by Peter Koenig for The Saker Blog
In June 2018 alone, more than 500 refugees drowned in the Mediterranean Sea. Their boats were refused access to land in either Malta, or Italy. They were force-driven back by gun-boats to the North African shores they came from, mostly Libya, but many boats capsized and countless refugees didn’t make it.
These are de facto murders, high crimes against humanity, committed by the very European Union. The same “leaders” (criminals, rather), whose forebears are known to have raped, exploited, tortured, ravaged peoples and their lands of Asia, Africa, Latin America over the past 1000 years of abject colonization. Europeans have it in their genes – to be inhuman. This can possibly be extended to the ‘superior’ greedy white race in general. At least to those who make it to political or corporate high office in the formidable EU or exceptional US, or to those who appoint themselves into the European Commission. We should call them “The Heartless Bunch”.
This is the so-called West, now led by the United States of America – basically the British empire transplanted across the Atlantic, where they felt safer between two shining seas, than as a rickety island in the Atlantic, just in front of the enormous, contiguous land mass called Eurasia. The Old Continent, alias Europe, was given by the new trans-Atlantic empire, the new masters of the universe, a subservient role. And that was in the making for at least the last 100 years, when the new empire started weakening Europe, with two World Wars.
Today’s European (EU) leaders are puppets put in place by the Atlantist elites, to make sure that the rather educated Europeans do not go on the barricades, that they are debilitated regularly by free market corporatism creating unemployment, taking their hard worked-for social safety nets away, saturating them with fake news – and gradually oppressing them with growing police states, with a massive militarization – and finally using the articulately planned flood of refugees from the very US-EU-NATO destroyed countries – destroyed economically and by wars – as a further destabilizing weapon. Greece should serve as a vivid example of what’s really going on and is planned, starting with “inferior” southern EU states, those bordering on the strategic and economically important sea way – the Mediterranean Sea.
You think I’m crazy? – Start thinking again and connect the dots.
The refugee death toll in the Med-Sea in 2017 was about 3,200, 40% down from 2016, and more than 600 up to end of April 2018, and another more than 500 in June. This figure is bound to increase drastically, given the European closed-border policy – and more. The EU is contracting among others, the Libyan Coast Guard with gun boats to chase refugee vessels back to the Libyan shores, many sink – and saving those thrown into the sea is ‘forbidden’ – they are simply left to die. That’s the rule. Malta, a little island-appendix to Brussels, but important as a refugee transit, has issued strict bans on private fisher boats and NGOs trying to rescue refugees.
As a consequence, the by now well-known “Lifeline” boat with 330 refugees – miserably poor, sick, desperate people – struggling for sheer survival, many with small kids, who wanted nothing more than their children to have a better life – was rejected by Malta, turned back into the sea, under guidance of NATO and EU hired military-type private contractor gun-boats. Malta has a Partnership for Peace (PfP) Agreement with NATO, i.e. obeys NATO orders. NATO, a killer organization, has, of course, not a shred of humanity in its structure, nor in the blood of the people at its helm – anywhere in the world.
Imagine – in this context, an EU summit took place at the end of June 2018 to “arrange” and agree on how to handle the refugee crisis in the future, in other swords, how to keep them out of Europe. None of the countries, other than Germany, were even considering accepting some of these poor souls out of sheer humanitarian reasons, to give them shelter, food and medication. The discussion even considered where to build a wall – yes fences were discussed to keep them out – Europe a xenophobic free-port for the rich, acting in questions of migration as a carbon copy of Trump. They deserve each other, Trump and Brussels, trade wars not withstanding – let them shred each other to pieces.
Well, this almost happened during, before and after the now-called “mini-summit”, with Madame Merkel almost losing her Chancellor’s job, as she, against all odds, represented the most humanitarian view of all the 28 neolibs. This did not go down well with her partner party, the ultra-conservative Bavarian CSU. Calls for her resignation abounded. The German Interior Minister, Horst Seehofer, was about to resign over Merkel’s alleged refugee ‘generosity’ – in which case the highly fragile right-left coalition would have collapsed – and who knows how Germany may have continued to govern. Perhaps new elections would have had to be called, and then only god knows what might have happened. The empire could not allow this uncertainty to prevail, because Washington needs Germany as the chief-slave driver to lead Europe into total disarray and serfdom. It worked. Germany is alive and saved – and ticking.
Instead, the European refugee / migrant policy is in shambles. The EU are literally out to kill refugees, as a means of dissuasion? – Mass-murder as a means of discouraging the desperate to seek shelter in those very countries that were instrumental in destroying their livelihoods, their families, their towns, their infrastructure, their education and health facilities – their youth? Generations of young Middle Eastern and African people are gone, destroyed.
Did these high-ranking EU officials in Brussels mention their own huge responsibility for the refugee floods with one single word? – No, of course not. Not with one breath. Has the conscience in one single head of these fake, neolibs-neonazis, as it were, self-serving EU heads of state been awakened by this very fact of guilt for what they are to confront? – Has it caused sleepless nights? I doubt it. They are far from this level of human compassion, they are monsters.
Then, there was and is Italy, with her strange new coalition, a coalition of convenience. The leftish 5-Star Movement in alliance with the right-wing Lega Norte, selling their human conscience to be able to reign, giving away their responsibility for migration to the xenophobic, narcissistic, and yes, close to fascist Lega Norte – which is adamant not to receive migrants. They would boycott any result that would force Italy to take in refugees, or even build border transit camps. In the end, they reached a toothless agreement; a non-agreement, rather; an accord that obliged none of the parties to do anything. Everything is voluntary. Period. And Macron said that this was the best refugee summit the EU ever had. So much for dismal brainlessness.
All was voluntary. The only agreement they could book for themselves, is to build refugee camps in North African countries for the shipped-back survivors. Fortunately, every North African country, from Egypt to Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco said no. Having seen what happened in such literal slave camps in Libya, they had at least the compassion for these desperate human beings to prevent this from reoccurring. Compassion, a term, a feeling or sensation, the Europeans are devoid of.
