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February 22, 2016

Video - CIA & Swedish Military - Conspire to Bring Down Elected Swedish Prime Minister





CIA & Swedish Military
Conspire to Bring Down
Elected Swedish Prime Minister



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Vc8CcH8ZY&feature=youtu.be




CIA & Swedish Military
Conspire to Bring Down
Elected Swedish Prime Minister

TRANSCRIPT
[confirm video for quotations]

Narrator:

In 1989 the Soviet empire started to collapse.

A historic victory. It could be that the Secret Committee of US President Ronald Reagan contributed to it.

Herb Mayer, CIA vice-chief of intelligence:

They stopped playing defence and began playing offence.

That was the great shift that changed the course of world history.

Thomas Reed Special Question Advisor:

We could have brought them to their knees if we wanted.

Narrator:

Did the Committee in fact exist?

What methods did Reagan's soldiers use?

John Lehman, the Minister of the US Navy:

The use of deception could make it appear to the soviets to be 20 feet tall.

Admiral James 'Ace' Lyons:

You have to go out and physically demonstrate.

Narrator:

For the first time, witnesses tell of those events.

Mathias Mossberg, the Secretary General for the 34d Submarine Investigation Board:

They made fools of the Swedish parliament and government as well as Swedish media.

What world do we actually live in?

Screen display:

Deception: Reagan's Method:
A film by Dirk Polmann

Submarines against Olof Palme

Narrator:

The next target is supposed neutral state of the North of Europe, Sweden.

Only the Baltic Sea separates it from the Soviet Union.

Ula Tuander
Forschungsprofessor für Sicherheitspolitik
/ Research professor of security policy:

Sweden actually was extremely important in case of a future world war.

Sweden was located northward of Germany and was kind of an unsinkable aircraft-carrier that the US could operate from.


Narrator:

Since 1960 Sweden had been integrated into the plans of NATO militarisation.

In the 1960s, Swedish Air Forces ranked 4th strongest in the world.

The US Army counted on Sweden's secret loyalty to NATO.


Ula Tuander
Forschungsprofessor für Sicherheitspolitik
/ Research professor of security policy:


Since 1960, Sweden was preparing to receive US aircraft on its territory.

There was a direct phone line with the headquarters of the US Navy in Wiesbaden.


Ingemar Engman:

We prepared airfields, on which the American jet planes could have landed on their way eastwards.


Narrator:

The USA needed Sweden as an 'aircraft-carrier.'

And besides, the Soviet Union would be forced to fight on two fronts.

There's an extremely conservative elite in the Swedish Army, an economy and aristocracy completely aligned with the USA that treats Social Democrats with deep mistrust.

Ola Frithiofson
Jungsozialisten:

In Social Democratic Sweden it was perhaps the most powerful Social Democratic party in the world.


Narrator:

A charismatic leader, Olof Palme, a man of indisputable international renown. A man who had enemies.


Ula Tuander
Forschungsprofessor für Sicherheitspolitik
/ Research professor of security policy:

It was the Social Democratic government of the country.

But there were also ruling elites who shared quite different views.

They were closely related to the USA and Great Britain.

And this meant that you have a divided Sweden.

Once I was invited to dinner with James Schlesinger (economist / public servant), the former US Secretary of Defence (1973-1975 Nixon & Ford), and the Director of the CIA.

I asked him what he thought of Sweden, at the time he had occupied his position.

And he asked me: "What Sweden, the political Sweden or the military Sweden?"

Narrator:

At the end of the 1960s, beginning of 1970s, the Vietnam War shook up the Western states and deeply divided society.

Outraged youth organised demonstrations all over the world.

Olof Palme, together with North Vietnamese Ambassador, led demonstrations criticising US policy.

The case is exactly one for the Committee.

In 1981 Palme is still the opposition leader.

But a year later he wins the elections and has brilliant ratings.

Palme's and Reagan's plans are as much like fire and water.

However, the Committee can use the preliminary work for the CIA.

Since the 1970s, the US secret service had been scheming against Palme on Swedish territory.

Reagan and Casey knew: Palme is considered to be a traitor among Swedish security agencies.

Besides, important Swedish admirals are on their side.

John F. Lehman Jr
American investment banker & writer
Served as Secretary of US Navy in Reagan Administration 1981 - 1987
Member of 9/11 Commission 2003 - 2004:


Certainly, there were efforts to see that that Swedish military addressed the demands of NATO strategies and ideas, and that Sweden had access to technologies needed to defend their neutrality.

Narrator:

On the morning of October 28th, 1981, the Chief of Swedish Naval Staff in Karlskrona receives an unexpected report: fisherman found a submarine washed ashore.

Commander Karl Andersson immediately heads there.

Karl Andersson:

As soon as we called in at the Gåsefjärden I slowed down and, suddenly, I saw a black and green Whiskey-class submarine 100 metres in front of me.

It was obviously a Russian submarine.

Narrator:

The highest rank aboard was the Chief of Brigade Staff from the City of Baltiysk, Joseph Avrukevich.

He had navigated the submarine along quite a narrow fjord.

The commander, Peter Gushchin, was forced to follow Avrukevich's instructions.

Karl Andersson:

I could never understand what kind of commander he was or what the operation was meant to be.

I actually didn't even think of that because it was incredibly stupid to call in at the Gåsefjärden since a submarine could run aground.

Narrator:

The submarien had been drifting for a long time until Avrukevich, guided by a beacon, steered the submarine into the fairway of the just 100-metre wide Gåsefjärden.

Karl Andersson:

They could hire a fishing boat under the guise of a Swedish flag for that purpose.

But it was a very stupid decision to call in there with a submarine.

The public will discover: the submarine was sent to spy in a fjord that it couldn't submerge into since there was 1.5 metres of water under the keel.

Anderson notes that the person who was responsible for making decisions was the mysterious chief of Staff Arukevich.

He then received an order not to interrogate him.

Karl Andersson:

Yes, I received this exact order.

I received orders to interrogate Gushchin only, the watch officer, the signaller and the navigator.

I was prohibited from interrogating anyone else.

