Mass Migration - a plan, or just a consequence of some other plan

[Keit]

By the way, just watched Russian news saying that there is a record immigration of European Jews to Israel. In 2015 more than 9800 Jews immigrated, while 80% of them are from France. They site all kind of reasons for their "escape", including the "increasing anti-Semitism" and the refugees crisis.

But what I found interesting, is the remark that perhaps due to historic precedence Jews can feel the upcoming dangerous development and try to escape in time. Now what historic precedence it could be, eh?

 

[sToRmR1dR]

Goodbye Schengen: List Grows of EU States Applying Internal Border Controls

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160118/1033332244/schengen-border-control.html

Norway, Sweden and Denmark introduced controls of border controls along the internal borders of the Schengen Area, Austria, Germany, France and Malta have plans to introduce border controls, according to European Commission spokeswoman Natasha Bertaud.

BRUSSELS (Sputnik) – The articles of the EU legislation on the temporary introduction of border controls along the internal borders of the Schengen Area to curb the influx of undocumented immigrants is applied in seven European countries, European Commission spokeswoman Natasha Bertaud said Monday.

"Currently, we have three countries that have introduced controls under Article 25 [of Schengen Borders Code], so that’s for unforeseen circumstances. These are Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Then, we have additional four countries that are currently undertaking controls under Article 24, so it’s for foreseen circumstances. These are Austria, Germany, France and Malta," Bertaud told reporters at a press briefing.

The Schengen Agreement abolishes internal borders, enabling passport-free movement between parties to the treaty. The agreement provides for the temporary closure of internal borders in the event of a threat to national security.

The European states are still striving to find an optimal solution to the massive refugee crisis, with hundreds of thousands of people fleeing conflict-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa in search of safety and refuge in Europe.

 

[beherenow]

Hi all, I wasn't really sure where to put this, but i think this thread is appropriate. It may be noise, and if so I apologize.

It's an old interview with L. Fletcher Prouty, the part that i think applies to the subject here starts at 30:10 thru 32:02.
....it about the set-up for the American intervention in Vietnam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Wiv5EHyhk

...it seems like the PTB have a "playbook", and there's some kind of threshold number as to how many refugees it takes to cause a social breakdown....the number mentioned is 1.1 million. :O

 

[sToRmR1dR]

Juncker: Schengen faced with the problem of survival

http://ria.ru/world/20160119/1361789134.html

First, the EU introduced controls at the borders, and then they may wonder why the single currency if there is no freedom of movement, it puts the Schengen area to the brink of survival, the chairman of the European Commission.

BRUSSELS, Jan 19 - RIA Novosti, Alexander Shishlo. The Schengen area in connection with the migration crisis, faced with the problem of survival, said on Tuesday European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.

"Over the Schengen hovering very significant risks, we can say the risks of survival. Today, happily introduced border controls, tomorrow will consider the economic cost of this is significant, and the day after will wonder, why do we need the single currency if there is no more freedom of movement and the internal market" - he said, speaking at the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Speech Juncker was broadcast on the website of the European Commission.

Articles of the legislation on the temporary introduction of border controls at the internal borders of the Schengen area in order to curb the influx of illegal migrants employed seven countries - Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Germany, France and Malta.

According to the European Agency for the control of external borders Frontex, in 2015 the EU gains more than 1.2 million migrants. The European Commission said that the current immigration crisis in the world - the biggest since the Second World War.

 

[Mal7]

Germany seems to be taking far more migrants than other European countries, relative to its population. I wonder if the reason for this could be simply that doing so could be beneficial for Germany? I know this idea doesn't fit the current propaganda swirling around about migrants being trouble-makers who are dependent on welfare. . . But there are many articles about Germany currently having a problem with an aging demographic, and a declining population. These migrants form a younger demographic, and, contrary to the anti-migrant propaganda, most are likely to end up working and contributing to the economy, and paying taxes to support welfare for Germany's pensioners.

