.9%.This means in real terms (after adjusting for inflation), total pay is estimated to have increased by 1.8% compared with a year earlier, and regular pay is estimated to have increased by 1.9%
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
“The Distortion is Grotesque” — Google Insider Turns Over 950 Pages Documenting Bias to DOJ
Via SaraACarter.com
A former Google insider claiming the company created algorithms to hide its political bias within artificial intelligence platforms — in effect targeting particular words, phrases and contexts to promote, alter, reference or manipulate perceptions of Internet content — delivered roughly 950 pages of documents to the Department of Justice’s Antitrust division Friday.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Agenda 2030: The Next “Great Leap Forward” — Behind the Deep State
In this episode of Behind the Deep State, host Alex Newman exposes the “environmental friendly” plan that is Agenda 2030. On the surface, it looks like an attempt to help preserve the planet, but to make it work, major radical changes are going to be required for it to work. Newman lists these changes, which would result in less money for the general public, more U.N. control, controlling means of production, as well as mass starvation.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Barr Reassigns Warden, Suspends Guards Following Epstein Death
Update: The warden of the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) where Jeffrey Epstein died has been temporarily reassigned to the Bureau’s Northeast Regional Office by Attorney General William Barr, according to a Tuesday statement by the Justice Department. Meanwhile, two prison employees who had been assigned to Epstein’s unit have been placed on administrative leave pending ongoing investigations, according to CNBC.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Chris Cuomo, brother of NY Governor Andrew Cuomo and CNN anchor, loves to call out President Trump for his unpresidential behavior and brash tweets. The judgemental, far-left CNN anchor, who despises Trump, just got caught in an incredible confrontation with a Trump supporter on video—and it’s going viral.
In the video, Cuomo can be seen confronting a man who allegedly called him, “Fredo,” the “weak brother” from “The Godfather” movie. After Cuomo identified himself as an anchor on CNN, he explained why he was offended by the term, saying, “they use it as an Italian aspersion.” Cuomo asked the men in the video, “Are any of you Italian?” he asked. “It’s a f*cking insult to your people. It’s an insult to your f*cking people!”
The man in the video can be heard telling Cuomo that he’s a “much more reasonable in person” that he “seems to be on television.” Cuomo ignored him, and responded like a bully, “Yeah, you wanna play, then we’ll f*cking play!”
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Drinking Bleach Will Not Cure Cancer or Autism, FDA Warns
Federal regulators issued a warning Monday urging people not to drink a chlorine dioxide solution that is often promoted online as a remedy for autism, HIV/AIDS, cancer and other conditions.
The products — known as Miracle Mineral Solution, MMS and Chlorine Dioxide Protocol among other monikers — have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration and can have life-threatening side effects, the department said in a news release.
“Ingesting these products is the same as drinking bleach,” said FDA acting Commissioner Ned Sharpless, according to the release. “Consumers should not use these products, and parents should not give these products to their children for any reason.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Electronics Were Removed From Epstein’s ‘Pedo Island’ Before FBI Raid
Drone footage of “suicided” sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Pedo Island’ home shows that potentially crucial electronics equipment was removed from the home before an FBI raid which took place on Monday.
“This video taken on July 15th show what appears to be an Apple computer on the right along with a pair of binoculars and a box of tissues,” writes Chris Menahan. “It looks as though there’s a white wire possibly connected to an external hard drive on the same desk. What looks like a printer can be seen on the far right, deeper in the kitchen. There’s also what looks like a tablet charging on the left.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Epstein Said He’d Witnessed “Prominent Tech Figures” Taking Drugs and Arranging for Sex: NYT
It’s been just over a year since Elon Musk’s infamous ‘funding secured’ tweet, and everybody who followed the New York Times’ relentless coverage of the scandal — the paper helped expose the fact that Musk effectively lied to the public and violated a bevy of SEC rules — will remember that legendary NYT business columnist Jim Stewart not only led the paper’s coverage, but also scored an interview with Musk where the CEO shared how stressed out and depressed he had become over the company’s production difficulties with the Model 3.
But, as it turns out, during the course of his research, Stewart, who, in addition to his role at the NYT, is a regular contributor of CNBC, was invited by Jeffrey Epstein to visit his Manhattan townhouse for an ‘on background’ interview.
The meeting with Epstein happened a few months before the Miami Herald published its series of exposes that led to the latest round of charges against Epstein.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Epstein ‘Bedsheet’ Hanging Explanation Contradicted by Former Inmate
The official explanation that Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself using bedsheets is contradicted by the claims of a former inmate at the same facility who said that the bedsheets weren’t much stronger than paper and that this would have been an “impossibility.”
