Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/20/2020

A woman suspected of sending an envelope addressed to President Trump that contained ricin was arrested by the US border patrol at the crossing from Canada in Buffalo, NY. Canadian authorities believe the poisoned letter originated in Canada, but it is not yet clear whether the arrested woman is a Canadian citizen.

In other news, in remarks made in Philadelphia, former Vice President Joe Biden said that 200 million people would die of COVID-19 by the time he finished his speech, and it would all be President Trump’s fault.

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Thanks to C. Cantoni, JD, Reader from Chicago, SS, Vlad Tepes, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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USA
» “Protesters” In Philadelphia Chase Down and Assault Random Citizens for Being “Nazis”
» “This is Ludicrous” — Newt Gingrich Slams ‘The Soros Cover Up’
» “You Think I’m Afraid of You?” — DC Gay Man Confronts the Violent Antifa-BLM Mob After They Trespass His Yard and Assault His Friend (Video)
» 12 Steps to Create Your Own Pandemic
» 36 Shot, 5 Fatally Across Chicago So Far This Weekend
» Baltimore Teacher Fired When Anti-Trump Facebook Post Went Viral
» Biden: Trump Hasn’t Condemned “White Supremacists … All Those Militia Guys”
» Biden Says 200 Million People Will Die From COVID by the End of His Speech (Video)
» Black Lives Matter Activist Wearing ‘Justice for Breonna Taylor’ Shirt Walked Into a Louisville Bar and Murdered Three People
» Breaking: Suspect in Custody for Sending Ricin Poison to President Trump
» California Judge Strikes Down Trump’s WeChat Ban Over First Amendment Concerns
» Cruz: “We Risk a Constitutional Crisis” If SCOTUS Seat Not Filled Before Election
» DARPA-Funded Implantable Biochip to Detect COVID-19 Could Hit Markets by 2021
» Facebook Faces Privacy Lawsuit, Alleging Instagram Was Accessing Phone Cameras When Not in Use
» Furious Democrats Surround Mitch McConnell’s Home, Post Address Online Following RBG’s Death
» GOP Senators Introduce Bill to Make Attacking Law Enforcement Officers a Federal Crime
» Gov. Cuomo Planning Statue of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Brooklyn
» Harris Faulkner Issues Awkward Statement About Gingrich-Soros Fiasco
» Horrific Video: Screaming Grandmother Manhandled by 8 Cops, Cuffed and Hauled Off for Not Wearing Mask at Anti-Lockdown Protest in Public Park
» Jake Gardner, Whose Defense GoFundMe Was Shut Down, Found Dead by Apparent Suicide After Manslaughter Charges
» Leftists on Twitter Threaten Violence and Destruction if GOP Attempts SCOTUS Confirmation
» Lindsey Graham: I Will Support “Any Effort to Move Forward” on Filling SCOTUS Seat
» NYU Suspends Party-Going Student Over COVID Rules, Even Though He’s Learning Online, Never Goes on Campus
» Popular Children’s App Allegedly Requests Minor to Take Naked Pictures
» Portland Neighbors Frustrated After Police Take 90 Minutes Responding to Hostage Situation Involving 12-Year-Old
» Professor Who Told Students She Hopes ‘Trump Supporters Catch COVID, ‘ ‘Die Before the Election’ Now Suspended
» Screaming Black Lives Matter Militants Surround Outdoor Diners in San Diego — Young Mother Clutches Her Baby in Fear (Video)
» Secret Service Intercepts Package Addressed to President Trump Containing Deadly Ricin
» Trump to Send $13 Billion in Aid to Puerto Rico for Hurricane Recovery
» Video: Spirit Airlines Flight Attendant Threatens Passenger With Arrest Over ‘Patriotic’ Mask
» Video: Far Left DC Marxist Group Caught on Video Training Supporters on How to Kick in Lindsey Graham’s Door — Protest Planned for Monday Am
» ‘Virtual School’ Dangers: The Hazards of a Police State Education During COVID-19
» Woman Suspected of Mailing Ricin to White House Arrested at U.S.-Canada Border
 
Canada
» BC Repeat Offender Charged With Assault of Two Children After Prison Release
» City-Wide Spike in Violent Crime: Vancouver Police Department
 
Europe and the EU
» ‘British FBI’ Arrests Another Two Men Connected to Alleged Grooming Gang Abuse
» Greek Police Investigation Into Suspicious Fires Near Turkish Border
» Italian Police Arrest 11 Members of Pakistani ‘AK-47 Gang’ In Connection With Two Violent Attacks
» Spain: COVID-19: Hundreds Protest Against Localised Madrid Lockdowns
» Third of UK COVID Victims in July and August ‘Died From Other Causes’ — Including Cancer or Being Hit by a Car — Oxford University Scientists Reveal
» UK to Penalise Schools Which Don’t Teach Children LGBT Lessons
» UK: Anti-Lockdown Protests Demand Cities Reconsider Resuming Coronavirus Restrictions
» UK: Boris Brings in £10,000 Quarantine Fines as Khan Demands Lockdown
» ‘White Privilege’? Working-Class White Kids Most Disadvantaged in UK Schools as System Prioritises Minorities
 