Could a comparison be made with the change to immigration laws in the USA in 1965 that allowed much greater immigration from Asia to the USA? Darrell Hamamoto writes about this in his book Servitors of Empire:

Standard interpretations of the immigration from Asia credit the Hart-Celler Act of 1965 for 'remaking' the contemporary Asian American population on the whole. While not untrue, most such accounts minimize or ignore the underlying cynicism of what was at bottom an expedient political decision. That is, a tactical immigration strategy to tap overseas Asian intellectual labor to fuel growth in the high technology sector, intensify military weapons capability, and provide workers for the burgeoning medico-pharmaceutical complex that underlies the healthcare insurance-industrial monopoly.
[. . .]
That is, the objective of the Immigration Act of 1965 was not necessarily to remedy race-based immigration quotas that had placed Asians at a disadvantage vis-à-vis those from European countries. Rather, its intention was to exploit a ready source of labor that would fuel the permanently militarized post-industrial society that had been envisioned by globalist-funded social planners as the foundation of postwar US political and economic supremacy. Extending this observation, the present sub-regime of the Asian American Scientific-Technological Elite owes its existence first and foremost to the political-economic imperatives of the US postwar world order but wrapped in the seemingly benign rhetoric of liberal nationalism. This selfsame science and engineering Asian immigrant subpopulation, however, entered en masse a society historically hostile toward Orientals irrespective of social status or professional affiliation.

Viewed another way, the Immigration Act of 1965 was part of the larger Cold War 'strategy of containment' (Kennan) achieved through, ironically, what might be called here a 'strategy of inclusion' [. . .]

With the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act in 1965, the national origins criterion that in effect had denied Asians entry since 1924 was modified radically to meet the demands of the new technology-driven, elite-led, corporate-state social system popularized for public consumption by early British futurists and globalists such as H. G. Wells, Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley, followed by the Americans B. F. Skinner, Alvin Toffler, John Naisbitt, and more recently Ray Kurzweil and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.

- Darrell Y. Hamamoto, Servitors of Empire, pages 77-88.

 

[luc]

Germany seems to be taking far more migrants than other European countries, relative to its population. I wonder if the reason for this could be simply that doing so could be beneficial for Germany? I know this idea doesn't fit the current propaganda swirling around about migrants being trouble-makers who are dependent on welfare. . . But there are many articles about Germany currently having a problem with an aging demographic, and a declining population. These migrants form a younger demographic, and, contrary to the anti-migrant propaganda, most are likely to end up working and contributing to the economy, and paying taxes to support welfare for Germany's pensioners.

Well, I think it's a bit more complicated. For years now, there is this meme in the German media that 'the Germans are dying out' and that particularly 'academic women don't have enough children anymore'. Furthermore, it is claimed that Germany suffers from a 'shortage of skilled workers' ('Fachkräftemangel'). Again, repeated by the media and (mostly neoliberal) 'experts' ad nauseum. I don't buy it really.

Germany has a population of 80+ millions, and is very densely populated (for comparison: France has a population of only 60+ million, but one third more space than Germany). Like elsewhere, the population has grown exponentially during the last decades, and if anything, there are way too many people - again, like elsewhere. Frankly, the whole 'get academic women pregnant' thing kinda sounds like a Nazi breeding program - should we give out 'mother's crosses' again?

As for the shortage of skilled workers - there are millions of unemployed people in Germany, and like elsewhere, there is rampant inequality, low wages, corporate slavery, degradation of universities/more expensive education etc., so please, if it's true that there's a shortage of skilled workers, put the money into education instead of in the now institutionalized bail-outs, pay better wages etc.

So I think this whole 'demographic change' and 'shortage of skilled workers' meme is just a convenient way for the elite to further plunder the welfare state (yes, it's the elite, not the refugees!) by reducing the pensions, extending the pension age and so on. Again, real social reforms for the benefit of the people would be the solution, but that's never gonna happen.

This doesn't mean of course that I'm against helping the refugees, these are actually separate problems I think, even though they are lumped together a lot in the public discourse.

