Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/25/2020

A pastor in Chincoteague, Virginia has filed a federal lawsuit against Governor Ralph “Coonman” Northam after the former received a citation for holding a Palm Sunday service in his church for sixteen socially-distanced parishioners. Meanwhile, more than a thousand Wisconsin citizens demonstrated at the state capitol against the coronavirus lockdown.

In other news, there are unconfirmed reports that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is either dead or in a vegetative state after a severe cardiac incident.

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Thanks to AF, DH, Insubria, JD, LS, Reader from Chicago, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Financial Crisis
» Fitch Cuts Poland’s 2020 Growth Forecasts
» Poland’s Unemployment at 5.4 Percent in March — Stats Office
 
USA
» America: Responses to Tyranny
» Coronavirus Isn’t the Only Chinese Infiltration Menacing the U.S.: College Campuses Are the Target.
» Flynn Attorney Seeks Immediate Dismissal, Saying New Evidence Shows Trump Adviser Was ‘Framed’
» Leftist Nonsense—like Shooting Fish in a Barrel
» Minneapolis: Muslim Call to Prayer Blasted Over Loudspeakers 5 Times a Day in U.S. First
» More Than a Thousand WI Residents Gather at State Capital to Protest Coronavirus Restrictions
» Poll: Young Americans Much Less Patriotic Than Two Decades Ago
» Trump Jr. Needles Hillary Clinton, Says She Used “Poison” On Jeffrey Epstein
» VA Pastor Sues Gov. Northam After Facing Fine, Jail Time for Holding 16-Person Palm Sunday Service
» Wisconsin Saw No Coronavirus Infection-Rate Spike After April 7 Election, Study Finds
 
Europe and the EU
» 8,500 French-Produced Respirators Allegedly Unfit for Treating Coronavirus Patients
» Barnier: UK ‘Cannot’ Refuse to Extend Transition if it Will Not Submit to EU Brexit Demands
» Britain Launches COVID-19 Vaccine Study
» EU Kowtows to China, Revises Coronavirus Disinfo Report After CCP Pressure
» Germany: Populist AfD Calls for Aid for Local Breweries and Inns
» Ireland: Middle Eastern Man Charged With Murder of Student
» Italian Government to Deliver Free Masks to Nursing Homes
» Man Arrested for Selling and Delivering Molotov Cocktails During French Riots
» Online Mob ‘Names and Shames’ British Mother for Not Clapping for NHS
» Sweden: Syrian Taxi Driver Who Raped Female Customer Sentenced
» Sweden Shuts Down Its Last Remaining Confucius Institute
» UK: Sadiq Khan Blames Racism for Ethnic Minority Virus Deaths
 
North Africa
» Letter to Italian Ambassador, ‘Put Pressure to Free Zaky’
 
South Asia
» Two Minor Hindu Girls Abducted by Brother of a Politician in Pakistan, World Sindhi Congress Condemns the Abduction and Forced Conversion
 
Far East
» China Goes Gaga Over Pro-U.N. “One World” Program
» Coronavirus: China Continues to Flood the World With Defective Medical Supplies
» Coronavirus: China Rejects Call for Probe Into Origins of Disease
» Kim Jong Un in “Vegetative State” After Heart Surgery, Japanese Media Reports
 
Australia — Pacific
» Cases of Flu Plummet to Just Six a Day Thanks to Social Distancing Measures Compared to Six Hundred a Day This Time Last Year
» Human Rights Activist Drew Pavlou Smeared by Chinese Propaganda as “Anti-China Rioter”
 
Immigration
» Czech Republic Sends €157,000 in Aid to Greece to Battle Virus Outbreak in Migrant Camps
» Greece: Chios Residents Seek Half a Million Euros in Damages for Illegal Acts Committed by Migrants
» Malta: Migrants Protest Quarantine at Detention Centre (Video)
» Slovenia: 55 Illegal Migrants Caught Despite Border Closings
» Trump Immigration Order Falls a Little Short of Expectations
» UK: Another Murder by a Somali Immigrant Leaves 7-Year-Old Girl Dead
» UK: Four Boats Carrying 35 Migrants Are Stopped in the Channel Meaning Record-Breaking 521 Have Arrived Since UK Went Into Lockdown
 
