Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/23/2019

Climate change protesters disrupted the streets of Washington D.C. today by shutting down multiple intersections. Some of the #ShutDownDC activists also chained themselves to a boat.

In other news, the British government has blocked a ban on the sale of dog and cat meat, saying that it was culturally insensitive towards Asians.

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Thanks to Andy Bostom, C. Cantoni, Doug Ross, JD, Reader from Chicago, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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USA
» 26 Shot, 5 Fatally, In Chicago Weekend Violence
» Climate Activists Shut Down 22 DC Intersections and Chain Themselves to a Boat in Support of a Green New Deal
» DEA Agents Ambush Amtrak Passengers With Controversial Searches and Seizures
» Democrats Alarmed by O’Rourke’s Gun Confiscation Talks
» Franklin Graham Tells Trump Haters to ‘Give it a Rest’
» Giuliani Hits Bidens With New $3 Million “Ukraine-Latvia-Cyprus” Money Laundering Accusation
» Google Claims it Has Achieved ‘Quantum Supremacy’
» ‘How Dare You’: Greta Thunberg Tears Into World Leaders Over Inaction at U.N. Climate Summit
» In Wisconsin, 70 Percent of the Highest-Earning Public Employees Work for the State University System
» Infuriating Report Reveals DMVs Across the US Are Selling Your Personal Info and Making Millions
» Jeffrey Epstein’s Former Sex Slave, Nadia Marcinkova, Reportedly Visited Him 90 Times in Jail
» Jeffrey Epstein Reportedly Paid for Women’s Silence From Jail
» Jeffrey Epstein Reportedly Had a Vast Network of Professionals Support His Sex Trafficking Ring
» Journos Sneer at ‘Weasel’ Andy NGO for Drawing Attention to Portland Antifa Suspect’s Cache of Potential Weapons
» Military Unit Apologizes for Tweet Suggesting Stealth Bomber Would be Sent Against Area 51 Crowd
» Mystery Towers Going Up All Over Cincinnati Area
» Rambo: Last Blood Falls to Downton Abbey in Opening Weekend at the Box Office
» San Fran Communist Teachers Drag 5-Year-Old Children With Hate Trump Signs to Rally, Coach Them on Hateful Chants (Video)
» Sen. Mike Lee’s America: Indian Firm in Chicago Paid Employees India-Level Wages, Took Jobs From U.S. Graduates
» Sheriff Arrested for Plotting to Murder Fellow Deputy for Exposing Him as a Racist
» ‘Shut Down DC’ Climate Protesters Start a Dumpster Fire
» This is Why Americans Are Arming Up for Bear: Over 100 Million People Have Been Brutally Slaughtered by the Political Philosophy Being Pushed on America by Democrats in 2019
» Trump Approval Rating Holds at 52% — Six Points Higher Than Barack Obama’s at Same Point in His Presidency
» Video: Today’s #ShutDownDC protests Have Guys Twerking in Intersections as Leftists Throw Confetti at Them
 
Canada
» Canada Lost $17.13 Billion Over 3 Years Because Trudeau Blocked Canada East Pipe
» The National Question Rising Again in Canada as Quebec Separatism Grows
» Trudeau Vows to Slash Taxes as Blackface Scandal Rocks Polls
 
Europe and the EU
» Alarming Message Germany Seeks to Limit EU Budget Contribution
» Austrian Immigration Patriot Party Has Chance to Strike Back at Deep State Plotters—can Americans?
» France: Suspected Female Jihadists on Trial for Botched Terror Attack on Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral
» ‘Julian Assange’s Life is at Risk’: Pamela Anderson Urges UK to Free WikiLeaks Co-Founder
» Mahathir Mohamad, Elan Carr, And the Pandemic of Muslim Antisemitism
» Poll: National Populist Vlaams Belang Largest Party in Belgium
» UK Govt Blocks ‘Culturally Insensitive’ Ban on Cat and Dog Meat
» UK Labour Members Want to Sack the Queen, Don’t Support National Anthem, Borders
» UK Taxpayer to Foot £100 Million Bill to Repatriate 150,000 Tourists Stranded by Thomas Cook Collapse
» UK: Farage: Labour Becoming a Corbyn ‘Cult’ Waging ‘Relentless War’ For Hard-Left
» UK: Khan’s London: Hijabi Woman Racially Abuses Indian Man in Multicultural Capital
» UK: Labour to Back Giving Voting Rights to Foreigners in National Elections
» UK: Seize the Means of Education: Labour Backs Abolishing Private Schools, ‘Redistributing’ Their Assets
» Vatican Experts: German Catholic Church Moving Toward ‘Schism’
 
Russia
» Russia May Have Information on Prince Andrew’s Links to Jeffrey Epstein’s Alleged Sex Trafficking Ring
 
Far East
» WSJ: China Imposing a ‘Reign of Terror’ on People of Faith
 
Australia — Pacific
» Chinese Tourists Are Using Their Holidays in Australia to Shop for ‘Cheap’ Properties — as Their City of Choice is Revealed
» Colorful New Bee Species Discovered in Fiji, But Extinction From Climate Change Feared
» ‘Switch Off the Air-Con, Walk to School, Make a Sandwich’: Baby Boomer Blasts ‘Selfish’ Students for Skipping Class to Protest Against Climate Change
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Pregnant Mother Hacked to Death at South African Resort
 
