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Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/16/2024

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Some news analysts surmise that the Assyrian bishop who was stabbed in Sydney was targeted due to his outspoken views on Covid-19 lockdowns, homosexuality, and non-Christian religions, including Judaism and Islam. Meanwhile, police stood guard around mosques in parts of Sydney.

In other news, the Ontario Court of Justice has told participants to ensure that all parties involved clearly state their preferred pronouns.

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Thanks to Daniel Greenfield, DV, Fjordman, JW, MM, Reader from Chicago, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Artificial Intelligence vs. Artificial Ideology

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In my limited experience, the online Artificial Intelligence assistants seem to be basically like Wikipedia — that is, when the topic is not political or otherwise fraught, they’re a good, coherent source of well-organized factual information. But as soon as the subject veers into sensitive politically correct areas — which are constantly expanding — the bots will shoehorn whatever they talk about into the Narrative, no matter how much they have to torque the facts.

The following report is from the European Institute for Climate and Energy (Europäisches Institut für Klima und Energie). Many thanks to Hellequin GB for the translation:

Artificial Intelligence vs. Artificial Ideology

by Prof. Dr. Klaus D. Döhler

Today I asked the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT some questions about CO2. If you ask the right question, you will get answers that make sense:

Question to ChatGPT: Why are aquariums gassed with CO2?

ChatGPT: Aquariums are often gassed with CO2 to provide the plants in the aquarium with additional carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is an important nutrient for plants, helping them grow and produce oxygen through photosynthesis. By adding CO2, aquarium plants can grow healthier and improve water quality.

Question to ChatGPT: Why would there be no life on earth without CO2?

ChatGPT: Without CO2 there would be no life on earth because carbon dioxide plays an essential role in the cycle of life. Plants need CO2 for photosynthesis, where they produce carbohydrates and release oxygen. Oxygen, in turn, is essential for breathing in animals, including humans. The carbon captured by photosynthesis in plants enters the food chains and webs and forms the basis for the entire ecosystem. Without CO2, this vital process would come to a standstill and life as we know it could not exist.

Question to ChatGPT: Which metabolic processes does CO2 stimulate in the human body?

ChatGPT: CO2 plays an important role in the metabolism of the human body, particularly related to the regulation of pH in the blood and tissues. When CO2 is created in the body, it reacts with water to form carbonic acid, which in turn affects pH. This pH value is crucial for the normal functioning of enzymes and other biochemical processes in the body.

Furthermore, CO2 plays an important role in the regulation of breathing. An increase in CO2 levels in the blood stimulates respiration, resulting in more CO2 being removed from the body to maintain normal pH and prevent CO2 accumulation in the blood.

In addition, CO2 is involved in other metabolic processes, such as: B. the regulation of hemoglobin in the blood, which transports oxygen, as well as the regulation of the acid-base balance and blood circulation.

Question to ChatGPT: Can humans survive without CO2?

ChatGPT: No, humans cannot survive without CO2. CO2 is a natural product of metabolism in the human body. It is produced as a byproduct of various metabolic processes, particularly respiration and the production of energy from nutrients. The body must remove the produced CO2 from the body through breathing, as a buildup of CO2 in the blood can lead to a shift in the acid-base balance and ultimately lead to life-threatening conditions. So CO2 is essential for the human organism, but excessive accumulation can be dangerous.

Question for ChatGPT: What would happen if you removed all CO2 from the air?

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Magdi Allam: The Islamization of a Decadent Civilization

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Magdi Allam is an apostate from Islam who was born in Egypt and now lives in Italy. He converted to Roman Catholicism and was baptized during the Vatican’s 2008 Easter Vigil service in St. Peter’s Basilica, which was presided over by Pope Benedict XVI. Long-time readers will remember that Mr. Allam was a featured speaker at our Brussels Conference in 2012.

