Don't Buy Capitalist Propaganda

Don't Buy Capitalist Propaganda http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/08/06/dont-blame-masses Don't Blame the Masses Published on Saturday, August 06, 2016 by The Boston Globe by Stephen Kinzer Whether or not the world is in an unusually bad state these days, it certainly seems so. Even Americans, famous for our lack of interest in world affairs, now closely follow news from far away. Much of it is frightening. Terror attacks are claiming innocent lives around the world. Syria is being torn apart. China and Russia boldly pursue their national interests and defy American dictates. Turkish democracy is evaporating. Iran and Saudi Arabia are at each other’s throats. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan drag on interminably. The European Union is staggering, with Britain quitting and others perhaps to follow. Meanwhile, several European countries are drifting toward right-wing authoritarianism. Donald Trump’s campaign threatens to take the United States in the same direction. This is the opposite of what many Americans expected. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 set off a wave of triumphalism in the West. Americans welcomed the “end of history” and presumed that all countries would quickly adopt political and economic systems like ours. There was to be a “peace dividend” as tranquility settled over the globe. People would become more prosperous. Nations would cooperate. All would gratefully submit to America’s will. Those were delusions. The world has gone in precisely the opposite direction, toward tribalism and conflict. We are now paying the price for grave misjudgments. The first was our misunderstanding of the Soviet collapse. It was a Soviet failure, but we interpreted it as an epochal American victory. That led us to believe that in a post-Cold War world, American power would grow, turning us into a global hegemon that other countries would happily follow. This was never realistic. Moments of change require adaptation, but the United States is not good at adapting. We are used to being in charge. This blinded us to the reality that as other countries began rising, our relative power would inevitably decline. Rather than shifting to a less assertive and more cooperative foreign policy, we continued to insist that America must reign supreme. When we declared that we would not tolerate the emergence of another “peer power,” we expected that other countries would blithely obey. Instead they ignore us. We interpret this as defiance and seek to punish the offenders. That has greatly intensified tensions between the United States and the countries we are told to consider our chief adversaries, Russia and China. The ideological conflict of the Cold War was so intense that when it ended, Americans assumed tranquility would follow. In fact, the Cold War was simply a temporary phenomenon that masked centuries-old political, social, cultural, and religious conflicts. Nationalism and tribalism, which began shaping the world long before Communism was invented, have reemerged rather than fading away. Our wrongheaded reaction to the end of the Cold War was America’s first major contribution to today’s global turmoil. The next was our decision to invade Iraq. That invasion continues to shape the world. The recent surge in Islamist terror is one of its long-term results. So are the refugee flows that have destabilized Europe and contributed to the rise of extremist political movements there. It is an object lesson in the long-term effects of intervening in faraway lands — a lesson we still seem not to have learned. Because we interpreted the end of the Cold War as the ultimate vindication of America’s economic system, we intensified our push toward the next level of capitalism, called globalization. It was presented as a project that would benefit everyone. Instead it has turned out to be a nightmare for many working people. Thanks to “disruption” and the “global supply chain,” many American workers who could once support families with secure, decent-paying jobs must now hope they can be hired as greeters at Walmart. Meanwhile, a handful of super-rich financiers manipulate our political system to cement their hold on the nation’s wealth. Our leaders told us that the end of the Cold War would make America more powerful than ever, that we had to invade Iraq because Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction, and that deregulating our economy and signing trade deals would improve the lives of ordinary people. We cannot be surprised that as the scope of those deceptions became clear, people would become angry. American elites are hardly the only ones who have cynically misled their people. The same happened in Europe. “Ever closer union” was another product of the dopey optimism that infected the West in the 1990s. It ignored the evident fact that most Europeans, like most people everywhere, feel loyalty to their own nation or group, and that this loyalty is not easily transferrable to diffuse and distant conglomerations. The EU has been run largely for the benefit of the business class. Ordinary Europeans have come to realize this, and it has angered them. The same anger is enveloping countries from Egypt and Nigeria to Brazil and Venezuela. In our complex modern age, the interdependent world does not run smoothly by itself. It requires farsighted leadership that takes the fate of ordinary people seriously and favors diplomacy over coercive force. Blaming the masses for stupidly supporting demagogic politicians is mistaken. People quite reasonably resent what their leaders have done to them over the last quarter century. They demand something different, whatever it is. That is the central cause of the new world disorder. © 2016 Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC Stephen Kinzer is a former New York Times reporter and the author of Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq (2006) and Reset Middle East: Old Friends and New Alliances: Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey,Iran (2011). www.stephenkinzer.com http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/08/06/dont-blame-masses COMMENT THEFT OF HERITAGE WHEREVER Europeans are invaded, raped, gang-raped, brutalised, home invaded, surrounded by foreign settlements, carjacked, murdered, vilified, dispossessed, politically suppressed, persecuted and prosecuted: it is by the ruling capitalists and their bureaucrats, who rob Europeans of their heritage, aided by the capitalist-owned media and capitalist-sponsored, self-serving, lying, Western intelligentsia. CAPITALISM that exploits, divests and endangers all Europeans, assisted by capitalist-sponsored and disseminated FALSE IDEOLOGIES of:  'liberalism', 'progressivism', 'democracy' (that is rule by capitalists and their economists), and the illusion of 'individual liberty'; in conjunction with a sustained campaign of promoting entirely fraudulent and dangerous 'universalism' of universal 'human rights' conferred on alien, competing interests by capitalism (versus the preservation and primacy of inalienable rights and heritage of Europeans, that is being criminally transferred to invaders) CAPITALIST-ENDORSED and capitalist-sponsored false ideologies are evangelised and enforced by the obedient, well-trained dogs of the capitalists:  the capitalist co-opted left-wing political parties, co-opted trade unions, and co-opted capitalist-sponsored 'progressive' interests groups), that comprise key components of a sustained decades-long top down and street level capitalist-sponsored campaign of propaganda and lies, that has grossly undermined vital interests and existential needs of all Europeans. Ordinary Americans may well be famous for lack of interest in world affairs, but the American oligarchs and conglomerates are certainly not disinterested or hands-off:  they have been violating the affairs of millions of people around the world, whose governments they have undermined, installed or deposed and whose countries they have bombed — when the American capitalists, the CIA, and American foundations are not otherwise bankrolling and organising political and social unrest in foreign nations, that are targeted for American capitalist take-down that benefits the bank accounts and investment returns of the American ruling elite. Whatever is 'frightening' in the world today, America, it's Western capitalist allies and it's Wahhabi allies supporting Islamic radicalism and tearing down nations in the Middle East and Africa, can take 'credit'. The statement: "China and Russia boldly pursue their national interests and defy American dictates" is annoying to read. Of course, China and Russia will pursue their national interests.  Why wouldn't they, and who are the American ruling oligarchy to seek to interfere with the sovereignty and national self-determination of the multitudes that comprise the nations of Russia and China. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the bet is that Turkey was always a CIA-MI6 capitalist puppet and, as the capitalists are not fussed whether their puppets are dictators or not, it is a good guess that Turkey was never what passes itself off as 'democracy' in the West (ie socially liberal mayhem, propaganda, suppression, unions working against working class interests, and the ruling capitalists in control, no matter who is elected, while the people of nations of these so-called 'democracies' are hostage to a program of third world invasion).  Compared to that, give me Turkey any day.  The bet is Turkey isn't implementing a program of genocide against the Turkish people.  Yes, they're brutal to rebelling out-groups; but they're protecting interest of Turks as a people. What Turkey may now be doing is regaining some of its independence from US-Anglo capitalist control, which the US-Anglo capitalists are displeased with; which would probably explain the attempted CIA coup in Turkey?  Either that, or this whole Turkey thing is a fake, to ensure that the ruling party's grip on control of Turkey is solid, and the US-Anglo capitalists are party to this ruse. The reference to "right-wing authoritarianism' is ridiculous.  Today, any white, or European, political organisation that stands even remotely by white, European, traditions or social norms, or lobbies for policy that is actually in the interests (for a change) of the people that comprise any white, European nation, is labelled 'right-wing'.  'Authoritarian' is a nice new twist, though. Trump is then drawn into this, as if Trump is the next Hitler (as the corporate media propaganda screams), but Trump is simply an American capitalist that wants what Israel has and what endangered white America wants:  a wall to keep the infiltrators out. Oh, and he is, ostensibly, an isolationist ... which could pose problems for Wall Street warmongers. Trump is infinitely a better choice than the unindicted criminal Hillary Clinton, but at the end of the day, if Trump is elected, Trump will be guided by advisors and by the demands of a 'democracy' that is in fact an oligarchy, so electing Trump is not vastly different to electing Hillary Clinton.  But, on the bright side, Trump hasn't got form destroying other nations, being a psychopath thrilled by the murder of Libya's leader, Muammar Gaddafi, or of getting ambassadors killed (to name just a few of Hillary Clinton's electoral selling points). I reject this picture that's being painted: There was to be a “peace dividend” as tranquillity settled over the globe. People would become more prosperous. Nations would cooperate. Capitalists aren't dreamers; they're cold-hearted and greedy planners, devoid of sentimentality or delusions about a capitalist peace-and-prosperity nirvana emerging on the planet. But, yes, they most certainly would have anticipated that American power would grow and they most certainly aim to make their profit-making interests paramount, as they work towards global hegemony:  that serves them and only them. Nationalism and what is referred to as 'tribalism' (ie.  belonging to one's own racial and cultural group) is not something undesirable that has 're-emerged':  it is belonging to a tribe of people (a nation, a cohesive social group bound by heritage and history, and often a group bound by blood).  It is something that has been suppressed in Europeans (whites), to the detriment of Europeans, who have been exploited and divested of their nations by capitalists implementing a program of population replacement by invasion; and this is a CRIME that is being committed by capitalists against the people of all European nations.  Europeans have legitimate and inalienable rights to identity and integrity (be it spacial, biological or social etc), and the legitimate right to pursue what is in the interests of European peoples (versus European and American capitalists). Refugee flows are not merely flows of migrants from Iraq:  the US-led capitalists have destroyed or otherwise helped to destroy a series of Middle-Eastern and African countries.  But, whatever the case in that regard, it is not incumbent on European peoples to take the hit and to destroy European societies, no matter what the capitalist owned media and the capitalist sponsored intelligentsia may preach. The destruction of European societies, destruction of European social order, and the destruction of European nations as nations, is a long-standing capitalist agenda implemented per US-Anglo capitalist clear intent to neutralise the future potential for resistance to (and independence of) Europeans from international capitalist rule, following the CAPITALIST defeat of Germany in 1945.  This agenda has also been methodically implemented by European Union capitalists, under the banner of the European Union and its earlier incarnation; and it is an agenda that has been implemented by all European-settled, US-Anglo capitalist controlled, colonies. The reference to "extremist political movements" is ridiculous:  Europeans, wherever they are, have a right to self-determination and a right to preservation of European interests and European societies, and it is absolutely imperative for the shrinking European demographic worldwide to ensure that the interests of Europeans are not only protected, but also firmly advanced, since such interests have been systemically grossly undermined over the passage of decades of  self-annihilating sleep-walking into the deliberately laid snare of what the capitalist thieves call 'diversity' — which is, in fact, capitalist implemented path to white genocide, that is a trap precisely because the longer the program of invasion (in the capitalist PR-spun guise of 'diversity') is permitted to continue, the more impossible it is to remedy without major civil upheaval and war.  The capitalist push for 'globalisation' is merely a push for US-Anglo led capitalist global hegemony, and it has absolutely nothing to do with 'benefiting everyone', and certainly would not have been envisaged in those terms by nation destroying greedy capitalists and currency speculators. The reference to "dopey optimism" infecting the West in the 1990s is ridiculous.  If any 'optimism' was displayed, it was propaganda as a ruse, to con the working classes out of their heritage, as capitalists edged closer to divesting Europeans and destroying European nations.  The co-opted unions and 'left' parties that do not support working-class European (white) interests aided the capitalist thieves, making them accomplices to the robbery of the heritage of Europeans. Don't blame the masses because the masses do not have a choice, even when they vote for those that pose an 'alternative'; because there really is no alternative.  Whoever is elected of the mainstream political parties, is much the same proposition as those that are destroying European societies worldwide. Today's capitalist or capitalist serving politicians that are painted as 'right-wing', 'authoritarian' or a threat to 'democracy' (ie to what is hostile rule by oligarchy), are no such thing in reality.  Voting for them is merely the lesser of two evils and merely forestalling slightly the inevitable destruction of one's nation and people, by capitalism, unless the capitalists are stopped by war or revolution. Reclamation of European heritage and significant change can only be manifested by revolution.  But I don't see a revolution any time soon.  So say goodbye to Europe and say goodbye to the European people, in this lifetime. THEFT OF HERITAGE WHEREVER Europeans are invaded, raped, gang-raped, brutalised, home invaded, surrounded by foreign settlements, carjacked, murdered, vilified, dispossessed, politically suppressed, persecuted and prosecuted: it is by the ruling capitalists and their bureaucrats, who rob Europeans of their heritage, aided by the capitalist-owned media and capitalist-sponsored, self-serving, lying, Western intelligentsia. CAPITALISM that exploits, divests and endangers all Europeans, assisted by capitalist-sponsored and disseminated FALSE IDEOLOGIES of:  'liberalism', 'progressivism', 'democracy' (that is rule by capitalists and their economists), and the illusion of 'individual liberty'; in conjunction with a sustained campaign of promoting entirely fraudulent and dangerous 'universalism' of universal 'human rights' conferred on alien, competing interests by capitalism (versus the preservation and primacy of inalienable rights and heritage of Europeans, that is being criminally transferred to invaders) CAPITALIST-ENDORSED and capitalist-sponsored false ideologies are evangelised and enforced by the obedient, well-trained dogs of the capitalists:  the capitalist co-opted left-wing political parties, co-opted trade unions, and co-opted capitalist-sponsored 'progressive' interests groups), that comprise key components of a sustained decades-long top down and street level capitalist-sponsored campaign of propaganda and lies, that has grossly undermined vital interests and existential needs of all Europeans.

