Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/17/2019

A recent poll showed the Sweden Democrats as the most popular party in Sweden. A different poll showed them tied for first place with the Social Democrats.

In other news, Pope Francis has proposed adding “Ecological Sin” to the Catholic catechism.

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Thanks to JD, JLH, Reader from Chicago, SS, Upananda Brahmachari, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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USA
» Brooklyn: Man Arrested for Egging Synagogue Turns Out Not to be a White Supremacist
» CNN Whistleblower: Liberal Media’s Charlottesville Hoax Was My ‘Red Pill’Moment (Video)
» Denver Business Owner Fined for Not Cleaning Up Vagrant Poo and Used Needles
» Emails: Open Society Kept Alleged ‘Whistleblower’ Eric Ciaramella Updated on George Soros’s Personal Ukraine Activities
» Gun From Chicago Buy-Back Program Found Near Dead Gang Member in Police Shooting
» Impeachment Poll: Trump’s Approval Rating Back Up to 50%
» It’s Trump vs the Deep State vs the Rest of Us
» Oracle and Google Will Fight in Court Over Java, AGAIN and This Time it’s Going to the Supremes
» Pew: Religious Americans Distrust Clergy Advice on Climate Change
» Reputed Suburban Gang Leader Caught on Video Handing Over $500 Meant for ISIS Soldier, Feds Allege. ‘You Ain’t Gotta Say My Name.’
» Twitter’s ‘Ban’ On Political Ads Has a Gaping, Legacy Media-Shaped Loophole
» Why the World Needs a Google Detox
 
Europe and the EU
» Delingpole: Climategate 10 Years on — The Bastards Got Away With It!
» France: Yellow Vest Protests: More Than 100 Arrested as Violence Returns to Paris
» France Shuts Down Mosques and Schools Linked to Islamism in 15 Neighbourhoods
» France: ‘Hip-Hop Party’ Damages Structure of Recently Renovated Classic Paris Theatre
» Netherlands: Outraged Leftists Protest Against ‘Black Pete’ Across the Country
» Sweden: Teen’s Ear Cut Off During Gang Robbery
» Sweden: New Trend Sees Robbers Strip Victims Naked
» Sweden: Abandoning Malmö to Its Criminals
» Sweden: Populists Top Poll as Leftist Govt Struggles With Gang Violence
» Uber France Launches New ‘Anti-Discrimination’ Button After UK
» UK: Arbuthnot Out as Assange’s Judge, Says WikiLeaks Lawyer Jen Robinson
» UK: Prince Andrew Stands by ‘Car-Crash’ Jeffrey Epstein BBC Interview
» UK: The Next Frontier? University and College Union Says Anyone Can ‘Self-Identify’ As Black
» UK: Tories United to Deliver Brexit as Every Candidate Pledges to Back Boris’ Deal
» Wales: Uncovered: Antisemitic Social Media of Niqab-Clad Election Advert Star
 
Middle East
» Iran’s Top Leader Warns ‘Thugs’ As Protests Reach 100 Cities
 
South Asia
» West Bengal: Muslim Love Jihadi Killed Hindu Station Master to Get Back His Longtime Girl Friend
 
Far East
» Hong Kong Protests: Police Surround Campus After Night of Violence
 
Australia — Pacific
» Indian Accused of Murdering Toyah Cordingley as She Walked Her Dog on a Beach is ‘Living Like a Free Man’ Back Home After Leaving Australia the Day After Her Body Was Found
» New Zealanders Are Keeping Their Guns and Buying More
 
Sub-Saharan Africa
» Chinese-Made Condoms Too Small, Zimbabwe’s Health Minister Complains
 
Immigration
» “Our New Country is Going to be Great”: More Than 10 Percent of DACA Recipients Have Arrest Records.
» Deranged Anti-ICE Protester Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison After Attacking Disabled Man
» Facebook Removes Angel Mom’s Posts on Illegals, Permanently Bans Donations to Angel Families Group
» Germany: Authorities Refuse to Release Nationalities of ‘Asylum Seekers’ In Gang Rape Case
» People Smugglers Use YouTube to Teach Migrants How to Illegally Enter UK in Refrigerator Trucks
» UK: Channel Migrants: Four Boats Stopped in Three Hours
 