Immigration
» Gangs of Illegal Aliens Brutally Murdering LA’s Homeless Population
» Germany: 40 Percent of Welfare Recipients Are Foreigners
» Racist Migrant Gang Films Ruthless Beating of Young Swedish Schoolboy
 
Culture Wars
» Andrew Sullivan: Gay, Lesbian Kids Are Being Consumed by Transgender Propaganda
» Drag Queen Story Hour for Young Children Celebrated as Part of LGBTQ ‘Big Read’ Event
» The Real Problem at Yale is Not Free Speech
» Touching Lessons That Critics Say Are Sexualising Youngsters
» UK Schools Teach Six-Year-Olds About Masturbation
» Woke Emmys Fail: Ratings Hit Record Low
 

26 Shot, 5 Fatally, In Chicago Weekend Violence

HICAGO — At least 26 people were shot, five of them fatally, in citywide gun violence over the weekend.

Saturday, a man wanted for shooting a woman in the Fulton River District earlier in the week was shot by police during a prolonged manhunt that began after he shot a Chicago police officer in Englewood on the South Side.

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

Climate Activists Shut Down 22 DC Intersections and Chain Themselves to a Boat in Support of a Green New Deal

Climate activists that were planning to “block key infrastructure” and bring DC to a “gridlocked standstill” on Monday morning managed to shut down at least 22 intersections during morning traffic.

Protesters have called for “a climate strike and global week of action from September 20th-27th.”

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

DEA Agents Ambush Amtrak Passengers With Controversial Searches and Seizures

A few hours characteristically behind schedule, Amtrak’s Southwest Chief rolls into Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the small station that it shares with the Greyhound bus service on the edge of downtown.

Most people step off to stretch their legs or have a cigarette during the layover, the longest smoke break in the entire trip. That’s when two plainclothes agents come aboard the train on a rainy day in March 2019.

One agent walks to the back of the aisle in the first coach car and waits, quietly observing. The other is tasked with getting people to talk and open their bags. His name is Jarrell, or Jay, Perry, and he’s done it hundreds of times before.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Democrats Alarmed by O’Rourke’s Gun Confiscation Talks

Former Rep. and 2020 presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke’s endorsement of a mandatory gun buyback proposal has raised concerns among Democratic senators.

Democrats are reportedly wary about O’Rourke’s persistence regarding a mandatory gun confiscation proposal, believing that it could give the Republican Party leverage. They also say it could be used by the National Rifle Association (NRA) to raise money and members and to fight efforts to impose tougher background checks and other measures that might reduce gun violence.

[Comment: They are alarmed because Beto let the cat out of the bag.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Franklin Graham Tells Trump Haters to ‘Give it a Rest’

Those whose goal in life is to overthrow the Trump presidency should really “give it a rest” and let him get on with his job, says celebrated Christian pastor Franklin Graham.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Giuliani Hits Bidens With New $3 Million “Ukraine-Latvia-Cyprus” Money Laundering Accusation

Rudy Giuliani leveled serious new claims at the Bidens in a series of Monday morning tweets. Chief among them is a claim that $3 million was laundered to former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, via a “Ukraine-Latvia-Cyprus-US” route — a revelation he claims was “kept from you by Swamp Media.”

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

Google Claims it Has Achieved ‘Quantum Supremacy’

In what may be a huge milestone in computing, Google says it has achieved “quantum supremacy,” an experimental demonstration of the superiority of a quantum computer over a traditional one.

The claim, made in a new scientific paper, is the most serious indication yet that the promise of quantum computers—an emerging but unproven type of machine—is becoming reality, including their potential to solve formerly ungraspable mathematical problems.

Essentially, Google purports to have pulled off a stunt on a quantum computer that no classical machine—not even the world’s most powerful supercomputer—can replicate.

Fortune obtained a copy of Google’s paper, which was posted to NASA.gov earlier this week before being taken down. The Financial Times first reported the news.

A Google spokesperson declined to confirm the authenticity of the paper and its results. NASA did not respond immediately to a request for comment.

A source at Google familiar with the situation suggested, however, that NASA accidentally published the paper early, before its team’s claims could be thoroughly vetted through scientific peer review, a process that could take anywhere from weeks to months.

If the paper holds up under the scrutiny of the scientific community, it will herald a watershed moment in quantum science. Its central claim counters doubt that some unforeseen law of nature may prevent quantum computers from operating as hoped.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘How Dare You’: Greta Thunberg Tears Into World Leaders Over Inaction at U.N. Climate Summit

In an angry and emotional speech at the United Nations climate summit on Monday, Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg tore into world leaders for failing to act.

“This is all wrong,” Thunberg said, reading from a piece of paper. “I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean, yet you come to us young people for hope. How dare you.”

“People are suffering,” the 16-year-old continued through tears. “People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are at the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you.”

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

In Wisconsin, 70 Percent of the Highest-Earning Public Employees Work for the State University System

Of the 100 top-earning state employees in Wisconsin in 2018, the vast majority worked for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as a few at UW-Milwaukee, according to an analysis conducted by The College Fix.

According to a list generated by The Fix using public state employee salary information maintained by the Green Bay Press Gazette and Wisconsin State Journal newspapers, 50 UW-Madison professors and assistant professors made over $300,000 in gross pay in the 2018 school year. Topping the salary list for professors at the public university was economics professor and dean of the department Ananth Seshadri, who made $537,000 in 2018.

