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Merkel Pleads Insanity

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It would appear, and as reported, in the light of recent figures suggesting that over 60% of Germans feel that Islam has no place in Germany, the open border immigration policies that Angela Merkel’s government drove home to Germans last autumn have started to have their obvious and predictable consequences.

Obvious and predictable to all but her it would seem. Now she is furiously back peddling as she realizes that her drunken policies might not only destroy her country, but also her career.

With her country’s political landscape shifting significantly before her, Angela Merkel has now put her political hat on in order to survive politically in Germany.

As France 24 reports, Angela Merkel is urging European Leaders to protect the EU’s external borders or risk a “return to nationalism.” Merkel said the “freedom of movement” in Europe is at stake as it deals with the worst migration crisis since WWII.

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And it does pose the very valid question: If other people could see the folly of last summer’s open door policy, why weren’t those with infinitely greater resources and knowledge aware of the mistakes they were making at the time?

Without question, back-peddling on such a serious failure should be viewed with nothing but contempt. Of course she should pay with her political career, but given the culturally invasive nature of the seeds they have sown, leaders like Angela Merkel, Francois Hollande & the E.U. policy commissioners – who continue to coerce sovereign nations into taking refugee quotas they do not want – should now be looking in the rear view mirror for charges of treason appearing on the horizon.

Brexit: The Corbyn Effect

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The Telegraph reports:

Jeremy Corbyn has been forced to abandon plans to give a speech calling for all Turkish citizens to gain access to the UK amid fears that it could push Britain out of the European Union.

Corbyn was clearly oblivious to the fact that his endorsement of the E.U. move to award Turkey visa free travel for its citizens might not help matters in the up coming British referendum on E.U. membership.

Sources inside the leader’s office are understood to have intervened to get the speech scrapped, triggering a furious row.

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We appreciate that Jeremy Corbyn lives within an ideological bubble with little concern for political practicalities. It does still however beg the question: how clueless can you be?

As Surely As Night Follows Day

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We don’t really consider ourselves very clever people. Our greatest skill is probably being able to predict what will happen when nations embark upon clearly ridiculous policies grounded in ideological insanity, and even then it has more to do with not being afflicted by the culture of such madness.

So when Germany drunkenly declared that it would give a home to 800,000 refugees, it was fairly easy to predict that the Summer of Love would turn into the Winter of Rape – we just didn’t think that it would be the same year. After all, guests usually have to get comfortable before they start molesting the host.

As support for Pegida, then Germany’s anti-Muslim AfD Party started to grow, it’s not like anyone but the ideologically insane could claim that they hadn’t see it coming.

Now it appears that support For Anti-Muslim AfD has hit a record high as 60% agree that, “Islam Does Not Belong In Germany.”

This from ZeroHedge:

In yet another poll for Bild newspaper by the Insa Institute, an astonishing 61% of Germans agreed that Islam does not belong in Germany. This result further explains AfD’s surge in popularity, as the AfD reportedly has a section in its new party program called “Islam is not part of Germany”, which is a position that 92% of its supporters agree with.

With the AfD only behind SPD by 5 points in the polls, it won’t be long until the AfD is able to close the gap and become Germany’s second most popular party. An increasingly powerful AfD who shares the same anti-Muslim sentiment as a growing number of German voters means that the political landscape in Germany is changing rapidly, and significantly.

No one could have predicted that. I mean, what did they think people were going to do?

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E.U: The Velvet Gloves Come Off

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A test of any institution, or individual for that matter, is how they respond in a crisis. For decades the people of Europe have been sold the narrative that the E.U. is a benign parental body which seeks to promote unity and avoid the possibility of there ever being another war between European nations.

Thus far the E.U. has faced two crises – the sovereign debt crisis and the ongoing immigration crisis, and on both occasions it has quickly demonstrated its true personality by pulling off the velvet gloves to reveal the iron fist of membership to the Candy Haus.

As the Telegraph reports:

The European Commission will impose fines of hundreds of millions of pounds on countries that do not take in refugees.

Jean-Claude Junker is tomorrow expected to unveil plans to impose a penalty of around €250,000 euros per rejected refugee, in a bid to salvage his botched migration quota scheme.

In short: any member state who decides that Islamic immigration is not for them, will be coerced into taking the quota allotted to them by the E.U.

This move is specifically aimed at former Soviet bloc countries like Hungary; the Czech Republic; Poland & Slovakia who have decided that mass Muslim immigration is not in their nation’s best interests long term. Wonder where they got that idea?

Eastern European states opposed the scheme for two reasons: because they said refugee admissions should be a sovereign national decision; and because many of their voters are virulently opposed to Muslim immigration. 

So much for sovereignty and common sense.

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End Game for Old Europe

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It has emerged that Turkey is set to be granted European visa-free travel for its 75 million citizens. As the Telegraph today reports:

The giveaway is part of a €6bn aid-for-deportations migration deal struck with Ankara, which has resulted in a steep fall in the number of refugees attempting to cross into Europe. Turkey has warned that if it is not given the visa waiver – which will grant automatic access to the Schengen zone for tourists for up to 90 days – then it will “terminate” the migration deal. Read Full Article

The furious speed of state sanctioned Islamization of Europe over recent years has been rapid, but this has to be the final swift nail in the coffin for old Europe.

From Tony Blair’s Open Door immigration policy to Angela Merkel’s Summer of Love (see Guilt, & intake of 800,000), progressive politicians have achieved in two decades what it took the former Yugoslavia centuries to befall. The Balkanization of previously stable European societies makes as much sense as the toppling of Ghaddafi and is probably related in some way.

ZeroHedge reports today via Mishtalk:

Of all the inane, self-serving, deals German Chancellor Angela Merkel made with Turkey, visa-free travel for 80 million Islamic Turks tops the list.

“This is all a nightmare,” said one diplomat charged with making the deal work. Another European diplomat described the Turkey-EU deal as carrying “the seeds of its own destruction”.

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Clearly the people elected to represent our interests have nothing of the sort in mind and are doing the bidding of an unidentified agenda.

And most likely the same parties who benefited from turning Libya into a Jihadi playground are also set to benefit from turning Europe into Bosnia 2.0

The question that should keep people awake at night is why?

As Niall Ferguson concluded in his six part series, The War of the World, if you want to know what the future of Europe will be, you need look no further than the Yugoslavian wars of the nineties.

Labour’s Real Anti-Semetism Issue

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You could say that Jeremy Corbyn’s Old Labour are a victim of their own leftist logic. This week life long member and activist, Ken Livingstone was suspended after having the temerity to say that Hitler was a Zionist who supported a Jewish state in Palestine. Now you would have thought that anyone wanting to clear this up, could spend 15 minutes researching as to whether this statement is correct or not, before embarking upon a campaign to have the member removed from his post.

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It turns out that Livingstone is correct to at least some degree, Adolf Hitler’s government did establish the Haavara Agreement in 1933 with Zionist German Jews to help resettle German Jews in Palestine. Read More

But none of this seems to matter, as the guardians of the progressive narrative have demonstrated time and time again in recent years – the truth does not matter; perception is everything. In short, it’s the sort of logic defying stunt that the liberal left pull on a daily basis. Only this time, the victim is one of their own.

Does this mean that the British Labour Party is not anti- Semetic? Don’t be silly, the left in Britain is riven with an anti-Semitism that borders upon systemic, but the source of that anti-Semetism has its roots firmly elsewhere – in it’s cosy alliance with Hamas over the Palestinian issue; as illustrated earlier last week with the expulsion of another Labour Party MP, Naz Shah, who suggested on social media that the state of Israel should be dismantled & relocated to the U.S. Midwest. Read More  and More

In sober moments, those on the the left in Britain will tell you that their issue is not with the Jewish people, but with the state of Israel and Zionism. However that is clearly not how their allies in this cause – the growing and increasingly militant British Muslim population see it. And together with their brothers and sisters in France, Belgium and Germany, they are almost singlehandedly once again making Europe a dangerous place to be Jewish.

A new study published by the Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy (ISGAP) confirms what many have long suspected: that the worst crimes against Jews in Europe are perpetrated by (European) Muslims, and that Muslims have been responsible for a “disproportionate” number of anti-Semitic attacks over the past 15 years.

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Practical Masculinity: Grayson Vs Grylls

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Turner prize-winning & cross-dressing artist, Grayson Perry has questioned the practical masculine skills of TV survival expert Bear Grylls.

“He celebrates a masculinity that is useless,” Perry said. “Try going into an estate agent in Finsbury Park and come out with an affordable flat. I want to see Bear Grylls looking for a decent state school for his child!”

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We have no doubt that the ex-special forces Grylls would fair better than most, and possibly Perry himself, in navigating  the perilous challenge of dealing with an estate agent and finding an affordable flat in Finsbury Park or decent state school for his child – The Horror!

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Given the nature and severity of the challenges Bear Grylls already successfully has under his belt, Perry’s comments should seem ludicrous to all but those inside the camp (pun intended) of the campaign to deconstruct masculinity and render all modern men as nothing more than whining man-bitches clinging to safe spaces and banging the nauseating drum of empathetic feminism.

It would be much more entertaining to see Perry try and build a fire out of twigs and teabags, or survive adrift at sea without lipstick and a nail file. You know, real skills.

Grylls’ response: ‘In the wild, quiet courage, humility, persistence and selflessness makes a man and also a woman. That is never outdated.’

Where’s the Rage? All You Can Hear Is Crickets

 

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There have been a couple of big international stories over the past week that should have had both feminists & the LGBT community up off their seats in rage.

The first was a story about 250 women that were executed for refusing to become ISIS sex slaves. You know how bent out of shape feminists get over things like man spreading and the patriarchy; everyone knows, they lose their shit! So you would have thought given the severity of this crime against women, that feminist across the globe would outraged by the execution of 250 sisters for refusing to be sex slaves. Apparently not.

Then a few days later, another story, that this time should have had the LGBT community out of their seats in rage: two men hackled to bits by ISIS militants in Bangladesh for being gay. You know how the LGBT community blows its stack over things like gender neutral bathrooms and gay wedding cakes baked by Christians, they lose their shit! So you would have thought that the brutal murder of two gay men in an intolerant oppressive nation for religious reasons would have had them making human chains outside the embassy. Again, not so.

What is it about these two cases that differs from the relatively pedestrian domestic issues of gay cakes & man spreading? It’s race.

Liberal racism is one of the most  perverse forms of racism out there. It basically works like this: We can’t criticize mass murders by Muslims because Muslims are generally brown. People of darker skin are not to be criticized or held to the same standard of expectation because of their politically correct high caste status.

It is also why professional liberals can indulge in that most entertaining of aggregate fallacies – support for Islam & feminism. Which is the ideological equivalent of being secretly married to two people who live in the same street – one day it’s going to get very messy.

But when you control the narrative, you can afford to live in a world of such megalithic inconsistencies. No one is going to point them out, and if they do, you can silence them by calling privilege or racism.

Seymour Hersh: Saudis Paid Pakistan To Hold Bin Laden

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Yet another revelation from award winning U.S. investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh. You might remember some months ago Hersh exposed the fact that U.S. military commanders frustrated with the Obama administration’s lack of action on ISIS, started sharing intel with Bashar Al Assad’s government. Read More He could not get a mainstream U.S. news outlet to run with the piece.

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Now Hersh claims that the Saudi government paid Pakistan to keep Bin Laden so that he could not be interrogated by the U.S. Here is an extract from his interview with Ken Klippenstein of AlterNet. Read Full Story

KK: So you don’t know if the hush money was from the Saudi government or private individuals?

SH: The money was from the government … what the Saudis were doing, so I’ve been told, by reasonable people (I haven’t written this) is that they were also passing along tankers of oil for the Pakistanis to resell. That’s really a lot of money.

KK: For the Bin Laden compound?

SH: Yeah, in exchange for being quiet. 

KK: Do you have any idea how much Saudi Arabia gave Pakistan in hush money?

SH: I have been given numbers, but I haven’t done the work on it so I’m just relaying. I know it was certainly many—you know, we’re talking about four or five years—hundreds of millions [of dollars]. But I don’t have enough to tell you.

KK: Why didn’t they apprehend Bin Laden? Can you imagine the intelligence we could have gotten from him?

SH: The Pakistani high command said go kill him, but for chrissake don’t leave a body, don’t arrest him, just tell them a week later that you killed him in Hindu Kush. That was the plan. 

Canadian Immigration Idol

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In the light of recent security concerns regarding the arrival of large numbers of Syrians, and the revelation that most of the 25,000 who recently arrived in Canada were not actually from refugee camps as claimed by the Prime minister’s office, but consisted mainly of Syrians already living in Turkey with jobs & apartments etc.,  Minister for Citizenship & Immigration, John McCallum announced this week that Canada was working on a dramatic overhaul in its current immigration program, which would seek to draw immigrants from cultures with good international reputations whilst restricting the entry of others.

The new system, he claimed, would also make the selection process much more democratic, giving the public a direct say on who comes into the country.

Under the controversial hip new Liberal plans, each province will have to announce their immigration quota for the following year, that quota is then put to a series of live public votes on CBC at primetime on Saturday evenings at 8pm (9pm in Newfoundland). Viewers will be given the opportunity to split their vote between 5 recipient nations or groups within those nations, in what is being described by some as Reality Immigration.

“It will be like a cultural popularity contest.” McCallum said. “Everyone accepts that Immigration is required to fill the gaps left by an aging population. Western first world secular societies do not produce enough children to service and sustain their increasingly narcissistic godless societies. Immigration is a must for Canada; it’s the specifics of selection that we wish improve and involve the public in. We believe that if the public can get involved then it will make the process more democratic, and make the new Liberal government look even more cool & trendy.”

Leader of the opposition, Rona Ambrose has already slammed the proposed changes as an immature popularity contest – a “Pop idol immigration policy.”

Needless to say, religion and cultural are set to play a huge part, and Mr McCallum admitted that the new policy approach may possess the added bonus of tackling some of the potentially problematic cultural characteristics which tend to come with new arrivals to Canada.

“Let’s say that you are living in the tribal lands of north west Pakistan and you are thinking about beheading a teacher who has been teaching girls to read and write. Well, you might think twice about it if you thought that it might harm your children’s chances of making a new life in Mississauga… Or let’s say your wife left you and you want to punish her by throwing acid in her face… again, you might deicide not to do it if you know that it might affect your application for Canadian permanent residence at some later date. Not only that, but the people of Canada will have a democratic say in who comes into the country, plus it will improve CBC’s Saturday evening programming, finally providing viewers with something that they actually want to watch. It really is a win, win, win situation for everyone.”

As McCallum suggested, the big losers in this new policy shift are predicted to be traditional Islamic cultures and anywhere else there’s a propensity is to be a bit of a bad cunt when no one is is looking. We put this to him that making immigration a popularity contest would be implicitly anti-Islamic.

“It’s a democratic vote.” McCallum said. “But let’s face it, why would the population of, say, Manitoba opt for a 7th Century Sharia Horse brimming with disobedient daughter slaying, book burning and public beheadings, when they could opt some nice friendly Filipinos or Mexicans instead? Are those people racists for making such a clear & obviously sane decision? This is Canada, and the customer is nearly always right! Maybe they don’t buy because they don’t like the product on offer, and so countries and cultures will need to clean up their act… Under the current system we choose the fruit for the customer and tell them to like it. This way the public gets to choose. Don’t like bananas? Fine, have an apple.”

The programme is scheduled to begin next spring.