Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/23/2021

Hank Aaron, one of the all-time greats of Major League Baseball, has died at the age of 87, 18 days after he was vaccinated against COVID-19. Meanwhile, the legendary CNN host Larry King also died at the age of 87. There’s no word yet on whether Mr. King had been vaccinated against the Wuhan Coronavirus.

In other news, the French economy contracted by 4% in the fourth quarter of 2020, while the German economy contracted by 5% for the entire year.

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Thanks to JD, Max Denken, Reader from Chicago, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Financial Crisis
» Bank of Canada Expects Economy to Shrink Due to COVID-19 Lockdowns
» Buttigieg Says a Gas Tax Hike is “On the Table”
» French Economy Contracted 4% in Q4 2020 — Bank of France
» Germany’s Economy Contracted by 5% in 2020 as Coronavirus Lockdowns Hit Growth
» Ireland: Lockdown Restrictions Cast Shadow Over Economic Outlook
» Recession in Poland One of the Shallowest in Europe — MinFin
» Spain’s GDP Contraction Likely Wider Than 10%, PM Says
» Switzerland’s Economy Forecast to Recover ‘From Summer Onwards’
» UK: Firms Planned Record 800,000 Redundancies Last Year
 
USA
» 16-Time Felon Charged With Home Invasion in Chicago
» America is (Not So) Slowly Turning Communist Red
» Another Teachers Union Refuses to Return to Work
» AOC Says She Skipped Inauguration Because She Doesn’t “Feel Safe” Around Republicans
» Are Big Tech and Big Government Overplaying Their Hand?
» Awkward: After Inauguration Bidens Were Locked Out of White House — They Fired Trump Butler and No One Was There to Open the Doors
» Biden Revokes Trump Order That Shielded U.S. Power Grid From Chinese Involvement
» Biden Snaps at Reporter Who Questioned His Vaccine Plan
» Biden Rescinds Trump Order Banning Chinese Communist Involvement in US Power Grid
» Democrats Level Up Their Censorship Demands of Big Tech, Call for Investigation Into Parler
» Effort to Recall California Governor Gavin Newsom Attracts More Than 1.2 Million Signatures
» Experts Warn Civil Rights Fallout From COVID Could be Far Worse Than the Pandemic Itself
» Facebook Fascists Disable All Commenting on New “Patriot Party” Page — They Don’t Want Alternative Party to Replace the Modern Day GOP Bootlickers
» FBI Investigation Rescues 33 Missing Children in California
» GOP Rep. Paul Gosar Calls for Investigation After Democrats Order 5,000 National Guard Members From US Capitol to Sleep in Cold DC Parking Garage in Dead of Winter
» Hank Aaron’s Death Saddens Sports World: ‘We Lost a Legend’
» Insurrection! Violent Antifa-Black Lives Matter Goons Storm Bellingham, WA City Hall — Mayor Forced to be Evacuated
» Intelligence Agencies Bypass the Need for Warrants by Buying Data Harvested From Smartphones
» It’s John Brennan’s Authoritarianism That Threatens ‘Democracy’
» Jan. 20, 2021: A Crime Against the American People
» Larry King, Iconic TV Interviewer, Dies at 87
» President Biden Says There’s “Nothing We Can Do” About Pandemic Trajectory
» Regime Fears the People: Thousands of National Guard Asked to Remain in DC Until Mid-March
» Surprise! Gretchen Whitmer Reopens Michigan Restaurants Now That Biden Has Been Sworn in
» The Numbers Are in: Cuomo’s Draconian Lockdowns Cost New York 1 Million Jobs
» Tulsi Gabbard: Domestic-Terrorism Bill is ‘A Targeting of Almost Half of the Country’
» U.S. Doctor: Manipulating Bat-Based Coronaviruses Easy
» Vanity Fair Asks Cult Expert How to ‘Deprogram’ Trump Followers
 
Europe and the EU
» British Study Suggests Majority of People Support Giving Up Privacy to Tackle Coronavirus
» ‘Emotionally Manipulative Propaganda’: UK Govt Releases ‘Stay Home’ Coronavirus Scare Video
» Fight Breaks Out Following Speech From Czech MP
» Harsh Lockdowns in UK Fail to Curtail COVID-19 Infections
» Senior MP: British Public Will “Rise Up and Bring Down” Lockdown if Exit Plan Isn’t Outlined
» Soaring Taxes on Their Way to Pay for Britain’s Mammoth Corona Debt
» Sweden: Child Rapes Drove Overall Rape Increase in 2020
» The Religious Transformation of French Schools
» UK: Masters of the Universe Turn on Far Left: Facebook Censors Socialist Workers Party, Leftist Activists
 
Australia — Pacific
» ‘Deny it’s Australia Day, That’ll Help Petrol Sniffing’: Extraordinary War of Words Erupts Between Feuding Politicians on a ‘Racist’ Facebook Post About January 26
» ‘Tent City’ at the Centre of Two Alleged Child Rapes and Dozens of Assaults Will Close After the State Government Took Control of the Homeless Camp
 