“Jeffrey Epstein was found hanging in his lower Manhattan jail cell with a bedsheet wrapped around his neck and secured to the top of a bunk bed,” the New York Postreported.
“The convicted pedophile, who was 6 feet tall, apparently killed himself by kneeling toward the floor and strangling himself with the makeshift noose, law enforcement sources said Monday.”
However, this version of events is contradicted by the assertions of a former inmate at the same jail whose claims were also published by the New York Post.
“You have sheets, but they’re paper level, not strong enough. He was 200 pounds — it would never happen,” said the former inmate.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Federal Agents Search Jeffrey Epstein’s Home in Virgin Islands
On Saturday Epstein was found unconscious in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, and he was later pronounced dead, having apparently committed suicide, said the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
The death is said to have occurred after his cellmate was transferred for reasons that were not immediately clear.
He was reportedly found hanging in his jail cell with a bedsheet wrapped around his neck and secured to the top of a bunk bed, the New York Post reported.
[Comment: Perhaps looking to whisk away and seal evidence, so deep state can continue to extort perps.]
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Trump’s attorney said “almost everything within view” at “relatively small” lockup.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Jeffrey Epstein Said He Had Dirt on Tech Oligarchs: Report
Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein claimed to have dirt on prominent people in the technology sector.
The multimillionaire made the boast to New York Times columnist James Stewart during a conversation at his Manhattan mansion last year.
“He said people in Silicon Valley had a reputation for being geeky workaholics, but that was far from the truth: They were hedonistic and regular users of recreational drugs. He said he’d witnessed prominent tech figures taking drugs and arranging for sex (Mr. Epstein stressed that he never drank or used drugs of any kind),” Stewart wrote.
Stewart did not name anyone in particular and it is unclear whether Epstein told him any names.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
In the video posted below by conservative Ryan Saavedra, the elderly woman in a wheelchair can be seen raising her hand to ask Harris if she can ask her a question.
Senator Harris seemed eager to answer her question, as she scooted over to pose next to the elderly woman in the wheelchair. As Harris leaned over to get closer, the nursing home resident asked, “I understand that you are advocating health care for everyone.” Harris, believing that she scored a supporter, replied, “Yes, of course.” That’s when things got uncomforable for the pandering Demcorat. Harris answered, “Yes m’am,” as the elderly woman, who seemed to be unfazed by Harris, shot back, “Who’s gonna pay for it?” The Democrat senator replied, “Well, we’re gonna pay for it, because right now, let me tell ya something, we’re all paying for health care for everyone,” the nursing home resident interrupted Harris, telling her, “No, we’re not!” Harris continued, “and it’s in the emergency room.” “Leave our health care system alone! We don’t want you to mess with it,”the elderly woman told her.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
No Way Epstein Could Have Organised His Suicide Himself, Former Teflon Don’s Associate Says
Lewis Kasman, a former close confidant of late famous mob boss John Gotti (also known as Teflon Don), said in an interview with the New York Post that there was no way that Jeffrey Epstein could have committed suicide by himself without external assistance in the Metropolitan Correctional Centre (MCC), citing constant camera surveillance of prisoners that would have detected such an attempt.
Kasman, who regularly visited Gotti in the MCC in 1992, revealed that despite the strict conditions and surveillance, prisoners with money could afford things that others couldn’t.
“That facility for years had issues of corruption, with correction officers bringing in food or cellphones for wealthy people”, he said.
The late mobster’s confidant argued that Epstein could have organised his suicide by paying a hefty sum to a corrupt officer in the prison.
“If he killed himself someone had to have helped him […]Someone had to give [Epstein] the equipment to kill himself and he had to pay for it dearly”, Kasman said.
To further substantiate his theory that Epstein could have received external help, Kasman recalled information that he received from an unnamed source that US Attorney General William Barr had allegedly visited the MCC in secret after Epstein was found unconscious in his cell after, something which is believed by some to have been his first, unsuccessful, suicide attempt.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole Has Emitted a Mysteriously Bright Flare
The supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, is relatively quiet. It’s not an active nucleus, spewing light and heat into the space around it; most of the time, the black hole’s activity is low key, with minimal fluctuations in its brightness.
Most of the time. Recently, astronomers caught it going absolutely bananas, suddenly growing 75 times brighter before subsiding back to normal levels. That’s the brightest we’ve ever seen Sgr A* in near-infrared wavelengths.