Narrator:

The Swedish Naval Forces sent a diver under water.

Their footage is being officially shown here for the first time ever.

They make a startling discovery.

A big sand dune formed behind the marine propeller.

Ula Tuander
Forschungsprofessor für Sicherheitspolitik
/ Research professor of security policy:

In front of the propeller there was no sand dune.

That meant someone wanted the submarine to run further against the rocks, to stay there.

And then it was turned around more than 50 degrees so the submarine would really get stuck in the rocks, so it wouldn't slide off.

Narrator:

To sum up: a supposed spy submarine put into the extremely narrow fjord where there's almost no water under the keen and will sooner or later run aground.

When it happened, the engines continued to work at full capacity.

But one mustn't interrogate the officer responsible for this insane operation.

"Whiskey on the Rocks" hit the headlines.

Sweden is shocked and indignant.

Olof Palme wins the elections in 1982.

He wants to achieve neutrality, disarmament and non-alignment to the military blocs for Sweden.

Confrontation mitigation; but Reagan just wanted the opposite.

Therefore the 'Deception Committee' begins a project launching an operation of psychological warfare: a pretence of reality that should return Sweden back on the course that corresponds to the Reagan strategy.

Two weeks after Palme took office, a submarine's periscope was detected at a Swedish naval base: Musko.

It could be -- and everyone claimed they were only Soviet submarines after 'Whiskey on the Rocks'.

Ula Tuander
Forschungsprofessor für Sicherheitspolitik
/ Research professor of security policy:

They showed their periscopes and cone towers to the public.

A submarine's captain shouldn't do that.

Mathias Mossberg:

Why did they want to be seen?

To turn the trick. And they did that very well.

Narrator:

A few hours after the submarines had been detected, more than 750 journalists from all over the world report on the Swedish Naval Forces with arms ready in manhunt for the soviet submarines, without success.

Is it just pretence for the media?

In the following years, the hunt for submarines repeats hundreds of times.

Foreign submarines are seen in front of the Royal Palace and in front of summerhouses and naval bases.

While Palme negotiates with the Soviets on disarmament and proposals of peace, Soviet military forces apparently pretend to want it.

Moscow is confused.

No one has given such orders to their military.

Or are there self-ruling captains?

Palme protests to the Soviet Ambassador again and again.

In the end, the latter passes a proposal from the Kremlin.

Boris Pankin, the Soviet Ambassador to Sweden:

If you think our submarines are there, you can bomb them.

But we know there are none, that's why we are not afraid of any bombing.

Narrator:

Endless, unsuccessful war against the ghost submarines has its consequences.

Ulf Svenson
Director of Security
Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

It was impossible for Palme to do anything else than to decisively blame the Russians.

It was difficult to ensure the policy of 'common security' in relation to the communist states.

The leaders of the Swedish naval forces sunk not a single enemy submarine, but it successfully torpedoed Palme's 'common security' policy.

Without the Swedish media, this operation would fail.

Mathias Mossberg:

The media were very much taking a lead in blowing up this issue according to the information they got from our militaries.

Narrator:

From 1981 to 1983 the number of Swedes who felt there was a Soviet threat increased from 27% to 83%.

Boris Pankin, the Soviet Ambassador to Sweden:

I would like to mention why it bothers me now.

It turned out that even in such an educated, Western European state, in such a bulwark of democracy, it was quite easy to distract vast masses of people and brainwash them, to zombify them.

Narrator:

Since 1983, three investigations into the submarines scam were carried out.

Mathias Mossberg:

The first inquiry came to the conclusion that it was Soviet submarines.

The second concluded that this could not be proven.

Then a few years went by and an interview came out with Caspar Weinberger, the US Secretary of Defence, who clearly said that the US was involved in this.

Caspar Weinberger,
US Secretary of Defence:

There was no direct insertion or testing of Swedish defence without consultation, when speaking of the agreement.

Keith Speed
British Navy Minister:

There were exercise attacks.

Could the submarines infiltrate their waters and emerge at the port in Stockholm?

Well, that's not quite the thing, but something like that.

How far could we go?

During my administration, we had Oberon-class and Porpoise-class diesel submarines for that purpose.

Narrator:

It's quite clear: Swedish Naval Forces' leadership knew NATO's submarines were in Swedish territorial waters.

Why had they kept silent back then?

And what part had the Americans and British played?

Mathias Mossberg:

Obviously, we needed to go into the question again.

They instituted a new inquiry and appointed me as Secretary General.

Mossberg found a document in the Muskö naval base archives.

Several senior admirals were worried about Weinberger's statement and wanted to be prepared.

Mathias Mossberg:

To the effect we had to coordinate our response to this.

I wanted to take a copy of this document. but our military expert told us: "You don't need to do that. We have this at the office in Stockholm."

I believed him. When I came back to our office, it turned out we didn't have this document at all.

And next time we went back to that archive, that particular document had disappeared.

So these were the kinds of things we had to fight with.

Narrator:

The board faced resistance: access to the archives was denied and it discovered the military destroyed important evidence, photos and documents.

Mathias Mossberg:

What we were dealing with was a certain group that was not telling the government the full truth about what they knew or had happened or was happening.

And they were taking decisions which had far-reaching implications for Swedish defence and foreign policy.

They were decisions that were taken outside the democratic framework of the Swedish government.

Then, of course, you ask yourself where you are.

Narrator:

In a country where the military conspired with a foreign power against its own Minister-President?

Mathias Mossberg:

Sweden was taken for a ride.

Public opinion was taken for a ride, Swedish parliament was taken for a ride, Swedish government was taken for a ride, the press was taken for a ride.

What sort of world are we actually living in?

Narrator:

In a world where Olof Palme was murdered.

The killer hasn't been found yet.

Mikhail Gorbachev,
President of USSR:

I'm sure it was a political killing. It was a contract killing ...

I don't think he was murdered for some domestic reasons ...

Interviewer:

Why do you think it was a political killing?

Mikhail Gorbachev,
President of USSR:

Because this man and the things he was proposing ...