Middle East
» New Report Says 5,000 Turkish-Backed Syrian Rebels Deployed to Libya
 
Russia
» March of 100,000 Marks Seventh Week of Belarus Protests
 
South Asia
» “The Scene Was Horrific”: Persecution of Christians, August 2020
» Thai Protesters Challenge Monarchy as Huge Protests Escalate
 
Far East
» Dr. Francis Boyle, The Man Who First Exposed COVID-19 as Lab-Made, Drops New Bombshells
» Taiwan: The Threat That the World Ignores
 
Australia — Pacific
» ‘1984 on Steroids’: Daniel Andrews is Slammed as He Prepares to Give Police Even More Powers and Refuses to Lift Lockdown — While Protecting ‘Super-Spreader’ Families
» Encrypted Messages, ‘Scouts’ In the City and Rogue Police Officers: Inside the ‘Biggest Ever’ Anti-Lockdown Rally Set to Take Place in Melbourne
» Spider-Like Venom Found in Australian Stinging Trees
 
Immigration
» ‘Boomerang’ Migrants Given Asylum in UK Despite Being Deported Previously
» EU to Push for Radical Changes to Existing Migration Rules for All Nations
» Majority of Germans Fear Taking Migrants From Greece Will Trigger New Migrant Wave
» Moroccans Make Up Nearly a Quarter of All Juvenile Inmates in Spain
» Over 100 Migrants Jump Overboard From NGO Vessel to Reach Italy
» Revealed: The Countries Dominating Australia’s Migrant Intake — as New Arrivals Drop to the Lowest Number in 15 Years Due to Coronavirus
 
Culture Wars
» Australia: Andy Murray Joins Call to Strip Margaret Court’s Name From Arena Over Her Views on Transgender Athletes, LGBT Rights
» Netflix’s “Cuties”: It’s Not the First Attempt by Hollywood to Normalize Pedophilia
» Solar Panels Generate Mountains of Waste
 

“Protesters” In Philadelphia Chase Down and Assault Random Citizens for Being “Nazis”

Just when we thought we had seen peak boredom from America’s misinformed Marxists disguised as some kind of anti-fascist freedom fighters, three new videos out of Philadelphia have surfaced showing that now, more than ever, there’s too many art students and unemployed millennials that need to find hobbies.

The first video shows a group of several people chasing a man through a park.

“Holy shit you made a bad mistake,” one ‘protester’ says before another, cloaked in a hood of what appears to be a $500 REI jacket, tries to kick the man they’re chasing and then falls over.

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

“This is Ludicrous” — Newt Gingrich Slams ‘The Soros Cover Up’

Americans can’t let Twitter noise overwhelm political reality…

I have been watching a truly curious phenomenon over the past few days.

It seems there is suddenly a movement in media to silence anyone who speaks out against George Soros — and, specifically, his funding of radical prosecutors seeking to change the criminal justice system by simply ignoring certain crimes.

This happened to me personally this week while I was being interviewed on Fox’s Outnumbered. When I brought up Soros’s plan to get pro-criminal, anti-police prosecutors elected across the country, two of the show’s participants interrupted me and forcefully asserted that Soros was not involved.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

“You Think I’m Afraid of You?” — DC Gay Man Confronts the Violent Antifa-BLM Mob After They Trespass His Yard and Assault His Friend (Video)

On Saturday night the violent and threatening Black Lives Matter-Antifa mob marched into a gay area of Washington DC.

The mob immediately began intimidating and harassing gays including a man with a puppy.

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

12 Steps to Create Your Own Pandemic

12 Steps to Create Your Own Pandemic (Or How to Turn a Harmless Virus into Boundless Profits for You and Your Friends)

Imagine that you had the resources and influence sufficient to create a global pandemic, what would you need to do? How would you get started? And how best to turn it to your advantage and boost your profits?

We have the answers right here.

A simple 12 step plan.

1. Find some vague criteria for what constitutes the symptoms that you want people to look for. Anything subjective that a lot of people can identify with is ideal. Let us take memory problems and/or confusion + a few common ones from the Covid list. Tiredness, aches and pains are common and subjective enough. (For covid19 the symptoms are: fever, dry cough, tiredness. Less common symptoms: aches and pains, sore throat, diarrhoea, loss of taste or smell, a rash, or discolouration of fingers or toes)

It would be a good idea to take something that is very common in old people so that we can use death from old age as proof of the lethality of the new virus.

2. Then we would need something biological to test. Any RNA sequence would do, as long as it is not present in the whole population. If it were, someone might claim herd immunity very quickly. Actually it could be an RNA sequence that does not really exist in humans but something that could exist as contamination in labs, e.g. in dust or water.

That would be enough for a RT qPCR test to pick up as a false positive. Many RT PCRs have false positive rates of 3-5 % and that would be plenty to create a scare. (When it comes to Covid, the false positive rate is impossible to know for sure, since we don’t have a gold standard to check against, but for many other similar tests, the average false positive rate is over 3%. And different labs are testing for different sequences.