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

Infuriating Report Reveals DMVs Across the US Are Selling Your Personal Info and Making Millions

Anyone who has ever had to stand in a long line to pay the state for the privilege of renewing your driver’s license knows how infuriating that experience can be. The bureaucratic high-horse mentality of many of the DMV workers is so brazen and overt that DMVs have earned a notoriously horrid reputation in every state. But more infuriating than long lines and power-tripping bureaucrats, however, it the fact that according to a new report, these power-tripping bureaucrats are selling your data to private entities.

And they are making millions doing it.

According to a scathing report from Motherboard, government-run motor vehicle departments across the country are taking your personal information—entrusted solely to them by you—and selling it to the highest bidder. These sales are netting DMVs across the county millions in profits.

Ever wonder where all these spam calls for credit cards and vehicle warranties come from? Well now you have likely found the culprit, and it’s the government.

While it is understood that DMVs can sell information for legitimate purposes to insurance companies, many of these sales were to nefarious entities, according to the report.

When most people go to the DMV, they most likely think that their information is safe. However, according to the report, which was comprised of multiple public records requests, after you give your personal information to the DMV, they turn around and sell it to almost anyone who asks.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Jeffrey Epstein’s Former Sex Slave, Nadia Marcinkova, Reportedly Visited Him 90 Times in Jail

During Jeffrey Epstein’s prison stint back in 2008, which was reportedly lenient and possibly allowed for his cell door to be unlocked, the convicted sex offender’s former underage sex slave was purportedly also allowed to visit him 90 times while he was in a Florida jail, The New York Post reports.

At the time, Epstein was in a Florida jail for soliciting and procuring an underage prostitute. According to local sheriff’s office visitor logs, Nadia Marcinkova, who Epstein allegedly purchased from her family in 2001 when she was just 15, was allowed to visit the disgraced financier. Although Marcinkova was an adult when she visited Epstein in prison, jail officials reportedly had access to the previous Palm Beach Police Department report on Epstein and should have seen that Epstein abused her when she was underage.

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

Jeffrey Epstein Reportedly Paid for Women’s Silence From Jail

A new report from Page Six reveals that convicted sex offender and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein allegedly arranged to pay women from jail to keep quiet about his actions. According to the report, two women familiar with Epstein were handed envelopes of cash — $10,000 in each, according to sources — by an associate of the disgraced financier following his arrest in July. The women were reportedly “in a panic” over the possibility of dealing with the FBI and the money was given to them to “alleviate” this panic and “assure their silence.”

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

Jeffrey Epstein Reportedly Had a Vast Network of Professionals Support His Sex Trafficking Ring

Former Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter revealed during an interview with NBC News’ Dateline that convicted sex offender and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was always one step ahead of investigators. He suggested that the disgraced financier had a mole within the force that helped him evade Palm Beach police who began investigating his alleged sex trafficking in 2005.

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

Journos Sneer at ‘Weasel’ Andy NGO for Drawing Attention to Portland Antifa Suspect’s Cache of Potential Weapons

Yesterday, independent journalist — and Antifa victim — Andy Ngo tweeted about a Portland Climate Strike activist who was arrested with multiple potential weapons.

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

Military Unit Apologizes for Tweet Suggesting Stealth Bomber Would be Sent Against Area 51 Crowd

A U.S. military unit apologized on Saturday for a tweet sent from its official account that appeared to threaten civilians who planned to raid Area 51.

“Last night a DVIDSHUB employee posted a Tweet that in NO WAY supports the stance of the Department of Defense,” the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) tweeted.

“It was inappropriate and we apologize for this mistake,” the unit continued.

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

Mystery Towers Going Up All Over Cincinnati Area

These towers are going up and the cities don’t know which companies are building them? This is incredible.

Via: WCPO: But the FCC allows these towers to go in with almost no local approval. The FCC and FAA claim there are no proven links between 5G cell service and health effects, and say local residents have no reason to fear these new towers.

But Hamilton County Engineer Ted Hubbard told us a few months ago that even he, and other county officials are left in the dark.

“The ownership is a big question,” Hubbard said. “And I have asked that. We are having a hard time finding out who actually owns it.”

That means no one has publicly stated who owns the mysterious Cleves tower, or any of the others popping up across the Tri State. It has no company name on the base.

A Verizon corporate spokesman, David Weissmann, confirmed to WCPO that the company is installing 5G towers in the Cincinnati area — as he says one of the 30 cities that will soon have Verizon 5G service.

However, he said the strange Cleves tower “is not Verizon equipment.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Rambo: Last Blood Falls to Downton Abbey in Opening Weekend at the Box Office

Fans who expected Sylvester Stallone’s returns as John Rambo to dominate the box office are in for a surprise. Rambo: Last Blood opens in third place. Instead, the Downton Abbey movie makes a surprise debut in the top spot with a record-setting opening for studio Focus Features. James Gray’s sci-fi film Ad Astra will take the second-place spot.

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

San Fran Communist Teachers Drag 5-Year-Old Children With Hate Trump Signs to Rally, Coach Them on Hateful Chants (Video)

Your taxpayer dollars at work— Indoctrinating kids with communist propaganda at age five!

Three public schools in San Francisco took kids as young as 5 to march in a “Close The Camps” leftist protest. The teachers are indoctrinating children that Donald Trump is a racist that hates immigrants. The children are also being lectured in public school on the goodness of open borders.