“I was pretty surprised at first and then very excited,” astronomer Tuan Do of the University of California Los Angeles told ScienceAlert.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Paul Craig Roberts Slams Dems & Western Media: “it’s Open Season on All White People”
CJ Hopkins doesn’t say it, but he shows that within all of the Western countries in which the white core populations are experiencing fierce attack from anti-white ideologues in the media and governments that rule them, there is unity of voice from the media that “Trump is a White Supremacist who inspires Terrorism.”
This unity of voice is suspicious as there are many different possible explanations of the El Paso shooting. The unity of voice is so uniform—in some cases identical phrasing—and so repetitive that it certainly looks like an orchestration against Trump and raises suspicions that the shooting itself was an orchestration.
The question naturally arises, to achieve such an uniformity of response from the Western world, who organized it?…
Clearly in the Western media and US Democratic Party it is open season on all white people. The most intense hatred is expressed against them—even calls for their extermination—and it doesn’t qualify as hate speech or encouraging violence.
The hatred and demonization of white people in America is no different from the propaganda against Jews in the Third Reich. Yet not a single member of the Democratic Party or American print, TV, and NPR radio protests.
That fact tells us all we need to know. If white people don’t get organized and defend themselves there is likely to be a white holocaust.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Seth Rich’s Ghost Won’t Go Away
Authored by Ray McGovern via ConsortiumNews.com,
As if it weren’t enough of a downer for Russiagate true-believers that no Trump-Russia collusion was found, federal judges are now demanding proof that Russia hacked into the DNC in the first place.
It is shaping up to be a significant challenge to the main premise of the shaky syllogism that ends with “Russia did it.”
If you’re new to this website, grab onto something, as the following may come as something of a shock. Not only has there never been any credible evidence to support the claim of Russian cyber interference, there has always been a simple alternative explanation that involves no “hacking” at all — by Russia or anyone else.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Shrieking and Shouting Heard From Epstein’s Cell the Morning He Died
Shrieking and shouting was heard from Jeffrey Epstein’s cell on the morning he died, while one of Epstein’s guards at the Metropolitan Correctional Center was not a regular corrections officer.
“On the morning of Jeffrey Epstein’s death there was shouting and shrieking from his jail cell,” reports CBS News. “Corrections officers attempted to revive him while saying “breathe, Epstein, breathe.”
One of the guards assigned to Epstein at the time was also not a “regular corrections officer” at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, according to the report.
Journalist Tim Pool even speculated that “breathe, breathe” could have been shouted as a cover for those same individuals actually murdering Epstein.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Smoking Gun Evidence: Epstein Was Murdered — See the Most Censored Show in the World
Reports are pouring in revealing that Epstein was yelling in pain in his cell the morning he died! Americans are now waking up after hearing the ‘official’ narrative of Epstein’s death!
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Trump Taunts Chris Cuomo “Totally Losing it” — No, ‘Fredo’ Is Not the N-Word for Italians
CNN host Chris Cuomo faces humiliation after getting in a confrontation with a Trump fan who called him ‘Fredo’, with Cuomo claiming that ‘Fredo’ is the Italian version of the n-word.
The viral video shows Cuomo embarking on a foul-mouthed tirade during which he threatens to throw the man down the stairs while insisting that ‘Fredo’ is an ethnic slur.
CNN subsequently defended Cuomo, with a spokesman stating, “Chris Cuomo defended himself when he was verbally attacked with the use of an ethnic slur in an orchestrated setup. We completely support him.”
However, as virtually everyone on Twitter, including numerous Italians, pointed out, ‘Fredo’ is not and has never been the Italian version of the n-word.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Two conservative black women posted compelling videos today, as a way to refute the Democrat Party’s false narrative that President Trump is a “racist.”
The first video is a powerful message from a conservative black woman who says, “Every inner-city basically is a ghetto, simply because the money has been stolen. So, this is why they didn’t want Donald Trump as President. Because see, he’s been saying this stuff for years. He didn’t just start saying this stuff when he became president. You can go back 20 years and hear him saying the same thing.”
She continued with her rant saying, “I remember him saying back when we was going to war with Iraq, all the money that we spent on these wars, we could’ve rebuilt every infrastructure in the inner cities. Now listen, this is a white man who’s supposedly a racist who’s had his eye and his attention on the inner cities, all these years. The one that now, they’re calling him a racist. But he was the only one. Because he saw what was going on. And that’s why he’s calling them out now. And this why it’s very dangerous right now, for him. Because even Obama jumped in and made a comment.”
She continued, slamming Obama, “Obama, who was a black President, the very first black President, for eight years, he didn’t do anything—for anybody. And then you’ve got these black representatives in all these districts, and it’s still messed up.”
