Depends who you mean. If you mean nations, never – because there is no such thing as a nation. At least, it’s not the sort of thing that can learn. A nation is just an abstraction, an idea.
If, on the other hand, you mean individual politicians, it’s evident that they learned years ago. Learned, that is, that there are masses of lovely juicy money coming straight from the USA to their bank accounts – if they do what they are told.
EU != Europe.
It is certainly no exaggeration to say that the absolute majority of citizens living (trying to survive) in the EU would rather want to live in a free old style pre-EU Europe!
Although the brainwashing done by MSM is very efficient on the younger generations, believe me, many hate Brussels like nothing.
The EU is an undemocratic piece of sh#$%^
I said undemocratic. The EU “parliament” has nothing to decide, it is a freak show.
p.s. In above cartoon, where is Juncker’s personal bottle?
Here the latest autotranslated German MSM press article:
Application of the federal army Austria sends soldiers to the border
Austria has mobilised for the coping of the refugee’s crisis the federal army. The army should help above all in care, transport and accommodation. However, in Vienna one already thinks further than that.
10:07 GMT
Germany may take in 1mn refugees this year – vice chancellor
Germany may take in 1 million refugees this year, up from the record 800,000 arrivals predicted so far, AFP quoted Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel as saying on Monday. Writing to members of his center-left Social Democratic party, Gabriel cited signs that “Germany this year will take in not 800,000 refugees, as forecast by the Interior Ministry, but 1 million.”
My remark: Only a week or so ago this number was still 400000.
It is growing exponentially. It can also be 5 millions. But as I predicted months ago This will not end well.
“””””Even the fourth largest town of the country, the Ruhr area metropolis food, registered only one more election turnout of alarming 33.9 percent. From 457 035 possible voices of all voters only 153 053 valid voices landed in the electoral urns – the lowest participation in a local election in the city of all times.”””””
This shows you how unhappy many Germans are with Merkel and politics in general.
It simply doesn’t change anything in this golden “democracy” if we participate in the elections or not.
The “Charlie Hebro” people are now being attacked for mocking the dead Syrian child. Now people are “shocked” and saying the newspaper are just racists.People are saying we aren’t “Je suis Charlie” anymore.Remember when Saker got attacked so much for saying he “wasn’t” Je suis Charlie.And the horrible propaganda the MSM put out.Even having World leaders parading down a street in Paris to show their support for “free speech”.And now a few months later that has all changed.
“[..] and now a few months later that has all changed”
Of course it’s changed! Because mocking the poster dead-child who in turn is being used as a ‘welcome sign’ to all migrants – scratch that: “refugees,” doesn’t really fit with their current agenda.
Yes! It was all about ‘free speech,’ but that was back then, now it’s completely different story.
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There’s more than one cartoon, but the main one is this one:
To me, the depiction is a direct mock at the Americanized ‘goodies’ the EU has to offer to the refugees, and presumably it also alludes to; how they’re [the refugees themselves are…] willing to risk it all, including life and limb, to get a slice of the EU-Americanized pie.
Granted… it’s not very PC.
But then again, I come from a country that’s also traditionally not very PC itself.
Let me give you one example: one of the many [believe me; many!] jokes they came-up about 9/11. It went something like this… “Superheroes’ Superpowers: you got your Spiderman, he can climb the Twin Towers. Superman, he can fly around the Twin Towers, but then you got the Muslim-man and he can smash right thought them (meaning: the Twin Towers)
Big laughs followed the punch line. This was on a TV interview asking this local celebrity what was the worst [worst = most cringe worthy, most non-PC] 9/11 joke he ever heard.
I’m not saying I approve of such crass jokes, I’m just trying to illustrate what a non-PC culture looks like and what their ‘humor’ is/might be based-on however distasteful it may seem to outsiders.
And… talking about non-PC cultures: those should also include Russia, China – don’t even get me started on the Japanese – and plenty of others as well. So, remind me, why are we splitting hairs for, again?
But overall, in regards to the famous picture of the little boy on the beach, I’m still sticking by my guns: the father should be in jail for at least three counts of manslaughter, but also; now new evidence is coming-out that he was in cahoots with the human-traffickers.
Even if the latter happen not to be true, I still hold him responsible for the death of his own family.
Yes, the Europe of mafia criminals who extort the people is giving the last throes. But there is another Europe that lives, breathes, works, fights and, above all, is not afraid.
In Europe there has always been and always will be resistance. Yes, there are the vampires and large hordes of zombified citizens, but something moves …..
We already know that the “refugee crisis” has been “made” and one of the first side effects to violence by “some” in that sudden human tide is going to be the removal of the Schengen legislation, with Austria calling for border closures. Recall that one of the side effects of “Je suis Charlie” was the introduction of higher airport controls including control of passenger lists.
Let no one be fooled into thinking that this will be able to stop the flow of ISIS mercenaries. Has anyone seen that they have arrested many “jihadists” since the Paris event? I do not. All these controls are intended to control more and better the citizens against a possible attempt to join forces against the extortionists in the Eurogroup. Because they know that if we unite, if we support each other, the bargain run.
Then there is the matter of taking the Army to the street…..
As I see it, they pave the way in case of a possible victory of the left in Europe and a general rebellion of citizenship to this permanent indentation. So we have borders closed, strict controls at airports, and … the Army on the streets …. from there, it’s really easy to declare a “state of siege” if a few terrorists attacks here and there cause enough fear between “the zombies” who will ask to scream for more “security”, and, from there to exterminate the “resistants”, i.e. anyone who is able to think of something else that is not to obey and bow, as occurred for decades in other parts of the world, will be bread eaten.
Many “zombies”, as always, neither will see anything nor will hear anything when on “night of broken glasses” see their neighbors disappear forever.
[The French Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the Italian Stefano Fassina, Greeks Zoe Konstantopoulou and Yanis Varoufakis and German Oskar Lafontaine associate and propose the organization of an international summit for a B plan in Europe, open to volunteer citizens, organizations and intellectuals. This conference could take place from November 2015. These leaders plan to launch the process for the Feast of l’Humanite [French Communist Party party]. The following is the text signed by the five political.]
On July 13, the European Union collapsed the Greek government democratically elected of Alexis Tsipras. “The agreement” of July 13 is actually a coup. It was obtained thanks to the closure of Greek banks by the European Central Bank (ECB) and by the threat of not authorizing them to reopen while the Greek government not to accept a new version of a program that had failed. Why? Because official Europe could not bear the idea that a people who suffered its self-destructive austerity program had dared elect a government determined to say “No!”
Henceforth, much more austerity, many more discounted privatization of public assets, a more irrational than ever economic policy, and misanthropy as social policy, the new memo only serves to exacerbate the Greek Great Depression and looting of Greece by individuals, Greek or no. (….)
(….)This Europe produces only violence within nations and among them: mass unemployment, fierce social dumping, insults attributed to political leaders against Southern Europe and repeated by all the “elite”, including in those countries. The EU powered the rise of the extreme right and has become a means to override the democratic control over production and distribution of wealth throughout Europe.
Claiming that the euro and the European Union serve the Europeans and protect them against the crisis is a dangerous lie. It is an illusion to believe that Europe’s interests can be protected under prison rules of the eurozone and the current treaties. The method Hollande-Renzi of the “good student”, actually of the “model prisoner”, is a form of capitulation that will not get even clemency. The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, said it clearly: “There can be no democratic decision against the European treaties”. It is the neoliberal adaptation of “limited sovereignty” invented by Soviet leader Brezhnev in 1968. At that time, the Soviets crushed the Prague Spring with their tanks. This summer, the European Union has crushed the Spring of Athens with its banks.
We are determined to break with this Europe. It is essential to rebuild cooperation between our peoples and our countries. How to take a policy of distribution of wealth and job creation, especially for young people, ecological transition and democratic refundation in the European Union? We must escape the futility and inhumanity of the European treaties and refund them in order to remove the straitjacket of neoliberalism, abolish the fiscal pact and refuse the free trade agreement with the US (TTIP).
The period is remarkable. We face an emergency. Member States should have the political space which permit their democracies to breathe and establish policies adapted to the national level, not fearing the reaction of the authoritarian Eurogroup dominated by the interests of the most powerful of the Member States and the world of commerce, nor fear an ECB used as a steamroller that threatens to crush any “country that does not cooperate with it” as was the case in Cyprus or Greece.
That’s our plan: work in each of our countries and throughout Europe together, to fully negotiate European treaties again. We are committed to working with the struggle of all European countries in a campaign of disobedience to arbitrary practices and irrational rules until this negotiation is conducted.
Our first task will be to end the irresponsibility of the Eurogroup. The second task will be to end the supposedly “independent” and “apolitical” nature of the Central Bank while in reality it is highly politicized ( in the most toxic way) and is totally dependent on bankrupt bankers and its political agents, and is ready to kill any democracy at the push of a button.