Immigration
» “Release Them All, Immediately” — Joe Biden Orders ICE Agents to Release All Illegal Aliens in Custody
» 124,000 Illegal Migrants Entered Europe in 2020 Despite COVID-19 Lockdowns, EU Border Agency Says
» Exclusive: New Pictures Show Sri Lankan Asylum Seeker Girls, Three and Five, Growing Up in Detention on Christmas Island as Lawyer Demands Their Release and Accuses Peter Dutton of Wasting $6million Taxpayer Cash
» Ocean Viking Rescuers Pick Up Hundreds of Migrants Off Libya
» UK: Migrant Terrorist Free to Kill Despite 7 Convictions, Victims Demand ‘Meaningful Change’
 
Culture Wars
» Labor Demands Honours List ‘Justify’ Tennis Great Margaret Court’s Australia Day Award and Says Her Views on Gay Marriage and Homosexuality Cause ‘Hurt and Anguish’
» Pro-Abortion Group Storms Catholic Church in Ohio, Knocks Over Table, Shouts Profanities (Video)
 

Bank of Canada Expects Economy to Shrink Due to COVID-19 Lockdowns

The Bank of Canada is leaving its key benchmark interest rate unchanged at 0.25 per while predicting an economic contraction in the first quarter as further COVID-19 restrictions take their toll.

“Canada’s economy had strong momentum through to late 2020, but the resurgence of cases and the reintroduction of lockdown measures are a serious setback,” said the Bank in a release.

Growth in the first quarter of 2021 is now expected to be negative. But it does expect a strong rebound in the second quarter, assuming restrictions get lifted.

“Consumption is forecast to gain strength as parts of the economy reopen and confidence improves, and exports and business investment will be buoyed by rising foreign demand,” the Bank said.

“Beyond the near term, the outlook for Canada is now stronger and more secure than in the October projection, thanks to earlier-than-expected availability of vaccines and significant ongoing policy stimulus.”

Overall it predicts the economy will grow 4 per cent in 2021, following a 5.5 per cent decline in 2020. It sees further acceleration of 5 per cent growth in 2022, before slower growth of around 2.5 per cent in 2023.

[Comment: I expect economic growth for the Canadian economy in 2021 will be lower than 4 percent.]

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

Buttigieg Says a Gas Tax Hike is “On the Table”

Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg said “all options need to be on the table” when asked if he supported a gas tax increase during his Senate confirmation hearing for Transportation Secretary on Thursday.

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

French Economy Contracted 4% in Q4 2020 — Bank of France

The French economy is seen contracting 4% in the fourth quarter of 2020 despite the lifting of the coronavirus lockdown, the latest estimates from the Bank of France showed on Wednesday.

Key points

“Central bank sticks with a previous estimate that the Eurozone’s second-biggest economy shrank 9% over the course of last year.”

“Estimates economy in January operating down 7% from pre-crisis levels, unchanged from December.”

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

Germany’s Economy Contracted by 5% in 2020 as Coronavirus Lockdowns Hit Growth

Germany’s economy contracted by 5% in 2020, according to full-year GDP (gross domestic product) data released on Thursday.

The preliminary figures, which were slightly better than the 5.1% forecast, come after a year of economic turbulence for Germany, and the rest of the world, as the coronavirus pandemic prompted disruption to businesses and large swathes of the economy.

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

Ireland: Lockdown Restrictions Cast Shadow Over Economic Outlook

The Irish economy begins 2021 in a precarious position. Record coronavirus infections and a return to a full-scale lockdown clouds the outlook and limits the chances of a speedy recovery.

Everything seems to hang on the vaccine rollout, but that could takes many months, and the initial evidence suggests Ireland is off to a slow start in comparison to other countries.

It’s also not clear what percentage of the population needs to be vaccinated to prevent further outbreaks.

At the same time Government controls to curtail rising infection rates have left us with an unemployment rate of more than 20 per cent, which equates to over 500,000 people. This is worse than anything seen in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.

[Comment: Wow, 20 percent unemployment.]

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

Recession in Poland One of the Shallowest in Europe — MinFin

The Polish economy will have one of the “shallowest” recessions in Europe, the finance minister has claimed.

In an interview for PAP, Tadeusz Koscinski said that the relative strength of the public exchequer has helped the economy, and that Poland will soon get access to new EU funding.

“Despite significant support for the economy, public finances are in relatively good shape, and our recession will be one of the shallowest in Europe,” said the minister.

According to the European Commission, the economies of the EU members will shrink, on average, by —7.4 percent, which is almost twice as much as in Poland, where it is expected to fall by —3.6 percent.

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

Spain’s GDP Contraction Likely Wider Than 10%, PM Says

MADRID, Dec 29 (Reuters) — Spain’s gross domestic product has likely to contract by more than 10% this year as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic and the restrictions imposed on economic activity to curb it, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Tuesday.

“We are now 10% poorer than a year ago,” he told a news conference. The government has previously forecast an 11.2% contraction for this year.

