Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/19/2021

Thirteen illegal migrants were discovered hidden in a truckload of watermelons in Poland. Thank goodness they were from Turkey, Afghanistan, Tibet, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan — if they’d been from Africa, their hiding place would have been considered racial stereotyping.

In other news, two more Texas Democrats who fled the state for D.C. have tested positive for COVID-19.

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Thanks to Dean, Insubria, MC, Reader from Chicago, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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USA
» 2 More Texas Dems Who Fled State to Block GOP Voting Bill Test Positive for COVID
» Academic Conference Looks ‘Critically’ At Taylor Swift’s Career — Including the Whiteness of Her Fans
» Arizona Audit Finds Enough Tainted Ballots to Erase Biden’s Lead as Senators Call to Decertify Election
» Biden Backtracks on Facebook “Killing People” As Fauci Urges Americans to Listen to “Trusted Messengers
» Black Rifle Coffee Goes Woke, Throws Customers Under the Bus in Bizarre NYT Interview
» Camp Kook: Minnesota Summer Camp Replaces American Flag With BLM Flag
» Capitol Rioter Who Breached Senate Gets 8 Months for Felony
» Captain America Portrayed as Killing American Soldiers in New, Vietnam-Era Comic Book
» FBI Agent Involved in Whitmer Kidnapping Plot Investigation Arrested for Domestic Incident, Charged With Assault
» Georgia House Speaker Calls for Forensic Investigation Into Fulton County as ‘Saddam’-Like Numbers Exposed
» Helen Raleigh Says Critical Race Theory is ‘Marxist Ideology,’ Harmful to Asian-American Community
» Judge Sides With Indiana University in Student Challenge to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
» Protests Underway at St. Luke’s in Meridian Over Employee-Mandated Vaccines
» Sen. Ted Cruz Tells AOC, Sanders, Warren to ‘Get on a Raft’ And Sail to Cuba
» Teen Charged in Death of Vietnam Vet Was on Parole for 2020 Carjacking
» Texas Democrats’ Stay in DC to Cost About $1.5m, Lawmaker Says
» ‘White Fragility’ Author Robin Diangelo Claims Her Anti-White Activism Extends Black People’s Lifespans ‘One Hour Longer’
» Wisconsin: Movement for Forensic Audit Develops in Legislature as Citizens Flood Capitol With Affidavits
» Woman Comments on Police ‘Most Wanted’ Post About Her, Gets Arrested
 
Canada
» Bill C-10 ‘Caused Adverse Reactions,’ Legislators to Use Summer Recess to Amend the Controversial Legislation
» Breaking: Fully Vaccinated Americans Can Resume Travel to Canada August 9
» Pastor Artur Pawlowski’s Son Held in COVID Jail Despite Negative COVID Test
» Security Guard Stabbed ‘Multiple Times’ While Trying to Stop Shoplifter in Vancouver; Suspect Arrested
 
Europe and the EU
» Austria: ‘Havana Syndrome’-Like Mystery Illness Affects Vienna US Diplomats
» Belgium Takes Back the Women and Children of Former Islamic State Fighters
» British Celebrate ‘Freedom Day’ As COVID Restrictions Ease, Worrying Health Experts
» COVID Vaccination Centres Vandalised in France
» France: Macron Forced to Back Down on Mandating Vaccine Passports for Shopping Malls After Nationwide Protests
» France: Watch: Bandits Crash Car Into Bank During Botched Robbery in Paris
» Italian Museum Tests Using Invasive Camera Technology to Analyze Visitors
» Outside Pressure Forges Ties Between Visegrad Countries
» Pope Bans Latin Masses From Parish Churches
» Spain: Illegal Drinking Out of Control in Palma!
» UK COVID Surveillance Officer Used Data to Track Down Student on Instagram
» UK Mandates Vaccine Passports, Despite Its Own Vaccine Minister Calling Them “Discriminatory”
» UK: ‘Treat Vaccinated People Differently’ To Avoid Quarantine ‘Pingdemic’, Says Blair
» UK: Anti-Lockdown Protests Held in London Hours After Final COVID-19 Restrictions Lifted in England
» UK: Campus Crazies: University Claims English is the ‘Language of the Coloniser’
» UK: Exclusive Video: Leftist MP Diane Abbott, BLM Protesters Take Knee in ‘Solidarity’ With Footballers
» UK: Fines Handed Out to COVID Law Breakers Over Lockdown in Bolton
» UK: Government Advisor Admits Masks Are Just “Comfort Blankets” That Do Virtually Nothing
» UK: London COVID: Man Cleared of Huge Illegal Lockdown Rave After Police Fail to Attend Court
» UK: London’s Khan ‘Disappointed’ Govt Didn’t Mandate Continued Mask-Wearing
» UK: More Than 100 Caught at Illegal Rave as Organiser Faces £10,000 Fine
» UK: Media Outlet Mocks ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ Then Admits They Might be Right After YouTube Bans Protest Video
» UK: On ‘Freedom Day’, Boris Johnson Announces Mandatory Vaccine Passports
» UK: Report: Vaccine Passports Now May be Demanded for Office Workers
 
Israel and the Palestinians
» Ben & Jerry’s: We Will Not Sell Our Products in the “Occupied Palestinian Territories”
» Leak Exposes Global Abuse of Cyber-Spying Weapon to Target Politicians, Activists, & Journalists
 
Russia
» Russia Blocks Access to Czech Radio Broadcast
 
Australia — Pacific
» Australia Deports, Revokes Visa of UK Commentator Katie Hopkins for Breaching Quarantine
 