Culture Wars
» Diversity Officer Slams Trump for ‘Inflaming’ ‘Mostly Conservative White’ Lockdown Protesters
» Dutch Supreme Court Rules Doctors Can Euthanize Dementia Patients
» The Power of Political Myth — Part 1
 
General
» World Health Organization Discourages Idea of ‘Immunity Passports’
 

Fitch Cuts Poland’s 2020 Growth Forecasts

Poland’s economic growth will decline to minus 1.7 percent in 2020, the ratings agency Fitch said in its latest forecast, cutting its previous growth estimate of minus 0.6 percent.

In 2021, the Polish economy is expected to rebound, with a likely surge of GDP growth to 4.3 percent. Previously, Fitch put the 2021 growth at 3.8 percent.

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

Poland’s Unemployment at 5.4 Percent in March — Stats Office

Poland’s unemployment fell to 5.4 percent in March 2020 from 5.5 percent in February, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) said on Friday.

According to GUS, the number of unemployed people registered at labour offices in March amounted to 909,900, down from 919,900 a month earlier.

Analysts polled by PAP also expected the country’s unemployment to go up to 5.6 percent in March.

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

America: Responses to Tyranny

The United States needs to stop playing the chump.

For generations America has fattened up the very nations that would seek to destroy us.

Prior to Tokyo’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Americans bought Japanese goods, helping pay for the bombs and torpedoes that would sink the American fleet at anchor on December 7th, 1941. Japan’s sneak attack would be paid back with two nuclear strikes on Japanese cities four years later.

Our addiction to Middle East oil helped fund the terrorists who would hijack airliners, turning them into flying missiles on the morning of September 11th. Our nation’s smart use of fracking to access enormous reserves of oil hidden under our own feet finally broke that stranglehold.

Despite these hard won lessons, over the last twenty years America has handed China hundreds of billions of dollars every year to buy cheap goods, watched American firms ship their jobs and factories to China, and provided the Chinese with the means to create technology that threatens to eclipse our future. In the meantime, the money we sent there is allowing the Chinese to grow their nuclear arsenal and strengthen their military. In return, China has shipped us Covid-19.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Coronavirus Isn’t the Only Chinese Infiltration Menacing the U.S.: College Campuses Are the Target.

Why do some American universities continue to support the Chinese Communist Party?

Right now the nation and globe are battling against a deadly viral pandemic that originated in China. Long before this war started, however, another was underway in America: the Chinese government’s infiltration of American college campuses.

More than 100 Confucius Institutes have been opened at American universities since the program’s founding in 2004. These academic centers are funded by the Chinese Ministry of Education to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, in exchange for a platform on American campuses to trumpet Communist propaganda under the guise of goodwill academic exchanges.

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

Flynn Attorney Seeks Immediate Dismissal, Saying New Evidence Shows Trump Adviser Was ‘Framed’

Attorneys for retired Gen. Michael Flynn asked a judge Friday to dismiss his criminal conviction immediately, saying new evidence belatedly turned over by federal prosecutors proves the former national security adviser to President Trump was framed in the Russia investigation.

“This afternoon, the government produced to Mr. Flynn stunning Brady evidence that proves Mr. Flynn’s allegations of having been deliberately set up and framed by corrupt agents at the top of the FBI,” Flynn’s attorneys said in an eight page filing

Brady evidence is pretrial information that could exonerate a defendant.

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

Leftist Nonsense—like Shooting Fish in a Barrel

After the 2016 presidential election of President Donald J. Trump, I stopped counting the numbers of Republicans and Conservatives who told me how unpleasantly life had changed for them.

Through eight years of President George W. Bush—even through the Reagan years, they said—they could still speak to their friends and relatives and agree to disagree about political issues.

But the reaction to the Trump presidency, they told me, was so extreme, the hysteria so sustained, the venom so poisonous, the rationality so nonexistent, that they can’t even go to a happy affair like a birthday party or wedding or dinner at a restaurant without World War III breaking out. Why did the thug groups of the Left—like Antifa, Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall St.—step up their violence and downright anarchy in their anti-Trump protests?…

Because of the existential threat candidate and now President Trump posed to their hundred-year ambition to destroy the America they loathe—the America that embraces free markets and capitalism, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights,free speech, the right to bear arms, et al.