[Comment: Article dated December 29, 2020. Spain’s Prime Minister was referring to 2020.]

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

Switzerland’s Economy Forecast to Recover ‘From Summer Onwards’

In November 2020, Switzerland’s Federal Statistical Office indicated a downward trend for 2021.

But economist Eric Scheidegger predicts a strong boom for this year, even though some sectors of the economy are still suffering the consequences of the health crisis.

“We expect a strong recovery from the summer onwards”, Scheidegger, who is head of the Economic Policy at State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), told NZZ newspaper on Sunday.

“Switzerland could achieve growth of around 4 percent in both 2021 and 2022”, he added.

Even though Switzerland lost about 72 billion francs during the pandemic, the country still fared better than its neighbours, Scheidegger pointed out.

Swiss economy dwindled 3 percent in 2020, while Germany and Austria shrunk by 6 percent, and France and Italy by 9 percent.

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

UK: Firms Planned Record 800,000 Redundancies Last Year

British employers made plans to cut 795,000 jobs last year, a record number, as Covid lockdowns took their toll on the economy.

More than 10,000 firms planned job cuts, however the pace of planned cuts slowed at the end of the year.

Without the government’s furlough scheme, designed to protect jobs, the numbers might have been higher still.

The figures were obtained in response to a BBC Freedom of Information request to the Insolvency Service.

Employers must notify the Insolvency Service when they plan to cut 20 or more jobs, giving an earlier indication of changes in the labour market than waiting for official joblessness statistics.

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

16-Time Felon Charged With Home Invasion in Chicago

A 16-time convicted felon was charged with home invasion in Chicago, Illinois, this week.

Roosevelt Allen, 52, who was on parole for 3 other burglaries, is accused of breaking into a high-rise apartment around 6:40 a.m. on Wednesday.

Judge David Navarro ordered that Allen be held without bail.

“You have demonstrated yourself to be a clear and continuing danger to the safety of every member of the community,” Navarro told Allen during a bond hearing on Thursday.

Allen, who first went to prison during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, has been in and out of prison 16 times:

  • 10 times for burglaries
  • 4 times for theft
  • 1 time for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon

He also previously faced attempted murder charges for shooting at Chicago police officers.

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

America is (Not So) Slowly Turning Communist Red

Communism wrapped up in Democrat platitudes takes no prisoners.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Another Teachers Union Refuses to Return to Work

Some long-awaited good news for the residents of Virginia came out this week. Governor Ralph “blackface klansman” Northam announced that schools could be safely reopened in the next few weeks. With online “distance learning” turning out to be largely a miserable failure and parents scrambling to find new daycare options, many were breathing a sigh of relief, thinking there was finally a light at the end of the tunnel that wouldn’t turn out to be an oncoming train. Unfortunately, the celebrations didn’t last very long. Not long after the Governor’s announcement, a Virginia teachers union came out and told everyone to stuff it. They’re not going back to work unless their demands are met. This is looking increasingly like a hostage negotiation where the children are the hostages. (Free Beacon)

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

AOC Says She Skipped Inauguration Because She Doesn’t “Feel Safe” Around Republicans

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said on Thursday that she did not attend President Joe Biden’s inauguration because she and a “considerable” number of fellow lawmakers, “still don’t yet feel safe around other members of Congress.”

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

Are Big Tech and Big Government Overplaying Their Hand?

Those casual enemies of free speech who today dominate the tech landscape have a much weaker hand than they think.

By Dan Gelernter

Historian Paul Johnson wrote that the second most important factor in the formation of America’s political character, after religion, was respect for the rule of law: “The law was not just necessary—essential to any civil society—it was noble.”

Americans might wonder how this squares with the recent storming of Capitol Hill. The media and social media and our elected leaders are all telling us one thing (in many cases word-for-word), and yet our gut may tell us something else. We have been told that an insurrection was put down—a coup narrowly avoided. Three cheers for the triumph of the law!

It doesn’t feel that way, though. Many Americans can put themselves in the shoes of the Capitol Hill protesters, with an important caveat: We have no truck with the window-smashers and Bison Man—who went on a food strike in jail for an organic diet. (Now there’s a typical Trump supporter for you.)…

           — Hat tip: Max Denken [Return to headlines]
 

Awkward: After Inauguration Bidens Were Locked Out of White House — They Fired Trump Butler and No One Was There to Open the Doors

The Clown show continues. The Daily Mail reported that the Bidens were locked out of the White House on Inauguration day. President Trump’s butler was fired hours before the inauguration and no one was there to open the door.

The Daily Mail reported on another embarrassing gaffe at the Biden Inauguration. No one showed up for the Biden’s Inauguration other than soldiers, media and politicians. This showed what millions believe: Biden stole the 2020 election. The embarrassing day turned into more of a clown show as the Bidens approached the White House.

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

Biden Revokes Trump Order That Shielded U.S. Power Grid From Chinese Involvement

President Joe Biden has rescinded an executive order of former President Donald Trump that was designed to prevent foreign countries meddling with the U.S. power grid. Trump’s order specifically prohibited “any acquisition, importation, transfer, or installation” of bulk-power system (BPS) electrical equipment by “foreign adversaries.”

