NyaDagbladet, “The EU lends Bonnier billions” 20 September 2016:

       
        Carl Johan Bonnier         Foto: Peter Jönsson

European Investment Bank, the EIB, has granted loans of over 950 million kronor to the Swedish media group Bonnier. The reason given is that they want to support major media players during ongoing digitization.

Bonnier used the loan to continue to invest in research, development and innovation.

- The European Investment Bank’s main tasks under the investment plan for Europe is to support innovation. The media landscape becomes increasingly competitive, and investment in innovation and digitalisation will therefore be very important to continue. Transactions of this nature reveal situations in which the EIB can be an asset for European companies, regardless of sector, says Jan Vapaavuori, EIB Vice President responsible for lending operations in Sweden, in a press release .

EurActiv, “Russian MP: ‘We will buy Bulgaria, we already bought half of the coast”, 20 September 2016:

   
    Piotr Tolstoy [United Russia]

A statement by a Russian parliamentarian has sent shockwaves through Bulgaria, as the country begins to realise that the many Russians who bought real estate in the country may sooner or later become a powerful political force.

The MP, who is from Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party, was asked on Bulgarian television if his country would pursue a benevolent policy towards Bulgaria, if his party won the Sunday elections (18 September). In fact, United Russia won with more than 50% of the votes.

“Of course,” Piotr Tolstoy answered, adding: “We will just buy out the entire [Bulgaria]. Half of its coastline we have already bought,” he added.

Piotr Tolstoy is a great grandson of famous writer Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy. By profession, he is a journalist and is one of the most popular personalities on Russia’s Channel 1 television station, which is considered to be the voice of the government.

Tolstoy added that the EU, of which Bulgaria is a part, needs deep reform and that it should abandon the policy of enlargement with countries in “Russia’s zone of national interest.”

According to the Consulate General of Russia in Bulgaria, as quoted by the Bulgarian daily, Sega, Russian citizens have bought 500,000 homes in Bulgaria, many of which are located on the Black Sea coast.

Bulgaria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Daniel Mitov, called Tolstoy’s statement “arrogant, categorically wrong and in no way helpful for the development of the bilateral relations”.

Mitov added that the statement was not in line with Russia’s official positions, adding that he would appreciate if Russia’s official institutions distance themselves from it.

Julian Popov, a London-based Fellow of the European Climate Foundation, wrote on Facebook that the statement of the foreign minister is not enough, and that Bulgaria needs to find out what the real goals of the Russian Federation are vis-à-vis Bulgaria.

RadioNZ, “Facebook used to recruit illegal migrant workers”, 16 September 2016:

A human trafficking scam that’s carried on undetected for years is claimed to be using Facebook to lure migrants into jobs paying less than $10 an hour on New Zealand orchards.

A man from Vanuatu works in a Hawke’s Bay orchard under the Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme.

First Union says underpaying workers is systematic across some North Island orchards. Photo: RNZI / Johnny Blades

Investigations have been launched after a Filipino man, who paid his first month’s wages as commission to an offshore organiser, raised the alert.

First Union organiser Dennis Maga, who knows the Filipino orchard worker who has since returned home, said he was looking into the case with assistance from the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE).

“This is some sort of human trafficking because the orchard managers are consciously targeting those vulnerable migrants, luring them to work in that industry, knowing that they are quite desperate.

“Based on the information we found out from a friend of ours, who actually worked in one orchard company in Waikato, we realised that this is quite systematic because it’s also actually happening in other orchard companies in the North Island.”

TNO, “Details Emerge of ISIS Attacks”, 19 September 2016:

The controlled media has now been forced to admit that the series of attacks over the past weekend in America were part of a coordinated ISIS-inspired terrorist spree—despite their initial attempts to deny otherwise. The FBI have announced that they are looking for an Afghan with “U.S. citizenship,” more evidence that the acts are the direct result of the promotion of mass Third World immigration into the United States.

According to the FBI wanted poster, Ahmad Khan Rahmani was born in Afghanistan. He is about 5ft 6 tall and weighs approximately 200 pounds. It says he “should be considered armed and dangerous”. Rahmani is wanted specifically in connection with Saturday’s explosion, which injured 29 people.

Another five explosive devices were found in New Jersey overnight. The devices, hidden in a package at a train station in Elizabeth, New Jersey, near to Newark Liberty International Airport, were spotted after two men tried to steal the package, thinking it was “of some value,” Elizabeth mayor Chris Bollwage told local media.

One of the two thieves spotted wires and other indications that their loot consisted of bombs, so they notified the police.

A robot was deployed to examine the package, and one of the devices exploded while the investigation was underway.

The three pipe bombs found in New Jersey along the route of a US marine charity run and the two bombs in New York City were all constructed with cell phone initiation devices, indicative of a common terrorist cell operating in the area.

       
In my old haunts of Seaside Heights, they placed a bomb in a garbage can before a marine charity race.

Meanwhile, police in Minnesota identified the Somali Muslim who carried out the “Allah Akbar” knife attack in a St. Cloud mall on Saturday as Dahir Adan.

Adan had moved to America 15 years ago with his family as part of the U.S. Government’s plan to help “refugees” from Somali “flee war and poverty” in Africa.