To the horror of all those socialist/communist-admiring Progressives, the empire-builder Donald Trump turned out to be a rock-ribbed believer in everything they detest:

  • American Exceptionalism.
  • The urgent importance of a strong military.
  • The simple sanity of closed borders.
  • Deep respect for the working-class people who built and run not only his buildings but America: electricians, plumbers, masons, elevator operators, on and on and on.
  • The destructive nature of high taxes.
  • The strangulating effect of strangulating regulations.
  • The clinical insanity of selling out to China, Iran and other countries.
  • The consummate fakery of the media and most polling companies.

Yes, the Progressives had just about succeeded in actualizing their destroy-America goal—eight years of Barack Obama and his socialized medicine (Obamacare), socialized education (Common Core), eviscerating our military, and funding terrorist states like Iran. All they needed was eight more years of Hillary.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Minneapolis: Muslim Call to Prayer Blasted Over Loudspeakers 5 Times a Day in U.S. First

The Muslim call to prayer, known as the adhan, will echo from loudspeakers through parts of Minneapolis five times per day for the entirety of Ramadan in what is believed the be the first time the Islamic call has been publicly broadcast in a major U.S. city.

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

More Than a Thousand WI Residents Gather at State Capital to Protest Coronavirus Restrictions

More than a thousand Wisconsin residents gathered at the state capital Friday to protest Gov. Tony Evers’ restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Approximately 1,500 protesters stood shoulder to shoulder cheering “USA” and “open up” while carrying signs that said “All Workers Are Essential” and “Death… is preferable to communism.”

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

Poll: Young Americans Much Less Patriotic Than Two Decades Ago

A recent poll shows that the number of young Americans who consider themselves to be “patriotic” has substantially decreased over the last 18 years.

The numbers may look good at first: Sixty-three percent of those between ages 18-29 say they’re “very patriotic” or “somewhat patriotic”; in 2002, however, that figure was 89 percent according to NewBostonPost.

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

Trump Jr. Needles Hillary Clinton, Says She Used “Poison” On Jeffrey Epstein

Donald Trump Jr. poked at Hillary Clinton on Saturday, responding to a tweet she sent about the president by saying that she used poison to kill Jeffrey Epstein.

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

VA Pastor Sues Gov. Northam After Facing Fine, Jail Time for Holding 16-Person Palm Sunday Service

Pastor Kevin Wilson and Lighthouse Fellowship Church of Chincoteague, Virginia filed a federal lawsuit Friday against Governor Ralph Northam for violating their religious freedom after Wilson was served a summons for holding a service for 16 people on Palm Sunday, spaced far apart, in a sanctuary that is rated for 293 people.

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

Wisconsin Saw No Coronavirus Infection-Rate Spike After April 7 Election, Study Finds

A feared spike in Wisconsin’s coronavirus infection rate following its April 7 in-person presidential primary never materialized, although some new cases of the virus were possibly linked to the election, according to a report.

A team of doctors from Wisconsin and Florida plus a mathematician in Alabama examined data from the post-election period of April 12-21, meaning five to 14 days after election, when new cases of the virus from April 7 likely would have become apparent, the Wisconsin State Journal of Madison reported Friday.

Prior to the election, Wisconsin’s coronavirus infection rate was about one-third of the rate for the entire U.S. and dropped even lower compared to the U.S. after the election, the study said, according to the newspaper.

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

8,500 French-Produced Respirators Allegedly Unfit for Treating Coronavirus Patients

A least 8,500 respirators produced by a partnership of French companies out of a total of 10,000 are allegedly unfit to treat serious cases of the Chinese coronavirus.

The respirators were produced by a partnership of French corporations and were offered to the government at cost in order to increase the supply of respirators for coronavirus patients.

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

Barnier: UK ‘Cannot’ Refuse to Extend Transition if it Will Not Submit to EU Brexit Demands

The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator says the British government “cannot” refuse to extend the Brexit-in-name-only “transition” period if it will not submit to the bloc’s demands in the current negotiations.