Most European governments representing the oligarchy and hide behind Berlin and Frankfurt also have an A plan: not yield to demands for democracy of European citizens and use brutality to end their resistance. We have seen it in Greece this July. Why they have been able to strangle the democratically elected government of Greece? Because they also had a B plan: oust Greece from the euro zone in the worst possible conditions destroying its banking system and topping its economy.
Against this blackmail, we need our own B plan to combat the B plan of the most reactionary and anti-democratic forces in Europe. To strengthen our position against its brutal commitment to policies that sacrifice the interests of the majority to benefit the interests of a tiny minority. But also to reaffirm the simple principle that Europe is nothing more than the Europeans and the coins are not instruments of torture or weapons to kill democracy. If the euro can not be democratized, if they continue to use it to strangle the people, we get up, we will look at them and tell them:. “Try it!. Your threats do not frighten us. We will find a way to give the Europeans a monetary system which work with them, not at their expense. ”
Our A plan for a democratic Europe, reinforced by a B plan showing that the powers can not terrorize us and submit us, must be supported by most Europeans. This requires a high level of preparedness. The technical elements will be enriched by the debate. A number of ideas are already on the table: the introduction of parallel payment systems, parallel currencies, digitization of transactions in euros to address the lack of liquidity, complementary exchange systems around a community, leaving the euro and the transformation of the euro into a common currency.
No European nation can move toward their release from isolation. Our vision is internationalist. In anticipation of what might happen in Spain, in Ireland, why not again in Greece according to the evolution of the political situation, and in France in 2017, particularly all must work together to create a B plan that takes into account the characteristics of each country.
We propose, therefore, to organize an international summit for a B plan in Europe, open to volunteer citizens, organizations and intellectuals. This conference could take place from November 2015. This process will be launched during the Festival de l’Humanite [French Communist Party party].Join us!
She is almost the only member of current German parliament who has ever spoken out for Putin, for Russia, for Crimea’s independence from Ukraine and reunification with Russia, for Greece and so on and so on and so on.
She is a wizard in the field of socilology versus economy and has written a number of capitalism critical books. Even her strongest opponents and conservative economy magazines admitted, that she is a genius and that none of her words can be denied.
German MSM mostly ignore or attemt to ridicule her (can be compared to Ron Paul coverage).
Okay, my aplogies that she appears to be indeed half-Iranian.
Never heard that before and on her wikipedia page it is only mentioned in the categories line.
[German people of Iranian descent], but without further explanation.
Judging from her name (“Wagen” [car] and “Knecht” [servant] are both normal german nouns, but normally don’t fit together) I always expected her to have lived in the Austro-Hungarian Empire some 150 years or so ago. Because there was a migration wave at the time (yes!0) and the officials and bureaucrats wanted to punish and stigmatize the “nameless immigrants” by giving them clear-text german words as names, but often really hillarious word-combinations.
So either one of her ancestors married a man who lived there at some point in time, or the entire family migrated from Iran to Austro-Hungary (and then was forced by law to get a new name). Ok, certainly interesting, but how much does it matter???
Ok, I learned that she has some Iranian-jewish ancestors, but she is a wonderful woman and I cannot respect her enough.
The genes are totally irrelevant. I only wanted to provide a modern day example for an Anti-Zionist jewish communist. And she is the Best!
“If she’s Jewish, I would (until otherwise justified) put her in the same company as Chomsky, Atmon or Shamir [..]”
There are also Secular-Jewish (I know it sounds like an oxymoron, but let’s just run with it…) anti-Zionist Israelis within Israel.
Sadly, they’re a minority. They’re something, like, less than 20% of the population, but they’re there.
But I’d like to present here a special mention to: Dr. Norman Finkelstein; a fierce advocate for Human Rights in Gaza and the Palestinian people in general, who the Zionists like to refer to as: “a self-hating Jew”
^ BTW folks, do note the part when they get to the issue about the “peace process” between ‘evil’ Palestinians/Hamas vs. Israhell.
Notice the similarities in terms of the narrative in connection to the Minsk agreements.
It’s almost a carbon copy; Hamas/Palestinians = bad – Novorussians/Russians = bad.
Oh! But on the other hand you have the almost angelical Israelis, who are of course desperately fighting for their right to exists…
…and the Ukro-Nazis vs. the Novorussians [who are of course labeled as terrorists, just as Hamas is] who want to kill any pro-West ‘patriot’ Ukrainian in sight.
This comes from Porko & Co, the very ones who keep breaching the terms of the ‘peace agreement’ [Minsk 2.0] stubbornly and repeatedly… which in turn, gets blamed on the other side by the Yanks+MSM, and this gives the ‘West’ a ‘reason’ why they must keep “the pressure on Russia” with new sanctions…
(Incidentally; the last carnage visited upon the Palestinians happened under the cover of the carnage Novorussians were suffering at the same time)
Too right!
There are also members of the Jewish-Orthodox Rabbie’s Community who are actively against Zionism (and those are the ones who populate most of the results/hits you get in youtube and other search engines) but I did notice Finkelstein is there too.
And his featured vid is one of my favorite (oh! this guy is a living legend – he’s been interviewed by RT, and was a guest on Cross Talk too) but I was two-minded about posting that particular vid here. So, I went for posting a broader example of the guy in action (you know; for the benefit of those not familiar with him and his work) :)
I don’t know Limonov, but he certainly writes and thinks well, and I enjoyed this piece. I recommend it for those interested in the current migrant issue, as well as the depredations of the US against many nations, and the decline of Europe.
It’s an interesting perspective from Russia. He concludes:
“We watched the process of self-destruction of the USSR. Now it’s Europe’s turn. To each its own.”
I like the tag: “picture for 1000 words.” A bigger picture would show a mother and child washed up on the shore with Uncle Sam taking a photo after rearranging the bodies. Then somehow show a million such pictures bleeding forth an ocean of blood. At some point words and pictures fail to impress and we sink into impotent rage or dull indifference. A still bigger picture would be censored by even the most liberal moderators because truth hurts and some truths are unbearable by mere mortals. I can’t sit at this computer all day; I’ll get relief by going shopping–for food is my justification. If you judge me a fool, you’d be right. If you think I’m narcissistic egoist, you’d be half right. If you consider me crazy, you’re way wrong; maybe stupid but not insane. Like Hamlet, I can tell a hawk from a hand-saw.
So yes, let’s face it, the EU is dead, and, come on! Let´s curse the EU which smells of so rotten it is. So let off steam against Europe and those asleep Europeans. And above all, let´s crush the only ones who dared to stand up, as Syriza, ( I have had to read on this blog the most fierce criticism to them and even someone from across the Atlantic dared to suggest that Varoufakis could be a criminal ).
But, I wonder, what about you, North Americans, who populate this blog?
Because, I guessed, it was clear, at least for those who populate this blog, where is the origin of evil, from where was left the rot ….
In this, I am with Peter J. Antonsen, in their desperation to hear any ideas to stop the infection from their origin, to move your ass and do something for others to not have to suffer the consequences of the imperialist ambitions of your government in order to continue maintaining your sick way of life.
But I fear that you, deep down, perhaps unconsciously, you know the evil of others is still buoying your rotten system, guaranteeing you, at least for the moment, to witness from afar how all collapses across the Atlantic, from Portugal to the South China Sea…..
In this blog there are many posts criticizing Europe, I guess because both the blog and the most readers came from the Empire, but I see very little self-criticism. And you also have elections soon. I wonder what are you planning to do to change things. In the two years I’ve been on this blog, I have not heard anything, and I am starting to get sick…..
In Europe, there are people who, like the hummingbird, is doing its part.
I would like to see when you, North Americans, are going to do yours.
Interesting, I also have a sister-in-law from Barcelona.
And they were at the big rally last week and said the atmosphere was 100% phantastic, full of joy, happiness and the spirit of relief and freedom.
Yes, elsi, please tell us what you think.
I hope Rajoy will not send the military, but he already made the mistake to threaten with such a scenario :-( I say mistake, because this will bring another few %’s for souvereignity, I suppose.
From here I see it as a problem that there is – or appear to be – so little emotions against the damn EU. Independence from Spain would be nice, but as long as they are imprisioned in EU/NATO if not TTIP, they are equally as doomed. No matter if they consider themselves a part of Spain or not (which they won’t do anyway).
What I think of the “independence fever” in Catalonia is the same for all the “independence fevers” caused, always, by the ruling oligarchy to the glory of their interests.
Because, who initiated the independence offensive? Arthur Mas. When? When his popularity was under minimal due to corruption scandals of his party´s family of oligarchs, the Pujols, and his own, and due to the application of hard cuts in health, education and all in a much harder levels than those applied in the rest of Spain even by the Popular Party.
