Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/20/2023

The rocket “Starship” launched by SpaceX, the most powerful rocket ever deployed, experienced what was called a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” shortly after it took off — that is, it blew up. Nevertheless, Elon Musk said the launch wasn’t a complete failure, because a lot was learned from what happened.

In other news, as the situation in Sudan devolves into civil war, the Pentagon is preparing to evacuate the American embassy.

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All Your Data Are Belong to Us

I feel obliged to point out that the decision of the German government described in the article below is the default position of the US government concerning the collection of electronic communications. The NSA vacuums up everything that passes through cell phones. Landlines are theoretically exempt, under the law, meaning that only metadata on landline calls is harvested. But I have my doubts that the surveillance state pays any attention to that rule.

I assume that everything that I do is monitored by the government — email, Skype, phone calls, web browsing, the whole enchilada. Simple prudence requires that assumption.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Junge Freiheit:

The state is eavesdropping

Faeser prevails: mobile phones are monitored “without cause”

The interior minister supports EU plans for mandatory scanning of private messages. In doing so, the government is breaking a promise.

Berlin/Brussels

In a joint statement to the EU, the federal government approved the monitoring of private communications, such as e-mails and WhatsApp chats. This emerges from the paper published by netzpolitik.org. The SPD, FDP and Greens had rejected such measures in the coalition agreement.

There it was still stated: “We reject general monitoring obligations, measures to scan private communication and an identification obligation.” This promise no longer applies. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD), who has long insisted on monitoring private mobile phones and computers, has now sent a “joint position” of the Traffic Light Coalition* to the EU, in which the federal government offers no objection to spying on citizens.

Faeser also agrees to “blocking the Internet”

It is primarily about the fight against sexual abuse and child pornography. Because of this danger, the EU Commission wants to oblige the tech giants to scan and monitor the communication of their users “without cause” and obligatorily.

So far, providers such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Google or Apple have only been allowed to do this as a “temporary exception”. According to a planned EU regulation on the prevention and combating of sexual abuse of children, this is now to be tightened. The FDP in particular had firmly rejected this and insisted on the coalition agreement. But she couldn’t prevail. Now that the new regulation has come into force, the state can monitor practically everywhere.

Faeser also agreed to so-called “network blocks” on behalf of the Traffic Light Coalition towards the EU. This means that users can no longer access certain websites. It should now also be possible to block certain IP addresses. This means that specifically selected users can be kept away from Internet sites. Up until now, the federal government had taken the position of “deleting instead of blocking”.

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The Invasion and Ethnic Cleansing of a Small Archipelago

The latest essay by our English correspondent Seneca III provides a broad overview of the Götterdämmerung that is now well underway in the British Isles.

The Invasion and Ethnic Cleansing of a Small Archipelago

by Seneca III

“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.”

— Revelation 6 verse 8 (In the Bible a pale horse is a prominent symbol of death and pestilence.)

Provenance and apologies

Whilst this article is written from a purely UK perspective or, to be precise, an Anglo-Irish one, its primary thrust is applicable across the whole of the Western Ecumene from the Antipodes to the Americas.

Also, it is said that all writing is plagiarism, and I am certain that much of what I write is such. For the best part of eighty years I have been a copious reader across a considerable range of news, literature, history, commentary and opinion and thus I offer my thanks and apologies to any authors who, reading this, recognise a paraphrasing of their own contribution(s) to this dialectic.

Prologue: A soupçon of geography and history

An archipelago is a group of islands closely scattered in a body of water. Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland are the two largest constituents of a windswept archipelago in the North Atlantic lying to the west of Continental Europe. This ancient archipelago is centred on the British mainland at Latitude and Longitude 54° 00′ N and 2° 00′. Overall, it is a roughly linear feature running north to south from the Nordic-influenced Shetland Islands, through the Orkney Islands, the Outer Hebrides, the Isle of Man and finally to the Isle of Wight off the southern coast of England.