We can count on over-stressed labs to be more prone to contamination than labs taking part in research knowing they will be checked for accuracy, the ones that gave over 3% false positives. Maybe the error rate for the average stressed lab is as high as 8%. BMJ counts 5% as a reasonable estimate. With 8% we would have all positive tests in the US explained by false positives)

3. Then we are all set to go. We just have to claim that we have discovered a new cluster of symptoms and that is related to a new RNA sequence. It starts with memory loss, and confusion. In other words this is a neurotoxic virus, and it leads to death in all the ways old people can die, by strokes, heart attacks, pneumonia, kidney failure, sepsis, organ failure, dehydration.

It doesnt matter if the patient was close to deaths door anyway, because of existing problems. We can always claim that without our new virus, they would not have died. Who could counter that?( just like Covid; People die from all kinds of disorders that they already had before the got the Covid test).

4. By some miracle we have already discovered exactly the virus that is responsible among the millions of different viruses that exist in any cubic centimeter of air. So we already have a RT PCR test read to go. This makes us look like very competent researchers. Of course we have bought stock in the major testing labs ahead of time.

We’ve bought stocks in the biggest vaccine manufacturers also of course. That will be the biggest money maker finally, hopefully for years since it will be difficult to get antibodies to something that doesn’t really exist.

[Comment: Recommended reading.]

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

36 Shot, 5 Fatally Across Chicago So Far This Weekend

Five people have been killed and 31 others, including a 16-year-old boy, have been injured by gunfire across Chicago so far this weekend.

Last weekend saw 54 people shot throughout the city, 12 of them fatally.

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

Baltimore Teacher Fired When Anti-Trump Facebook Post Went Viral

A history teacher at John Carroll in Baltimore was fired when a two-year-old photo showing her waving the middle finger at a Trump-Pence campaign banner resurfaced online.

The school administration, which also changed its social media policy, claimed the photo was not the reason for the termination — yet, few are convinced.

Najia Stallworth, who has been teaching since 1996, was fired from the Bel Air Catholic School that hired her in the summer. She claims the photo showing her waving the gesture at a Trump-Pence bumper sticker was taken by her husband two years ago after a concert they had attended.

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

Biden: Trump Hasn’t Condemned “White Supremacists … All Those Militia Guys”

Joe Biden said President Trump “has yet to condemn … the far-right and the white supremacists” at CNN’s town hall Thursday night.

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

Biden Says 200 Million People Will Die From COVID by the End of His Speech (Video)

Biden emerged from his Delaware basement on Sunday and delivered remarks on Covid from Philadelphia.

The 77-year-old claimed that 200 million people will die from Covid by the time he finishes his speech.

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

Black Lives Matter Activist Wearing ‘Justice for Breonna Taylor’ Shirt Walked Into a Louisville Bar and Murdered Three People

A black male walked into a Louisville bar owned by a retired police officer and shot three random people at point blank range on Friday night — while wearing a Justice for Breonna Taylor shirt.

The suspect was smiling from ear to ear as he was arrested for the shooting at Bungalow Joe’s Bar and Grill.

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

Breaking: Suspect in Custody for Sending Ricin Poison to President Trump

A female suspect was arrested by Customs and Border Patrol Agents trying to enter the United States from Canada.

The New York Times reported on Saturday that authorities were seeking an unidentified Canadian woman suspect.

The letter addressed to President Trump was intercepted Saturday by federal agents.

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

California Judge Strikes Down Trump’s WeChat Ban Over First Amendment Concerns

In what has become a sideshow to the TikTok drama consuming the business press, President Trump gave his “blessing” to the proposed deal to spin off TikTok’s global business into a US-based company, averting a Sunday night deadline that would have forced Apple and Google to remove the app from their app stores, an American judge has blocked Trump’s attempt to force WeChat from the US market.

US Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler, a judge based in — where else? — San Francisco, argued that the ban raised serious questions related to the constitution’s first amendment, guaranteeing free speech in the US. The Trump Administration, meanwhile, alleges that the app threatens American national security by creating a conduit for Beijing to siphon up the private data of American citizens.

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

Cruz: “We Risk a Constitutional Crisis” If SCOTUS Seat Not Filled Before Election

Senator Ted Cruz said that President Trump should “nominate a successor to the court” and that “it is critical the Senate takes up and confirmed the successor before Election Day.”

Cruz’s remarks came Friday night, hours after news broke that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died, thus leaving an empty Supreme Court seat.

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

DARPA-Funded Implantable Biochip to Detect COVID-19 Could Hit Markets by 2021

Microchipping and tracking the population was always part of the New World Order agenda.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Facebook Faces Privacy Lawsuit, Alleging Instagram Was Accessing Phone Cameras When Not in Use

Facebook is again facing a lawsuit over invasion of privacy, this time for allegedly watching Instagram users through unauthorized access to smartphone cameras.

This lawsuit comes on the heels of accusations that the social media company used facial recognition to illegally collect biometric data on Instagram users.

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

Furious Democrats Surround Mitch McConnell’s Home, Post Address Online Following RBG’s Death

Left already vows to wage total war against Republican attempts to fill SCOTUS seat.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

GOP Senators Introduce Bill to Make Attacking Law Enforcement Officers a Federal Crime

Over a dozen Republican senators introduced a bill this week called the Protect and Serve Act which would make attacking a law enforcement officer a federal crime.