Culture Wars
» Anyone Should be Allowed to ‘Identify’ As Black Regardless of the Colour of Their Skin or Background, Say University Leaders
» ‘Climate Change’ Blamed for Closing of Greenland Airport
» Pew: Americans Say Democrat Party Much More ‘Unfriendly’ To Religion Than GOP
» Pope Francis Proposes Adding ‘Ecological Sin’ To Catechism
» The “Great Pleasure in Destroying Christians”: The Persecution of Christians, September 2019
 

Brooklyn: Man Arrested for Egging Synagogue Turns Out Not to be a White Supremacist

The New York Post reported Thursday that “a teenager who threw an egg at a Brooklyn synagogue and chucked another one at a woman in Borough Park has been arrested on a number of hate crime charges, police said.”

This took place in a neighborhood where many Orthodox Jews live. The young activist’s name turns out to be Mohib Hoque, and he was “hit with three counts of hate crime assault, three counts of hate crime aggravated harassment, three counts of hate crime harassment and hate crime reckless endangerment.”

Mohib Hoque. A white supremacist, perhaps? An avid consumer of “far-right” news analysis?

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

CNN Whistleblower: Liberal Media’s Charlottesville Hoax Was My ‘Red Pill’Moment (Video)

Cary Poarch, the former satellite uplink technician at CNN’s Washington, D.C. bureau who secretly recorded hundreds of hours of undercover footage exposing the vehement, anti-Trump bias of the network’s executives, says CNN’s effort to smear the president as racist ushered in a life-altering “red pill” moment of extraordinary clarity.

“There was multiple little — I call them grains of rice — that led to the tipping of the scale,” Poarch explained in an exclusive interview with The Gateway Pundit.

“‘Let’s cover the story in this light, this way or that way, to cast the president or Republicans in a certain light,’“ Poarch said, describing CNN President Jeff Zucker’s routine of directing his staff to bombard viewers with propaganda. “I thought that was obviously kind of weird because I always like to pride myself as a seeker of truth — whatever the facts are, let’s get them out and go from there.”

“Even though I didn’t like the president,” he continued. “I just thought that was kind of weird that a major media company would be trying to tip the scale. That kept my antenna up.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Denver Business Owner Fined for Not Cleaning Up Vagrant Poo and Used Needles

The city of Denver fined a local business owner after he and his staff refused to continue cleaning up after homeless people behind his building, according to CBS Denver.

“There’s food, trash, drug deals,” said Jawaid Bayzar, who added “In the alley we get, ya know, the defacation, drug needles, prostitution” behind his internet company, Forethought.net. One night an employee was sitting in his car when someone smashed the window and tried to stab him, according to Bayzar.

And when Bayzar and his crew stopped cleaning up the constant hazardous mess left by the vagrants, telling CBS he’s not equipped to deal with it, Denver fined him.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Emails: Open Society Kept Alleged ‘Whistleblower’ Eric Ciaramella Updated on George Soros’s Personal Ukraine Activities

Eric Ciaramella, whom Real Clear Investigations suggests is the likely so-called whistleblower, received emails about Ukraine policy from a top director at George Soros’s Open Society Foundations.

The emails informed Ciaramella and a handful of other Obama administration foreign policy officials about Soros’s whereabouts, the contents of Soros’s private meetings about Ukraine and a future meeting the billionaire activist was holding with the prime minister of Ukraine.

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

Gun From Chicago Buy-Back Program Found Near Dead Gang Member in Police Shooting

Chicago, Illinois— According to an AGG report, William Stewart Boyd traded his father’s old .38 caliber Smith & Wesson snub nose for less than $100 in a gun buyback in 2004. It was supposed to be destroyed, but somehow the same handgun with serial number J515268 was found next to a dead body involved in a police shooting eight years later.

Boyd, a judge in Cook County, had taken the handgun to a South Side church in Chicago, Illinois where he handed it over to a pair of plainclothes officers with badges on their belts.

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

Impeachment Poll: Trump’s Approval Rating Back Up to 50%

The Rasmussen Reports Daily Presidential Tracking Poll is showing an impeachment bump in approval ratings for President Trump.

The daily evaluation of the president found a four-point bounce for Trump following the first day of House impeachment hearings on Wednesday.

[Comment: Article dated Nov 15, 2019.]

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

It’s Trump vs the Deep State vs the Rest of Us

One of the best side effects of the Trump presidency has been the hostility of the so-called “deep state” or “intelligence community” directed at the president.