This is pure insanity.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Sen. Mike Lee’s America: Indian Firm in Chicago Paid Employees India-Level Wages, Took Jobs From U.S. Graduates

An Indian-run company in Chicago illegally imported Indian graduates — and paid them Indian-level wages — to help snatch jobs from American graduates.

The fraud exploited loopholes in the B1 visas, which are reserved for managers and trainees according to a press statement by the Department of Homeland Security.

The announcement comes as Silicon Valley investors, the high-tech industry, and GOP Sen. Mike Lee are pressuring GOP Sen. David Perdue to let them pass a pro-Indian bill through the Senate via a “unanimous consent” vote. The bill, S.386, dangles the huge prize of valuable green-cards to millions of Indian graduates if they take middle-class jobs from college-graduate Americas.

The vote could come as early as Tuesday.

Lee S.386’s bill would offer up to 140,000 green cards each year — up from roughly 20,000 now — to Indian graduates who accept low wages while taking middle-class jobs from American software developers, doctors, therapists, designers, accountants, engineers, and managers.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Sheriff Arrested for Plotting to Murder Fellow Deputy for Exposing Him as a Racist

As imaginative as we are folks, we can’t make this stuff up. A North Carolina Sheriff allegedly plotted to kill one of his own deputies, Joshua Freeman, after the deputy threatened to expose him as a racist.

The deputy had secret recordings of Granville County Sheriff Brindell Wilkins which characterized the sheriff as a racist. According to the indictment, Freeman had a tape of Wilkins making “racially offensive” comments so the proper thing to do in the sheriff’s mind, supposedly, was to kill his colleague.

Wilkins was arrested and charged with “two counts of felony obstruction of justice for withholding knowledge of a credible threat made against Joshua Freeman.” According to USA Today:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

‘Shut Down DC’ Climate Protesters Start a Dumpster Fire

On Monday morning, a group of climate change activists gathered to block traffic into Washington, D.C., in an attempt to “Shut Down DC.” The activists likely increased the carbon emissions in the capital city by stalling people’s daily commutes, but they also set a fire in a dumpster on Massachusetts Avenue. Yes, this dumpster fire of a protest also involved a literal dumpster fire.

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

This is Why Americans Are Arming Up for Bear: Over 100 Million People Have Been Brutally Slaughtered by the Political Philosophy Being Pushed on America by Democrats in 2019

We are assured by the Deep State, academia, and the slimestream media that there is a political spectrum that runs from communism on the left to fascism on the right. Of course, leftists will deny that communism is totalitarian, but reasonably sane people know that it is the most tyrannical system ever devised. This means that the spectrum runs from dictatorship at one end to dictatorship at the other. But this is absurd, for a spectrum, by definition, runs from one extreme to its opposite, as in red to violet, down to up, or dark to light.

Let me propose a very different spectrum: on the left is fascism; on the right is anarchy; in the middle is free enterprise and limited republican government. But wait, you ask, what became of communism?

It’s really very simple. Communism is fascism. Behind all the pretty but nonsensical rhetoric about “from each according to his ability and to each according to his need,” and slogans like “workers of the world unite,” communism is invariably an all-controlling state micro-managing the lives of all the people, who are deprived of their property and their freedom. A small, privileged elite live in luxury and control the state, which owns everything. It always is militaristic; there is always a federal secret police force (like our corrupt and politicized FBI); and it always murders thousands or even tens of millions of its own citizens.

The pretty rhetoric is intended to hide the fact that communism was never intended to be anything other than tyranny. Remember that the Bolshevik revolution in Russia was bankrolled by Western banks; Lenin was sent by the Kaiser’s Germany back to Russia in a sealed train; and Trotsky had been allowed to move to the US and live in New York City and then return to Russia to play a leading role in the revolution and to organize the Red Army. And today leftist politicians, including our insane clown posse of Demoncrap Presidential contenders, are wealthy people supported by even wealthier ones. In fact, almost every American billionaire and most of our major corporations support every leftist cause imaginable.

Remember that fascism, whether it is called fascism or communism, is something far beyond most monarchies or the dictatorships established by classic strong men, like Franco in Spain or Putin in Russia. Fascism always ultimately leads to a war on the family and traditional morality and on religions like Christianity, Judaism, and Buddhism. Most traditional dictators and kings were content to leave ordinary people alone provided that they paid their taxes and did not openly oppose their rulers. But even Hitler, Stalin, and Mao never forced the homosexual or sex change agenda on their people. America’s contemporary fascists (they control both parties but especially the Demoncraps) are the most evil of them all, and they are coming out of the closet and revealing their true nature.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump Approval Rating Holds at 52% — Six Points Higher Than Barack Obama’s at Same Point in His Presidency

President Trump’s approval rating held at 52% today after two-and-a-half years into his first term. This is despite of the continued barrage of fake news and vicious media attacks since he won the 2016 election.

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

Video: Today’s #ShutDownDC protests Have Guys Twerking in Intersections as Leftists Throw Confetti at Them

As Cassandra Fairbanks reported earlier this morning…

Climate activists that were planning to “block key infrastructure” and bring DC to a “gridlocked standstill” on Monday morning managed to shut down at least 22 intersections during morning traffic.

Protesters have called for “a climate strike and global week of action from September 20th-27th.”

In a list of “demands,” the protesters called for a Green New Deal, respect for indigenous land, “environmental justice,” protection of biodiversity and sustainable agriculture.

