Federica Mogherini’s cross-eyed view of what it means to be European: At Her Master’s Genocidal Call

Posted by DanielS on Tuesday, 25 August 2015 09:17.

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Federica Mogherini   -  cross-eyed and deadly to European survival..

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the European Commission FEPS    

CALL TO EUROPE V “ISLAM IN EUROPE”: Brussels, 24th-­‐25th June 2015

Let me begin by thanking Massimo D’Alema for organising this conference and for inviting me. As I told him while entering this room, this conference shows we are finally approaching the question of Islam and Europe from the right perspective, after years – or decades - of misunderstandings.

I will start with an anecdote. I graduated two years before 9/11 and it was hard at that time to find a professor who would accept that political Islam could be the subject for a dissertation in political science.
 
Italy has a great university system,  but I had to go to France with the Erasmus programme to find someone who would consider Islam as a topic not for history, or literature, or cultural studies thesis, but for political science.

A lot has changed since then. In the following years the idea of a clash between Islam and “the West” - a word in which everything is put together and confused - has misled our policies and our narratives. Islam holds a place in our Western societies. Islam belongs in Europe. It holds a place in Europe’s history, in our culture, in our food and what matters most – in Europe’s present and future. Like it or not, this is the reality.

As Europeans, we should be proud of our diversity. The fear of diversity comes from weakness, not from a strong culture.

I shall be even more clear on that: the very idea of a clash of civilisations is at odds with the most basic values of our European Union – let alone with reality. Throughout our European history, many have tried to unify our continent by imposing their own power, their own ideology, their own identity against the identity of someone else. With the European project, after World War II, not only we accepted diversity: we expressed a desire for diversity to be a core feature of our Union. We defined our civilisation through openness and plurality: a mind‐set based on blocs does not belong to us.

Some people are now trying to convince us that a Muslim cannot be a good European citizen, that more Muslims in Europe will be the end of Europe. These people are not just mistaken about Muslims: these people are mistaken about Europe – that is my core message – they have no clue what Europe and the European identity are.

This is our common fight: to make this concept accepted both in Europe and beyond Europe. For Europe and Islam face some common challenges in today’s world. The so‐called Islamic State is putting forward an unprecedented attempt to pervert Islam for justifying a wicked political and strategic project. Talking about Da’esh, the king of Jordan told the European Parliament a few months ago said: “The motive is not faith, it is power; power pursued by ripping countries and communities apart in sectarian conflicts, and inflicting suffering across the world”.

Western media like to refer to Daʼesh with the world “medieval”. This does not help much to understand the real nature of the threat we are facing. Daʼesh is something completely new. This is a modern movement, reinterpreting religion in an innovative and radical way. 

It is a movement that, rather than preserving Islam, wants us to trash centuries of Islamic culture in the name of their atrocities. Da’esh is not a State, and it is not a State for Islam. The Grand Imam of al Azhar, Ahmed el Tayeb, argued: “There is no Islamic State, but a number of Islamic countries that the terrorists are trying to destroy.”

This is the reality we face and we don’t say this often, but we should do so to dismantle their narrative. Sometimes, by describing the atrocities of Da’esh, we do them a favour: atrocities are part of their propaganda. The more we describe them as evil, the happier they are.

Daʼesh is Islam’s worst enemy in today’s world. Its victims are first and foremost Muslim people. Islam is a victim itself.

This is not to say that we should overlook the ideology of Daʼesh. If we want to fight it, we need first of all to know it and to understand it. We need to know where it comes from, and how it got to be what it is.

First of all, I believe the Daʼesh propaganda fills a void, a vacuum. The terrorists are recruiting people who feel they do not hold a place in their own communities, that they do not belong in their own societies.

I was very much impressed, when I was visiting Tunis… Tunisia is a modern country an still is one of the countries with the highest number of foreign fighters in Da’esh. I asked a young girl, very engaged with civil society, why she believed so many people her age were joining Daʼesh. She told me something I will never forget: you know, people my age in Tunisia feel they have no place in the organigram. They are looking for their own box, for a role, for defining who they are. They ask: where is my place? What is my role? This is the real challenge not only in the Arab world, but here in Europe.