Their implementation involved the interests of groups who weren't particularly interested in making the world a better place.


Subtitles by amara.org community

-- 17:01 end  --

SOURCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Vc8CcH8ZY&feature=youtu.be

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Miscellaneous Look-Ups:

Mathias Mossberg
  • Sweden's Ambassador to Morocco - 1994 to 1996
  • Involved in Middle East peace negotiations since the 1980s
  • Swedish team re back-channel negotiations re Oslo peace process
  • Senior Research Fellow at Lund university's Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Sweden
  • Editor of: 'One Land, Two States: Israel & Palestine as Parallel States (University of California Press, 2014)
  • Previously Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm adviser re Muslim affairs.
  • Previously secondment to East West Institute in New York
  • Previously Secretary-General for major Sweden government review of Swedish security policy during cold war
  • was Director of Policy Planning Group of Ministry 1996-2000
  • CSCE Personal Representative of Chairman for Nagorno-Karabakh 1992 - 1994.
  • Previously Assistant Under-Secretary for Africa & Middle East at the Ministry
  • Held diplomatic posts in London, Aman, New York, Moscow & Geneva.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mathias-mossberg/


John F. Lehman Jr
  • American investment banker & writer
  • 1977 Lehman founded the Abington Corporation,
  • a consulting company with clients including defence companies such as Northrop Corporation
  • was president & director to 1981
  • Served as Secretary of US Navy in Reagan Administration 1981 - 1987
  • Member of 9/11 Commission 2003 - 2004:
  • National Security Advisory Council for the Centre for Security Policy (CSP)
  • board of trustees for the think tank Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)
{"New York Times (NYT 1967:1, 32) revealed that FPRI had been funded directly by the CIA since the fifties."
http://www.leopoldreport.com/LRsajt81.html}
  • member National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
  • signed policy letters by: Project for the New American Century
  • served as an advisor to Sen. John McCain for the 2008 presidential bid
  • served as an advisor to Mitt Romney - 2012 presidential bid
  • developed a strategic concept to counter threat of Soviet incursion into Western Europe
  • known as the "Lehman Doctrine"
  • plan called for a military response to any Russian invasion in Europe
  • by attacking and invading the Soviet Far East along the Pacific (less defended front)
  • chairman of the private equity investment firm J. F. Lehman and Company from 2004
  • / involved in other interests & NGOs - listed
  • Revealed: Reagan admin secretly offered use of amphibious assault helicopter carrier to British re 1982 Falklands War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lehman

Senior US military officer critical of Lehman
Lehman once rowed for Cambridge in Britain
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/30/us/navy-chief-says-lehman-was-not-balanced.html

Keith Speed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Speed

Caspar W. Weinberger
Caspar Willard Weinberger
b. 1917
  • father Jewish (Bohemia, now: Czech Republic)
  • met wife: Jane (Rebecca Jane Dalton Weinberger), nurse
  • on troops ship
  • transporting US troops to Australia during WWII
  • married in 1942 in Sydney, Australia
  • Harvard, law
  • Army
  • officers' candidate school at Fort Benning, Ga.
  • / intelligence staff of Gen. Douglas MacArthur
  • private law practice
  • 1952 politics: California Assembly + re-elections
  • held high positions under three Republican Presidents
  • oversaw largest & costliest military build-up in peacetime history
  • as Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Defence
  • had written a regular column for Forbes magazine
  • to his death 2006, was chairman of Forbes Inc.
  • key backer of President Ronald Reagan's
  • missile-based Strategic Defence Initiative ('Star Wars')
  • enemy of the Soviet Union
  • more faith in arms than diplomacy
role in the Iran-contra affair
  • / granted presidential pardon - questions left unresolved
  • 1992 - indicted on felony charges of perjury and obstruction of justice
  • re covert sale of arms to Iran & diversion of proceeds to Nicaraguan rebels ('contras')
  • k.a. 'Iran-Contra Affair' / against declared US policy
  • accused of concealing voluminous notes re Iran-Contra Affair
  • roles of Reagan & VP George Bush
  • 1992 President Bush pardoning Weinberger + several other officials re Iran-Contra Affair
  • under Weinberger, Pentagon:
-- understated cost of some weapons by billions of dollars
-- overstated effectiveness of weapons
-- exaggerated the threat of the Soviet Union
{General Accounting Office 3-year study, 1993}
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/28/obituaries/28cnd-weinberger.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://bangordailynews.com/2009/07/13/news/caspar-weinbergerrsquos-widow-a-milford-native-dies-at-age-91/

Karlskrona
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlskrona

Gåsefjärden
http://archive.is/D5VRL

http://research.omicsgroup.org/index.php/Soviet_submarine_S-363


Professional American Disinformation Agents
Sabotaged the Investigation into the Murder
of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme
http://www.leopoldreport.com/LRsajt71.html#ankare449926

Sweden's American Colony
Nya Sverige
New Sweden
1638 to 1655 - Swedish Colony
  • in present-day: Delaware, New Jersey, & Pennsylvania
  • first settlement: Fort Christina (now Wilmington, Delaware)
  • other settlers: Finns & Dutch
  • 1655 - Second Northern War - Dutch take New Sweden
  • (incorporated into New Netherland)
mid 1600s - Sweden was at most expansive territorial extent
/ was one of great powers of Europe
-- territories incl. FINLAND, ESTONIA, parts RUSSIA, POLAND, GERMANY, LATVIA
-- monarchs: Gustavus Adolphus & Queen Christina
-- Swedes aimed to create tobacco & fur trading colony
-- founded: Swedish West India Company
-- mandate to establish trading colonies Florida & Newfoundland
-- stockholders: Swedish, Dutch & German
-- led by directors of New Sweden Company, incl. Samuel Blommaert
-- 11 expeditions / 14 separate voyages to Delaware
-- 1637 - port of Gothenburg - first Swedish expedition sails
-- Indian tribes sold only small portion land / claim Swedes stole rest
-- Second Northern War in the Baltic opened by Sweden
-- Sweden vs. Polish-Lithuanian C'wealth
-- Dutch grabbed New Sweden Colony 1655
-- Dutch then dispossessed by the British in 1664
-- [ skip ]
-- major Swedish immigration took place only in late 19th C: 1870-1917 - 1.2 million Swedes arrived (Minnesota +)


[source:  Wikipedia]


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COMMENT

Found this interesting.