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Understanding the Second Amendment
In light of the recent mass shootings, and the apparent ignorance of the majority of the “news” media and elected officials, I am moved to write a brief primer of the 2nd Amendment in order to spread some enlightenment.
As has been born out in the writings of the founders and authors of the Constitution, their debates, and indeed the US Supreme court, the “Bill of Rights” are not now nor ever envisioned to be a grant of right to the American people. In fact the founding documents have spoken clearly that our rights come from our creator, not the government. In fact the preamble of the Bill of Rights was quite clear that the intent of adding these rights was to restrict the federal government from abuse, it states: “THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added…” (Bold added)
In US V. Cruikshank (92 US 542) the Supreme Court ruled that the application of the First and Second Amendments “was not intended to limit the powers of the State governments in respect to their own citizens” and “has no other effect than to restrict the powers of the national government,” respectively. Again we see the intent, recognized by the founders and by law, that the Bill of Rights was only a restraint on the Federal government from acting in these areas.
The 2nd Amendment, with its statement of “shall not be infringed” means exactly that. That the federal government does not have the authority to pass laws restricting the right of citizens in keeping and bearing arms. However, as we have witnessed in recent history (post 1939), not have authority has no longer been a deterrence to its power to pass laws.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
What TV Binge-Watching Does to Your Brain
Binge-watching episodes of your favorite shows does no favors for your brain, an expert warns.
“It’s important to recognize that the brain is not an isolated organ — it responds to its environment,” said Dr. Randall Wright, a neurologist at Houston Methodist in Texas. “When we binge-watch, we create an unhealthy environment for the brain because we’re sitting for long periods of time, isolating ourselves from social activities and eating large amounts of unhealthy food.”
Wright likens the instant gratification of watching episode after episode of a show to wanting to continue gambling even after you win.
If you indulge often, this cycle and the side effects of binge-watching can lead to harmful brain and body changes, he said in a hospital news release. In other words, it’s a problem when watching a third, fourth or fifth episode of your favorite show replaces healthy activities, he said.
But here’s the good news: You don’t have to stop cold-turkey. There are a number of ways to ward off negative effects of binge-watching:
First, be sure it doesn’t prevent you from getting enough sleep. “Before you start your show, determine what time you need to go to bed to get enough sleep. It might be helpful to set a bedtime alarm so that you don’t lose track of time and to help you stick to that decision,” Wright said.
Get your exercise. “Recent research has shown that the brain can generate new cells and connections through a process known as neurogenesis, and exercise is key to that process,” Wright said. “Taking a walk around your neighborhood before binge-watching and standing for five minutes during every episode can help keep your body and brain active.”
Watch with friends. “If you’re watching TV for six hours, that’s six hours of not interacting with others,” Wright said. “The hours alone add up and can lead to depression and other mental health issues. Balancing time alone with the television and time spent with loved ones is the key to avoiding social isolation.”
If you have snacks, make healthy choices. “Hummus and vegetables, edamame or fruits are great snacks if you crave something to eat while binge-watching. Try to stay away from binge-eating salty, fatty foods when you sit down to watch television,” Wright suggested.
“If you incorporate these tips into your binge-watching routine,” he concluded, “You can create lasting healthy habits and still enjoy the occasional binge-watching session without hurting your brain.”
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Your Phone Logs Everywhere You Go. Here’s How to Turn it Off
You probably know your Android phone or iPhone can pinpoint your location for GPS, local search, or the weather. Hopefully, you also know that means your phone keeps track of everywhere you go, all the time. Don’t be alarmed—it’s the trade-off you make for the features you get. If it makes you uncomfortable, here’s how to opt-out of location-tracking on Android and iOS.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Liberals Block Bernier From Debate Stage With Trudeau
A Liberal-appointed commissioner has blocked Maxime Bernier from participating in the federal leadership debates.
Maxime Bernier is the leader and sole MP for the People’s Party of Canada. With the next federal election scheduled for October 21, the governing Liberals prepared by creating something called the Federal Leaders’ Debate Commissioner. Inclusion in the debates is now under the control of former Governor General David Johnston.
You may have watched Ezra’s coverage of these new rules which seem above all to be written to protect Trudeau from criticism. While Bernier is out, Elizabeth May is in, even though the Green Party has only 2 MPs. Since May will attack Conservative leader Andrew Scheer, not Trudeau, it’s good to have her on board.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Bolton Criticises EU for Making ‘Peasants Vote Again and Again Until They Get it Right’
President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton has criticised EU elites for ignoring the will of the people and forcing them to vote repeatedly “until they get it right”.