Michel Barnier, a former French foreign minister, has expressed his irritation that the United Kingdom, which formally left the EU in January but remains subject to its law, its judges, and its Free Movement migration regime while the 2020 “transition period” negotiations are conducted, is — for now — refusing to extend it.

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

Britain Launches COVID-19 Vaccine Study

Testing of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine began in healthy volunteers in Britain Thursday, the latest in a cluster of early-stage studies in search of protection against the coronavirus.

University of Oxford researchers gave injections to volunteers in a study that eventually aims to include hundreds in hopes of telling not only if the vaccine is safe but if it works.

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

EU Kowtows to China, Revises Coronavirus Disinfo Report After CCP Pressure

The European Union rewrote and softened a report that detailed the coronavirus disinformation campaign carried out by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) after receiving pressure from apparatchiks in Beijing.

The initial version of the report from the European External Action Service (EEAS) pointed to Chinese propaganda, such as blaming the United States for spreading the Wuhan virus, accusing France of responding too slowly to the pandemic, and claims that French officials had used racial slurs about the director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom — claims denied by France.

“China has continued to run a global disinformation campaign to deflect blame for the outbreak of the pandemic and improve its international image,” the initial report stated, according to the New York Times.

Before the report was released, however, officials from the communist-run country began pressuring the European Union — and the bloc ultimately bowed to the pressure, removing any reference to the “global disinformation campaign” carried out by China as well as the diplomatic spat between the CCP and France.

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

Germany: Populist AfD Calls for Aid for Local Breweries and Inns

Germany’s Right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is calling for the government to provide aid to the country’s local breweries and inns, many of which are threatened with disaster because of the ongoing lockdown in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown.

Germany, which has a long brewing tradition, is home to many breweries, some of which have been in existence for centuries. And although there had been a boom in small breweries in recent years due to the explosive popularity of craft beers around the world, the sudden shock of a long-term lockdown is now threatening their very existence, as previously reported by Voice of Europe. Pubs and restaurants have all been closed, public events where beer is served have been cancelled, and exports have decreased as a result of border closings.

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

Ireland: Middle Eastern Man Charged With Murder of Student

An Irish court on Thursday charged a Middle Eastern man with the murder of Eoin Boylan, an Irishman who grew up in the town of Ennis.

Nassar Ahmed, aged 39, is said to have only replied ‘okay’ after the Ennis District Court formally charged him with murder of 32-year-old student in Ennis on April 14th, the Irish Times reports.

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

Italian Government to Deliver Free Masks to Nursing Homes

ROME (AP) — Italy will start distributing free protective masks to nursing homes, many of which have been devastated by coronavirus infections and deaths.

Domenico Arcuri, the government’s commissioner for the pandemic, says doing so is a “gesture of solidarity and nearness and support to these places ever more at the epicentre of this great crisis.”

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

Man Arrested for Selling and Delivering Molotov Cocktails During French Riots

A 26-year-old man has been arrested by police in France for selling and delivering pre-made Molotov cocktails to rioters in the Haut-de-Seine department.

The suspect was arrested alongside two other alleged accomplices and is said to have driven around the area, which has been plagued by riots every evening since Sunday, selling beer bottles filled with petrol and cloth wicks to rioters in the commune of Gennevilliers.

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

Online Mob ‘Names and Shames’ British Mother for Not Clapping for NHS

A social media mob descended upon a British mother, “naming and shaming” her for missing the weekly “clap for carers” event meant to show solidarity with National Health Service (NHS) workers during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

The woman said that she fell asleep after having a “rough night” with her young son, forcing her to miss the clapping campaign. She said that her neighbours instantly turned on her, posting her name on a community Facebook group in order to shame her for not clapping.

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

Sweden: Syrian Taxi Driver Who Raped Female Customer Sentenced

A Swedish court has sentenced a Syrian national who worked for the Estonian taxi company Bolt to two years in prison for raping one of his female customers.

The incident, which took place during the early morning hours of November 9th, 2019 after the victim had ordered a taxi via the app Bolt, began when the Syrian taxi driver pulled over in a Stockholm parking lot, overpowered the victim in back seat of the car, pulled her clothes off, and violated her, Swedish news portal Fria Tider reports.