However, no Israeli- Trump- Brussels-type wall or barbed-wire fence will keep the desperate in their economically, or by war, or western terrorism destroyed countries. The west, and only the west, is responsible for the endless destructive chaos, torture and lawlessness in these nations that the west wants to dominate, for myriad reasons – to steal their energy, minerals; for their strategic location, and finally on the way to total full spectrum world hegemony. This, the west will not achieve. That’s for sure. Evil will not prevail in the long run. Darkness will eventually cede to light. That’s the way nature works. But on its way to collapse, Evil will maim and kill millions of lives. Countless children will have no future, no parents, no education, no health services, no drinking water. They will be made to slaves as a means for their survival, to be raped and exploited or eventually killed. The European crime is of infinite dimension and nobody sees it, let alone stops it.
Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a water resources and environmental specialist. He worked for over 30 years with the World Bank and the World Health Organization around the world in the fields of environment and water. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for Global Research; ICH; RT; Sputnik; PressTV; The 21st Century; TeleSUR; The Vineyard of The Saker Blog; and other internet sites. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution! – Essays from the Resistance.
The EU has committed many crimes against humanity. The Libyan debacle is at the heart of the refugee crisis. but …”Greedy white race” is an over-generalisation.
A friend in Serbia who runs a small business related to agriculture/ frozen food production. He decided to open a position for one of these so-called refugees transiting through our country. It’s not a lot of money, Serbian salaries are very low, but my friend is a kind, honest person, and it offered a possible opportunity to evolve in a sales/business development position, as he is looking long term to expand his market to the arabic speaking/gulf region.
Not one “refugee” wanted the work. They are obviously not that desperate. They can get more money doing nothing in the EU and living off handouts…
So who is greedy one now?
“Europeans have it in their genes – to be inhuman. This can possibly be extended to the ‘superior’ greedy white race in general.”
One more thing, the first slaves brought to the Americas were “white” Irish. One of the biggest genocides in history was the massacre of the celtic populations by the Romans, i.e. so-called white on white. So it is easy to paint these “whites” as the victims of history. For example, these whites blasted each other to smithereens during the 20th Century because of manufactured wars and revolutions.
Let me put it another way, without being too direct here, so-called whitey has been enslaved to a bankster master class for at least 200 years. The majority of slavers who ran the markets into the United States were of one particular ethnic group. When the truth was spreading last year that twas the Irish who were the first slaves in the Americas, it was the New York Times itself that ran a propaganda piece trying to counter that fact. So those who truly rule over us would have us fighting each other…black vs white…man vs woman…Christian vs Muslim.
Of course, the first people the ‘white europeans’ mistreated were ….. wait for it …. white europeans.
As usual in modern rhetoric, we are talking about ‘class’ disguised as an argument about ‘race’. Of course these days, only a few ‘socialists’ like Mr. Mazaheri want to talk about class. Otherwise, in the strongly class-based ‘west’, talking about ‘class’ is verboten.
The white european ruling classes build their entire European society based upon slavery. The slavery of other races came much later, when this ruling class expanded over the seas. The early European society was build upon the slavery of other white europeans.
What might be confusing is that they weren’t called ‘slaves’. Instead, in Europe they were called ‘serfs’. But it was basically the same deal. People worked hard to make money and wealth for the lords in the castle. They were subject to the whim of the lord in the castle for ‘justice’. And if they tried to seek a better life somewhere else, they were hunted down by armed men on horseback and usually brought back to the plantation, sorry, excuse me, the estate or the barony or whatever, and then publicly tortured to serve as a lesson to the other serfs not to try to escape.
I used to shock the local Black Supremicists by stating that most of the white people they so despised were in fact the descendents of slaves. Not only in the more obvious but frequently forgotten case that many whites came to the New World as ‘indentured servants’ and worked in the same fields alongside the slaves from Africa. But in that most of ‘white europeans’ were the descendents of the ‘serfs’ who used to do all the work and create the wealth for the elite ruling class of the knights and dukes and earls and barons in the castles.
The problem is not a racial one of ‘white europeans’. The problem is a class problem of a truly wicked and evil ruling class that has been inflicting crimes upon humanity upon others for century after century. These can not be identified solely by skin color. You can find people with ‘white’ skin whose ancestors were working in the fields with no chance of escape, as well as finding others with the same skin tones who are the 14th descendent of the Earl of WhatNot.
As usual, its more about ‘class’. That’s what determines much of ones course through life. Most of what is today blamed on ‘white europeans’ is in fact the work of this horrible elite ruling class who has always prospered by inflicting suffering upon others.
The facts are as follows:
In the last one hundred years the populations of Asia, Africa and the Middle East have increased ten times, creating immense economic and social difficulties for the countries of these regions. The populations increased because of imported medical practices of the despised West. However, these very same regions for the most part have not abandoned the religious and cultural traditions of the Middle Ages. ISIS in Syria is proof of this. How on earth was ISIS created and where did it find recruits, who in Syria butchered Christian and Muslim alike ? Yes, we all know Saudi Arabia financed ISIS, but the fact remains it did find recruits with the mentality of the Middle Ages.
To the unemployed of third world countries wars are the best thing which can happen, as then they have a wonderful excuse to come to Europe and claim refugee status. Analysts on the ground have established that at least 95 % of all “refugees” pouring into Europe are in fact the unemployed from third world countries. Among Syrian passport holders you have “refugees” from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Morocco and Algeria. I was not aware that these countries were at war. Germany admitted accepting one million “refugees”, while the true figure is perhaps closer to two million, as stated by independent observers. At the same time Saudi Arabia has 100.000 air conditioned tents with kitchens and bathrooms, which can accommodate 3 million people. It has refused to accept a single “refugee”, but has offered Germany financial assistance for the construction of 400 mosques. When “refugees” started pouring into Germany, Turkey offered a helping hand, issuing false Syrian passports, as well as written instructions on contacting German institutions upon arrival in Germany.