German Greens (Die Grünen) - FIFTH COLUMN - GLOBALIST SHILLS

HU HA ANTIFA Nordfront German Greens (Die Grünen) FIFTH COLUMN GLOBALIST SHILLS http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/german-greens-patriotism-equals-nationalism/ri15041 The German Green Party Thinks Patriotism Is an Illness The epitome of spiritual disease in the West is displayed by certain segments of German society, who actually feel that the love of their own culture and identity is something evil to be wiped out V. Berger Subscribe to V. Berger (COMPACT Magazine) Subscribe to COMPACT Magazine 1 hour ago | 98    Comments Originally appeared at COMPACT Magazine. Translated by Michaela Günther from German German AntiFa and Anti-Deutsche (Anti-Fascist and Anti-German – radical left political alignment in Germany, whose members support the state of Israel and American foreign policy) recently decided to steal all football souvenirs that have the colors black-red-gold (German flag) – flags, hats, T-shirts etc. People should go to France and cleanse the stadiums of German symbols. An especially eager reader even suggested seizing all the flags – no nation should show patriotic symbols. If you still think that only red-colored fascists are demonstrating, this propensity to violence and othering, you're mistaken. The Rheinland Palatinate’s Grüne Jugend (GJ, Green Youth – German youth organization, linked to the German green political party; GJ is an extremist leftwing and favors, among others, legalization of drugs, use of free software, homosexual rights and the legalization of incest) recently posted a picture on Facebook, calling on football-fans to take down their flags, because "patriotism equals nationalism“. An enlightening remark follows: “Nationalism is a form of patriotism. When you consider yourself patriotic, you’re excluding others. Patriotism definitely has and impact and clear consequences, especially if it develops into an aggressive form, stigmatizing others as enemies. That is why we call all fans of the European Football Championship to leave no space for nationalistic ideas! Football-fans – take down your flags!“ On the picture, nationalism is identified with patriotism, but at the same time the comment states, that nationalism is only a form of patriotism. Are there two forms – a good and a bad one, like there's consumption and addiction to alcohol? Is this a valid objection? Definitely not.   from Green Youth believes she has an answer: “Even the many people who reject AfD (Alternative für Deutschland – Alternative for Germany, a right-wing populist and Eurosceptic political party in Germany), would easily wave the German flag“. You don't even need alcohol to make harmless consumption (patriotism) evolve into destructive addiction (nationalism). It seems that Green Youth definitely consists of professional, ass-kicking psychologists. That’s why Mrs. Sammet relies on her proper understanding of national sentiments: “Patriotism and nationalism are offered a huge public space in Berlin with its “Fan Mile“ and numerous public viewings. Supermarkets are stuffed with Germany-merchandise, and roads and balconies are crammed with national flags. It gives you a queasy feeling.“ (1). Having “queasy feelings“ while having no notion of anything is, of course, an outstanding political principle. The main threat, however, is not patriotism, but rather enslavement through the global market or in the EU, where people you haven’t voted for, issue binding laws and regulations. And this doesn’t give Mrs. Sammet her “queasy feeling“ by a long shot. There is, nonetheless, one thing, that (still) distinguishes Green Youth from "Indymedia“: they (still) don't call for criminal action, thanks to the remains of democracy they inherited. (1) http://www.epochtimes.de/politik/deutschland/gruene-fordern-boykott-der-deutschlandfahne-bei-fussball-em-a1336300.html http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/german-greens-patriotism-equals-nationalism/ri15041 ----------------------------------- NOTICE how these Europhobic parties are not in the least concerned about the LOSS OF DEMOCRACY & the LOSS OF NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY, as they ignore the rise of surpranational authorities. ----------------------------------- COMMENT If these Greens and 'anti-fa' individuals actually believe any of this self-erasing nonsense, then their  stupidity bears testimony to the power of media propaganda and academic indoctrination. There is no alternative to nationalism:  it's nationalism or destruction of ancestral heritage, loss of inalienable right and title as a people of the same historic, biological and cultural identity and heritage, the loss of historic land/territory, and  otherwise the manifestation of vast, unsustainable cultural and other vandalism, destruction and loss, on what is a path to certain oblivion as a people. Failure to apprehend and preserve one's identity will have tragic consequences for Europeans. THAT THE nation of Israel was established ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED & SEVENTY-EIGHT (1,878) YEARS after the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD by the Romans, shows the importance of: 1)   differentiation/distinction as a people; 2)   unity as a distinct people; 3)   distinct spiritual identity of a people; 4)   distinct cultural identity of a people; 5)   importance of territory (land) of a people; 6)   traditions of a people; 7)   exclusive self-determination as a people; and 8)   security as a people. The above are just some of the basics that I can initially think of.  It's not everything.  There's much, much more. To me, nationalism and patriotism are one and the same. Either you are a patriot / nationalist or you are not, in terms of supporting that which is in favour of the vital interests of your own kind (or not) — and this is completely divorced of economic interests.  It doesn't matter how healthy your economy (or the world economy) is, if you no longer have a heritage, culture, nation or a people. It doesn't matter how 'progressive' you are, if you act to destroy your own ancestral heritage and your own people.  Your pious 'progress' is a destructive LIE. What counts in terms of nationalism isn't the display and the state theatre:  the kind of nationalism that interests me is practical nationalism that manifests itself in policy, laws, protection, preservation, secure borders etc.   There is no half way measure:  either you acknowledge and take steps to preserve your distinct identity and your distinct heritage, or you do not. However, there are many reasons that people are not on the same page in this regard. ----------------------------------- NOTICE how these Europhobic parties are not in the least concerned about the LOSS OF DEMOCRACY & the LOSS OF NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY, as they ignore the rise of surpranational authorities. -----------------------------------