Here are some articles on this (German unfortunately):
http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=24047
http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=27425

 

[Iosif]

Sorry if I change the subject, but recently I thought that there's no news of attacks or crimes by refugees from the Middle East in Russia, I think that could be another indication of manipulation in Europe. But now I see that they received very few refugees

http://rbth.com/society/2015/10/07/syrian_refugees_in_russia_struggling_to_get_rooted_49773.html

Europe received some 430,000 applications for asylum between 2011 and 2015. Of the 12,000 people who arrived in Russia from Syria since 2011, only 2,000 received temporary asylum in Russia, according to Russia’s Federal Migration Service.

Syrian refugees can use Russian territory as a transit point, noted the Kremlin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov.
But the question about accepting refugees is irrelevant for Russia, Peskov said, because the burden of the current humanitarian crisis should be shouldered by those countries whose policy led to the civil war in Syria.

Another argument against accepting the Syrian refugees, Peskov said: the risk that terrorists from ISIS might come to Russia under the guise of refugees

I guess Peskov have a point but what do you think of that?

 

[angelburst29]

I would think - the UN refugee agency UNHCR would have the needed resources and financial reserves at it's disposal to help in the refugee crises? Like the charity - Save The Children - they are more into "voicing opinion" instead of getting physically involved.

Children on Syrian refugee route could freeze to death: U.N.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-winter-idUSKCN0UX1SB

Thousands of refugee children traveling along the migration route through Turkey and southeastern Europe are at risk from a sustained spell of freezing weather in the next two weeks, the United Nations and aid agencies said on Tuesday.

The U.N. weather agency said it forecast below-normal temperatures and heavy snowfall in the next two weeks in the eastern Balkan peninsula, Turkey, the eastern Mediterranean and Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan.

"Many children on the move do not have adequate clothing or access to the right nutrition," said Christophe Boulierac, spokesman for the U.N. children's agency UNICEF.

Asked if children could freeze to death, he told a news briefing: "The risk is clearly very, very high."

Children were coming ashore on the Greek island of Lesbos wearing only T-shirts and soaking wet after traveling on unseaworthy rubber dinghies, the charity Save the Children said in a statement.

"Aid workers at the border reception center in Presevo say there is six inches of snow on the ground and children are arriving with blue lips, distressed and shaking from the cold," it said.

It said temperatures were forecast to drop to -20 degrees Celsius (-4°F) in Presevo in Serbia and -13 degrees (9°F) on the Greek border with Macedonia.

Last year children accounted for a quarter of the one million migrants and refugees arriving across the Mediterranean in Europe, Boulierac said. The UN refugee agency UNHCR said a daily average of 1,708 people had arrived in Greece so far in January, just under half the December daily average of 3,508.

 

[sToRmR1dR]

Serbia Limits Balkan Route to Migrants Seeking Asylum in Austria, Germany

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160120/1033452973/sebia-migrants-route.html

Serbian Labor Minister Aleksandar Vulin said that all refugees, except going to Germany and Austria will be banned to pass through Serbia, according to Serbian Labor Minister Aleksandar Vulin.

BELGRADE (Sputnik) — Migrants, not seeking asylum in Austria or Germany, will be banned from going through Serbia, starting from Wednesday, Serbian Labor Minister Aleksandar Vulin said.

"All other refugees, going to other states and planning to seek asylum elsewhere [except Austria and Germany], will not be able to pass through Croatia, Slovenia, Austria and thereby Germany. Proceeding from this, the Serbian government has decided to take similar measures, and we have informed the Macedonian government about it," the Tanjug state news agency quoted Vulin as saying.

According to Vulin, the documents refugees fill in on the Serbian border will contain a question about the country, where refugees plan to seek asylum.
Earlier in January, Austria announced that migrants who do not intend to apply for asylum in Germany would not be able to enter the country.

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Tuesday that Belgrade would apply appropriate measures if its neighboring countries made unilateral moves to curb migration.

Europe is facing a major refugee crisis, as hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers from conflict-torn countries in North Africa, the Middle East, Central and South Asia attempt to escape poverty and violence in their home countries.

The EU border agency Frontex detected 1.55 million illegal border crossings during the course of 2015.

