Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Monday, 14 September 2015

The European Union Times


Posted: 13 Sep 2015 04:04 PM PDT

Austrian train operator OeBB says Germany has stopped all trains coming in from the country, and Germany’s Interior Ministry has abruptly introduced “temporary” border controls with Austria. More than 2,100 extra police have been dispatched to secure the borders.
Austria’s national train company OeBB also announced earlier that it is suspending services to and from Hungary, which is where most asylum seekers arrive from, on their way to Germany. It was unclear if smaller operators would follow suit.
Germany’s Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere has announced that the country is immediately introducing border controls, following an internal vote between the country’s ruling coalition partners.
“At this moment Germany is temporarily introducing border controls again along [the EU’s] internal borders. The focus will be on the border to Austria at first,” the politician said at a news conference in Berlin.
“The aim of these measures is to limit the current inflows to Germany and to return to orderly procedures when people enter the country.”
De Maziere called for asylum seekers to “abide by the rules” and register in the first country of arrival in the EU, and said they could not “pick and choose” where to live in Europe. Many have refused to identify themselves in transit countries, demanding passage to Germany, which accepts a higher proportion of applications than other EU countries, and has more generous welfare benefits.
According to the Berlin tabloid Bild, and Austria’s leading newspaper Krone, German border police will examine the travel documents of those arriving through the most popular southern route into the country, to make sure they are on the list of countries eligible for asylum.
While the plurality of more than 800,000 expected to apply for asylum in Germany this year are from Syria, a significant minority originate from Balkan states, some of which, such as Albania and Kosovo, have been designated as “safe” – meaning the applications are likely to fail.
The new procedure would be a blow to the Schengen agreement, which enshrines the right of free movement across the borders of its EU signatories.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said that Germany extraordinary measures fall “within crisis rules” of the agreement, but urged a return to open borders as soon as is practical, citing widespread support for Schengen from European leaders he has spoken to.
Munich, the entry point for most asylum seekers, has been overwhelmed, with over 13,000 arriving on Saturday alone, and more than 3,000 on Sunday morning.
“We have reached the upper limit of our capacity,” police said in a statement.
Munich’s mayor, Dieter Reiter, said the city was already up to 5,000 places short of capacity for the newcomers, forcing many of the asylum seekers to sleep at the overcrowded Central railway station. The city administration said it might be forced to temporarily house the refugees in Olympiahalle, an indoor sports facility and concert arena, which is currently undergoing renovation.
While Berlin has led a reluctant EU in opening its doors to refugees, on Sunday economy minister Sigmar Gabriel admitted that “the European lack of action in the refugee crisis is now pushing even Germany to the limit of its ability.”
He told Der Tagesspiegel newspaper that “it’s not so much the number of refugees as the speed at which they’re arriving that’s making it so difficult for the states and the municipalities to cope.”
Hungary’s nationalist prime minister Viktor Orban expressed “solidarity” with Germany’s decision, saying to Bild that it would help “safeguard German and European values.” Orban did warn that the step would be meaningless unless the borders of Greece, the first EU port of call for many migrants, would also be sealed from the influx.
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Posted: 13 Sep 2015 05:43 AM PDT