Effect: people, zombified, and the independence forces from the left, even the most extreme, thinking surely in “la pela”, all have forgotten the drastic cuts and millionaires theft perpetrated for decades by the party of Mas to ally with him in this new adventure.
As I see it, the “refugee crisis” is to the EU and Merkel, what the “independence fever” to Catalonia and Artur Mas, a chance to get a facelift and, in turn, cause the output of the Army to the street, so you can abort a possible victory of the left in the next general election.
At a time of total war of the oligarchy against the working class, it makes no sense to separate between us to form small countries, there is no more to look at what happened to Greece, with Spain, as a whole, would be much more complicated because it is a country much larger with a higher GDP.
It would not surprise me to see the hand of US behind this bravado by Artur Mas and the party he represents, taking into account that they already made the relevant travel to the US to present “their project”.
Do not forget that the aim of the Hegemon is turning the world into small harmless fiefdoms easily intimidated by takfiríes/nazis to place more easily their puppet oligarchs…..
So, in short, up to the cap of Catalonians and their independence endeavors.
Oh, did not expect _such_ a response.
Thank you, sounds disappointing but realistic.
There is no RF to unite with and to be protected by, only some kilometers behind the border.
I will forward this to Barcelona, and I guess they will hate me for it. But it makes sense.
Well possible that the US is sponsoring it.
It must be very expesive to spread the word and to prepare such huge events time and again, in such a perfect way. Who is providing the money for it other than the US and/or the oligarchy?
But all these folks need to understand that it is the EU first and above all who is their top enemy.
But I fear the majority doesn’t get it.
Although I am a nationalist by inclination, I think I agree with you here, Elsi. The only true purpose of nationalism is sovereignty–not just trading one master for another.
And I think your point about the EU preferring smaller, more bite-sized member-state that would be easier to control has merit. Around the time of last years’ Scottish referendum, Peter Hitchens had this to say:
The European Parliament gave the game away a few years ago by publishing a map of the EU in which all the regional boundaries were shown, but the word ‘England’ was not mentioned.
Meanwhile, the smaller nations of Europe are indulged by the EU, because (unlike the big countries) they are no threat to it. They are happy to be allowed a flag, an anthem, a well-paid political class, a little pomp and circumstance – and no real power.
Like many of the EU’s smaller members, Scotland is not big or rich enough to be truly independent. It can never hope to have its own free-floating currency, or its own armed forces capable of projecting power – the true indicators of sovereignty.
In truth, ‘independence’ will mean that Edinburgh becomes a cold vassal of Brussels, instead of a warm friend of London.
Incidentally, in as much as the EU is Berlin-dominated, there’s a certain, unsettling precedent for such an approach. Before and during WW2, Hitler was often known to favor a separatist approach to occupied, multi-ethnic countries (like Belgium) and satellite states (such as Slovakia, whose drive for independence from the Czechs Hitler supported). After the war, it was also revealed that the Germans had drawn up contingency plans for the occupation of Britain. Guess what? They planned to break it up into Scotland, England and Wales. (Northern Ireland was to be merged with the Republic of Ireland.) The Germans figured that such tiny little states would: a.) be grateful to Germany for their ‘independence’ and remain loyal to Berlin, and b.) would be too small to give the Germans any serious trouble.
Oh–and if that isn’t creepy enough–think of the similarities such an approach has to Israel’s Oded Yinon plan for the Arab countries.
Now it becomes clearer, that the US-EU _is_ in fact the 4th Reich.
Because while describing Hitler’s agenda, one may think you give a historic lesson about what was in fact _done_ to the Balkans during the 90ties!
And apparently they also have similar plans for the other mentioned regions.
Thanks for writing it together in this clear style, I saved me a copy.
Exactly, Martin. We are now the Fourth Reich–Heil Washington!
You’re right about Yugoslavia. And this idea also explains some of our other behavior, such as the new Ostfront against Russia, and the Goebbels-like media we have.
We defeated the Nazis, then we became them. So sad…
No, Seamus– Heil Wall St. ALL nations are to be balkanized, to leave individuals as separate helpless atoms before the Oligarchical Corporatocracy. Wall St + Rothschild + whatever other European oligarchs– all the banksters.
Their achilles heel is the legal constructs which funnel power & wealth to themselves: The Fed, EU, ECB, IMF, World Bank, BIS, WTO, NAFTA and all the other “free trade” agreements. These are the means to deprive nations of their sovereignty. Without the sovereign nation state to protect us, we have nothing– like the refugee, not even the right to BE anywhere.
Encouraging news about Syria from Thierry Meyssan: http://www.voltairenet.org/article188680.html
Russia is launching a campaign against all takfiri groups, not only Daesh. There is no “moderate” armed opposition, all are takfiris. The moderate opposition is committed to a political settlement. Meyssan says, “… this is precisely what scares the Petraeus-Allen-Clinton-Feltman-Juppe-Fabius clan.” Notice that group does not include Obama or Kerry, not that they welcome Russia but that they do not see a way to oppose it, since its position is entirely rational, whereas the hawk position is to maintain both Daesh and a war against Assad.
Then, sensational news from Sputnik, if Putin has the will and power to put it into practise: http://sputniknews.com/business/20150915/1026993814/russia-economics-reform.html
I am no economist but I sense the coming of a “mixed economy” where money is put directly into industrial and information activity that has a specific development goal rather than a “trickle down” effect that hasn’t worked yet in the west. If there is to be a break with the old world, maybe the example of it will be created in Russia (I hope).
Wow, that is definitely a pretty good insight – how many realise what the implications are, who stands to gain and what it means for Catalonia?
Nationalism is always a double-edged sword.
Looks like my sister-in-law’s mother is right to be nervous.
Funny, though my s-i-l is a Catalan nationalist, who claims Catalonia is culturally aligned with Italy (! – yes, she has this perception!), not Spain, she comes over all ‘Hispanic’ on the subject of US-Mexico war. Not at all pro-US.
Your post post just added a major irony to her position.
I just hope to Christ we are not seeing the beginning of Ukraine redux on the Iberian peninsula…
– I don’t think that refugees from Near East is our greatest problem.
Our biggest problem is corrupted politicians,
which turn our people into slaves by orders of foreign capitals.
You know well that no migrants (from Near East) are not going to Poland voluntarily.
It is Germans who want to bring them here by force!
They say that we should be grateful, because the world helped us.
Here the way Germans helped us in 1939?
Paviak (Nazi political prison in Warsaw 1939-1944), Auswitz,
death of your agemates during the Warsaw rebel.
Is it this we should be grateful to them? Never!
They say that we should be grateful to the French and the English,
to those who betrayed us twice in one war.
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I ask myself one question:
why only after 5 years of civil war in Syria, started by superstates,
did the wave of refugees proceed to Europe only now?
Refugees well-dressed, mainly men of army service age.
Everybody are surprised! Who organized it?
Where do they go from? What for?
Why there? This is not a coincidence! There was some impulse!
This week Russian soldiers arrived to Syria in terms of support to the legal President.
Now the world will receive Russian support with relief, to stop this wave of migrants.
But don’t get joyful!
I’m afraid, President Putin will set such a bill for this
I like your nickname (I was in Poland 50 or 60 times since 1985, know all corners there, but I never met somebody with such clear views in your country).
Well – that’s exactly the question. If you see many videos they are wearing damn expensive modern sports clothes. Such clothes are very expensive, especially those with western labels (no matter if authentic or falsified).
I don’t have such textiles. It’s also somewhat odd how clean they appear to be on some videos, like new.
Your questions of $$$ and timing are not only legitimate, but everybody on this planet should ask them (and here on this blog some are doing so already for weeks).
Well, soon we will know more, and the liklihood is not small that we won’t like it.
Maybe it was only because the West had been in the false belief that after the drowned boy story they can now “finally” invade Syria big time.
So to say they only needed the migrants, err, “refugees” in order to create chaos, confusion, distractions and simply a problem, which they would then have wanted to fix by invading Syria (Libya style).
Was that all? Maybe, but what about ISIS fighters spraeding terror in Europe? Someone always gets richer per every dead child or girl.
Or is more behind it? There are the craziest theories about September 23/24 and also about _today_.
I don’t want to think about that. I rather take my special Time-travelling car and go to Dr.Brown for returning into the good times …
The statements made in your referenced video are mostly incomplete, not thought trough, very uninformed, naive or simply false .
Poland so far received the largest amount of EU money, and when it is about getting funds from the EU, the EU is good enough. But taking responsibilities??? No, only cash is interesting.
Your traitors signed all these treaties that force you to take some refugees (Dublin). Also, did you say “The Germans”??? No, wrong. Our traitors! They never asked us.