This, in turn, has led many Americans to realize that America’s powerful, un-elected secret police agencies serve an agenda all their own. Consequently, polls show one’s views of the CIA and the FBI depend largely on one’s ideological bent. Polls from Fox News and NBC news in recent years show that as various government bureaucracies have ratcheted up their hostility to Trump, more Democrats and Hillary Clinton voters have said they trust the CIA and the FBI.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Oracle and Google Will Fight in Court Over Java, AGAIN and This Time it’s Going to the Supremes

The case that just won’t die

The US Supreme Court has agreed to once and for all decide the copyright case between Oracle and Google after nine years of legal wrangling.…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Pew: Religious Americans Distrust Clergy Advice on Climate Change

Americans who go to church think the clergy can be very helpful in providing guidance on growing closer to God, but distrust their advice on issues such as climate change, the Pew Research Center reveals in a new study.

A full 68 percent of U.S. adults who attend religious services at least a few times a year say they have “a lot” of confidence in the advice of their clergy on growing closer to God, yet just a small fraction of this number (13 percent) say they have this confidence when the topic is climate change, Pew found.

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

Reputed Suburban Gang Leader Caught on Video Handing Over $500 Meant for ISIS Soldier, Feds Allege. ‘You Ain’t Gotta Say My Name.’

Reputed gang leader Jason Brown was meeting with an associate in August when he allegedly counted out $500 in cash under the table he thought was going to be wired to a terrorist fighter overseas.

When the associate asked Brown if he wanted him to tell the terrorist where the money came from, Brown smiled and pointed a finger in the air, saying, “Allah knows,” federal prosecutors allege.

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

Twitter’s ‘Ban’ On Political Ads Has a Gaping, Legacy Media-Shaped Loophole

Trying to stay ahead of spurious allegations of enabling ‘Russian meddling’ into US elections, Twitter has outlawed all political advertising — but left an exemption most US legacy media, though partisan, will easily sail through.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Why the World Needs a Google Detox

In this interview, Google whistleblower Zach Vorhies, who worked as a senior software engineer at Google and YouTube for over eight years, shares his inside knowledge of this global monopoly, revealing why Google is not a reliable source of information anymore.

Google’s monopoly over search is matched by a continued reassurance that it is an unbiased search platform. Google is actively suppressing and censoring information, proving it is anything but unbiased.

While some of the information revealed is related to politics, you can read about my views about the two-party U.S. federal government here.

The point of sharing this information is that Google is manipulating search results to reflect its views, and to influence our social behavior while denying this is happening…

Using Google’s internal search engine, Vorhies set out to determine what Google’s definition of fake news was. He found several examples in a presentation. However, in it were actual, verifiably real news events. “I went, ‘Wait a minute. Is this about fake news or is this about controlling the narrative for like political purposes?’“ Vorhies says.

He began collecting these documents because he knew they were explosive enough that Google would remove them if word ever got out about them. In his continued search for real news presented as fake, he started unearthing other disturbing projects…

What this manipulation ultimately ends up doing is presenting a twisted and false view of the world. What you’re seeing in your search results is what the AI algorithm decided is most fair — not what’s actually happening in the real world.

This is how you now end up getting automated search suggestions such as “men can have periods” and “men can have babies,” even though these are biological impossibilities. However, the algorithm deems the idea that only women can menstruate and bear children as “unfair” and basically “sexist,” and thus it’s pushing these ridiculous search suggestions to the top.

This obnoxious discrepancy is clear when using search terms like “men can …” The manipulation of reality will not be as transparent when using health or political search words, when you cannot be absolutely sure, ahead of time, about what the absolute truth is.

[Comment: Recommended reading.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Delingpole: Climategate 10 Years on — The Bastards Got Away With It!

Climategate was the biggest scandal in the history of climate science. Modesty forbids me from identifying the guy who broke the story in the mainstream media — ten years ago this month — took it viral on the internet and brought it to worldwide prominence.

Sorry, but I refuse to name the handsome, brave, witty, intelligent, funny, clever, spectacularly endowed, bravura writer, beloved parent, adored husband, and skilled horseman responsible for this veritable Scoop of the Century, if not the Millennium.