That is why I believe the best way to prevent radicalisation in Europe and in our region is not only education, but also employment. We have so many well educated and frustrated young people, with a lot of energy, a lot of willingness to find their place in their society and their community. And they have lost hope that they will be able to do so.

This does not justify the choice to turn to terrorism. People are responsible for their own actions and their own crimes. Still, if we look at ways to prevent radicalisation we need jobs and good jobs. Not just a place in the “organigram”, but a good place.

Da’esh longs for people who have lost their place in society, their role, their sense of belonging and hope. We need inclusive societies. So many times we have heard a narrative opposing security and open societies. It is a false dilemma. We should start saying more clearly that a society can be stable and safe only when it is democratic.

Of course I know each country has a specific history, and needs to follow its own path towards democracy. Not so long ago, and still today, there are people in “the West” arguing democracy can be exported militarily. We have all realised - in this room for sure – how bad this idea was. This does not mean we are not ready to support democracy and democratic processes: quite the contrary. But we need to consider the specificity of each process.

We need to show some humble respect for diversity. Diversity is the core feature of our European history, and it is our strength.

 
But we should also show respect for diversity when we look outside our borders. We need to understand diversity, understand complexity. This is difficult, but maybe a bit less difficult for us Europeans. We know diversity and complexity – especially here in Brussels – from our own experience.

For this reason I am not afraid to say that political Islam should be part of the picture. Religion plays a role in politics – not always for good, not always for bad. Religion can be part of the process. What makes the difference is whether the process is democratic or not. That is what matters to us, the key point. We need to work for regional frameworks, in the Middle East and the Arab world, in which every one has a responsibility and a chance to contribute – Muslim, Christian, Jew or non-­believer, Sunni or Shia, Arab, Kurd, whatever.

One of the weaknesses of our policies so far has been to focus on dividing lines, as if everyone can fit in a box. People do not live in boxes. People live in communities and societies. The more open the communities and the societies are, the better it is for the democratic process. All communities should be granted with their own rights and their own responsibilities, with an opportunity to do their part for the stability and the security of their own country. This is the path we are finally trying to follow in some key Arab countries, like Iraq: we are finally understanding we need to put people together, not to tear them apart. Inclusiveness can be the key to our success – both when we talk foreign policy and when we deal with our home affairs. Sometimes we go out of our borders and preach, but then we look at ourselves and we falter. 

Enlargement processes involve us and our partners for years, but maybe we should also take time to brush up on the “acquis” with some Member States. We have a problem of internal coherence - when it comes to rights, to democracy, to the respect of diversity when it comes to some of the difficult choices we make, including on migration policies.

The battle for hearts and minds is not only a battle we need to fight in the Middle East, but also here inside our European Union. It is a difficult battle: this is not a popular argument, not an easy issue. After years of economic and political weakness, our societies are naturally afraid. When you are weak, the reaction is closing the door and pretending to solve issues with isolation.
 
On the contrary, the only chance we have as Europeans is to be proud and strong of our basics: and our basics are respect and diversity. Let me say something more about migration. We have supported the “bring back our girls” campaign for Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram. There is such a contradiction between our solidarity when these girls are far away, and our lack of solidarity when they are at our door.
 
This is impossible to sustain. In the coming days and months we need to find solutions not only for the girls in Nigeria, but for their sisters and mothers and daughters who are forced to flee by the very same radicalised movements.

If we do not realise this, our whole message risks to sound empty. We need to pass a cultural message, to lay the basis for our political message: any attempt to divide the peoples of Europe into “us” and “them” brings us in the wrong direction.
 
The migrants and us. The Muslims and us. The Jews and us, as anti‐Semitism has not been defeated at all.

The “other” and us. We learnt from our history that we all are someone else’s “other”. The fear of the other can only lead us to new conflicts. I hope we can work together to increase our self confidence. When we say we are European, we should also remember what is the root of our European culture: our diversity. That is our strength, and we should learn to be proud of it.

Federica Mogherini
Rue   Montoyer 40,  B -­‐ 1000 Brussels  
Tel +  32 2 234 69 00  
Fax +  32 2 280 03 83  
info@feps-­‐europe.eu

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Comments:


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Posted by We're all brothers on tomorrow on Tue, 25 Aug 2015 11:34 | #

Federica delivering the Kool-Aid: We’re all brothers on Tomorrow -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ox0RywOZ_M


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Posted by Guessedworker on Wed, 26 Aug 2015 08:04 | #

Yet more liberal prognostocations, this time on the refugee issue from a couple of senior ministers in the German government - Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who is Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Sigmar Gabriel, who is Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy.  They are writing in the Daily Telegraph.  Both appear to be ethnic Germans, btw.

