Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/31/2021

Almost 600 migrants from Tunisia have landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa in the space of two days. Meanwhile, a migrant-ferry vessel operated by the NGO SOS Mediterranee “rescued” nearly 200 migrants off the coast of Libya.

In other news, tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in France to protest the government’s newly-mandated “health pass”.

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Why is Jair Bolsonaro so Popular in Brazil?

A recent meeting between Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Beatrix von Storch of the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany) caused consternation among the bien-pensants in Germany — and even among some supporters of the AfD, according to the article below.

Mr. Bolsonaro receives the same treatment in the international media as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and former US President Donald Trump. Anyone who gets his news by skimming MSM articles or glancing at the talking heads on TV comes away with the idea that all three leaders are dangerous would-be totalitarian demagogues, if not outright neo-Nazis.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Politically Incorrect:

Counter-argument: Why is Jair Bolsonaro so popular in Brazil?

In Brazil, the conservative President Jair Bolsonaro, who was elected with 55 percent of the vote in 2018, is still extremely popular. In Germany, thanks to unanimous media defamation, he is viewed negatively even by conservatives. Many PI-News readers also criticized the meeting between Bolsonaro and Beatrix von Storch. A reply from the Brazilian author Fernando de Castro.

Jair Bolsonaro was elected in 2018 after almost 20 years of rule by the corrupt left-wing, centralist parties to strengthen the rights of the unborn and gun owners, rebuild state infrastructure and at the same time allow for more private-sector business.

Since then he has repeatedly been the target of left-wing attacks aimed at sabotaging his plans. The Left tries to subvert his agenda with fake news campaigns and waves of lawsuits in court. The Supreme Court, made up of judges appointed by the Left, openly attacks the Bolsonaro government and fuels conflict.

Bolsonaro’s “Dangerous Corona Policy”

During the Corona pandemic, the Bolsonaro government wanted to protect the people without destroying the economy — the policy that in retrospect has proven to be the most effective worldwide, for example in Scandinavia. In April of 2020 the National Congress approved the emergency aid package, with which 40 million Brazilians were entitled to 100 dollars in financial aid, as much as ten years of so-called “family support” from the previous left government.

At the beginning of the pandemic, however, the left-wing Supreme Court blocked presidential authority and authorized regional governors and mayors to independently issue quarantines. Bolsonaro has always been against the lockdown because he understands the serious consequences it will have, especially for poor people. “Hunger kills more people than the virus,” said the President in 2020.

In practice, however, Bolsonaro only had three measures left:

1)   Providing cities and municipalities with medication;
2)   Send money;
3)   Propose easing measures that governors and mayors did not have to follow.
 

The president provided $37 billion for Corona aid.

(Note: The German media then presented this disempowerment of the president as “Bolsonaro’s dangerous Corona policy”.)

The Corona Corruption of Bolsonaro’s Opponents

While Brazil suffered 510,000 corona deaths, several governors and mayors diverted the federal government’s Corona aid funds for other purposes and were investigated by the federal police.

The governor of Rio de Janeiro, Wilson Witzel (Christian Social), lost his mandate due to money laundering, passive corruption and the formation of a criminal organization. According to federal police, he embezzled Corona funds for hospital construction.

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If You Want to Work, You Must Get the Vax

The Jean Minjoz Hospital is a large hospital in Besançon in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in France. The following video shows a demonstration in front of the hospital by employees who have been informed that they must submit to a mandatory “vaccination” against COVID-19.

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

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/30/2021

Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets yesterday in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, to protest a new law that discriminates against unvaccinated citizens. Riot police intervened to stop them from blocking traffic. Meanwhile, users of social media in New South Wales may face a fine of $11,000 if they make anti-lockdown posts.

In other news, Hungarian police stopped a people-smugglers’ bus near the Austrian border and discovered that one of the seventeen migrants on board was carrying a machine gun.

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Swedes Are Shocked — Shocked! — To Discover That Tolerance is a One-Way Street For Muslims

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from Nya Tider:

Caption: Imam Ismail Abu Helal in Växjö wants Sweden’s politicians to recognize the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, but he himself does not understand when Nya Tider asks him if his Islamic association will recognize a Christian day.

Demands that Sweden celebrate Ramadan— refuses himself to care about Christian holidays: “Why should we? We are Muslims”.