Macedonia closes border with Greece to migrants - report

https://www.rt.com/news/329586-macedonia-border-refugees-greece/

Macedonia has closed its border with Greece to migrants, AFP reports, citing police.

"The border is closed," a senior Macedonian police official told AFP.

The move has left around 600 refugees stranded in Greece.

A police spokesman in northern Greece told the agency that the border has been closed since Tuesday evening.

Meanwhile, a Serbian government minister said on Wednesday that Serbia will deny refugees access to its territory unless they plan to seek asylum in Austria or Germany.

"From today...migrants will not be able to continue their travel [through Serbia] if they have not expressed intention to seek asylum on the territory of Austria or Germany," Labour Minister Aleksandar Vulin said, as quoted by state news agency Tanjug.

The interior minister of neighboring Croatia also said his country would begin asking refugees if they intend to seek asylum in Austria or Germany, according to state news agency Hina.

A new, center-right coalition government is due to take office in Croatia later this week, and is expected to clamp down on refugee flows.

It comes just three days after Austria's chancellor announced the country was radically changing its policy towards refugees. The nation has implemented a strict monitoring system for asylum seekers, and those hoping to enter the country now have to provide a valid identity card to authorities. People who do not have the right to asylum or have been rejected by Germany will be denied entry. Those found to be economic migrants will be sent back to their home countries. The army has been deployed at the borders to stop refugees who intend to simply transit through the country and not apply for asylum there.

Europe continues to face the worst refugee crisis since World War II, with the number of new arrivals expected increase this year.

More than one million refugees arrived in the European Union last year. Most of the asylum seekers hail from Syria, where a civil war has claimed the lives of 250,000 people and displaced 12 million others since 2011, according to UN figures.

Shattered Dreams: Europe Doesn’t Want Ukrainian Refugees

http://sputniknews.com/analysis/20160120/1033454148/europe-ukraine-refugees-attitude.html

As thousands of Ukrainian asylum seekers face deportation from Germany, it will soon become clear how Europeans really feel about Ukrainians.

Bogdan Bezpalko, the deputy director of the Center for Ukrainian and Belarussian Studies at Moscow State University, said that Europe is much more eager to accept refugees from the Middle East and Africa than from Ukraine.

"Europe needs Ukraine only for its resources and as a market – it needs a semi-colonial state and doesn’t care about the people who live there," he said. "It becomes clear when you see how Germans treat the refugees from Africa and the Middle East, even though there’s no civil war in some of those countries, unlike Ukraine. This is a fine example of how Europeans really feel about Ukrainians; it shatters all illusions about Europeans treating Ukrainians as equals."

Bezpalko also claimed that many Europeans have rather hostile feelings towards the citizens of post-Soviet states like Ukraine.

"It is a European phenomenon. For example, it France people from the former Soviet republics were treated with hostility, while Africans and Arabs who came from the former French colonies, were always treated much better due to some sort of guilt complex perhaps. Same deal with Germany," Bezpalko said.

He also added that the current measures implemented by the EU to stem the tide of refugees are unlikely to succeed.

"They need more decisive measures. They need to establish tight border control along the outer borders of the EU, they need to protect all of the European Union’s territory from the flow of refugees," Bezpalko insisted.

Earlier, the German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau reported that German authorities may deport thousands of Ukrainian asylum seekers in the immediate future if Berlin recognizes Ukraine as a "safe country of origin." The newspaper recalled that earlier, more than 7,000 Ukrainians had applied for asylum in Germany due to the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine.

 

[sToRmR1dR]

Macedonia reopened the border for migrants

http://ria.ru/world/20160121/1362991856.html

Macedonian authorities were allowed to pass through its territory of refugees from war-trapped states. Migrants have the right to cross the Macedonian-Serbian border, if requested asylum in Austria or Germany.

BELGRADE, January 21 - RIA Novosti. Ministry of Internal Affairs of Macedonia reported that re-enabled pass through its territory of refugees from war-trapped states that ask for asylum in Austria or Germany, reports the Macedonian news portal Plusinfo Thursday.