No time to comb over this entry for typos, or to finish the look-ups I wanted to do.

It looks like our world is controlled by psychopaths.  There are no rules.  Money is god and power is king.  Or something like that.

Anyway, I thought all these ties (US, UK, Sweden ... and even Australia, in a round-about way, etc) ... & all this grubbiness was really interesting.

Good luck getting justice in America, Britain or in Sweden, especially if you expose American and government wrongdoing.

Note that Australian publisher-journalist, Julian Assange, is political prisoner of these same bent interests.

We're all political prisoners and de facto prisoners of state, as our well-being and the future of our nations is sacrificed to the money-serving plans of a colluding coterie of states serving money-hungry and money-controlling elites, while pretending 'democracy' and righteousness. 

Some things never change.   History is a constant.



Off Topic - Latest




General Tso Chicken

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Still depressed.

Forcing myself to cook more than I otherwise would cook these days, just to try to get back into a more functional mode.

Not a success so far.

Body clock is COMPLETELY out of whack.

It's getting to be a huge problem, because I cannot tend to some of the things I really do have to see to (like follow-up medical etc).

Success rate in kitchen an all-time low.  Run of cooking disasters:

General Tso Chicken - horrible and nothing like it tastes like from the take-away.

Bread & Butter Pudding with Banana -  Yuk.  Conclusion:  not into banana unless its fresh and on the unripe side.

Also burnt the pudding this time around, trying to toast the top.  Forgot about it.  Memory's not good for practical things, but I can remember weird facts OK ... lol.

Fried Rice - more improvised than usual / too much sauce.  Yuk again.

Spaghetti Carbonara - that also went wrong.  Not completely, but I did waaaaaaaay more pasta than needed for amount of sauce.   It was edible, but still a disaster.


Just baked an improvised Buttermilk Coffee Cake, using this recipe as a base.  It smells beautiful, although it hasn't risen much for me.   Maybe I shouldn't have tampered with this recipe -- here.

Recipe calls for 'cake four'.  I used plain flour.   Next time it might be an idea to use Nigella's method to reduce the protein -- substitute 2 Tbsp per cup with cornflour  -- here?   That's if I could be bothered doing this again and if I could be bothered messing around while doing it.

Buttermilk Coffee Cake

The mix I've made up has dissolved instant coffee in it (x4 dessert spoons  dissolved in x6 dessert spoons of boiling water; abt 1 tsp set aside for the cream I'll whip up later).  Added some extra buttermilk because it seemed too dry a mix.*

I can't cook without stuffing my face as well, so if I keep cooking as an 'antidote' to apathy and depression, I'm going to wind up depressed, fat and apathetic.  Great.

Might have to substitute cleaning for cooking.  

Finally did some cleaning the other day and it just about killed me.  Sweat pouring off me, couldn't breathe, skin must be paper-thin because I've got hand injuries even through rubber gloves.

Wish I was one of those people obsessed about cleaning.  The things I like doing are useless ... like,  lists of Roman emperors ... lol.

I'll never remember all those Roman emperors and I'm not sure I'll get around to looking up all their bios -- never enough time, even when you've got all the time in the world.  

Was wondering if Rome began to go down the tubes once they started appointing foreign emperors from the provinces, followed by the divisions of empire etc?  

So, is power-sharing and dilution of ethnic bonds the beginning of the end?

Don't know the answer to that, it was just a thought while I was skimming Roman emperors.

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YUK *

Broke off a bit of the cake.  It tastes gluey.  Improvisation gone wrong.  LMAO.

At this rate, maybe I won't put on weight ... everything's going to be too yuk to eat.  lol

Noticed the stick blender cord  had been dangling in a plastic container of water by the side of the sink as I whipped the cream.  Yikes.  I could have been zapped.   Maybe it wouldn't have been such a bad thing if it was instant.
For those that don't fancy a zapping, might be best not to have containers of water resting in kitchen areas electrical cords are likely to cross.


It was a f*cking mistake to try to kick-start energy by turning to cooking.  I'm now being pressured to cook regardless of my disinterest in reverting to kitchen slavery and getting f*cking fat.  

I feel like I'm suffocating here.  Wish I could escape.

Ideally, I'd live on a Russian submarine or something.  lol


February 16, 2016

Invasion of Europe - Frank Salter (Political Ethologist)


Article
SOURCE
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AUDIO

*Originally appeared on:
http://www.eurocanadian.ca/2016/01/germanys-jeopardy-could-immigrant-influx-end-european-civilization.html

Frank Salter
political ethologist


Introduction: Dire Predictions

My name is Frank Salter. I'm an Australian political ethologist, meaning that includes biological approaches when studying society and politics. I've spent much of my career researching at a Max Planck Institute in Germany, as well as teaching there and elsewhere in Europe and the United States. One of my research areas is ethnic solidarity and conflict and how this affects democratic welfare states.

In this talk I discuss the dire predictions that have been made about the massive influx of immigrants and refugees still entering Germany and other European countries from the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Many then fan-out, crossing Europe's old national borders which are no longer regulated due to the Schengen Agreement. Some believe this could end European civilization, despite the outpouring of goodwill and hospitality shown by millions of Germans and other Europeans. These predictions have not only come from anti-immigrant ideologues but from moderate politicians. An example is Tony Abbott, until recently Australian prime minister. Speaking in London, Abbott called on Europe to close its borders to avoid a "catastrophic error". He declared that protecting the borders will "require some force; it will require massive logistics and expense; it will gnaw at our consciences — yet it is the only way to prevent a tide of humanity surging through Europe and quite possibly changing it forever."1

Curiously, neither Abbott nor the other commentators explain why the influx would be so damaging. The same is true of Angela Merkel's argument for opening the borders. Where was the sober and transparent assessment of costs and benefits?