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

Sweden Shuts Down Its Last Remaining Confucius Institute

Sweden shut down its last remaining Chinese state-funded teaching programme — known as Confucius Institutes — this week as tensions between the two nations increase.

Sweden is believed to be the first European nation to have closed all of its Confucius Institutes, a move viewed as a sign of the strained relationship between the two countries, according to a report by The Times.

The report added that the two nations have had a falling out over the arrest of Gui Minhai, a Swedish citizen who had published books that offended the Chinese Communist Party and that, since then, China has cancelled trade missions to Sweden as its ambassador to Stockholm has warned that Beijing said, “For our enemies, we have a shotgun.”

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

UK: Sadiq Khan Blames Racism for Ethnic Minority Virus Deaths

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has condemned what he called ‘structural racism’ for causing a large chunk of the deaths in Britain from the coronavirus from the BAME community.

In a piece he wrote for The Guardian, he argued that the suggestion that the crisis was a ‘great leveller’ is a ‘complete myth’, on the grounds that the virus is infecting BAME people disproportionality’.

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

Letter to Italian Ambassador, ‘Put Pressure to Free Zaky’

Appeal by Amnesty International, university and city of Bologna

(ANSAmed) — BOLOGNA, APRIL 22 — Amnesty International, the University of Bologna, and the City of Bologna wrote a letter to the Italian ambassador in Cairo, Giampaolo Cantini, calling on him to put pressure on the Egyptian government so that “Patrick Zaky is released for health reasons”, ANSA has learned.

Zaky is an Egyptian student at the University of Bologna and was arrested on February 7 in Egypt.

In the letter, the organisations ask the ambassador to put pressure on the Egyptian government so that Zaky “is released as soon as possible or given at least the possibility to complete his pre-trial custody at home”.

The organisations said they were pushed to write the letter asking the ambassador to intervene “on the one hand by the trickle of convened and postponed hearings in the past five weeks, in a country where, among other things, judicial activity is more or less stopped due to the coronavirus pandemic” and “above all by the circumstance that Patrick Zaky is asthmatic, therefore at risk of infection more than others, and finds himself in an environment — an Egyptian prison — where the virus can spread more than in other places”.

In the letter to Ambassador Catini, the organisations highlighted how other countries in northern Africa have taken initiatives to relieve crowding in detention centres, and that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called on the Egyptian government at the start of April to implement a measure of this type.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Two Minor Hindu Girls Abducted by Brother of a Politician in Pakistan, World Sindhi Congress Condemns the Abduction and Forced Conversion

In yet another incident of abduction and forced conversion of girls belonging to the minority community in Pakistan, two Hindu girls, Suthi and Shama were forcibly abducted from Chundiko town of Sindh.

It has been alleged that two minor Hindu girls have been abducted by the brother of an influential local politician in Sindh province, and the family of the girls have alleged that they are facing constant threats. In a video, the victims’ family said that their minor daughters Suthi and Shama were forcibly abducted by the brother of Pir Faisal Shah Jeelani, a member of the National Assembly.

A family member said that Hindu minorities continue to face persecution in Sindh and they fear that girls will be converted to Islam.

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

China Goes Gaga Over Pro-U.N. “One World” Program

In cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.N. agency that paved the way for the coronavirus global pandemic, a group calling itself Global Citizen sponsored a bizarre “international broadcast”on Saturday in collaboration with a singer named Lady Gaga that featured “the world’s leading musicians, comedians and humanitarians.” This was a classic case of misdirection away from the main source of the problem — the United Nations, which backed Communist China’s brutal forced abortion policies before its World Health Organization repeated Chinese propaganda about the coronavirus not being transmissible between people.

“It was the biggest celebrity gathering so far during the pandemic,” gushed Mike Allen of Axios.

While there were some inspiring performances, such as the rendition of the song “The Prayer,” the association of the broadcast with the U.N.’s World Health Organization tainted the entire extravaganza.

As corpses accumulate in the modern-day killing fields, the WHO stands accused of covering-up for the Chinese communist handlers of this virus, who allowed it to escape, on purpose or by accident.

As Mick Jagger and other performers sang their songs, the reality was that millions are getting sick or dying because of this global institution’s criminal negligence in the case of coronavirus. It is another dark chapter in the history of an organization whose co-founder, State Department official Alger Hiss, was a Soviet spy, while a U.N. Secretary General, Kurt Waldheim, was exposed as a Nazi war criminal, Today, it functions mostly as a front for China, whose founder, Mao Zedong, is the greatest mass murderer in human history…

It is obvious that the involvement of Gates and other personalities in the Global Citizen event is the first shot in the international effort to stop President Trump from holding the World Health Organization responsible for letting the China virus get out of control. The broadcast is also more evidence, if more was needed, that the United Nations is at the center of a planned “New World Order” of population control and reduction.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Coronavirus: China Continues to Flood the World With Defective Medical Supplies

Gatestone Institute recently reported that millions of pieces of medical equipment purchased from China by European governments to combat the coronavirus pandemic are defective and unusable.

Since that report, more than a dozen countries on four continents have disclosed problems with Chinese-made coronavirus tests and personal protective equipment. The problems range from test kits tainted with the coronavirus to medical garments contaminated with insects.

Chinese authorities have refused to take responsibility for the defective equipment and in many instances have cast blame on the countries that purchased the material. They have also called on nations of the world to stop “politicizing” the problem — at the same time that Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Communist Party have sought to leverage the pandemic to assert a claim to global leadership.

Spain, the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis in Europe, has experienced the greatest number of problems with medical equipment purchased from China.

           — Hat tip: AF [Return to headlines]
 

Coronavirus: China Rejects Call for Probe Into Origins of Disease

China has rejected calls for an independent international investigation into the origin of the coronavirus.

A top diplomat in the UK, Chen Wen told the BBC the demands were politically motivated and would divert China’s attention from fighting the pandemic.

Information about the origin of Covid-19 and how it initially spread could help countries tackle the disease.

The virus is thought to have emerged at a wildlife market in the city of Wuhan late last year.

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

Kim Jong Un in “Vegetative State” After Heart Surgery, Japanese Media Reports

Japanese media is claiming that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is in a “vegetative state” after undergoing heart surgery earlier this month.

Japan’s Shukan Gendai reports, citing a member of Kim’s medical team, that Kim collapsed in April and required a heart stent procedure following the incident.

The outlet claims that “the surgeon was not used to dealing with patients with obesity and was too nervous during the operation, resulting in a delay which left Kim Jong Un in a ‘vegetative state.’“

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

Cases of Flu Plummet to Just Six a Day Thanks to Social Distancing Measures Compared to Six Hundred a Day This Time Last Year

Cases of influenza, measles and chickenpox have fallen dramatically in Australia as a result of strict social distancing measures.

           — Hat tip: SS [Return to headlines]
 

Human Rights Activist Drew Pavlou Smeared by Chinese Propaganda as “Anti-China Rioter”

Australian university student Drew Pavlou announced on Twitter that he has gained the attention of none other than the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) media outlet, the Global Times.

Pavlou, who has recently been threatened by action all the way up to expulsion by his university in the Australian state of Queensland, for his activism against alleged corruption at this educational institution, and its ties with China and its influence, seems to be equal parts happy and concerned about the development.

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

Czech Republic Sends €157,000 in Aid to Greece to Battle Virus Outbreak in Migrant Camps

On Thursday, the Czech government approved material aid worth 4.3 million korunas (€157,000) to help Greece fight the coronavirus epidemic among migrants after the Greek government requested aid.

The aid will be transported to Greece by the Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic. The supply contains mainly hygienic items, toilet paper, soaps, shampoos, blankets, and sleeping bags. Two trucks with supplies are expected to arrive on Sunday.

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

Greece: Chios Residents Seek Half a Million Euros in Damages for Illegal Acts Committed by Migrants

Residents living on the Greek island of Chios are seeking nearly a half a million euros in damages for illegal acts committed by migrants and asylum seekers.

Immigrants and asylum seekers have reportedly pillaged large areas which surround the Vial migrant housing facility. Over 206 claims have been made by residents of the island who are seeking compensation for theft and damage, Greek newspaper Proto Thema reports.