In the following video Magdi Allam talks about Islam’s demographic conquest of Europe. Many thanks to HeHa for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/15/2024

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An Assyrian Christian Bishop, Mar Mari Emmanuel, was stabbed tonight during his sermon at Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, a western suburb of Sydney, Australia. The attacker was a 15-year-old (some reports say 16-year-old) boy who shouted “Allahu Akhbar” during his attack. Early reports said that angry parishioners mobbed the assailant and cut off his fingers, but police later said that the disturbed youth had severed his own finger. The attacker is in custody, and the bishop is in the hospital in stable condition.

In other news, when Israeli forces from the Golani Brigade crossed the border into southern Lebanon, Hezbollah detonated explosive devices, wounding at least four Israeli soldiers.

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Junior Sharia Police Enforce Ramadan in Alsace

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Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from the French weekly Le Journal du Dimanche:

An adolescent (13) attacked for not respecting Ramadan

In Achenheim, (Bas Rhin [Alsace]), a 13-year-old minor was beaten by four Muslim minors who reproached her for not respecting the Ramadan fast while getting off a bus going to their school. Accompanied by her father, the adolescent filed a complaint Tuesday afternoon for the acts of group violence.

April 9, 2024

The day before Eid-al-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of Ramadan, a female adolescent (13) was accosted by four minors in Achenheim (Bas-Rhin). On a bus heading to their school, she was accosted by four other pupils of the school who reproached her for not respecting the fast imposed by Ramadan. While getting off the bus, the victim, of North African origin, was beaten, according to our information from a judicial source. The adolescent was lightly injured, her face showing redness.

Complaint filed

After the attack the four minors, of Muslim faith, fled. As they are still in the process of being identified, the victim went to the police headquarters of Wolfisheim, accompanied by her father. She filed a complaint for the acts of group violence. With the matter in hand, the Gendarmerie brigade will begin an investigation.

Lounging at Ease in the Infidel Paradise

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It’s been obvious for a long time that the “asylum seekers” who have infested Germany en masse since 2015 are parasites soaking up the wealth of the state — at least it’s obvious to anyone who isn’t hypnotized by government propaganda.

The latest official statistics confirm these grim conclusions: a full 40% of those who are permanently unemployed and subsisting on benefits are foreigners.

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

40% of the permanently unemployed are foreigners

Once again, migration policy is proving to be a failure. The background is figures on foreigners and unemployment published by the Federal Employment Agency. The AfD is calling for drastic consequences.

Berlin

Foreigners are greatly overrepresented among the permanently unemployed in Germany. Of the 1.5 million “employable benefit recipients” who have been receiving citizen’s benefit for at least five years, almost 40% do not have a German passport. [Well, the solution would be to give out more and faster German citizenship. Nancy Faeser needs to resign over this type of blatant “racism” against foreigners. Shame on her and the Ministry of Interior. Sarcasm off.] This was the result of a special evaluation by the Federal Employment Agency, which was commissioned by the labour and social policy spokesman for the AfD parliamentary group, René Springer. The proportion of foreigners in the total population in Germany is around 15%. Bild first reported on the evaluation.

As of June 2023, a total of around 3.9 million “employable benefit claimants” lived in Germany. This refers to unemployed people who could work but still receive what is now known as citizen’s benefits. 1.5 million of them have received basic security for at least five years. Of the 1.5 million, 948,076 were German (61.3%) and 599,230 were foreigners (38.7%).

The statistics also show that around 270,000 of these permanently unemployed people came from the top eight asylum countries of origin — Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iraq, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia and Syria. [They call it jizyah in those countries, if I’m not mistaken.]

AfD wants to cut off citizen’s allowance for foreigners

AfD social expert Springer called for citizens’ benefits for foreigners to be canceled and for illegal immigrants to be consistently rejected at the border. “The message that is being sent to the world is fatal: once you have made it into citizen’s money, you can be permanently supported by the German taxpayer,” he told Junge Freiheit. This “mega pull factor and welfare state magnet” must be stopped immediately.

