Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/26/2019

According to unconfirmed reports, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the caliph of the Islamic State, has been killed by U.S.-led forces in Syria. In possibly related news, President Trump indicated in a tweet that he will announce major news tomorrow morning.

In other news, the Hungarian philanthropist George Soros has endorsed the candidacy of Elizabeth Warren in next year’s presidential election.

To see the headlines and the articles, click “Continue reading” below.

Thanks to Dean, JD, Reader from Chicago, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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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.

USA
» Beto O’Rourke: For Anyone Who Does Not Turn in Weapon, ‘That Weapon Will be Taken From Them’
» Cell Phone Tower at CA Elementary School Shut Down After 8 Children Diagnosed With Cancer
» CNN Encourages Americans to Eat Cockroaches to “Save the Planet”
» Controversial Copyright Bill Inches Closer to Becoming Law as House Approves
» Endorsement Time: Soros Says Warren “Most Qualified to be President”
» Fired FBI Andrew McCabe Suddenly Drops Wrongful Termination Case Against DOJ
» Minneapolis Police Finally Make Assault Arrest in the Wake of Violent Protests Outside Trump Rally
» NASA May Have Faked Climate Data Says Retired Top UK Govt. Scientist
» NFL Star Used Shotgun to Foil Home Intrusion
» People Are Wishing Hillary Clinton a Happy Birthday (But She Might Not Appreciate How They’re Doing it)
» Promise Kept: Trump Confirms U.S. Out of Toothless Paris Climate Accord
» Suspect Set Woman on Fire in a Florida Taco Bell, And Then May Have Gone on Arson Spree, Cops Say
» Two Men Arrested During Latest Pittsboro Protest Over Confederate Statue
 
Canada
» Canada — Don’t Ask Me to Take You Seriously Again
» Wexit: Will Alberta Ditch Canada?
 
Europe and the EU
» Brexit Blocked Again: Tories Admit October 31st Withdrawal Day Isn’t Happening
» Can Europe be Saved From Demographic Doom?
» Europe’s Populist Wave Reaches Portugal
» Spain: Barcelona Pro-Independence Protesters Clash With Police After Massive Peaceful Rally
» Study: Finger-Wagging Eco-Celebs Emit 10,000x More CO2 Than Average Person
» Sweden Democrats Now Most Popular Party Among Trade Union Members
» UK: Mandatory TV Tax ‘Unsustainable’ As Young People Reject BBC
 
Middle East
» At Least Seven Iraqi Protesters Shot Dead by Militia in Hilla: Sources
» ISIS Target Believed to be Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi is Killed in Syria: Sources
» Turkish Billboards: “Don’t Take Jews and Christians as Friends”
 
Russia
» Germany: AfD Calls on Government to End Russian Sanctions
 
Far East
» Hong King Forbids Protesters From Doxxing Police to Stop Harassment
 
Latin America
» Chile’s Congress Evacuated as Inequality Protests Made Way Onto Grounds
» Chile Explodes: Expensive Climate Policies Spark Mass Riots, Just Like the Yellow Vest Protests in France
 
Immigration
» 74 Miles of Border Wall Completed, 158 More Under Construction
» French Firefighters Ambushed by Migrant Youths Gang, Attacked With Mortars
» Sikh Workers at Mafia-Backed Italian “Slave Farms” Are Starting to Fight Back
» UN Flies ‘First’ EU-Funded Planeloads of Somalis, Syrians to Germany, Romania
 
Culture Wars
» Male Runner Wins NCAA Conference’s ‘Female Athlete of the Week’
» Oxford University Bans Clapping at Student Union Events to “Stop Triggering Anxiety”
» Sign Targeting ‘Masculine Black Men’ Generates Controversy on Community College Campus
» Young Adults Fed Up With SJW and LGBTQ Tyranny
 

Beto O’Rourke: For Anyone Who Does Not Turn in Weapon, ‘That Weapon Will be Taken From Them’

Is he still claiming this isn’t confiscation?