So your traitors, my traitors and many other people’s traitors made deals that were knowingly harming all of our nations. For doing so they got some millions here and there. Or: Maybe they all are already dead for years if not decades. I often wonder if Merkel and folks like Schaeuble are little more than some pre-release experiments in the field of artificial intelligence. Programmed from mouth-opening-blah to closing-blah-spoke3hours-but-didn’t-say-anything …..?
If you believe that these quantities of migrants are no big deal, then what about the other 7,1 billion people of whom 1 billion (1000 millions) is currently willing to migrate ???
“Well, soon we will know more, and the likelihood is not small that we won’t like it.”
RT reported last week that the German administrative costs alone to book all these people will run in the billions and that fact is being suppressed in the German media. Now, add housing and everything else to that bill…
When all of this gets too big to hide, you’re right, people won’t like it one bit.
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PS; I’m a big fan of your angry rants. It’s about time the voice of suppressed/repressed Europeans is finally heard. I stand with them, and I’m not even from Europe myself.
This one is priceless, btw: “Or: Maybe they all are already dead for years if not decades. I often wonder if Merkel and folks like Schaeuble are little more than some pre-release experiments in the field of artificial intelligence.”
I, in turn, wonder if Wolfgang Schäuble is actually disabled and he’s not using the wheelchair act as a pity-shield so people don’t kick the shit out of him when he acts as unashamedly brash as he often does. If I was told half the things Varoufakis had to endure from this evil little troll, disabled or not, I would be smashing his head-in regardless!
Martin, Thanks for the math lesson. The video leaves out the fact that people choose, when they reach a certain level of economic comfort, career availability, etc to have fewer children. All of the developed economies have negative populations growth, absent immigration.
Your mathematician should have applied himself to the growth of assets in bankers hands via bank interest. Now THAT’s a scarey number.
“””””There are three types of Mathematician; those who can count, and those who can’t.
A Mathematician, a Physicist, and an astronomer were travelling north by train. They had just crossed the border into Scotland, when the Astronomer looked out of the window and saw a single black sheep in the middle of a field. “All Scottish sheep are black,” he remarked. “No, my friend,” replied the Physicist, “Some Scottish sheep are black.” At which point the Mathematician looked up from his paper and glanced out the window. After a few second’s thought he said blandly: “In Scotland, there exists at least one field, in which there exists at least one sheep, at least one side of which is black.” “””””
Vladimir Putin has allegedly warned the west numerous times about foreign policy meddling and actions which have resulted with the ISIS/NUSRA/Quaeda phenomenon.
It would be very useful for someone who has a record of these articles and occurrences to make that a publicly available document.
For example, I watched him on a televised announcement on russian TV in St Petersburg 2003 on the same day as the invasion.
He commented directly on camera that the US invasion of Iraq was in his own words a “Big Mistake.” and that was misprinted in the west as a “Political error”
The EU has achieved a great great deal, most of it positive. It is needed and indeed an EU defence force, along with EU independence from Nato, is needed more than ever.
There is a lot wrong with the EU, but a lot more wrong with a non-EU Europe.
WTF? For WHOM??
You mean the biggest unemployment level since the 1930ties (in many reagions _higher_)?
Or supporting US led wars all over the globe?
You sound like a brainwashed EU kid (xposed to daily pro-EU propaganda in kindergarden and school) of the 1990ties. Didn’t know some of those still exist.
Are you a south-west-German reading Frankfurter Allgemeine?
Hello. Accidentally got on this site the link. I’m from Russia. Pleasantly surprised that in Iceland there are thinking people who see what is happening objectively. On the sites of England and the United States all say that we are the Russians and our Putin is evil. So it was a shame to read their comments. Us Russians accused of all the sins of the world, the war in Ukraine, the annexation of the Crimea, etc. Thank You, thank you for this website.
don’t get tricked by what you read in western newspapers, news-websites and so called “readers’ comments”.
You cannot imagine the 100% level of equlization (“Gleichschaltung”) and censorship here in the damn West! Many more people than you think see what is happening, but all our comments on mainstream websites get deleted before they are published.
But nobody makes all these people (there are many such people), the British and Americans, to write all these derisive and abusive comments about Russia. It is their desire to say that this is their opinion. I understand that they all are brain washed, propaganda from the TV…But, because you also from Europe – what is your opinion as diamond pure and true. You are immune to propaganda?! How did you save my conscience and purity of heart?! And how is your website avoids censorship? When I read their comments – it makes me scared! Hatred, rage, the desire of the Russians to punish and kill. When I read your comments on this site – I began to live better. Your opinion coincides with mine on what is happening in the world. Photo of the drowned boy is the personification of the Europe. It, too, killed, dressed in beautiful clothes, put a corpse spectacular – and scream: “Oh my God, what a tragedy! We need to be merciful, submissive”.
I, for one, Tatiana, would like to welcome you in here with genuine open arms.
We don’t have enough Russian natives commenting in here, and, speaking for myself (but I’m also guessing others in here will share similar feelings) I would love to see more comments coming directly from Russians hailing form the motherland itself.
If you can (or so wish) please, do share this website with your friends and family.
We’re all big friends of Russia in here, and we’re from all over the world not just from Iceland.
This website is registered in Iceland, yes, but the owner+author of many of the articles in here – plus his guest-authors, plus us: the various posters you see in the comment sections: we’re from all corners of the world.
Hi, to answer your questions: I for my part threw away my TV in 1998 and I’m also no longer subscribed to any (so called) “news”paper. It made me too mad every day, I had to stop it decades ago!
And I guess I’m not the only one with this policy.
Comments: A team of volunteers is busily doing that work in a sophisticated manner all around the clock (I’m only a normal reader here, like you).
By using the NSA-media I’m probably risking my life, like others do who also speak out.
Maybe one day when they start NWO’s final phase they will GET US.
On the other hand: I refuse to be silent. Until now it is still possible to speak out (while only few Westerners are interested). At some point this option will cease to exists.
But somebody MUST report the true images of western “democracy”.
So, what was your question?
BTW, sadly enough there are also many Russians who don’t care enough about western crimes. The so called 5th column.
I tried to alert every Russsian software developer I came into contact with. Rather often the reaction was: Not interested, not my problem.
I’m talking about citizens of Leningrad who work for US biz’es that have subsidiaries in Peterburg.
It is a bad world :-(
Yeah, it’s done.
Stick a fork in it.
Another ally used to death by the USA.
When will they ever learn?
“When will they ever learn?”
Depends who you mean. If you mean nations, never – because there is no such thing as a nation. At least, it’s not the sort of thing that can learn. A nation is just an abstraction, an idea.
If, on the other hand, you mean individual politicians, it’s evident that they learned years ago. Learned, that is, that there are masses of lovely juicy money coming straight from the USA to their bank accounts – if they do what they are told.
EU != Europe.
It is certainly no exaggeration to say that the absolute majority of citizens living (trying to survive) in the EU would rather want to live in a free old style pre-EU Europe!
Although the brainwashing done by MSM is very efficient on the younger generations, believe me, many hate Brussels like nothing.
The EU is an undemocratic piece of sh#$%^
I said undemocratic. The EU “parliament” has nothing to decide, it is a freak show.
Ahh, btw, the latest on ZH is this:
Europe Approves “Military Action” Against Refugee Smugglers As Germany Warns 1 Million Coming
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-14/europe-approves-military-action-against-people-smugglers-germany-warns-1-million-ref
Shocking “doomsday video” from someone fleeing the Californian wildfires in the last minute.
I hope that’s not a preview for all of us:
Escaping Anderson Springs during Valley Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1&v=0lVPB3HI9Wg
(video url taken from http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-14/stunning-video-emerges-1000s-flee-california-wildfires-after-governor-calls-state-em )
ah, so its Juncker. A pathetic example of Junkers of Prussia. And Martin, that video of the California fires..OMG.
p.s. In above cartoon, where is Juncker’s personal bottle?
Here the latest autotranslated German MSM press article:
Application of the federal army Austria sends soldiers to the border
Austria has mobilised for the coping of the refugee’s crisis the federal army. The army should help above all in care, transport and accommodation. However, in Vienna one already thinks further than that.
http://www.translate.ru/siteTranslation/autolink/?direction=ge&template=general&sourceURL=http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/fluechtlingskrise/oesterreichs-bundesheer-leistet-hilfe-in-fluechtlingskrise-13802199.html
http://www.rt.com/news/line/
10:07 GMT
Germany may take in 1mn refugees this year – vice chancellor
Germany may take in 1 million refugees this year, up from the record 800,000 arrivals predicted so far, AFP quoted Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel as saying on Monday. Writing to members of his center-left Social Democratic party, Gabriel cited signs that “Germany this year will take in not 800,000 refugees, as forecast by the Interior Ministry, but 1 million.”
My remark: Only a week or so ago this number was still 400000.
It is growing exponentially. It can also be 5 millions. But as I predicted months ago This will not end well.