[Comment: Beijing Biden.]

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

Biden Snaps at Reporter Who Questioned His Vaccine Plan

President Biden snapped at a reporter who questioned whether or not the new administration was setting its daily vaccine goal too low. Taking questions from the White House pool, a reporter asked the president if he shouldn’t “set the goal higher?”

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

Biden Rescinds Trump Order Banning Chinese Communist Involvement in US Power Grid

President Biden has revoked a Trump-era executive order that sought to keep foreign countries and companies out of America’s bulk power systems — principally entities associated with the Chinese Communist Party — as part of his “Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Democrats Level Up Their Censorship Demands of Big Tech, Call for Investigation Into Parler

In a demonstration of what right now tops their agenda, Democrats made it their first order of business on Thursday after taking over the US Senate to call for new rules that would further restrict speech and users marked as “radical or violence-inciting.”

In a pyramid scheme-like system of pressure and restriction of freedom of expression — senators, led by Anna Eshoo and Tom Malinowski and backed by dozens of others — are leaning on Twitter, Facebook, and Google/YouTube — while they are expected to lean on their users even more.

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

Effort to Recall California Governor Gavin Newsom Attracts More Than 1.2 Million Signatures

The effort to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) has attracted more than 1.2 million signatures.

Recall organizers have until March 17th to collect 1,495,709 signatures.

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

Experts Warn Civil Rights Fallout From COVID Could be Far Worse Than the Pandemic Itself

Under the cover of a public health emergency, governments around the globe have imposed a litany of authoritarian measures to curb freedom of movement, assembly, and association. The implications have not been lost on most of us and pockets of resistance have sprung up in various cities and towns across America and the world. Even academia has now begun to examine the risks these measures pose to the rights enshrined in international treaties like the American Convention on Human Rights or Pact of San Jose, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), and the Arab Charter on Human Rights among others.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Facebook Fascists Disable All Commenting on New “Patriot Party” Page — They Don’t Want Alternative Party to Replace the Modern Day GOP Bootlickers

Last Sunday the Patriot Party Facebook group was launched as an alternative to the GOP bootlicking party.

The group already has 67,000 members.

No doubt, the numbers likely boomed on Thursday when news broke that President Trump was thinking about launching a “Patriot Party” after years of backstabbing and vicious treatment from the Republican elites.

The Patriot Party describes itself as: “A Political Party For Those Who Love The United States! We Accept Those From All Backgrounds, Sexual Orientations And Have A Commitment To Non-violence!”

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

FBI Investigation Rescues 33 Missing Children in California

Another multi-agency human trafficking rescue effort has been successful, this time recovering 33 missing children in Southern California. The FBI said that at least 8 of those children had been sexually exploited.

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

GOP Rep. Paul Gosar Calls for Investigation After Democrats Order 5,000 National Guard Members From US Capitol to Sleep in Cold DC Parking Garage in Dead of Winter

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) sent a letter to the Committee on House Administration Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren and Ranking Member Rodney Davis on Saturday formally requesting an investigation into the abusive treatment of thousands of National Guard men and women at the US capital this past week.

As reported earlier by Cristina Laila — A military source in DC told TPUSA Chief Creative Officer Benny Johnson that for the last week his battalion had been sleeping on the floor in the Senate cafeteria in preparation for Biden’s sham virtual inauguration.

Then the day after Biden’s inauguration, 5,000 soldiers were moved to a cold parking garage.

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

Hank Aaron’s Death Saddens Sports World: ‘We Lost a Legend’

The details behind Aaron’s death were unclear. He had just received his COVID vaccine earlier this month and called on Black Americans to get their shots when it becomes available.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Insurrection! Violent Antifa-Black Lives Matter Goons Storm Bellingham, WA City Hall — Mayor Forced to be Evacuated

Violent Antifa-Black Lives Matter goons stormed the city hall in Bellingham, Washington on Saturday.

Officials were forced to evacuate the mayor during the violent assault.

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

Intelligence Agencies Bypass the Need for Warrants by Buying Data Harvested From Smartphones

In what could turn out to be just the tip of the iceberg, a freely available memo explains how a US military intelligence outfit, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), buys user data collected by commercial data harvesting companies, without the need to first produce a warrant.

The purchases in question concern location data collected by apps installed on people’s phones, and then sold to data brokers, that Senator Ron Wyden — to whom the memo was addressed — describes as “sleazy and unregulated” companies that are “simply above the law.”

“The Fourth Amendment is not for sale,” he said, referring to legal protections from unreasonable searches by the government.

But as things stand, DIA is not breaking any law, at least not the letter of any law: A 2018 decision by the Supreme Court says that under the US Constitution, government agencies must have a warrant in order to force phone operators to had them location data collected from customers.

But there is nothing stopping them from buying that data contained in commercial databases.

