Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/14/2023

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that his county’s planned counteroffensive against Russia will not include attacks on Russia itself, but will only aim to reclaim Ukrainian territory occupied by Russia. Meanwhile, the Polish military detected what seemed to be a spy balloon that flew over the border from Belarus and traveled across Polish territory.

In other news, Serbia collected more than 13,000 weapons during an amnesty on unregistered guns, which was announced in the wake of the mass shootings earlier this month.

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Thanks to Daniel Greenfield, Dean, Dora, LP, 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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An Allahu Akhbar Moment in Mornas

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A culture-enricher attacked gendarmes with an iron bar and a knife in the town of Mornas in southeastern France. He shouted “Allahu Akhbar” during his close encounter with law enforcement, but the authorities say they have no clue as to his motive.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from La Provence:

Mornas: Gendarmes forced to shoot man who caused bus accident on the A7

A man was shot and wounded by gendarmes after threatening them. He had been sought since Saturday for causing a bus accident that injured 14 people

by Melanie Ferhallad
May 7, 2023

A man of about 40 was shot and wounded by gendarmes this afternoon in the area of Mornas on Highway A7. He had been sought since last evening by the gendarmes after a bus accident that occurred on this same highway and which resulted in 14 passengers being slightly injured.

According to our information, this man was on board a BlaBlaCar bus that was en route to Lyon. Arriving at Mornas, the man reportedly tried to take control of the steering wheel from the driver, causing the accident. The coach then left the road, but fortunately, came to rest on its wheels. Major rescue operations were deployed to take care of the injured while the gendarmes of the Departmental Squad of Highway Safety (EDSR) of Vaucluse went in search of the passenger who caused the accident and who had fled. All through the night, searches were conducted in the sector to find the person of interest.

On Sunday, it was finally the start of a brush fire near a house located not far from the area of Mornas, which forced the Gendarmes to intervene along with firefighters. Arriving at the scene, two officers saw a man emerge from the bushes. Armed with an iron bar and a knife, the individual reportedly charged the gendarmes, screaming “Allahu Akhbar”. In spite of warnings, the individual did not drop his weapons, forcing the officers to open fire in his direction. Hit in the abdomen, the man was treated by emergency personnel and hospitalized in Avignon in serious condition.

At this stage, his motivations are not yet known. The prosecutor’s office of Carpentras has opened an investigation which has been assigned the gendarmes of the Investigative Brigade of Orange.

Filthy Multicultural Scum

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A group of culture-enriching “youths” in the Netherlands harassed and assaulted an old man who was out walking his dog, and proudly took video of their actions to share on social media (the video referenced may be seen on Twitter).

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

Violent video of migrants shocks the Netherlands

In broad daylight in the Netherlands, an elderly man and his dog are harassed, beaten and filmed by three young migrants. Now the handcuffs have clicked. The video spread hundreds of thousands of times and led to drastic reactions.

The Hague

A video on social media showing several migrants beating an elderly man and his dog has caused horror in the Netherlands. The head of the Party for Freedom, Geert Wilders, spoke in a tweet of “scum” who had to leave the country.

Smerig multicultureel tuig mijn bloed kookt, oppakken en ONS LAND UIT!!! pic.twitter.com/Lse5kzMVyg

[Machine translation: “Filthy multicultural scum my blood is boiling, pick it up and OUT OF OUR COUNTRY!!!”]

— Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) May 10, 2023

The incident of violence occurred in the municipality of Pijnacker southeast of The Hague on Monday. Thanks to the recordings, the perpetrators, aged between 13 and 15, were arrested by the police on Wednesday. The video received almost two million views on the short message service Twitter alone.

The mayor of the town, Björn Lugthart, was shocked. “The behavior of these young people is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. The police intervened immediately and three suspects have since been arrested. I can’t imagine young people attacking and mistreating people and then filming it proudly.” He will now examine what needs to be done to prevent such incidents in the future. [Mass-deportation and closed borders would be a good start. Everything else is just hogwash.]