No, absolutely not. Only from my cold, dead hands will you ever prise this secret information. Unless, maybe, you twist my arm just a tiny bit more and —

Yeah, all right. I admit it. That godlike hero was me.

Of course, if you believe the mainstream media, Climategate was little more than a fake news story concocted by a small cabal of wicked deniers in order to discredit the noble cause of climate science.

This is a lie and a particularly dangerous lie at that. If we allow it to prevail then the bad guys will have won, as they are close to doing already…

           — Hat tip: JLH [Return to headlines]
 

France: Yellow Vest Protests: More Than 100 Arrested as Violence Returns to Paris

Police in Paris arrested more than 100 people as protests to mark the first anniversary of the anti-government yellow vest movement turned violent.

Yellow vest (gilets jaunes) rallies took place nationwide on Saturday, a year after they first erupted.

Tear gas and water cannon were used by police in Paris, where thousands of protesters thronged the streets.

Rioters unleashed some of the worst violence the city has seen in months.

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

France Shuts Down Mosques and Schools Linked to Islamism in 15 Neighbourhoods

The French government has shut down mosques, schools, and associations linked to the spread of Islamist ideology in fifteen neighbourhoods across the country.

French Secretary of State for the Interior Laurent Nuñez announced the closure of 130 drinking establishments, 12 places of worship, three schools, and nine associations linked to radical Islamism on Friday, Le Parisien reports.

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

France: ‘Hip-Hop Party’ Damages Structure of Recently Renovated Classic Paris Theatre

The ceiling of the grand foyer of the Thétre du Chtelet in central Paris was damaged by a hip-hop party only months after a costly two-year renovation.

The bill for the new damages has not been revealed but a source claimed that it would cost “several zeros” to repair the damaged caused by the attendees of the party whose jumping is said to have caused vibrations that damaged the structure of the theatre, Le Figaro reports.

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

Netherlands: Outraged Leftists Protest Against ‘Black Pete’ Across the Country

Christmas parades across the Netherlands welcoming the arrival of St. Nicholas and his helper, Black Pete, were the scenes of protests by leftists who say Black Pete should be removed from the tradition, because for them, he’s a symbol of racism.

Sinterklaas, the Dutch version of St. Nicholas, arrived on horseback on Saturday at a nationally televised parade in the city center of Apeldoorn. Thousands of Dutch families celebrated as the procession with Sinterklaas and his helpers took place, Dutch news agency NOS reports.

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

Sweden: Teen’s Ear Cut Off During Gang Robbery

A young man’s ear was partially severed when he was viciously beaten and robbed by a gang of attackers in Gothenburg last week.

The 18-year-old victim was ambushed by ten men in a parking garage in the Landala district of Gothenburg around 11 pm on Tuesday. According to police spokesman Morten Gunneng, the victim was beaten and stripped of “everything but his underwear”, Swedish newspaper Expressen reports.

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

Sweden: New Trend Sees Robbers Strip Victims Naked

A new trend in Sweden that has seen robbery victims stripped naked continued last Wednesday as one man was robbed of everything he had, including his clothes, in the city of Uppsala.

This tactic was brought to the attention of the public last week after the Gothenburg Police Department reported that young criminals were employing the degrading method as a way to humiliate their victims, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.

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

Sweden: Abandoning Malmö to Its Criminals

“I think they just shot someone right across from my balcony,” my friend told me.

The gunshot rang out even as we were texting about another recent act of violence here in the Swedish city of Malmö—a car bomb that went off in a residential area close to my home.

Acts of violence occur so frequently in Malmö that news of one blurs into the next. This year, there already have been 29 explosions in a city of just 320,000. Sweden as a whole is on pace for about 150—or about three per week (as Quillette has reported previously).

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

Sweden: Populists Top Poll as Leftist Govt Struggles With Gang Violence

The populist Sweden Democrats have come first in a new opinion poll as the ruling Social Democrats struggle to deal with ongoing violent gang crime and a wave of explosions across the country.

The poll, carried out by Demoskop, is the first in which the Sweden Democrats have won a poll conducted by the polling firm, reaching 24 per cent of the vote, or nearly one in four Swedish voters, Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reports.

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

Uber France Launches New ‘Anti-Discrimination’ Button After UK

Uber in France has joined the British branch of the company in introducing a new anti-discrimination button on its popular ride-sharing app

The new option is listed in the “help” section of the app, which then allows the customer to report if they have been the victim of verbal or physical abuse based on gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, or disability, French newspaper Le Parisien reports.