The activists managed to shut down 22 Washington DC intersections.

And now the guys are twerking as they are showered with confetti — for someone else to clean up.

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

Canada Lost $17.13 Billion Over 3 Years Because Trudeau Blocked Canada East Pipe

The original plan for the Canada East pipeline to reach Quebec and New Brunswick from western Canada, was to carry 1.3 million barrels per day of oil.

Based on the Wednesday price for the Canadian grade of WCS, Western Canada Select grade oil of $45.33 U.S., that 1.3 million barrels per day means 20 percent federal royalty to the government of Canada. Over half of Canada’s oil produced is of the lower priced WCS grade.

Based on today’s closing price of $45.33 for WCS, that 20 percent royalty means $9.066 U.S. per barrel for the federal government, plus royalty fees to each producing province. Each province also gets between 10 to 20 percent oil royalty fee. The WCS price is posted in U.S. dollars but converted to Canadian dollars. at today’s 4 pm exchange rate, of $1.3278 Canadian. That means the royalty per barrel of $9.066 U.S. is $12.038 in Canada currency.

With the potential to carry 1.3 million barrels per day in the Canada East new pipeline, that means $15.6497 million CDN per day in federal royalty payments that have been missed because of Trudeau blocking the new pipe to the Montreal, Quebec city and New Brunswick refineries.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The National Question Rising Again in Canada as Quebec Separatism Grows

The concept of laïcité, or a state secularism, is an important part of French republican culture. It’s also found its way into Quebec. Both in France and Quebec, many mass immigration advocates oppose the policy because they claim it denies newcomers the freedom to display their religion. Leftists usually hate it when religious traditionalists display their faith, but that only applies to Christians.

In France, the focus is mainly on Muslims. In Quebec, the focus is often Sikhs as well. Since politics is about who, and not what, the leftist line has changed.

Quebec recently passed laws both limiting immigration and banning state employees from wearing religious symbols. One suspects that if traditionalist Roman Catholics were wearing crucifixes in classrooms, journalists would not be happy. However, since we are talking about Sikhs, the sob stories have begun.

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

Trudeau Vows to Slash Taxes as Blackface Scandal Rocks Polls

Prime minister desperate to salvage support ahead of elections

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is vowing to reduce income taxes and cellphone costs in an apparent move to salvage support for his re-election bid amid a blackface scandal that has heavily damaged his poll numbers, Reuters reports.

“Canadians work hard, and they deserve to sleep easy at night,” Trudeau announced on Sunday. “By lowering taxes and cutting cellphone bills, our Liberal team will put more than $1,500 per year back in the pockets of hardworking Canadian families.”

Trudeau’s Liberal Party had held a seemingly comfortable advantage over the Conservatives ahead of October’s federal elections, but following the release of multiple bombshell photos and video depicting Trudeau in ‘blackface,’ that lead “evaporated almost overnight,” according to pollster Frank Graves of EKOS Research.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Alarming Message Germany Seeks to Limit EU Budget Contribution

As negotiations for the future EU budget heat up, Germany has angered some member states by demanding that the money available to Brussels not exceed 1 percent of the bloc’s GDP. But Berlin has some allies.

By Peter Müller and Christian Reiermann

Germany’s permanent representative to the EU made an unpopular announcement to his counterparts on Monday in the European Council building. His country, said top diplomate Michael Clauss, does not want the EU budget to grow beyond 1 percent of gross domestic product in the coming years.

For some of the diplomats present, it was an alarming signal. It means that Germany isn’t prepared to increases its contributions to the EU over the course of the next multi-year budget, a message that contradicts what Berlin was saying just a year and a half ago. Back then, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) agreed on a coalition deal with the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) that included the generous pledge: “We are prepared for Germany to make higher contributions to the EU budget.” But because clouds seem to be gathering on the economic horizon, German conservatives have agreed with the SPD to establish a 1 percent limit, even if it puts the EU in a tough spot.

The multiannual financial framework (MFF), as the multi-year EU budget is called, determines what Europe intends to spend its money on over much of the next decade. There is a total of more than a trillion euros to apportion. As of 2021, the money will be used, for example, for seven years of farm subsidies and to help coal miners find new jobs. More money is also to be allotted to the fight against climate change. There are research projects to be funded.

But as the most difficult phase of the budget negotiations get going, EU member states are far from agreement, according to a report Clauss sent to Berlin. The five-page paper (“classified for official use only”) about the confidential lunch in the European Council building provides a rare glimpse of how negotiations in Brussels work. When it comes to the future volume of the EU budget, the scope of demands from member states ranges from 1 percent to 1.11 percent of the bloc’s gross domestic product. That may not sound like a huge discrepancy, but in absolute numbers, the difference is around 110 billion euros…

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

Austrian Immigration Patriot Party Has Chance to Strike Back at Deep State Plotters—can Americans?

This Sunday, September 29, for the second time in two years 6.4 million Austrians will vote a new parliament. The deep political crisis that triggered these new elections came after 17 months of the most popular government this tiny little country in the heart of Europe ever had. It was elected on an anti-immigration wave—and it was destroyed by the Deep State. Sound familiar, Americans?

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

France: Suspected Female Jihadists on Trial for Botched Terror Attack on Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral

Five women go on trial at a special Paris court on Monday for attempting to blow up a car near Notre-Dame Cathedral in 2016 in what prosecutors say was a failed jihadist attack.