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Rob Roos: Stop the Agenda 2030 Utopia

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Rob Roos is a Dutch politician who represents the party JA21 (Right Answer 21) in the European Parliament. In the following video Mr. Roos speaks in the EP in Strasbourg about the EU’s “climate” policies that aim to put Dutch farmers out of business.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:


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The Only Good Thing About the BBC is They’re Bad Liars

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The photo above is an obvious fake. I’m an untrained amateur, but the image is clearly a digitally modified composite using several layers (at least two or three) that have been sloppily merged.

It accompanied an article about Ukraine that was published yesterday by the BBC. The article itself is irrelevant; it’s just the usually boilerplate propaganda one expects from the MSM. What interests me is the photo.

The background is a shot of a sunlit field at midday during springtime. The foreground is probably composed of two distinct layers: the soldier shooting the grenade launcher next to a pile of dirt, and the pile of branches close to the camera. At least some of the fire and smoke associated with the firing of the weapon has been created digitally.

The soldier and the branches in the foreground were evidently photographed under a floodlight at night or during twilight. The pile of dirt beyond the soldier was outside the main glare of the floodlight, and was thus lit only by the blast from the grenade launcher — that is, backlit in orange and red.

It’s that last point that makes the image such an obvious fake: the pile of dirt does not share the same light source as the field beyond it. The technician who was assigned the job of creating the digital fake was either inept, careless, or untrained in the digital manipulation of images, or some combination of all three. It was a slipshod production, and Reuters and the BBC just let it slide on through.

But there is a fourth possibility: the composite image may have been created with deliberate incompetence, as an insult to the reader, as if to say: “We hold you in such contempt that we insult your intelligence by presenting you with this obvious fake. Deal with it.”

It brings to mind the well-known quote from Theodore Dalrymple:

In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.

As I said, I’m an amateur when it comes to digital manipulation, but even I could do better than the Reuters snoid who made this image. It took me just a few minutes to adjust the light on the upper surfaces in the pile of dirt to make it more plausibly in agreement with the sunlit field beyond:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/13/2023

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Germany has promised to deliver another $3 billion in military aid to Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave Pope Francis an icon painted on a bulletproof vest.

In other news, British intelligence reported that Russian troops have retreated in bad order from a kilometer of territory outside the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.

To see the headlines and the articles, click “Continue reading” below.

Thanks to Dean, DV, JW, LP, Reader from Chicago, Roger, SS, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.

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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Women Attacked, Violated, Disempowered, and Silenced Under Sharia

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The following report by Clare Lopez was published last month by Sharia TipSheet.

Women Attacked, Violated, Disempowered, and Silenced Under Sharia

by Clare M. Lopez

The stories we bring to you this month focus on the status of women who live under Islamic Law (sharia). The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan are among the world’s regimes under which some of the most horrific human rights abuses against women occur. Islamic Law consigns women to a second-class status under which the rights of men are accorded a superior status. Such unequal treatment derives from the Qur’an, which allows Muslim males to marry up to four women in addition to those “that your right hands possess” (i.e., sex slaves, Q 4:3) and to grant male children inheritance “equal to that of two females” (Q 4:11). In Surah 4:34, the Qur’an tells Muslim men that if they “fear disloyalty and ill conduct” from their wives, they should admonish them, refuse to share their beds, and “beat them”. Muslim men are told in Q: 2:223 that “Your wives are as a tilth unto you; so approach your tilth when or how you will” (no such thing as marital rape under sharia). [Editor’s Note — ‘tilth’ is cultivated land ready to seed.]

Regarding the requirement that women must cover their hair and wear concealing clothing, this derives directly from Surahs 28:31 and 33:59, which connect covering up with not being “molested” (i.e., raped, by Muslim men). In this spirit, the IRI is cracking down on women and girls who have been in the forefront of the uprising against the Tehran regime since the September 2022 murder by the so-called “morality police” of the young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, for supposedly allowing some hair to show under her hijab.

Next, regimes in Afghanistan and Pakistan are restricting the rights of women and girls to attend school/university—to confine them to the home where they are more closely under the domination of husbands, brothers, and sons but also to limit their ability to pursue a professional career outside the home.

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Saman’s Dad Gets to Stay in Pakistan

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Saman Abbas was a young Pakistani woman living in Italy who was murdered in April of 2021, and is believed to have been honor-killed by her family. Saman’s father fled to Pakistan shortly after her death, and Italian prosecutors have been trying to extradite him for many months. The Pakistani government seems to be deliberately obstructing the process.

Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from Il Giornale:

Saman Abbas: The obstructionism by Pakistan continues

Father’s hearing postponed

May 10, 2023

The Tribunal of Islamabad has postponed the hearing on the extradition of Shabbar Abbas for the 20th time. The father of Saman Abbas, along with four other relatives accused of the murder of his daughter, will remain in Pakistan for the time being.

A new postponement of the hearing, the 20th one, which risks further lengthening the process necessary for the extradition of one of the alleged perpetrators of the murder of Saman Abbas. For the moment, Shabbar Abbas, the father of the girl, therefore remains in Pakistan. These are the latest developments connected to the story of the young Pakistani girl who disappeared in Novellara (in Emilia Romagna) in the province of Reggio Emilia in 2021, whose body was recovered at the end of last year buried in a field. The parent has been charged in Italy along with four other relatives of Saman (the mother, the uncle, and two cousins), accused of homicide, destruction of a cadaver, and kidnapping, but after leaving Emilia and returning to his home country, is still awaiting extradition. Except the hearing has been postponed 20 times, reinforcing the argument of those who already judged the attitude shown by the Pakistani authorities as rather obstructionist.

Ex-prime minister of Pakistan going to trial

Shabbar was supposed to appear in court yesterday but apparently did not reach the tribunal of Islamabad. The reason apparently, is the beginning of the concurrent trial for corruption and misappropriation of state funds against former prime minister Imran Khan. A proceeding of such importance that the court building was made unreachable, pushing back almost all the other proceedings. That’s why the hearing for Saman’s father has been moved back to next Tuesday barring further postponements. According to what is reported by the daily, Il Resto del Carlino, his participation in a video conference hearing the day after tomorrow in the ongoing trial at the tribunal of Reggio Emilia is not assured. The investigators, as noted, theorize that the young girl was killed because she opposed a forced marriage with a cousin who was ten years older.

The trap set for Saman

The video surveillance camera captured Saman Abbas returning home on April 20, 2021: She had returned to retrieve the documents she would need to marry her fiancé, Saqib Ayub. Subsequently, on April 22, the video camera recorded the Carabinieri arriving at the Abbas home and taking the young girl to the caserne: It was at that moment that she filed the last complaint against her parents because they allegedly took the documents from her. The girl also told the Carabinieri that the father allegedly told her to claim she lost them. Finally, the results of the autopsy have been released: On Saman’s body, a fracture of the horn of the hyoid (neck bone) was found, making it possible to establish that the girl was strangled, apparently by bare hands. The investigators believe that the relatives set a trap for her, inducing her to return. And there should be more developments soon.

Previous posts about the honor killing of Saman Abbas:

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Culture-Enriching Rape in the Hospital at Nanterre

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The following French news report doesn’t mention the ethnicity of the “homeless person” who snuck into a hospital and raped an elderly woman in her bed. However, you can bet that if the attacker had been a white Frenchman, that fact would have been all over the news, and police investigators would already have discovered Rassemblement National literature in his digs. Therefore, I’m betting on cultural enrichment in this case.

A couple of notes. First, the daughter of the victim appears to be part African, so the victim herself may well be a culture-enricher. Secondly, if millions of invaders hadn’t been brought into the country, there wouldn’t have been any need for all those elaborate security precautions. Hospitals would routinely be safe places, and rapes of patients would be extremely rare. Notice that having “only” seven attacks a year constitutes a big improvement!

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 5/12/2023

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The BlackRock investment firm has increased its holding of stock in Fox News, and now owns 15.1% of the company. Meanwhile, a family of French tourists was attacked by “teens” in New York City.

In other news, Pope Francis encouraged young Italians to have more babies to prevent further demographic decline in Italy.

To see the headlines and the articles, click “Continue reading” below.

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

Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.

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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Everybody Gets to Stay

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Many thanks to Gary Fouse for translating this article from the conservative Austrian site Unzensuriert:

Hardly any deportations: Four-fifths of all illegals remain in EU

May 9, 2023

The latest numbers from the European statistics authority Eurostat show a dangerous trend. Four-fifths of all illegal migrants remain in the EU, in spite of orders to leave. The Austrian Peoples’ Party speaks of a total breakdown of the Union.