Immigration
» Czech Interior Minister Mulls Sending Police Officers to Help Lithuania With Migrants
» EU Agency to Help Monitor Lithuanian Border Amid Surge in Migrants From Belarus
» Greece: “Islamic Police” in the Centre of Athens Are Terrorising People
» Illegal Migrants Hiding in Watermelons Detained in Poland
» UK: Channel Crossings: Fifty People Land on Kent Beach in Single Dinghy
» UK: Migrant Crossings: Five Times a New Daily Record Was Set
 
Culture Wars
» Transgender Biological Male Cleared to Compete in Women’s Weightlifting in Tokyo Olympics
» Virginia School Board Rejects State Government’s New Transgender Inclusion Policies
 

2 More Texas Dems Who Fled State to Block GOP Voting Bill Test Positive for COVID

Two more Texas Democrats who have been in Washington, DC, since last week in an effort to prevent a vote on a GOP-backed election reform bill have tested positive for the coronavirus, bringing the total to five infected state lawmakers, many of whom visited with Vice President Kamala Harris.

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

Academic Conference Looks ‘Critically’ At Taylor Swift’s Career — Including the Whiteness of Her Fans

An academic conference this weekend takes an in-depth look at Taylor Swift’s career and music, as well as how “the politics of whiteness” relates to her fan base.

The “Taylor Swift Study Day: Eras, Narrative, Digital Music, and Media” event was organized by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ethnomusicologist Kate Galloway who said of Swift’s music “There’s a tendency to not study, or discount, your ‘guilty pleasure’ listening […] Why not take it seriously? Why not unpack why that is?”

According to the Times Union, the conference features an “international panel of researchers and experts” who will pontificate on “digital fandom and collaboration[,] genre negotiation, identity, and the business of music stardom.”

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

Arizona Audit Finds Enough Tainted Ballots to Erase Biden’s Lead as Senators Call to Decertify Election

President Donald Trump supporters and American patriots nationwide are emboldened after an Arizona state Senate hearing on the Maricopa County election audit proved massive fraud. Among the audit’s findings so far: 11,326 people in the county who voted in the November 3 election were NOT on the voter rolls on November 7, but were added to the voter rolls by December 4. This number is higher than Joe Biden’s supposed statewide “lead” in Arizona of 10,457 votes. Additionally, more than 74,000 mail-in ballots were counted in the county even though there is no recorded evidence of the ballots being sent to the “voters” in the first place — and Maricopa County withheld all photographic evidence of the mail-in ballot envelopes from the Republican audit team (meanwhile, photographs show ballot printers and boxes getting loaded onto a “Destruction” truck in Phoenix during the Senate hearing). Thin ballot paper used for approximately 168,000 ballots led to markers “bleeding through” the paper, damaging ballots, after a Maricopa County official ordered staff to hand out Sharpie markers to same-day voters even though she knew about concerns with the Sharpies. Another round of subpoenas is expected, as state senators call for the Republican-controlled Arizona legislature to decertify the election and “recall” Joe Biden’s electors in the state. Activists on the ground are fighting to get a warrant from necessary Arizona senators to compel Maricopa County to hand over more evidence.

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

Biden Backtracks on Facebook “Killing People” As Fauci Urges Americans to Listen to “Trusted Messengers

As analysts blamed the delta variant for Monday’s market ructions, Dr. Anthony Fauci said in an interview that the variant is increasingly becoming the “dominant” strain in the US, while he continued to share data about the efficacy of American-made vaccines despite the growing evidence that the efficacy they provide against Delta is much lower than some believe.

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

Black Rifle Coffee Goes Woke, Throws Customers Under the Bus in Bizarre NYT Interview

Black Rifle Coffee gave an interview last week with The New York Times, in which it seems like they decided to attack their own customers in a bizarre attempt to distance themselves from their conservative brand image.

According to the interview, Black Rifle Coffee has done well by building their brand as the counter-culture coffee of right-wingers all across the country:

“In 2015, the company’s revenue was $1 million. By 2019, that figure had grown to $82 million. Last year, the company did $163 million in sales,” the NYT reported.

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

Camp Kook: Minnesota Summer Camp Replaces American Flag With BLM Flag

Once upon a time in America, kids went to summer camp to be kids. They swam, canoed and built campfires. Kids went to camp to play and enjoy the outdoors. The same was not true for other summer camps around the world.

American summer camps were free of political ideologies.

Not anymore. Consider Camp Kook, or as it is known officially, Camp Warren.

Camp Warren is in northern Minnesota and is affiliated with the YMCA in Minneapolis. Affluent whites from the Minnesota suburbs send their kids there, and it is saturated with leftist ideology in addition to sailing and smores.

The American flag at Camp Warren has been replaced by a Black Lives Matter flag. Apparently the Stars and Stripes is oppressive, and it is better to fly a flag of a group that supports murderous Cuban communism.

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

Capitol Rioter Who Breached Senate Gets 8 Months for Felony

A crane operator from Florida who breached the U.S. Senate chamber carrying a Trump campaign flag was sentenced Monday to eight months behind bars, the first punishment handed down for a felony charge in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and one that could help determine the severity of other sentences in hundreds of pending cases.

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

Captain America Portrayed as Killing American Soldiers in New, Vietnam-Era Comic Book

Captain America would have fought against the United States during the Vietnam War and attacked American soldiers, apparently, according to Marvel, which confirmed that to Screenrant. More than 58,000 Americans were casualties of that conflict.

In Fantastic Four: Life Story #2, written by Mark Russell with art by Sean Izaakse and colors by Nolan Woodard, Captain America attacks American soldiers in an effort to free communist prisoners held by the US.

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

FBI Agent Involved in Whitmer Kidnapping Plot Investigation Arrested for Domestic Incident, Charged With Assault

An FBI agent credited with helping to thwart the high-profile Whitmer kidnapping plot was arrested for a domestic incident and charged with assault.