Europe is facing a great challenge for our generation. Never before have so many people fled political persecution and war as today. Many of them are seeking refuge here with us in Europe. In view of the crises in our neighbourhood, we must assume that this could remain the case for years. And as Europeans, we owe it to ourselves and to the world to help them.

One thing is clear: the response so far does not meet the standards that Europe must set for itself. The EU cannot put this off any longer - we need to act act now. We must therefore pursue a European asylum, refugee and migration policy that is founded on the principle of solidarity and our shared values of humanity.Ten points must urgently be addressed in this regard:

1. Humane conditions must prevail throughout the EU wherever refugees are received. For this, we need EU-wide standards that are complied with in every member state.

2. We must guarantee a common European code of asylum, so that asylum status is valid throughout the EU and the conditions for receiving it are stable across member states.

3. We need a fair distribution of refugees in Europe. German citizens are helping to receive and integrate refugees into our society as never before. But this solidarity will only be maintained in the long term if people see that the refugee crisis is being approached fairly throughout Europe. A state of affairs in which only a handful of member states shoulder the entire burden - as happens today - is just as unsustainable as a system which forces the countries on the EU’s outer border to take the strain alone. We must therefore reform the Dublin Convention immediately, and find a way of creating binding and objective refugee quotas which take into account the ability of all member states to bear them.

4. Europe also needs a common approach to managing its borders, which cannot be merely restricted to securing our frontiers. Above all, we need more European responsibility for registering and looking after newly arrived refugees.

5. We must provide immediate assistance to the EU countries that are currently under particular strain. Germany is the only EU country to have made available emergency funds to improve the situation of refugees on the Greek islands. The EU and its member states must become more efficient in this area and quickly offer the countries which first receive refugees practical and financial support. For us in Germany, we must ensure that the municipal authorities are able to cope with the influx. In order to do this, we must provide them with lasting and systematic financial support.

6. We cannot stand idly by and watch people risk their lives trying to get to us. The Mediterranean Sea cannot be a mass grave for desperate refugees. Europe’s humanitarian legacy, indeed our European view of humanity, are hanging in the balance. With this in mind, we launched enormous concerted efforts to organise marine rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea in the spring. But we must consolidate these efforts across Europe, and equip the EU with the required capacities.

7. At the same time, we can only help genuine refugees if those who are not entitled to asylum do eventually return to their countries of origin. For this, we must make readmission a key priority of our relations with the countries of origin, and also be prepared to make technical and financial support for these counties contingent on constructive cooperation. Existing incentives such as visa facilitations could be expanded.

8. We must come to an EU-wide understanding as to which nations we consider safe to return people to. All countries of the western Balkans aim to join the EU, and we have good cause to extend to them the prospect of accession to the Community. By the same token, this means that we cannot treat them as persecuting countries at the same time. In the future, a country that fulfils the criteria to be an EU accession candidate should be considered throughout the EU to be a safe country of origin.

9. Germany needs an immigration Act. We need a prudent, controlled immigration policy that facilitates lawful stays for the purposes of employment. We must reduce the burden on the asylum system in this area. Other countries may wish to follow suit.

10. Finally, a comprehensive European asylum, refugee and migration policy also requires new political initiatives to fight the causes of flight in the countries of the Middle East and Africa. Stabilising failing states and curbing violence and civil war must go hand in hand with concentrated efforts to achieve economic development and create genuine economic and social prospects – especially for young people in the countries of origin. All of the international community’s efforts, above all those of the European Union and the United Nations, must be focused with the utmost intensity on this aim.

All this goes to to show that the political framework for action has long since ceased to be national – particularly with regard to refugee and migration policy. Only together, and only at the European level, will we be able at all to find rational solutions. This is why refugee and migration policy is currently the most important field in which we must further the project of European integration with dynamism and conviction.

Germany stands ready to do its utmost to drive forward the common project of a refugee policy based on the principle of solidarity.