Nearly 80% of states receiving most refugees have GOP upper house majorities.
The Obama administration is mainly resettling migrants in Republican-controlled states, according to analysis.
Of the 19 states that took in the most refugees per capita in 2013 and 2014, 15 have upper house legislatures dominated by Republicans, a percentage of nearly 80%.
In comparison, only three of the 19 states are Democratic and another state, Nebraska, has a nonpartisan legislature but is considered a ‘red state’ in presidential elections.
Overall, Republican-controlled states (upper house majorities) represent 62% of the country but 79% of the top states for refugees whereas Democratic-controlled states represent 24% of the country but only 16% of the states taking in the most migrants.
States where Republicans control the upper house legislature.
Nearly 42% of Democratic states resettle the fewest refugees in comparison to 29% of Republican states.
The analysis was made by comparing a map of the U.S. state legislative upper house majorities as of 2015 to data released by the Office of Refugee Resettlement compiled by the Washington Post.
The results from the analysis aren’t surprising considering the Obama administration announced the White House Task Force on New Americans program in 2014 to convert recent migrants and refugees into “new Americans” with full voting rights.
“Critics say the program is not as much about creating ‘new Americans’ as it is about creating new ‘voters’ who will help re-elect Democrats and institutionalize Obama’s policies on immigration, education and healthcare for years to come,” Leo Hohmann of WND reported. “…The ‘welcoming’ mantra has been running hot within the Obama administration for several years and culminated with a report released April 17 by his White House Task Force on New Americans.”
“Obama formed the special task force Nov. 21, 2014, when he announced his controversial executive actions to unilaterally grant amnesty to some 5 million illegal aliens; his administration is also bringing in 70,000 foreign refugees per year from Iraq, Somalia, Bhutan, Burma, Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Afghanistan and, most recently, Syria.”
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Posted: 13 Sep 2015 05:08 AM PDT

British Prime Minister David Cameron said that the UK Labour party which elected communist, self declared “Karl Marx admirer”, Jeremy Corbyn as its new leader, a threat to “national security, economic security and family’s security.”
The Labour party, which elected Jeremy Corbyn its new leader on Saturday, has become a threat to the United Kingdom’s national and economic security, British Prime Minister David Cameron said Sunday.
“The Labour Party is now a threat to our national security, our economic security and your family’s security,” Cameron wrote in his Twitter account.
Corbyn has been widely referred to as one of the most “rebellious” members of UK parliament, as he had opposed Britain’s participation in the Iraq war, and spoke against the renewal of the British Trident nuclear deterrent infrastructure.
Also on Saturday, UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon also said that Corbyn’s triumph will negatively affect the lives of ordinary Britons.
The Conservative party fears that Corbyn would breach a consensus between the two major British parties on major issues, such as nuclear weapons, taxation and others.
Corbyn won the UK Labour Party’s leadership race on Saturday obtaining some 59.5 percent of votes in the first round and he fully supports the flooding of UK with millions of refugees, maybe even up until native Britons become replaced and eventually extinct in their own country.
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Posted: 13 Sep 2015 04:57 AM PDT

Robert Ménard, Mayor of Béziers in Southern France, has again made the headlines for fighting the illegal immigrants into Europe.
Ménard, accompanied by armed police and a translator, is going door-to-door in a block of apartments where illegal immigrant have broken in, and are now squatting.
He told one illegal immigrant squatter this:
“You are not welcome in this town. You came into this apartment, breaking the door, stealing the water. People have to pay for this water, but you are just stealing water and electricity. It is not allowed in this town to just come in to an apartment and to live in it without permission.”
“So I say again, you are not welcome in this town. If you had behaved like a decent person, you would have been welcome. You might be welcomed acting like this in big cities, but I’m not ready to do that here. You act like we have no choice but to accept you.”
Earlier this year, Ménard came under fire for counting the number of non-French children in his town. By counting the surnames, he found 64.6% of children in the town were Muslim.
For counting the number of non-French names, he was placed under investigation by the police. He wasn’t scared by this, and now he is standing his ground on illegal immigration into the town as well. This guy has got a lot of guts!
        