Greece: Golden Dawn

A Tribute to Golden Dawn "We are a pure nationalist movement" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEjb3pVmikc YouTube Comment: "It makes me want to be Greek, just to fight those RED dogs" GOLDEN DAWN STAYS UNBREAKABLE, MOTHERF*CKERS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr6K2YX0EPY Found that quite emotionally moving. These people are brave and amazing:  it's these Europeans that are standing up against nation-destroying oppression.  They're the real deal, not those 'leftist' Champagne socialist journalists, academics and lawyer-politicians who serve capitalism, while undermining their own nation's working classes and paving the way to destruction of their indigenous European nations. They're ordinary people up against the host of capitalist institutions that do not serve vital interests of Greeks as a people (this is replicated in all European societies). The capitalist serving media portrays these guys as villains, but they're heroes and patriots. If I were Greek, I'd vote for these guys.  The Ilias Kasidiaris cutie makes the entire Golden Dawn package even more attractive than it already is.   ;) Golden Dawn pulled in the votes, finishing third in the late 2015 general election, although its members were in pre-trial detention (conveniently for the establishment). Patriot [ from Late Latin patriōta, from Greek patriōtēs, from patrios, of one's fathers, from patēr, patr-, father ]

European History - Early Zionism, Austro-Marxism, Nationalism

Info SOURCE as marked European History  Early Zionism, Austro-Marxism, Nationalism Anti-Defamation League (ADL) former : Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith international Jewish NGO, based USA f. 1913 B'nai B'rith = Heb. 'Children of the Covenant' formerly: Söhne des Bundes (Sons of the Covenant) NOTE:  THAT TRANSLATION IS NOT CORRECT 'BUNDES' IS 'Federal' (or  union?)  So it would make them the union or federation of sons? However:  'Bündnis' is the following, which also includes 'covenant': alliance coalition covenant league entente f. 1843 by Jewish immigrants from Germany early activities, 1800s & 1900s: mutual aid, social service, philanthropy 1851 - Covenant Hall:  1st  Jewish community centre USA 1875 - lodge established in Toronto 1875 - lodge established in Montreal 1882 - lodge established in Berlin 1887 - lodge established in Cairo 1888 - lodge established in Jerusalem Jerusalem lodge 1888 established: 9 years prior to: Theodor Herzl First Zionist Congress Basel, Switzerland 1881 -- mass immigration of Eastern European Jews to USA 1903: meeting B'nai B'rith Executive Committee Washington DC & its President: Simon Wolf / re presentation of petition to Russian govt -- Kishinev riots US govt attendees: Theodore Roosvelt, US President John Hay, US Secretary of State Kishinev progrom / riots (Russia Empire, Bessarabia)  -- anti-Jewish riot --  then capital of Bessarabia, Russian empire (now Moldova) -- 2-day violent attack / 47-49 Jews killed / many injured -- 700 houses destroyed / 600 stores pillaged -- followed by subsequent political protest against Czar, -- that turned to random attack on Jews -- 19 Jews killed / 56 injured -- 600 such riots swept over Russian Empire -- followed October Manifesto of 1905 October Manifesto 1905 -- issued by Emperor Nichoals II -- influence of Count Sergei Witte, Minister of Finance -- as response to Russian Revolution 1905 -- following state-led industrialisation attempt -- through foreign investment & imposition of tariffs -- industrial devel. not accompanied by further political reform -- expanding working class agitating -- however, peasants still formed 80% of population -- Emancipation of Serfs 1861 -- liberal reforms to abolish serfdom throughout Russian empire -- 23 million people granted liberty -- gained the full rights of free citizens, incl: -- rights to marry without having obtaining consent -- right to own property -- right to own business -- peasants could buy land from landlords -- Georgia emancipation later: 1864 -- state-owned serfs on imperial land, emancipated later: 1866 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_reform_of_1861 ----- Pre-Zionism 'Zionist' - Territorialist  Israel Zangwill d. 1926 -- forefront of British cultural Zionism of 1800s -- close associate of Zionist Theodor Herzel -- territorial movement / territorialism -- territorialism  = Jewish political movement -- calling for creation of Jewish territory     (not necessarily in Palestine or autonomous) Israel Zangwill's play The Melting Pot (1908) in the wake of the Kishinev riot Jewish hero emigrates to America   Mordecai Manuel Noah first Jew born in USA to reach US prominence b. 1785 - d. 1851 playwright, diplomat, journalist, utopian Portuguese Sephardic most important Jewish leader in NY in pre-Civil War period -- 1811 appointed by President James Madison as consul at Riga      (part Imperial Russia) / declined -- 1813 appointed Consul Kingdom of Tunis -- rescued US citizens kept as slaves by Moroccans -- 1815, removed from position -- US Sec. State James Monroe:  Mordecai Manuel Noah's religion an obstacle re exercise of consular function -- reportedly outrage among Jews and non-Jews -- Mordecai Manuel Noah protested & gained letters from:     -- John Adams     -- Thomas Jefferson     -- James Madison     in support of separation of church and state & tolerance for Jews    Mordecai Manuel Noah establishes newspapers in New York: The National Advocate The New York Enquirer (later merged into the New York Courier & Enquirer) The Evening Star The Sunday Times 1819 play produced:  She Would be A Soldier established Mordecai Manuel Noah as first important Jewish American writer Prior to development of modern Zionism: tried to found Jewish refuge at:   Grand Island in the Niagara River     / ie a town & island in New York USA (area 86.2 km square)     gained by British in North America part 1764 Treaty of Cessation     following:  French & Indian War     1815 island purchased by New York State (with other small islands)     for:   $1,000 annually + perpetuity of $500 (paid every June) - ongoing -- intended settlement name:   'Ararat'   'Ararat' after Mount Ararat, biblical resting place of Noah's Ark -- 1825 purchased land at $4.38 per acre to build refuge for Jews of all nations -- it was the 50th year of US independence -- believed that the American Indians were from Lost Tribes of Israel -- had faith Jews to return to rebuild Judaea  -- & called on America to take lead in refuge for Jews Judaea -- Island project failed, for reasons unclear -- Mordecai Manuel Noah then set sights on settling Jews in Palestine 1827 to 1828 -- led NYC Tammany Hall political machine -- writings alternatively for and against slavery -- concerned that emancipation would divide US https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordecai_Manuel_Noah 1903 - British Uganda Program -- British cabinet ministers  -- suggest land for Jewish state in Uganda (modern Kenya) -- Theodore Herzel rejects, preferring Palestine -- 1903 Kishanev riots Russian Empire, Herzel -- introduces proposal to 6th Zionist Congress -- to investigate Uganda as temporary measure for Russian Jews -- opposition -- walkout led by the Russian Jewish delegation to Congress Jewish Territorialist Organization (ITO) -- led by Israel Zangwill -- split off from the Zionist movement -- considered various territories:     -- various parts of America (e.g. Galveston)     -- Africa     -- Asia     -- Australia ITO was dissolved in 1925 Zionist Socialist Workers Party aka 'Zionist Socialists' or 'SS' -- Jewish socialist territorialist political party -- in Russian Empire & Poland -- emerged from Vozrozhdenie (Renaissance) group 1904 -- held founding conference in Odessa, 1905 -- favoured favoured Jewish territorial autonomy outside of Palestine -- most activities of party = revolutionary activities w/in Russia -- Zionist Socialists played active role in 1905 Revolution -- key figures:     Nachman Syrkin     Jacob Lestschinsky     Volf Latsky-Bartoldi     Shmuel Niger -- 1906 many members went into exile in Western Europe -- central organ:  Der Nayer Veg (Yiddish weekly newspaper) 1911 - SERP - Jewish Socialist Workers Party  AND --   Poalei Zion  =  Marxist-Zionist Jewish workers =  Poland, Europe & Russian Empire   -- seek recognition of national character of the Jewish people -- by signed petition to:   International Socialist Bureau Jewish Labour Bund (aka 'the Bund') aka General Jewish Labour Bund -- in Lithuania, Poland & Russia -- Yiddish for German 'Bund' meaning;  union / federation -- secular Jewish socialist party Russian Empire 1897 - 1920 -- allied itself w/ Russian social democratic movement -- aim:  democratic & socialist Russia -- Russian Empire, incl:   Lithuania Latvia Belarus Ukraine Poland (most) -- these areas, most of worlds Jews lived then   -- Jewish Bund sought legal minority status for Jews in Russia -- 1903-1904 - Czarist state repression -- of Jewish Bund / arrests & imprisonment -- Jewish Bund founding collective member: -- Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) first congress, Minsk -- Bund was sole rep of Jewish workers in RSDLP next 5 years -- RDLP second congress:  1903, Brussels & London -- Bund autonomous position w/in RSDLP rejected under Bolshevik pressure -- Jewish Bund reps left Congress - first of many splits -- 1906 4th (Unification) Congress - Stockholm -- at which Jewish Bund rejoined RSDLP / but party fractured along ideological & ethnic lines -- Jewish Bund sided w/ Menshevik faction (leader Julius Martov) vs. -- Bolshevik faction (leader Vladimir Lenin) -- in factional struggles preceding Russian Revolution 1917 -- in Polish areas of Russian Empire,  -- Jewish Bund was leading force in 1905 Revolution -- later, went into period of decay -- 1909-1910 labour activism strikes concentrated 10 cities led to deepened backlash re party. -- 1910 Bundist legal trade union in only x4 cities (Bialystock, Vilnius, Riga, Lodz) -- Bund split 1912 -- Bund became federated part of:   Bund became a federated part of -- Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Menshevik) -- Jewish Bund eventually came to strongly oppose Zionism -- arguing that emigration to Palestine was a form of escapism -- Jewish Bund did not advocate separatism -- Bund fucused on culture rather than a state or a location as glue re Jewish nationalism -- idea borrowed extensively from Austro-Marxist school      (further alienating Bolsheviks & Lenin) Austro-Marxism -- led by Victor Adler, Otto Bauer, Karl Renner and Max Adler -- members of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria -- in last decades of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy -- & in First Austrian Republic (1918-1934) -- known for theory of NATIONALITY & NATIONALISM -- & attempt to fuse it with SOCIALISM in imperial context -- Otto Bauer believed 'personal principle' was way to gather divided members of same nation -- Otto Bauer wrote:  'Social Democracy & the Nationalities Question' (1907) "personal principle wants to organise nations not in territorial bodies but in simple association of persons" RADICALLY DISJOINING THE NATION FROM THE TERRITORY & MAKING OF THE NATION A NON-TERRITORIAL NATION [Comment:  also sidestepping the tribal heritage of a peoples that form a nation that is a holder of ancestral lands and political power that attaches to heritage and lands.  Good for imperialist interests (combining patchwork of people) and good for minority interests.  But not so good re indigenous or other principal populations, as they cede political power, by the look of things.  It's more than that.  It is ceding STATE power -- eg. ceding ability to raise taxes etc.  It's the Balkanisation of political power and of state power.  That's first impressions.  