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

Malta: Migrants Protest Quarantine at Detention Centre (Video)

Migrants housed at the Hal Far reception centre in southern Malta have been loudly protesting being quarantined in the facility.

The situation at Hal Far became quite tense last week when migrants began objecting to being confined as a coronavirus (COVID-19) quarantine measure. Police and detachments of the Maltese armed forces were brought in to keep the situation under control, according to a report by Malta’s One News.

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

Slovenia: 55 Illegal Migrants Caught Despite Border Closings

Within the last 24 hours, Slovenian police have arrested 55 migrants who were illegally crossing their border, in spite of emergency border closings across the Balkans.

The migrants were caught and detained by the Ljubljana Police Department, according to a report by Slovene Nova24. Police officials said that the migrants came from Algeria, India, Pakistan, and Morocco.

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

Trump Immigration Order Falls a Little Short of Expectations

On the night of April 20th, President Trump tweeted that “In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!”

By “Invisible Enemy” the President means the COVID-19 Coronavirus. The point is, with all the Americans not working as a result of the Coronavirus Crisis, we shouldn’t bring more people into the country. And that makes perfect sense to me…

There are people high in our government, however, that don’t want a suspension of immigration, and this was discussed at the highest level.

Tucker Carlson explained it thusly on a recent broadcast: “Apparently key White House aides were afraid of angering corporate leaders, for example Apple CEO Tim Cook. Someone actually said that. What would Tim Cook think?”

It shouldn’t matter what Tim Cook, or any other big tech mogul, thinks about it.

By the time the order was signed on April 22nd, it really didn’t do much.

According to an analysis of the order on the excellent Numbers USA website, “…the actual order does nothing to pause the hundreds of thousands of nonimmigrant visas issued each year and only delays the granting of a limited number of green cards.” (See here).

As Numbers USA reports, the executive order “has no impact on nonimmigrant visas that are issued each year, including H-1B high-skilled guest workers, H-2A agricultural guest workers, H-2B low-skilled, non-agricultural guest workers, cultural exchange students who often come to the United States to work seasonal jobs, and employment authorization for foreign students graduating from U.S. colleges and universities, otherwise known as the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program.”

Amazing that in a pandemic and mass unemployment, you wouldn’t suspend the entrance of more guest workers.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Another Murder by a Somali Immigrant Leaves 7-Year-Old Girl Dead

A Somali immigrant stabbed a seven-year-old British girl to death on March 22, 2020.

The girl, Emily Jones Bolton, was riding her scooter past a park bench when a 30-year-old woman stabbed her in the neck. All of this brutal incident took place in front of the girl’s father.

Emergency services were summoned to the park around 2.30 pm and the child was taken to the Salford Royal Hospital. The child succumbed to her wounds despite the “best efforts” of doctors…

           — Hat tip: LS [Return to headlines]
 

UK: Four Boats Carrying 35 Migrants Are Stopped in the Channel Meaning Record-Breaking 521 Have Arrived Since UK Went Into Lockdown

At least 35 more migrants have successfully crossed the English Channel in four inflatable boats today — bringing the total number arriving since Britain went into lockdown to 521.

The first boat, carrying 14 men and a woman from Iran, Kuwait and Iraq, was found off the Kent coast at 3.40am. By 6.35am another rigid-hulled inflatable boat (Rhib) arrived at Dover.

Some 13 men, who said they were Iraqi and Iranian, were detained. Two hours later, at 8am, seven men from the same two countries were stopped.

A fourth boat was also being dealt with by the Border Force on Saturday evening.

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Diversity Officer Slams Trump for ‘Inflaming’ ‘Mostly Conservative White’ Lockdown Protesters

Andrews University Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion Michael Nixon says “conservative America” and “white America” are “hell-bent” on creating a “narrative of oppression” as they protest state and local governments nationwide in favor of reopening the U.S. economy amid the coronavirus pandemic.

During a podcast appearance, Nixon said in response to the protesters, “I just do not understand the desire in mostly White America-particularly conservative America-to create this…narrative of oppression, bro. It’s like they’re hell-bent on it. They have to equalize themselves into this oppression narrative.”