Posted: 13 Sep 2015 04:30 AM PDT

Federal and state governments in Germany are in the process of devising new laws to expropriate private property for refugee housing.
The new regulations are aimed primarily at unused commercial properties, but may also apply to homes and condos, according to ARD Berlin Studios, a German public broadcaster.
In Sweden, the state Migration Board in May evicted elderly residents from the Millmark center in Sörmark outside Torsby, according to Värmlands Folkblad, a Swedish language daily newspaper.
The residents were told there were plans to make the property an asylum accommodation.
The reaction in Sweden to the influx of refugees has resulted in an anti-immigrant party leading in polls.
The Sweden Democrats are supported by 25.5 per cent of voters and are now more popular than the Social Democrats with 23.4 per cent of voter support, according to a YouGov poll sponsored by Metro, a free daily newspaper in Sweden.
Anti-immigration political parties in France, Germany and Austria are also receiving wide support. Austria’s Freedom Party is supported by 29 percent of the population.
Following a European Union plan to force nations to accept the tidal wave of refugees, thousands of people attended anti-migrant protests in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia on Saturday.
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Posted: 13 Sep 2015 04:25 AM PDT

Mass anti-government protests organized by the civic platform Dignity and Truth (DA), began in the Moldovan capital of Chisinau Sunday.
Since September 5, protesters in Chisinau have been demanding the resignation of the Moldovan government and the chief prosecutor, while also calling for early parliamentary elections and a prompt action to tackle corruption in the country.
“Today we are going to increase pressure on the authorities. At the protests brought together residents from all parts of the country. We are determined to go till the end, until all of our demands,” a DA activist, Andrei Nastase, told reporters on Sunday.
The protests in Moldova were sparked by the disappearance of more than $1 billion, or the equivalent of 15 percent of the country’s total gross domestic product, from three Moldovan banks last year. The incident negatively affected the country’s banking system and led to the depreciation of the national currency, the leu.
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Posted: 12 Sep 2015 03:47 PM PDT

Never ones to shy away from controversy, the Oath Keepers, a heavily armed group of right-wing constitutionalists, are offering to step in to defend Kentucky’s Rowan County clerk Kim Davis, as she refuses to do her job and issue same-sex marriage certificates.
Group founder Stewart Rhodes and members comprised of former military, police and first responders, released a video on Wednesday discussing the Davis scandal.
Rhodes recently spoke in New York, where he said President Obama is trying to start a race war.
“[T]he leftists in this country hate this country, they hate it,” Rhodes said, “and they will get in bed with radical Islamists because they have a common enemy, western civilization.”
Oath Keepers surfaced in Ferguson in August, offering to arm protesters after becoming offended that police had asked them to keep their own weapons out of the area where tense protests were taking place.
Now, the group seeks to protect Davis should the county attempt to arrest her once more, for failing to fulfill her duties as an elected official and instead allowing her personal religious beliefs to affect county policy.
“Stewart Rhodes reached out personally to Davis’s legal counsel to offer protection to Kim, to ensure that she will not be illegally detained again,” the video’s description reads. “We would like to stress in the strongest terms possible that we are doing this not because of her views on gay marriage, but because she is an elected public servant who has been illegally arrested and held without due process.”
Davis was released from jail earlier this week after being held for six days on a contempt-of-court charge, but Rhodes believes she should never have been detained in the first place.
Should Davis defy the federal ruling and continue to deny same-sex couples marriage licenses, there is a very real possibility she will be jailed once again, and the Oath Keepers are prepared to intervene and battle with law enforcement should that happen.
“People should consider her under our protection,” Rhodes wrote. “We’ll make sure that our people are keeping a close eye on the situation.”
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Posted: 12 Sep 2015 03:38 PM PDT
Annual extended meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media at the International Multimedia Press Center of the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency.
All state agencies’ employees must immediately stop using services like Google, Yahoo, Skype or WhatsApp for work-related communications, Nikolay Nikiforov says, clarifying that the restrictions don’t apply to free time or personal purposes.
“This definitely should not be allowed for working correspondence. We live in a free country and for their personal purposes they can use whatever they want, but once they start exchanging some information marked ‘for official use’ this becomes unacceptable,” the communications minister said in an interview with Russia-24 television when asked about his attitude to recent proposals to restrict the use of foreign-made software over fears of eavesdropping and data loss.
Earlier this month, head of the Russian Security Council Nikolay Patrushev blasted various regional officials for using Google and Yahoo email, as well as the WhatsApp messenger service, for work-related purposes and told governors to take measures for further prevention of such incidents. Patrushev also said that the foreign-made software posed a system threat to the national information security.
Last year a lower house MP representing parliamentary majority party United Russia proposed mandatory certification for all communication devices used in state structures, claiming it would offer additional protection against eavesdropping programs such as those revealed by Edward Snowden.
“We should think about whether our nation needs this information striptease. The total fondness for social networks, the posting of personal data and comments on various events by top officials damage our country’s image and economy,” Vladimir Gutenyov said in press comments.
In mid-2013, MP Ilya Kostunov (United Russia) sent letters to the heads of the Defense Ministry, Federal Security Service and the Communications Ministry suggesting they immediately limit civil servants’ access to the popular US internet services and social networks, such as Gmail and Facebook, and sometimes also hardware devices produced by US companies. He also suggested that violators of the ban should be tried for high treason, which in Russia carries punishment of up to 20 years in prison.
In late 2014, popular Russian daily Izvestia quoted an unnamed source in the Defense Ministry as saying that the military has banned the use of iPhones by its servicemen to prevent information leaks. The ministry denied Izvestia’s report almost immediately, but said that during important missions servicemen are banned from using any civilian communication devices.
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Posted: 12 Sep 2015 03:09 PM PDT