I've not read more on this 'personal principle'.] *** MORE -- LINK | here  *** Looks like it's based on some Ottoman system:  LINK  | here -- movement visible from 1904 in socialist magazines -- not homogeneous movement / diverse thinkers & politicians -- eg.  neo-Kantian Max Adler & orthodox Marxist Rudolf Hilferding -- 1921 Austro-Marxists formed:  International Workers Union of Socialists) -- (k.a. 2 1/2 International or Vienna International) -- aiming to unite 2nd & 3rd Internationals -- but failed Austro-Marxism -- inspired inspired later movements - eg. Eurocommunism & the New Left -- that were seeking for DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST middle between communism & social democracy -- in way to eventually unite 2 movements Austro-Marxism -- put into practice as precursor of radical reform in Europe:  eg social economic reforms, -- healthcare, housing, educuational system in Vienna -- which inspired Scandinavian social democratic parties & the British Labour Party Austro-Marxism -- first movement in Europe to see supporters mount armed resistance -- to growing FASCIST government / 1934 - fascism wins Austro-Marxist - Principle of National Personal Autonomy -- later adopted by various parties, incl.     -- the Bund (Gen. Jewish Labour Union)     -- left wing Zionists (Hashomer Hatzair) - in favour of bi-national solution in Palestine     -- the Jewish Folkspartei (b/w WWI and WWII)     -- the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania - after 1989 Adler = Ger. 'Eagle' Victor Adler -- Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (SDAP) -- Foreign Minister of Austria, 1918-1918 -- succeeded by Otto Bauer b. Prague son of Jewish merchant from Moravia (Czech) University of Vienna medical graduate 1881 / assistant at psychiatric dept. Gen. Hospital {resided at address that became famous as office of Sigmund Freud} -- initially supported German national movement led by Georg Shonerer -- increased anti-Semitic policies& amendment of Aryan paragraph -- Victor Adler focused on social issues -- 1886 - Adler published Gleichheit (Equality) journal (Marxist) -- advocated the Anschluss (unification) of Austrian state with Germany -- died of heart failure on last day of WWI, before he could pursue project -- the father of Friedrich Adler Adler = Ger. 'Eagle' Freidrich Adler Austrian socialist politician & revolutionary -- assassinated Count Karl von Sturghkh 1916 -- member SPO, Social Democratic Party of Austria -- editor Der Kampf magazine, from 1907 -- at Uni Zurich considered to chair physics dept. / deferred to Einstein -- editor of Volksrecht newspaper (Zurich) -- engaged in international trade union movement -- became sec-gen of SPO Vienna to 1914 -- after start WWI / agitated against SPO policy of supporting war -- anti war killing: -- shot the Minister-President of Austria Count Karl von Stürgkh three times with a pistol, killing him -- sentenced to death, a sentence which was commuted to 18 years imprisonment -- 1918 - released after outbreak of revolution -- active as leader of Arbeiterräte (workers' councils) & as member of National Council of Austria -- more international socialist workers roles -- outbreak of WWII fled to USA; died Zurich 1960 Bauer = Ger. 'farmer' Otto Bauer Foreign Minister of Austria 1918-1919 b. Vienna Jewish University of Vienna, PhD Law book:   Die Sozialdemokratie und die Nationalitätenfrage (1907) (ie Social democracy and the national question) -- Austrian Social Democrat -- Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (SDAP) -- founded Der Kampf, the theoretical journal of the party -- leading left-socialist Austro-Marxist thinker -- an inspiration for the New Left movement & the Eurocommunism movement in 'third way' attempt re DEM.SOC. -- WWI - served in the Austro-Hungarian Army -- captured on Eastern Front early months of WWI -- 3 years POW in Russia -- 1917 returns to Austria -- after Foreign Minister Victor Adler death 1919, Bauer appointed leader -- Otto Bauer a Marxist socialist w/ pan-Germanic & nationaist ideas -- negotiated w/ Wiemar govt re accession of Austria to Germany by March 1919 during German Revolution -- was disappointed when Treaty of Versailles prohibited union of Austria w/ Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Bauer German Revolution of 1918–19 aka Novemberrevolution -- conflict in German Empire at end of WWI -- result of replacement of imperial govt with republic -- revolution from Nov. 1918 to Aug 1919 establishment of republic (Weimar Republic) -- Engelbert Dollfus (plus parts Christian Social Party) & Heimwehr -- installed authoritarian corporatist dictatorship in 1933 -- Social Democrats failed uprising 1934, Feb. -- Otto Bauer forced into exile -- d. Paris 1938, just after Austria became part of German Third Reich.  Renner = 'winner' (variations:  Sieger) Karl Renner 1st Chancellor Austria, 1945 Law / University Vienna Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (SDAP) b. to wine growers in Margraviate of Moravia Austro-Hungarian Empire described as:  Roman Catholic, German family -- party prohibited during Austro-fascism period from 1934 -- Renner welcomed Anschlus 1938 -- WWII distanced from politics -- set up provisional govt just before collapse Third Reich -- Austria treated as unwilling party to Third Reich association -- provisional govt recognised by all Four Powers -- Renner first post WWII Chancellor -- relatives moved to USA & Canada -- Renner died Vienna 1950 -- one of the founders of discipline of the sociology of law -- developed a Marxist theory of the institution of private law -- argued separation of public & private law is a creation of capitalism, -- where state enforces interests of capital owners -- Renner & Otto Bauer ideas re legal protection of cultural minorities taken up by Jewish Bund -- such ideals fiercely denounced by Vladimir Lenin -- Joseph Stalin wrote criticism re 'Cultural National Autonomy' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Renner ---------------------------------------------------- Mainstream Zionist movement: -- rejected the idea of a Jewish state anywhere but in Palestine -- referred to as:   Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel) ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT This was really interesting stuff. Above is just a summary of what I looked at.   Not sure if all the links are there ... it's all from the same source:  Wikipedia. Don't know that I'll remember this ... I'm pretty sure I did a summary re Georg Shonerer weeks ago ... but I've already forgotten him.  Think he was killed in a duel.  Nope.  That was some other guy.  I think I have a pic of that guy's death mask somewhere. Might have to check out George Shonerer some other time  ... I've had it.