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Posted by Kumiko Oumae on Thu, 27 Aug 2015 02:25 | #

Here’s one that actually blew my mind, Angela Merkel saying that defending your own country from waves of migrants from North Africa, East Africa, Mesopotamia and just about everywhere else, is a ‘vile’ thing to do.

Truly amazing, you have to read it to believe it:

The Independent, ‘Germany opens its gates: Berlin says all Syrian asylum-seekers are welcome to remain, as Britain is urged to make a ‘similar statement’‘, 24 Aug 2014:

Berlin took the lead in efforts to resolve the European refugee crisis on Monday by declaring all Syrian asylum-seekers welcome to remain in Germany – no matter which EU country they had first entered.

Germany, which expects to take a staggering 800,000 migrants this year, became the first EU country to suspend a 1990 protocol which forces refugees to seek asylum in the first European country in which they set foot.

The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees ratified an order suspending the so-called Dublin Protocol.  “Germany will become the member state responsible for processing their claims,” a government statement said.

All current expulsion orders for Syrian asylum-seekers will be revoked, the government said. New Syrian arrivals will no longer be forced to fill in questionnaires to determine which country they had first arrived in. In the first six months of 2015, Germany registered 44,417 applications from Syrian asylum-seekers.

The decision piles further pressure on other EU countries – including Britain – which have used the 1990 protocol as the legal basis for refusing to take any share of the refugees from the Middle East and Africa now pouring into Europe to escape war, oppression or famine.

The decision came as Chancellor Angela Merkel and the French President, François Hollande, held talks in Berlin to try to come up with solutions to the worst European refugee crisis since the immediate aftermath of the Second World War.

They appealed on Monday night for the creation of a new, Europe-wide asylum policy, in which all 28 EU countries would be expected to take part. Ms Merkel spoke of an “exceptional situation” which “is not going to end soon.”

Germany’s policy change was also a direct snub to a series of far-right demonstrations against refugees in eastern Germany at the weekend. Ms Merkel said that demonstrations in the town of Heidenau, were “vile”.

Her spokesman said: “Germany is a compassionate country and will not allow refugees to be met here by hateful slogans or alcohol-fuelled loudmouths.”

He said all asylum-seekers deserved to be treated with “dignity and respect”. Tensions remain high, however. The far-right is planning another demonstration this weekend in the Harz Mountain town of Goslar. The mayor of the town, Oliver Junk, has said that he welcomed refugees with “open arms” because of the diminishing local birthrate and an exodus of young people.

The German decision to declare open house for Syrian refugees was welcomed by refugee support groups in Britain as a lesson that the Government should follow.

The Refugee Council’s advocacy manager, Anna Musgrave, said: “This announcement from Germany is very significant… It’s high time the British Government made a similar statement.

“So far our Government has been trying its best to prevent refugees from reaching our shores; pulling up the drawbridge and forcing people to place their lives in smugglers’ hands. That’s simply not good enough.”

[...]

No, it’s like nothing is ever good enough, is it? They won’t think it’s good enough, until Europeans societies have been totally dis-integrated. They shouldn’t even be surprised at this point that a people would resist this kind of massive assault against their existence.

ibid:

[...]

The EU border agency, Frontex said this week that a record 107,000 migrants arrived at European land and sea borders last month. More than 20,000 people arrived in Greece alone.

Many migrants in Greece sought to travel onwards to Macedonia last week en route for northern Europe. Skopje closed its border for three days. Police used stun grenades and batons to keep refugees at bay before standing aside to let everyone enter.

The Italian coastguard rescued 4,400 migrants from 22 boats in the Mediterranean on Saturday – the highest daily figure in years. A detailed European Commission resettlement plan is expected next month. So far Britain has refused to take any of the asylum-seekers reaching southern and eastern Europe.

[...]

This assault seems pretty massive.

ibid:

[...]

One subject under discussion was a possible distinction between refugees from areas hit by war and famine and “economic” migrants. EU governments would be allowed to refuse all migrants from, for example, Albania, Serbia and Kosovo but would be expected to deal sympathetically with Syrians, Iraqis and refugees from the Horn of Africa.

[...]

