Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/17/2020

More than a thousand illegal migrants crossed the English Channel into the UK in the space of just ten days. Nigel Farage, the leader of the Brexit Party, described the migration crisis as a “national humiliation”.

In other news, rioting and gun violence continued in Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Memphis, New York, and other major cities across the USA.

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The Unmasked Children’s Crusade

The following video from Germany shows a demonstration of little kids against the mandatory wearing of masks. It’s not clear which official agency is the target of their protest.

Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling. The translator includes this note:

There’s a s***storm brewing about the masks in school. There are doctors that are willing to write exemptions. Parents are getting organized.

Somewhat on the same topic, here’s a mask-related meme I made:

I’m not entirely satisfied with it, because it’s so small. But it’s hard to find a boxcar photo where faces are shown clearly, and that includes at least one Nazi guard.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/16/2020

The United Nations refugee agency advised Britain not to interdict the flow of migrants coming across the English Channel, saying that the flow is small and manageable. Meanwhile, asylum applications in the EU tripled in a single month, despite the coronavirus.

In other news, in the latest wave of gun violence in New York City, 49 people were shot over the space of 72 hours.

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The Multifaceted Multiculture of the Dutch Utopia

Below three articles translated by FouseSquawk about recent events in the Modern Multicultural Dutch Utopia.

The first two articles concern last week’s rioting. According to local sources, the rioters in the Hague and Utrecht are Moroccans.

From De Telegraaf, a report on Friday night in Utrecht:

Riots in Kanaleneiland [neighborhood], youths throw fireworks bombs

Utrecht — Riots broke out Friday evening in the Kanaleneiland neighborhood in Utrecht. In social media, including Snapchat, you can see how a bus stop was destroyed. Fireworks bombs were also thrown, and cars and scooters drove through the streets honking their horns.

Around midnight police blocked the area, and a mobile unit began sweeping the streets. It is unknown whether arrests were made. Around 1am, by use of a loudspeaker, police announced an emergency order was in force and that anyone still on the streets would be arrested.

“Surpass the Hague”

A resident of Kanaleneiland could see the rioting youth from her living room. “On Thursday, I saw a call on Snapchat in which they said they wanted to surpass the Hague. Well, it worked. The Hague has been surpassed. I didn’t know it would be so violent.”

According to her, the riots began around 8:30pm. “I am in shock over how many people there were. Every 15 minutes, you hear firework bombs. How can that be when the police are present?” The police won’t say more than there is unrest in Kanaleneiland. “There are many youths on the street; there is unrest and vandalism.” As to how many youths there are, a spokesperson cannot say.

It was further reported that a car was set on fire. “There was a car fire, which was put out by the fire brigade.”

Earlier in the day there was a call to riot in Kanaleneiland. “There was a report going around on social media that there was a call to riot tonight at the Rijnbaan. We don’t know how true that is and if it will happen. Yet we are calling on our youth to maintain the peace! Talk to them and above all, do not forget that we must protect our Kanaleneiland neighborhood,” the Kanaleneiland Information Center announced Friday afternoon on Facebook.

The second article is from the Belgian outlet Sceptr.net, but concerns events in the Netherlands:

Large-scale rioting in Schilderswijk [The Hague]

[Photo caption: A group of 100-150 youths gathered on the Parallelweg. They threw rocks and eggs. The unrest began Tuesday with the opening of fire hydrants.]

Wednesday evening a large group of immigrant youths caused a lot of damage in the Schilderswijk area of the Hague. At least 100 people came out onto the street, opened fire hydrants, lit fires, and caused a lot of damage to cars and street construction. When the police arrived to bring the situation under control, they were pelted with eggs and stones.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/15/2020

Rioting and looting continued in Chicago, forcing the mayor to order the downtown to be closed overnight. A police car was stolen by rioters and crashed into a parked car.

Meanwhile, gangs of masked Antifa rioters rampaged unchecked through Seattle, breaking windows and spray-painting graffiti.

In other news, in the English city of Birmingham, a 17-year-old girl was arrested for deliberately driving her car at pedestrians.

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Avoiding World War III in the Caucasus

David Boyajian sends this report on the latest instance of Azerbaijani aggression towards Armenia.


Map of the Caucasus and Central Asia (Wikimedia Commons)

Avoiding World War III in the Caucasus

by David Boyajian
August 13, 2020

“The Caucasus is Ground Zero in the New Cold War between the U.S. and Russia.”

I wrote that several years ago, and it’s still true, particularly after Christian Armenia decisively repulsed a mid-July attack by Muslim Azerbaijan.

Perhaps dozens of Azeris died in the battles, including a major-general, colonel, and two majors. Armenia reported far fewer deaths and captured a new defensive position, even though Azerbaijan possesses a bigger arsenal, quadruple the GDP, and more than triple Armenia’s population.