The bill proposes:

  • Making it a federal crime to knowingly cause, or attempt to cause, serious bodily injury to a law enforcement officer. Offenders are subject to imprisonment for up to 10 years.
  • An offender could receive a life sentence if a death results from the offense, or the offense includes kidnapping, attempted kidnapping, or attempted murder.

The law would apply to federal officers as well as state and local officers in cases where the federal government can establish jurisdiction.

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

Gov. Cuomo Planning Statue of Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Brooklyn

(NEW YORK POST) Ruth Bader Ginsburg will get a statue in her native Brooklyn where she was born and raised, Gov. Cuomo said Saturday.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Harris Faulkner Issues Awkward Statement About Gingrich-Soros Fiasco

The Fox News Channel’s Harris Faulkner issued a bizarre statement Thursday, one day after an unforgivable debacle involving former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.

On Wednesday, Gingrich appeared on Outnumbered and accurately tied the nearly four months of rioting to leftist billionaire George Soros, who, over the past few years, has gone into a number of states to financially back “progressive” prosecutors, the very people making all this rioting possible. Bottom line: these Soros-backed prosecutors are making the nonstop riots possible because they refuse to prosecute the rioters.-More…

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Horrific Video: Screaming Grandmother Manhandled by 8 Cops, Cuffed and Hauled Off for Not Wearing Mask at Anti-Lockdown Protest in Public Park

They’ll tell you it’s for the greater good.

But how can the elites defend this?

A screaming grandmother was surrounded by eight police officers, who take her purse and belongings, then wrestle with her to put on handcuffs.

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

Jake Gardner, Whose Defense GoFundMe Was Shut Down, Found Dead by Apparent Suicide After Manslaughter Charges

A Nebraska business owner who was charged for killing a man who vandalized his business during May riots has reportedly committed suicide.

38-year-old Jake Gardner, who had suffered two traumatic brain injuries after serving as a Marine in Iraq, was allegedly confronted by a mob at his Hive Bar in downtown Omaha. According to prosecutors, after being pinned to the ground, Gardner fired warning shots and then got involved in a scuffle with 22-year-old James Scurlock, in which Schurlock was shot dead.

Scurlock’s death was just five days after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which prompted an increase in racial tensions, protests, and riots across the country.

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

Leftists on Twitter Threaten Violence and Destruction if GOP Attempts SCOTUS Confirmation

Various Leftist Twitter users posted threats of violence and destruction if Republicans attempt to fill the vacant Supreme Court Justice seat, following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday.

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

Lindsey Graham: I Will Support “Any Effort to Move Forward” on Filling SCOTUS Seat

Senator Lindsey Graham said on Saturday he will “support President Trump in any effort to move forward regarding the recent vacancy created by the passing of Justice Ginsburg” after some speculation that he might not do so.

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

NYU Suspends Party-Going Student Over COVID Rules, Even Though He’s Learning Online, Never Goes on Campus

A student at NYU was suspended indefinitely for not complying with the school’s COVID guidelines. He’s one of many students who have been suspended, with their tuition fee not refunded, since universities decided to re-open.

However, the student is an online student, all of his classes are online, and he wasn’t going to put any students “in danger” as he lives off-campus and has no plans to ever need to step on campus.

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

Popular Children’s App Allegedly Requests Minor to Take Naked Pictures

A shocking claim, made by one parent in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, alleges a popular smartphone app designed for children asked a 5-year-old user to take naked pictures of themselves and siblings while in the bathroom and threatened to strangle the child if they didn’t comply, reported WBAL Baltimore.

Anne Arundel County police learned about the incident on Wednesday (Sept. 16), said the child had several apps “Talking Angela,” “Talking Angela 2”, Talking Tom 2”, and “Talking Ben 2” on their smartphone device. The complaint, filed by one of the parents, though the report did not specify which one (mother or father), called police after the incident. Police are now warning parents in the county, just outside Washington, D.C., to monitor their children’s online activity of apps and social media.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Portland Neighbors Frustrated After Police Take 90 Minutes Responding to Hostage Situation Involving 12-Year-Old

Residents of a Southeast Portland neighborhood are furious after police took 90 minutes to respond to a bizarre hostage situation last week, when a man ran into an apartment with a 12-year-old boy inside, grabbed a knife, and eventually fled after a standoff with the boy’s father. Neighbors chased the man down and cornered him, but he ran off again before police arrived.

“I was so scared,” said Henry Kirim, who was searching for a missing bank card in his car when the man ran inside. After Kirim went back inside, the man charged at him with a knife and a 20-pound dumbbell he found in the apartment.

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

Professor Who Told Students She Hopes ‘Trump Supporters Catch COVID, ‘ ‘Die Before the Election’ Now Suspended

Marshall University Assistant Professor Jennifer Mosher placed on administrative leave since her divisive remarks.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Screaming Black Lives Matter Militants Surround Outdoor Diners in San Diego — Young Mother Clutches Her Baby in Fear (Video)

Screaming Black Lives Matter militants on Saturday night terrorized families dining outdoors in San Diego, California.

The terrorists marched through Little Italy’s Piazza della Famiglia screaming “White silence is violence!”