Record low turnout during last weeks regional elections in some local parts of Germany:
http://www.translate.ru/siteTranslation/autolink/?direction=ge&template=general&sourceURL=http://info.kopp-verlag.de/hintergruende/deutschland/torben-grombery/wahl-in-nrw-weiter-so-trotz-wahlenthaltung.html
“””””Even the fourth largest town of the country, the Ruhr area metropolis food, registered only one more election turnout of alarming 33.9 percent. From 457 035 possible voices of all voters only 153 053 valid voices landed in the electoral urns – the lowest participation in a local election in the city of all times.”””””
This shows you how unhappy many Germans are with Merkel and politics in general.
It simply doesn’t change anything in this golden “democracy” if we participate in the elections or not.
The smugness of “collapse”, “fail”, “RIP” is dangerous.
The Hegemon won’t collapse, Kiev’s economy won’t implode, the institutions of domination don’t go that way (like WTC Twin Towers and WTC 7).
Careful that wish becomes shades over your eyes.
These constructions of fascism and Liberalism, deviant as they are, callous and violent, are not going to fade away either.
They morph or replicate.
The “Charlie Hebro” people are now being attacked for mocking the dead Syrian child. Now people are “shocked” and saying the newspaper are just racists.People are saying we aren’t “Je suis Charlie” anymore.Remember when Saker got attacked so much for saying he “wasn’t” Je suis Charlie.And the horrible propaganda the MSM put out.Even having World leaders parading down a street in Paris to show their support for “free speech”.And now a few months later that has all changed.
http://www.rt.com/news/315290-charlie-hebdo-cartoon-aylan/
“[..] and now a few months later that has all changed”
Of course it’s changed! Because mocking the poster dead-child who in turn is being used as a ‘welcome sign’ to all migrants – scratch that: “refugees,” doesn’t really fit with their current agenda.
Yes! It was all about ‘free speech,’ but that was back then, now it’s completely different story.
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There’s more than one cartoon, but the main one is this one:
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/3415012/thumbs/o-CHARLIE-HEBDO-570.jpg
“So close to his goal… written above him.
In the background a McDonald’s-style Happy Meal Board states: “Two children’s menus for the price of one.”
To me, the depiction is a direct mock at the Americanized ‘goodies’ the EU has to offer to the refugees, and presumably it also alludes to; how they’re [the refugees themselves are…] willing to risk it all, including life and limb, to get a slice of the EU-Americanized pie.
Granted… it’s not very PC.
But then again, I come from a country that’s also traditionally not very PC itself.
Let me give you one example: one of the many [believe me; many!] jokes they came-up about 9/11. It went something like this… “Superheroes’ Superpowers: you got your Spiderman, he can climb the Twin Towers. Superman, he can fly around the Twin Towers, but then you got the Muslim-man and he can smash right thought them (meaning: the Twin Towers)
Big laughs followed the punch line. This was on a TV interview asking this local celebrity what was the worst [worst = most cringe worthy, most non-PC] 9/11 joke he ever heard.
I’m not saying I approve of such crass jokes, I’m just trying to illustrate what a non-PC culture looks like and what their ‘humor’ is/might be based-on however distasteful it may seem to outsiders.
And… talking about non-PC cultures: those should also include Russia, China – don’t even get me started on the Japanese – and plenty of others as well. So, remind me, why are we splitting hairs for, again?
But overall, in regards to the famous picture of the little boy on the beach, I’m still sticking by my guns: the father should be in jail for at least three counts of manslaughter, but also; now new evidence is coming-out that he was in cahoots with the human-traffickers.
Even if the latter happen not to be true, I still hold him responsible for the death of his own family.
-TL2Q
Yes, the Europe of mafia criminals who extort the people is giving the last throes. But there is another Europe that lives, breathes, works, fights and, above all, is not afraid.
In Europe there has always been and always will be resistance. Yes, there are the vampires and large hordes of zombified citizens, but something moves …..
We already know that the “refugee crisis” has been “made” and one of the first side effects to violence by “some” in that sudden human tide is going to be the removal of the Schengen legislation, with Austria calling for border closures. Recall that one of the side effects of “Je suis Charlie” was the introduction of higher airport controls including control of passenger lists.
Let no one be fooled into thinking that this will be able to stop the flow of ISIS mercenaries. Has anyone seen that they have arrested many “jihadists” since the Paris event? I do not. All these controls are intended to control more and better the citizens against a possible attempt to join forces against the extortionists in the Eurogroup. Because they know that if we unite, if we support each other, the bargain run.
Then there is the matter of taking the Army to the street…..
As I see it, they pave the way in case of a possible victory of the left in Europe and a general rebellion of citizenship to this permanent indentation. So we have borders closed, strict controls at airports, and … the Army on the streets …. from there, it’s really easy to declare a “state of siege” if a few terrorists attacks here and there cause enough fear between “the zombies” who will ask to scream for more “security”, and, from there to exterminate the “resistants”, i.e. anyone who is able to think of something else that is not to obey and bow, as occurred for decades in other parts of the world, will be bread eaten.
Many “zombies”, as always, neither will see anything nor will hear anything when on “night of broken glasses” see their neighbors disappear forever.
“B plan for Europe”:
by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Stefano Fassina, Zoe Konstantopoulou, Yanis Varoufakis and Oskar Lafontaine
http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=203229
[The French Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the Italian Stefano Fassina, Greeks Zoe Konstantopoulou and Yanis Varoufakis and German Oskar Lafontaine associate and propose the organization of an international summit for a B plan in Europe, open to volunteer citizens, organizations and intellectuals. This conference could take place from November 2015. These leaders plan to launch the process for the Feast of l’Humanite [French Communist Party party]. The following is the text signed by the five political.]
On July 13, the European Union collapsed the Greek government democratically elected of Alexis Tsipras. “The agreement” of July 13 is actually a coup. It was obtained thanks to the closure of Greek banks by the European Central Bank (ECB) and by the threat of not authorizing them to reopen while the Greek government not to accept a new version of a program that had failed. Why? Because official Europe could not bear the idea that a people who suffered its self-destructive austerity program had dared elect a government determined to say “No!”
Henceforth, much more austerity, many more discounted privatization of public assets, a more irrational than ever economic policy, and misanthropy as social policy, the new memo only serves to exacerbate the Greek Great Depression and looting of Greece by individuals, Greek or no. (….)
(….)This Europe produces only violence within nations and among them: mass unemployment, fierce social dumping, insults attributed to political leaders against Southern Europe and repeated by all the “elite”, including in those countries. The EU powered the rise of the extreme right and has become a means to override the democratic control over production and distribution of wealth throughout Europe.
Claiming that the euro and the European Union serve the Europeans and protect them against the crisis is a dangerous lie. It is an illusion to believe that Europe’s interests can be protected under prison rules of the eurozone and the current treaties. The method Hollande-Renzi of the “good student”, actually of the “model prisoner”, is a form of capitulation that will not get even clemency. The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, said it clearly: “There can be no democratic decision against the European treaties”. It is the neoliberal adaptation of “limited sovereignty” invented by Soviet leader Brezhnev in 1968. At that time, the Soviets crushed the Prague Spring with their tanks. This summer, the European Union has crushed the Spring of Athens with its banks.
We are determined to break with this Europe. It is essential to rebuild cooperation between our peoples and our countries. How to take a policy of distribution of wealth and job creation, especially for young people, ecological transition and democratic refundation in the European Union? We must escape the futility and inhumanity of the European treaties and refund them in order to remove the straitjacket of neoliberalism, abolish the fiscal pact and refuse the free trade agreement with the US (TTIP).
The period is remarkable. We face an emergency. Member States should have the political space which permit their democracies to breathe and establish policies adapted to the national level, not fearing the reaction of the authoritarian Eurogroup dominated by the interests of the most powerful of the Member States and the world of commerce, nor fear an ECB used as a steamroller that threatens to crush any “country that does not cooperate with it” as was the case in Cyprus or Greece.
That’s our plan: work in each of our countries and throughout Europe together, to fully negotiate European treaties again. We are committed to working with the struggle of all European countries in a campaign of disobedience to arbitrary practices and irrational rules until this negotiation is conducted.
Our first task will be to end the irresponsibility of the Eurogroup. The second task will be to end the supposedly “independent” and “apolitical” nature of the Central Bank while in reality it is highly politicized ( in the most toxic way) and is totally dependent on bankrupt bankers and its political agents, and is ready to kill any democracy at the push of a button.
Most European governments representing the oligarchy and hide behind Berlin and Frankfurt also have an A plan: not yield to demands for democracy of European citizens and use brutality to end their resistance. We have seen it in Greece this July. Why they have been able to strangle the democratically elected government of Greece? Because they also had a B plan: oust Greece from the euro zone in the worst possible conditions destroying its banking system and topping its economy.