NYT / AP - "Balkans Reel as Number of Migrants Hits Record" | Sweden's Double Standards

ꕤ Article SOURCE http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/28/world/europe/balkans-slovenia-reel-as-number-of-refugees-migrants-hits-record.html?smid=tw-nytimesworld&smtyp=cur&_r=0 Balkans Reel as Number of Migrants Hits Record By BARBARA SURK and RICK LYMANOCT.  27, 2015 Groups of refugees and migrants waited in a Slovenian border town, a stopping point for most on their journey to northern Europe.  By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on Publish Date October 27, 2015. SENTILJ, Slovenia — The small Balkan nations on the path of the human migration through Europe are seeing record numbers of asylum-seekers cross their borders, and are overwhelmed in their ability to manage the human flow. Despite hopes that plummeting temperatures and treacherous seas would finally slow the tide of refugees flowing into the heart of Europe, fresh fighting in Syria and growing fears of border closings are driving more migrants to undertake the treacherous trek. At the moment, the biggest crunch appears to be on the southern border of Slovenia, a small Alpine nation on the Adriatic Sea that has become the gateway to Europe for migrants since Hungary closed its border with Croatia on Oct. 16. In recent days, fights have broken out over blankets and in the line of migrants waiting in this northern Slovenian border town to cross the frontier into Austria. There were also growing signs of tension between refugees from Syria, fleeing a growing war in their homeland, and migrants from other nations. In the past 10 days, 83,600 migrants have crossed into Slovenia, government officials said, while 57,981 have crossed from Slovenia into Austria, and 14,000 are waiting in government reception centers. The remaining 12,000 or so are at government registration centers, stuck on trains or buses, or simply in the open, roughing it in the increasingly cold fields and forests of the ragged foothills. “When Hungary closed its border, the Slovenian politicians said, ‘Oh, we are prepared,’ ” said Natasa Pirc Musar, president of the Slovenian Red Cross. “They said Slovenia could handle 2,500 people a day. The problem is, we are getting 10,000 a day and hearing reports that it will soon grow to 13,000. This is something Slovenia cannot cope with anymore.” On Sunday, European Union officials approved a 17-point plan that may not see fruition for months. It includes more accommodations in Greece, the European Union country the migrants usually enter first, as well as along the entire migrant trail through the Balkans, plus fresh reserves of border guards and injections of cash to help financially struggling Balkan nations pay for all of this. Slovenia’s foreign minister, Karl Erjavec, said his country would welcome the support of other European countries, including 400 new police officers. But he warned that Slovenia could not accommodate the growing number of people in need for long without outside support. If help does not come soon, he said, the country will take unilateral measures, including potentially building its own fence along the Croatian border and deploying additional troops to guard the frontier. “All plans remain on the table if promises from the Brussels summit are not fulfilled,” Mr. Erjavec said. Refugee officials worry that it is too little too late, and that the new plan will suffer the same fate as all of the previous, ineffectual European Union efforts to manage and cope with the largest movement of people across Europe since World War II. “This should have been done months ago,” said Babar Baloch, spokesman in Hungary for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Mrs. Pirc Musar, the Slovenian Red Cross president, said, “We are trying to use a small fire extinguisher to kill a giant fire.” Meanwhile, migrants — exhausted, cold and frequently forced to stop — are growing impatient, crossing one border after another. In recent months European nations have worked to block the main route taken by migrants fleeing war and upheaval. Groups of young men from Afghanistan and other countries, noticeably more aggressive toward the police than the terrified families traveling with them, are becoming a challenge for the authorities and other refugees. CONTINUE READING ARTICLE - HERE http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/28/world/europe/balkans-slovenia-reel-as-number-of-refugees-migrants-hits-record.html?smid=tw-nytimesworld&smtyp=cur&_r=0 ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT It is estimated that only 20% of the unstoppable tide that has descended upon Europe are Syrian refugees, according to multiple recent mainstream sources.  As a Sweden source has indicated (today) that Sweden's getting 'less than one in three' Syrians making their way through to Sweden, the guess is that the overall figure of Syrian refugees among the throng is actually significantly lower than that reported. Sweden, taking the Multikulti-R-Us crown, as US-serving neoliberal 'Marxist' EU immigration-destination (with Germany in hot pursuit for the honour), is also -- unsurprisingly -- the 'liberal'-fascist press suppression capital, a press that's heavily taxpayer subsidised.   So the Swedish taxpayers get screwed twice over, but who's keeping count.  The magnanimous state of Sweden sure ain't. Germany, with her own heavy-duty state interest in media & therefore no doubt decades long experience in spinning state propaganda, since Goebbels handed over the baton, is the political dissent suppression Meccca of Europe, alongside its Swedish counterpart. Sweden and Germany:  the evil EU twins.   Who would have guessed?  lol Germany also has the dubious distinction of appointing an ex-Stasi  East German snitch as the Fourth Reich social-media-suppressing Facebook censorship snitch, and, of course, Facebook is more than happy to oblige, because Mutti Merkel and Mark Zuckerberg know what's best for all Germans -- especially the jacked off ordinary Germans. Mutti Merkel's Fourth Reich also resorts to press blackouts to keep the German sheeple ignorant and therefore in line. As Sweden's not to be relied upon for provision of straight immigration figures, and as Sweden is as dodgy as all f*ck (see Julian Assange, detained on trumped up 'allegations' 5 years, no charge), I'd be inclined to conclude Europe's migrant deluge comprises perhaps as little as 10% Syrian refugees landing in Europe. But who'd know?  Germany and Sweden sure as hell don't.  EU doesn't.  There's no medicals.  There's no quarantine.  There's no papers.  But, hey, there's false papers.  Oh, and there's even 700 freshly minted German refugees that have just gone missing in Germany.  Uh-oh!  Most are physically capable young men from demolished, chaotic and/or impoverished surrounding countries.  'Syrian refugees' is the mainstream media sound-bite, often an anti-al-Assad propaganda 'blame card', and also a convenient narrative for this largely Western intervention-induced mass non-European migration frenzy. Judging by previous statements made by politicians, it's safe to ignore anything European politicians have to say:  the European sheeple need to be pacified.  And talk is cheap.  It's plain that Europe's politicians have got no plan and, sadly, no balls.  National sovereignty is dead in Europe. Nothing will come of warnings and 'threats' to restore territorial and social order.  And, in terms of social order, the horse has already bolted.  So whatever 'remedies' are eventually taken, the problem remains. Immigration avoidance strategists take note:  Mutti Merkel's German Open Haus immigration overland march from Greece and Turkey is, of course, making a b-line for the generous, soft, easy policy marks:  Mutti's most accommodating (but disgruntled) Germany, and Sweden's 'feminist foreign policy'  schizo neoliberal-'Marxist' cultural integration Nordic play-pen involving:  knife-wielding maniacs, shootings, frequent grenade tossing, rioting, and fire-setting ... to start with. 'Human traffickers' on a mission to make a fast buck, kindly supplying discarded life vests to many, many thousands of Middle Eastern would-be permanent European residents per day -- every day, is an incongruity nobody's bothered to question or explain.  Screw you, ideologically sold out, deceitful, complicit, and useless elite and corporate fascist serving mainstream press.  The cynic in me sees this Great Migration as a highly organised (and highly expensive), adept feat of logistics ... and, therefore, not so legit.   