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

Georgia House Speaker Calls for Forensic Investigation Into Fulton County as ‘Saddam’-Like Numbers Exposed

Georgia Republican House Speaker David Ralston has finally called for an “independent forensic investigation” into the 2020 election in Fulton County, following massive revelations of voting irregularities and ongoing public distrust in the election process.

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

Helen Raleigh Says Critical Race Theory is ‘Marxist Ideology,’ Harmful to Asian-American Community

Author and independent journalist Helen Raleigh, an immigrant from China, feels that critical race theory hurts members of the Asian-American community who haven’t yet achieved the success made possible by meritocracy in the United States.

“CRT is a Marxist ideology,” Raleigh told Fox News. “It’s basically replaced the class divide with racial divide. Our country is going in the wrong direction.”

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

Judge Sides With Indiana University in Student Challenge to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Indiana University’s vaccination requirement will stand, at least for the start of the fall semester.

A federal judge sided with the university in an opinion issued early Monday morning after eight students challenged the public university’s requirementthat all students and employees receive a COVID-19 vaccine before the start of the fall semester.

Indiana University’s policy, announced this spring, will require all students, faculty and staff in the fall semester to be fully vaccinated either by Aug. 15 or when returning to campus after Aug. 1, whichever is earlier.

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

Protests Underway at St. Luke’s in Meridian Over Employee-Mandated Vaccines

MERIDIAN, Idaho (CBS2) — A group of protesters are currently outside of St. Luke’s in Meridian to show their displeasure with the employer’s decision to mandate vaccines for its employers.

St. Luke’s Health System announced earlier this month that it would mandate employees to get a vaccine — unless they had an approved exemption.

The hospital has set a deadline for its employees to get one by Sept. 1.

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

Sen. Ted Cruz Tells AOC, Sanders, Warren to ‘Get on a Raft’ And Sail to Cuba

On Sunday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) spoke at the Student Action Summit led by Turning Point USA and the Republican senator had very harsh words for several of his Democrat colleagues in Congress over the left’s pro-communism sentiments.

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

Teen Charged in Death of Vietnam Vet Was on Parole for 2020 Carjacking

One of the two suspects charged with killing a Vietnam veteran during an attempted carjacking in Chicago last week was on probation at the time for a 2020 vehicle theft, a report said.

Frank Harris, 18, and Dushawn Williams, 17, have been charged with murdering Keith Cooper, 73, on Wednesday night in a Hyde Park strip mall, Fox 32 reported.

Just last May, Harris was sentenced to two years probation for a carjacking from last September, prosecutors revealed on Saturday, according to the report.

Williams, meanwhile, had a warrant out for his arrest for allegedly driving a stolen car, prosecutors said.

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

Texas Democrats’ Stay in DC to Cost About $1.5m, Lawmaker Says

The tab for Texas Democrats to jet to Washington, DC, and remain in the nation’s capital until next month to forestall Republican-led election legislation is estimated to be about $1.5 million, one of the Lone Star State lawmakers said Monday.

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

‘White Fragility’ Author Robin Diangelo Claims Her Anti-White Activism Extends Black People’s Lifespans ‘One Hour Longer’

Robin DiAngelo, bestselling author of the anti-White book “White Fragility,” stated in a recent interview that complaining about White racism could “could translate to one hour longer on somebody’s life” because “the chronic stress of racism, for black people and other people of color — literally, it shortens their lives.”

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

Wisconsin: Movement for Forensic Audit Develops in Legislature as Citizens Flood Capitol With Affidavits

Wisconsinites are demanding that their legislative leaders provide them a full forensic audit in the Badger State, and now there is movement in the state legislature to get it done. Wisconsin was the site of the infamous early-morning paper-ballot dump in Milwaukee after the state’s vote-counting froze on Election Night as President Donald Trump was dominating nationally. The Milwaukee election chief Claire Woodall-Vogg was infamously caught on camera illegally counting paper ballots without observers present.

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

Woman Comments on Police ‘Most Wanted’ Post About Her, Gets Arrested

She’s a criminal oversharer.

Oklahoma police tracked down a suspect on their “Most Wanted” list — after she asked about reward money in a reply to their Facebook post about her alleged crime, authorities said.

Lorraine Graves was busted on a charge of accessory to murder after she commented on a Tulsa Police Department post on Wednesday that listed her as the force’s “Weekly Most Wanted.”

Graves replied to the post, saying, “where’s the reward money at?,” a screenshot of her post shows.

Detectives arrested her Thursday in north Tulsa, according to the department. Her bond is set at $500,000, cops said.

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

Bill C-10 ‘Caused Adverse Reactions,’ Legislators to Use Summer Recess to Amend the Controversial Legislation

A Canadian Heritage briefing note acknowledged a bill mandating first-ever internet regulations “has caused adverse reactions” and expect it will be amended in the Senate.

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

Breaking: Fully Vaccinated Americans Can Resume Travel to Canada August 9

The Trudeau Liberals announced Monday that fully vaccinated Americans can resume non-essential travel into Canada beginning August 9, permitting they received two doses of approved COVID-19 vaccines two weeks before travel.

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

Pastor Artur Pawlowski’s Son Held in COVID Jail Despite Negative COVID Test

Normally, when we hear about a Pawlowski being thrown in jail, we expect to see Pastor Artur Pawlowski or his brother Dawid being locked up for daring to gather for worship or, heaven forbid, feeding the homeless. But this time it is Artur’s eldest son, Nathaniel, who has been thrown into a different kind of jail — a COVID jail.

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

Security Guard Stabbed ‘Multiple Times’ While Trying to Stop Shoplifter in Vancouver; Suspect Arrested

VANCOUVER — A Vancouver security guard is recovering from serious injuries after being stabbed multiple times while trying to stop a shoplifter over the weekend.