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Dutch Supreme Court Rules Doctors Can Euthanize Dementia Patients

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 22, 2020 / 01:30 pm MT (CNA).— The Supreme Court of the Netherlands ruled on Tuesday, April 21, that it is lawful for doctors to euthanize patients with severe dementia, provided that the patient had expressed a desire to be euthanized while still legally capable of doing so.

Lower courts had previously ruled that a doctor had not acted improperly when he euthanized a 74-year-old woman with advanced dementia, even though the woman had to be repeatedly sedated and physically restrained during the procedure. The case was sent to the Supreme Court for further clarification of the country’s euthanasia law, which permits doctors to kill patients considered to be in “unbearable suffering.”

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The Power of Political Myth — Part 1

As I struggle to know the Leftist enemy a la Sun Tzu ‘s The Art of War , alongside Musashi’s The Book of Five Rings , and Clausewitz ‘s On War , anticipating(not enthusiastically) that things are heading towards The.223 Solution and a hot civil war, headed like a freight train on full throttle because they really do want us dead; The Left Hates You. Act Accordingly. (italics in original, my thought added in [], bolding also added):

The first step is to end the denial. Open your eyes. See what is happening. Don’t allow yourself to be deluded by false nostalgia for a past period of cultural peace that existed only because, at that time, the Left was winning. They hate you. Look at Twitter. Look at Facebook. [Look at LinkedIn and what people post under their own names.] Try and tell yourself that leftists are just nice people who disagree with you on a few policy details. Stop fooling yourself.

Understand that this must get much worse before it can get better. We may wish to stop the cultural/political struggle, but they can’t stop. Their religion tells them we are greedy, racist, sexist, homophobe morons who hate science and love Hitler. How could they tolerate us? How could they ever allow us power?

I want to understand what they think. How they think. Why they think what they think, for it is clear this we’re in a cold civil war and that this painting of everyone to the Right of Stalin as evil has been going on for a long time; The Scarlet “R” : (bolding in original):

“Don’t befooled. this has not been an accidental strategy. It has a clear purpose. The purpose is not criticism of Conservatives nor a discussion of the issues; the purpose is to paint Conservatives as the ultimate evil. …If Conservatives are the ultimate evil, then shouldn’t people of goodwill do something to make sure that that evil is erased from the face from of the earth? … Their minds [are being] prepared to [… accept…] that by eliminating Conservatives, they [… will be] ridding it of a disease. So, if you think about it and history , the greatest atrocities have been preceded by the preparation of people’s minds. This is what we’re seeing today. This is the nature of this war.”

Don’t forget their *cough cough* patron saint, Saul Alinsky, who said this (bolding added):…

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World Health Organization Discourages Idea of ‘Immunity Passports’

BERLIN (AP) — The World Health Organization is cautioning against the idea of “immunity passports.” It says there is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from Covid-19 and have antibodies are protected against a second infection.

The concept of “immunity passports” or “risk-free certificates” has been floated as a way of allowing people protected against reinfection to return to work.

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4 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/25/2020

  1. The British did not listen to Enoch Powell and now they have what they
    deserve.
    The last time i saw England was in 2004 and it was nothing that i knew when i was there as a postgraduate student in 1970.
    What a pity!

    As for the BAME community? Do they know how to keep themselves clean?
    Like here with the illegals and the gypsies?

  2. Thanks as always for your reporting on the Chi Com Flu virus.

    Here in NY we have yet another example of how political correctness kills people.

    So much so that our wonderful Gov. Cuomo is apparently responsible for the deaths of over 3400 innocent seniors who had the misfortune to be trapped and locked down in nursing homes that became breeding grounds for the CC flu.

    Despite the fact that our elderly and infirm patients are known to be the MOST vulnerable, Cuomo ORDERED that they be infected by forcing the nursing homes to admit patients who were known to actively sick with the virus. This was in fact a DEATH SENTENCE and as far we know the order is still in effect.

    Can anyone say “mass murderer?”

    https://nypost.com/2020/04/25/new-york-lacked-common-sense-in-nursing-homes-coronavirus-approach/?fbclid=IwAR1dYcN1dZEDE7mZ5-R9t37wHkLLFAB4EcObEpv3zXNj_z-nw_nHQ3sTD1Y

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