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

UK: Arbuthnot Out as Assange’s Judge, Says WikiLeaks Lawyer Jen Robinson

Lady Emma Arbuthnot, the Westminster chief magistrate enmeshed in a conflict of interest, will no longer be presiding over the extradition proceedings of imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, said WikiLeaks lawyer Jen Robinson, at an event in Sydney on Friday night .

“Yes, there was some controversy about her sitting on the case,” Robinson said. “She won’t be sitting on the case going forward.” Robinson told Australian journalist Quentin Dempster at the event that she was “not sure” who would take over from Arbuthnot.

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

UK: Prince Andrew Stands by ‘Car-Crash’ Jeffrey Epstein BBC Interview

The Duke of York stands by his decision to take part in an interview about his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, sources have told the BBC.

People close to Prince Andrew said he wanted to address the issues head-on and did so with “honesty and humility”.

It came after the prince’s interview with BBC Newsnight on Saturday was described as a “car crash”.

In the interview, the prince denied having sex with a then 17-year-old girl — Virginia Giuffre.

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

UK: The Next Frontier? University and College Union Says Anyone Can ‘Self-Identify’ As Black

The University and College Union (UCU) has declared that anyone can “self-identify” as “black, disabled, LGBT+ or women”.

“UCU has a long history (from predecessor unions) of enabling members to self-identify whether that is being black, disabled, LGBT+ or women [sic],” a six-page position statement from the union, which “represents over 120,000 academics, lecturers, trainers, instructors, researchers, managers, administrators, computer staff, librarians and postgraduates in universities, colleges, prisons, adult education and training organisations across the UK.”

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

UK: Tories United to Deliver Brexit as Every Candidate Pledges to Back Boris’ Deal

BORIS JOHNSON has revealed all 635 candidates in next month’s election have pledged to back his Brexit deal if the Conservatives win a majority in the election.

The Prime Minister is optimistic he will get the green light for his agreement from Parliament and finally break the agonising Brexit deadlock. Mr Johnson told The Sunday Telegraph: “All 635 Conservative candidates standing at this election — every single one of them — has pledged to me that if elected they will vote in Parliament to pass my Brexit deal so we can end the uncertainty and finally leave the EU.

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

Wales: Uncovered: Antisemitic Social Media of Niqab-Clad Election Advert Star

Left-wing Welsh separatists Plaid Cymru have been embarrassed after the niqab-clad Muslim who starred in their election broadcast was linked to antisemitic posts on social media.

Party activist Sahar Al-Faifi was front and centre in a full face veil in the broadcast for the notionally nationalist Welsh separatist party, which wants to transform the small country into a “nation of sanctuary” for migrants.

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

Iran’s Top Leader Warns ‘Thugs’ As Protests Reach 100 Cities

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s supreme leader on Sunday cautiously backed the government’s decision to raise gasoline prices by 50% after days of widespread protests, calling those who attacked public property during demonstrations “thugs” and signaling that a potential crackdown loomed.

The government shut down internet access across the nation of 80 million people to staunch demonstrations that took place in a reported 100 cities and towns. That made it increasingly difficult to gauge whether unrest continued. Images published by state and semiofficial media showed the scale of the damage in images of burned gas stations and banks, torched vehicles and roadways littered with debris.

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

West Bengal: Muslim Love Jihadi Killed Hindu Station Master to Get Back His Longtime Girl Friend

Police Solved Diamond Harbour Rly Station Master Murder Case Within a Week.

Ashis Basu | HENB | Diamond Harbour | Nov 16, 2019:: In connection with the murder of Hindu Station Master (operating) of Diamond Harbour railway station (ER) Nirmal Kumar, police arrested his wife Sonali Kumar and her lover Arshad Jalil on Thursday (Nov 14).

Kumar went to the market on Sunday (10th Nov) evening and returned home sometime after as the weather was too bad. After dinner Nirmal, his wife and their baby daughter went to bed as usual. At that time Sonali’s brother was also with them. On Monday morning Nirmal’s body was found in a drain near his rented house at Roynagar in Diamond Harbour (ward no. 11), just 2 minutes away from the railway station.