Over one million illegal migrants in the EU

According to Eurostat, around 420,000 people have received orders to leave the EU because they have no valid right to stay. Only about 78,000 people have actually complied with this order. In spite of the order, a full 82% have remained.

That is the worst figure in the last ten years. Altogether, the Eurostat numbers show that about 1,059,000 people are illegally in the EU.

The rule of law capitulates to mass immigration

For the liberal delegation leader in the European Parliament, Harald Vilimsky, these devastating numbers show a capitulation of the rule of law to unrestricted mass immigration as well as a total failure of the EU. Because the already generously laid out asylum proceedings in many member states, in the rare cases of a negative ruling, have had no consequences. They simply stay. Vilimsky continues:

“The EU has long since surrendered its right to decide which and how many people can remain in their territory. Whoever is there remains — even if he has no right to do so. This policy is a real magnet for mass migration. The migration pact which is under discussion will change exactly nothing. On the one hand, because it contains nothing to enable the EU to close its external borders, and on the other hand, because it contributes nothing to solve the deportation dilemma.”

The Birth Dearth

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There’s been a lot of discussion lately about the worldwide wave of excess deaths, which mainstream opinion says cannot possibly be due to the deleterious effects of the experimental mRNA treatment intended to mitigate the effects of infection with the Wuhan Coronavirus.

The following article discusses a marked reduction in the birth rate during the same time period, except for being shifted nine months. This also has nothing whatsoever to do with the vax.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Norbert Häring’s blog:

Sharp fall in the birth rate in February triggers yet another wave of hectic non-reporting

The announcement of another very low number of births in February by the Federal Statistical Office has again led to a wave of non-reporting in the German media. Everywhere there was no speculation and no experts were asked why it could be that the birth rate in Germany has been unusually low for about nine months after the start of mass vaccinations.

The established media are thus falling into the same pronounced non-hysteria — indifference — that they already showed when they did not report on the high excess mortality in Germany and many other countries in 2022.

According to the Federal Statistical Office, only 51,199 babies were born alive in February 2023, 2,528 fewer than in the previous year. In January, there were 54,648 live births, 3,758 fewer than a year earlier. This continues a downward trend that has been almost uninterrupted since early 2022.

The statisticians announced these figures yesterday morning (Tuesday). In the evening, I entered the term “declining birth rates” into the DuckDuckGo and Google search engines. The result on the first results page (apart from regional reports, as well as historical and general explanatory articles):

DuckDuckGo

1.   An undated press release from the Federal Statistical Office from 2023 about births in 2022. The decline from the average from 2019 to 2021 was then 5.2%.
2.   A July 2022 article by the rebellious alternative online publication Deutsche Wirtschaftsnachrichten entitled “Dramatic Decline in Births in Germany and Worldwide.”
3.   A contribution from Tagesschau.de in which, with reference to a brief study by the Federal Institute for Population Research, it is explained to us that the decline in the birth rate is probably only a short-term phenomenon, caused by the fact that women have postponed their desire to have children until it was their turn to be vaccinated.
4.   An alarmist online press release from a group called “pediatricians” from December 2022.
5.   A contribution from the public broadcaster MDR from September 2022, in which, with the help of an expert from the Federal Institute for Population Research, we are told that the drop in births is to be expected, normal and only temporary and probably has to do with the fact that women have temporarily put off their desire to have children until it was their turn to be vaccinated.
 

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Mail Service Resumes

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All systems seem to be up and functioning again. The posts I put up last night seem to be in place, and a few comments are trickling in.

I just brought in a huge backlog of email, which will take me a while to go through.

If you sent me something that bounced during the outage, you can resend it now and see what happens.

Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/11/2023

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There’s almost no news feed tonight, because I lost access to my email a long time ago.

Among the items that came in are several about explosions: a major one in Milan, an apartment house explosion in Germany (not an accident; a suspect has been arrested), and a terror attack near the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

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Thanks to AGM, Dean, Dora, DV, JW, LP, McN, MM, Roger, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.

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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