The women, now between the ages of 22 and 42, are charged with attempting to explode a vehicle laden with fuel-doused gas canisters in the shadow of the medieval monument in central Paris.

No one was hurt in the incident. Police were quickly able to trace the car, which belonged to the father of one of the key suspects, and some of the women’s fingerprints and DNA were found on the gas canisters

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

‘Julian Assange’s Life is at Risk’: Pamela Anderson Urges UK to Free WikiLeaks Co-Founder

and that he has been “psychologically tortured.”

Assange was due to be released from Belmarsh maximum security prison in London on Sunday, but a judge at Westminster Magistrates’ Court told the 48-year-old on Friday there are “substantial grounds” to believe he would “abscond again.”

Anderson, the former playboy model turned activist, who has been a long term advocate for Assange’s release, told ITV’s Good Morning Britain show on Monday that her “dear friend” was right to seek asylum because his “life is at risk.”

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

Mahathir Mohamad, Elan Carr, And the Pandemic of Muslim Antisemitism

by Dr. Andrew Bostom

US Special Envoy on Antisemitism Elan Carr declares: “Virtually all of the violence against Jews in Western Europe has been from the Arab [Muslim] and [broader] Muslim population—virtually all… that is something we have to acknowledge.”

           — Hat tip: Andy Bostom [Return to headlines]
 

Poll: National Populist Vlaams Belang Largest Party in Belgium

A fresh poll has revealed that the national populist Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) party is now the most popular party in Belgium.

According to the latest opinion poll from Belgian media, if national elections were held today, the right-wing populist party would garner 24.9 percent of the vote, making it the largest party of Belgium, HLN reports.

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UK Govt Blocks ‘Culturally Insensitive’ Ban on Cat and Dog Meat

The British government’s Ministry of Justice had blocked a “culturally insensitive” move to ban cat meat and dog meat, fearing it could offend people in Asian countries.

Cabinet Office chief Michael Gove drew up plans to outlaw the possession of cat and dog meat over the while he was still Secretary of State at the Department for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), according to reports.

However, the move is understood to have been blocked by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), currently headed by former solicitor-general Robert Buckland, after “nervous civil servants” suggested it was “culturally insensitive” and liable to cause offence in Asian countries where cat and dog meat consumption is more common.

[Comment: Next step, lifting the ban on cannibalism.]

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UK Labour Members Want to Sack the Queen, Don’t Support National Anthem, Borders

Over 60 per cent of Labour members want to sack the Queen, only 25 per cent support national borders, and just 15 per cent are proud of Britain’s history.

In a major YouGov poll commissioned by Ian Austin MP, who left the Labour Party and denounced its lurch to the far left after a series of antisemitism scandals — for which the party is currently under investigation — Labour members were asked their view on a range of views on issues from abolishing the monarchy to nuclear disarmament. Both policies received overwhelming support.

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UK Taxpayer to Foot £100 Million Bill to Repatriate 150,000 Tourists Stranded by Thomas Cook Collapse

Thomas Cook, the world’s oldest tour operator, collapsed in the early hours of Monday morning leaving hundreds of thousands of tourists unable to return home on their booked flights, leaving the government to repatriate travellers.

In total, some 650,000 customers of the multinational operator are presently abroad, 150,000 of them from the United Kingdom and 140,000 of the remainder are from Germany, an important market for the collapsed operator which at one time was majority-owned by German shareholders.

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UK: Farage: Labour Becoming a Corbyn ‘Cult’ Waging ‘Relentless War’ For Hard-Left

EXCLUSIVE — After a series of votes and polls taken at the Labour Party conference laid bare the increasingly extremist hard-left nature of the party, its members, and its leadership, Brexit leader Nigel Farage has told Breitbart London extremists are winning the battle for the heart of the official UK opposition party.

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UK: Khan’s London: Hijabi Woman Racially Abuses Indian Man in Multicultural Capital

Police officers are investigating a viral video of a black hijabi woman launching a racist tirade against an Indian bus passenger in Britain’s multicultural capital of London.

Video footage of the incident, originally uploaded by a @guri.1001, was widely circulated on social media, and shows the woman screaming “You smell of curry you dumb b***h” at an Indian man thought to be in his twenties, and telling him to “get back to your f*****g Southall slum” in reference to a west London district in the Borough of Ealing.

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UK: Labour to Back Giving Voting Rights to Foreigners in National Elections

In a move that would demolish a foundation of the British democratic system, Labour is set to back giving foreign nationals the right to vote in General Elections.

Currently, EU citizens and other foreigners living legally in the United Kingdom can vote in local and European Parliament elections, while only Britons, Irish citizens, and those from the Commonwealth can vote in national General Elections.

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UK: Seize the Means of Education: Labour Backs Abolishing Private Schools, ‘Redistributing’ Their Assets

Labour Party members have backed “integrating” private schools into the public education system, effectively abolishing independent education, with the institutions’ assets being seized by the State and “redistributed” to other schools. The Labour Party took another swing to the far-left under socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn after its members voted on Sunday to back plans that would see a future Labour government abolish Britain’s private schools, signalling members want the motion included in the party’s next election manifesto.

Members also voted to force universities to cut the number of independent school pupils they accept, whereby where currently 10 per cent of university matriculations are private school pupils, that would be capped at seven per cent, in line with the proportion of the wider population of children who attend fee-paying schools.