"The first group of migrants will be transported by train to the station Tabanovci (on the border with Serbia), during the day is expected to another compound that comes in Gevgelija (on the border with Greece). Border officials say that all the refugees, citizens of Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria can move the Macedonian-Serbian border, if requested asylum in Austria or Germany, "- said Plusinfo citing the Interior Ministry.

On Wednesday, the Macedonian Interior Ministry confirmed the temporary ban on the admission of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa through its territory at the request of the Slovenian authorities. On Wednesday, following the Macedonia on the Balkan route migrant Serbia introduced initiated by the EU member Slovenia, Croatia, Austria and Germany skip mode, in which the West held only those refugees from the Middle East and North Africa, who expressed his intention to apply for asylum in Austria or Germany . About a thousand people were trapped with the Greek side of the border and several hundred - in Macedonia.

According to the Serbian authorities across the country have passed more than 600 thousand refugees from the Middle East and North Africa.

Czech President Believes NATO Should Protect EU Borders Amid Migrant Crisis

http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160121/1033514459/zeman-nato-eu-borders.html

NATO should be responsible for the protection of the EU borders amid the influx of migrants, President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman said Thursday.

PRAGUE (Sputnik) — The Czech president criticized the idea of European authorities to create a joint limited border protection agency.

"I support this idea, that, similarly to Afghanistan and other countries, there was a joint NATO headquarters, which would protect the borders of the European Union," Zeman said in an interview with the Czech Parlamentni listy portal.

"What is being proposed today, a division of 1,500 people, caricature EU Border Guard, which would make sense only if we come to the conclusion that the armies of European NATO countries are composed of only 1,500 people," Zeman added.

In December, the European Commission unveiled a plan to set up, by late June 2016, a new 1,500-person border and coastguard agency with the "right to intervene" in EU member states overwhelmed by the migrant influx. The new body will have the duty of sending undocumented migrants back to their home countries.

 

[luc]

RT just released a very touching (and interesting) documentary about the situation in Lesbos, Greece, where many migrants arrive from Turkey via smugglers:

https://youtu.be/t3C_4cdTZFo

Heartbreaking stuff...

 

[Oxajil]

Thanks for posting luc. It's very sad to see the struggle these people have to go through to be able to have a better living. The father having lost his son in the water, who later was found in a net by fishers was heartbreaking. I think what one of the volunteers from Norway said is very true, he said he's there because the military won't help, and that their governments bomb countries, but won't take the responsibility to truly help those who flee the destruction caused by those bombs (and more).

 

[angelburst29]

By the way, just watched Russian news saying that there is a record immigration of European Jews to Israel. In 2015 more than 9800 Jews immigrated, while 80% of them are from France. They site all kind of reasons for their "escape", including the "increasing anti-Semitism" and the refugees crisis.

But what I found interesting, is the remark that perhaps due to historic precedence Jews can feel the upcoming dangerous development and try to escape in time. Now what historic precedence it could be, eh?

Interesting that a large number of European Jews are leaving France? Putin has offered a proposal and refuge.

Putin offers Russian refuge to European Jews facing anti-Semitism
https://www.rt.com/politics/329517-putin-offers-russia-refuge-to/

As a rising wave of anti-Semitic attacks engulf Europe, the Russian president has offered European Jews protection by proposing that they immigrate to Russia.

[...] "For example, the emigration flow from France, which only yesterday seemed so safe, is bigger than from Ukraine, [which is] engulfed in civil conflict. Why are the Jews fleeing from Europe? They run...not only because of terrorist acts against our communities in Toulouse, Brussels, Paris, Copenhagen, now in Marseilles, but because of the fear to just appear in the streets of European cities."

President Putin replied: "Let them [Jews] come to us then," adding that "during the Soviet period they were leaving the country, and now they should return."

Kantor called Putin's proposal a “new fundamental idea” that the Congress will take up for debate.

The European Jewish Congress was founded in 1986 and is based in Paris. It has offices in Brussels, Strasbourg, Berlin and Budapest.