Of course, the deceitful, lying, double-dealing politicians who have aided and abetted aggressive US-led foreign policy (and have also clearly sold out their own nations and peoples, as US-servile war strategy secondary 'weapons' and their societies as ill-fitting receptacles for displaced Middle Eastern and African migration) knew what to expect from well before 2011, when they partnered in the US-led murder of Gaddafi, plunging Libya into destruction and civil war, before moving right along to:  training, arming, and otherwise supporting terrorist proxies that the West has set upon beleaguered Syria. So, looking past the razzle-dazzle of theatre of state and military (and past the state and media propaganda), Syria is yet another attempted regime change in the Middle East -- in the service of nothing but corporate fascism.  I honestly believe that's the bottom line -- always.  I should probably point out here that it cannot just be the West alone responsible for everything, although, yes, there's masses of interference that is wrong (including an illegal war).  But big, bad US-led allies cannot force proxies in the region do what they don't want to do, or force them to fight among themselves.  So the people in the region -- including Arab players in the region -- also play a part in the destruction and displacement from the region. From my point of view, the domestic public bears no responsibility whatsoever for taking on the blowback problems (including refugees and immigrants) created by the politician shills for corporate fascism, when the crap eventually hits the fan and world populations start moving.  To my way of thinking, nobody is obligated to self-destruct, and certainly not because of decisions made by lying, cheating, con artist politicians that don't even really represent or hear the public. There's indication that Bashar al-Assad has been targeted by the US and its allies since 2006 (mentioned by WikiLeaks), so this European apocalypse is a long time in the making. Yet these servants of corporate fascism did no forward planning?  I don't think so.  The ugly truth is that they do not care about their suffering domestic populations -- they do not care about their own blood or their own land -- and they do not care about the future of Europe itself. The massive displacement of inhabitants from Libya, Eritrea, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and beyond, is predictable once you know the pattern to look for:  intervention/regime-change/war/civil-war, displacement, refugees, immigration (or something like that). As I think I may have said before, any experienced politics observer would have predicted this 'catastrophe', let alone governments who have prior experience with exactly this sort of displacement, and as first world governments who have no shortage of experts and advisers on hand. The highly predictable results of multiple US-led military actions, terrorist proxy destabilisations, and economic sanction assaults on the Middle East, that have been aided and abetted by key European players, would have been very plain to corporate fascist serving lying and scheming European politicians. So these treasonous politicians have squandered an opportunity of at least six years (if not more) to plan, to take control and to take appropriate action to avert what amounts to foreign civilian invasion of Europe. Lying, scheming, cheating, treacherous, European politicians could have made arrangements for in-situ humanitarian assistance for the eligible among those that have been consistently migrating into Europe from Africa and the Middle East for years now, well before Mutti Merkel unleashed mayhem upon Europe. The actions of these European politicians are a gross breach of duty of care to their domestic populations and are, in my opinion, undemocratic and incalculably costly acts of colluding criminal politicians that have placed European nations' long-term social welfare and national security in ongoing and permanent peril. Mutti's Ministry of Truth EXTRACTS ONLY Angela Merkel declares death of German multiculturalism Chancellor's remarks, which claimed multiculturalism had 'failed utterly', interpreted as a shift rightwards from previous views Kate Connolly in Berlin Monday 18 October 2010 06.27 AEDT Chancellor Angela Merkel has declared the death of multiculturalism in Germany, saying that it had "failed utterly" , in what has been interpreted as a startling shift from her previous views. The German leader said it had been an illusion to think that Germans and foreign workers could "live happily side by side". "We kidded ourselves for a while that they wouldn't stay, but that's not the reality," she said at a conference of the youth wing of her Christian Democratic Union party at the weekend, referring to the gastarbeiters, or guest workers, who arrived in Germany to fill a labour shortage during the economic boom of the 1960s. "Of course the tendency had been to say, 'let's adopt the multicultural concept and live happily side by side, and be happy to be living with each other'. But this concept has failed, and failed utterly," she said, without elaborating on the nature and causes of this failure. Merkel's verdict marks a shift in her previously liberal line on immigration which had always put her at odds with the more conservative wing of the party. While she stressed in the same speech that immigrants were welcome in Germany and that Islam was a part of the nation's modern-day culture, her remarks positioned her closer to Horst Seehofer, the Bavarian state premier of the Christian Social Union, who last week called for an end to immigration from Turkey and Arab countries. They also align her with Thilo Sarrazin, the former Bundesbank member whose book on how the failure of many of Germany's 16 million immigrants to integrate was contributing to Germany's decline led to his dismissal. Sharing the same podium as Merkel in Potsdam, Seehofer also said "multiculturalism is dead" and that both the rightwing parties were committed to a "dominant German culture". If Germany did not revise its immigration policies, he said, it was in danger of becoming "the world's welfare office". Seehofer insisted his statement was "an attempt to stop rightwing lunatics" but Jürgen Trittin, for the Greens, called the comments "shabby" and in danger of "lending social acceptability to views similar to those of rightwing extremists". There is a labour shortage in Germany. The chamber of industry and commerce has said Germany is short of 400,000 skilled workers and the gap costs €25bn a year, equivalent to 1% of growth annually. While industrialists have called on the government to remove obstacles stopping more skilled workers entering Germany, citing lengthy bureaucratic procedures as well as unrealistic thresholds, others say that long-term unemployed German workers should be given more of a chance first. Merkel insisted in her speech that immigrant workers should not be considered "until we have done all we can to help our own people to become qualified and give them a chance". The issue has caused tension within Merkel's year-old coalition with the pro-business Free Democrats. ... What they said "At the start of the 60s we invited the guest-workers to Germany. We kidded ourselves for a while that they wouldn't stay, that one day they'd go home. That isn't what happened. And of course the tendency was to say: let's be 'multikulti' and live next to each other and enjoy being together, [but] this concept has failed, failed utterly." Angela Merkel, German chancellor "Germany should … get tougher on those who refuse to integrate before opening itself up to further immigration." Horst Seehofer, Bavarian state premier "Integration is the achievement of one who has integrated … I don't have to recognise anyone who lives from the state, rejects that state, refuses to ensure his children receive an education and continues to produce little headscarfed girls." "A large number of the Arabs and Turks living in this city (Berlin) has no productive function other than selling fruit and vegetables". "Turks are conquering Germany in the same way as Kosovars conquered Kosovo – with a high birth rate." Thilo Sarrazin, former Bundesbank board member http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/17/angela-merkel-germany-multiculturalism-failures Sweden Sweden: It Is Considered Racism Only If the Victims Are Not White by Ingrid Carlqvist October 27, 2015 at 5:00 am http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6760/sweden-victims-racism -------------------- I'm half anticipating a civil war in Europe.  But I think that might be stretching things too far at this point in time, as the only Europeans armed and willing to stand their ground and fight for their land, and their identity, are the people of Novorossiya. ꕤ