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Vatican Experts: German Catholic Church Moving Toward ‘Schism’

ROME — The liberal Catholic Church in Germany seems to be taking steps toward a schism with Rome under the banner of “synodality,” according to veteran Vatican observers.

Under the leadership of Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich-Freising, “the Church in Germany is poised to pursue a radical ‘binding synodal path’ that seeks to dislodge settled Church teaching in the name of ‘synodality,’“ warn the editors of the U.S.-based National Catholic Register Sunday.

In open opposition to Pope Francis and senior Vatican officials, the German Church has pushed a controversial plan that includes the creation of a “Synodal Assembly” in close partnership with the Central Committee of German Catholics, “a lay group that has demanded the ordination of women, an end to clerical celibacy, the blessing of same-sex unions by the Church and rethinking of all Catholic teachings on sexuality,” the editors state.

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Russia May Have Information on Prince Andrew’s Links to Jeffrey Epstein’s Alleged Sex Trafficking Ring

The U.K.’s foreign spy agency, MI6, believes that Russia might have information on Prince Andrew’s involvement in convicted sex offender and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring, The Toronto Sun reports.

In particular, the source reportedly believes that ex-Palm Beach County deputy sheriff John Mark Dougan may have passed on one of Andrew’s files from the department to the Kremlin. The files are believed to contain information on Andrew’s alleged sexual interactions with Epstein’s alleged underage sex slave, Virginia Roberts Giuffre.

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WSJ: China Imposing a ‘Reign of Terror’ on People of Faith

As the U.S. and its allies debate how to respond to the military and economic threats posed by China, they must not ignore the Chinese Communist Party’s “shredding of human rights and religious freedom,” Russell Moore wrote in a Wall Street Journalop-ed Sunday.

While in some areas the U.S. can be elastic in its negotiations with China, “we must not allow China to confiscate what belongs only to God: the lives, souls and consciences of vulnerable human beings,” wrote Moore, who is president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.

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Chinese Tourists Are Using Their Holidays in Australia to Shop for ‘Cheap’ Properties — as Their City of Choice is Revealed

About 1.2million Chinese tourists visit Australia every year and as many as a quarter of them are looking to buy a property Down Under, according to a report by property portal Juawi.

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Colorful New Bee Species Discovered in Fiji, But Extinction From Climate Change Feared

The biodiversity buzz is alive and well in Fiji, but climate change, noxious weeds and multiple human activities are making possible extinction a counter buzzword.

Just as Australian researchers are finding colorful new bee species, some of them are already showing signs of exposure to environmental changes.

Flinders University PhD candidate James Dorey — whose macrophotography has captured some of Fiji’s newest bee species — says the naming of nine new species gives researchers an opportunity to highlight the risks.

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‘Switch Off the Air-Con, Walk to School, Make a Sandwich’: Baby Boomer Blasts ‘Selfish’ Students for Skipping Class to Protest Against Climate Change

More than 300,000 protesters in 110 towns and cities across Australia flooded the streets on Friday as part of a global movement to demand action on climate change.

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Pregnant Mother Hacked to Death at South African Resort

A pregnant mother was reportedly stabbed to death as she slept near her family while on vacation at a resort in South Africa on Tuesday.

Reports said 31-year-old Karen Turner was sleeping next to her husband, Matthew, and their toddler son when two men allegedly sneaked into the chalet and began attacking them with knives at the Hluleka Nature Reserve in the Eastern Cape Province.

Police said the woman and her unborn baby died instantly while her husband was able to fight off the suspects. He was later taken to a hospital in Pietermaritzburg where he underwent surgery for his injuries.

Reports said the couple’s toddler was unharmed during the horrific incident.

The young mother’s brother, Ian Crouch, told News24 that he was able to speak to the husband after he came out of surgery.

He commented:

His recollection was that he was woken up by being stabbed in the stomach. There was a guy on his side of the bed stabbing him in the stomach and the other chap was stabbing my sister. He said he did manage to sort of grab the guy and there was a bit of a tussle down the stairs. After that, he doesn’t have any recollection.

“The motive behind the murder is currently not known. The crime in South Africa is spiraling out of control with a shocking 21,000 murders and 45,000 rapes reported in 2018,” reports said.

[Comment: S.Africa is the test bed for the genocide of whites…]

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Gangs of Illegal Aliens Brutally Murdering LA’s Homeless Population

This is the horrific consequence of sanctuary city policy

While reporter Millie Weaver covered the Los Angeles Clean Up in Van Nuys, California hosted by Scott Presler of #ThePersistence she learned from law enforcement and homeless residents of the local tent city that MS-13 and other gangs of illegal aliens are brutally murdering homeless people.

The gangs are using their territorial claims to extort homeless people for money otherwise they face being murdered and chopped into pieces. What is scary is that this isn’t skid row or downtown LA but a nice suburban area now infested with rats, homelessness and murderous thugs.

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Germany: 40 Percent of Welfare Recipients Are Foreigners

At least 40 percent of all welfare recipients in German are foreigners, costing German taxpayers more than 4 billion euros every month to pay for the food, education, medicine, and shelter of 2.7 non-contributing foreigners living in the country, new official reports have revealed.

According to new figures released by Germany’s Federal Employment Agency, three out of four working-age Syrians living in Germany are supported entirely or partially by the country’s welfare system, Hartz IV, Die Welt reports.