Amazing, right? So basically economic migrants from inside the European Union are to be disfavoured (even though one would think that this would be what the EU is allegedly ‘about’), whereas people from Mesopotamia and East Africa are ‘special’ and should be just allowed in no matter what, according to them, even though they are not even from the European Union.

This should be seen as a vicious assault against the integrity of the European peoples, and furthermore, it has severe socio-economic ramifications because they are advocating for the importation of massive numbers of reactionaries and retrogressives who will only serve to stymie the progression of the European peoples toward an advanced culture.

Also, it should be a ‘teachable moment’, since it shows that these liberals are even willing to throw their apparent dear friends the Kosovars aside, in favour of East Africans who they apparently now love more. It’s almost stupefying.


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Posted by Guessedworker on Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:43 | #

Here is the Institute of Director’s director general Simon Walker, reacting to today’s record immigration figures and talking up his members’, of course, compassionate and humane concern for, erm, economism and cheap labour everywhere:

There is a sensible and mature debate to be had about the costs and benefits of immigration.
At the moment, however, the whole issue is being poisoned by the government’s adherence to their bizarre and unachievable net migration target.
By announcing policies on the hoof every time figures are released, the Government betrays its lack of a long term plan on migration.
Half of all IoD members employ somebody from outside the UK.
That is overwhelmingly because they value the different skills people from around the world bring to their business.
This can help them enter new markets, expand global connections or just bring a fresh point of view to the table. It is not about undercutting wages or bringing in cheap staff - only four per cent of IoD members say that cost had anything to do with their decision to hire from abroad.
Our public services, in particular the NHS, also depend heavily on access to staff from across the world.
Businesses recognise the public’s concerns over immigration and on the pressure it can place on local communities, schools, housing and public services.
The IoD supports British Future’s call for a Comprehensive Immigration Review, based on evidence and expert advice.


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Posted by Genocide of the Irish on Tue, 01 Sep 2015 05:54 | #

Genocide of the Irish:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCrDp2DZIGs


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Posted by Czech President calls for United EU Army on Wed, 02 Sep 2015 16:29 | #

Czech President Miloš Zeman suggests European army to halt African invasion

Guillaume Durocher on August 28, 2015

The president of the Czech Republic, Miloš Zeman, has suggested that troops should be used to secure the European Union’s borders against immigration and that a common European army could be formed to achieve this objective. He correctly notes that the failure to repulse the ongoing migrant invasion is due to a lack of will on behalf of European leaders. The EUobserver reports:

The EU could better protect itself from migrants if it had a common army, Czech president Milos Zeman said Tuesday (25 August), while the Czech finance minister, Andrej Babis, called for the closure of the Schengen area’s external borders and for Nato help.

  Speaking to Czech ambassadors at Prague castle, Zeman regretted that Frontex, the EU border-control agency, has only three unarmed ships and a few armed ships to patrol the Mediterranean.

  “The EU’s fundamental lack is a lack of will for a common border protection”, Zeman said. “Today, a common European army would come in handy” to address the issue, he added.

Central Europeans (see “Can the Ossis Save Europe?“), notably Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, are then taking the lead in warning against the predictable calamity that is the ongoing Afro-Islamic invasion of Europe.


The article goes on:

Collective action

  Czech authorities recently floated the idea of using the army to secure the country’s borders.

  “The defence ministry is ready to allocate a maximum of 2,600 soldiers in case of further requests from the police”, defence minister Martin Stropnicky said on Friday.

  The Czech republic is on the way between Hungary, where more than 100,000 migrants have arrived so far this year, and Germany, their main destination.

  It is itself expecting up to 7,000 asylum seekers next year, according to a defence ministry report revealed by the CTK press agency earlier this month.

  Interior minister Milan Chovanec said he would seek about €40 million of extra spending next year to face migrant arrivals.

  On Tuesday, the Czech prime minister, Bohuslav Sobotka also called on Europe to take collective action to protect Schengen area’s external borders, especially in Italy, Greece, and Macedonia.

  “The migrant crisis is a pan-European problem. It is a challenge that we cannot run away from. There is now a great deal at stake. Among others the future of the Schengen border-free zone”, he said.