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

It’s John Brennan’s Authoritarianism That Threatens ‘Democracy’

Brennan was back on MSNBC yesterday, contending that American intelligence agencies “are moving in laser-like fashion to try to uncover as much as they can about” the pro-Trump “insurgency” that harbors “religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians.”

Even a former Communist such as Brennan surely understands that there is nothing prohibiting Americans from being religious extremists, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists or even libertarians. It’s definitely none of his business, or that of intelligence agencies, to define what those terms mean. (And the idea that libertarians, who can’t get a minyan to agree on anything libertarian, are marshaling forces for a national insurgency is nonsensical.)

As Brennan is a congenital liar, this may well be another one of his convenient fictions. Yet, considering his history of abusing power — Samantha Power, no lightweight on this front herself, once warned that it wasn’t a “good idea to p — s off John Brennan” — we shouldn’t entirely dismiss the idea that his allies are ferreting out thoughtcrimes.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Jan. 20, 2021: A Crime Against the American People

Concerning Yuval Noah Harari’s NEW YORK TIMES article, “When the World Seems Like One Big Conspiracy” (11/20/20), he believes that global cabal theories, such as Nazism, are inherently false. The main problem with his contention is that he uses the past tense when describing it, and he fails to realize the secret Nazi plan is coming to fulfillment today (see my 2010 book, THE POWER ELITE AND THE SECRET NAZI PLAN). Another global cabal conspiracy he dismisses is that the Bush and Clinton families are secretly working together. Again, he is unaware that members of Skull & Bones have worked with Cecil Rhodes’ secret Society of the Elect members for over 100 years. One example was in the late 1980s when President George W. Bush could have easily appointed a Republican governor to head his education reform effort, but instead chose Bill Clinton, a Democrat governor of a small Southern state, Arkansas, to lead that effort. Remember that Bill Clinton was a Rhodes scholar, and Cecil Rhodes said his secret society’s purpose was to “take the government of the whole world.”

Harari also dismisses the idea that professors, journalists and politicians try to conceal the existence of a global conspiracy. Apparently he is unaware that the editorial page editor of The New York Times through all of the 1860s, John Swinton, delivered a speech to journalists at the Twilight Club in New York City on April 12, 1883, in which he revealed: “The business of the New York journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon. You know this and I know it…We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping-jacks; they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”

For example, let’s look at the New York Times in the critically important decade of the 1950s when Communism was on the rise. The New York Times reporter covering the Soviet Union in the 1930s was well aware of dictator Stalin’s slaughter of massive numbers of Russians, but kept this out of the press. By the 1950s, if anyone had accused the New York Times of slanting news in favor of the Communists, they would have been branded as an idiot. However, in 1969 the foreign editor of the New York Times during the decade of the 1950s, Herman Dinsmore, wrote ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS, in which he revealed: “Positively and negatively, the weight of The New York Times has generally fallen on the side of the Communists since the end of World War II.”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Larry King, Iconic TV Interviewer, Dies at 87

Larry King, one of the most formidable interviewers on television, passed away at the age of 87.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

President Biden Says There’s “Nothing We Can Do” About Pandemic Trajectory

President Biden raised eyebrows Friday by declaring that, “there’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.” The comment came as Biden pushed Congress to enact new stimulus relief measures.

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

Regime Fears the People: Thousands of National Guard Asked to Remain in DC Until Mid-March

Black Lives Matter rioted, vandalized national monuments and destroyed federal property in June 2020 during the George Floyd riots in Washingon DC. At least one historic church was set on fire and several national monuments were vandalized and damaged including the Lincoln Memorial and Vietnam Memorial.

Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser joined the Black Lives Matter protests and condemned the National Guard troops who were sent to the nation’s capital to bring back law and order back to the city.

But times have changed and now we are told thousands of National Guard troops are being asked to remain in Washington DC until March.

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

Surprise! Gretchen Whitmer Reopens Michigan Restaurants Now That Biden Has Been Sworn in

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has been one of the most strict leaders in the country when it comes to coronavirus lock downs.

Now, just a few days after Joe Biden has been sworn in as president, Whitmer is talking about reopening restaurants.

The same thing is happening in Washington, DC.

Are we supposed to believe this is all just a coincidence?

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

The Numbers Are in: Cuomo’s Draconian Lockdowns Cost New York 1 Million Jobs

Democrat lockdowns were a disaster for New York.

New York State lost 1 million jobs in 2020.

In New York City, 12 percent of jobs disappeared.

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

Tulsi Gabbard: Domestic-Terrorism Bill is ‘A Targeting of Almost Half of the Country’

Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic representative from Hawaii, on Friday expressed concern that a proposed measure to combat domestic terrorism could be used to undermine civil liberties.

Gabbard’s comments came during an appearance on Fox News Primetime when host Brian Kilmeade asked her if she was “surprised they’re pushing forward with this extra surveillance on would-be domestic terror.”

“It’s so dangerous as you guys have been talking about, this is an issue that all Democrats, Republicans, independents, Libertarians should be extremely concerned about, especially because we don’t have to guess about where this goes or how this ends,” Gabbard said.