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Racist Migrant Gang Films Ruthless Beating of Young Swedish Schoolboy

Horrifying video footage of a Swedish schoolboy being savagely beaten by a gang of racist migrant teens has circulated throughout social media.

The racist beating is said to have occurred at a school in Skövde. Police are currently looking into the situation, Nyheter Idag reports.

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Andrew Sullivan: Gay, Lesbian Kids Are Being Consumed by Transgender Propaganda

Gay and lesbian youths are being consumed by the transgender ideology, says Andrew Sullivan, the gay New York writer who helped start the gay marriage movement.

“Increasingly, girly boys and tomboys are being told that gender trumps sex, and if a boy is effeminate or bookish or freaked out by team sports, he may actually be a girl, and if a girl is rough and tumble, sporty, and plays with boys, she may actually be a boy,” Sullivan wrote September 20 for New York Magazine.

The cost of that pro-transgender propaganda may be huge, Sullivan wrote:

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Drag Queen Story Hour for Young Children Celebrated as Part of LGBTQ ‘Big Read’ Event

The Hartford Public Library in Connecticut will host two Drag Queen Story Hour events Saturday as part of the library’s celebration of its LGBTQ “Big Read” campaign.

The controversial drag queen events have stirred tensions in many cities throughout the country, such as Chula Vista, California, where an LGBT-activist city official said groups protesting the event were people who hold “white supremacist beliefs.”

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The Real Problem at Yale is Not Free Speech

by Natalia Dashan

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Is the point of Yale to promote the humanities and knowledge of the West that is hard to learn anywhere else? This is not the full mission. Donald Kagan and Lee Bass’s year-long history of the West program was cut, due to faculty protesting that it was not multicultural enough, despite having large interest and $20 million in funding.

Is Yale’s vision a futuristic, technocratic university? Is the university divesting from the liberal arts for the purpose of committing to the technology of the future? This isn’t the case, either. Computer science enrollment has increased significantly in the past decade, but Yale’s computer science department is lagging behind other schools. The university has taken steps towards improving the department, but in general shows no signs of a visionary commitment to expanding tech or significantly expanding professorships.

Yale is having an existential crisis. Students are taught to break the system, but Yale doesn’t even want to teach them what the original system is, what it was for, or how to productively replace it. The university is so lacking in vision that it doesn’t even know what the ideal student looks like, or what it wants to teach them…

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Touching Lessons That Critics Say Are Sexualising Youngsters

The lessons are part of the controversial All About Me teaching programme

Children as young as six are being taught about touching or ‘stimulating’ their own genitals as part of classes that will become compulsory in hundreds of primary schools.

Some parents believe the lessons — part of a controversial new sex and relationships teaching programme called All About Me — are ‘sexualising’ their young children.

One couple told last night how they were so disturbed they withdrew their sons from lessons at a school where the programme is already being taught.

All About Me is being rolled out across 241 primaries by Warwickshire County Council and could be adopted by other local authorities next year as part of the Government’s overhaul of Relationship and Sex Education (RSE).

Family campaigners and religious groups warned that vague guidelines issued by the Department for Education meant schools could soon be providing sexual material to young children that many parents would consider inappropriate.

Even politicians who had supported the RSE legislation expressed concern. Tory MP David Davies said: ‘I and many other parents would be furious at completely inappropriate sexual matters being taught to children as young as six. These classes go way beyond the guidance the Government is producing and are effectively sexualising very young children.’

[Comment: This is called grooming; and it is a crime. Globalist elite are preparing their future victims — once globalist’s dream of legalizing pedophilia is achieved.]

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UK Schools Teach Six-Year-Olds About Masturbation

English schoolchildren as young as six years old are being taught lessons about “stimulating” their own genitals, following the government updating the national sex education curriculum.

The lessons are part of the All About Me sex education programme being taught to six— to ten-year-olds, with children being taught “self-stimulation” and that touching their own “private parts” in bed or in the bath is perfectly normal, according to documents obtainedby The Mail on Sunday.

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Woke Emmys Fail: Ratings Hit Record Low

The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards on Fox drew a record low viewership on Sunday as TV fans opted to tune out of the telecast that featured woke celebrities lecturing America on issues including the gender pay gap and transgender rights.

Sunday’s broadcast drew a paltry 5.7 rating and a 10 share in the overnight metered market ratings, down 23 percent from last year’s Monday night show on NBC and down 30 percent from the preliminary rating for the 2017 ceremony, which aired on a Sunday night on CBS, according to Variety.

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  1. So, “nervous civil servants” were too afraid to go ahead with a UK ban on dog and cat meat for fear of offending “Asian countries”?

    This is a curious statement for several reasons. The mandate of British civil servants should prioritize the considerations of the the native Brits over those of foreigners. At first glance it would seem that the government doesn’t want to offend Asians in the UK, but no, it’s Asians in Asia whom it doesn’t want to offend. What about the offence caused to the native Brit by the very thought of eating dog and cat meat?

    The adjective “Asian” is usually used in the UK as a euphemistic descriptor to replace “Muslim” – but here it’s used to mean “far-Eastern” (e.g., Chinese), not “Middle Eastern.” Why this surprising twist in the language? Can the specific countries that use cat and dog meat not be named? In its convoluted attempt to avoid insult, has the government inadvertently insulted Middle Easterners anyway by implying that they are the ones who eat dogs and cats. “Asian” apparently has different meanings, totally dependent upon the UK government of the day and whatever PC cover-up is current.

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