The Amaq news agency—the official ISIS news service—issued a statement yesterday claiming responsibility for the rampage, which left nine people injured.

Adan was described by ISIS as the “executor of the stabbing attacks in Minnesota” and as a “soldier of the Islamic State” who carried out the “operation in response to calls to target the citizens of countries belonging to the crusader coalition.”

Diversity Macht Frei, 18 September 2016:

   

             

    Sir, Madam,

  Following our last visit to your building, we noticed the installation of a French flag in your garden.

  We thank you for your patriotism but given that the sporting activities of the summer are now over, we would appreciate it if you would remove it, in order to avoid any excesses.

  In expectation of your cooperation and comprehension,

  Sir, Madam, we ask you to accept the assurance of our distinguished consideration.

Source

Just to be clear, this is in France.

TNO, “Ghent: Turks Attack Europeans”, 18 September 2016:

Hundreds of Turks attacked police and white Belgians in Ghent over the past weekend as members of the pro-European Voorpost organization held a “no Turkey in the European Union” rally in the city.

After being given several warnings by the police to stop their violence, the nonwhites were dispersed by police water cannon and at least one was arrested.

The Voorpost organization said in its report on the Saturday, September 17 rally, that the slogan used by its members “No Turkey in Europe” was meant to demonstrate their opposition to the possible accession of Turkey to the European Union, Islamization in general, and against the foreign policy of Turkish President Recep Erdogan.

“However, a large group of Turks objected to this typically European right to freedom of expression, and attacked the peaceful protest,” the Voorpost report continued.

After police moved in to protect the whites, the Turkish thugs then attacked the authorities, forcing them to eventually disperse the nonwhites with water cannon and baton charges.

Despite the attacks, Voorpost was able to continue with its rally, and, thanks to its stewards, was able to complete the protest march.

“The Voorpost demonstration showed that the Turkish issue is already very important,” their report continued.

Frauke Petry, chairwoman of the anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD) Credit: Stefanie Loos/Reuters

Telegraph, “Berlin elections: Angela Merkel faces new gains by anti-migrant AfD party” 18 September 2016:

The far-Right could return as a force to be reckoned with in Berlin politics for the first time since the Second World War.

The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is set to inflict serious losses on Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) in regional elections in Berlin state on Sunday, according to opinion polls.

If the predictions are right, the party could win as much as 15 per cent of the vote campaigning on an openly anti-Muslim platform.

“With a swing to right, life will change in Berlin. I’m convinced of that.“Michael Müller

That would be the far-Right’s best performance in the German capital since 1945, and secure it its first seats in the Berlin state parliament since the 1990 reunification of Germany.

“Berlin cannot be allowed to become the capital of the far-Right,” Michael Müller, the city’s mayor, pleaded in a message on Facebook this week.

“It would be seen around the world as a return of the far-Right and the Nazis to Germany.”

Breitbart, “Migrants Granted Refugee Status Are Holidaying In Countries They ‘Fled’, At Taxpayers’ Expense” 12 September 2016:

Migrants with recognised refugee status are holidaying in the countries they supposedly “fled”, with their vacations funded by German taxpayers, a newspaper has found.

Newspaper Welt am Sonntag learnt that migrants are returning to countries such as Syria, Afghanistan, and Lebanon for holiday purposes, then travelling back to Germany where they continue to receive comfortable welfare payments.

The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has been aware for some time that some recognised refugees are taking leisure trips to the very spots they claim their lives are in danger.

The government body sent a written request to Berlin’s employment agencies in June, asking that they report the travel arrangements of migrants granted asylum holidaying in their countries of origin.

A spokeswoman for the Federal Employment Agency confirmed that “there are such cases” but reports that there is “no analysis or statistics on this subject and therefore we do not have information”.

The lack of information is down to data protection laws. But people who are familiar with the processes report that it is also happening in other regions of Germany.

Hartz IV, the welfare system migrants granted asylum receive, allows 21 days per year “local absence” where recipients collect full welfare payments while away from their usual area.

Receivers of Hartz IV must “notify the local absence, the expected duration, but not exactly where they go to,” the federal agency said, adding that “there is also no legal basis to demand this information.”

Welt am Sonntag reported that even if the migrant told welfare centre staff he was taking a trip to Syria, data protection laws would prevent this information being passed on to the federal agency.

Germany’s Interior Ministry indicates that European Union rules state that travel to so-called countries of persecution can lead to individual cases being looked at and, ultimately, asylum being withdrawn.

A spokesman from the ministry said there may be reasonable grounds for such trips, such as a family member’s serious illness.

“In the case, however, to travel for leisure purposes, this may be an indication that for the refugee no fear of persecution exists,” the spokesman added.

Armin Schuster, chairman of Chancellor Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party, said it “leaves one almost speechless” that migrants are holidaying in the countries they supposedly fled qualify for asylum.

Mr. Schuster said he could imagine only a few cases where a brief return would be acceptable, but commented that it’s “imperative that we continue to permit the refugees to apply for such a trip, and to be approved by BAMF.”

Despite the narrative which portrays migrants arriving in Europe as having fled for their lives, researchers have found increasing numbers are wanting to return to their home countries, dissatisfied with the standard of accommodation and welfare they are given on the continent.