Against this blackmail, we need our own B plan to combat the B plan of the most reactionary and anti-democratic forces in Europe. To strengthen our position against its brutal commitment to policies that sacrifice the interests of the majority to benefit the interests of a tiny minority. But also to reaffirm the simple principle that Europe is nothing more than the Europeans and the coins are not instruments of torture or weapons to kill democracy. If the euro can not be democratized, if they continue to use it to strangle the people, we get up, we will look at them and tell them:. “Try it!. Your threats do not frighten us. We will find a way to give the Europeans a monetary system which work with them, not at their expense. ”
Our A plan for a democratic Europe, reinforced by a B plan showing that the powers can not terrorize us and submit us, must be supported by most Europeans. This requires a high level of preparedness. The technical elements will be enriched by the debate. A number of ideas are already on the table: the introduction of parallel payment systems, parallel currencies, digitization of transactions in euros to address the lack of liquidity, complementary exchange systems around a community, leaving the euro and the transformation of the euro into a common currency.
No European nation can move toward their release from isolation. Our vision is internationalist. In anticipation of what might happen in Spain, in Ireland, why not again in Greece according to the evolution of the political situation, and in France in 2017, particularly all must work together to create a B plan that takes into account the characteristics of each country.
We propose, therefore, to organize an international summit for a B plan in Europe, open to volunteer citizens, organizations and intellectuals. This conference could take place from November 2015. This process will be launched during the Festival de l’Humanite [French Communist Party party].Join us!
Fantastic!!
Thanks so much for this news Elsi. I will be sharing it like crazy.
Fontaine is Sarah Wagenknecht’s husband, so good stuff.
So glad to see Varoufakis getting into his stride at last – your faith in him was justified.:)
Yes, and Oskar Lafontaine’s wife Sarah Wagenknecht is a jew.
But not a Zionist.
She does deserve everybody’s deepest respect.
But no no, genes are soooo important …..
Really? I thought she was German/Iranian. Not that it really matters.
You probably mean KenFM: http://kenfm.de/
Dr. Sarah Wagenknecht was born in Soviet East-Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahra_Wagenknecht
http://www.sahra-wagenknecht.de/en/
She is almost the only member of current German parliament who has ever spoken out for Putin, for Russia, for Crimea’s independence from Ukraine and reunification with Russia, for Greece and so on and so on and so on.
She is a wizard in the field of socilology versus economy and has written a number of capitalism critical books. Even her strongest opponents and conservative economy magazines admitted, that she is a genius and that none of her words can be denied.
German MSM mostly ignore or attemt to ridicule her (can be compared to Ron Paul coverage).
English Subtitles: Sahra Wagenknecht about the EU Crisis and the civil war in Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIi4a7ri-dc
Maybe you could spend 10 seconds googling before claiming such nonsense next time?
She’s also half-Iranian.
If she’s Jewish, I would (until otherwise justified) put her in the same company as Chomsky, Atmon or Shamir, honest ‘injuns’all.
She has been absolutely on the money about the Russian sanctions and shows no signs of being a CIA ‘asset’ like the god-awful Merkel.
Okay, my aplogies that she appears to be indeed half-Iranian.
Never heard that before and on her wikipedia page it is only mentioned in the categories line.
[German people of Iranian descent], but without further explanation.
Judging from her name (“Wagen” [car] and “Knecht” [servant] are both normal german nouns, but normally don’t fit together) I always expected her to have lived in the Austro-Hungarian Empire some 150 years or so ago. Because there was a migration wave at the time (yes!0) and the officials and bureaucrats wanted to punish and stigmatize the “nameless immigrants” by giving them clear-text german words as names, but often really hillarious word-combinations.
So either one of her ancestors married a man who lived there at some point in time, or the entire family migrated from Iran to Austro-Hungary (and then was forced by law to get a new name). Ok, certainly interesting, but how much does it matter???
Ok, I learned that she has some Iranian-jewish ancestors, but she is a wonderful woman and I cannot respect her enough.
The genes are totally irrelevant. I only wanted to provide a modern day example for an Anti-Zionist jewish communist. And she is the Best!
@ eimar:
“If she’s Jewish, I would (until otherwise justified) put her in the same company as Chomsky, Atmon or Shamir [..]”
There are also Secular-Jewish (I know it sounds like an oxymoron, but let’s just run with it…) anti-Zionist Israelis within Israel.
Sadly, they’re a minority. They’re something, like, less than 20% of the population, but they’re there.
But I’d like to present here a special mention to: Dr. Norman Finkelstein; a fierce advocate for Human Rights in Gaza and the Palestinian people in general, who the Zionists like to refer to as: “a self-hating Jew”
The Best of Norman Finkelstein:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzkXR8_BS2Y
^ BTW folks, do note the part when they get to the issue about the “peace process” between ‘evil’ Palestinians/Hamas vs. Israhell.
Notice the similarities in terms of the narrative in connection to the Minsk agreements.
It’s almost a carbon copy; Hamas/Palestinians = bad – Novorussians/Russians = bad.
Oh! But on the other hand you have the almost angelical Israelis, who are of course desperately fighting for their right to exists…
…and the Ukro-Nazis vs. the Novorussians [who are of course labeled as terrorists, just as Hamas is] who want to kill any pro-West ‘patriot’ Ukrainian in sight.
This comes from Porko & Co, the very ones who keep breaching the terms of the ‘peace agreement’ [Minsk 2.0] stubbornly and repeatedly… which in turn, gets blamed on the other side by the Yanks+MSM, and this gives the ‘West’ a ‘reason’ why they must keep “the pressure on Russia” with new sanctions…
(Incidentally; the last carnage visited upon the Palestinians happened under the cover of the carnage Novorussians were suffering at the same time)
-TL2Q
@TL2Q:
All true!
Simply enter “jews against zionism” and then it gets confirmed instantly:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jews+against+zionism
Too right!
There are also members of the Jewish-Orthodox Rabbie’s Community who are actively against Zionism (and those are the ones who populate most of the results/hits you get in youtube and other search engines) but I did notice Finkelstein is there too.
And his featured vid is one of my favorite (oh! this guy is a living legend – he’s been interviewed by RT, and was a guest on Cross Talk too) but I was two-minded about posting that particular vid here. So, I went for posting a broader example of the guy in action (you know; for the benefit of those not familiar with him and his work) :)
-TL2Q
Nice cartoon. Have you seen this recent article translated at Fort Russ:
Eduard Limonov: Europe’s self-destruction is irreversible
I don’t know Limonov, but he certainly writes and thinks well, and I enjoyed this piece. I recommend it for those interested in the current migrant issue, as well as the depredations of the US against many nations, and the decline of Europe.
It’s an interesting perspective from Russia. He concludes:
“We watched the process of self-destruction of the USSR. Now it’s Europe’s turn. To each its own.”
I like the tag: “picture for 1000 words.” A bigger picture would show a mother and child washed up on the shore with Uncle Sam taking a photo after rearranging the bodies. Then somehow show a million such pictures bleeding forth an ocean of blood. At some point words and pictures fail to impress and we sink into impotent rage or dull indifference. A still bigger picture would be censored by even the most liberal moderators because truth hurts and some truths are unbearable by mere mortals. I can’t sit at this computer all day; I’ll get relief by going shopping–for food is my justification. If you judge me a fool, you’d be right. If you think I’m narcissistic egoist, you’d be half right. If you consider me crazy, you’re way wrong; maybe stupid but not insane. Like Hamlet, I can tell a hawk from a hand-saw.
So yes, let’s face it, the EU is dead, and, come on! Let´s curse the EU which smells of so rotten it is. So let off steam against Europe and those asleep Europeans. And above all, let´s crush the only ones who dared to stand up, as Syriza, ( I have had to read on this blog the most fierce criticism to them and even someone from across the Atlantic dared to suggest that Varoufakis could be a criminal ).
But, I wonder, what about you, North Americans, who populate this blog?
Because, I guessed, it was clear, at least for those who populate this blog, where is the origin of evil, from where was left the rot ….
In this, I am with Peter J. Antonsen, in their desperation to hear any ideas to stop the infection from their origin, to move your ass and do something for others to not have to suffer the consequences of the imperialist ambitions of your government in order to continue maintaining your sick way of life.
But I fear that you, deep down, perhaps unconsciously, you know the evil of others is still buoying your rotten system, guaranteeing you, at least for the moment, to witness from afar how all collapses across the Atlantic, from Portugal to the South China Sea…..
In this blog there are many posts criticizing Europe, I guess because both the blog and the most readers came from the Empire, but I see very little self-criticism. And you also have elections soon. I wonder what are you planning to do to change things. In the two years I’ve been on this blog, I have not heard anything, and I am starting to get sick…..
In Europe, there are people who, like the hummingbird, is doing its part.
I would like to see when you, North Americans, are going to do yours.