Mr Bolton is in the United Kingdom to meet with Prime Minister Boris Johnson to discuss security and post-Brexit trade, announcing that the U.S. and President Trump will back Britain whether it leaves the EU with or without a deal.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Commodore’s Forgotten UNIX Workstation
Commodore built this prototype UNIX workstation/server computer in the same time frame as the Amiga and their PC-Clone and then decided that they only had production capacity for two out of three, and the CBM900 lost.
All the approx 300-500 prototypes were recalled for destruction, but due to some kind of “mistake” this particular machine, which was on loan to a favored customer in Denmark, never made it back.
The machine resurfaced when this company cleaned up their basement, and sent 3 euro-pallets of Commodore artifacts our way.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Foreign Men Convicted of Gang Raping 14-Year-Old Swedish Teen
Three men, two Lithuanian nationals and a Somali-Swedish dual national, were convicted of rape after luring a 14-year-old girl using the social media app Snapchat.
Somali-Swedish national Abukar Ahmed Mohamed, 19, is said to have met the teen on Snapchat and took payment from 36-year-old Mindaugas Siaulys in order to have sex with the young girl, Nyheter Idag reports.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Germany: Antifa-Supporting Extremist Convicted of Giving Hitler Salute in Public
A district court in Chemnitz has sentenced a man with leftist and Antifa sympathies to seven months in jail for giving the Hitler salute in public.
The 33-year-old man originally came into the public’s consciousness on the evening of August 27th, 2018 after raising his arm in a Hitler salute in front of the Marx monument in Chemnitz.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Green ‘mini-dictator’ Greta Thunberg had the media thrown out of the climate youth movement meeting in Lausanne. The reason: The newspapers reported on quarrels that took place between Greta and other participants.
On the last day of the “Smile for Future” climate summit at the University of Lausanne, the mood among the teenagers was tense. The activists were under particular observation, since there had been crying fits and violent quarrels at times at the meeting on Wednesday.
The idol of the movement, Greta Thunberg, knew that too. The friction among the youngsters did not leave the 16-year-old Swede indifferent. On the contrary: On Friday morning her patience snapped, and she personally had the journalists present thrown out of the hall.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Hungary Announces Investigation Into Social Media Censorship in Europe
Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga has announced that she will be starting an investigation into censorship of political views on social media in Hungary and across Europe.
The Hungarian minister made her announcement on social media platform Facebook over the weekend, saying she would be creating a “working group” within the ministry to “investigate the possibilities for a legal environment to ensure the transparency of social media service providers — both on EU and national level.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Italy’s Matteo Salvini Denies Conflict With Pope
ROME — Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has denied that there is opposition between himself and Pope Francis, saying that meeting the pope would be a “great honor.”
“Beyond some excessive polemics that I don’t share, I believe the occasions in which we collaborate [with the Vatican] are far more numerous” than cases of conflict, Salvini statedin an interview with the Italian magazine Oggi.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Poll: 54 Per Cent of Brits Want Brexit ‘By Any Means’, Including Suspending Parliament
54 per cent of Britons want the Prime Minister to deliver Brexit “by any means” necessary, even if he has to temporarily suspend Parliament to stop MPs from cancelling or delaying its October 31st deadline.
Presnted with the statement “The Prime Minister needs to deliver Brexit by any means, including suspending Parliament if necessary, to prevent MPs from stopping it” by polling firm ComRes, 54 per cent of the public signalled their agreement, The Telegraph reports.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Swedish Social Democratic Youth Association Demands Vegetarian Food as a Norm at Elderly Residents
SSU, the Social Democratic youth association in Sweden, does not hesitate to take on tough measures to halt climate change. Now, SSU wants elderly people to eat only vegetarian foods.
In addition, the youngsters want to impose a complete flying ban between Swedish cities, remove all nuclear from energy production and ban fossil fuels.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
‘We Are With You’ — Trump Adviser Says UK ‘First in Line’ For Trade Deal With U.S.
President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton has said during a visit to London that Britain will be “first in line” for a trade deal with the U.S. after Brexit.
Speaking following a meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Mr Bolton said the United Kingdom and the United States could strike “sector-by-sector” deals such as on car production and manufacturing, whilst fleshing out more complex deals in other areas later — a process he said his trade negotiators said was possible under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Last month, INSIDER traced the movements of Jeffrey Epstein’s private jets since early 2018, revealing a packed schedule between the registered sex offender’s four homes and occasional jaunts to Mexico, Morocco, and Slovakia. Newly released flight data, from 2016 and 2017, published here for the first time, further illuminate Epstein’s extensive travels — including a mysterious trip to the Middle East on the eve of 2016 election.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
‘Opposition’ Or Terrorists: Who is Syria and Russia Really Bombing in Idlib?