In a west-to-east direction, it encompasses the predominantly Catholic Republic of Ireland (Éire) in the south and the far smaller, predominantly Protestant, six counties of Northern Ireland (British). The oft-disputed geological and geopolitical anomaly of the Channel Islands — Guernsey, Jersey, Sark, Herm and the private islet of Jethou (part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey) — lies 100 miles due south from the English mainland at Weymouth and 12 miles due west from the French mainland on the Cotentin Peninsula.

[As an aside, geophysics has determined that the lonely pinnacle of Rockall is part of the land mass that broke off from Europe and hence is also part of the archipelago.]

Once contiguous with mainland Europe, it became separated 450,000 years ago. Stretched by tectonics and pounded by great waters a mega flood finally destroyed the land bridge that had physically connected the islands of Britain with continental Europe for some 10 million years. This crossing, consisting of relatively soft chalk, was approximately 20 miles wide and ran from Dover to Calais.

After the land bridge disappeared the only way that invasive tribes could cross the Channel was by hazarding their lives in fragile, generally unseaworthy boats, something they only managed to accomplish in small numbers owing to the unpredictable weather conditions and dangerous currents, and because in those days our farcical Border Force and the RNLI water taxi services did not exist. Now they come by their hundreds and thousands, parasites and predators all from every failed, primitive socio-economic basket case on the planet.


Proposition I: Britain and Éire are the victims of a successful mass invasion. As a consequence, long-heritage ethnic Caucasians are heading towards becoming a minority in their own lands within a matter of decades and possibly, in the long term, extinction through a process of country-wide xenogamic breeding coupled with a host of genetically damaged children resultant from Muslim consanguineous serial reproduction, all of which will have dire consequences for the future of we native inhabitants. This, then, is the survival challenge of our time as Nazism and Fascism were the challenges of the 1930s and ’40s through until ’45

“…We have explained before that human beings cannot exist except through social organisation and cooperation for the purpose of obtaining their food and other necessities of life. Each one will stretch out their hand for whatever he needs and try to take it since injustice and aggressiveness are in the animal nature.”

— From ‘The Muqaddimah’ (The Classic Islamic History of the World) by Ibn Khaldûn, Chapter Three, Proposition 21, “On dynasties, royal authority, the caliphate, government ranks and all that goes with these things.”

The human predilection to gather in co-operative groupings in order to shape, control and utilise a particular environment for the benefit of all members of a homogeneous community is as old as our species. It is an animal thing, a pack thing, a tribal thing. In zoology, sociology and psychology the phrase ‘territorial imperative’ is used to describe the need to claim and defend a territory, its assets, its physical and historic achievements and the successful socio-political organisation that generated them.

It has been argued that in human terms the intensity of the need to exercise a territorial imperative is inversely proportional to the length of time such a domain has been populated by a particular group who have become morally and ideologically united and are genetically homogenous, not the mongrel products of retrogressive human xenogamy.

Essentially, throughout the Euro-Anglosphere there have evolved those socio-cultural characteristics and modes of conduct that determine and will forever define why and what we are, and so clearly separate us from the descendants of the tribes of Arabian Peninsula, those conquered by them and those of the predominantly feral, low-IQ, predatory and violently unstable African ethnicity.

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Germania Delenda Est

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Peter McCullough’s substack site:

The death of Germany

The US government is ruining Germany

by John Leake

“They make a desert and call it ‘peace.’”
—Calgacus, on the Romans.

My German is rusty, but I am writing and speaking this message in the German language in the hope that it will reach as many Germans as possible.

The US government is ruining Germany. It was American policy in Syria that caused your refugee crisis in 2015. It was American scientists who created the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It was the US administration’s aggressive NATO expansion that ultimately led to Russia’s violent response in Ukraine. It was a US Navy unit that destroyed the Nordstrom pipeline and with it your cheap energy.

I’m a patriotic American. My grandfather fought against the German Wehrmacht in World War II. My great-uncle was killed fighting the German army. I grew up understanding that American politics is good for Germany. No longer. Your chancellor, Scholz, should tell President Biden that it is no longer in Germany’s interests to adhere to American policies.