The Vancouver Police Department said they were called just before 10 a.m. Sunday, after a security guard working at a drug store near Thurlow and Davie streets was reportedly stabbed.

Police didn’t say which store the security guard was working at, but there is a Shoppers Drug Mart in that area.

Officers gave the victim first aid until paramedics arrived and took him to hospital.

Police said the suspect left before officers got to the scene but they were able to quickly identify him. They connected him to a building in the Downtown Eastside and arrested him at about 7 p.m…

           — Hat tip: Dean [Return to headlines]
 

Austria: ‘Havana Syndrome’-Like Mystery Illness Affects Vienna US Diplomats

The US government is investigating a series of health incidents in the Austrian capital Vienna involving its diplomats and other administration staff.

More than 20 officials have reported symptoms similar to Havana Syndrome — a mystery brain illness — since President Joe Biden took office in January.

The syndrome is unexplained, but US scientists say it is most probably caused by directed microwave radiation.

It was first found in Cuba in 2016-17.

US and Canadian diplomats in Havana complained of symptoms ranging from dizziness, loss of balance, hearing loss and anxiety to something they described as “cognitive fog”.

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

Belgium Takes Back the Women and Children of Former Islamic State Fighters

Belgium allowed and organized the return of ten children and six women from Syrian internment camps for former Islamic State (IS) fighters. It is the largest group allowed to return after the fall of the Islamic State in 2019, BBC reported. Three women and seven children, on the other hand, rejected the offer to go to Belgium.

In recent years, hundreds of people, including women, have left for Syria and Iraq to fight for the Islamic State. Some had children during the fighting. However, after the fall of this terrorist organization, hundreds of women and children remained blocked in internment camps. From Belgium, 400 people joined the Islamic State, which is one of the highest numbers in Europe.

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

British Celebrate ‘Freedom Day’ As COVID Restrictions Ease, Worrying Health Experts

Pent-up Brits let loose Monday to celebrate pandemic restrictions easing, partying it up in nightclubs for what they have dubbed “Freedom Day” — even as new infections soared to the highest levels seen in months.

“I’m absolutely ecstatic,” Lorna Feeney, who was out celebrating at Bar Fibre, a club in Leeds, told the Associated Press.

“That’s my life, my soul — I love dancing. It bonds me. It’s amazing. It makes me feel so good.”

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

COVID Vaccination Centres Vandalised in France

Two vaccination centres have been ransacked in France, as people protested against the introduction of tougher coronavirus rules.

One site in south-east France was vandalised and flooded using fire hoses on Friday night, authorities said.

A day later, another clinic in the south-west was partially destroyed by an arson attack, local media reported.

The incidents came on a weekend of demonstrations. More than 100,000 came out to protest on Saturday.

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

France: Macron Forced to Back Down on Mandating Vaccine Passports for Shopping Malls After Nationwide Protests

French President Emmanuel Macron has been forced to back down on imposing mandatory vaccine passports for entry to shopping malls after volatile nationwide protests.

As we highlighted last week, Macron’s announcement that proof or vaccination or a negative test would be required to visit shopping malls, restaurants bars, hospitals, bars, cafe’s and access public transport sparked immediate demonstrations.

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

France: Watch: Bandits Crash Car Into Bank During Botched Robbery in Paris

Thieves attempting to rob a bank in Paris left empty-handed, despite crashing their car into an ATM outside the building, according to reports.

Video footage of the botched heist has been viewed over one million times on Twitter alone.

A thug in a motorcycle helmet can be seen trying to kick in a door at a BRED bank in broad daylight on Friday.

An accomplice driving a Peugeot coupe then attempts to ram the entrance to a cash machine, badly damaging the vehicle.

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

Italian Museum Tests Using Invasive Camera Technology to Analyze Visitors

These days it seems almost every business and institution wants to grab as much data as possible, creating a world where everything is decided by algorithms.

A museum in Bologna is testing camera technology to study how visitors see pieces of art as part of its reopening in Italy. The camera scans the observers of the artwork and collects information on them.

As Italy’s museums and galleries return to the public in the hopes of reimbursing some of the 190 million Euro in revenue lost during lockdowns, a new data initiative is being used by administrators in determining which works of art are the most popular.

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

Outside Pressure Forges Ties Between Visegrad Countries

Speaking following a camp in Slovakia this summer, Németh said that Central Europe needs to be strengthened, and an important component of this is the need to connect countries, especially in the field of infrastructure. At the same time, the participants of the forum in Slovakia said the deepening of economic and trade relations are of key importance, Németh emphasized.

He added that they all agreed that the greatest strength of the Visegrad cooperation is that it is based on voluntary attendance, so countries work together on issues where they have common interests.

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

Pope Bans Latin Masses From Parish Churches

Situation “pains and concerns me’ Francis tells world’s bishops

(ANSA) — VATICAN CITY, JUL 16 — Pope Francis on Friday banned the celebration of Mass in Latin and according to rites predating the Second Vatican Council from parish churches across the Catholic world.

Latin Masses where the priest stands towards the altar rather than towards the faithful will henceforth be banned in those churches, the pope said in a Motu Proprio order.

Francis wrote to the world’s Catholic bishops saying the situation with old-style, pre Vatican II rites “pains and concerns me”.

He said the “pastoral intentions of my predecessors, aimed at a desire for unity, were often gravely flouted”.

           — Hat tip: Insubria [Return to headlines]
 

Spain: Illegal Drinking Out of Control in Palma!

Thousands of young people are being caught drinking illegally in the streets and plazas in Palma every weekend.

Local and National Police Officers and Police Intervention Unit Officers were deployed to Playa de Palma on Saturday and Sunday to control around 12,000 people who were roaming the streets in the early hours of the morning.