During investigation, the police officials got suspicious on the behavior of Nirmal’s wife Sonali. Checking the mobile call list of Sonali, police detected one Arshad Jalil to whom Sonali used to chat for a long time on regular basis. In the meanwhile post mortem report confirmed the strangulation as the cause of death of Station Master Nirmal Kumar.

Tracking the tower location police caught Arshad from Khiderpur area of Kolkata on Thrusday (14th Nov) night.

Later, during rigorous police interrogation, Sonali broke down and admitted that his ex-boy friend on Arshad killed Nirmal. She disclosed she had a relationship with Arshad before her marriage and under his provocation she even used to stay in her father’s house at Munger instead of his husband Nirmal’s house at Sultanganj at Bhagalpur of Bihar.

The murderer Arshad admitted the facts that he killed Nirmal to her lover Sonali back to him…

           — Hat tip: Upananda Brahmachari [Return to headlines]
 

Hong Kong Protests: Police Surround Campus After Night of Violence

Police are surrounding a Hong Kong university campus after a fiery overnight stand-off with hundreds of protesters inside.

Dozens of protesters tried to leave after sunrise but turned back as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets.

Earlier, police tried to enter Polytechnic University but were met with petrol bombs and bricks.

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

Indian Accused of Murdering Toyah Cordingley as She Walked Her Dog on a Beach is ‘Living Like a Free Man’ Back Home After Leaving Australia the Day After Her Body Was Found

Toyah Cordingley’s suspected killer is ‘living like a free man’ in India as no extradition request has been made and nobody is investigating, authorities say.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

New Zealanders Are Keeping Their Guns and Buying More

This whole gun confiscation thing just isn’t working out like Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern hoped it would. Not only are compliance rates for the compensated confiscation program hovering around 20% with just a few weeks left in the amnesty period, New Zealanders are now buying up semi-automatic .22 rifles like never before.

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

Chinese-Made Condoms Too Small, Zimbabwe’s Health Minister Complains

A Chinese condom manufacturer says it is considering making its products in different sizes after Zimbabwe’s health minister complained that contraceptives made in China and exported to the African nation were too small for its men.

Health Minister David Parirenyatwa made the comments at an event in the capital Harare last week to promote HIV/Aids prevention, according to the website New Zimbabwe.com.

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

“Our New Country is Going to be Great”: More Than 10 Percent of DACA Recipients Have Arrest Records.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has published some numbers that won’t help the cause of Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals, the Obama Administration’s amnesty for illegal-alien kids.

Of the 765,166 approved DACA requests, 79,398 of the applicants had been arrested for such crimes as rape, riot, assault, kidnapping, robbery, burglary, and murder.

Granted, most of those crimes were driving— or immigration-related offenses, but one of every 10 applicants’ being arrested, the type of crime regardless, is a significant number.

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

Deranged Anti-ICE Protester Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison After Attacking Disabled Man

Another crazed leftist protester receives a prison sentence stemming from the rampant chaos that has enveloped Portland. William Bryant Pierce took a plea deal and a three year prison sentence after using his anarchist flag staff to attack a disabled man who was trying to get by on the sidewalk.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Facebook Removes Angel Mom’s Posts on Illegals, Permanently Bans Donations to Angel Families Group

Mary Ann Mendoza is not a popular woman among tech companies, it seems.

Mendoza, an “angel mom” whose son was killed by a drunk driver that was illegally in this country, was suspended from Twitter in July for doing what she’s done for years: Posting about illegal immigration.

Now, according to Breitbart, Facebook has done something similar. Not only has it taken down two of her posts for violating “Community Standards on hate speech,” she says the donation button on her organization’s page has been permanently removed, according to Breitbart.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Germany: Authorities Refuse to Release Nationalities of ‘Asylum Seekers’ In Gang Rape Case

German police arrested several male ‘asylum seekers’ who’re suspected of having gang-raped a 14-year-old girl in the city of Ulm on Halloween night.

The five men, aged between 14 and 26-years-old, have been identified as ‘asylum seekers’, but German authorities have withheld their nationalities from the public because they feel that the information is of ‘no relevance to the process’, the German daily tabloid Bild reports.

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

People Smugglers Use YouTube to Teach Migrants How to Illegally Enter UK in Refrigerator Trucks

Migrants are using social media to teach people how to enter the UK illegally in refrigerated lorries as in the Essex container tragedy, as police chiefs demand tech giants crackdown on the posts.