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Cell Phone Tower at CA Elementary School Shut Down After 8 Children Diagnosed With Cancer

Eight children have been diagnosed with cancer at the same elementary school in Ripon, California — prompting parents’ fears that a 4G cell phone tower could be to blame:

The affected students at Weston Elementary School in Ripon are all under the age of 10, each with different types of cancer: brain, kidney, liver and lymphoma.

If this is what a 4G tower can do, just you wait until they roll the 5G towers everywhere!!

There is scant evidence that cell phone towers pose a real risk to humans, but even skeptics say the number of cases affecting children in such a small city is unusual.

Sprint, which owns the tower, has shut it down despite insisting the radio frequency levels are 100 times below the federal limit.

But the kids’ mothers say their own private investigator found much higher levels, though still below the limit.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

CNN Encourages Americans to Eat Cockroaches to “Save the Planet”

Anyway, needless to say is that bugs are the number 1 source of viruses, they carry all possible imaginable kinds of diseases, worms and parasites, eating bugs will surely shorten your life span.

12 years ago we compiled a list with the origins of diseases and guess what, most of them originate from Asia and Africa where the natives feast on bugs and other disgusting life forms.

Now the liberal scumbags who rule this earth with an iron fist, want you dumb white people to eat like the Asians to “save the planet”…

The reasoning behind this whole big pile of BS is well “you’re already eating them you dumb slaves, they are accidentally in all your food, FDA allows x% as an error, soo ummm, well double down, eat more.” Its like you accidentally ate a little bit of shit in a burger at McDonalds because the employee didn’t wipe his hands and well ummm you know…… double down and eat an entire plate of shit now because you already ate a little bit…. you felt its taste, so why not eat more??

Instead of being angry, vowing never to buy the X brand again for finding a worm or an insect in it and instead of suing them or something, they want you to double down and eat more.

This is going to be a big part of the initial marketing of the concept. Let us sumarize their plan here and if this doesn’t get your blood boiling then nothing can. Its basically as simple as this:

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Controversial Copyright Bill Inches Closer to Becoming Law as House Approves

In a change of pace for the modern era, the House of Representatives yesterday agreed on a bill and passed it by an overwhelming majority. Unfortunately, the bill in question, known as the CASE Act, is a controversial measure that critics argue could penalize ordinary Americans as much as $30,000 for something as simple as photo sharing, while also emboldening copyright trolls.

The House voted 410-6 on Monday to adopt the measure, fully named the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2019. The bill aims in part to create a new “small claims” Copyright Claims Board within the US Copyright Office. That, proponents argue, would give content creators and rights holders a better, more efficient way to pursue infringement claims, instead of having to spend the time and money on filing a federal court case.

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

Endorsement Time: Soros Says Warren “Most Qualified to be President”

George Soros, like Barack Obama, has passed over former Vice President Joe Biden when it comes to the 2020 US election.

In a wide-ranging interview with the New York Times, the progressive billionaire predicted that Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts will become the Democratic nominee who will face Trump in 2020.

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

Fired FBI Andrew McCabe Suddenly Drops Wrongful Termination Case Against DOJ

Fired Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe suddenly dropped his wrongful termination case on Friday.

Andrew McCabe was fired back in March 2018.

This comes after it was announced Thursday that Attorney General Bill Barr announced the John Durham probe is now a criminal investigation.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Minneapolis Police Finally Make Assault Arrest in the Wake of Violent Protests Outside Trump Rally

Minneapolis Police have finally made an assault arrest in the wake the violent protest outside of President Trump’s rally in downtown Minneapolis two weeks ago.

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

NASA May Have Faked Climate Data Says Retired Top UK Govt. Scientist

(Updated Oct. 23, 2019) Retired Principal Scientific Officer (PSO) for the British Government exposes “discrepancies” in NASA’s Global Historical Climate Network (GHCN) which serve to make recent temperatures seem warmer.