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

U.S. Doctor: Manipulating Bat-Based Coronaviruses Easy

A U.S. doctor who is part of the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic discussed his work manipulating bat-based coronaviruses in labs just weeks before the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan.

Dr. Peter Daszak, a close associate with China’s premier bat-based coronavirus researcher and a key figure in directing taxpayer funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, explained how easy it was to alter coronaviruses during a podcast interview filmed Dec. 9, 2019.

“You can manipulate them in the lab pretty easily,” Daszak said. “Spike protein drives a lot of what happens with the coronavirus. Zoonotic risk. So you can get the sequence, you can build the protein — and we work with Ralph Baric at UNC to do this — and insert the backbone of another virus and do some work in the lab.”

It’s unclear where the coronavirus manipulation Daszak described in the podcast, also known as gain of function research, was conducted. Daszak did not return multiple requests for comment.

Daszak said that manipulating coronaviruses in labs is a useful tool in developing treatments and vaccines for potential future outbreaks, but some virologists say such research is playing with fire.

“The only impact of this work is the creation, in a lab, of a new, non-natural risk,” Rutgers University molecular biologist Richard Ebright told New York magazine.

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

Vanity Fair Asks Cult Expert How to ‘Deprogram’ Trump Followers

The interview was titled “‘So Many Great, Educated, Functional People Were Brainwashed’: Can Trump’s Cult of Followers Be Deprogrammed?”

           — Hat tip: JD [Return to headlines]
 

British Study Suggests Majority of People Support Giving Up Privacy to Tackle Coronavirus

A British study says that as many as 70 percent of the country’s citizens back using some form of privacy undermining tracking policies and tech in the Covid epidemic.

A part of a global project whose results are updated by Stephan Lewandowsky, a cognitive psychology professor at the University of Bristol, the study purports to show that 70 percent of respondents support opt-in phone apps that track their location to curb the coronavirus epidemic, while 65 percent they wouldn’t mind it even if it was mandatory to put these on their phones.

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

‘Emotionally Manipulative Propaganda’: UK Govt Releases ‘Stay Home’ Coronavirus Scare Video

In what has been described as “emotionally manipulative propaganda”, the British government has released a high-production lockdown ad campaign, attempt to guilt the public into obeying the country’s lockdown restrictions.

On Saturday, the official Number 10 Downing Street account for the office of Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Twitter published a dramatic video of sickly coronavirus patients and National Health Service (NHS) workers, demanding that Britons “Stay home. Protect the NHS. Save Lives”.

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

Fight Breaks Out Following Speech From Czech MP

A speech delivered from Czech MP Lubomir Volný, who does not belong to a political party, resulted in a physical altercation with other deputies during Thursday’s meeting of the Chamber of Deputies on the extension of the state of emergency. The incident occurred after the MP presiding over the meeting turned off Volný’s microphone.

The tussle, which followed after Volný and his colleague, Marian Bojko, refused to wear a face mask in the chamber, has also caught the attention of foreign media outlets. The police are investigating the possible violation of hygienic measures.

After MP Hanzel, who was chairing the session, turned off the microphone, Volný came to speak directly with Hanzel, who then tried to push Volný away, prompting other Social Democratic deputies to come aid him against Volny. Among the first to render aid were Jan Chvojka and Ondrej Veselý. After the physical alteration, Volný left the area accompanied by the police protection service.

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Harsh Lockdowns in UK Fail to Curtail COVID-19 Infections

Technocrats who pushed policies like masks, social distancing and lockdowns in the first place had no evidence that they would work. Now the data is coming in that they are largely worthless against stopping COVID-19 or any other virus and in fact may be increasing the spread

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Senior MP: British Public Will “Rise Up and Bring Down” Lockdown if Exit Plan Isn’t Outlined

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British MPs within his own party are demanding that Prime Minister Boris Johnson outline some sort of exit strategy for the nationwide lockdown in the country, with one senior minister warning that if he doesn’t people will begin to “rise up and bring it down”.

Speaking to Talk Radio, Sir Desmond Swayne, the MP for New Forest West, warned that the “goalposts keep moving” on the lockdown timeframe, and “We have to focus on hospital admissions and keep that focus rigorous…[or] at some stage people have got to rise up and bring it down.”

“People have to got to rise up and bring it down!”

Tory MP Sir Desmond Swayne says the idea people will accept endless lockdown restrictions and “go on living like troglodytes is absurd.”

Swayne’s comments echo those of West Midlands Police commissioner David Jamieson, who warned back in October at the start of the second lockdown that “We’re sitting on a time bomb here.”

“We’re getting very near the stage where you could see a considerable explosion of frustration and energy,” Jamieson noted, adding “Things are very on the edge in a lot of communities and it wouldn’t take very much to spark off unrest, riots, damage.”

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Soaring Taxes on Their Way to Pay for Britain’s Mammoth Corona Debt

Britain’s chancellor wants to “wean us off the magic money tree” after nearly a year of unprecedented spending in response to the coronavirus lockdown, a policy which saw government borrowing rise by a near-record £34 billion in December alone.

Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the United Kingdom, has opened the taps of public spending since the government started shutting down the economy last year. The Conservative party MP is expected to want to start paying for it in the forthcoming March budget statement with new taxes.

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Sweden: Child Rapes Drove Overall Rape Increase in 2020

Total reported rapes in Sweden increased last year, and the change was driven by a surge in the number of sex attacks against children, according to National Council for Crime Prevention (Brå) statistics.

According to Brå, the number of reported rapes in which women were victims remained largely the same as in 2019, but the number of child rapes in which the victim was under 18 increased by 16 per cent.

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The Religious Transformation of French Schools

“Unlike you, Colonel, and so many others, Mila will never submit”, wrote the French teenager’s father to her school’s principal in a letter published by Le Point. On January 18, 2020 Mila O., then 16 years old, made insulting comments about Islam during her Instagram livestream.

“During her livestream, a Muslim boy asked her out in the comments, but she turned him down because she is gay. He responded by accusing her of racism and calling her a ‘dirty lesbian’. In an angry follow-up video, streamed immediately after she was insulted, Mila responded by saying that she ‘hates religion’“.

Mila continued: “The Koran is a religion of hatred; there is only hatred in it… Islam is sh*t…” Since then, she has received approximately 50,000 messages and lettersthat contain threats to rape her, slit her throat, torture and behead her. She has had to keep moving from one school to another.

Once again, Mila has found herself without a high school.

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UK: Masters of the Universe Turn on Far Left: Facebook Censors Socialist Workers Party, Leftist Activists

Britain’s Socialist Workers Party (SWP) was censored from Facebook on Friday, as Silicon Valley tech giants turn their censorship apparatus upon the radical left in the U.S. and the UK.

The leftist party claimed in a statement that they were “silenced” by Facebook for expressing opposition to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and expressing support for Black Lives Matter and Palestine. Facebook did not give a reason for shutting down the SWP’s page.

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‘Deny it’s Australia Day, That’ll Help Petrol Sniffing’: Extraordinary War of Words Erupts Between Feuding Politicians on a ‘Racist’ Facebook Post About January 26

Andrew Laming, the Member for Bowman in Queensland, shared a news article on Thursday about Cricket Australia’s decision to drop ‘Australia Day’ references.

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‘Tent City’ at the Centre of Two Alleged Child Rapes and Dozens of Assaults Will Close After the State Government Took Control of the Homeless Camp

The Western Australian government has seized control of Fremantle’s ‘tent city’ for homeless people, citing a ‘failure’ from the City Council.

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“Release Them All, Immediately” — Joe Biden Orders ICE Agents to Release All Illegal Aliens in Custody

Fox News host Tucker Carlson exclusively obtained a ‘shocking’ internal memo sent to ICE agents ordering them to release all illegal aliens in custody.

In Joe Biden’s first day in office, the Department of Homeland Security issued a sweeping directive to ‘halt all deportations’ for 100 days.

However, Joe Biden took further action to release illegal aliens in custody; it was not mentioned in his order to halt deportations.

An internal email to ICE officers reveals Joe Biden ordered more than 14,000 illegal aliens in custody to be released.

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124,000 Illegal Migrants Entered Europe in 2020 Despite COVID-19 Lockdowns, EU Border Agency Says

The number of illegal migrants who entered the European Union dropped by 13 percent this year, the lowest yearly figure seen since 2013, something that likely occurred as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the travel restrictions put in place by national governments.

According to figures released from the European Union’s border protection agency Frontex, 124,000 illegal migrants managed to make their way into the bloc in 2020, with illegal crossings at land borders dropping considerably and arrivals at seaports skyrocketing.

As has been witnessed in previous years, of the newly arrived illegals, Syrians were the largest nationality represented, followed by Moroccans, Tunisians, and Algerians.

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Exclusive: New Pictures Show Sri Lankan Asylum Seeker Girls, Three and Five, Growing Up in Detention on Christmas Island as Lawyer Demands Their Release and Accuses Peter Dutton of Wasting $6million Taxpayer Cash

Priya and Nades Murugappan and their two young daughters are being detained in a demountable building on Christmas Island at a cost of $4,000 a day.

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Ocean Viking Rescuers Pick Up Hundreds of Migrants Off Libya

More than 350 migrants have been rescued off the Libyan coast by the Ocean Viking humanitarian vessel in just two days, a European NGO running the boat said on Saturday.

SOS Mediterranee said that “106 people were rescued… in international waters 28 nautical miles (50 kilometres) from the Libyan coast” on Friday evening.

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UK: Migrant Terrorist Free to Kill Despite 7 Convictions, Victims Demand ‘Meaningful Change’

Relatives of a migrant terrorist’s victims are demanding “meaningful change” after it emerged that he had racked up seven convictions for 19 offences without being deported.