I would like to know what you think about Catalonia’s push for independence Elsi.
Makes my sister-in-law happy (a Catalan nationalist) but her mother nervous.
Interesting, I also have a sister-in-law from Barcelona.
And they were at the big rally last week and said the atmosphere was 100% phantastic, full of joy, happiness and the spirit of relief and freedom.
Yes, elsi, please tell us what you think.
I hope Rajoy will not send the military, but he already made the mistake to threaten with such a scenario :-( I say mistake, because this will bring another few %’s for souvereignity, I suppose.
From here I see it as a problem that there is – or appear to be – so little emotions against the damn EU. Independence from Spain would be nice, but as long as they are imprisioned in EU/NATO if not TTIP, they are equally as doomed. No matter if they consider themselves a part of Spain or not (which they won’t do anyway).
What I think of the “independence fever” in Catalonia is the same for all the “independence fevers” caused, always, by the ruling oligarchy to the glory of their interests.
Because, who initiated the independence offensive? Arthur Mas. When? When his popularity was under minimal due to corruption scandals of his party´s family of oligarchs, the Pujols, and his own, and due to the application of hard cuts in health, education and all in a much harder levels than those applied in the rest of Spain even by the Popular Party.
Effect: people, zombified, and the independence forces from the left, even the most extreme, thinking surely in “la pela”, all have forgotten the drastic cuts and millionaires theft perpetrated for decades by the party of Mas to ally with him in this new adventure.
As I see it, the “refugee crisis” is to the EU and Merkel, what the “independence fever” to Catalonia and Artur Mas, a chance to get a facelift and, in turn, cause the output of the Army to the street, so you can abort a possible victory of the left in the next general election.
At a time of total war of the oligarchy against the working class, it makes no sense to separate between us to form small countries, there is no more to look at what happened to Greece, with Spain, as a whole, would be much more complicated because it is a country much larger with a higher GDP.
It would not surprise me to see the hand of US behind this bravado by Artur Mas and the party he represents, taking into account that they already made the relevant travel to the US to present “their project”.
Do not forget that the aim of the Hegemon is turning the world into small harmless fiefdoms easily intimidated by takfiríes/nazis to place more easily their puppet oligarchs…..
So, in short, up to the cap of Catalonians and their independence endeavors.
Oh, did not expect _such_ a response.
Thank you, sounds disappointing but realistic.
There is no RF to unite with and to be protected by, only some kilometers behind the border.
I will forward this to Barcelona, and I guess they will hate me for it. But it makes sense.
Well possible that the US is sponsoring it.
It must be very expesive to spread the word and to prepare such huge events time and again, in such a perfect way. Who is providing the money for it other than the US and/or the oligarchy?
But all these folks need to understand that it is the EU first and above all who is their top enemy.
But I fear the majority doesn’t get it.
Although I am a nationalist by inclination, I think I agree with you here, Elsi. The only true purpose of nationalism is sovereignty–not just trading one master for another.
And I think your point about the EU preferring smaller, more bite-sized member-state that would be easier to control has merit. Around the time of last years’ Scottish referendum, Peter Hitchens had this to say:
The European Parliament gave the game away a few years ago by publishing a map of the EU in which all the regional boundaries were shown, but the word ‘England’ was not mentioned.
Meanwhile, the smaller nations of Europe are indulged by the EU, because (unlike the big countries) they are no threat to it. They are happy to be allowed a flag, an anthem, a well-paid political class, a little pomp and circumstance – and no real power.
Like many of the EU’s smaller members, Scotland is not big or rich enough to be truly independent. It can never hope to have its own free-floating currency, or its own armed forces capable of projecting power – the true indicators of sovereignty.
In truth, ‘independence’ will mean that Edinburgh becomes a cold vassal of Brussels, instead of a warm friend of London.
Incidentally, in as much as the EU is Berlin-dominated, there’s a certain, unsettling precedent for such an approach. Before and during WW2, Hitler was often known to favor a separatist approach to occupied, multi-ethnic countries (like Belgium) and satellite states (such as Slovakia, whose drive for independence from the Czechs Hitler supported). After the war, it was also revealed that the Germans had drawn up contingency plans for the occupation of Britain. Guess what? They planned to break it up into Scotland, England and Wales. (Northern Ireland was to be merged with the Republic of Ireland.) The Germans figured that such tiny little states would: a.) be grateful to Germany for their ‘independence’ and remain loyal to Berlin, and b.) would be too small to give the Germans any serious trouble.
Oh–and if that isn’t creepy enough–think of the similarities such an approach has to Israel’s Oded Yinon plan for the Arab countries.
I see your point.
@Seamus Padraig
Now it becomes clearer, that the US-EU _is_ in fact the 4th Reich.
Because while describing Hitler’s agenda, one may think you give a historic lesson about what was in fact _done_ to the Balkans during the 90ties!
And apparently they also have similar plans for the other mentioned regions.
Thanks for writing it together in this clear style, I saved me a copy.
Exactly, Martin. We are now the Fourth Reich–Heil Washington!
You’re right about Yugoslavia. And this idea also explains some of our other behavior, such as the new Ostfront against Russia, and the Goebbels-like media we have.
We defeated the Nazis, then we became them. So sad…
No, Seamus– Heil Wall St. ALL nations are to be balkanized, to leave individuals as separate helpless atoms before the Oligarchical Corporatocracy. Wall St + Rothschild + whatever other European oligarchs– all the banksters.
Their achilles heel is the legal constructs which funnel power & wealth to themselves: The Fed, EU, ECB, IMF, World Bank, BIS, WTO, NAFTA and all the other “free trade” agreements. These are the means to deprive nations of their sovereignty. Without the sovereign nation state to protect us, we have nothing– like the refugee, not even the right to BE anywhere.
Encouraging news about Syria from Thierry Meyssan:
http://www.voltairenet.org/article188680.html
Russia is launching a campaign against all takfiri groups, not only Daesh. There is no “moderate” armed opposition, all are takfiris. The moderate opposition is committed to a political settlement. Meyssan says, “… this is precisely what scares the Petraeus-Allen-Clinton-Feltman-Juppe-Fabius clan.” Notice that group does not include Obama or Kerry, not that they welcome Russia but that they do not see a way to oppose it, since its position is entirely rational, whereas the hawk position is to maintain both Daesh and a war against Assad.
Then, sensational news from Sputnik, if Putin has the will and power to put it into practise:
http://sputniknews.com/business/20150915/1026993814/russia-economics-reform.html
I am no economist but I sense the coming of a “mixed economy” where money is put directly into industrial and information activity that has a specific development goal rather than a “trickle down” effect that hasn’t worked yet in the west. If there is to be a break with the old world, maybe the example of it will be created in Russia (I hope).
Judge yourself how lost Europe is, not alone the Frankenstein-EU: Caught On Tape: Topless Femen Protesters Storm Muslim Debate “Whether Wives Should Be Beaten”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-14/caught-tape-topless-femen-protesters-storm-muslim-debate-whether-wives-should-be-bea
Wow, that is definitely a pretty good insight – how many realise what the implications are, who stands to gain and what it means for Catalonia?
Nationalism is always a double-edged sword.
Looks like my sister-in-law’s mother is right to be nervous.
Funny, though my s-i-l is a Catalan nationalist, who claims Catalonia is culturally aligned with Italy (! – yes, she has this perception!), not Spain, she comes over all ‘Hispanic’ on the subject of US-Mexico war. Not at all pro-US.
Your post post just added a major irony to her position.
I just hope to Christ we are not seeing the beginning of Ukraine redux on the Iberian peninsula…
Polish rebel against EU.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wClr67RwIJ0
Some extract from subs:
– I don’t think that refugees from Near East is our greatest problem.
Our biggest problem is corrupted politicians,
which turn our people into slaves by orders of foreign capitals.
You know well that no migrants (from Near East) are not going to Poland voluntarily.
It is Germans who want to bring them here by force!
They say that we should be grateful, because the world helped us.
Here the way Germans helped us in 1939?
Paviak (Nazi political prison in Warsaw 1939-1944), Auswitz,
death of your agemates during the Warsaw rebel.
Is it this we should be grateful to them? Never!
They say that we should be grateful to the French and the English,
to those who betrayed us twice in one war.
…
I ask myself one question:
why only after 5 years of civil war in Syria, started by superstates,
did the wave of refugees proceed to Europe only now?
Refugees well-dressed, mainly men of army service age.
Everybody are surprised! Who organized it?
Where do they go from? What for?
Why there? This is not a coincidence! There was some impulse!
This week Russian soldiers arrived to Syria in terms of support to the legal President.
Now the world will receive Russian support with relief, to stop this wave of migrants.
But don’t get joyful!