“An ISIS terrorist posing as an “asylum seeker” has been arrested by German police in a “refugee” center in Stuttgart.
While the US is looking back at the 14 year anniversary of what is widely accepted as the biggest terrorist event in modern US history, in Europe it is time to look forward to what may be the advent of domestic “terrorism” in the coming months, whether real or false flagged.
Earlier this week, one of our contributors Erico Tavares pointed out something disturbing, namely that in Europe’s perpetual search for “crises” on which to capitalize in its relentless encroachment to a European superstate, the current migrant crisis may be a blessing in disguise (assuming, of course, it wasn’t premeditated from day one as others have suggested).
Why blessing? Because just like the US Patriot Act which allowed a massive expansion of the US government apparatus while obliterating civil and privacy rights (highlighted earlier today), confirmed a decade later by Edward Snowden, was a regulation in search of a terrorist event, so Europe’s next superstate expansion will require a comparable anti-terrorism “rush” in which the population voluntarily hands Europe’s supra-government even more rights to centrally-plan as it sees fit.
Which means that as part of the refugee crisis in which tens of thousands of innocent Syrians have been displaced and seeking European asylum, it was only a matter of time before one or more was “found” to be ISIS terrorists in order to perpetuate the fear and crisis narrative. A crisis which Brussels would never go to waste.
That time has arrived following a report by German RTL and carried by NewObserver that “an ISIS terrorist posing as an “asylum seeker” has been arrested by German police in a “refugee” center in Stuttgart, and German customs officers have seized boxes containing Syrian passports being smuggled into Europe.”
So it begins.
According to RTL, the terrorist is a 21-year-old Moroccan using a “false identity” who had registered as an asylum seeker in the district of Ludwigsburg. He was identified after police linked him to a European arrest warrant issued by the Spanish authorities. He is accused of recruiting fighters for ISIS, where he acted as a contact person for fighters who wanted to travel to Syria or Iraq.
This arrest of the alleged bogus “asylum seeker” comes at the same time that a German finance ministry spokesman said that
“boxes” of fake Syrian passports, destined for sale and distribution to the hordes of nonwhite invaders seeking to settle in Europe as bogus “war refugees,” had been seized.”
That news, carried in a report by the German Tagespiegel newspaper, also revealed that 10,000 fake Syrian passports were seized by police in Bulgaria, on their way to Germany.
The finance ministry official said both genuine and forged passports were in the packets intercepted in the post. Possession of these passports is a vital part of claiming “asylum” as “war refugees.”
The Tagespiegel also revealed that the fake Syrian passports are being sold for about $1,500 each—and the fact that many of the “refugees” can afford to buy multiple passports is yet another indication of the bogus nature of their claims to be “asylum seekers.”
Significantly, the Tagespiegel article continued, “It is not only Syrians who are interested in Syrian passports. Refugees from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan want to become Syrian in order to secure their recognition as asylum seekers in Western Europe. According to press reports, nine out of ten refugees who came from Macedonia to Serbia claimed they were Syrians.”
Setting the expectations was the head of the EU frontier police, Fabrice Leggeri, who in a recent interview with the Europe 1 TV station said that the trade in fake Syrian passports originated in Turkey. “There are people who are now in Turkey, buying false Syrian passports because they have obviously realized that it is a windfall since Syrians get asylum in all Member States in the European Union,” he said. “People who use false Syrian passports often speak in Arabic. They may originate in North Africa or the Middle East, but have the profile of economic migrants.”
And then just to ratchet the fear factor, earlier this week Hungary’s most watched national TV channel, M1, reported Tuesday that at least two “terrorists” were uncovered via photographs on social media after entering Europe as refugees.
RT has more:
“Islamist terrorists, disguised as refugees, have showed up in Europe. [The] pictures were uploaded on various social networks to show that terrorists are now present in most European cities. Many, who are now illegal immigrants, fought alongside Islamic State before,” the report said.
The Hungarian channel broadcasted collections of photographs of the two men from social media. The first set depicted two individuals with weapons and the second set showed them smiling as they arrived in Europe.
A breach in the “terrorism has arrived” narrative emerged it was revealed that the man claimed to be an Islamic State militant had previously given an interview to AP, saying that he was a former Syrian rebel commander. “The AP reported that his name was Laith Al Saleh, 30, and he “led a 700-strong rebel unit in Syria’s civil war.” The news agency’s photos taken on August 15 showed Al Saleh among other refugees waiting to board an Athens-bound ferry on the Greek island of Kos.”
And then it gets awkward: AP reported that he was a member of the Free Syrian Army, which is fighting against the Syrian government forces of President Bashar Assad, as well as against terrorist groups in the region.
Actually, the US-funded and supported FSA’s only purpose was the same as that of ISIS – to crush the Syrian army and overthrow the elected president so Qatar can break Gazprom’s monopoly on European gas imports.
But now the second key role of ISIS is also starting to emerge: the terrorist bogeyman that ravages Europe and scares the living daylight out of people who beg the government to implement an even more strict government apparatus in order to protect them from refugees ISIS terrorists.
But ignore the facts, and focus on the propaganda, which as RT further adds is in full crisis mode: A recent article in the UK Express Daily claimed that IS “smuggled thousands of covert jihadists into Europe.” It cited a January BuzzFeed interview with an IS operative who said the militants have already sent some 4,000 fighters into Europe under guise of refugees.
These speculations have not been confirmed by Western security officials, although that’s only temporary: as the need to ratchet up the fear factor grows, expect more such reports of asylum seekers who have penetrated deep inside Europe, and whose intentions are to terrorize the public. Expect a few explosions throw in for good effect.
Certainly expect a version of Europe’a Patriot Act to emerge over the next year, when the old continent has its own “September 11” moment, one which will provide the unelected Brussels bureaucrats with even more authoritarian power.
And since everyone knows by now “not to let a crisis go to waste” the one thing Europe needs is a visceral, tangible crisis, ideally with chilling explosions and innocent casualties. We expect one will be provided on short notice.
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Posted: 12 Sep 2015 02:36 PM PDT

The political split of the European Union will take place because of the refugees. France is the weak link at this point. Nicolas Sarkozy and Marine Le Pen won regional elections in March of this year. Most likely, the governments of Eastern European countries will support the French.
Sarkozy’s success at the elections in March may herald his return to big politics. In France, almost no one doubts that Nicolas Sarkozy (Republicans) will run for president in 2017. Marine Le Pen of the National Front has all chances to win the missing votes in order to successfully pass this test as well.
Socialists will remain on the sidelines of the political struggle, because their leader Francois Hollande can not solve the main problem of France – the uncontrolled inflow of migrants.
On September 10, Nicolas Sarkozy said in an interview with Le Figaro newspaper that the French society may disintegrate because of migrants. Hollande has lost control over the state of affairs in in European politics that, in fact, does not actually exist, the former president of France said. According to Sarkozy, there is no more union between Germany and France that used to be the driving force of European politics.
As for the refugees crisis, Sarkozy suggested keeping them in guarded holding centers in peripheral countries of the Schengen agreement and address the issue individually.
Of course, such filtration camps come contrary to the tolerance policy of Brussels, but, according to Sarkozy, this is not a question of “ideological choice.” “This is just a wish to take account of reality, because if we are not careful, then the risk of the break up of the French nation will increase to then become inevitable. Then it will be too late to shed crocodile tears,” Nicolas Sarkozy said.
The National Front leader Marine Le Pen criticizes not only Brussels but also Berlin. “Not only Germany is eager to manipulate our economy, but it also wants to force us to take hundreds of thousands of refugees,” said Le Pen, speaking to party members in Marseille, on September 6. She added that France had neither the means nor the desire to open its doors to refugees.
“What is ‘tolerance?’ What does it mean?” asked Le Pen. “I am very tolerant and hospitable, just like you. But would you want to take 12 illegal immigrants in your apartment? You would not!” she said.
The National Front won elections to the European Parliament last year and a few seats in the municipal elections in 2014. A recent poll showed that 30 percent of young people between 18 and 24 years of age would definitely vote for the National Front. “We are neither left nor right – we are a French party,” said Le Pen.
Many European parties, which Brussels labels far-right and nationalist organizations, can say the same about themselves. They disagree with the ideas of European integration, trans-Atlantic cooperation and ideology of “tolerance” to various minorities. The Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) and the Hungarian Jobbik are among such organizations. There is also Belgian Vlaams Belang (VB), Bulgarian Attack, the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), the Golden Dawn in Greece, the Northern League (Lega Nord) in Italy and Order and Justice party (TT) in Lithuania.
About one-fifth of European MPs adhere to this political line. This is not enough to show serious influence on voting, but the situation may change dramatically after the next elections to the European Parliament.
In several years, France may become the leader of the new European Union to conduct US-independent policies. Sarkozy already says that the US can not handle global leadership, including the issue of migration. In his view, the shortage of international leadership in the refugee crisis is scary and dangerous. Sarkozy already knows that the governments of Eastern European countries – such as Estonia, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungary – refuse to accept Muslim refugees.
For the time being, Brussels has distributed only 30 of 60 thousand applications, and the question has stalled. The political crisis is very close. It has already materialized in the UK. Tories had to call a referendum on the country’s membership in the EU because of the pressure of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) that put forward an ultimatum: either a referendum or no coalition at all.
Why is it important to Russia? Taking an anti-American position, the forces that we mentioned above, unwittingly help Russia. Yet, the referendum in the UK is most likely a concession to the general public to close the issue of EU membership once and for all. Cameron will present the results of the referendum to Euroskeptics, at which people will vote against the pull out of the UK from the European Union. As for Sarkozy, he voices reasonable ideas now. He speaks about the need to end the international pressure on Russia. However, everything may change when he comes to power. If he takes office as French president, he may change his mind quickly and check his every step with Washington.
Greece is a good example at this point. Greek Prime Tsipras used to talk about the pull out from NATO, but then ended up with bowing his head to Schäuble.
Empires collapse as they fall apart from within, being unable to settle internal contradictions. The current refugee crisis in Europe is one of such contradictions. Empires are never eternal. The US empire is not eternal either. Some day, it will fall apart against the backdrop of free migration.
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Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 11:15