To state that Europeans have it in their genes to be inhuman is outrageous, and I am personally deeply insulted by the statement. Yes, Europe had it’s colonies. And who else ? Perhaps those who are pointing to Europe’s colonial past and at the same time forgetting their own.
What we have now is the third Muslim invasion of Europe. The first began in the 8th century, when Arab Muslims invaded Spain, butchering 480.000 Spaniards (ISIS would have been proud of them). From Spain the Muslim Arabs continued into France, where in 732 they were defeated by Charles Martel an the Battle of Poitiers. Historians regard this battle as one of the most important in European history, as Europe was to remain Christian.
In the 14th century the Ottoman Turks began the second Muslim invasion of Europe. Vienna was attacked twice, in the 16th and 17th centuries. The Ottomans were expelled from Europe only in 1912. Some historians estimate that Muslim nations butchered 250 million non Muslims.However, their Mongol neighbors killed millions too.
The current, third Muslim invasion of Europe is the most dangerous, because “refugees” pouring into Europe are not armed with weapons, but with passports, many of them false. Their arrival into Europe is not only encouraged by their domestic governments, eager to get rid of them, but by globalists, who are playing with international law. They are applying the old lawyers trick of using the law to break the law.
What “humanitarian” organizations and others are doing is to quote the international Convention which deals with refugees. Yes, it does exist. However, countries who signed it were under the impression that they would be getting refugees from their regions, and not refugees from other continents. This means that a country like Germany or Sweden will have to accept refugees from every single country which is at war, no matter where it is situated. Where is the logic that refugees from the Middle East end up in Europe, while countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar refuse to accept a single one of them ? This Convention, which deals with refugees, is used to break every single international law which guarantees the sovereign status of nation states. By making a country multicultural, you make it unstable and destroy it from within.
Yes, Mr Koenig is correct when he states that EU leaders were placed in power by Atlantist elites. These Atlantist elites created the EU, which is based on the US Federation. The aim was to destroy the sovereign status of European nations, reducing Europe to a private empire of private bankers. Both the EU Central Bank and the US Fed are controlled by private bankers. Europe is being forced to become multicultural, as those who advocate this know perfectly well that a multicultural society cannot function, which is the aim. By forcing European countries to accept “refugees”, globalists intend to create financial, economic, social, ethnic and political troubles for them, and they are succeeding. The refugee infusion will cost Germany an estimated 60 billion euros. In France and Sweden we already have no-go areas, where even the police dare not go alone. In these areas we now have Sharia patrols. Sharia is becoming very popular in Europe among immigrants.
Mr Koenig states that migrants (refugees) are coming into Europe for a “better life”. Yes, but in what way ? Those “refugees” who come to Europe with families do so in order to exploit the social security benefits of EU countries. They are not too interested in work. About two years ago some “refugees” in Germany were offered work. They refused, stating that they were “Merkels guests”, and had no intention of working. The young, unmarried “refugees” who come to Europe do so for European girls first and social security handouts second. Koenig forgets to mention the Muslim corsair raids of European shores of the 16th and 17th centuries, when you had massive abductions of European women (one million according to some historians). Even England was raided. Why so many rapes in Germany and Sweden ? Blond women were always highly valued in the Muslim world, being regarded as superior to domestic women. Who is the racist here ?
Merkels decision to accept “refugees” had nothing to do with humanitarian intentions. She was pressured by Atlantist elites, a well known fact. Those Soros funded NGO’s in Italy were not smuggling “refugees” into Italy because of “humanitarian”concern, but because Soros plans to flood Europe with third world immigrants, destroying nation states. Once nation states are destroyed, you will get a “European state”, and after that a “European ethnic group”, which is quite cynical, bearing in mind ethnic Europeans are being turned into a minority. In Sweden the death rate of native Swedes is higher than the birth rate, while the birth rate of immigrants is the highest in the country. What we are seeing before are eyes is a quiet genocide of native European ethnic groups.
Many private commentators have stated that the only thing which can save Europe from this third world invasion is Russia. And indeed it is beginning to look that way. When “refugees” started pouring into Europe, the EU also asked Russia to start accepting them. Putin said “no”. After that the EU made no more demands.
First to appologise for my bad english. It looks like you dont read historic books and archives but a PROPAGANDA. Like Napoleon sad once …western history is a bunch of lies wrote by winners. This German guy was to afraid to write down who are the real field as…oles, butchers. They are creating miseries for centuries to other nations. After Baylon they are the real slaves of Mamon god, comfor. First through catholic church and than through their Mamon given monarhies, especialy english one. Europe is a birth place of internacionalsocialism, nazisocialism and liberalsocialism, together with its doughters America and Australia.