Växjö’s Muslims continue to make demands. Imam Ismail Abu Helal tasted blood when they recently got permission to have calls to prayer, and in a submission in Smålands-Posten, he demands that the Swedish prime minister begin to recognize Ramadan. He himself doesn’t understand when Nya Tider asks if his congregation will recognize Christian holidays. “Why should we? We are Muslims,” he says to Nya Tider. The anger is now increasing, even among liberal politicians, that “inter-religious respect” seems to be one-way.

New demands with “integration” and “religious freedom” as arguments

When Växjö’s Muslim congregation was formed, the imam explained that it was important for integration that Sweden must allow that the country be called a democracy with religious freedom.

The same arguments — integration, democracy, and religious freedom — were also sticking points a few years later when the Muslim congregation demanded to be able to build a mosque. In Dagens Nyheter on November 2 2003, Ismail Abu Helal argued, among other things, that the mosque was important for integration since it would “bring all nationalities together”.

The wooden building in Araby is only temporary. It was there they applied to be able to declare by loudspeaker every week that Islam is taking over the area. Ismail Abu Helal repeated on Swedish State TV on February 12 2018 the well-known argument: “I think it is good for integration. It will be a confirmation of religious freedom,” he said then.

Over time, the Muslim congregation also created its own Muslim school. Not unexpectedly with the same argument. Ismail Abu Helal wrote to Swedish State TV on April 7 2017 that the consecrated Islamic school had an “important role to play for integration.”

With the mosque, call to prayer, and Muslim school in place, the imam is taking another step to create “integration” in that Sweden will show that democracy and religious freedom rule. This time, it is synonymous with Sweden becoming more Islamic.

In a debate article in Smålands-Posten on May21, a week after the call to prayer received permission, he complained that Sweden did not recognize Ramadan more.

Swedish prime ministers should give Muslims good wishes before fasting, Ismail Abu Helal believes. That would be “good for integration” and something Sweden should do if it “claims to be a tolerant society that accepts differences.” The imam would like to see politicians begin to use the Arabic phrase, “Salaam Alaykum”, which means, “Peace be with you” before every Ramadan and then “speak briefly a little on why people fast.”

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Mark Rutte, Klaus Schwab, and the Great Reset

Gideon van Meijeren is a politician who represents the conservative populist party Forum voor Democratie (Forum for Democracy) in the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament.

In the following video from the floor of the Tweede Kamer, Mr. van Meijeren confronts the mendacious Prime Minister Mark Rutte when the latter denies having any knowledge of a book on the “Great Reset” written by Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum.

Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation (from the German subtitles), and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/29/2021

The Biden Administration is proposing new regulations that would require all federal employees to submit to a COVID-19 “vaccination”, with the exception of USPS workers. In possibly unrelated news, the American Postal Workers Union has issued a statement opposing official vaccine mandates.

In other news, a group of illegal immigrants on the Hungarian-Serbian border attacked Hungarian soldiers, injuring four of them.

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Green Dawn

A new German government headed by the Greens is becoming more and more likely in the near future. The following essay discusses the ramifications of that prospect for ordinary Germans.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Politically Incorrect:

Socially acceptable “climate neutrality” is impossible

by Wolfgang Hübner

Since the catastrophic flood, “Climate Policy” has become more popular again. After the Baerbock disaster, the Green Party will put all the levers in the media — to which it is so extremely inclined — in motion until the federal election in September to hammer the electorate: Man-made climate change in the world must under all circumstances and at all costs be slowed, at least in Germany. Incidentally, it is precisely the most anti-national political force in this country that tries to score points in terms of climate and energy with a completely unrealistic, narrow-minded nationalist course. Because little Germany, which does not want to control its national borders, can of course not set any limits on the weather or the climate.

But it is easy for the Green Party to spread such nonsense. The other established parties have long since submitted to varying degrees to the irrational Climate Religion. And the Federal Constitutional Court, firmly in the hands of these parties, has, as is well known, sanctified everything. Nobody knows how the gigantic amounts of energy that are required now, and even more so in the future, will be produced in Germany after nuclear and coal-fired power plants have been phased out. But if you look at the problems from a religious point of view, you don’t necessarily have to worry. After all, there are countries that continue to rely on nuclear power, coal or gas and like to earn money selling energy supplies to the promised land of wind power fanatics.