In this talk I attempt such an assessment, by reviewing research on the way that ethnic diversity tends to increase social conflict and crime, undermine welfare, exacerbate ethnic inequality, racialize politics and erode civil liberties. I then compare these costs with the benefits of mass Third World immigration asserted by Angela Merkel and her supporters.

Social Conflict

UK Race Riots 2011

Recent tragic events, including the attacks in Paris, make terrorism appear the most obvious and immediate threat. The overwhelming majority of incomers are Muslims. Though most Muslims are not terrorists, many terrorists are Muslims. In general, rising ethnic diversity increases the chance that one minority or another will oppose the government's foreign policy. Tragedy results if even a small number of disaffected individuals adopt violence.

However, terrorism is not the main harm likely to arise from the present immigration. The main effect will be to fracture the psychological bond of nationality, leaving citizenship a hollowed-out legalism. That is because rising diversity is associated not only with violence such as terrorism and civil war, but with a general loss of social cohesion. But let us begin with violence.

Data from numerous studies show that the more ethnically diverse a society the greater the risk of conflict and, conversely, the more difficult it is to forge unity. Civil conflict is less likely in more homogeneous societies. Academic researchers have attempted to quantify the risk.

In the 1990s a global study by Rudolf Rummel at the University of Hawaii measured how 109 variables contributed to collective violence of the extreme variety — guerrilla and civil war — between 1932 and 1982; that's a 50 year period. He found that one fifth of the variation in collective violence was caused by just one variable, the number of ethnic groups within the society. Conflict was made more intense when the antagonistic parties had different religions.2 That finding is obviously relevant to the present situation where Muslims are flooding into a largely Christian and secular Europe.

A study of contemporary societies by Finnish sociologist Tatu Vanhanen examined ethnic conflict defined more broadly to include discrimination, ethnic parties and interest groups, as well as ethnic violence and civil war. Vanhanen used evolutionary theory to hypothesize that diversity would cause conflict to rise. Among the 176 societies he studied, Vanhanen found that in 2010 two thirds of global variation in ethnic conflict was explained by ethnic diversity.3 In other words, much of the difference between united peaceful countries and those riven by ethnic conflict is the latters' ethnic diversity.

A related effect of diversity is lowered cooperation and "social capital", the extent to which people support each other. As heterogeneity grows, participation in clubs and volunteer work falls. People become more isolated and less trustful. The effect is strongest in local neighbourhoods where people experience different ethnic groups.4 In other words, it is not ignorance or isolation that cause ethnic discord, but contact with other cultures, including foreigners entering a homeland territory in large numbers.

German governments should be aware of the tendency of ethnic diversity to cause social conflict because that tendency has been studied in German research institutions. For example, ethologist Irenaeus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, a professor at the Max Planck Society, and colleagues such as Johan van der Dennen at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, have for decades studied the effects of cultural mixing on ethnocentrism and xenophobia in mass anonymous societies. Both have warned that large scale mixing of different ethnicities reduces social stability and risks domestic peace.

Some of the research I've been discussing was inspired by evolutionary theory. This is an important approach long excluded from the social sciences. Human psychology evolved in the context of ethnically homogeneous groups. From this perspective the diversity now being imposed by modern elites is unnatural on the evolutionary time scale. That unnatural level of diversity is responsible for some of the conflict, according to evolutionary theory. Further confirmation of this evolutionary hypothesis is the finding that genetic diversity, as distinct from cultural diversity, correlates with social conflict. Since ethnic groups are pools of genetic similarity,5 mixing such pools increases genetic variation within a society and, according to new global research, causes greater social conflict.6

Stronger causes than genetic diversity are cultural, economic and historical factors, which help explain the surge of goodwill that Germans, Swedes and other Europeans showed Syrian refugees in 2015. But these factors can fluctuate greatly in the short term, while it can take many generations for genetic variation to fall.

More Crime

German victim of Muslim Gang Rape

Crime is social conflict in which the aggressor breaks the law. The track record of crime committed by non-Western immigrants to Europe is not reassuring.

A disturbing trend in France, which has Europe's largest Islamic population, is the growth of no-go areas where even police dare not venture except in force. In addition in France and Britain there are occasional riots so violent and extensive that police lose control. These periods of mass conflict amount to uprisings.

The trend is for parallel societies to be established as the immigrant populations from less compatible cultures segregate themselves and new generations come of age. Generous welfare and multiculturalism exacerbate immigrant crime, which often increases in the second generation.

Between 1997 and 2013 large scale organized sexual exploitation of White girls took place in the English town of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, predominantly by Muslim Pakistani men. Up to 1,400 girls as young as 12 years of age were raped and sex-trafficked by multiple men.

Sweden and Denmark also offer a glimpse of what Germany can expect from the intake of unselected immigrants coming from incompatible cultures. In Sweden the majority of those charged with murder, rape and robbery are immigrants, despite immigrants numbering only 16 per cent of the population.7

In Denmark immigrants from several countries commit crimes at a much higher rate than do ethnic Danes. This is especially true of immigrants from the Middle East and Africa.8 The greatest frequency of law-breaking was shown by the children of non-Western immigrants. Those aged 15-19 were overrepresented by 93 per cent, those aged 20-29 by 130 percent, and those aged 30-39 were overrepresented by 135 per cent. Ethnic Danes were underrepresented for all these age categories.

For Germany the data are less accessible but an unconfirmed report indicates that in 2011 asylum-seekers committed 3.3 per cent of all crimes, many times their proportion of the German population.9 By 2014 that already-high figure had jumped to 7.7 per cent of all crime. In the same period, the number of assaults and shoplifting across Germany more than doubled.10

Reduced Welfare

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"Poverty in Germany at its Highest Since Reunification"

Obviously the influx of millions of poor people will strain welfare budgets. Europeans who have paid social security insurance their whole working lives will soon be supporting health, housing, unemployment and age benefits for millions who have never contributed. If the influx is not stopped, this will be the start of an astronomical transfer of wealth, while the system survives.