Putin offers European Jews refuge in Russia
_http://nunezreport.blogspot.com/2016/01/putin-offers-european-jews-refuge-in.html

As anti-Semitic attacks increase throughout Europe, Russian president Vladimir Putin has invited European Jews to immigrate to Russia.

Putin made the offer on Tuesday in a meeting with members of the European Jewish Congress (EJC) that took place in the Kremlin. Moshe Vyacheslav Kantor, EJC president, complained to Putin about the rising anti-Semitism across Europe and the growing number of attacks against Jews.

“Statistically," Kantor told his host, "the situation of the Jews in Europe is the worst it has been since the end of the Second World War and there is a very real prospect of an exodus of Jews from certain parts of Europe."

According to Russian news outlet RT, Putin replied: "Let [the Jews] come to us then," adding that "during the Soviet period they were leaving the country, and now they should return."

Kantor reportedly called Putin's proposal a “new fundamental idea” that the EJC will take up for debate.

Kantor had told Putin that ultra-right wing movements are “springing up like mushrooms” in Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Sweden and Italy, and that the rise of Islamist extremism in Europe is prompting a mass exodus of Jews from the EU.

At Putin's initiative, the Duma (Russian Parliament) recently passed a law outlawing "distorted and/or extremist" commentary of Scriptures.

The purpose of the unusual law, it is widely understood, is the prevention of cynical advantage being taken of Biblical verses for anti-Semitic purposes.

Putin has long been known to oppose anti-Semitism, and violent attacks against Jews in his country have in fact been on the decline in recent years. He also conducts warm relations with Israel – even as he does the same with Iran.
(Credit to Israel national News )

 

[luc]

Thanks for posting luc. It's very sad to see the struggle these people have to go through to be able to have a better living. The father having lost his son in the water, who later was found in a net by fishers was heartbreaking. I think what one of the volunteers from Norway said is very true, he said he's there because the military won't help, and that their governments bomb countries, but won't take the responsibility to truly help those who flee the destruction caused by those bombs (and more).

Yes, I also found the whole clown thing very touching. Get people/children together, make them laugh, and suddenly all those great "Muslims are evil" theories seem so crass, absurd and disturbing. We are all humans, and we are in this together. Simple concept, yet it has been systematically omitted by all those programs and schizoidal theories...

 

[Kasia]

http://dissidentvoice.org/2016/01/barnetts-five-flows-of-globalisation/

As German independent TV station K-TV has revealed, the current refugee crisis is most likely the brain child of the afore-mentioned US military grand strategist General Thomas PM Barnett. Barnett was a strategic advisor to former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and currently works with the Israeli military consultancy firm Wikistrat. Wikistrat are close collaborators with US Africa Command (Africom). Barnett’s books The Pentagon’s New Map and Blueprint for Action have had a major influence on US/Israeli global military geostrategies [...]

The former Pentagon general has developed the theory of the ‘Five Flows of Globalisation’ — five flows which must come about if US Zionist imperialism is to dominate the world. These involve the free flow of money, security, food, energy and people. The ‘free flows’ theory means breaking down nation-state structures, thus freeing up resources for pillage by US multinational corporations. The inundation of Europe with immigrants from the Southern Hemisphere is a key feature of Barnett’s geo-strategic thinking. That is why it would be wrong to see the immigrant crisis from Libya and Syria as an unintended consequence of NATO policy as some form of unforeseen blowback [...]

What we are witnessing here is a covert war being waged by the Anglo-Saxon Zionist elite against the German Federal Republic. The low-intensity war is using people as weapons to create conditions of social chaos in order to prevent Berlin’s inevitable rapprochement with Moscow. The migrants cannot possibly integrate in German society if the German economy does inot integrate with Eurasia, as Germany will have no viable market for its exports [...]

Barnett predicts that Europe and Russia will disintegrate in the 21st Century, leaving only India and China to rival the United States. The US strategist clearly believes that coercive engineered mass migration into Europe, coupled with American occupation of Eastern Europe and the Balkans, will prevent Eurasian integration, whilst securing the US/Israeli control of Europe and the conquest of Africa, thereby establishing US/Israeli global supremacy in the 21st century.