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

UK COVID Surveillance Officer Used Data to Track Down Student on Instagram

In this technology-wrapped world, security and privacy cases are not diminishing and the more data that is collected on people (especially the excess data collected during the coronavirus saga), the more it can be put to bad use.

An operator at the UK NHS Test and Trace exploited his authority to send a female student messages on social media by using her personal information on the COVID surveillance system to track her down.

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

UK Mandates Vaccine Passports, Despite Its Own Vaccine Minister Calling Them “Discriminatory”

Four days after UK Vaccine Minister Nadhim Zahawi insisted that vaccine passports would be “discriminatory” if they were “just vaccine,” the UK government has announced that COVID-19 vaccine passports will be mandatory for nightclubs and “other venues where large crowds gather.”

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

UK: ‘Treat Vaccinated People Differently’ To Avoid Quarantine ‘Pingdemic’, Says Blair

Former Labour prime minister Tony Blair has again called for the unvaccinated to be treated differently to the vaccinated, this time saying those who have had the shot should have a quicker process of exiting quarantine to mitigate against a “pingdemic”.

Despite Monday the 19th of July being touted as the long-awaited ‘Freedom Day’, where most restrictions have been lifted in England, there remains the order for all Britons to self-isolate if ordered to do so by through Nation Health Service (NHS) Covid Test and Trace app, which alerts users if they have been in contact with someone who has the Chinese coronavirus.

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

UK: Anti-Lockdown Protests Held in London Hours After Final COVID-19 Restrictions Lifted in England

SCOTLAND YARD SAID 11 people have been arrested amid an anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine protest in Westminster, which saw demonstrators block a road and force traffic to a standstill on so-called “freedom day”.

Protesters held signs and chanted “freedom” as they gathered in Parliament Square on today after almost all remaining coronavirus restrictions were lifted in England.

The Metropolitan Police said, shortly after 3pm, that officers continued to respond to the demonstration in central London and that 11 people had been arrested for a variety of offences.

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

UK: Campus Crazies: University Claims English is the ‘Language of the Coloniser’

English “operated as a language of the coloniser,” the University of East Anglia has told students in the latest push to decolonise the curriculum in Britain.

The School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia has decided to abandon teaching its Literature In History II module, which included works from William Shakespeare and East Anglia alumni and Nobel Prize laureate Kazuo Ishiguro.

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

UK: Exclusive Video: Leftist MP Diane Abbott, BLM Protesters Take Knee in ‘Solidarity’ With Footballers

Labour MP Diane Abbott and a group of leftist protesters “took the knee” outside Number 10 Downing Street in “solidarity” with three black footballers who allegedly received racist abuse after they all missed penalty kicks in England’s loss to Italy in the Euros final.

A group of around 100 Stand Up To Racism protesters were filmed by Breitbart London taking the knee on Saturday outside the official residence of the Prime Minister, chanting “Black Lives Matter”, “no justice, no peace”, and “Boris Johnson, Priti Patel, go to Hell”.

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

UK: Fines Handed Out to COVID Law Breakers Over Lockdown in Bolton

THOUSANDS of fines have been handed out by Greater Manchester Police for pandemic rule-breaking over the last 16 months.

Many of the fines still being dealt with in courts relate to gatherings made at the height of last year’s restrictions, when it was illegal to gather with others indoors or out.

The fines handed out by the courts vary — from not wearing a face covering in a supermarket to travelling to another area while in the tiered system.

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

UK: Government Advisor Admits Masks Are Just “Comfort Blankets” That Do Virtually Nothing

As the UK Government heralds “freedom day” today, which is anything but, a prominent government scientific advisor has admitted that face masks do very little to protect from coronavirus and are basically just “comfort blankets”.

Dr Colin Axon, a SAGE advisor for the government told the London Telegraph that medics have given people a “cartoonish” view of how how microscopic viruses travel through the air, and the masks have gaps in them that are up to 5000 times bigger than Covid particles.

“The small sizes are not easily understood but an imperfect analogy would be to imagine marbles fired at builders’ scaffolding, some might hit a pole and rebound, but obviously most will fly through,” Axon said.

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

UK: London COVID: Man Cleared of Huge Illegal Lockdown Rave After Police Fail to Attend Court

A man accused of organising a huge illegal lockdown rave in South London has avoided a fine after the two police officers due to give evidence against him failed to turn up to court.

Robert Bagot, 33, was charged with helping to organise a rave in Childers Street, Deptford, during the second national lockdown on November 22 last year.

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

UK: London’s Khan ‘Disappointed’ Govt Didn’t Mandate Continued Mask-Wearing

Labour’s Sadiq Khan has said he was “disappointed” that the national government did not mandate continued mask-wearing on public transport after the London mayor ordered travellers to continue to cover their faces on Transport for London (TfL) services after ‘Freedom Day’.

While most of England is free to abandon masks for shopping and travel on public systems, London’s Mayor Khan tweeted out reminders that “face coverings are compulsory on TfL” as he launched the “Welcome back London” campaign to woo people onto buses and the Tube again.

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

UK: More Than 100 Caught at Illegal Rave as Organiser Faces £10,000 Fine

An illegal rave organiser faces a £10,000 fine after more than 100 people were caught at a Covid-19 rule-breaking event in North Warwickshire.

Safer Neighbourhood Team officers, local patrol officers, the Roads Policing Unit, dog section and the police helicopter was used to bring the Covid-19 rule-breaking event to an abrupt end in Coleshill.

They found more than 100 people were at the unlicensed music event on Friday night (July 16).

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

UK: Media Outlet Mocks ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ Then Admits They Might be Right After YouTube Bans Protest Video

A media outlet that mocked ‘conspiracy theorists’ for protesting against lockdown in London on ‘freedom day’ was forced to admit they might be right after YouTube deleted their video of the protest for contradicting the World Health Organization.