The illegal migrants are flagrantly posting YouTube videos including a teenager in the back of a refrigerated truck boasting that he is just 40 minutes from England.

Talking to camera, the shivering teenage migrant says: “I thank God who has helped me but to all of you who think to make the same journey to England, it’s very difficult. We hope God will help us when we go to England, it is hard this refrigerator.”

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

UK: Channel Migrants: Four Boats Stopped in Three Hours

Four boats carrying 39 migrants have been intercepted in the Channel in the space of three hours, the Home Office has confirmed.

The first boat carrying nine people was seen at 04:40 GMT, followed by a vessel carrying five at 06:00 GMT.

At 07:00 GMT a boat with 11 on board was seen and half an hour later a Border Force vessel and Kent Police dealt with a boat carrying 14 people.

All 39 presented themselves as Iranian nationals, a government spokesman said.

[Comment: Article dated Nov 17, 2019.]

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

Anyone Should be Allowed to ‘Identify’ As Black Regardless of the Colour of Their Skin or Background, Say University Leaders

Universities and Colleges Union has set out its stance in a report on the ongoing row about whether men should be able to self-identify as women. It insisted people can choose their own race.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

‘Climate Change’ Blamed for Closing of Greenland Airport

Alarmist news media have blamed the closing of a Greenland airport on manmade global warming, declaring Friday that the airfield is the “latest victim of climate change.”

Euronews announced that Greenland’s Kangerlussuaq Airport will end civilian flights within five years “due to climate change,” adding that runways are cracking because of the melting of the underlying permafrost.

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

Pew: Americans Say Democrat Party Much More ‘Unfriendly’ To Religion Than GOP

More than twice as many Americans view the Democrat Party as “unfriendly” toward religion than the Republican Party, with fewer than one in five U.S. adults saying the Democrats are “friendly” toward religion, the Pew Research Center reported Friday.

In its massive new survey, Pew found that nearly a third (31 percent) of all U.S. adults believe that the Democrat Party is unfriendly to religion, while only 13 percent say the same of the Republican Party. Conversely, more than half of Americans (54 percent) say that the Republican Party is friendly to religion, while only 19 percent say the same of the Democrats.

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

Pope Francis Proposes Adding ‘Ecological Sin’ To Catechism

Could “ecological sin” one day be added to the list of sins in the Catechism of the Catholic Church? Pope Francis has proposed such an idea.

Speaking at the 20th World Congress of the International Association of Penal Law in Rome, the Holy Father said Christians have a duty to preserve the environment.

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The “Great Pleasure in Destroying Christians”: The Persecution of Christians, September 2019

Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board sought to deport a refugee family — a mother and three children — that had fled their native country of Nigeria after they were attacked and threatened with death for leaving Islam and converting to Christianity… “They face a ‘fatwa’ (a pronouncement of death) against them for converting to Christianity from Islam. They believe they face certain death if they are returned to Nigeria. They are quite fearful.” … Supporters of the family said the government was not taking the time to establish the family’s humanitarian status or perform a proper risk assessment. “They’re trying to boot [them] out of the country before then.” The family’s current status is unclear.

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4 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/17/2019

  1. Won’t they be surprised when the climate change erupts. Halal and Ala will be no help – at all.

  2. Stockholm Syndrome: A condition which causes hostages to develop a psychological alliance with their captors during captivity.

    Malmo Syndrome: When a native population develops a psychological cuckholding to an aggressive and hostile immigrant population.

    Oh, and Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself.

    • You are right.

      But did you heard about the Toxoplasmose parasites?
      Cats had it mostly,when Rats are infected they had no more fear for cats!!!

      Experts say this works perhaps also with Human Brains.

  3. Pope Francis is an idiot. I have no respect for him at all, nor any for that queer pack of hypocritical pedophiles calling itself the Roman Catholic Church. Lose the communist pope and allow your clergymen to marry and raise families! Isn’t it already in the catechism that not marrying and raising kids is a sin? Practice what you preach!

    Speaking of religion, that’s why the Canadian commies are discarding that Nigerian lady and her kids. Everyone knows how much communists detest Christianity. If you want to survive in a communist [sump], you have to be willing to tell the idiots in charge whatever they want to hear. Tut-tut me all you want, but your high horse won’t save that lady and her kids from being skinned alive in Nigeria.

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