Azerbaijan attacked Armenia’s northeastern border and has done so before. Typically, though, Azerbaijan attacks Artsakh (Karabagh), the de facto-independent Armenian-majority region that voted some thirty years ago for freedom from Azerbaijan, which rejects that vote.

Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin deceitfully annexed Artsakh and the ancient Armenian region of Nakhichevan to Azerbaijan in the 1920s. Far from being ancient itself, Azerbaijan was invented only in 1918.

Why should any of this matter to the rest of the world?

Why It Matters

  • Major gas and oil pipelines originate in Azerbaijan. They cross Georgia and NATO member Turkey with fuel bound for Europe and elsewhere. Georgia and Azerbaijan are thereby linked to the West. These pipelines are at risk as they pass only about 12 to 30 miles from the July fighting and from Artsakh.
  • The Caucasus is the US/NATO/EU’s doorway (via Turkey) into the energy-rich Caspian Sea Basin and then into Russia’s vulnerable Turkic-Muslim underbelly in Central Asia. Russia regards this as an existential threat.
  • Armenia enjoys excellent relations with the US/NATO/EU. But for security reasons it aligns itself with the nearest major Christian power: Russia. In sympathy with its Turkic Azerbaijani ally, Turkey has closed its border with Armenia since 1994. Armenia, therefore, has become the geopolitical pivot point for whoever wishes to dominate the Caucasus.
  • Turkey has long threatened Armenia, and has placed itself squarely on Azerbaijan’s side in the recent conflict. That may produce a Turkish confrontation with Russia, in addition to those in Syria and Libya.
  • Azerbaijan is threatening to bomb Armenia’s Metsamor nuclear power plant. This would spread deadly radiation to Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Turkey, and elsewhere.

Armenian-Western relations go back thousands of years. The US/NATO/EU (we’ll term it the “Western Bloc”) has been very friendly to Armenia and Artsakh and aided them economically for decades.

Landlocked Armenia, however, depends on Russia for most of its gas and weapons. Moscow also controls much of Armenia’s energy network.

Armenia (population 3 million), nevertheless, remains under threat from Azerbaijan (population 10 million) and Turkey (population 82 million) since the USSR’s dissolution in 1991.

Armenia under Siege

Turkey committed genocide against Armenians in 1915-23. The Armenian Highlands and everything else Armenian, particularly in what are now eastern and southern Turkey, were destroyed or confiscated. Azeris joined in that genocide in the Caucasus.

The Armenian Genocide isn’t mere history. The threat of Genocide 2.0 always looms.

Turkey and Azerbaijan (motto: “two countries, one nation”) won’t come to terms with Armenia’s existence. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev says all of Armenia should be part of Azerbaijan — without Armenians, of course.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/14/2020

This year’s 9/11 commemoration in New York City has been cancelled due to concerns over the Wuhan Coronavirus. Meanwhile, according to The New York Times, more than 40% of coronavirus deaths in the USA have occurred in nursing homes.

In other coronanews, New Zealand’s health czar announced that all those who test positive for COVID-19, plus their families, will be interned in “quarantine facilities”.

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A Sick Old Man Called CDA

H. Numan is back with an update on the Christian Democrat Party in the Netherlands, plus the latest multicultural Dutch news.

A sick old man called CDA

by H. Numan

A few days ago I wrote about the election of Pipo the Clown Hugo de Jonge as the newly-elected leader of the CDA (Dutch Christian Democrat party*). I explained a bit that his election wasn’t the smartest move and why. Well, it’s going to get worse. A lot worse. At this moment the CDA is a very sick old man. With very fancy shoes, I have to grant him that. Unfortunately, he’s standing in a pool with hungry sharks.

On the 17th of March 2021 we will have elections. Dutch elections are rather complicated, because we have so many parties*. More parties than a month has days, to be exact. So a coalition government must be formed. We have 150 seats in parliament, which requires a minimum of 76 seats for a workable cabinet. The biggest electoral victory ever was in 1977 by the socialists (PvdA), who took 53 seats. Even with that huge victory they couldn’t form a cabinet. They thought they could demand the moon. Reality hit them very hard when enough other parties teamed up together to scrape the required 76 seat majority. Which they did. The PvdA spent the next decade in the opposition.

This Mr. de Jonge is as ambitious as he is incompetent. There was a debate in parliament in which he had to defend himself against Geert Wilders, the leader of the PVV*. He didn’t defend himself at all. He just sat quietly at the back, waiting for Mark Rutte to do the saving. Geert Wilders was at his best. And de Jonge? Not so much. He sat quietly in the corner like a naughty schoolboy waiting for the trashing to be over. Even poor old Joe Biden would have done better…

His poor performance means that the sharks have smelled blood. Now everybody is out to get a piece of the corpse. Not by attacking de Jonge directly. There’s really no need for it. His faith is far worse. He is ignored. Wilders mentioned him, sure enough. But only because he is the minister of health, and as such responsible for the CCP virus debacle. Wilders didn’t attack him, but his ministry and the cabinet. So will all the others. The CDA will probably lose massively. So much so that it’s not at all unlikely they will have to merge with the CU (Christian Union*, communist Calvinist Christians) to survive.