I’m afraid, President Putin will set such a bill for this
Den dobri to Poland, Polish rebel against EU
I like your nickname (I was in Poland 50 or 60 times since 1985, know all corners there, but I never met somebody with such clear views in your country).
Well – that’s exactly the question. If you see many videos they are wearing damn expensive modern sports clothes. Such clothes are very expensive, especially those with western labels (no matter if authentic or falsified).
I don’t have such textiles. It’s also somewhat odd how clean they appear to be on some videos, like new.
Your questions of $$$ and timing are not only legitimate, but everybody on this planet should ask them (and here on this blog some are doing so already for weeks).
Well, soon we will know more, and the liklihood is not small that we won’t like it.
Maybe it was only because the West had been in the false belief that after the drowned boy story they can now “finally” invade Syria big time.
So to say they only needed the migrants, err, “refugees” in order to create chaos, confusion, distractions and simply a problem, which they would then have wanted to fix by invading Syria (Libya style).
Was that all? Maybe, but what about ISIS fighters spraeding terror in Europe? Someone always gets richer per every dead child or girl.
Or is more behind it? There are the craziest theories about September 23/24 and also about _today_.
I don’t want to think about that. I rather take my special Time-travelling car and go to Dr.Brown for returning into the good times …
The statements made in your referenced video are mostly incomplete, not thought trough, very uninformed, naive or simply false .
Poland so far received the largest amount of EU money, and when it is about getting funds from the EU, the EU is good enough. But taking responsibilities??? No, only cash is interesting.
Your traitors signed all these treaties that force you to take some refugees (Dublin). Also, did you say “The Germans”??? No, wrong. Our traitors! They never asked us.
So your traitors, my traitors and many other people’s traitors made deals that were knowingly harming all of our nations. For doing so they got some millions here and there. Or: Maybe they all are already dead for years if not decades. I often wonder if Merkel and folks like Schaeuble are little more than some pre-release experiments in the field of artificial intelligence. Programmed from mouth-opening-blah to closing-blah-spoke3hours-but-didn’t-say-anything …..?
If you believe that these quantities of migrants are no big deal, then what about the other 7,1 billion people of whom 1 billion (1000 millions) is currently willing to migrate ???
Exponential growth …..
The Most IMPORTANT Video You’ll Ever See FULL LECTURE AlBartlett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZCm2QQZVYk
@ Martin:
“Well, soon we will know more, and the likelihood is not small that we won’t like it.”
RT reported last week that the German administrative costs alone to book all these people will run in the billions and that fact is being suppressed in the German media. Now, add housing and everything else to that bill…
When all of this gets too big to hide, you’re right, people won’t like it one bit.
–
PS; I’m a big fan of your angry rants. It’s about time the voice of suppressed/repressed Europeans is finally heard. I stand with them, and I’m not even from Europe myself.
This one is priceless, btw: “Or: Maybe they all are already dead for years if not decades. I often wonder if Merkel and folks like Schaeuble are little more than some pre-release experiments in the field of artificial intelligence.”
I, in turn, wonder if Wolfgang Schäuble is actually disabled and he’s not using the wheelchair act as a pity-shield so people don’t kick the shit out of him when he acts as unashamedly brash as he often does. If I was told half the things Varoufakis had to endure from this evil little troll, disabled or not, I would be smashing his head-in regardless!
-TL2Q
Martin, Thanks for the math lesson. The video leaves out the fact that people choose, when they reach a certain level of economic comfort, career availability, etc to have fewer children. All of the developed economies have negative populations growth, absent immigration.
Your mathematician should have applied himself to the growth of assets in bankers hands via bank interest. Now THAT’s a scarey number.
To all Communism-haters who no longer talk to me (“all sheep are black” – level *{0}) :
Here you see Soviet East-Berlin during the 1980ties.
Amateur footage (bad colors).
East-Berlin GDR/ DDR, 1980ties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKWrJJXy28g
In real color it was a worker’s *paradise*.
But sure: Folks living 10000 km westwards know it all better, from CNN …
*{0} := http://www.mathmos.net/misc/jokes.html
“””””There are three types of Mathematician; those who can count, and those who can’t.
A Mathematician, a Physicist, and an astronomer were travelling north by train. They had just crossed the border into Scotland, when the Astronomer looked out of the window and saw a single black sheep in the middle of a field. “All Scottish sheep are black,” he remarked. “No, my friend,” replied the Physicist, “Some Scottish sheep are black.” At which point the Mathematician looked up from his paper and glanced out the window. After a few second’s thought he said blandly: “In Scotland, there exists at least one field, in which there exists at least one sheep, at least one side of which is black.” “””””
hello saker
A thought,
Vladimir Putin has allegedly warned the west numerous times about foreign policy meddling and actions which have resulted with the ISIS/NUSRA/Quaeda phenomenon.
It would be very useful for someone who has a record of these articles and occurrences to make that a publicly available document.
For example, I watched him on a televised announcement on russian TV in St Petersburg 2003 on the same day as the invasion.
He commented directly on camera that the US invasion of Iraq was in his own words a “Big Mistake.” and that was misprinted in the west as a “Political error”
see here the msm misquote:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-03-21/news/0303210260_1_russian-president-vladimir-putin-international-law-iraq
The EU has achieved a great great deal, most of it positive. It is needed and indeed an EU defence force, along with EU independence from Nato, is needed more than ever.
There is a lot wrong with the EU, but a lot more wrong with a non-EU Europe.
> The EU has achieved a great great deal
WTF? For WHOM??
You mean the biggest unemployment level since the 1930ties (in many reagions _higher_)?
Or supporting US led wars all over the globe?
You sound like a brainwashed EU kid (xposed to daily pro-EU propaganda in kindergarden and school) of the 1990ties. Didn’t know some of those still exist.
Are you a south-west-German reading Frankfurter Allgemeine?
Hello. Accidentally got on this site the link. I’m from Russia. Pleasantly surprised that in Iceland there are thinking people who see what is happening objectively. On the sites of England and the United States all say that we are the Russians and our Putin is evil. So it was a shame to read their comments. Us Russians accused of all the sins of the world, the war in Ukraine, the annexation of the Crimea, etc. Thank You, thank you for this website.
Dorogaya Tatiana,
don’t get tricked by what you read in western newspapers, news-websites and so called “readers’ comments”.
You cannot imagine the 100% level of equlization (“Gleichschaltung”) and censorship here in the damn West! Many more people than you think see what is happening, but all our comments on mainstream websites get deleted before they are published.
Priveti!
But nobody makes all these people (there are many such people), the British and Americans, to write all these derisive and abusive comments about Russia. It is their desire to say that this is their opinion. I understand that they all are brain washed, propaganda from the TV…But, because you also from Europe – what is your opinion as diamond pure and true. You are immune to propaganda?! How did you save my conscience and purity of heart?! And how is your website avoids censorship? When I read their comments – it makes me scared! Hatred, rage, the desire of the Russians to punish and kill. When I read your comments on this site – I began to live better. Your opinion coincides with mine on what is happening in the world. Photo of the drowned boy is the personification of the Europe. It, too, killed, dressed in beautiful clothes, put a corpse spectacular – and scream: “Oh my God, what a tragedy! We need to be merciful, submissive”.
I, for one, Tatiana, would like to welcome you in here with genuine open arms.
We don’t have enough Russian natives commenting in here, and, speaking for myself (but I’m also guessing others in here will share similar feelings) I would love to see more comments coming directly from Russians hailing form the motherland itself.
If you can (or so wish) please, do share this website with your friends and family.
We’re all big friends of Russia in here, and we’re from all over the world not just from Iceland.
This website is registered in Iceland, yes, but the owner+author of many of the articles in here – plus his guest-authors, plus us: the various posters you see in the comment sections: we’re from all corners of the world.
-TL2Q
Hi, to answer your questions: I for my part threw away my TV in 1998 and I’m also no longer subscribed to any (so called) “news”paper. It made me too mad every day, I had to stop it decades ago!
And I guess I’m not the only one with this policy.
Comments: A team of volunteers is busily doing that work in a sophisticated manner all around the clock (I’m only a normal reader here, like you).
See my facebook- and twitter pages:
https://www.facebook.com/OpenSXCE/photos_stream
https://twitter.com/MartinBochnig/media
By using the NSA-media I’m probably risking my life, like others do who also speak out.
Maybe one day when they start NWO’s final phase they will GET US.
On the other hand: I refuse to be silent. Until now it is still possible to speak out (while only few Westerners are interested). At some point this option will cease to exists.
But somebody MUST report the true images of western “democracy”.
So, what was your question?
BTW, sadly enough there are also many Russians who don’t care enough about western crimes. The so called 5th column.
I tried to alert every Russsian software developer I came into contact with. Rather often the reaction was: Not interested, not my problem.
I’m talking about citizens of Leningrad who work for US biz’es that have subsidiaries in Peterburg.
It is a bad world :-(