Start with Konstantinopolj. Crussadres with black nobility and pope were very satisfied with their “earnings” for many years before sit thight again and “butcher Jerusalim”. In a time when Romeja was rich a prosperus, they were people who did not know how to write or read. All the big cities were more or less dump holes plus catholic seminaries where they learned how to kill for their masters. For 20 km walking-line comfor. Before Luther, they did not what was written in Bible. Catholics were listening Latin in churches till 20 century. When the plan with Arabs fail Otomans came along. So the pepole start to hate them and rather took muslim faith than to fight alongside Mamon people. These people were used to talk to their aristocrasy, and to church fathers in their own language what was only pure fiction for westerners for a centuries to come. In Dubrovnik slavery was blocked in 15 century. Otomans (at least in begining) were people with bigger character lines than western-iesss snakes. In mean time when the Otomans were butchering ortodox, westerniesssss decide to help them by pretending they are only worried about christan values. Than decide to colonize other nations while the real Christans were in shambels due to very day fighting with muslims.Thesis-antithesis-synthesis. After that west decide once again with silently support of their sheeple to atack Crimea, French Celts were there to. With their allies Otomans. Than, they were supporting Otomans during uprising in 19 century, agains small Russians in Balcans and near east. Than after they falseflaged Sarajevo they decided to kill 2/3 of male population in Serbia for example. Than in second world war you again sponsored all nationalist movements, especialy radical ones against nonpopular ortodox Serbs which were not willing to band down. Your elites gave Arabs vehabism in the begining of 20 century. Similar like US created Al-qaida in a second half. Number of your victims throughout subversive wars and direct clashes are hunderds of milions form China and southeast Asia to North and South America. Your ancestros hands are washed by blood of milions. Writer is right when he sad that Europeans have it in their genes – to be inhuman. Everything, comfor for nothing. Kant sad it also. Ther is no God in Europe, no christian moral values, only pagan Rome. Your people distorted so many good ideas and create so much suffering to others that it is even incompatible to standarise it with Babylonians. European armies which are a members of NATO destroyed in last two decades life chances for milions of people and you still got a nerve to write down Naymar-wood script. I personaly think that a lot of people praying each day to God, that russian “generalat” remove oportunistic Putin and Mevedev EAu masonic loge members from a power to unblock impact decisions, the same like regular muslims do. Or even jewish nationalists in Israel who are at the moment segregation lager target in EU elites plans. Liberal kabalistic values against belivers and nationalists.
djole
Thank you for your compliment. In fact I do read history, and not propaganda. As for Napoleon, he said the following about history: “History is a collection of events interpreted by fiction”. That’s what he said. You see, I do read history.
You better improve your English. I did not understand 90 % of what you wrote, as your comment is nothing but discourse.
“The populations increased because of imported medical practices of the despised West.”
the principle gains come from diet/nutrition and disease prevention, not medical practices.
Actually, antibiotics are the main cause of increased human life expectancy. Invented by a white british male…
Anonymous
And what is the difference between “disease prevention” and “medical practices” ?
This is a deliberate and planed Muslim population slaughter .
Then why don’t they (the “poor victim” muslims) just stay home ?
Why did Central Asian nomads push westward across the continent into Europe?
Because they heard that in the west was a green, rich land where there was plenty of water, forests, and game.
The availability of water pretty much everywhere permitted the development of myriad relatively independent communities/cultures in Europe.
This was impossible in the dry Near and Middle East. The European peninsula beckoned like a huge oasis.
Of course a lot of people wanted to go there, and still want to.
Where would you rather be, in the middle of a hot desert with little to recommend it except, it turns out, oil under the sand?
Or a nice green garden?
This is not in any way to belittle the cultures that developed in the Near and Middle East. Their development was also largely shaped by their response to the need for water, and for some gardens. But the nomads who thrived on the driest fringes and hinterlands such as the Arabian peninsula and in the vast sweeps of Central Asia made their living by raiding, not by building. So, it was easier to raid Europe than to settle down and create some workable irrigation projects. And when the latter did occur, it resulted, unfortunately, in the creation of highly regimented, hierarchical societies.
Indeed, except they do not call it invasion or displacement these days. They call it refugee crysis.
If I was a security consultant to any European Nation, I would charge the author of the above article with high treason. The above stream of misinterpretation of the situation on the ground/water can not be by any measure to be accepted as an honest mistake.
It is as fake news as the “refugee crysis” itself is and as a matter of fact, I wonder what is the relation of the author to any of the numerous non profits, eu organs, or smuggling outfits, that had created it in the first place.
jurgen
I fully agree with you. I was astonished with the contents of the article. I wonder what the true motive for it was.
I call it “goy baiting”.
Flopot
It’s worse than that. This is an open call for the destruction of European ethnic groups and Europe as a whole using one sided interpretations of history.
The Kalergi Plan is not a conspiracy theory; it is stated openly by numerous globalists that have strutted the EU stage (see Sarkosy shouting for a “mixed race” or Peter Sutherland demanding an end to European homogeneity or the infamous Barbara Spectre stating that Europe must becoming multi-cultural or else?!?).
It is not enough that our bankster masters inflicted manufactured wars and revolutions on the Europeans (and, yes, I include Russia in that statement) but now they plan to finish the job with mass migration.
Flopot
What you have stated is all true. For years I have been writing on the Internet that immigration into Europe is a conspiracy directed against Europe. When people start complaining, they are labelled “racists”. Europe is now slowly but surely being driven back into the Dark Ages of history.
why is it a conspiracy against Europe and not against everyone..the world?
this demonstrates what humanity is currently brought here by capitalism, driven here by capitalism..which as a systematic way of life is collective human suicide.
a lot of evil happened to me as person from a child until I became conscious of some truth and could finally fend properly for myself. I was badly hurt emotionally, hated a lot but saw what would happen to the fools like myself who ripped off my life. their time would come. but I did not understand how comprehensives systematic ways of life is, how it trains and carries along everyone in its way..and how crucial the opposition is as social brake and possibility for saving social change.
I came to see capitalism for the way it is, the human product it produces, totally opposed to natural life and the demands for indefinite survival. humans are wrong, opposed to life by way of life and that life will catch up and we will be toast. I developed helpful ideas of who humans really are, what we are. I was disappointed for I had dreams based on western religion which turned out to eb fake. it took a long terrible time of adjustment to even be alive as we speak. ‘ what in the hell is actually true about life, given the obvious lies of everything..especially religion and history
in disappointment the question of human worthiness to survive came up and realized that that may not even be a question at all. the question of worthiness suggests that we are purposefully made and that we have gone sideways to such purpose…and that I dont see now. we are evolved that’s all, here by results of natural movement in natures own advancement or evolution, with an opportunity such as it to take successfully and go on..or fail and die off. we die individually, not a happy and encouraging fact but a fact that suggests our ordinariness and consistency with all life. we are ordinary and not special but probably with potential to become special, if we win survival indefinitely, unlock universal secrets we can uses to increase ourselves as we go. we become extremely long lived and powerful from inside ourselves to affect external reality with such power.