How did this come to be? That’s because of the CDA mastodons. There is a huge difference — just like in your Democrat party — between what the party elite wants and what the voters want. The party elite is staunchly against Wilders and pro-political correctness. The voters are exactly the other way around. Perhaps not really in favor of the PVV; otherwise they would have voted for it. But definitely not against a coalition with the PVV. Unlike the party elite, who would rather shut the party down than work with Wilders. Even Rutte has no real problem with the PVV. Provided of course that he remains in power. But the CDA would rather dies than give in. Not a big problem, I think. That can be arranged.

The election of de Jonge was an internal election. Only card-carrying CDA members could vote. Most Dutch people are not members of any party. Of a population of 17 million, perhaps 40,000 people are members of the CDA party. The CDA is a big party; most parties have far fewer members. That meant that the election could easily be directed toward the desired result. Someone who really hates Wilders, not the other candidate (Pieter Omtzigt), who is more open for a compromise.

That opens a new track for the elections. Left and right are looking for the corpse that is the CDA. The party elite wants to turn left. The electorate does not. They have to decide now where to go. Some will turn left. But I think most will have no other option than go conservative. Do mind that I say: conservative, not right. If you read the party programs of really right-wing parties, you might think you were reading the same nonsense of really left-wing parties. There is very little difference between the extreme left and right. (Also in America.) In Dutch politics the conservative parties almost all moved to the left, which created a gap. That gap is filled by the PVV and to a lesser extend the Forum for Democracy (FvD). The CDA is polling at around 16 seats right now. They’ll be lucky to keep 10 of them.

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Knife Jihad at the Duomo in Milan

On Wednesday a man with a knife entered the cathedral (Duomo) in Milan and took a policeman hostage. There was a tense standoff with police for fifteen minutes before the officer was rescued unharmed.

The man with the knife evidently gave his name as “Christiano”. However, according to official information released later by Italian authorities, the hostage-taker is an Egyptian named Mahmoud Mohamed Zin Elaabdin Elhosary. That gives the incident a Mohammed Coefficient of 200%, which is very unusual.

The video below, which seems to be from a police bodycam, shows a large part of the standoff. Many thanks to FouseSquawk for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

For more on the incident, see this article from ANSA.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/13/2020

Former Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti warned that last week’s catastrophic explosion in Lebanon may cause a new wave of mass migration into Europe. Meanwhile, off the island of Rhodes, a Greek coast guard vessel fired warning shots at a boat full of migrants, prompting it to return to the Turkish coast.

In other news, a man who belonged to a “Pointing Guns at Penis” Facebook group shot himself in the penis.

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COVID-19: Spreading Irrational Fear, and Using People as Lab Rats for a Vaccine

The doctors in the two videos below talk about alarming aspects about the way governments are dealing with the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic.

In the first video, the French doctor Jean-François Toussaint discusses the fact that measures taken against the coronavirus are increasingly divorced from any scientific rationale.

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

The second video features a German MD, Dr. Weber, talking about the upcoming vaccinations against COVID-19, which will use genetically-engineered material, and will be mandatory in some countries (apparently including Germany).

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

Video transcript #1:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 8/12/2020

Shots were fired at an Air Force helicopter flying over Northern Virginia, wounding one crew member. The helicopter, which was assigned to President Trump’s support detail, also sustained damage. The wounded crew member was treated in a hospital and then released.

In other news, the mayor of Calais said that Britain’s possible deployment of the Royal Navy to prevent further migration across the English Channel constituted a declaration of “maritime war”.

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A Child-Raping Afghan Recidivist in Dortmund

Many thanks to FouseSquawk for translating this article from Bild:

After the first act, he was freed — Sex offender allegedly raped two girls (11, 13)

[Photo caption: The police arrested the suspect (23) a few hours after the second rape. Now he is back in custody.]

by Frank Schneider and Dirk Decker
July 28, 2020

It can hardly be believed: The man (23), who is alleged to have raped a 13-year-old in Dortmund on Friday, apparently struck a month before!

On June 20, the Afghan allegedly raped an 11-year-old. “It was a similar incident,” confirmed prosecutor Börge Klepping about the earlier incident, when answering a question from BILD. To protect the now 12-year-old victim he did not want to give details.

Shortly after the crime, the man was arrested, but after only twelve days, on July 3, he was released from custody under reporting requirements. Reason: No risk of flight.

The prosecutor: “He had previously been named in a drug offense, but not in connection with sex crimes. He had a fixed residence, and so there was no flight risk.”

On Friday it is alleged that the Afghan, who has a temporary resident permit, lured a 13-year-old into a hallway and raped her. Because the girl gave a good description, her tormentor was arrested Saturday night.

Prosecutor Klepping: “He is in custody for serious sexual abuse (rape).”