Guido Fawkes, which is supposed to be a conservative outlet yet has slavishly supported lockdown, published a story earlier today in which it ridiculed the protesters, asserting, “Guido can’t understand why these protesters have chosen today of all days to protest…”

Oh I don’t know, Guido, maybe the fact that the government just announced vaccines will be mandatory to enter nightclubs, large venues and potentially even pubs by the end of September.

Maybe they were protesting against that?

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UK: On ‘Freedom Day’, Boris Johnson Announces Mandatory Vaccine Passports

On the occasion labeled ‘freedom day’, the UK government announced that vaccine passports would be mandatory to enter “crowded venues” from the end of September.

Gee, I feel so free!

After initially denying that domestic, vaccine passports would ever be introduced, Boris Johnson’s government feverishly set about creating the framework for them.

Now on the very day that all coronavirus restrictions were supposed to be lifted, the UK’s vaccines minister has announced what basically amounts to medical apartheid.

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UK: Report: Vaccine Passports Now May be Demanded for Office Workers

The British government has suggested that not only should so called vaccine passports by used by clubs, pubs and restaurants, but also that office workers should be subject to the system in order to return to their jobs.

The London Telegraph reports that the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has indicated that the pass system should be adopted in everyday workplaces.

The DHSC document states that “As many as 10.4 million people have now signed up to the NHS App, with over 6 million new users since the COVID-19 vaccination status service was added on 17 May.”

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Ben & Jerry’s: We Will Not Sell Our Products in the “Occupied Palestinian Territories”

The Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company announced Monday that it would end all sales in Judea and Samaria, caving to the BDS movement.

“Ben & Jerry’s will end sales of our ice cream in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,” the company stated.

“We believe it is inconsistent with our values for Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to be sold in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). We also hear and recognize the concerns shared with us by our fans and trusted partners,” the statement said,[…]

[Time to bury Ben & Jerry]

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Leak Exposes Global Abuse of Cyber-Spying Weapon to Target Politicians, Activists, & Journalists

As Ed Snowden warned in a tweet when the story broke this weekend, “this leak is going to be the story of the year.”

Southfront reports that an Israeli company’s spyware was used in attempted and successful hacks of 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, government officials and human rights activists around the world, according to an investigation by 17 media organizations, published on July 18th.

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Russia Blocks Access to Czech Radio Broadcast

Russia’s Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare blocked the Russian website of Czech Radio (Ceský rozhlas) because of an article about Czech martyr Jan Palach from 2001. According to Czech Radio, the entire website of its broadcast in Russia is not available.

The URL address (https://ruski.radio.cz/yan-palah-i-ego-posledovateli-8037218) now appears in the official Russian list of blocked sites. The details only state that the decision to include the site in the register was taken on May 17 this year.

According to the information obtained by the iRozhlas.cz server, the Russian authority justified the restriction of access by saying that the article, entitled Jan Palach and his followers, promotes suicide. The text recalled the act of 20-year-old Palach, who burned himself in the center of Prague in January 1969 in protest against the Soviet occupation of what was then Czechoslovakia.

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Australia Deports, Revokes Visa of UK Commentator Katie Hopkins for Breaching Quarantine

Authored by Henry Jom via The Epoch Times

British conservative commentator Katie Hopkins will be deported back to the UK following her comments on social media that she breached Australia’s quarantine rules while in Sydney.

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Czech Interior Minister Mulls Sending Police Officers to Help Lithuania With Migrants

The Czech Republic could help Lithuania with the influx of migrants from Belarus, either financially or by sending police officers. The situation was discussed by the State Security Council on Friday morning, announced Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Jan Hamacek. The government should discuss concrete steps during today’s meeting.

“It is clear that Lithuania needs help. The Belarusian regime imports migrants from the Middle East and Central Asia to Belarus in an organized manner. Then they desert them by the Lithuanian border,” said Hamacek.

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EU Agency to Help Monitor Lithuanian Border Amid Surge in Migrants From Belarus

The European Union’s border agency says it will deploy 60 guards next week to monitor Lithuania’s frontier amid an influx of migrants crossing illegally from Belarus, a move seen as revenge by Minsk after the bloc imposed a new round of sanctions on Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s repressive regime.

Frontex Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri, on a trip to Vilnius amid a flood of migrant crossings unleashed by Lukashenka in recent months, said on July 19 that the EU was “facing something that is unprecedented.”

“It’s the first time in history that Frontex has to deploy such an operation in this region of the European Union,” Leggeri said.

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Greece: “Islamic Police” in the Centre of Athens Are Terrorising People

The centre of Athens is at the mercy of gangs of migrants and the so-called “Islamic Police”, which forces people to observe Islamic rules.

The actions of a complex criminal organisation and the so-called “Moutawins”, also known as the Islamic Police, check that Islamic Sharia Law is observed and cause terror among thousands of peaceful refugees and immigrants living in Athens.

People trying to live their lives in peace are harassed by savage criminals and the fanatical Islamic Police, To Vima reported.

In the case of the “Islamic Police”, according to complaints that have come to light, extremists patrol the main hangout areas of migrants, terrorising and enforce religious laws on people outside of Greek law.

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Illegal Migrants Hiding in Watermelons Detained in Poland

Illegal migrants are becoming increasingly versatile in the ways they are trying to reach Western Europe.

13 migrants were detained by the Bieszczady Border Guard Unit. Some of them travelled to Poland hidden in watermelons, while others crossed the green border with Ukraine on foot or even on their knees. Their goal was to reach France and Germany.