but to get there, to explore and develop such potential if it exists we must solve internal human contradictions, out of the very lives we have developed, build systematic social organization that facilites human survival and general development..of society and of humanity relative to society. human society must be in concert with nature relative to human survival and the potential in nature that may permit our indefinite survival. that is not a gift but an achievement we could or would make
white people are generally evil..but how could that be save as product of nature itself, a potential that became real due to lived white experience. they are what their experience made of them..so are we all. our opportunity is in our ability to understand and to bring ourselves into line and so live on, to seek our positive destiny. and such destiny like all else would be relative, a human thing and not any great purpose of god and such nonsense. in the process as if to prove my point humanity is malleable, soft and absorbing of all that passes. we are not made of material that is forever, unchanging, impervious. we are not even sure that we will remain humanoid that is bi-pedal etc in the fullness of time. it maybe that environmental conditions may change taking current human form with it.
then question arise is there an evolutionary path for humanity at all? we know that some Dino currently are birds, avian for etc. as malleable as humanity is under environment pressure is there such evolutionary possibilities for us? if we are to stay humanoid would that necessary be a power we would have to win out of nature, on that potential being actually in nature and that we discover how to?
I dont see that white people are inherently evil. I dont see that anything at all is inherently any thing. all can be change and will change in time and relative to environmental development. white people are Black people evolved biologically. so are all people in the world. the Black people or original times evolved concepts of life that were naturalistic. later peoples, white people in particularly insecure of life and seeking such security by conquest evolved out this natural conception the religions ideas that have dominated to now..what are really fake religions and philosophical ideas and practices buttressing systems of exploitation have helped bring us to where we are on our existential knees in the face of the failure of our exploitative systems and said religious philosophies
humanity appears to know enough of the true human story now to make a difference especially in the failure of systems of exploitation and the sword such failures hold over the human neck. we must remove that sword by correct social change or it will fall and eliminate us. it is crucial that we derive, create social forms to address human need or we wont make. such forms are contained in the social position of ordinary people. there is nothing special about ordinary people. it is just that what is contained in meeting the needs of ordinary people, the human collective is contained the very saving social democracy we must evolved to survival. if we do not evolve such democracy minority control will lead us over the cliff into oblivion
humans have evolved a technological base that can already meet all human material need many times over. the potential is for the development of even greater and ongoing capacity to meet all human need at every increasing levels. ending human insecurity would generate secure human behavior as opposed to the insecure human violence and depravity of current social relations..between peoples and nations. such society would welcome truth for then truth would not be a danger to the social position of any one or group. and as is obvious we need truth to live by. we cannot go on believing in fairy tales and survive. we must know who we are to go on successfully.
we have arrived at the point in our career in existence at which we must come to grips with who we are or the technology we have managed to achieve will kill us. humanity must be able to use our current achieved technological level relatively..relative to our survival. we must be able to consume it fully in our collective interest clearing the way for even more. but in finally putting it to use for all people..in the interest of all, we would denude it of the danger it poses to our survival as implements of war and human enslavement, in the hands of controlling minorities. we would learn to use the technology in line with human survival.
are humans worthy of survival? that depends entirely on us..if we can win our continued, indefinite survival in nature as we go…if we can come to understand and know nature and what we must do to go one. the original Africans who evolved systems of what is referred to as ‘spirituality’ were more right than we are. there really is no good and bad, god and the devil. we have imposed that dichotomy on ourselves. the volcano burns its way through a location consuming what humans have built in the process. that is horrific for us..bad. but is it bad in nature..is in even bad for us really?
it is now know when and how and why volcanoes take place. volcanoes were before us and the totality of the volcano as part of the natural process is clear. if humans know volcanoes and we can predict it, move ourselves out of the way, watch it go by and make use of what it leaves when it is done. we may even be able to make use of its energy in process. ultimately we may even be able to stop it but why..that would be interfering with natural process which would entail all manner of cause and effect and potential we may not want incur. so simply move out of the way.
where is the bad in that? there is no bad..or good. the process is there and we must come to understand to relate to it effectively, to facilitate our own survival. there is only survival, understanding and maxing out or chances in existence. there is god, a universal spirit we are all attached to, part of….sure. God is everything and all is interconnected to that spirit.
is there some form of life after death? there may be..but it is not where the religions direct us. expanding science on natural concepts is unearthing directions where such forms of consciousness may take. humanity achieve extend some equivalent here in existence itself
there are white people who have made significant contributions of human efforts at indefinite survival. such people have achieved despite and against the horrific generally murderous flow of white life to date. here is Theodore Allen and the Invention of the White Race:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=theodore+allen+invention+of+the+white+race
this white man, Allen was exceedingly proud of his working class origins and status in life. he was proud of the fact that he was as good or better a scholar than all the boys out of the Ivy League
“white people are generally evil.”
What?
Koenig completely fails to acknowledge the most salient point…this invasion is a hybrid war against Europe, waged by Transnational Finance and their American enforcer.
Darkness will cede to light eh. I am watching but I aint holding my breath. it happened before that the light came back after the dark, but is that a law of nature that the light must return… is that really how nature works?
I dont know..but I do know that the west wont win the world…and in losing I am confident that the western elites will blow the planet
Europe’s evil is all pervasive…Europe is evil personified. I cant see how that changes. I do see the nature of of European derived capitalism, the name of the current darkness taking out, leading the human species right out of existence. European evil is simply too much, overwhelming, sapping the blood right out of life, spreading stupidity like a plague, obliterating all progressive the advances already made.
there are too many so-called ‘achievements’ all made and hoarded and waiting to get out that can chew-up humanity. and some will get out soon enough..bacteria for which there are no cures, mutating in the environment and getting even more virulent.