At the same time, the AfD MP took the federal government to task. “The fact that employable foreigners can apparently receive citizens’ benefits on a permanent basis is due to a lack of political will to end this unspeakable situation and to protect the German welfare state.” [Why the so-called opposition is asking such dumb questions boggles the mind. What’s going on has been part and parcel of the whole exercise of cultural and literal genocide of the West by the puppetician class for decades now.]

According to the evaluation, the federal states of Berlin and Bremen had the highest proportion of permanently unemployed people. In both city states, almost half of all employable benefit recipients have been receiving basic benefits for at least five years.

Afterword from the translator:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/14/2024

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The Israeli military announced today it will soon call up two reserve divisions for operations in Gaza. Meanwhile, according to a former financial adviser to Israel’s military, it cost Israel more than a billion dollars to activate its defense systems that intercepted Iran’s massive drone and missile attack.

In other news, Ukraine’s military chief said that the battlefield situation in the east has significantly worsened in recent days as Russia has increased its attacks.

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The Play’s the Thing

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Concerning the events of the last 24 hours: the Iranian attack on Israel resembles an extravagant theatrical production. Just look at all the media hoopla about an operation that didn’t kill or seriously injure anyone.

Iran was behind the Hamas attacks last October 7. It has also been behind the recent Hezbollah attacks on northern Israel, which have driven thousands of people from their homes. Those two operations (and many others) show that the Iranians can be very effective at harming Israel when they want to.

Conclusion: the mullahs didn’t really intend to do any serious damage to Israel last night.

I’m not sure what the motivation was for all the theatre, but I’m convinced it’s theatre. Mark Steyn has reached similar conclusions. And so has Sundance at Conservative Tree House. (That last link features some plausible speculation about what’s behind the scrim.)

Everything I say here is pure speculation. I’m no expert. I don’t know what’s going on. I just know there’s more to this than meets the eye.

Whenever I encounter indications of skullduggery, the first question I ask myself is: Cui bono? In this case, the answer is not at all obvious. There are, however, some data points that are worth examining.

According to The Jerusalem Post:

Iran informed Turkey in advance of its planned operation against Israel, a Turkish diplomatic source told Reuters on Sunday, adding that Washington had conveyed to Tehran via Ankara that any action it took had to be “within certain limits.”

Turkey, which has denounced Israel for its campaign on Gaza, said earlier on Sunday that it did not want a further escalation of tensions in the region.

The Turkish source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan had spoken to both his US and Iranian counterparts in the past week to discuss the planned Iranian operation, adding Ankara had been made aware of possible developments.

So the USA gave the green light for Iran to attack Israel “within certain limits”. And what might those limits have been? Based on what eventuated last night, it seems that Iran was enjoined not to cause significant Israeli casualties or do serious damage to the infrastructure of the Jewish state.

Those are pretty hard terms for a jihad-based entity like the Islamic Republic of Iran. Why would the mullahs agree to such humiliating restrictions?

After all, the Israelis did severe damage to Iranian honor by attacking that building in Damascus and killing major Iranian assets. Iran was honor-bound to mount a decisive response against Israel. They needed something to that would make faithful Muslims take to the streets all over the world, shouting with joy and handing out candy. But they also knew that if they were effective in their actions, Israel might do them significant damage. The Jewish state is quite capable of doing grievous harm to Iran. Doing so might trigger World War Three, with mushroom clouds waiting just over the horizon, but Israel can certainly nobble Iran if the situation is dire enough to require it.

Knowing all this, the State Department made Iran an offer that would allow it to salvage its international honor without ushering in Armageddon. Presumably the panjandrums at State also had enough leverage to persuade the Israelis to go along with the dirty deal.

So that’s a possible explanation for what Iran got out of the deal. What did the USA and its British mini-me get?

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Where Do We Go From Here?

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As you all know by now, last night Iran launched an attack against Israeli territory using drones and missiles (see, for example, this Daily Mail report). MC sends this brief update on the situation from Sderot.

