Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/31/2020

As of 2300 GMT this evening, the United Kingdom left the European Union. The symbolic moment for Britain’s departure occurred when the Union Jack was removed from the European Council in Brussels.

In other news, the official Chinese death toll for the Wuhan Coronavirus has risen to 259, with 11,791 confirmed cases. Meanwhile, the CDC has ordered a 14-day quarantine for all travelers arriving in the USA from China.

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Forum for Democracy Surges in the Netherlands

FvD (Forum voor Democratie, Forum for Democracy), a conservative, populist Euroskeptic party founded by Thierry Baudet, now has more members than any other party in the Netherlands.

Many thanks to FouseSquawk for translating this article from the Dutch public broadcaster NOS:

Forum for Democracy Party Has Most Members

Forum for Democracy is the political party with the highest number of members according to figures from the Documentation Center for Dutch Political Parties (DNPP), which publishes the numbers annually. The is the first time that FvD has had the greatest number of members of all the parties. In total there are 42,794, which is over 3,000 more than the CDA [Christian Democrats].

Gerrit Voerman from the DNPP calls it a unique development, because the party of Thierry Baudet has been in existence for just three years. Last year 12,000 members joined Forum. In March the party won the elections in the provincial states, but there was also an internal fight which led to a split in the First Chamber (Senate) under the leadership of co-founder Henk Otten. In December, Baudet claimed that (FvD) was the largest party in the Netherlands.

In recent years Forum has made a strong effort to recruit new members. Thus, at the end of last year, the party launched “FvD Switch Weeks”, in which mostly VVD members were called on to switch to the Baudet party. “The number of members is important for Forum because of the charisma of the party; they can now say they are the largest party,” says the political commentator Xander van der Wulp. “It is really an achievement that they have collected those members in such a short time, as the number with other parties is falling.”

A greater number of members also ensures a higher government subsidy. The subsidy consists of a general share that is for all parties, and a special share. The largest proportion of the special share (80%) is based on the number of Parliamentary seats, the other 20% on the number of members.

The second party is the PvdA with more than 41,000 members, followed by the CDA with 39,000. Last year the two parties lost members, in which they were outdistanced by the Forum. The number of members for the CDA went down more than 9% and the PvdA by 3%. The greatest number of withdrawals was from the SP; the party lost 12% of its members. The VVD, the biggest party in the Tweede Kamer (Lower House), is in ninth place.

Other parties that grew are the Party for Animals and Green-Left. The Christian Union and Denk remain stable. In total there are more than 300,000 people who are members of a political party represented in the Tweede Kamer.

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Geert Wilders: There Has Been a Legal Coup in The Netherlands

In the following video Geert Wilders, the leader of the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV) in the Netherlands, addresses a government minister in parliament about a recently revealed scandal. Information has surfaced that culture-enrichers at a refugee center had been discovered with porn and torture videos on their phones, that the government knew about it, and hid the findings because an election was coming up.

Many thanks to C for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/30/2020

The official death toll in China for the Wuhan Coronavirus has risen to 213, with almost 9,700 cases diagnosed. The State Department is advising Americans not to travel to China. Within the USA, the first human-to-human infection with the disease was confirmed in Illinois. Meanwhile, a cruise ship carrying 6,000 passengers was denied landing permission in Italy due to possible cases of the coronavirus on board. However, the Chinese couple suspected of carrying the virus were subsequently tested and cleared, and passengers were then allowed to land.

In other news, Greta Thunberg is applying for a trademark on her name.

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The Nuances of the Islamization of Sweden

A new Islamic political party has been launched in Sweden. For some reason it calls itself the “Nuance Party”. One of its goals is to criminalize “Islamophobia” in Sweden.

Based on the news report below, it seems to be mainly a Turkish operation.

Many thanks to Kronans Martell (Ullis News) for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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“Swedish” Murder Suspect Arrested in Barcelona

The following news story from Sweden describes the arrest of a “Swede” in Barcelona on suspicion of murder and robbery. There’s no indication that the alleged perp is a culture-enricher in this or other media reports about the case. However, you’ll notice a sly hint at the ethnicity of the suspect: he’s referred to as a “Swedish citizen”. In other words, he’s as much Swedish as Mullah Krekar is Norwegian. If he had been a blond-haired blue-eyed fellow named Sven or Erik, you can bet he would have been identified as a “Swede”.

Many thanks to FouseSquawk for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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Important Lesson: Never Laugh at a Muslim

In the following video you’ll see a “French” culture-enricher slap the face of a young woman on the Paris Metro. The victim is reportedly an American tourist who had laughed at the fellow.