I can imagine the global chaos awaiting humanity as capitalism fails, dies, collapses. people like John Bolton, Pompeo, Giuliani ..men like those would push buttons to make it even worse as things fall apart. they would push the ultimate button as well. there are lots of that type around, even worse seemingly gathering, hovering as the clouds darken.
there is only one way humanity can save itself..that is as I have argued a spontaneous rising of the people, globally. and when and if that occurs the american people must move fast, like lightening, before the lunatics get to the buttons
any guesses how many multi million dollar cruise ships transit the Mediterranean Sea?
“Nigeria’s population at 196 million or so is way too high for the tax revenue per person to amount to anything. This is higher than the population of Russia, at 144 million.”
read on folks from the blog http://www.ourfiniteworld.com:
the Battle Raging In Nigeria Over Control Of Oil
Nigeria may sit atop one of the largest oil reserves in the world, but the majority of the Nigerian people have seen little benefit from the multibillion-dollar industry. The government and global energy companies have been exploiting the resource for years, bringing poverty, pollution, and violence to the Niger Delta. And now the local militias fighting for oil control have made conditions even worse.
Caught in the conflict are Nigerian citizens involved in the illegal oil market simply for survival. Oil theft is rampant, and the booming black market has transnational oil and gas consultants concerned about the effects on global oil markets. The government isn’t too happy about it either.
“All the oil that is sold around here, the government calls illegally refined products,” local oil businessman Don Wizaro
And when the Nigerian military raids illegal oil operations, they slash containers, releasing oil into waterways, contaminating what the main source of fishing, agriculture, and drinking water.
As the government continues its assault on illegal refineries and barges carrying stolen oil, local militias are retaliating. And one of the most notorious militias is the Niger Delta Avengers. They attack pipelines and infrastructure, significantly affecting both the environment and the economy.
https://youtu.be/vAgw_Zyznx0
If Nigeria were getting a huge amount of tax revenue from the oil, they could afford to give some of this back to there citizens. I don’t have the figures, but I would expect that there is a double problem (a) there is not a whole lot of tax revenue that they are actually getting from the recent low prices of oil, and (b) Nigeria’s population at 196 million or so is way too high for the tax revenue per person to amount to anything. This is higher than the population of Russia, at 144 million.
At some point it is getting tiresome, but I repeat it anyway because I find it inadmissible to lump migrants and asylum seekers together as “refugees”.
1. International law grants asylum to persons who are persecuted for political opinions, religious beliefs or dissent and persons who risk unfair trial, torture or murder. Asylum is to be granted by the state the refugee escaped to unless it poses an unacceptable risk for this state. Owing to the reasons of their escape, many asylum seekers arrive without documents and/or passports. As a result, the verification of their asylum requests usually takes time and needs careful consideration.
2. In contrast to asylum, there is no obligation for any state to host other migrants because such a hypothetical general obligation would abolish national sovereignty. Migrants are capable of providing documents and entering a host state legally by complying with its laws. For instance, a person that searched and found a job in Europe asks his future employer to file a request for a working permit. Once the formalities are fulfilled, he/she can legally immigrate by public transport for a few hundred bucks. There is absolutely no need to risk his/her life if the rules of law are respected and if an employment is obtained.
In the context of the ruthless wars waged against Iraq, Libya and Syria, I side with the author that Europe is morally obliged to provide humanitarian assistance to the displaced people. This is particularly true for some NATO states such as Germany, France, the UK, Denmark and Turkey who are/were waging war against Syria. Moreover, the governments of the EU were unwilling to pay for sufficient assistance in neighboring countries such as Jordan or Lebanon. Hosting a Syrian refugee in the EU costs an order of magnitude more than assistance in a refugee camp. Given the long-term EU strategy of diluting the European population with immigrants, I do believe the whole refugee crisis was set in motion deliberately. Miss Merkel’s invitation was only the last straw that broke the camel’s back. Forcing the Syrian refugees to seek shelter in far-away countries places the death-toll of this undertaking on the EU governments’ shoulders.
However, I disagree regarding economic migrants who seek a higher standard of living for themselves and their clans that sent them. Whereas I understand their motivation, I reject their methods of illegal immigration. In particular, it takes a robust amount of egoistic ruthlessness to abuse asylum requests for economic migration. Such requests are invalid and their sheer number deteriorates the conditions for refugees.
Does the EU have a moral obligation to host economic migrants from Africa?
Europe colonized Africa but the colonization ended about 50 years ago. Where exploitation is still going strong, it takes a corrupt local elite selling out the turf of rivaling clans for cheap. How many generations shall pass until a policy in the national interest is to be expected from former African colonies? Frankly, I think two to three generations are enough. Russia after Yeltsin shows that even one generation can be sufficient.
Illegal immigration into the EU costs thousands of Euros per migrant. This money is often collected from an entire family clan. The clan hopes that it will get its investment refunded, which is obviously only the case if the migrant makes it to Europe and gets a reasonable living there. If this plan does not materialize, the migrant will become a socio-economical zombie because he/she cannot return to his/her family empty-handed. The legal approach would be safe and much less expensive. All it would take is to invest in learning the language of the future host country and seek an employment there a priori.
Why risk life and reputation by illegal immigration?
I don’t think it is due to lack of information, mental capacity or engagement. It is rather the thirst for immediate success/reward and/or a sense of entitlement (black supremacy as opposed to white supremacy).
“Does the EU have a moral obligation to host economic migrants from Africa?”
unnecessary, pointless and likely dishonest formulation…and if not an entirely uninformed question!!!
Europe has by international law obligation to stay to hell out of Africa, to stop plundering its resources, killing Africans by the millions, tying up African countries in financial nastiness that bleeds the continent every single day, forcing its people into the kinds of behavior they now engage in in efforts to survive.
if that becomes the case Africans would be in Africa, would stay in Africa. why would they even dream of going to Europe had they their country in their own hands, were they not taken away from them.?