According to the press officer of the Bieszczady Border Guard Unit major Elzbieta Pikor, among the most recently detained foreigners, there were 4 Afghanis, 2 Turks, 4 from Tibet, 2 from Sri Lanka and 1 Pakistani.

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UK: Channel Crossings: Fifty People Land on Kent Beach in Single Dinghy

A group of about 50 people have crossed the English Channel and landed on a Kent beach in a single dinghy.

Photographs show dozens of people, including women and young children, arriving at Dungeness on Monday.

On Sunday, eight boats carrying 241 migrants reached the UK, the Home Office said. Nearly 8,000 people have reached the UK in about 345 boats in 2021.

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UK: Migrant Crossings: Five Times a New Daily Record Was Set

At least 430 migrants crossed to the UK on small boats on Monday — a new single-day record.

The PA news agency, which tracks and analyses numbers of crossings, has compiled a list of five days in the last two years when a new record was set.

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Transgender Biological Male Cleared to Compete in Women’s Weightlifting in Tokyo Olympics

In continuing with the total farce this year’s Olympics has become thanks to Tokyo’s overzealous response to Covid, the International Olympic Committee has given the “all clear” for a transgender biological male to compete on behalf of New Zealand in the women’s weightlifting super-heavyweight category.

43 year old Laurel Hubbard’s inclusion “does not violate the current rules on the books,” the committee ruled, according to the New York Post. She would be the first transgender athlete to compete in the Olympic Games, despite the fact that transgender athletes have been allowed to compete in the Olympics since 2015.

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Virginia School Board Rejects State Government’s New Transgender Inclusion Policies

In a unanimous vote, Russell County School Board roundly rejected the Virginia Department of Education’s (VDOE)’s policy on trans students on Thursday.

The policy was approved by the VDOE late last year, but the school board felt that it could not in good conscience enforce its terms.

According to the Daily Wire, the VDOE’s policy directs individual schools to “accept a student’s assertion of their gender identity without requiring any particular substantiating evidence, including diagnosis, treatment, or legal documents.”

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38 thoughts on “Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/19/2021

  1. Watermelons are a racist construct of the white male patriarchy.
    Now that Western Civ is conquered and destroyed by a fifth column of traitors, humiliation and the eventual genocide of YT is on the menu.

    • I/m just wondering what is that ” Western civilization” you mention about ?
      Auschwitz ? Yalta ? 11 mln murdered in Belgian Congo ? German Death Camps in Namibia or thousands other pinnacles of Civ cultural achievements

      • To the victors always go the spoils. Soon you will see the backlash on steroids as us westerners object to our own demise.

        • You wish..Will never happen..
          They will finish with you at no time..
          You are not even able to protect your own daughters and Woman..
          You are NOT Man anymore in the West..just genetic and cultural Mutants without the bools.
          You don’t even remember anymore what mean to be a MAN and how the MAN looks like !
          Western man/Slavic Man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNNQx-b9AYc

        • There never been ” western culture”..
          Post Roman Christian-Latin based since fall of Roman Empire in 2 parts..
          I/m a Pole..We believe in Culture based on 10 Commends and EQUALITY of Man..
          We are rejecting AngloSaxon Culture of Death and Cultural Supremacy..
          We Roman Catholic are far away from heretic Lutheran-Calvinist,Protestant Masonic Ideology which serve as a base for such a abomination as ” western culture”..

  2. Doesn’t a society, like Britain these days, deserve to go under when letting themselves be invaded without any response or defence?
    For Brits and Irish this has to be frightening. Creatures less than a generation out of Africa, Pakistan and Turkey crash landing a country once reliably civilised is now being bloodied to be more heathen unreliable and chaotic. The messed up females. Where is another generation coming from?

    • It’s the inevitable result of allowing anyone over a certain age who can fog a mirror with their mouth breathing to elect those who then proceed to destroy whats left of the nation that had once built an empire that circled the planet. Provide dysgenic incentives to encourage the dumbest and most irresponsible to breed like islamists all while flooding your country with islamists and why should one be surprised by the result?

      Of course this has only accelerated exponentially within the last several years. British and Western civilization effectively was murdered by those same two pistol bullets that ended the Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sophie followed by the years of mindless slaughter in the mud and trenches of the flower of an entire generation and the civilization that they represented.

  3. A wise man said “no one on their deathbed wishes they had spent more time at work”. A bit of wisdom becoming the motto for many perhaps?

  4. Another one of Biden’s “walk-back” comments, when asked about his role in the Army’s military readiness he replied, “Gee, I Joe?”

  5. Re USA: Second item. Wait till they find out Taylor Swift has made donations to a couple of American symphony orchestras. She’s obviously a white supremacist, along with her fans.

    What’s that? All culture is for all people, performers and audiences, if it appeals? You waycist!

  6. This is very funny. If it happened anywhere in the West, the media would scream about Islamophobia with foam at the mouth.
    It was back in June
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    Yesterday, on the territory of the Cold Storage Plant (ice cream is made there), the residents of Kirov noticed armed men.

    As told in the FSB of the Russian Federation on June 10, the exercises took place. So, according to legend, armed people entered the territory of the Cold Storage Plant, seizing and holding workers in one of the buildings of the enterprise. Two employees of the enterprise received gunshot wounds. Law enforcement officers who arrived at the Cold Storage Plant reported that a tanker truck with a machine gun attached to it, which had signs of an improvised explosive device, was found near the ammonia containers.

    The unknown, who took hostages, put forward a demand on behalf of the Islamic state to release the convicted Muslims from the Kirov colonies (There are a lot of prisons – colonies in the vicinity). If the demands were not met, the criminals threatened to kill the hostages and blow up the ammonia tank.