The “mistakes” point to possible fraud intended to give scientific credence to tax-raising UK and US climate policies.

The unnamed source, now retired from the UK Scientific Civil Service and speaking exclusively to Principia Scientific International (PSI), was so disturbed by the “tampering“ of government temperature records that he performed his own verification tests and exposed a shocking anomaly that turns the global warming narrative on its head.

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

NFL Star Used Shotgun to Foil Home Intrusion

Philadelphia Eagle Fletcher Cox puts Second Amendment to use.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

People Are Wishing Hillary Clinton a Happy Birthday (But She Might Not Appreciate How They’re Doing it)

Today is Hillary Clinton’s birthday, and some well-wishers are letting Hillary do the talking for them.

[Comment: Article dated October 26, 2019.]

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

Promise Kept: Trump Confirms U.S. Out of Toothless Paris Climate Accord

President Donald Trump has met one of his key election promises and confirmed the U.S. will definitely withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.

He made the announcement Wednesday night at an energy conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, denouncing the agreement as a bad deal and lauding his pro-fossil fuel policies that make the U.S. an independent energy superpower.

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

Suspect Set Woman on Fire in a Florida Taco Bell, And Then May Have Gone on Arson Spree, Cops Say

A Tallahassee woman may have gone on an arson spree Wednesday and Thursday, starting at a Taco Bell where a woman was set on fire, cops say.

On Wednesday, Mia Williams, a 32-year-old who was born male but identifies as female, walked into a Taco Bell, doused a woman with gasoline and then set her on fire, Tallahassee police said.

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

Two Men Arrested During Latest Pittsboro Protest Over Confederate Statue

PITTSBORO, N.C. — Officials with the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office said two men were arrested Saturday during the latest protest over a Confederate monument that is at the Pittsboro courthouse.

Lt. Sara Pack, public information officer with the sheriff’s office, said Calvin James Megginson, 29, of Pittsboro, and Timothy James Osborn, 24, of Carrboro, were each arrested for inciting a riot and affray. The two men were part of the latest demonstration held on Sanford Road in Pittsboro.

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

Canada — Don’t Ask Me to Take You Seriously Again

Growing up in Canada, one learns that an obligation of citizenship is to humor the nation’s delusions of grandeur.

In schools, to the extent history is still taught, Canada’s role in world events is revised to outsized proportions. Self-flattering terms like “moral superpower” are coined to imply that from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the supposed existential threat of “Climate Change,” it is Canada pulling the strings, like some benign and unfailingly polite Kaiser Soze.

One is enjoined to play along as Canada insists it is the best in the world at this or that — oftentimes in qualitative, subjective fields such as the arts. Even here, anyone with eyes to see or ears to hear or good taste to consult recognizes this is not the case. But the Canadian thing to do is nod, smile, and not object.

It is perhaps fitting that a vapid scion like Justin Trudeau should be the leader of such a nation. A country of little consequence is led by a young man who has never faced consequences.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Wexit: Will Alberta Ditch Canada?

Authored by Andrew Moran via LibertyNation.com

The re-election of Justin Trudeau has revved up Wexit talk in Canada…

Brexit, Italexit, Frexit, Nexit, CalExit, Texit, and now Wexit? What likely started as a social media campaign to air a considerable portion of the electorate’s grievances against the federal government, a serious political movement in Canada may be born. Would this have serious ramifications for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his newly re-elected Liberals? Or, is it an annoying mosquito bite from Muskoka that needs scratching? While Ottawa may no longer need to lose sleep over a separatist initiative in Quebec, the nation’s capital might need to keep a close eye on the west as separatism is brewing like a Double-Double at the nearby Tim Hortons. The experts say that a split is unlikely to happen, but they said the same thing about the British and Brussels. It could be time to wake up and smell the poutine — or crude oil.