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All I have to add is: READ THE COMMENTS.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/19/2023

Nine men have been charged with “grooming” offenses in the northern English city of Rotherham. The case has a Mohammed Coefficient of 56%.

In other news, a multi-story parking garage in Lower Manhattan collapsed, pancaking the upper decks onto the cars in the floors below. One person was killed and four others were seriously injured.

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The Great Replacement: French and Italian Perspectives

The videos below, one from France and one from Italy, approach the issue of the Great Replacement from two very different angles.

Many thanks to HeHa for the translations, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling.

The first video is a report from Champigny-sur-Marne, an extremely culturally enriched suburb to the southeast of Paris. Two ethnic French visitors talked to local residents, and were rebuked by a Muslim for videotaping near a mosque without permission:

Francesco Lollobrigida is a member of Fratelli d’Italia, and serves as Minister of Agriculture in the government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Mr. Lollobrigida got himself into a heap o’ trouble at a conference yesterday when he made remarks about the Great Replacement. Discussion of such matters was already a no-no, and became doubleplus ungood after the Christchurch massacre in 2019.

Needless to say, the global media snoids came down on Mr. Lollobrigida like a ton of bricks (see, for example, this BBC article). Here’s what got him into so much trouble:

Video transcript #1:

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Obfuscation Erupted in the Media

For many years the legacy media have identified firearms as the major social problem, one that has to be dealt with by restricting the rights of law-abiding citizens to acquire and retain guns. Whenever some criminal, terrorist, or lunatic blows people away using a gun, politicians and TV talking heads belabor the populace with diatribes about “gun violence” — as if guns made the decision to kill innocent people, rather than maniacs and thugs.

In recent days, however, the issue has moved up a notch to the next level of abstraction. Whenever somebody starts spraying bullets into a crowd, the media reports tell us that “gunfire erupted”. In other woods, there is no agency whatsoever involved in the slaughter — the gunfire just kind of happened, like thunder on a hot summer afternoon.

I’m not sure when “gunfire erupted” became the stock media phrase, but I first noticed it a few days ago. And this morning, while going through items for the news feed, I ran into it twice. First, from NBC News in Alabama:

Four people were killed and 32 injured in the gunfire that erupted at the celebration.

And then NBC News again, in Texas:

Payton Washington, 18, was shot in the leg and the back in the gunfire that erupted around 12:15 a.m. Tuesday in an H-E-B parking lot in Elgin, her father, Kelan Washington, said.

Maybe the phrase is in NBC’s current style book.

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That pesky gunfire just keeps erupting! It’s like cosmic rays — it just happens. The only way to keep people safe is to take away their right to own firearms. That’ll fix it.

Now that I’m aware of the phenomenon, I’ll keep an eye out for more “gunfire erupted” news stories. If I get a large enough collection of them, I may need to do another post.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/18/2023

A man went on a stabbing rampage today in a gym in the German city of Duisburg, seriously wounding at least four patrons. The alleged attacker is still being sought by police. There’s no word yet on whether he mistook the gym for a mosque.

The Swedish company that makes Absolut Vodka announced that it was ceasing exports to Russia, in order to forestall a boycott of its brand.

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Enough With All the Gendering!

The issue of “gendering” raises its ugly head again, this time in Bavaria.

Hellequin GB, who translated the following report, includes this explanatory note about the gendering issue:

They made everything neutered, by the sounds of it, and the vast majority of people got really pissed off about it. In any case, it’s much more difficult in the German language to gender without changing the whole language in itself. I’m not surprised that people got extremely fed up fast with that Marxist nonsense.

The translated article from eXXpress:

“Because it annoys everyone”: Mayor bans gendering

A mayor for the Bavarian CSU is fed up: As the first local chief, Stefan Joachimsthaler has now banned gendering in his community Alling near Munich: “It just annoyed everyone and divided the community,” he says.