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

Secret Service Intercepts Package Addressed to President Trump Containing Deadly Ricin

Another assassination attempt on president will likely be downplayed by mainstream media.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Trump to Send $13 Billion in Aid to Puerto Rico for Hurricane Recovery

President Trump approved an additional $13 billion in aid to Puerto Rico on Friday to assist its ongoing recovery from Hurricane Maria in 2017.

According to White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, $9.6 billion will go toward Puerto Rico’s Electrical Power Authority “to repair and replace thousands of miles” of damages. About $2 billion will go toward Puerto Rico’s Department of Education to “focus on restoring school buildings and educational facilities across the island.”

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

Video: Spirit Airlines Flight Attendant Threatens Passenger With Arrest Over ‘Patriotic’ Mask

‘It is not legal according to the CDC,’ he says.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Video: Far Left DC Marxist Group Caught on Video Training Supporters on How to Kick in Lindsey Graham’s Door — Protest Planned for Monday Am

The DC Sunrise Movement, a far left group pushing the consumption of foreign energy sources in America, is training agitators for a potential riot at Senator Lindsey Graham’s home on Monday morning.

The riot is planned for 6:00 AM on Monday morning.

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

‘Virtual School’ Dangers: The Hazards of a Police State Education During COVID-19

Apart from the technological logistics of ensuring that millions of students across the country have adequate computer and internet access, consider the Fourth Amendment ramifications of having students attend school online via video classes from the privacy of their homes.

Suddenly, you’ve got government officials (in this case, teachers or anyone at the school on the other end of that virtual connection) being allowed carte blanche visual access to the inside of one’s private home without a warrant.

Anything those school officials see-anything they hear-anything they photograph or record-during that virtual visit becomes fair game for scrutiny and investigation not just by school officials but by every interconnected government agency to which that information can be relayed: the police, social services, animal control, the Department of Homeland Security, you name it.

After all, this is the age of overcriminalization, when the federal criminal code is so vast that the average American unknowingly commits about three federal felonies per day, a U.S. Attorney can find a way to charge just about anyone with violating federal law.

It’s a train wreck just waiting to happen.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Woman Suspected of Mailing Ricin to White House Arrested at U.S.-Canada Border

RCMP says ‘initial information … suggests that the letter originated in Canada’

Three U.S. law enforcement officials say a woman suspected of sending an envelope containing the poison ricin, which was addressed to White House and President Donald Trump, has been arrested at the New York-Canada border.

The officials say the woman was taken into custody by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers and is expected to face federal charges. The officials were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Aaron Bowker of the CBP confirmed with CBC News that the arrest took place at the Peace Bridge in Buffalo and that the individual was travelling from Canada into the U.S.

The letter had been intercepted earlier this week before it reached the White House.

An RCMP spokesperson told CBC News on Saturday that it was assisting the FBI in the investigation and that “initial information from the investigation suggests that the letter originated in Canada.”

           — Hat tip: Vlad Tepes [Return to headlines]
 

BC Repeat Offender Charged With Assault of Two Children After Prison Release

A BC man was arrested after allegedly assaulting two children at a public park only two days after he was released from custody.

50-year-old Bryan James Lamb has been charged with two counts of assault after the incident which took place at an Okanagan community park in Kaleden, BC.

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

City-Wide Spike in Violent Crime: Vancouver Police Department

Another major Canadian city has been hit with a rising tide of violent crime during the coronavirus pandemic.

New figures released by the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) show a 5.2% increase in violent crime for the first half of 2020.

Over the same period, serious assaults saw a concerning spike in growth of 21.7% compared to 2019.

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

‘British FBI’ Arrests Another Two Men Connected to Alleged Grooming Gang Abuse

Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has made another two arrests connected to the abuse of nine girls in the grooming gang hotspot of Rotherham.

The NCA, roughly equivalent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States, executed the arrests of two 36-year-old men in South Yorkshire as part of Operation Stovewood, which is seeking to bring justice to victims of grooming gangs whose abuse was ignored by the authorities for many years.

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

Greek Police Investigation Into Suspicious Fires Near Turkish Border

Greece’s police and fire service have launched an investigation after at least 15 fires broke out in just 48 hours in the Evros border area with Turkey.

The investigation comes as a massive fire raged in the Evros region on Wednesday. At least 100 firefighters, two aeroplanes, and two helicopters were sent to Melia, in the north-east of the area, to help fight the blaze.

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

Italian Police Arrest 11 Members of Pakistani ‘AK-47 Gang’ In Connection With Two Violent Attacks

Police in Bologna, Italy, have executed search warrants and arrested 11 members of a Pakistani gang that police say are responsible for two violent episodes in the last year.

Police say the members of the self-declared “AK-47 gang” are young Pakistanis, including minors, who are accused of having planned and carried out at least two attacks, one of which featured the gang using knives and brass knuckles against three individuals, according to Italian news outlet il Giornale.

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

Spain: COVID-19: Hundreds Protest Against Localised Madrid Lockdowns

Hundreds of residents in some poorer areas of the Spanish capital Madrid have protested against what they call discrimination ahead of new lockdown measures to stem a rise in Covid-19.

The curbs on movement and gatherings start on Monday and affect 850,000 people, many in areas of lower income and with higher immigrant populations.

