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This week on the New World Next Week: Russia rolls out its Visa/Mastercard alternative; it's Gladio B redux as a German soldier is caught posing as a refugee to stage terror; and the Austrian government wants to tax your tweets.

This week on the New World Next Week: Russia rolls out its Visa/Mastercard alternative; it's Gladio B redux as a German soldier is caught posing as a refugee to stage terror; and the Austrian government wants to tax your tweets.

(ANTIMEDIA) Austria — Highlighting the difficulty both public and private establishments can have when it comes to adapting methods in the digital age, it was reported Monday that one government is now trying to tax search giant Google and social media companies.
From a report by Bloomberg:

It appears that Turkey’s President Erdogan has caught a bit of the nazi/fascist virus that is infecting American snowflakes, hollywood actors, and liberal lefties since Donald Trump won the US elections.
In this newest virus strain, Erdogan is seeing nazis, not in the White House, but all over the European Union.

Screenshot from Channel 4 documentary, following the NATO and Gulf state funded, Farouq Brigade in Homs 2012
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This week on the New World Next Week: Trump pushes for Syrian kill zones and murders children in Yemen; a hotel gets ransomed when hackers lock all the doors; and pig-human hybrids are now officially being grown.

This week on the New World Next Week: Trump pushes for Syrian kill zones and murders children in Yemen; a hotel gets ransomed when hackers lock all the doors; and pig-human hybrids are now officially being grown.

The ongoing drama over Adolf Hitler’s birth house in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria, has entered a new phase with the news that the ex-owner, Gerlinde Pommer, has launched an appeal in Austria’s Constitutional Court to rule against the government for expropriating the building.
Hitler’s birth house circa 2009.
The Austrian government seized the building in December 2016, after forcing through a special expropriation law specifically aimed at the property.

I feel as if we should congratulate voters in Austria for – on the balance – refusing to vote the Far-Right ‘Freedom Party’ to power. In what was a very closely and nervously watched election in Austria yesterday, the Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer (who had won the first round of the election, with 35% […]

Tomorrow Italy votes on a package of complex referendums that are extremely difficult for voters without post-graduate degrees to understand. But rejection could be another devastating blow the EU. The BBC tried sorting out what it means and why it's important. The reforms Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is trying to impose on his fractious country are tied up in the referendum and he says he'll step down if they lose-- the 3rd domino after Brexit and Trump in "he onward march of the right-wing (neo-fascist) populists.