MissPiggy, who translated the video for subtitles, provided this additional material:

The person who posted the video had this to say:

The problem is the girl couldn’t understand him, she don’t speak French! Then it was so fast he assaulted her! The guy friend head locked him and I saw the face of the bad guy, I sprayed my pepper spray, he was in hell! Also so many guys there but nobody helped us!

The guy was randomly harassing people on the train. Before this girl got hit, he was harassing another woman (that was posted in the Twitter feed). In addition to that, someone else posted that he looked exactly like a man who was asking for money and harassing people on another day, but on the same train line.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Here’s a video featuring the witness who took the footage. He was speaking in English; it’s unfortunate that we don’t have a version without the French voice-over.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/29/2020

The Chinese government’s official statistics on the Wuhan Coronavirus indicate that 170 people have now died of the disease, with almost 8,000 acknowledged cases. Russia has announced that it will limit its rail traffic with China, and British Airways has cancelled all flights to and from China until at least March. The UK is arranging the repatriation of its citizens from quarantined areas in China, and will keep them quarantined for two weeks after their return. There are now reported cases of the coronavirus in the Middle East.

In other news, thirteen German police officers were injured by Antifa activists during a riot in the city of Leipzig.

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Migrants Rush the Border at Röszke

Röszke is a town on the border between Hungary and Serbia. In the Great Migration Crisis of 2015, a large mob of migrants attacked the border crossing there (previous reports about Röszke: September 2015, August 2016, November 2016).

Early yesterday morning a mob of dozens of migrants rushed the border at Röszke and tried to break through into Hungary. Guards fired warning shots, and most of the crowd ran back into Serbia.

The following Hungarian news report describes what happened. It includes surveillance video of the incident and an account of the events as they unfolded. Many thanks to CrossWare for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Below is the raw surveillance footage of the attack on the border at Röszke, with annotations by Vlad:

Transcript of video #1:

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Coronavirus 2019-nCoV versus the Bacterium Yersinia Pestis

The Wuhan Coronavirus has been dominating the news for the last week or so. Seneca III sends this comparison between the new pandemic and the Black Death, which ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages.

Coronavirus 2019-nCoV versus the Bacterium Yersinia Pestis

by Seneca III

It is alleged that the original genome of this particular Coronavirus was stolen by a Chinese researcher at a biolab in Canada that was working to find a cure for the four other variants of this strain, the last one being SARS. She has since been dismissed and deported. SARS, first reported in China in 2002, spread to 27 countries, infecting around 8,000 people and killing 700.

Wuhan is the centre of Chinese biowarfare research. Latest reports show that the Corona 2019-nCoV did not originate in the fish market but migrated there from prior cases and has nothing to do with bat soup. Could we be facing an escaped bioengineered pathogen causing a global pandemic on a scale proportional fatality-wise to the Black Death?

And, in view if the continuing spread of this plague, it is worth asking why, during the course of the Black Death pandemic in the 14th century, did three places escape its worst depredations?

Without any doubt whatsoever Poland was far less afflicted than the rest of Europe. Whilst Poland’s relative isolation was a contributing factor, King Casimir, by closing the Polish borders and putting the country into quarantine both externally and then again internally, created a second line of defence, thus severely limiting the incursions of this virulent pathogen.

”During Kazimierz’s reign, the Black Death, a pandemic infection, swept across Europe, killing millions. But Poland established quarantines at its borders, and the plague skirted Poland almost entirely.”

— Zuchora-Walske, Christine, Poland, North Mankato: ABDO Publishing, 2013.

Also, in Poland, outside of the cities, centres of population were sparsely scattered and rural. The inhabitants were prone to a wariness of ‘strangers’ who might be disease vectors, and the fact that it took a long time for travelers to reach these semi-isolated communities often exceeded the short incubation period of the disease in humans.

(And thus, why the long incubation period of Corona 2019-nCoV is of concern to us today; the next ten to twenty days will tell us if the progress of the contagion has become or could become exponential.)

Milan and Venice also sustained low mortality rates (said to be 15% or less) relative to the rest of Europe by employing similar practices to those in Poland. Both the Milanese and the Venetians, because of their extensive trade links and greater proximity to the Asian epicentre, had advance warning of the plague. In Milan in particular, infected households were isolated and rigorously quarantined, and, as Milan was a walled city, the burghers simply locked the gates and used armed force to deny entry to the city. Food and trade goods were brought to the gates, left outside for the Milanese to collect without contact with the traders, and then they in turn left payment for the traders to collect once the townsfolk had retreated back inside.