All of this has to be paid for by the many millions of energy consumers in the most densely populated Germany that has ever existed. But that’s not all: Since the insane goal of a so-called “climate neutrality” between Flensburg and Constance is being striven for, measures are to be implemented in all areas of economy, traffic and everyday life that will be absolutely certain — namely expensive! All political parties and actors know this only too well. But that is precisely why they are extremely reluctant to talk about it. One more reason to do it. Because the desired “climate neutrality” will not be expensive for its political and economic profiteers, but for taxpayers and energy consumers; that is, the overwhelming majority of Germans.

Since the willingness to embark on political adventures such as “climate neutrality” often stutters or even falters, at least with one’s own money, the climate-active parties are very keen not to cause any unrest among the electorate. Even the Green Party wants to make the expected burdens “socially acceptable”. And their established competitors blow into the same horn with different lung strength. But all of this is nothing more than deliberate political deception. Because even with only a superficial consideration of the problem, it becomes clear: For the majority of Germans, “climate neutrality” will be associated with significant losses in income and without consumption. Because the German state cannot possibly even cushion the burdens in a “socially acceptable” manner, let alone compensate for them.

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The Long Arm of Big Pharma

The following video is an excerpt from a discussion on a French TV talk show. The topic is alternative treatments for COVID-19, such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. One of the participants explains that major medical journals such as The Lancet suppress the reporting of certain information because of the financial clout exerted by Pfizer and other major pharmaceutical corporations.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for subtitling and uploading this video. I don’t know who the translator is; Vlad obtained a video with a translated subtitle file already included:

Video transcript:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/28/2021

Bars in San Francisco are now requiring patrons to show proof of vaccination before they will be allowed to drink indoors. In contrast, a bar in Huntington Beach, California is refusing service to anyone who cannot prove they are UNvaccinated.

In other news, Google is suing Germany over its hate speech law.

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Thanks to Social Marketing, You Will Be Assimilated

They really, really, want us to get vaccinated.

Whom do I mean when I use the word “they”? Well, for starters, there’s the government. All Western governments, in fact, even that of Hungary. “They” also includes the major media, Big Tech, the MSM, the universities and secondary schools, and all major philanthropic organizations. All of them are pushing relentlessly for all citizens to submit to the injection of an experimental medical treatment that uses messenger RNA, and whose long-term side effects are completely unknown.

For as far back as I can remember, I have never experienced such a relentless full-court press by all social and political institutions in pursuit of a single goal. Perhaps the war effort from 1939-1945 was like this, but I wasn’t alive then, so I don’t know.

Before I started researching the propaganda push behind the vax, I had never heard of the term “social marketing”. It is an important concept in this dystopian age, so we would all be well-advised to learn more about it. The California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center — which is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and is a joint project of the California Department of Health Services, Sexually Transmitted Disease Control Branch, the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, and the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine — gives the following definitionof social marketing:

Social marketing is the use of commercial marketing principles and techniques to improve the welfare of people and the physical, social and economic environment in which they live. It is a carefully planned, long-term approach to changing human behavior.

So one group of people — presumably quite small — uses subtle manipulative techniques developed by behavioral psychologists to change the behavior of another group of people — presumably much larger — and make them conform to a standard of behavior which the first group has devised and considers optimal.

My instinctive reaction to such a practice is: What arrogance! What hubris!

We ordinary plebs think we know what’s good for us, but they know better. And they see nothing wrong with conning us into thinking the way they want us to think.

I bring all this up because of a paper that was published by The National Center for Biotechnology Information, which is part of the National Library of Medicine, which is a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH, as you may recall, is where Dr. Anthony Fauci rules over a little fiefdom known as NIAID, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

The paper is entitled “Key Guidelines in Developing a Pre-Emptive COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake Promotion Strategy” [pdf]. It was published in August of last year, but I didn’t find it until a few weeks ago.

It is beyond my level of analytical competence to peel back all the layers of manipulative strategy found in this paper, so I’ll just highlight a few significant points. I recommend reading the whole thing carefully, if you have the time and the stomach to work your way through all the sociological jargon.

First, a word on some of the terminology used. A person who receives an injection with the experimental mRNA treatment is said to engage in “vaccine uptake”. Those who decline to take the vaccine are said to experience “vaccine hesitancy”.

In the epistemological framework of the paper there is no acceptable rationale for not being “vaccinated”. Those who have not been vaxed are either vaccine hesitant — in which case they will eventually do their duty and get the jab — or they are malicious actors who have been convinced by evil anti-vax propaganda to resist the injection, and thereby put themselves and their loved ones at risk of contracting a dangerous and potentially lethal disease.