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

Brexit Blocked Again: Tories Admit October 31st Withdrawal Day Isn’t Happening

The United Kingdom “won’t be able to leave on October 31st” because of “the actions of Parliament and especially Jeremy Corbyn”, Chancellor Sajid Javid said speaking for the government on Friday morning.

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

Can Europe be Saved From Demographic Doom?

Europe’s birthrate is among the lowest in the world. At 1.59 per year, the European Union’s current births are too low to sustain its survival. And while native birthrates have declined, Europe’s overall population continues to grow due to mass immigration.

For the younger generation in Europe, employment is either non-existent or so poorly paid that it doesn’t allow them the means to support themselves, let alone a prospective family. But Europe’s declining birthrate is by no means just a result of work precariousness—there’s a much deeper cause.

A 27-year-old conservative thought-leader in Italy and Europe, Francesco Giubilei, publisher of Future Nation magazine, says this crisis stems mainly from cultural and social factors. Today’s youth is taught by its parents, of the anti-traditionalist ‘68er generation, that there is little intrinsic value in building a family. The consequence has been a generation that’s planning its lives without any aspirations to have children. Additionally, European youth are moving from rural areas to large cities in search of study and job opportunities. This has contributed to them leading atomized lives detached from community. Today’s youth feels that it doesn’t belong anywhere, and so why should they leave anything behind for a future generation?

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Europe’s Populist Wave Reaches Portugal

A Portuguese populist party called Chega! — Enough! — has secured a seat in Parliament, after winning more than 65,000 votes in legislative elections held on October 6. It is the first time that an anti-establishment party has entered Parliament since Portugal became a democracy in 1974.

Chega leader André Ventura, a 36-year-old law professor and television sports personality, campaigned on a theme of law and order and opposition to both political correctness and the imposition of cultural Marxism. He rode a wave of discontent with traditional center-right parties, which in recent years have drifted to the left on domestic and foreign policy issues.

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

Spain: Barcelona Pro-Independence Protesters Clash With Police After Massive Peaceful Rally

Violent protesters clashed Saturday with police in the tense Catalonia region of Spain after another massive rally in Barcelona against the imprisonment of nine separatist leaders.

Thousands of pro-independence demonstrators — mostly masked youths — took to the streets in the first flare-up in violence after a week of tense calm. They surrounded the National Police headquarters in downtown Barcelona and threw colorful plastic balls at officers. The protesters quickly switched to lobbing rocks and bottles at police, who then charged and swung batons to fend them off.

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

Study: Finger-Wagging Eco-Celebs Emit 10,000x More CO2 Than Average Person

After weeks of being lectured and chastised by celebrities and activists about how everything you do is bad for the planet, these very same eco-warriors are going about churning out far more pollutants than you do.

According to a new study from Stefan Gossling of Lund University, celebrities emit 10,000 more CO2 than the average person, thanks in part to their jet-setting lifestyle, a bit of which is flying to and from places to preach at you about the oncoming climate crisis:…

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

Sweden Democrats Now Most Popular Party Among Trade Union Members

The populist Sweden Democrats are now the most popular party among members of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO), an umbrella organization for fourteen trade unions operating in the country.

The Sweden Democrats have now surpassed the Social Democrats as the most popular party among blue-collar workers who are represented by LO, a new survey by Expressen/Sifo has revealed.

The survey found that among LO members, 31 percent supported the Sweden Democrats whereas 30.6 supported the Social Democrats.

Support for the Social Democrats among LO voters has fallen dramatically in the past decade. Since 2010, LO voters supporting Social Democrats has cut in half from sixty to thirty percent.

The survey’s results on some level are shocking since the LO base, for nearly a century, had been central to the Social Democrats electoral success.