Both Lucas and Reuters — like many other Western media fronts and personalities — are careful never to fully characterize who the “opposition” actually consists of — instead attempting to imply Syria and Russia are waging war on civilians and “moderate rebels.” …
IHH is also linked directly to Al Qaeda, serving as a logistical support network for the terrorist organization, merely couching itself behind its humanitarian mission statement.
IHH’s ties to terrorism are not recent. A 2012 article by Israeli media outlet Ynet titled, “Report: IHH financially linked to al-Qaeda,” would report:
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Russia Bans George Soros Groups Due to ‘Security Threat’
George Soros, the billionaire hedge fund manager whose billions have heavily influenced politics worldwide in places like Serbia, Ukraine, and the United States, may soon find his organizations banned in Russia.
Russia, has moved to bar activity from Soros’ two main influential organizations, The Open Society Foundation and The Open Society Institute. Russia’s General Prosecutor’s Office said that the organizations, “represents a threat to the foundations of the constitutional system of the Russian Federation and the security of the state.”
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Beijing Refuses American Warships Entry to Hong Kong Ports
Mere hours after President Trump tweeted that US intelligence had confirmed the buildup of Chinese troops on the border with Hong Kong, US defense officials warned that Beijing had refused two US Navy ships permission to make port stops in Hong Kong in the coming weeks, a sign that President Xi is none too pleased with how the US has handled itself during the anti-extradition bill protests that have swept Hong Kong over the past ten weeks.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Expert: China Could Send in Troops Disguised as Hong Kong Police
An expert in the region has warned that China could covertly invade Hong Kong by sending in PLA troops disguised as Hong Kong police.
The crisis reached its peak today as riot police and protesters engaged in violent clashes inside Hong Kong International Airport.
Demonstrators want a controversial extradition bill, which has been temporarily suspended by the territory’s pro-Beijing government, revoked entirely.
Most analysts think it’s highly improbable that China would send in troops to restore order, even if they refrain from using deadly force, because that would risk massive destabilization of the economy and cause international outrage.
However, others suspect that more covert means of intervention could be underway.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Thiel: ‘Globalist’ Google is in Bed With Chinese Military; Must be Investigated by FBI and CIA
‘Post-nationalists’ are aiding Communist government over America
Billionaire Tech investor Peter Thiel has warned that Google is aiding the Chinese military, and that the company needs to be investigated by the FBI and the CIA because it is manned by “globalists” who do not understand the threat to the US that China poses.
Thiel described Google’s political culture as “globalist, “post-national,” and “cosmopolitan,” adding that the company is “incredibly insular” and “incurious” about real “problems” outside of its own silicon valley bubble.
Thiel called for US intelligence agencies to get involved as Google is indirectly providing the Chinese government with cutting edge AI technology.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Trump Warns “Be Calm and Safe”, Confirms China “Moving Troops to HK Border”
Update (1325ET): While we have seen numerous clips on social media of troop build-ups over the past few days, President Trump has just tweeted confirmation.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
A blood-soaked man screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ has gone on a rampage with a knife through central Sydney — allegedly killing a woman.
| — Hat tip: SS | [Return to headlines] |
A hero bystander managed to subdue an alleged knife-wielding attacker by putting a milk crate over his head at Wynyard train station just after 2pm on Tuesday.
| — Hat tip: SS | [Return to headlines] |
New Zealand Becomes 1st Country to Legalize Payment of Salaries in Crypto
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been on a persistent upswing this year, but they’re still pretty volatile. But during a time when even some of the most developed economies in the word are watching their currencies bounce around like the Argentine peso (just take a look at a six-month chart for GBPUSD), New Zealand has decided to take the plunge and become the first country to legalize payment in bitcoin, the FT reports.
The ruling by New Zealand’s tax authority allows salaries and wages to be paid in cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin from September 1, as long as the payments are in regular, fixed amounts. The digital currency of choice must also be pegged to at least one regular currency and must be able to be converted directly into a standard form of payment.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Police Say Knifeman Who Yelled “Allahu Akbar” Motivated by “Mental Health Issues”
Police say a knifeman who killed a woman then attempted to stab numerous other people in Sydney while yelling “Allahu Akbar” was motivated by “mental health issues.”
One woman was taken to hospital with injuries following the attack and another was later found dead in a nearby residence.
Video footage of the perpetrator shows his jumping on cars, waving a knife around, shouting “Allahu Akbar” while asking to be shot.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Sydney Stabbing: British ‘Heroes’ Pin Down Suspect After Woman Fatally Stabbed
Three British men are hailed as “heroes” after chasing and pinning down the suspect until police arrived to arrest him
Three British men pinned down a knife-wielding man who allegedly attempted to stab several people in Australia.