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Ghetto Sweden

Jimmie Åkesson, the leader of the Sweden Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna), caused outrage when he appeared on state TV and declared that all of Sweden was a no-go zone.

Many thanks to FouseSquawk for translating this article from Fria Tider:

Åkesson: “All of Sweden Is a Ghetto”

January 28, 2020

There are not only “vulnerable areas” in certain places in Sweden. The whole country is such an area, says Sweden Democrat (SD) leader Jimmie Åkesson on SVT [Swedish Television] Aktuellt on Tuesday evening.

On Tuesday evening, Justice and Migration Minister Morgon Johansson (S) and Sweden Democrat party leader Jimmy Åkesson (SD) met in a debate on SVT Aktuellt 21.

The topic was so-called “quota refugees”.

Johansson wants Sweden to continue filling the country with thousands of people from the Third World. Sweden accepts about 5,000 quota refugees every year, mostly from Africa and the Middle East.

Åkesson held the opposite view.

“Sweden is full,” he explained.

Morgon Johansson believes that Jimmie Åkesson lacks empathy because he doesn’t want quota refugees. We are talking about the “most vulnerable” people imaginable, he [Johansson] argued. The minister went so far as to suggest that the SD leader is racist and really doesn’t want people in the country who don’t look like typical Swedes.

“Don’t talk to me about compassion. You chose to prioritize 9,000 adult Afghan men without asylum. Year after year, you prioritize people who should not be here. Where is the compassion for the elderly people who cannot access the welfare they are entitled to? Where is the compassion for all those who cannot get the care they need? People are dying in health care queues today in Sweden, and you want even more to come here and share the welfare? There isn’t any room for that,” answered Åkesson.

Johansson made a weak effort at a comeback and repeatedly appeared anxious and unsure. He trembled as he spoke.

“My opinion is that all of Sweden is a vulnerable area today,” the SD leader maintained.

That statement made Annika Strandhäll (S) go through the roof. Sweden is the best country in the world. That is a fact, she believes.

“Åkesson stands there in Aktuellt and says that all of Sweden is a vulnerable area today. He should get a counter-question. Thus, Sweden is the land that has the highest reputation in the world. When will the ‘black-painting’ SD and right-wing movements subject themselves to factual examination,” Strandhäll writes on Twitter.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/28/2020

The officially acknowledged death toll in China from the Wuhan Coronavirus has risen to 132. Meanwhile, the first diagnosed case of the disease has been identified in Vancouver, British Columbia. Instances of the disease have also been reported in Germany and France.

In other news, gunshots from rapid-fire Kalashnikovs have been heard in the French city of Nimes.

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Alma Zadic Consorts With Salafists in Graz

Last week Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff wrote about Alma Zadic, the new Austrian Minister of Justice. Ms. Zadic is a Bosnian Muslima and a politician for the Green Party who describes herself as a dedicated feminist. However, her visit last fall to a Bosnian Salafist mosque in Graz has caused some recent controversy, because the ideology espoused at the mosque could hardly be said to be supportive of the rights of women as they are understood in Austria or anywhere else in the West.

The following video presentation was recorded by a man named Irfan Peci. Mr. Peci was born in Serbia, and in the early 1990s, when he was still very small, his family moved to Germany to escape the Balkan wars. As a young man he was recruited by the local Al Qaeda affiliate in Germany, and worked for their propaganda organization. He was eventually arrested and imprisoned by the German authorities. While he was still in prison he was de-radicalized, and when he left prison became an undercover agent within Al Qaeda for the German government. After he was exposed, he wrote a book about his experiences and started producing videos.

Mr. Peci understands Bosnian, and knows the Salafist scene in Bosnia, so he was able to expose the Salafist connections with the mosque that Ms. Zadic visited. The fact that she also understands Bosnian highlights the disingenuousness of any assertions that she didn’t know what was going on in the Ihlas Mosque and Islamic Cultural Center in Graz.

Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/27/2020

The number of deaths from the Wuhan Coronavirus officially acknowledged by the Chinese government has surpassed 100. The Philippines has ordered 500 Chinese citizens deported to prevent the spread of the disease. Meanwhile, Mongolia has closed its border with China. And the Centers for Disease Control is monitoring 110 potential cases of the coronavirus in the USA.

In other news, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that Facebook is conspiring to re-elect President Trump.

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