However, because Social Democrats have abandoned their LO base by importing hundreds of thousands of welfare-dependent migrants who refuse to integrate, it’s no surprise that LO members would seek representation elsewhere.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Mandatory TV Tax ‘Unsustainable’ As Young People Reject BBC

Broadcasting watchdog Ofcom has warned that the mandatory TV tax is at risk of being undermined because young people are “tuning out” of the BBC.

For the first time, fewer than half (49 per cent) of Britons aged 16 to 24 say that they watch the BBC’s television programmes even a minimum of once a week, according to the regulator’s report.

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

At Least Seven Iraqi Protesters Shot Dead by Militia in Hilla: Sources

HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) — At least seven protesters were killed and 38 wounded in the Iraqi city of Hilla early on Sunday when members of the Iranian-backed Badr Organization militia opened fire on demonstrators, police and health sources said.

Protesters had gathered across Iraq on Saturday in a second day of anti-government protests, in which at least 65 people have died.

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

ISIS Target Believed to be Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi is Killed in Syria: Sources

A “high value ISIS target” believed to be Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi has been killed by U.S.-led forces in Idlib, Syria, a well-placed military source told Fox News on Saturday night.

The U.S. military cannot yet confirm the identity of the deceased target.

But at 9:23 p.m. Saturday, President Trump posted a Twitter message hinting at “very big” news…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Turkish Billboards: “Don’t Take Jews and Christians as Friends”

Billboards displaying Quranic verses calling for Muslims not to take Christians and Jews as friends were spotted in the Turkish city of Konya earlier this week.

Konya is well-known as Turkey’s most culturally conservative city. In last March’s local elections, Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) garnered more than 70 percent of the vote.

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

Germany: AfD Calls on Government to End Russian Sanctions

AfD lawmakers called on the German government to end Russian sanctions on Thursday, arguing that they’ve failed to “increase domestic pressure on the Russian government” and have only increased the popularity of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In the same motion, the Bundestag’s AfD faction also described the measures taken against Crimea as “counterproductive”, and has worked only to “cement” the peninsula’s “factual affiliation” with Russia, Junge Freiheit reports.

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

Hong King Forbids Protesters From Doxxing Police to Stop Harassment

A Hong Kong court banned “doxxing” police officers and their families in a bid to thwart pro-democracy protesters aiming to harass them, a report said.

The police force says many of its officers had personal information leaked online — aka “doxxing” — and their family members have been harassed, The Guardian reported.

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

Chile’s Congress Evacuated as Inequality Protests Made Way Onto Grounds

The Chile’s congress had to be evacuated on Friday after anti-government activists forced their way in on Friday during a mass demonstration over inequality within the South American country.

Lawmakers and administrative staff ran out of the legislative building as police fired tear gas at the protesters who made it to the grounds in the port city of Valparaiso.

At least 19 people have died and 7,000 have been detained during the political unrest that ignited over a four-cent increase in subway fares and has transformed into a political movement targeting the country’s growing inequality, according to the Guardian.

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

Chile Explodes: Expensive Climate Policies Spark Mass Riots, Just Like the Yellow Vest Protests in France

Chile, which is hosting a major U.N. climate conference in December, earned praise from climate activists for recently imposing a carbon dioxide tax on conventional energy sources and switching the Santiago Metro system to renewable power. Now, the people of Chile are rising up and firing a shot across the bow of other nations considering similar energy taxes and expensive renewable energy programs.

On Friday, protesters took to the streets throughout Santiago in response to Metro fare hikes. The protests soon spread to other cities and led to rioting and at least five reported deaths. The Chilean government and the legacy media blamed the fare hikes on rising oil prices. But that is not true.

Oil prices are not rising. Global oil prices are currently 25 percent lower than they were a year ago and 37 percent lower than they were five years ago.

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

74 Miles of Border Wall Completed, 158 More Under Construction

Border Patrol officials say communities along the border are safer following the completion of 74 miles of improved border wall systems. Those systems include 30-foot bollard walls, new border-access roads, lighting, and electronic surveillance. Construction on an additional 158 miles is underway with 450 miles scheduled to be completed by the end of 2020.