Protesters said they felt abandoned and called for better health provisions.

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

Third of UK COVID Victims in July and August ‘Died From Other Causes’ — Including Cancer or Being Hit by a Car — Oxford University Scientists Reveal

This means that 7.8 per cent (3,877) of those listed as Covid-19 deaths by the Government did not die due to the virus being the primary cause.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

UK to Penalise Schools Which Don’t Teach Children LGBT Lessons

Secondary schools which fail to teach pupils LGBT lessons will be penalised by inspectors, it has been revealed.

Ofsted, the British schools regulator, said that schools will no longer be able to secure a rating better than “requires improvement” if they neglect to inform pupils about LGBT lifestyles and about “all the protected characteristics”, the Daily Mail reports.

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

UK: Anti-Lockdown Protests Demand Cities Reconsider Resuming Coronavirus Restrictions

Protesters turned out in major cities worldwide this weekend to demonstrate frustrations over returning coronavirus lockdown measures, even as cases spike and the global death toll approaches 1 million.

More than a thousand people gathered in central London as Mayor Sadiq Khan and Prime Minister Boris Johnson consider whether to resume lockdown measures, according to Reuters.

Demonstrators carried banners saying “Covid is a hoax,” “My body, my choice: no to mandatory masks” and “This is now Tyranny.”

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

UK: Boris Brings in £10,000 Quarantine Fines as Khan Demands Lockdown

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a set of draconian coronavirus restrictions, including fines of up to £10,000 for breaching self-isolation, as the Mayor of London floated the idea of a second lockdown and curfews in the British capital.

Starting from September 28th, people in England will face quarantine fines of £1,000, which can rise to £10,000 for repeated breaches of the self-isolation mandates. Those found to have tested positive for the Chinese virus, as well as those who are deemed to be a close contact of someone else who tested positive, will be required to self-isolate.

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

‘White Privilege’? Working-Class White Kids Most Disadvantaged in UK Schools as System Prioritises Minorities

White working-class children have been systematically disadvantaged in the United Kingdom as educational institutions prioritise children from minority backgrounds, a report submitted to the House of Commons Education Select Committee found.

The research revealed that working-class white students are 50 per cent less likely than their minority counterparts to score strong passes in the eight General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) exams used by colleges and universities to determine an individual’s academic level.

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

New Report Says 5,000 Turkish-Backed Syrian Rebels Deployed to Libya

by Alex Kassidiaris

According to a Janes report from early September approximately 5,000 Turkish-backed Syrian mercenaries have been deployed to Libya to support the Government of National Accord (GNA).

The report quotes sources from the US Africa Command and the US Office of the Inspector General. The same sources reveal that dozens of military advisors of the Turkish company SADAT are also in Libya, training the Syrian fighters and monitoring the day-to-day operations of Turkish-affiliated militias.

Rumors around SADAT have started circulating shortly after the publication of the report, and some recent comments of the company’s President Adnan Tanriverdi for the Daily Telegraph did not provide any further clarity. We shall now have a brief look into the company that according to many commentators could be the Turkish counterpart to the Russian Wagner Group on the Libyan front.

Who is Adnan Tanriverdi?

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March of 100,000 Marks Seventh Week of Belarus Protests

KYIV, Ukraine — Tens of thousands of Belarusians calling for the country’s authoritarian president to resign marched through the capital Sunday as the country’s wave of protests entered its seventh week.

Hundreds of soldiers blocked off the center of Minsk, deploying water cannons and armored personnel carriers and erecting barbed wire barriers. Protests also took place in several other cities, including Brest and Grodno.

The crowd in Minsk included about 100,000 people, said Ales Bialiatski, head of the Viasna human rights organization. He said dozens of demonstrators were arrested in Minsk and Grodno.

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“The Scene Was Horrific”: Persecution of Christians, August 2020

Rape and Forced Conversions of Christians in Pakistan

In late August, Maira Shahbaz, a 14-year-old Christian girl, escaped from the home of Mohamad Nakash—her kidnapper, whom the Lahore High Court had recently ruled is her legitimate husband despite her objections—and fled to a police station, where she gave testimony, including on how she was being “forced into prostitution” and “filmed while by being raped,” with threats that the tape would be published unless she complies with the demands of her rapist/husband and friends. “They threatened to murder my whole family,” the girl said. “My life was at stake in the hands of the accused and Nakash repeatedly raped me forcefully.” In an interview, a friend of Maira’s family described how the family is in hiding and constantly on the run, adding:

“Maira is traumatized. She cannot speak. We want to take her to the doctor, but we are afraid we might be spotted. We are all very frightened, but we place our trust in God.”

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Thai Protesters Challenge Monarchy as Huge Protests Escalate

BANGKOK (Reuters) — Openly challenging the monarchy of Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn, thousands of protesters marched in Bangkok on Sunday to present demands that include a call for reforms to curb his powers.

Protesters have grown ever bolder during two months of demonstrations against Thailand’s palace and military-dominated establishment, breaking a longstanding taboo on criticising the monarchy — which is illegal under lese majeste laws.

The Royal Palace was not immediately available for comment. The king, who spends much of his time in Europe, is not in Thailand now.