It might not survive long because most European governments are already heavily in debt and managing heavy welfare expenditures. In 2013, the last year for which data are available, general government gross debt in Austria was 81% of GDP, in Belgium 104%, France 92%, Germany 77%, Italy 128%, Spain 92%, and the United Kingdom 87%.11

In Sweden government debt is only about 39% of GDP but its immigrants from Africa and the Middle East are straining the budget. These immigrants make up about 16% of the population but take as much as 58% of welfare payments, representing a large wealth transfer from ethnic Swedes.12 That transfer is a bad investment because about 48% of working-age immigrants are unemployed. Even after 15 years in the country, 40% are not working.

But welfare is still more fragile than these figures indicate.

Research conducted at Germany's Max Planck Society indicates that ethnic change due to immigration will change taxpayers' motivation, reducing their willingness to support welfare. Comparison of welfare systems around the world shows that as ethnic diversity rises, welfare tends to decline.13

Not only welfare declines but any services relying on contributions to public goods. That includes cooperation with police, charities, medical and military authorities.

Foreign aid, which is international welfare, is even more fragile. Foreign aid is strongly and negatively correlated with donor countries' ethnic diversity.14

The irony could not be more cruel. By accepting large numbers of people of non-Western cultures, who are seeking to benefit from generous welfare, European countries not only risk losing domestic welfare for natives and immigrants alike, but reducing their foreign aid to immigrants' homelands. It's a lose-lose strategy.

Greater Ethnic Inequality

Ethnic inequality, a major cause of civil conflict, will increase as a result of the present influx. When an ethnic group fails to achieve income equality down the generations, the effect is deeply ingrained resentment and a low threshold for civil unrest. That might be why second generation immigrants often show higher criminality than their parents.

Once again there is no excuse for ignorance because Germany has its own native-born instructor on the causes of ethnic inequality. Thilo Sarrazin is an SPD politician and was, until 2010, board member of the Deutsche Bank, the year he published a book titled Germany Abolishes Itself: How We Risk Losing Our Country.15 Sarrazin documented the slow pace of integration of Turkish immigrants into German society and economy, their disproportionate reliance on government welfare and their higher fertility. He found that slow assimilation was caused by the Islamic religion and lower educational outcomes were caused by persistent ethnic tradition.16 When he wrote this, Angela Merkel was already German Chancellor. She condemned Sarrazin and endorsed his removal from the Deutsche Bank board, an omen of her 2015 radicalism and intolerance.

It is certain that the present influx will escalate ethnic stratification in Germany and in Europe. If this were only due to poor languages skills and low education, the inequality could close within a generation or two (still an appalling assault on the receiving societies). But many of the immigrants come from populations with long records of poor educational and economic performance, likely to result in chronic ethnic stratification reminiscent of despotic empires.17 By importing a new underclass, Germany and Europe are abolishing their egalitarian national societies.

Racialized Politics

Turks protesting "Nazi terror", "job discrimination" and "daily racism" in Germany

An open door policy is advocated by self-proclaimed anti-racists such as Angela Merkel and her allies on the far left. The "anti-fa" protesters who shout-down PEGIDA and other conservatives take it for granted that borders should be open to all comers. But one certain outcome of the new immigrant influx is the further racialization of politics and growing demographic pressure on ethnic Europeans. Racialization will take the form of sectarianism, ethnic parties, multiculturalism, school indoctrination, political correctness and affirmative action — discrimination meant to equalise outcomes. Racialized politics is already a fact of life in diverse societies such as Britain, France, the United States and Australia.

Throughout recorded history societies controlled immigration, especially when it involved large numbers. Angela Merkel's and Francois Hollande's open door policy is a reckless social experiment that is already inducing compassion fatigue. Nationalist and anti-immigration parties are rising in Austria, Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, and Switzerland.

The ethnic inequality discussed earlier is an important cause of racialization. By the second generation poorer immigrant groups, especially those that are culturally or racially visible, become susceptible to radicalization by ideologies that legitimate grievances. These ideologies help immigrants rationalise their low socioeconomic status and sense of alienation by making them out to be victims of White racism. The ideologies are acquired from universities, schools, the media, social workers, politicians and ethnic leaders.

Victimhood ideologies also produce guilt and fear in Whites, by linking their ethnic identities — and only theirs — to extremism and fascism.18 This is unfair because White majorities are typically less ethnocentric than minorities.

The myth of minority victimhood conditions the White majority to accept replacement-level immigration. These doctrines have been influential in English-speaking countries and much of Western Europe since the cultural revolution of the 1960s and 1970s.

Meanwhile in Germany immigration politics has started in the non-democratic mode typical of ethnic politics throughout the West. No referendum is planned to give Germans a choice concerning their destiny. With minor exceptions, citizens do not even have the option of voting against the open door policy in a normal election, because the major parties support open borders. Germans who wish to have a say in immigration policy must vote for new parties that have not yet been captured by special interests.

Reduced Civil Liberties

Merkel discussing ways to limit "anti-immigrant" views with Facebook founder Zuckerberg

Rising diversity undermines civil rights. Wherever the founding ethnic group has lost control of immigration, governments come under pressure from the political left and their minority clients to suppress "hate speech", which can include statements of opinion and fact. The limiting of free speech also precedes and helps cause the rise of replacement level immigration. But certainly it is also an effect of diversity.

Restrictions of speech have a chilling effect on public debate. The millions now flooding into Germany and Europe are beneficiaries of this repression. Their presence will only increase pressure on government to crack down on restless natives. The underlying reason for the crackdown will be the rise of massive endemic social conflict, wholly predictable and indeed predicted by social scientists.

Benefits? Arguments for Open Borders

Are these costs outweighed by the benefits proposed by Angela Merkel and her supporters? Six main arguments have been advanced to persuade Germans to accept the influx:

The first argument is Merkel's claim that Germany and Europe are morally obliged to settle genuine refugees. There is obviously a moral duty to help but the argument that refugees must be settled in Europe fails for two simple reasons. Firstly, many of the incomers are not refugees but economic immigrants. Secondly, the heavy costs imposed by the influx on native Germans means that a moral policy must optimise the two sides' interests, not maximize immigrant welfare at the expense of the host society. After all, the first duty of governments, especially in democracies, is to protect their constituents. Germany and the EU could be helping refugees in or near their own countries.