Construction crews under the direction of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a report on Friday showing the completion of 74 miles of replacement border wall systems along the southwestern border with Mexico. Officials stated that 158 miles of additional walls are currently under construction and 276 miles are in a “pre-construction phase,” according to information provided to Breitbart News by CBP officials.

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

French Firefighters Ambushed by Migrant Youths Gang, Attacked With Mortars

French firefighters and police in the Paris suburb of Champigny-sur-Marne were attacked earlier this week by a gang migrant youths who hurled projectiles and launched mortars at them.

The clashes erupted in the early hours on Tuesday morning when a gang of fifteen masked and hooded individuals lured about six firefighters to the Champigny-sur-Marne area with a garbage fire. According to a union police source, upon arriving at the scene, the firefighters were attacked by the group of migrant youths who launched projectiles at them, Le Figaro reports.

“It seemed like a trap. The individuals had a real will to light the fires”, the union police source said.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Sikh Workers at Mafia-Backed Italian “Slave Farms” Are Starting to Fight Back

Sikh workers at mafia-backed “slave farms” in Italy are starting to speak out, according to a new article by The Times UK.

One worker who spoke to The Times and went by the name Ranju, said that he came close to suicide when he was forced to “drink from the cattle trough and eat scraps left for the hens”.

46 year old Ranju, an immigrant from Punjab, said:

“The owner beat me, showed me his gun and told me, ‘I’m with the mafia, and if you ever talk I will bury you in a ditch where your body will never be found’.”

Ranju is among about 22,000 other Sikhs who pick fruits and vegetables on farms around the city of Latina — many of whom are now starting to fight back against “slave-like” treatment by farmers, many of whom have mafia backing.

“There are plenty more out there like me who are afraid,” Ranju said.

After his employer was arrested, he joined a strike in Latina days ago where 3,000 Indian farm workers banded together and demanded an end to “years of exploitation”.

The strike came as a result of an incident on a farm near Terracina where the owner was accused of pressing a knife up against the throats of his Sikh workers. He was also accused of firing his shotgun at them while he forced them to work inhumane hours.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UN Flies ‘First’ EU-Funded Planeloads of Somalis, Syrians to Germany, Romania

The UN Migration Agency/International Organization for Migration (IOM) has hailed the arrival of its “first” planeload of 154 Somali migrants to Germany, along with dozens of Syrians transported to Romania using European Union funds.

The IOM, which promotes mass migration as “inevitable, desirable, [and] necessary”, announced the arrival of “its first international charter flight” of 154 Somalis from Ethiopia to Germany — with “An additional 220 refugees [to] depart for Germany on a second IOM-chartered flight in mid-November” — in an official press release.

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

Male Runner Wins NCAA Conference’s ‘Female Athlete of the Week’

Earlier this week, the Big Sky Conference named a male runner as the female cross-country athlete of the week.

Jonathan Eastwood (yes, I’m deadnaming, sue me) previously competed on the men’s team but joined the women’s cross-country team at the University of Montana this fall. By joining the women’s team and competing under the name June Eastwood, he became the first “transgender” athlete to compete on an NCAA Division I women’s running team—which is likely the only reason he was given the honor.

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

Oxford University Bans Clapping at Student Union Events to “Stop Triggering Anxiety”

What kind of grudge do British universities have against clapping? Roughly one year after the University of Manchester Student Union banned clapping at its events — choosing to instead ask audiences to use ‘jazz hands’to show their appreciation for a performance — students at the University of Oxford are working to “replace clapping” because it could “trigger anxiety.”

Like their peers in Manchester, they will ask audiences to use silent hand-wave motion called “jazz hands”.

The motion to “mandate the encouragement of silent clapping” successfully passed in a vote taken by the school’s Student Union during their first meeting of the new school year.