I cant imagine one single African leaving for Europe/the west including America in the best of worlds. an African would have to be crazy to chose to live among white people as they have been always, and still are currently.
this whole migrant question is illogical as it is presented. the real intent behind is some western elitist manipulation for capitalist purpose and therefore not good for all involved save the capitalist minority
I wrote “where exploitation is still going strong, it takes a corrupt local elite selling out the turf of rivaling clans for cheap” because it takes two for a Tango. I am opposed to exploitation as well, but as long as the local African elite is more interested in self-serving enrichment than in any advantage for the entire population, matters won’t improve. We have the exact same issue in our countries too. Instead of complaining the wrongs of others, we’d better start cleaning the mess in our own homes first.
Staying out of Africa completely is not helpful either because it would abolish trade and relations irrespective of its benefits or losses. To improve the living conditions in poor countries I donate 4-digit amounts yearly to few select medical NGOs. On the short term, this help provides relief. However, I am somewhat doubtful if it does any good on the long term. In my most optimistic scenario, the supported persons achieve enduring self-sustainment. In the worst case, the help just contributes to population growth and exacerbates the troubles year-over-year. Prevention of the worst case is completely up to the local people and none else.
Hence again, “how many generations shall pass until a policy in the national interest is to be expected from former African colonies?” In my opinion, it is time to put responsibility back to where it belongs to.
“Does the EU have a moral obligation to host economic migrants from Africa?” is a legit question. It can be answered differently nuanced but certainly not in black-and-white.
Well, receiving those hundreds economic migrants would be highly unfair to the 1.3billion of Africans that remain in Africa, unable to pay the smuggling fee. Once Europe accepts moral responsibility for those sailing fortune seekers, it accepts obligation to organize transfer for every single Earthian wishing to reside in Europe.
Europe indeed has obligation to Africans: to help them build sustainable African societies. But suggesting wish for death of european culture is outrageous.
staying out of Africa will work!
what is meant by staying out of Africa? certainly not the end of all interaction between the continents. that is never the way it is in the world. people will make contact for all manner of reasons not least of all mutually beneficial trade..what I call legit contact.
“Hence again, “how many generations shall pass until a policy in the national interest is to be expected from former African colonies?” In my opinion, it is time to put responsibility back to where it belongs to.”
what! there were/are no responsible Africans..none since independence from the colonial powers?
Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. there were no African leaders more real than he. JFK killed him, carrying out Eisenhower’s plan when he left office. that was one blow to the African solar plexus. there were any number of responsible African governments, political parties and leaders. they are all dead..all assassinated. you do not appear to understand what is actually going on.
the west identifies potential radicals in Africa and kills them even before they blossom. I came from the west indies and I remember one teacher of mine as a child who died about 40 years old. I remember he was an intense man a true leader of progressive movement by the teachers Union of which he was a leader. his death was unexpected and a shock to most. many years later as an adult it came to me like a bolt out of dark that he likely was killed, poisoned by the empire.
that’s when I began to look at deaths among progressives, young men and women who just up and died for no expected reason. yes..their deaths were most likely assassinations. and at the same time there was the School of the Americas to which scholarships were liberally awarded to train the monsters from every developing nation, who have run Africa and elsewhere into the ground.
we must remember that just a decade ago African was in war from one end of the continent to the next..no peace at all. who can develop in war? remember the utter chaos and destruction in Angola carried out by Jonas Savimbi, a great western creation indeed. America has been blasting the hell out of Somalia for how long now..20 straight years. America/the west has organized and financed decades of destabilization in Africa. currently Americas direct had has inserted people like Paul Kagame, the new Zimbabwe president, the nastiness in South Africa and the presidency all who have led that nation since 1994 and the end of white rule.
where is the room for the emergence of ‘responsible’ African government when they are identified by NGO’s in their countries for CIA assassination. they are hunted down and killed, destabilized in all and every way to prevent their emergence. America/the west are integrated into Africa destruction. imperialism is the single most powerful retardant to African development. to be a responsible leader in Africa or Latin America is a death warrant.
for the west staying to hell out of Africa gives the people their chance to work out their politics, their economies, their societies. leaders good and bad are a consequence of living. the people must have their freedom to deal with whatever government they have..keep them or toss them when necessary. it is not your job to judge African society, to call for this or that save on the basis of accurate assessment. accurate assessment leads to opinions more like my own stated here
““Does the EU have a moral obligation to host economic migrants from Africa?” is a legit question. It can be answered differently nuanced but certainly not in black-and-white.”
no matter what you say there is no legit to that formulation. speaking of morality in tandem with white movement in the world of dark people is oxymoron. there has never been a white mans burden…that was justification for plunder from the start. that has been Europe’s work in the dark world..plunder, mass murder to keep the people cowed and under control, and currently massive clandestine social control to effect world order that perpetuates white capitalist plunder of the same darker world
what ‘moral obligation’ you talking about? that’s a non-starter. there never was and is not now any morality at all in the relationship between the darker world and the white one..the imperial one. the white world was hungry, starved, degenerate and went into the rest of the world when it developed the means to, to do exactly as it has done..steal, enslave, plunder…. and right now, currently, for all this to stop the darker world must find it in themselves to toss the white world, get the white world off the back of back our world. you talk as if the initiative for a change to reality must and will come from the white world.
nonsense that! what moral obligation you talking about!!! the only one that may even be remotely possible is for the west to end its imperialism and stay to hell out so that the Africa and LatAm etc., can resolve their own problems, develop their own independence.
the west is responsible for this whole migration scandal..from start to this point. all this talk is ridiculous except that it is approached from that angle..that the west caused it all for whatever purpose those who control the west have in mind. all else is nonsense!
and finally..my last comment on this: what is most unconscionable and destabilizing of all..the spreading of those awful diseases in Africa – A.I.D.S, Ebola, west Nile etc.