The second argument is Merkel's claim that Germany will benefit by throwing off its Nazi legacy once and for all. This is a despicable argument because Germans are innocent of genocide, unless one accepts the Nazi doctrine of collective racial guilt. The opposite effect is more likely. Vilification of ethnic Germans could intensify because Merkel has launched a new era of racialized politics in which exponents of mass Third World immigration will use any victimhood narrative to silence the majority.

The third argument was stated by the German Interior Minister in mid September 2015.19 He claimed that the government had no choice but to accept any number of refugees because Article 16a, paragraph 1, of the German constitution, the Grundgesetz, states that "Persons persecuted on political grounds shall have the right of asylum." This is a strictly legalistic argument because, as we have seen, there is no moral duty to settle large numbers of refugees in Germany. So let's look more closely at the law. Paragraph 2 of Article 16a of the Grundgesetz states that paragraph 1 does not apply to persons entering the Federal Republic "from a member state of the European Communities".20 The overwhelming majority of refugees entering Germany have come via other EU states. Germany was entitled to prevent them entering but the Merkel government suspended the Dublin Regulation, which requires asylum seekers to be returned to the European country of first arrival.21 How could Germany have accepted this EU law in the first place if it contradicted the German constitution? If, on the other hand, the Dublin Regulation reflects article 16a of the constitution, how could it be so easily suspended?22 Clearly Germany and the EU can legally protect their borders. It is Merkel and other EU leaders who allowed the influx, not any law.

The fourth argument was advanced by Merkel and Mercedes CEO Dieter Zetsch, who maintained that the refugees will make productive workers. Zetsch stated: "They could, like the guest workers from decades ago, help us preserve and improve our prosperity. For Germany cannot any more fill the jobs available." This is utopian speculation that runs counter to precedent and knowledge of cultural differences. More likely, Germany will be burdened by immigrant communities suffering high unemployment and concentrated in low productivity unskilled jobs.

The fifth argument is even more radical. It was stated by demographer Stephan Sievert, of the Berlin Institute for Population and Development. Sievert optimistically stated that Germany's population was at last growing, after decades of stagnation.23 Sievert does not admit that his implied policy entails the rapid demographic replacement of the German ethnic family, in effect cultural genocide by stages. If the German people were given the opportunity to vote on this policy, perhaps a majority would agree with German author Botho Strauss, who declared that he prefers to live among his own people even if they are falling in numbers, rather than live in an imposed cultural mix.24

A sixth argument has been offered by Merkel, in her New Year's address for 2016. It is the open border mantra, that immigration is generally good. Merkel stated that "countries have always benefited from successful immigration, both economically and socially".25 It is a danger sign when highly educated people resort to tautologies, such as deducing that successful immigration is successful. In fact immigrant societies — America, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, France, and others — are all well down the track of turning their founding cultures into minorities without ever offering them a democratic choice. Merkel also followed the usual pro-immigration line by accusing her critics of "coldness or even hatred", implying that she is motivated by warmer emotions. And she foreshadowed a new inclusive definition of what it means to be German, which is a prudent move for someone intent on demographic transformation. Omitted from this latest statement, but likely to follow, are other elements of the pro-immigration mantra, such as diversity is strength, or German identity is the same as citizenship, or school children must be educated in tolerance, or immigrants rescue German culture from its white-bread impoverishment. These arguments and assertions are completely normal in Western societies whose political classes have opened them to mass immigration.

These six alleged benefits of massive unselected immigration are typical of the intellectual level of open border arguments elsewhere in Western countries. That such shallow and sometimes mendacious rhetoric is uttered by intelligent individuals would be impossible without their near monopoly of media access resulting from the ideological intolerance that has suppressed open debate for decades.

Conclusion: Jeopardy — Will Europe Survive?

The evidence just reviewed indicates that dire warnings are not overstated. The ethnic transformation now being inflicted on Germany and the rest of Europe by its political class, if continued, will severely damage European culture and way of life. The opposed arguments are flimsy and fail entirely to address the perceived risks. Commentators are not exaggerating then they warn that European civilization, the result of three millennia of cultural evolution, is in jeopardy.

Hopefully common sense will prevail and journalists and politicians will listen respectfully to the people's concerns and aspirations. Perhaps Merkel and Hollande will recover from their moral mania and free themselves from special interests long enough to deign the flood to recede. Perhaps the EU will formulate a conservative immigration policy, one that does not cater mainly to the interests of immigrants, minorities and the corporate sector but also respects Europeans by preserving their identities, cultures, domestic peace, equality and national cohesion. It is more likely that voters will solve the problem than Europe's intellectually corrupt political class, and that new parties will be granted the power to reclaim national sovereignty from the failed EU project. In that case the EU will collapse, as individual nations move to protect themselves from the Schengen Agreement, now become a mortal threat instead of a promise. That could form the basis for a new trans-European movement that protects the identities and ways of life of individual nations and Europe as a whole.

But until now these considerations have been foreign to Angela Merkel and her supporters. She sells her open door policy as humanitarian. But in reality this is a cruel policy likely to produce suffering across Germany and Europe. She has failed to consider the interests of individual European nations or of Europe as a whole. Europe's political class has, in effect, embraced the most aggressive form of multiculturalism, in which the establishment forms an alliance with minorities to dominate the majority.

The suffering the open door policy will bring — the inequality, including the special evil of ethnic stratification, the collapse of welfare, the crime, the slums and no-go areas, the degradation of women, the racialization of politics, the decline in wages, the loss of national cohesion, the growing sense of loss and alienation among Germans and immigrants alike, the accelerated replacement of Europeans in their ancient homelands, the constriction of civil rights and the pervasive chaos — all of this will last for generations.

Merkel is doubly cruel because she is stripping developing societies of their more educated and industrious people. The inevitable fall in European foreign aid will hurt poor countries around the world, caused by the stagnation of European economies and decline in social capital.