Mayor Joachimsthaler is bourgeois-conservative, but by no means old-fashioned. On the contrary: the town hall chief of the 3,500-soul community of Alling near Fürstenfeldbruck in the greater Munich area is up-to-date: always on Facebook, active on Instagram, always in contact with the residents as much as possible. He found: “Gendering annoys everyone, whether men or women.”

Two years ago, Alling also joined the “woke” zeitgeist, switched the community newspaper and all correspondence with the citizens to gendering. After that, there was supposedly an increase in complaints and inquiries.

Congratulations from all over Bavaria for the mayor

The turning point was in the March issue of the Official Journal, in which Joachimsthaler officially declared gendering to be over: “We found that the readers and listeners are more annoyed by the extensive gendering than they approve of it. It disturbs listening and disturbs the flow of reading,” says the mayor.

Since then, the Upper Bavarian world seems to be in order again in Alling. As in the past, the residents are again addressed and written to with “Dear citizen”. In the town hall, the reactions received have been almost entirely positive.

“It hit like a bomb,” says Joachimsthaler happily. He was not only congratulated in the district of Fürstenfeldbruck; positive feedback came from all over Bavaria.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/17/2023

An 85-year-old Kansas City white man named Andrew Lester has been charged with shooting a 16-year-old black boy who knocked on his front door by mistake. The teenage victim, Ralph Yarl, was hospitalized with gunshot wounds, but is now recovering at home. Mr. Lester has been charged with assault in the first degree.

In other news, Marine Le Pen, the leader of Rassemblement National (National Rally) in France, expressed her disagreement with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on major issues. In particular, she took exception to Ms. Meloni’s support for the EU and NATO.

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Germany Says Goodbye to Nuclear Power Plants

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Pleiteticker.de. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

Bavarian Ministry of Energy: Around 4.2 million tons more CO2 by shutting down Isar 2

Green politicians and their supporters claim that the end of nuclear power is a good day for climate protection. The facts speak a different language. According to estimates by the Bavarian State Ministry of Energy, shutting down the Isar 2 nuclear power plant alone will result in additional emissions of 4.2 million CO2 per year. [Applause, applause, applause]

According to the Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, the shutdown of the Bavarian nuclear power plant Isar 2 alone will result in significantly higher CO2 emissions. “Assuming that the annual electricity volume lost from the Isar 2 nuclear power plant is replaced with the German electricity mix for 2021, the shutdown will result in an additional 4.2 million tons of CO2 per year,” the ministry responded to a request from Pleitticker.de . For comparison: That corresponds to around 1.8 million long-haul flights from Munich to New York or 52.5 million car journeys from Berlin to Hamburg.

Today’s nuclear phase-out is often presented as a success for climate protection. The environmental organization Greenpeace has described the end of the use of nuclear energy in Germany as a “good day” for climate protection, according to the nuclear phase-out lobby group “ausgestrahlt” (no more radiation) the phase-out is “already a great benefit for the climate”. The figures from the Bavarian State Ministry show that the opposite is true. [What can one expect otherwise from complete ideological retards? Everything that contradicts their “Gospel of Doom” is heretical and needs to be destroyed for the “greater good” — which is simply the standard excuse for each and every tyrant.]

Bavaria’s Minister-President [Markus] Söder spoke out vehemently against the shutdown at a performance in front of the Isar 2 nuclear power plant this week. He described it as a “grave mistake to phase out nuclear energy at this point in time. It is an “energy policy sin and a real danger for Germany.” [Could it be that this guy speaks sense for once? I’m shocked.]

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Yes, and….?

Is that why the Greens are being voted out of the Bavarian state parliament? According to the polls, NO. In other words, Munich is on fast-track to become the new Berlin, if it’s not there already. Goodbye Bavaria, goodbye Germany; it was nice knowing you 30-odd years ago. Now I even wouldn’t want to be buried there.

Go Woke? Go Broke!

The latest sensational story of the ongoing culture wars is the sordid tale of Dylan Mulvaney, Alissa Heinerscheid, and the self-immolation of the Bud Light brand by Anheuser Busch. Our Dutch correspondent H. Numan examines the crisis from a larger commercial and cultural perspective.