Police confirmed the man, 21, who witnesses say yelled “Allahu akbar” — or “God is great” — during the incident, has been arrested and is being questioned.
The body of a 21-year-old woman was found in an apartment building near the scene, at a busy intersection in Sydney.
Another woman, aged 41, was stabbed in the back in the street and has been taken to hospital where she is in a stable condition.
Lee Cuthbert, Paul O’Shaughnessy and his brother Luke, all from Manchester, were working in their recruitment company office when they heard shouting in the street and gave chase.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
LAWRENCE — Researchers from the University of Kansas have described three genera and 17 new species of water scavenger beetles from the Guiana and Brazilian Shield regions of South America, areas seen as treasure houses of biodiversity. The beetles from the countries of French Guiana, Suriname, Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela were discovered through fieldwork and by combing through entomological collections at the Smithsonian Institution and KU.
The beetles are described in a new paper in ZooKeys, a peer-reviewed journal.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
161 Illegal Migrants Detained in North Macedonia
Security forces in North Macedonia have reported having arrested 161 migrants who were trying sneak into the country illegally from Greece.
Police said in a statement that the migrants were found in the southern region of the country by local police as well as by officers from other European countries who are assisting in the patrol of North Macedonia’s border, AFP reports.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
EU Migrant Crisis: Greece Pleads for Sharing of Burden After ‘Worst Days’ Return
AN INCREASINGLY impatient Greece had called for a fairer sharing of the migrant burden in Europe amid concerns over an unexpected increase in new arrivals in recent weeks. Frontline EU states have complained for years they bear a disproportionate responsibility for arriving migrants — until now, their pleas have mostly fallen on deaf ears.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Former German General Blasts Merkel on Open Borders, Joins Populist AfD
Former three-star general Joachim Wundrak is running for mayor of Hanover for Alternative for Germany (AfD) after expressing contempt for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open border policies.
Wundrak, a former member of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, has accused the German leader of facilitating mass migration, which he has labelled an “anti-German” policy, Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung reports.
In an interview with the paper, Wundrak said that he chose to leave the CDU in 2017, saying Merkel could not recognise what she could have done differently during the height of the migrant crisis in 2015.
He said that joining the populist, anti-mas migration AfD in 2018, shortly after he retired as a general in the Luftwaffe, came at a risk, saying: “Anyone who confesses to supporting the AfD is bullied and marginalised. They also get into the focus of Antifa.”
The alt-left extremist Antifa group have repeatedly targetted AfD politicians, advocating for assassinations and even allegedly taking credit for a brutal attack on AfD politician Frank Magnitz earlier this year in Bremen.
On the subject of Ms Merkel, Wundrak said: “Merkel has sworn an oath to Germany, but she already has a problem talking about a German people. She prefers to speak of ‘population’. Many German politicians struggle to profess their own nation.”
“The protection of one’s own borders is no longer a priority goal. Germany is giving more and more sovereignty to the EU, the European Central Bank, to supranational organisations. I do not agree with this. The nation-state is the primary form of organisation for Germany. Where structures become too big, an undemocratic spirit quickly arises,” he added.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Hundreds of Germans Probed Over Anti-Migrant Comments on Facebook
Authored by Vijeta Uniyal via LegalInsurrection.com
German authorities have investigated hundreds of internet users over comments they made on a Facebook video posted by the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
The massive probe, spanning over 250 investigations, was launched in response to the live streaming of a migrant protest by the Bavarian-wing of the AfD party in 2017, German media disclosed on Saturday. Some 97 people were fined and three others were to face incitement charges in the court, the weekly Der Spiegel reported.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
ICE Blames Overnight Shootings on Politicians, Media and Activists as Suspects on Loose
SAN ANTONIO — FBI agents are searching for suspects in connection with shots fired at two ICE buildings early Tuesday morning.
The shooting first reported took place around 3 a.m. Tuesday on the 1700 block of NE Loop 410 near Brookhaven Drive. We’re told another shooting happened at a separate ICE facility around the same time.
Investigators say that multiple shots were fired on two floors targeting ICE officials. No one was hit, but windows were broken in the building. One person was injured, it’s not clear how they were, though.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Journalist Smuggles Migrant Into Sweden, Migrant Convicted of Knife Crime
A Syrian migrant smuggled into Sweden by a journalist working for Sweden’s national broadcaster has been sentenced in court for knife crimes.
The 20-year-old Syrian was smuggled into Sweden in 2014 by journalist Fredrik Önnevall and three of his colleagues, all of whom worked for Swedish broadcaster SVT.