A responsible policy would resemble the British strategy of helping refugees in or near their own countries while restricting their immigration to Europe, though it should be noted that in Britain non-refugee immigration is out of control.

For Germany the situation is more threatening due to its toxic political culture, despite its present low level of ethnic diversity. The country's chances of recovery — which means adopting a sustainable immigration policy — depend on how the following questions are answered by events.

How long will it take for the present reaction to become a powerful political force? How long before Germany's leadership feels the wrath of a people enraged at the prospect of the transformation of their country? And should the reaction become intense, will citizens remain mobilised long enough to build political organisations sufficiently powerful to correct the situation? Will they be able to inflict political censure on Merkel and the political class so stark that it neutralises the incentives offered by the establishment? Will they be able to do so in the teeth of relentless attacks from the mainstream media and educational establishments? Will they stay focused long enough to renegotiate EU arrangements or withdraw Germany from them? Will they persist long enough to push through constitutional amendments that define Germany as the homeland of the German people and allow legal redress against leaders who attempt demographic replacement?

Whether or not there is a pause in the influx, Germans and other Europeans should educate themselves about the deep causes of this disaster and how to prevent its recurrence. 




Frank Salter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Salter


Website
http://socialtechnologies.com.au/



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COMMENT

Good article.

Most people know much of this instinctively, I'd say.

But it's good seeing confirmation from an academic.




[I've not yet had a chance to check out the video/audio ... but it sounds like it's pretty much as per the above article.]



February 14, 2016

Imperialism and Bread & Butter Pudding


221 page PDF

Imperialism: A Study (1902)
John A Hobson
English economist, social scientist
critic of imperialism
influenced Marxist theories of imperialism

http://www.cscd.osaka-u.ac.jp/user/rosaldo/Hobson_Imperialism_1902.pdf




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Above book  looks like it might be good reading (even though it's ancient).

Saved myself a copy of the PDF for checking out some time.


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In other news:  pigged out on bread & butter pudding.



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Used an amalgamation of recipes.  

Made this with buttered stale bread; x5 eggs; 50/50 milk & cream @ 250ml each; 3/4 cups of caster sugar; splash of vanilla essence; loads of brandy & sultanas; and some melted  jam (microwave), which I poured on at the half-way mark of layering the bread, before finishing the remainder of bread layering and pouring on the cream/milk & egg mixture over the lot.

Didn't bother taking off the crusts, as I think discarding crusts is wasteful. 

The whole thing gets soaked before going in the oven at 190 degrees Celsius for about 30 minutes and at 160 for about 20 mins, standing in a pan of water.

Got a bit carried away with the sugar & cinnamon on top.  Did three dessert spoons of sugar, which is waaaaaay too much on top.









GLOBAL WARMING HOAX


Physicist
Ivar Giaever
shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973

GLOBAL WARMING HOAX








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February 12, 2016

Off Topic - Bears & people


Off Topic
Bears & people





Too depressed to blog or take much of an interest in politics, save for half-heartedly monitoring the invasion of Europe and associated chaos.

Fantasised about a refuge somewhere in Europe for Europeans, but can't think of anywhere in Europe that's still European.

Although Russia's a federation of different peoples, Russia sort of appeals because the Russian public don't take crap from foreigners ... and Russia has nukes.
Refugees Go Clubbing In Russia, Harass Girls, Wake Up In Hospital The Next Morning

4:52 PM 02/04/2016

A group of 51 refugees were brutally assaulted outside a night club in Murmansk, Russia, after they groped and molested women at a night club Saturday.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/04/refugees-go-clubbing-in-russia-harass-girls-wake-up-in-hospital-the-next-morning/

Nearby Estonia also looks really cool, especially the rural areas.  But Estonia is no longer Estonian.  It joined the European Union in 2004, following a two-thirds vote in favour ... and now its borders are open to third world invasion like everywhere else in sold-out Europe.

"Purchasing our little dacha in Aseri, Estonia ..."
https://lifeinrussia.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/purchasing-our-little-dacha-in-aseri-estonia/
Although it's rather modern, the house below also looks nice (I like boxy angles on most things) ... but with all that glass, it's probably not that practical for a cold climate, and maybe even bears.
http://www.kv.ee/soodushind-kehtib-01-03-2016osta-enne-kevadist-era-1955003.html?n
Even though I'll never move to Estonia, I'm going to look at the photos and fantasise about how great it would be to live in isolation in Estonia & how good it might have once felt going feral, taking a crap in the woods with bears, or something ... lol

The property below looks good for hanging out with bears:
http://www.kv.ee/pakume-voimalust-osta-laenuga-ka-majakarpi-ja-krun-2541966.html?nr=70&search_key=da0286ae7ead76e0975960d25bd04092
Bears inhabited the Estonia region for 11,000 years.  But the bears have been reduced to 231 brown bears in 1998 (here).

In 1998-99, there were 12 orphaned cubs, as either the mother was killed or was disturbed by hunters or loggers (in which case she will have abandoned her cubs).

Bears reared in captivity become too accustomed to people for it to be an effective means of rearing bears that are destined for release in  areas that are close to human settlements (as is the case in Estonia).

Bears younger than 6 months aren't capable of surviving on their own.  Young bears are either taken in by people who raise them or they're left at bear 'homes'.

How cool would it be raising baby bears in bear homes?

Despite the low numbers, bears weren't protected as at the date of that (maybe late 1990s) article. 

We live in a disgusting, over populated, and destructive world; and we stand by as Europe itself is being destroyed.

Meanwhile, everyone in the 'human rights' exploitation industry is bleating about 'human rights' of aliens, as if alien members of the human species that numbers in the multiple billions are magically 'entitled' to considerations and concessions from Europeans,  owing to nothing but mere biological existence that is a consequence of senseless, plague-proportion reproduction.

In a world of  7.349 billion estimated in 2015, of which 742.5 million of all extractions is estimated to inhabit the native European land mass (2013), it looks like both the bears and the native Europeans need protection before they cease to exist.