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Dr. Francis Boyle, The Man Who First Exposed COVID-19 as Lab-Made, Drops New Bombshells

Coronavirus exposed as chimera concocted in Communist Chinese laboratory.

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Taiwan: The Threat That the World Ignores

China openly threatens Taiwan with invasion. The world assumes it will never follow through. Yet as Beijing flexes its muscles at home and abroad, is that being dangerously complacent?

Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu is ringing the alarm, hoping that the world will pay attention to the profound threat emanating from China.

“The threat is very real and therefore Taiwan’s preparation is also very serious,” he told DW. “We are trying to deal with the military threat, day in and day out.”

China’s aggressive military probing has been going on for years — an unending stress test for the democratic island it claims as its territory.

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‘1984 on Steroids’: Daniel Andrews is Slammed as He Prepares to Give Police Even More Powers and Refuses to Lift Lockdown — While Protecting ‘Super-Spreader’ Families

Daniel Andrews is being slammed for preparing to give police even more powers while refusing to lift lockdown, and defending a super-spreader family.

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Encrypted Messages, ‘Scouts’ In the City and Rogue Police Officers: Inside the ‘Biggest Ever’ Anti-Lockdown Rally Set to Take Place in Melbourne

Almost 700 demonstrators have organised to swarm the city’s CBD on Sunday for a mass rally against the Victorian government’s coronavirus restrictions.

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Spider-Like Venom Found in Australian Stinging Trees

(CNN) Australia is synonymous with venomous spiders and snakes — but scientists have discovered new toxins in what they label a “truly venomous” plant.

A team of researchers from the University of Queensland have discovered a previously unidentified neurotoxin that is similar to the venom found in spiders and cone snails.

Unlike its American and European counterparts, being stung by a dendrocnide tree — which means “stinging tree” — can cause pain that lasts for days — or even weeks.

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‘Boomerang’ Migrants Given Asylum in UK Despite Being Deported Previously

At least 50 “boomerang” migrants have been granted asylum in Britain, despite having been previously rejected as fraudulent and deported.

The number of known boomerang migrants is more than double the figure for 2018, when 19 migrants were given asylum after being removed and coming back again.

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EU to Push for Radical Changes to Existing Migration Rules for All Nations

The European Union is working to repeal the Dublin Regulation, which regulates asylum cases within the EU, and replace it with a system that will see migrants shared across Europe, suggested the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in a speech in the European Parliament on Wednesday.

“We will abolish the Dublin rules and replace them with a new European migration management system,” said von der Leyen.

The current Dublin Regulation stipulates that asylum seekers must have their application processed in the country where they first arrive, but that could soon change.

If the European Commission chooses to force migration quotas on member states, it is likely to face substantial pushback from countries opposed to illegal migration like Hungary and Poland, which recently joined five other European countries in a letter to the Commission voicing their opposition to migrant quotas.

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Majority of Germans Fear Taking Migrants From Greece Will Trigger New Migrant Wave

A majority of Germans have expressed concern that the German government taking in large numbers of migrants from Greece after the Moria migrant camp fire could trigger a new wave of migration.

The German government, under Chancellor Angela Merkel, pledged to take in 1,500 migrants following the Moria fire, seemingly started by migrant arsonists, that left around 13,000 of them homeless on the island of Lesbos.

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Moroccans Make Up Nearly a Quarter of All Juvenile Inmates in Spain

A study has revealed that around a quarter of those in juvenile detention in Spain come from Morocco and as many as three in ten illegal migrants have committed some sort of crime.

According to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) there are at least 5,500 supposedly underage Moroccans in Spain, the vast majority of whom live in the country’s North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla.

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Over 100 Migrants Jump Overboard From NGO Vessel to Reach Italy

Nearly half the migrants aboard a Spanish migrant transport NGO vessel stuck off the coast of Sicily by Italian authorities jumped overboard in a bid to reach Italian shores.

The Spanish NGO Open Arms has had it ship stuck off the Sicilian coast for several days near Palermo waiting for Italian authorities to grant their vessel port access to drop off the 275 migrants on board.

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Revealed: The Countries Dominating Australia’s Migrant Intake — as New Arrivals Drop to the Lowest Number in 15 Years Due to Coronavirus

People from India, China and the United Kingdom make up the bulk of Australia’s migrant intake, as the COVID-19 pandemic forces new arrivals to drop to the lowest number in 15 years.

The Australian Government processed 140,366 permanent arrivals last year, with Indians topping the list at 26,000 citizens, followed by 18,587 from China.

More than 10,600 UK citizens, 8,960 from the Philippines and 5,398 Vietnamese people were granted permanent visas.

Next on the list was 5,048 Nepalese citizens and 4,997 New Zealanders.

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Australia: Andy Murray Joins Call to Strip Margaret Court’s Name From Arena Over Her Views on Transgender Athletes, LGBT Rights

Three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray wants officials to consider renaming Melbourne’s Margaret Court Arena over the Australian tennis great’s views on transgender athletes and definition of LGBT rights as “of the devil.”

Murray’s comments join those from WTA founder Billie Jean King to remove Court’s name from one of the main stadiums at the Australian Open’s Melbourne Park venue amid criticism of her beliefs from other senior figures in the sport.