Where Do We Go From Here?

by MC

The Middle East game just changed. The war-crime and terrorist country Iran just upped the ante with a botched raid of hundreds of missiles of various sorts fired at Israeli CIVILIANS.

At about 11pm we got notice of a huge launch of missiles including UAVs, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. Thanks be to Yah, none landed and we must thank US and UK forces for their assistance along with the Jordanian and Saudi air forces.

At about 1:45am we started to hear far-away explosions, as if we were bombarding Khan Yunis way down south.

My second son called this morning. They were in the middle of it; they live near an IAF base in the northern Negev desert and are not far from the nuclear facility at Dimona.

He, along with my granddaughter (7) arrived back to the sound of air raid sirens. Luckily she slept through most of it. He is of the impression that some of the missiles were intercepted in ‘inner’ space.

So Iran now joins the ranks of the Islamic war criminals, but of course nothing will be done about it. As we all know, Islam is a religion of extreme violence anyway, so only Israel gets chastised.

The O’Biden administration, having financed this attack, now seems to be forbidding any retaliation. Strange — it is as if this were a preplanned attack sanctioned in Washington DC to be a showcase for a senile pseudo-statesman. If so, he was prepared to risk the lives of millions of Israeli ‘innocent civilians’ in order to demonstrate his effulgent virility.

What a mess. As Buffy sang: “Where do we go from here?”

MC lives in the southern Israeli city of Sderot. For his previous essays, see the MC Archives.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/13/2024

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Iran launched dozens of aerial drones and missiles at Israel in reprisal for Israel’s recent attack on Damascus. More than 200 missiles and drones targeted Israel, forcing civilians to flee to bomb shelters. American and British air force fighters reportedly helped shoot down the incoming missiles and drones.

In other news, Iranian forces seized a container ship in the Persian Gulf owned by the Zodiac Group, an Israeli company.

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Deadly Eid in Bordeaux

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The following article concerns enricher-on-enricher violence in Bordeaux. It seems a devout Afghan Muslim executed Islamic justice with his knife against two less-than-zealous fellow Muslims from Algeria.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from Le Figaro:

Knife attack in Bordeaux: Attacker formally identified, Korans and prayer rugs recovered

Born in Afghanistan, the attacker, who had reproached his victims for drinking alcohol, was killed by police shortly after the incident Wednesday evening.

The knife attacker in Bordeaux, who killed one person and seriously wounded another on Wednesday evening, has been formally identified, Le Figaro learned from the public prosecutor’s office on Friday, April 12. He is Ahmed Saboor Hamraz, born in November 1998 in Ghazni, Afghanistan.

Killed by police with several assault weapon rounds a few moments after the attack Wednesday, the individual had obtained refugee status from OFPRA on September 14, 2021, after an initial asylum request in Greece on February 27, 2019, the prosecutor’s office confirmed, as announced Thursday by Le Figaro. He was not under the influence of cannabis or alcohol during the incident. Toxicological analyses are in progress.

“Boxing medal”

His residence has now been searched. The authorities have recovered “a boxing medal, two Korans, a prayer rug, and a phone,” that will be examined, the national prosecutor, Fredrique Porterie, explained. The prosecutor’s office “remains in contact with the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office with a view of a complete evaluation of the situation,” he finally noted.

On Wednesday evening, the attacker stabbed two Algerian nationals near the Miroir d’Eau (Mirror of Water), a Bordeaux tourist site, after reproaching them for drinking alcohol during the celebration of Eid, marking the end of the fast of Ramadan. A police officer, armed with an automatic rifle, killed him a few minutes later.

Two investigations have been opened, one for murder and attempted murder, the other to examine the circumstances under which the police shooting was carried out. According to the magistrate, who assigned this second investigation to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), it is likely self-defense in view of the initial elements gathered.