    The head of the region’s FSB department made a decision to conduct a counter-terrorist operation. The criminals refused the offer to surrender. During negotiations with the terrorists, one of the hostages was killed. The head of the counter-terrorist operation made a decision to conduct an emergency military action, during which the criminals blew up an ammonia tank. There are no casualties among the employees of the law enforcement agencies. Measures were taken to minimize and eliminate the consequences of the terrorist attack; no other explosive devices were found.

    https://www.newsler.ru/society/2021/06/11/stalo-izvestno-zachem-na-hladokombinat-prihodili-lyudi-s-avtomatami

      • You seem to not see the big picture dear? For what is happening and affecting us, will at some point affect you and yours, so wake dear, all of Europe and North America is going to be severely and grievously changed when the shooting starts.

        • ” Big picture ” for Slavic World is stay away from ” western culture bastards”..
          There never was and never will be commonality between you and Us..
          Second World War give us clear picture of geo-political reality..
          For now we let Islam to do with you what they intend to do long time and our stupidity prevented..There will be no Gates of Vienna again..
          Without Slavic World help ( 400 millions World-wide) you are worth nothing..
          What we have to do is seat and watch..Let you both get to each others troths..
          After the dust will settle down we simple will come from the East and will finish whats left from yours Wars..
          There will be no much resistance..
          We will take what ours and establish again Ancien Line Sorabicus ( Sorbenmark) on Laba River..
          There will no more ” western culture”..
          We Slavs are patient people..and have long historical memories..We know who is a vilain here..

  7. Ned, I have made a number of postings on several articles and YOU have deleted them. Why? This is the THIRD time in a week and a half. Do you want me to leave GoV permanently because there is something weird going on.

    • No, I don’t want you to leave GoV. But I consider gratuitous insults and invective to be unacceptable, and if there is nothing else but that in a comment, I delete it.

      There is a limit to the amount of vituperation against Catholics that I will accept. My late wife was a Catholic, and I grew up in a Catholic neighborhood, so I’m very familiar with Catholicism. Catholics that I have experience of bear no resemblance to the vicious caricatures that you sometimes post, so there is only so much of it I will tolerate.

      • if anything, pray for them. I was raised catholic and coming to the Lord required crossing a minefield of all the dogma that I had been taught and sincerely believed.

      • I don’t like Abrahamic religions. Some of them cause me a sharp disgust and rejection because of the ideas of “chosenness”. But I would forgive a lot to Catholicism for music, architecture and visual arts.
        An inhuman regime has been established in Russia. The state no longer wants to spend money on orphans and has canceled baby boxes. Even the ROC (which has formed a criminal union with the state – the new “Politburo”) denies mercy to abandoned children. And only the Catholic Church in our city dared to open a baby box. But it was banned by the prosecutor’s office.

      • Thanks Baron ! Preying for and Remembering Dymphna !
        She made everlasting impression on me..Miss her a lot..

      • What about Maria’s constant demonizing Protestants. I guess that is fine with you. But, then I see roman Catholics demonizing my belief every day. [vulgar epithets redacted]
        Enjoy your life of protecting Maria for slander.

        YOU ARE AS BAD AS CNN.

        • Dear Theresa..
          I don’t need to ” demonize” Protestants..
          Their Historical records speak for themselves..
          Look at ” hotbed” of today Protestantism which is Dutch Nederland and Germany..
          The ” future” they are ” cooking” for us in Europe..
          Holland become Tax evasion heaven ,World Money Laundering Capital. Illegal Migration Promoter ,Islam Exporter to Europe, Destroyer Europe Unity and Destroyer of Christianity..
          What you have to do is just travel to Amsterdam and empirically experience above..
          Same about Germany..
          What a Dynamic Duo… Like in SNL sketches ..
          Your Protestant Culture and Ideology are Perverting, Degenerating,Corrupt all good what was coming from Latin based Christianity..Until now…today..
          Drugs,Prostitution ,Abortions,Euthanasia,Money Laundering etc..all in the name of Profit is a Trade Mark of your New Religion..Since Reformation..
          And Jesus ,God in Holly Trinity never has anything to do with your crimes..

    • Theresa wake up !!
      Your soldiers ( fathers and brothers) just in Poland butchered and murder over 7 mln people..All under premises ” Got Mit Uns”..
      What is a real name of your God ?
      What God would allow his faithful commit such atrocities ?
      For us Catholics for sure it isn’t Lord Jezus Chrystus !
      Abandon your Hate toward others whom you see as ” Untermensch ” !
      This Superiority felling you have been poisoned in the West by Generations doesn’t serve you well !

      • Hmmmm?? For some strange reason, you leave out the soviets and what they did to Poland? Rather curious no?

        • My answer is obvious and you well known..
          All this Helish and Evil ideologies arrive from same sources..
          REFORMATION in Germany and Netherlands ( Höhe-Dutch)
          Hegel shaped and give it ideological form,
          Karl Marx,Engels and Rosa Luxemburg make popular and we have Hitler and Auschwitz..
          Soviets was nothing else than German Commie-Fascist International Revolution..
          We in Poland doesn’t make distinction between German ( Fascism-Nazi ) and “soviet” Russian Commie Fascists..
          Una racia una facia..

  8. Well said Maria. However the Islamic lovers of hate and human degradation in their few seconds of infamy have killed slaughtered and enslaved many times more. I will take my chances and fight for and with the non Muslim world.

  9. As a Czech have you forgot Mohacs and White Mountains battle ?
    Osman Turks didin’t take any part of it..
    We in East learned how to deal with Islam..
    Never less ..Western Colonial and Betrayals Culture have to sees to exist..
    They are preparing for us another World War..

    • You haven’t learned anything. You can only run along the streets with wooden sticks, crosses and torches. Because you are allowed to do so by those who place the big chess pieces.
      The will of the people (especially the Slavs) is complete zero.

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