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Netflix’s “Cuties”: It’s Not the First Attempt by Hollywood to Normalize Pedophilia

Hollywood has proven itself over the years to be a haven for evil people. Not so much in terms of the celebrities (though many of them are narcissistic and sociopathic), but more in terms of the people that control the industry. The entire edifice was designed as a haven for subhuman tendencies. They have celebrated this openly in the past, though these days they pretend as if they are cleaning house.

The machine of Hollywood is a vampire’s trap, a shining beacon luring in talented (or at least hopeful and starstruck) people, draining them of all life and then spitting them out once the feeding has finished. This is particularly true of children, and the number of cases of child abuse in the industry is staggering. If it were any other business, the media would be up in arms in terms of the number of convictions and allegations. If the fast food industry had as many pedo charges as Hollywood, the MSM would be writing thousands of articles a year admonishing the burger barn molestation epidemic. But when it comes to Hollywood, mainstream journalists rabidly defend the people at the top and attack critics as “conspiracy theorists”.

The propensity for psychopaths to value children as their most sought after targets is well known. It’s not necessarily always sexual, sometimes it’s only physical or mental abuse. But, children are a delicacy to them none-the-less. What could be more enthralling to evil than to destroy the life of a purely innocent person and take their childhood away?

It is only in recent years that pedophilia in Hollywood has been taken more seriously by the general public. The Hollywood elites that dominate high level corporate positions have been the purveyors and controllers of America’s cultural expression for almost a century, and yet they are rarely subject to scrutiny. It is their own actions that have created the recent groundswell movement to root out organized child abuse…

I have now watched portions of this film, including dramatic story scenes to get a fair sense of the total content as well as come clips of the notorious scenes that have enraged the public. And, I can say WITHOUT A DOUBT, this film is in fact child pornagraphy according to the Department of Justice’s legal definition. A warning — I do NOT recommend watching this movie yourself, but if you do, be warned that the content is highly upsetting.

If you heard from the mainstream media that the reaction to this film was “overblown” and part of a “right wing conspiracy”; then I’m here to tell you that you were lied to.

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Solar Panels Generate Mountains of Waste

The problem of solar panel waste is now becoming evident. As environmental journalist Emily Folk admits in Renewable Energy Magazine, “when talking about renewable energy, the topic of waste does not often appear.” She attributes this to the supposed “pressures of climate change” and alleged “urgency to find alternative energy sources,” saying people may thus be hesitant to discuss “possible negative impacts of renewable energy.”

Ms. Folk admits that sustainability requires proper e-waste management. Yet she laments, “Solar presents a particular problem. There is growing evidence that broken panels release toxic pollutants … [and] increasing concern regarding what happens with these materials when they are no longer viable, especially since they are difficult to recycle.”

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14 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/20/2020

  1. Third of UK COVID Victims in July and August ‘Died From Other Causes’ — Including
    Cancer or Being Hit by a Car — Oxford University Scientists Reveal….UK to Penalise Schools Which Don’t Teach Children LGBT Lessons….UK: Anti-Lockdown Protests Demand Cities Reconsider Resuming Coronavirus Restrictions….UK: Boris Brings in £10,000 Quarantine Fines as Khan Demands Lockdown…‘White Privilege’? Working-Class White Kids Most Disadvantaged in UK Schools as System Prioritises Minorities…

    im starting to think Britain will be the first to collapse under all of this

    • Yes, and Australia isn’t much better. Why such hysteria, such blatantly excessive fear mongering? It’s starting to seem like governments there are itching to take on fascist powers. Add to that the glaringly obvious descent into lawlessness and chaos by Democratic Party officialdom in the US. It makes me wonder if the long Marxist march through the institutions in all 3 countries has succeeded beyond radicals’ wildest dreams.

  2. “Biden Says 200 Million People Will Die From COVID by the End of His Speech”

    Does this mean it takes only about 38 more speeches of Joe Biden to depopulate Earth? The mind boggles…

  3. Lyon: a man stabbed to death, 2 immigrants arrested
    Sebastien from Lyon

    https://www.leprogres.fr/faits-divers-justice/2020/09/20/un-jeune-de-20-ans-poignarde-a-mort-dans-le-metro-lyonnais

    https://twitter.com/Tancrede_Crptrs/status/1307614476670205953

    https://twitter.com/PoliceSynergie/status/1307748888317702147

    “The two responsible for the heinous murder will have to pay for their actions, actions that have nothing to do with their nationality or their status as asylum seekers, but simply because alcohol can drive you crazy.”

    “….According to the Synergie-Officier Police Union, which communicated on Twitter, the two murderers of a young Lyonnais in the metro at Stade de Gerland station in Lyon this Sunday, September 20, 2020 after midnight, would be of Tunisian nationality and Libyan.”

    https://actu.fr/auvergne-rhone-alpes/lyon_69123/lyon-meurtre-du-metro-les-deux-agresseurs-interpelles-alors-qu-ils-etaient-avec-des-prostituees_36241387.html

  4. Well it’s looking more and more like the more islamised and equalised we force the less capable we are. Nature will have to take over and just slash burn and root and boot until a sense of sanity starts to make its way back to the centre again. “Nature” meaning….I guess we will have to wait and see.

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