Go woke? Go broke!

by H. Numan

Folks, I’m a bit of a beer aficionado and I studied marketing. I was also lucky enough to live close to the biggest specialty beer store in the city and close to Belgium where they have the largest variety and best beers in the world. I don’t drink beer to quench my thirst, but as a hobby. I find the whole ruckus around Bud Light hilarious and sad at the same time. Sad how this could happen, hilarious in that Anheuser Busch really believes they can get away with it.

Don’t get me wrong here. America is great, except for its beers. Your beers are the rock bottom end. Lite beers are proof you can’t go any lower, otherwise they’d have done it. I have sampled beers from around the world, in every country I have been to. American beers — with the exception of specialty beers and micro breweries — are lacking in any kind of flavoring. It’s mass marketed to the biggest audience possible. Lite beers are even worse. In Europe it would be considered a children’s drink. Actually, a Snow White or Shandy is just that: a glass with ⅓ beer, ⅔ lemonade, usually 7 Up or Sprite. It contains less alcohol than a lite beer, and is often served within the family to children and teenagers. My parents were teetotalers but Shandy was okay. We got one glass on occasion.

American beers used to be better, a lot better. Then came Prohibition, which bankrupted most breweries. After Prohibition only the biggest brewers survived. They decided to consolidate their position by going for quantity, not quality. This strangely, mysteriously even, was a decision they all took. Of course that wasn’t a cartel. The very idea! We all decided at the same time that we would lower the quality as low as the customer is willing to accept. Purely coincidental.

In the ’70s the biggest player dropped out: Schlitz. Many reasons why, but a big one was that Schlitz started to use corn syrup and chemicals to cut the corners. The other brewers learned a lesson: don’t tell anyone! All of them at the same time came up a bit later with a beer that is barely a beer: lite beers. Less alcohol with the cheapest ingredients possible.

Again, don’t get me wrong. Americans have been drinking sub-standard beers for well over a century. You are used to bland beers, just as I am used to bland Dutch food. I don’t particularly like spicy Thai food — for the same reason. I’m used to bland food.

When a company can lose $7 billion without going bankrupt immediately, and even try to pretend nothing bad has happened, they must have very deep pockets. In reality, the profit margin on beer is low. Especially on lite beers. Economy of scale makes up for it. The profit per glass is just a penny or so, certainly not a dime. The volume makes it all not only worthwhile, but immensely profitable. That’s economy of scale.

It’s very difficult to enter such a market. You need sufficient buyers for your new product. That means marketing, and marketing is expensive. You can’t get enough buyers because you don’t have the money for marketing. You won’t get the money because they competition operates on razor thin margins. It’s a closed market.

But it works both ways. The brewers have closed the beer market; the drinkers require the drinks they are accustomed to. Brewers aren’t worried about foreign brands. Sure, Heineken (a mediocre Dutch brand) is widely available. But it doesn’t sell in the same league. Nor will it ever. Because of the price difference, the taste and the alcohol content.

That brings us to the market. Who drinks Bud Light? As Ms. Alissa Heinerscheid knows and resents, mostly frat boys and blue-collar workers. They have different reasons for drinking flavored water. The frat boys (and frat girls, hi Alissa!) want to drink as much as possible. Blue-collar workers like a couple of beers after work to relax without getting drunk.

So, economy of scale works fine for the American market. Both producers and consumers are happy. That’s all that matters.

Let’s have a look at marketing. Years ago I saw the very first soap commercial broadcast on Dutch TV, now 60 years ago. It is exactly the same as today! Yes, the clothing is updated, the speech is updated, the kitchen is updated. Father doesn’t wear a hat anymore, nor does he smoke a pipe. The message is exactly the same. Almost word for word. Why?

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/16/2023

Late last night there was a mass shooting at a “sweet 16” birthday party in the town of Dadeville, Alabama. Four people were killed and 28 others were wounded. As of this writing, there are apparently no suspects in custody.

In other news, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva proposed that he and other BRICS leaders broker a peace agreement in Ukraine.

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