Genoa: The Jehovah’s Witnesses of Islam

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The video below is another documentary by Eugenia Fiore about Islam in Italy. In this instance the journalist visits an Islamic ghetto in Genoa to talk to the family of a recently arrested terrorist from the Tablighi organization (see last Monday’s report about Tablighi in the suburbs of Rome).

An interesting aspect of this video is that Ms. Fiore was discouraged from entering the Muslim area because she is a woman, and even worse, a blonde.

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

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/12/2024

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Just before news feed time last night my internet went out. A rainstorm came through about 10pm — no lightning, no wind, but the rain was apparently enough to take out my internet connection for 24 hours. The phone company works in mysterious ways.

The internet came back on a little while ago. I haven’t gathered any news from today, so the news posted below is just from what came in as of last night.

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The Russian government said yesterday that Ukraine peace talks planned for Switzerland in June make no sense if Russia is not a participant. Meanwhile, Russia seized the assets of the Dutch agricultural holdings company AgroTerra Group, because it is owned by an “unfriendly country”.

In other news, Polish border guards prevented hundreds of illegal immigrants from crossing into Poland via the border with Belarus.

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Thanks to Apollon Zamp, Daniel Greenfield, Dean, Insubria, JW, LP, McN, Reader from Chicago, SS, Upananda Brahmachari, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

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Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. I check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.

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Think No More

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MC’s latest update from Sderot is prefaced by some historical musings and a look at the larger political context.

Think No More

by MC

Over a hundred years ago Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jew, was stripped of his rank and imprisoned. The world was happy that “the Joo done it” and no more questions were asked.

Whilst it was obvious the Dreyfus had not done ‘it’, the alternative was not thinkable; thus Dreyfus remained ‘guilty’ until Émile Zola forced a reinvestigation to prove him innocent.

Largely as a result of the Dreyfus affair, Theodor Herzl realized that Jews could not overcome anti-Semitism and would always be unacceptable in European circles. Thus he gave birth to the Zionist movement, the essence of which was to provide a homeland where Jews could be Jews.

The word ‘Zionist’ has changed meaning over the last 129 years, and has been turned into an epithet of all that leftists hate about Jooz.

Zion is the ancient name of Jerusalem, but like most Hebrew words carries a much deeper meaning, that of a place with a direct connection to Yahovah.

The word Yahovah itself has the meaning “I was, I am, I will be”. But unfortunately its meaning is lost in the translated Greek of the New Testament; see John 8 v 5. ‘Yahovah’ is a word of power and caused the Pharisaic arrest team to fall over.

There is a reason why Satanic forces continue to attack Jews, and Romans 10 & 11, oft ignored or glossed over, explains.

One must apply Occam’s Razor to both Judaism and Christianity to try and cut away the pagan influences and get to the TRUTH of Creation. Satan knows this so much better than we do, and thus continues to attack Jews.

Palestinian propaganda has been wildly successful, and even the White House is quoting the Hamas Gaza ‘Health’ Ministry (GHM) unchecked and verbatim.

Thus the canards of ‘starvation, Aid Worker protection and Rafah’ go both unresearched and unchallenged.

The UK called in the Israeli ambassador solely on the basis of a propaganda statement from the GHM — folly, considering the GHM’s past performance.

There are no ‘lies’ as such in Islam, and any fabrication is permitted if it hurts the enemies of Islam. It is incredible stupidity to trust any statement originating from the depths of the GHM.

But, of course, if that information is useful to pacify the residents of Dearborn (and help them vote Democrat), then think no more…

This also explains why the feminist left had such problems condemning Hamas’ (sexual) violations of female Jooz (and males). They had to make some decisions, and the thought of supporting ‘colonialist and oppressive’ Jewish women in the face of non-colonialist and non-oppressive Muslims proved too much. Rape is not a crime if the victim is deemed to be an oppressor.

So now, October 7th having been forgotten, they are free to support ‘Palestine’ and the institutionalized slavery of Muslim women — toujours c’est la même chose…

The burka is very pleasant to wear, you know — it stops men looking at you!

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