‘responsibility for leading Africa properly under all that pressure horrific pressure?’. what the hell does that mean?
you people are insane, absolutely mad to speak of Africa in this way after what Europe has done there..and continue to do there.
get out man..stay away. let Europe keep its morality and responsibility to its bloody self! get out and let the African people see after themselves and whatever the hell they have. they will build their own societies and take care of themselves.
Europe never did that..Europe destroyed what was there and prevent its recreation to this day. Africans never needed any others to take care of them. they were conquered and subjugated. it is time for it to end. Europe must be made to go home, back to Europe and live there. if the human species is to live on Europe must go home
This is truly amazing! Despite the fact that we share many aims and opinions, you manage to turn every nuance on its head such that it reads as if I were a mortal enemy. Find some peace in your soul, please.
“I wrote “where exploitation is still going strong, it takes a corrupt local elite selling out the turf of rivaling clans for cheap” because it takes two for a Tango. I am opposed to exploitation as well, but as long as the local African elite is more interested in self-serving enrichment than in any advantage for the entire population, matters won’t improve. We have the exact same issue in our countries too. Instead of complaining the wrongs of others, we’d better start cleaning the mess in our own homes first.”
ok..your nuance!
how does that work in Africa…how has it worked?
only in Eritrea so far as anything honest stuck for any length of time. I dont know how that has been managed but I have not been paying attention lately. sure you have a point but look at what has been done to Somalia and Libya where good government stuck and was beginning to and had achieved some good for those nations.
but my point here is 2-fold..to lambaste the empire by exposing what it has done and is doing and capitalism by raising what I see to be the only way out..the rise of ordinary people everywhere as the only force capable of defeating capitalism. the people have been educated systematically by exploitative relations that leave them no option but to rise up and take over society. and in this rise there is no need for any political parties of any ideological stripe..and most particularly any vanguard left socialist party..all of which would be the reaction in the revolution
the revolution would need to avoid any future in which the revolution is led by any political party..which party would seek to establish its own dictatorship. we have had enough of that. that is no way out. spontaneous organizational creations, informed by collective exploitative experience at the hands of the Feudal/Capitalist elites, by all the people in participation in decision-making, to meet the needs of the day is the answer..at least the start of one the right way..much like the spontaneous Russian Soviet response that was taken away from the Russian people by the Bolsheviks
that is what I am doing. I expect that such rising if it does happen would do so first in the west and spread everywhere. the traitorous African elites would not have a chance against such rising if the west is tied up with its own problems of popular revolutionary risings. the idea for Africa, Latin America etc is to take the imperialists out of the equation. then those revolutions would deepen and succeed..and more risings would take place.
ok..so I missed your nuance but I am not thinking that way at all. I dont see how any honest bureaucratic, one person/one vote state can even come into being, far less survive in imperialism. imperialism advocates for such states because imperialism is past mastering such social organization. the imperialists know how to corrupt such states and control them inside out. an honest bureaucratic state..in which the bureau lives off the people in parasitic relationship? that’s a kind of oxymoron you see. and that is the type of state you have in mind in your nuance . the nature of all such states is exploitative and so corruption is inherent in its routine process. honesty is not possible in such social organization
only the people in popular rising can correct such a reality by creating a state totally responsive to the popular interest, in whatever shape and form such a state is possible in each and every culture/nation accordingly
Ok. I prefer evolution over revolution because the latter produces unacceptable collateral damages way too often. As you write, revolutions risk to be taken hostage by parasitic parties from within. I doubt that any revolution is possible that won’t be taken over by any party.
But let’s step one further step back. Prior to cities and nation states, people used to live in large families or tribes. Whereas social control/adjustment within small groups of related persons seems natural, it easily gets lost once the number of persons grow to thousands or more. Establishing and maintaining a common set of rules and behaviors in large groups requires an exponentially growing engagement by everyone – to the point that it gets impractical (controversial discussions never end).
At this point, it is useful to rely on delegation for the negotiations, such that popular decisions reduce to selections among few options. This resembles the foundation of direct democracy: task representatives with legislation and decide important issues by popular vote. This principle can be scaled up to nation states that encompass few 10 million persons. In even larger populations, the interests and opinions of the people seem to get incompatible again, such that it becomes difficult to maintain a high level of satisfaction for everyone.
To me, a revolution without emergent leading party would mean that the delegation of power is abolished for good. Whereas I kind of like the idea, most people I know do not want to spend their precious time with political considerations on a daily basis. Given this condition, anarchy is the only social model that could result from such revolution, because in any other social model the politically interested persons would become a party (a group with common interests). Unfortunately, historical accounts don’t make anarchy look favorable or preferable.
On the other hand, anarchy can be established without revolution. It automatically emerges if a majority of persons stop respecting the rules of the nation state. Refusal to pay taxes, refusal to pay for public services, refusal to obey civil duties or military draft, etc. will abolish the institutions of the state. As a result, the state will go broke, social security will vanish into thin air, medical treatment will be available only for cash, …
The end result will be martial law; and money will stay boss. Unless money is abolished and basic services and goods are given for free, in which case democracy would work just fine as well. However, I suspect that this outcome will stay an utopia.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/13920
here is Maduro killing the revolution. Maduro the bureaucrat is the problem. he will not deepen socialism by giving the people their nation so they can do the work of developing the nation
what is needed there is worker cooperatives..or worker control of the industries in which they work..or worker ownership. those who work in industries know their industry and can run their industry. but Maduro will not turn industries over to the workers in them. instead he wants them to provide executives and managers to be appointed as he sees fit.
that is what has driven down productivity and cause national failure of the so-called revolutionary process. Maduro is a joke, looking for all sorts of ways to protect unequal, exploitative society.
the criticism is valid, does not go fare enough. i expect that criticism of Maduro from the real left wil expand and deepen and as soon as possible result in his overthrow from the left..that is the left putting up separate candidates to the socialists, including a run against Maduro himself next election and defeating him. for get the right wing. this is the real battle…between the fake and real democrats