In the mindset of the authors of this paper — and all the official pro-vax propaganda — it is not conceivable that one could investigate the available facts, think carefully, and make a reasoned decision not to get the jab.

Citizens are expected to give their informed consent to the procedure, yet it is impossible to give informed consent. The long-term side effects of the mRNA treatment are unknown, and will remain unknown for at least five more years. Therefore no one can be fully informed about the treatment. Giving informed consent is simply not possible.

But none of that matters to those who are pushing the jab. My reasoning is considered fallacious and maliciously motivated, and my arguments would be removed from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other Big Tech platforms if I were to make them there.

There is only one possible outcome from the point of view of the vax pushers. You may be “hesitant”, but you cannot make a decision not to get the jab, and they will prod you and punish you until you do.

The first thing to notice about the NIH paper is that it’s not primarily an American document, despite its being published by an agency of the United States government. The spelling of certain words — for example, “sceptics” — serves as a clue. And it makes complete sense when you see the names and credentials of the four authors:

  • Jeff French of Strategic Social Marketing Ltd and the University of Brighton
  • Sameer Deshpande of Social Marketing @ Griffith, Griffith University in Australia
  • William Evans of George Washington University
  • Rafael Obregon of UNICEF in Paraguay

Mr. French is the lead author, so one may presume that it was his spell-checker that approved the spellings that no native American speaker would use.

Two of the authors list social marketing in their credentials, so we may deduce that the NIH has subcontracted with expert social marketers to produce strategies and guidelines to induce vaccine hesitant Americans to get the needle into their arm as quickly as possible.

The abstract outlines the techniques that will be recommended (emphasis added):

This paper makes the case for immediate planning for a COVID-19 vaccination uptake strategy in advance of vaccine availability for two reasons: first, the need to build a consensus about the order in which groups of the population will get access to the vaccine; second, to reduce any fear and concerns that exist in relation to vaccination and to create demand for vaccines. A key part of this strategy is to counter the anti-vaccination movement that is already promoting hesitancy and resistance. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a tsunami of misinformation and conspiracy theories that have the potential to reduce vaccine uptake. To make matters worse, sections of populations in many countries display low trust in governments and official information about the pandemic and how the officials are tackling it. This paper aims to set out in short form critical guidelines that governments and regional bodies should take to enhance the impact of a COVID-19 vaccination strategy. We base our recommendations on a review of existing best practice guidance. This paper aims to assist those responsible for promoting COVID-19 vaccine uptake to digest the mass of guidance that exists and formulate an effective locally relevant strategy. A summary of key guidelines is presented based on best practice guidance.

The paper’s introduction defines vaccine hesitancy:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/27/2021

A gunman opened fire at a backyard party in Fort Worth, Texas, wounding at least one person. When he was chased down by partygoers, he fired at them, killing one person and wounding others. His pursuers then stoned him to death with paving stones that were piled nearby. Police are investigating. No charges have yet been filed.

In other news, more than fifty migrants were rescued off the Canary Islands by the Spanish coast guard and brought to safety on Gran Canaria.

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Hungary vs. the EU — Who Will Win?

I wouldn’t have Péter Szijjártó’s job for ANYTHING.

Mr. Szijjártó is a member of the National Assembly of Hungary, and holds the office of foreign minister in the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. It is in the latter capacity that he is obliged to serve as the whipping boy of the European Union. Hungary under Viktor Orbán and Fidesz is the designated enemy of the progressive right-minded globalist apparatchiks of Brussels, and the Hungarian foreign minister’s job is to cower before them, cap in hand, in the European Parliament, in front of the European Commission, or in the television studios of various state media outlets in Western Europe.

That last function is what is recorded in the video below. Péter Szijjártó has been summoned by the BBC to appear before a relentlessly abrasive inquisitor and answer for his government’s sins against progressive orthodoxy. In particular, he is grilled about his country’s recently revised law that prohibits propagandizing for sexual perversion in Hungarian schools.

Mr. Szijjártó maintains his unruffled good humor and calm demeanor throughout this segment. I don’t know how he manages not to tell the guy: “You can take this interview and shove it up your [nether orifice].” And then rip off his mike and stomp out of the studio.

You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading this video: