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I recall Gerald Celente pointing out (correctly) that the politicians who oppose migrants are called 'far right' by the media while nutcases like Donald Trump in the US are not.
The usual double standard applies.
Europe in free fall
27
August, 2015
(Note:
this column was written for the
Unz Review
Europe
is in free fall. Nobody can doubt that any more. In fact, the is EU
simultaneous suffering from several crucial problems and any one of
them could potentially become catastrophic. Let’s look at them one
by one.
The
28 member EU makes no economic sense
The
most obvious problem for the EU is that it makes absolutely no
economic sense. Initially, in the early 1950s, there was a small
group of not too dissimilar nations which decided to integrate their
economies, these were the so-called Inner Six who founded the
European Community (EC): Belgium , France , West Germany , Italy,
Luxembourg and the Netherlands. In 1960 this “core group” was
joined by seven more countries, the Outer Seven, who were unwilling
to join the EC but wanted to join a European Free Trade Association
(EFTA). These are Austria , Denmark , Norway , Portugal , Sweden ,
Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Together these countries formed
what could loosely be called “most of western Europe”. For all
their faults, these treaties did reflect a reality – that the
countries participating in them had much in common and that their
peoples wanted to join forces. After 1960, the history of the
European integration and expansion became very complicated and while
it progressed in zig-zags with regular setbacks, at the end of the
day this process ended growing uncontrollably, just like a malignant
tumor. Today the EU includes 28 (!) member states including all of
what used to be called “central” and “eastern” Europe –
even the ex-Soviet Baltic Republics are now part of this new union.
The problem is that while such an expansion was attractive to the
European elites for ideological reasons, such huge expansion makes no
economic sense at all. What do Sweden, Germany, Latvia, Greece and
Bulgaria have in common? Very little, of course.
Now
cracks are clearly appearing. The Greek crisis and the threat of a
“Grexit” has the potential for a domino effect involving the rest
of the so-called “PIGS” (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain). Even
France is threatened by the consequences of these crises. The
European currency – the Euro – is a “currency without a
mission”: is it supposed to support the German economy or the Greek
one? Nobody knows, at least officially. In reality, of course,
everybody understands that Frau Merkel is running the show. Quickfix
solutions, which is what the Eurobureaucrats are offering, do only
buy time, but they are offering no solution to what is clearly a
systemic problem: the completely artificial nature of a 28 member EU.
As
for the the obvious solution, to give up on the crazy dream of a 28
member EU, it is so absolutely politically unacceptable that it won’t
even be discussed even while everybody fears it.
The
EU is on the verge of a social and cultural collapse
The
undeniable reality is simple as it is stark:
- The EU cannot absorb so many refugees
- The EU does not have the means to stop them
The
special/security services are hopelessly outnumbered when dealing
with a refugee crisis. Besides, their normal target (career criminal,
spies, terrorists) are few and far in between in a typical wave of
refugees. Mostly, what refugees are are families, often extended
ones, and while they sometimes include criminal gangs, this is far
from always being the case. The problem is that, say, a 10% of
Kosovar drug dealers give a bad name to all the refugees from Kosovo
and the refugees themselves ended up being treated like criminals.
Finally, special/security services rely very heavily on informants
and foreign gangs are hard to infiltrate. They often also speak
difficult languages which only few local language specialist master.
As a result, most of the time the EU security services are clueless
as to who to deal with the security problem presented to them, if
only because they lack the personnel and means to keep track of so
many people.
In
contrast, cops have an advantage of sorts: they are literally
everywhere and they typically have a good sense of the “beat on the
street”. However, their powers are severely limited and they need
to get a court order to do most of their work. Cops also mostly deal
with local criminals, whereas most refugees are neither local, nor
criminals. The sad reality is that most of what cops do in a refugee
crisis is provide riot police – hardly a solution to anything.
As
for the armed forces, the very best they can do is to try to help
close a border. In some cases, they can assist the police forces in
case of civil disturbances, but that’s about it.
Thus
the various states of the EU neither have the means to lock their
borders or deport most refugees nor do they have the means to control
them. Sure, there will always be politicians who will make promises
about how they are going to send all these refugees back home, but
that is a crude and blatant lie. The vast majority of these refugees
are fleeing war, famine and abject poverty and there is no way
anybody is going to send them back home.
Keeping
them, however, is also impossible, at least in a cultural sense. For
all the doubleplusgoodthinkingpropaganda
about integrating all races, creeds and cultures the reality is that
there is absolutely nothing the EU has to offer to these refugees to
make them want to integrate it. For all it’s sins and problems, at
least the USA is offering an “American dream” which, false as it
might be, still inspires people worldwide, especially the
unsophisticated and poorly educated. Not only that, but the US
society is largely a-cultural to begin with. Ask yourself, what is
the “American culture” to begin with? If anything, it is really a
“melting pot” as opposed to a “toss salad” – meaning that
whatever is tossed in this melting pot loses its original identity
while the overall mixture of the pot fails to produce a real
indigenous culture, at least not in a European sense of the word.
Europe
is or, should I say, used to be radically different from the USA.
There used to be real, deep, cultural differences between the various
regions and provinces of each European country. A Basque is most
definitely not an Catalan, a Marseillais is not a Breton, etc. As for
the differences between an German and a Greek – they are simply
huge. The result from the current refugee crisis is that all European
cultures are now directly threatened in their identity and their life
style. This is often blamed on Islam, but the reality is that African
Christians don’t integrate any better. Neither do the Christian
Gypsies, by the way. As a result, clashes happen literally everywhere
– in shops, streets, schools, etc. There is not a single country in
Europe where these clashes are not threatening the social order.
These daily clashes result in crime, repression, violence and the
ghettoization of both the immigrants and of the locals which leave
their traditional suburbs and move to less immigrant-saturated areas.
[Sidebar:
to my American readers who might think “so what? we have ghettos in
the USA too” I will say that what the French call “zones
de non-droit”
(non-law zones) are far worse than anything you could see in the USA.
And keep in mind that no country in the EU has the kind of huge,
militarized, police forces which every major US city now has. Neither
is there the equivalent of the US National Guard. At best, there are
anti-riot forces like the French CRS, but they can only do so much.]
The
level of aggravation suffered by many, if not most, Europeans
directly resulting from this crisis in immigration is hard to
describe to somebody who has not seen it. And since voicing such
frustrations was considered as “racist” or “xenophobe” by the
powers that be (at least until recently – this is progressively
changing now), this deep resentment is mostly kept hidden, but it is
perceptible nonetheless. And the immigrants most definitely feel it.
Every day. And, again, this is why the notion of a US-style “melting
pot” in Europe ain’t happening: the only thing Europe has to
offer to all these hundreds of thousands of refugees is a silent
hostility fed by fear, outrage, disgust and helplessness. Even those
locals who used to be refugees themselves in the past (immigrants
from North Africa, for example) are now disgusted and very hostile to
the new wave of refugees coming in. And, of course, not a single
refugee coming to Europe believes in any “European dream”.
Last
but not least, these refugees are a huge burden on the local
economies and the social services which were never designed to cope
with such an influx of needy “clients”.
For
the foreseeable future the prognosis is clear: more of the same, only
worse, possibly much worse.
The
EU is just a colony of the United States unable to defend her own
interests
The
EU is ruled by a class of people which are completely sold off to the
United States. The best examples of this sorry state of affairs is
the Libyan debacle which saw the US and France completely destroy the
most developed country in Africa only to now have hundred of
thousands of refugees cross the Mediterranean and seek refuge from
war in the EU. This outcome could have been very easy to predict, and
yet the European countries did nothing to prevent it. In fact, all
these Obamawars (Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia,
Pakistan) have resulted in huge movements of refugees. Add to this
the chaos in Egypt, Mali and the poverty all over Africa and you have
a mass-exodus which no amount of wall-building, ditch-digging or
refugee tear gassing will stop. And if that was not enough, the EU
committed what can only be called political and economic suicide by
allowing the Ukraine to explode into a major civil war involving 45
million people, a completely destroyed economy and a bona fide Nazi
regime in power. That outcome was also easy to predict. But all the
Eurobureaucrats did is to impose self-defeating economic sanctions on
Russia which ended up providing exactly the kind of conditions needed
for the Russian economy to finally diversify and begin producing
locally instead of importing everything from abroad.
It
might be worth recalling here that after WWII Europe was basically an
occupied territory. The Soviets had the central-eastern part while
the US/UK had the western part. We all have been conditioned to
assume that the people living under the “oppression” of what the
US propaganda called the “Warsaw Pact” (in reality called the
“Warsaw Treaty Organization”) were less free than those who lived
under the “protection” of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Nevermind that the term “North Atlantic” was coined deliberately
to tie western Europe to the USA, the central issue here is that
while in many ways the folks in the West were, indeed, granted many
more freedoms than those in the East, the
US/UK occupied part of Europe never recovered true sovereignty
either.
And just as the Soviets carefully nurtured a localcomprador elite
in each East European country, so did the USA in the West. The big
difference only appeared in the late 1980s early 1990s when the
entire Soviet-run system came crashing down while the US-run system
came out reinforced as a result of the Soviet collapse. If anything,
since 1991 the US iron grip over the EU became even stronger than
before.
The
sad reality is simple: the EU is a US colony, run by US puppets who
are simply unable to stand up for basic and obvious European
interests.
The
EU is in a deep political crisis
Up
until the late 1980s, there used to be some more or less ‘real’
opposition ‘Left’ parties in Europe. In fact, Italy and France
the Communists almost came to power. But as soon as the Soviet system
collapsed, all the European opposition parties either vanished or
were rapidly co-opted by the system. And, just as in the USA, former
Trotskysts became Neocons almost overnight. As a result, Europe lost
the little opposition it had to the AngloZionist Empire and became a
‘politically pacified’ land. What the French call “la
pensée unique”
or the “single thought” as now triumphed, at least if one judges
by the corporate media. Politics has not turned into a make believe
show where various actors pretend to deal with real issues when in
reality all they talk about are invented, artificially created
“problems” which they then “solve” (homosexual “marriage”
being the perfect example). The only form of meaningful politics left
in the EU is separatism (Scottish, Basque, Catalan, etc.) but so far,
it has failed to produce any alternative.
In
this brave new world of pretend politics nobody is in charge of real
problem which are never tackled directly, but only shoved under the
carpet until the next election and that inevitably only worsens
everything. As for the EU’s AngloZionist overlords, they don’t
care what happens unless their own interests are directly affected.
You
could say that the Titanic is sinking and the orchestra keeps
playing, and you would be close to the truth. Everybody hates the
Captain and crew, but nobody know whom to replace them with.
The
Saker
I find Nigel Farage hard to like but he does point to some very inconvenient truths.
I find Nigel Farage hard to like but he does point to some very inconvenient truths.
EUROPE IS BURNING - Nigel Farage
From today
Refugee horror: Lorry full of dead bodies found on highway in Austria
Austrian police have confirmed that between 20 and 50 refugees have been found dead in a tractor trailer in the country's east. It appears the migrants, whose bodies have begun to decompose, suffocated in the back of the truck.
The food delivery truck was found parked on the shoulder of the A4 highway near the town of Parndorf, according to an interior ministry spokesperson.
"Unfortunately there are many dead people in there," the spokesperson told Reuters. He described the people as refugees, but said he did not have an exact number of those found in the lorry.
Police cars round truck in which refugees died at side of #Austrian motorway. Travelling fm Serbia, they suffocated. pic.twitter.com/kOkGmp9u1v
— Lindsey Hilsum (@lindseyhilsum) August 27, 2015
Meanwhile, Austrian police say the number of those dead could range from 20 to 50.
And the last few days
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