European authorities actually securing our Old Continent’s borders against foreign invasion? Now that’s an EU we might be able to get behind.

http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2015/08/czech-president-milos-zeman-suggests-european-army-to-halt-african-invasion/


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Posted by Orbán on migration madness on Thu, 03 Sep 2015 11:53 | #

Migration crisis: Hungary PM claims Europe is in grip of ‘madness

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/03/migration-crisis-hungary-pm-victor-orban-europe-response-madness

Hungary’s nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has claimed that Europe is in the grip of madness over immigration and refugees, and argued that he was defending European Christianity against a Muslim influx.

Orbán’s incendiary remarks came as he arrived in Brussels for a confrontation with EU leaders over his hardline policies in Europe’s biggest migration emergency since the second world war.

“Everything which is now taking place before our eyes threatens to have explosive consequences for the whole of Europe,” Orbán wrote in Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “Europe’s response is madness. We must acknowledge that the European Union’s misguided immigration policy is responsible for this situation.

“Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe. If Europe does not return to the path of common sense, it will find itself laid low in a battle for its fate.”

Germany, France, and Italy are demanding an overhaul of European asylum procedures as attempts to get to grips with the crisis leave Europe floundering in incoherence while the Schengen passport-free travel zone across 26 countries threatens to unravel.
Hungarian police stop train on way to Austrian border

“Today everything is immigration,” said the EU president, Donald Tusk, on Thursday. “We live in sobering, shocking times.”

“The Schengen treaty is under threat, that’s absolutely clear,” said Martin Schulz, the European parliament speaker, after meeting Orban. “This is a crucial moment for the European Union. A deeper split of the union is a risk we cannot exclude.”

Amid deep confusion over border controls and free movement, there were scenes of chaos at Budapest’s Keleti railway station when the Hungarian authorities’ on-off approach to running the trains shifted. Thousands of displaced people scrambled to board trains hoping they were heading for Germany when the Hungarians restarted rail traffic a day after closing the station to refugees.

“This is not a European problem, it’s a German problem,” said Orbán in Brussels. “They all want to go to Germany.”
Hungarian police stand in front of people on a platform at the Keleti train station in Budapest.

Hungarian police stand in front of people on a platform at the Keleti train station in Budapest. Photograph: Laszlo Balogh/Reuters

Tusk said Europe was split east/west over the refugee influx, with some, such as Orbán seeking to contain the crisis by erecting border fences, while others, led by Germany, wanted obligatory quotas for refugees across the union.

Securing the borders was the most urgent challenge, Tusk said, adding he expected half a million “irregular migrants” to arrive in Europe this year. That seemed an understatement since Germany projects arrivals of 800,000 there alone.

The French prime minister, Manuel Valls, tweeted the photo of a Syrian boy whose dead body washed up on a beach in Turkey, writing: “He had a name: Aylan Kurdi. Urgent to act. Urgent to have a European mobilisation.”


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Posted by Poor Germans being evicted in favor of illegals on Fri, 04 Sep 2015 14:38 | #

German government evict poor Germans from their homes for illegals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=21&v=PnE3cFEehxg


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Posted by Unbearable! on Sun, 06 Sep 2015 11:35 | #

Tiny Victim of Human Catastrophe

                   

The shocking, cruel reality of Europe’s refugee crisis


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Posted by TT says, thanks George and Dick on Mon, 07 Sep 2015 10:15 | #

TT says, “THANKS” GEORGE BUSH AND DICK CHENEY! WE WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU!

               

Pope Francis on Sunday urged Europeans to take in as many refugees as possible as thousands of people fleeing their war-torn homelands poured west across the continent.

The pontiff told worshippers in St. Peter’s Square that it’s not enough to merely tell refugees, “Have courage, hang in there.”

“Faced with the tragedy of tens of thousands of refugees who are fleeing death by war and by hunger and who are on a path toward a hope for life, the Gospel calls us to be neighbors to the smallest and most abandoned, to give them concrete hope,” Francis said.

The world’s Catholic leader said implored his flock to “express the Gospel in concrete terms and take in a family of refugees.”

The Vatican has two church parishes within its ancient walls, and each will take on one family, the Holy See said.

“May every parish, every religious community, every monastery, every sanctuary in Europe host a family, starting with my diocese of Rome,” Francis said.

Angelo Cardinal Bagnasco estimated that if each of Italy’s 27,000 parishes each took in a family of four, about 108,000 refugees could be sheltered.