According to a report from Nyheter Idag, the 20-year-old was arrested last year in April for carrying a knife in central Uppsala and now has been convicted and given a 2,000 Swedish Krona (£173/$209) fine.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
Over 500 Rescued Migrants Blocked on Two NGOs Boats
More than 500 rescued migrants are stuck in the Mediterranean on two NGO boats, as Italyand Malta continue to deny them access to their ports.
French charity group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said late Monday in a tweet that it had completed “a critical rescue” of another 105 people onto the Ocean Viking, raising the total number of migrants on board ship to 356.
| — Hat tip: Reader from Chicago | [Return to headlines] |
Australian MP Lashes Out at Drag Queen Storytelling for Children as ‘Inappropriate’
As library events involving storytelling and book-reading by drag queens have gained momentum in Australia, viewed as promoting “diversity and inclusion” among the young generation, there has also emerged fierce opposition to the trend.
While proponents claim that such public readings being conducted by drag queens celebrates open-mindedness, critics like New South Wales Upper House MP Mark Latham have lashed out at them being totally “inappropriate”. He has expressed concern about such events ultimately serving as a “backdoor” for the Safe Schools campaign, which pushes for greater involvement of LGBT students in the school life.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
There is a deep-seated hatred of dogs among Muslims. Not among all Muslims, but among devout Muslims. Dogs are considered “najes,” (unclean).
I have always loved dogs. It is said, “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.” Is there a saying for a case when both stupidity and malice team up together? I remember a gang of Muslim kids who tried to attack the street dogs. I was young and terrified. The gang managed to get a hold of a piece of meat from a nearby butcher shop as the bait. Bait for whom? The moment of truth arrived. I watched the unfolding drama from a distance with tremendous anticipation.
With the watering can hidden behind his back in one hand and the other hand held in front of him, dangling the bait, Hassan kept making friendly calls, “Here, here, good dog. Here, see what I’ve got for you. You’re our pet, you nice doggie, you,” as he slowly kept closing in on the dog. Uncharacteristically, the dog, while still on its side, started wagging its tail. It must’ve smelled the meat, the poor thing. I held my breath.
| — Hat tip: JD | [Return to headlines] |
.
.
Today 08 14 is an exciting day, not least for POTUS. At two o’clock, the verdict against
ASAP Rocky is announced.
Wondering if the proprietor
https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/07/did-aap-rocky-beat-up-a-mujahid/
came to Iraq on his planned vacation?
“In other news, according to the latest polls, 54% of Britons want Brexit by any means, even if it means that the prime minister has to suspend parliament.” that’s the best news in a while! Now if only they acted on it.
“‘I Was Just Acting on Instinct’: Hero Bystander Recounts the Moment He Pinned Crazed Knifeman to the Ground Using a Milk Crate After He Stabbed a Woman and Attacked Others in Sydney’s CBD” these are the kind of men that should be leading nations! And not whatever kind is doing it right now.
Also the statement that ‘Obviously there’s something clearly wrong with him, he didn’t look normal or anything like that’ is pretty funny, the attacker being a muslim is a clear indication of mental fog.
“The Average U.S. Farm is $1,300,000 in Debt, And Now the Worst Farming Crisis in Modern History is Upon US” this was already claimed in Food Inc. (I believe it was this documentary) and that’s from 2008! The article doesn’t seem to pinpoint the main reason for the huge debts among farmers and I urge anybody unaware to check the aforementioned documentary out, it’s being pretty straightforward about it.
FBI Director Wray waits a couple months to seize electronic records on Epstein’s islands?
Wonder why? Oh, he was too busy redacting information on court-ordered releases of information about his crooked national police farce? I see…
For goodness sake send that young girl Greta Thurnberg back to school-her experience ife let alone Climate Change is zero-if she wants to make a difference then she should firstly break away from those instructing her and continue her education. Return maybe to the scene if she must in maybe 15 years or so BUT not now.
Ah, but she can “see” carbon in the air!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFLjCEeHkUI
Egyptian lawyer Samir Sabri, known for his lawsuits against celebrities, again distinguished himself in a lawsuit against a star – this time, singer Jennifer Lopez became the defendant. The recent Lopez concert in Egypt provoked the indignation of the religiously conservative population of the Arab country, because the American singer went on stage in the same revealing costumes as at concerts in Western countries.
The full version on the website of the IA IslamNews: https: //islamnews.ru/news-telodvizheniya-dzhennifer-lopes-v-razgar-hadzha-stali-osnovaniem-dlya-sudebnogo-iska/