Islamic extremist Khairi Saadallah had been a member of the Islamic Ansar al-Sharia terrorist organisation in Libya, with his bogus asylum claim being rejected by Britain’s Home Office all the way back in 2012.

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Labor Demands Honours List ‘Justify’ Tennis Great Margaret Court’s Australia Day Award and Says Her Views on Gay Marriage and Homosexuality Cause ‘Hurt and Anguish’

Chris Bowen has called on the government to justify why tennis great Margret Court was selected to receive an Order of Australia medal — despite her divisive views on same-sex marriage.

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Pro-Abortion Group Storms Catholic Church in Ohio, Knocks Over Table, Shouts Profanities (Video)

A far-left pro-abortion group disrupted a church service at St. Joseph’s Catholic Cathedral in Columbus, Ohio Friday on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

The group of Marxists barged into the church, knocked over a table and shouted profanities.

“Two, four, six, eight this church teaches hate!” the protesters shouted. “Roe is the floor, we demand more!”

Security quickly rushed in and tossed out the screaming protesters.

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7 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/23/2021

  1. Business closures, stores shutting for good, bankruptcies, GDP down by 5%, ….and so on.
    Remember Bill Gates saying, “I think an epidemic, either naturally caused, or intentionally caused…….”?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNsW4ssOBxU&feature=emb_logo at 6.00
    Here is a question.
    How can they “Build Back Better” to their “Great Reset” without there first being a Great Destruction?

  2. The Echo Chamber Era: Trust in media is down. If journalists don’t listen to critics anyway,should they care?
    https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-echo-chamber-era

    (More on mr. French Laundry) Rescue CA continues efforts to recall Governor Gavin Newsom
    https://www.kusi.com/rescue-ca-continues-efforts-to-recall-governor-gavin-newsom/

    181 Dead in the U.S. During 2 Week Period From Experimental COVID Injections – How Long Will We Continue to Allow Mass Murder by Lethal Injection?
    https://healthimpactnews.com/2021/181-dead-in-the-u-s-during-2-week-period-from-experimental-covid-injections-how-long-will-we-continue-to-allow-mass-murder-by-lethal-injection/print/

    Why the Priorities of the Biden Administration Push Division over Unity and Economic Prosperity
    https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/quockerwodger-in-chief

  3. Sweden deporting Estonian for nonconformity
    https://swedinfo.ru/novosti-stokgolma/3523-shvetsiya-deportiruet-estontsa-za-inakomyslie

    The 20-year-old has been living in Sweden since the age of eight, when his family moved to the kingdom from Estonia. Now the Swedish Migration Board wants to deport him back to Estonia and ban him from re-entering on the grounds that he is a “right-wing extremist”. And without any evidence.

    Sweden has tried for years to deport Islamists who pose a threat to national security. But they could not be expelled from the country because of the court’s decision, which stated that the Islamists “risk being subjected to torture and persecution in their homeland.”

    To show any efficiency in their work, the Swedish State Security Police (SEPO) are now trying to expel a 20-year-old Estonian who grew up in Sweden because he was once a member of the Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR), an organization not banned in Sweden. which he left last summer.

    This time, SEPO uses the provisions of the Aliens Law regarding the expulsion of EU citizens “for reasons of public order and safety.” The Swedish Migration Board decided that the 20-year-old will be banned from returning to Sweden for 15 years – despite the fact that his family has long settled in Sweden.

    The 20-year-old is no longer politically active. “I am being expelled for political reasons. The rapists are allowed to stay in Sweden, but not the patriots, ”the young man says.

    The security police do not share information with the accused for what reasons it was concluded that he is dangerous to Swedish society. This is due to the “personal integrity of the person to which this information concerns” and “the confidentiality of the methods and methods used by SEPO.”

    “We were not allowed to take part in the presentation of any evidence and were not even given information about the evidence that influenced the decision to deport. Therefore, it is difficult for us to refute anything. And the Swedish Migration Office is satisfied with the groundless statements of SEPO without any ceremony, ”says the lawyer of the Estonian Fredrik Åkerblum.

    Fredrik Åkerblum informs that they will appeal against the decision of the Migration Board.

  4. “Hank Aaron, one of the all-time greats of Major League Baseball, has died at the age of 87, 18 days after he was vaccinated against COVID-19. Meanwhile, the legendary CNN host Larry King also died at the age of 87. ”

    Richard D. Hall from the Richplanet TV covered the incidend way back when governments bought millions of doses of the bird flu vaccine, ready to vaccinate vider public – but almost by an accident it was discovered the vaccine was not the vaccine but the live virus instead.

    Richard D. Hall concluded back then, that it was an attempted genocide – planned via “bird-flu vaccination” programme.

    Just sayin…

  5. Larry King cannot very well have been vaccinated, because he fell ill with Covid-19 itself before the vaccine would have been available to him, and because persons who have been vaccinated virtually never contract a serious case of the virus.

    He died because he did not get the vaccine, not because he did.

    • Hank Aaron received the vaccine shot on Jan. 6 and died eighteen days later.

      perhaps it was because of the vaccine.

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