“I hope this wish comes true,” Bagnasco said on TV2000.

“It gives the idea of the possibilities that are in our country.”

Thousands of the refugees are traveling west across Hungary and Austria hoping to reach Germany.


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Posted by Mogherini + Peres = on Wed, 09 Sep 2015 15:19 | #

       

President Peres with Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini in Jerusalem. President Shimon Peres, (Wednesday, 16 July 2014), held a diplomatic working meeting with Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini, during which they discussed the ongoing security situation.

The (Italian) Foreign Minister continued and said,

“The region is tense and there is the risk of radicalization in the Arab world and also in Europe, where we know we have to pay attention to the risk of anti-Semitism, especially in these days.”

.................

On the 10th of October, 2007, at Hotel Hilton in Tel-Aviv, Israeli President Shimon Peres stated the following:

“From such a small country as ours this is most amazing. We are buying up Manhattan, Hungary, Romania and Poland.”

And the way I see it we have no problems. Thanks to our talent, our contacts and our dynamism, we get almost everywhere.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL4Cu-K17vE


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Posted by Syrian details benefits of Sweden on Sun, 13 Sep 2015 13:51 | #

Syrian describes the benefits which incentivize migration to Sweden…  and some incredibly obsequious Swedes who will consciously and actively sacrifice to make it happen…


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAJcy5k4rb4&feature=youtu.be


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Posted by Gamble taken on "behalf' of Sweden" on Sun, 13 Sep 2015 14:13 | #

A gamble taken on “behalf’ of Sweden”

Sweden Bets Open-Door Policy on Refugees Will Pay Off

Allowing lower entry wages in the labor market is one factor that would probably help increase employment for that group, Hallberg said. As many newly arrived refugees lack high school education, Sweden also needs to increase spending in education, he said.

The government on Thursday presented new job and education initiatives to help with the refugee inflows and get people faster into the labor market. In total it will increase spending by 1.8 billion kronor next year and as much as 2.5 billion by 2018 to help people settle faster.

The country’s acceptance of immigrants could also help it with its goal of diversifying its overseas markets. Currently, 58 percent of its exports end up within the 28-nation European Union.

According to Andreas Hatzigeorgiou, chief economist at the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, there’s a clear connection between migration and companies’ abilities to increase their exports.

“The global economy has created a situation for companies where in taking the step to export to a certain market, finding someone who has knowledge about - and a network in - that market has become more important,” said Hatzigeorgiou, who recently released a study on the issue.

And yet, Sweden’s new Social Democratic-led government is clamping down in areas such as direct labor immigration.

“We think it’s unfortunate that the government is planning to tighten labor immigration rules,” Hatzigeorgiou said in a telephone interview.
“Export and foreign trade is a cornerstone for Swedish jobs and Swedish growth. If immigration can have a positive effect on exports, it could also have a positive effect on the Swedish economy.”


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Posted by Greetings from Bratislava Not on Mon, 14 Sep 2015 08:09 | #

Greetings from Bravislava Not: Go Home!

       

Participants hold flags and a banner during an anti-immigration rally organised by an initiative called “Stop Islamisation of Europe” and backed by the “People’s Party-Our Slovakia” on September 12, 2015 in Bratislava, Slovakia. AFP PHOTO / Samuel Kubani


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Posted by Jez Turner on Calais on Mon, 14 Sep 2015 10:10 | #

                     


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Posted by Dump the Guilty Conscience on Thu, 24 Sep 2015 12:23 | #

Dump the Guilty Conscience

Neither France nor Europe have no “asylum duty,” with all due respect to the political and media oligarchy and the cold sermons of Catholic prelates. Enough simpering and fake tears. Why are millions of true and false refugees worldwide pouring into Europe? A universal duty to welcome them, based on what right? Because we have to pay for the “crimes” of colonialism? One has the impression that Europe is obliged to become the dumping ground of the world. The oligarchy blames the people; the tearful media propaganda and obligation of unlimited hospitality really mean: forced invasion and colonization.

We do not have to feel guilty for those who drown in the Mediterranean who we bring over rather than push back. No, we do not have to let ourselves be impressed by the crocodile tears of TV presenters and politicians. And the other countries of the world, what do they do?