The ruling will apply at all student union events, and if successful, might spread to over organizations and events at the school.

“Jazz hands” is the British Sign Language movement to express applause. It is considered a “more inclusive” gesture.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Sign Targeting ‘Masculine Black Men’ Generates Controversy on Community College Campus

A sign appearing to slam “masculine black men,” posted without context or explanation in a public area, generated controversy recently at a California community college. Staff and other persons involved in the creation of the sign have remained largely silent about why it was created and what its purpose was.

The American River Current, the student newspaper of American River College, reports that, earlier this month, someone posted a sign in the door of an office at the university student center reading: “Masculine black men; check your male privilege before entering.” The sign, posted in the door of the campus group UNITE, “was posted without explanation,” The Current reports.

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

Young Adults Fed Up With SJW and LGBTQ Tyranny

The new “Batwoman” TV series featuring an openly lesbian Batwoman is failing big-time. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that young adults are turned off by the show’s extreme woke and SJW (social justice warrior) politically correct messaging. “Woke” means you are aware of social and racial injustice. “Woke” also means straight white men are the source of all evil and must be punished. Women and minorities are perfect in every way. Woke culture says anyone who dares criticize a woman or a minority hates women and minorities.

Batman fans are outraged over the “Batwoman” TV series trashing Batman and its in-your-face trashing of men. If there were such a thing as a woke-a-meter with a range of 1-10, “Batwoman” would receive an 11.

It was a pleasure to learned that young adults are fed up with SJW Hollywood writers and producers destroying their favorite movie franchises. The 2016 Ghostbusters movie bombed, losing $70 million, infected with woke. SJW has infected Star Wars and various superhero movies. Angry fans say, “Get woke, go broke!” Hollywood has declared that SJW, diversity and gender-swapping in movies is more important than entertaining stories.

Critics rave about movies that check all the right SJW boxes; praising homosexuality, feminism, and minorities while trashing straight white men. Meanwhile, fans avoid such movies in droves.

It blows my mind that despite losing mega-millions Hollywood is undeterred, hellbent on cramming SJW political messaging down our throats. As a Christian, I believe a spirit of anti-Christ is driving Hollywood’s financially illogical behavior. Hollywood producers love to poke fun of and demonize Christians. They freely use Jesus’ name in vain. And yet, they would never dare to use Muhammad’s name in vain.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

6 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/26/2019

  1. There is some good news.

    Fourth Vienna Ball held in Turkmenistan

    The performance opened with a patriotic composition. Then “Polonaise” sounded by the Austrian composer and conductor Carl Michael Zirer, presented by the State Symphony Orchestra of Turkmenistan.
    Vocalists Andreas Jankovic and Nevi Martinez from Austria performed at the ball, dance couple Marek Bobosik and Marta Nitranova from the National Theater of the Slovak Republic
    Photo here https://ca-news.org/news:1573898

  2. For anyone who thinks Nazi Germany was “allied” with Islam

    (His opinions on the third world, and speaking specifically on the WW1 Jihad stirred by the Kaiser and his Ottoman allies) “ The hopes of an epic rising in Egypt were just as chimerical. The ‘Holy War’ may bring the pleasing illusion to our German nincompoops that others are now ready to shed their blood for them. Indeed, this cowardly speculation is almost always the father of such hopes. But in reality the illusion would soon be brought to an end under the fusillade from a few companies of British machine-guns and a hail of British bombs.

    A coalition of cripples cannot attack a powerful State which is determined, if necessary, to shed the last drop of its blood to maintain its existence. To me, as a nationalist who appreciates the worth of the racial basis of humanity, I must recognize the racial inferiority of the so-called ‘Oppressed Nations’, and that is enough to prevent me from linking the destiny of my people with the destiny of those inferior races”

    The opposite of a progressive

    Also
    https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7ckfe5/how_were_muslims_treated_in_nazi_germany_what_was/

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