We must not be paralyzed by pity for the others, but, like any other nation in the world, concerned about our own survival. Each in his home, each responsible. We do not need to conform to the orders of a self-contradictory Germany manipulating European institutions while forgetting what it is to be truly “European” in one’s soul, and which is engaged in a suicidal selfishness to buy a good conscience and moral virginity.

Are the Indians, the Chinese, the Japanese, Arab monarchies welcoming “refugees”? The United States, in four years, has received only 1,500 Syrian refugees! Yet it is largely because of their destabilizing military interventions in the Middle East, with their British auxiliaries, that we are in this mess. It is for Europeans to pay their piper.

                                                                    - Faye


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Posted by Slovenia inundated by 12,000 on Thu, 22 Oct 2015 21:49 | #

                                                                          

More than 12,000 migrants have crossed into Slovenia in the past 24 hours and thousands more are expected, prompting authorities to ask the rest of the European Union for help dealing with the flood of people.

Slovenia has asked the EU for police to help regulate the flow coming from Croatia, Interior Minister Vesna Gyorkos Znidar told TV Slovenia.

EU officials said Austria, Germany, Italy, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland offered to send police reinforcements.

“We are standing by Slovenia in these difficult moments, Slovenia is not alone,” European migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said after meeting Gyorkos Znidar. The EU executive later said Slovenia had formally requested tents, blankets and other supplies under the bloc’s disaster relief programmed.

Croatia also decided on Thursday to seek international help, the news agency Hina reported. The government in Zagreb said it would ask for blankets, winter tents, beds and containers. Since mid-September, 217,000 refugees have entered Croatia.

Migrants began streaming into Slovenia last Friday, when Hungary closed its border with Croatia. Before then, they were heading for Hungary - a member of Europe’s Schengen zone of visa-free travel - and then north and west to Austria and Germany. Sealing the border diverted them to Slovenia, which is also a member of the Schengen zone.

The daily cost of handling migrants was costing the former Yugoslav republic 770,000 euros ($856,000), Gyorkos Znidar said. Illustrating the pressure on a nation of just 2 million, authorities said a big national league soccer match would not go ahead in the capital on Saturday because police were stretched too thin with the migrants to provide crowd control at the game.


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Posted by Mick Lately on Fri, 23 Oct 2015 14:35 | #

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/23/poland-election-law-and-justice-party

“One of the most homogeneous countries in Europe, Poland is mentally wedged between its fear of Putin’s Russia and its historical dread of Germany. The Roman Catholic church provides constancy and many analysts claim Law and Justice will win the election thanks to its support from rural pulpits.”

And after the Second World War Poland was betrayed by France and Britain and terrorized by Jews.


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Posted by DanielS on Fri, 23 Oct 2015 19:47 | #

I don’t know, Mick. First of all, the article that you are quoting from is from The Guardian and entitled ‘Fear and xenophobia poison Polish polls.” Should we trust an article that would have a Jewish word, like “xenophobia”, in the title?

The article is obviously angling against Polish nationalism, but particularly against a kind which is quite anti-semitic:

The party has explicit support from a Catholic media empire, including nationwide broadcaster Radio Maryja

I don’t experience Poland as being in anything like such a fearful position.

       

The picture from the article seems pretty accurate in that regard, contradicting the supposed “dread and fear” - not my experience at all. Though I am sympathetic to the final sentence in the Guardian article:

“But many people in Poland – even the young – find capitalism, with its constant building of our consumption and desires, to be incredibly stressful.”

Maybe so.

However, regarding Poland being left to the Soviets after World War II, France’s war burn-out after the two world wars is to me understandable; Churchill did apparently make an effort to continue the war so as to liberate Poland as well, in “Operation Unthinkable”... but it was unthinkable to the Allies as a whole. They rejected his proposal.

Still, to me, it is history, even suggestions that Hitler was trying to do Poland a favor. That’s a joke, but it is history. We all have bigger and better things to do now.

 


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Posted by 17 year old Finnish girl burned on Mon, 21 Dec 2015 12:32 | #

17 year old Finnish girl burned alive by Afghani1

http://stop-hate-crimes.com/2015/12/01/17-year-finnish-girl-burned-alive-by-illegal-alien-from-afghanistan/



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