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SOTT Focus: Europe taking a page from US handbook: 'Migrant' problem? Close the borders!

Harrison Koehli
Sott.net
Tue, 15 Sep 2015 09:37 UTC
hungary fence
© RuptlyA razor-wire-equipped train wagon seals off the final section of Hungary's anti-refugee fence near Roszke village.
Just over a week ago, Hungary decided to allow around 12,000 refugees passage through the country, on their way to Germany via Austria. This was after plans were proposed to build a fence along Hungary's border with Serbia to prevent any more 'illegal crossings'. Well, the razor-wire fence has now been completed. The border is now closed, ahead of schedule, after Sunday saw a record 5,809 refugees enter the country on that day alone. Hungary's total number of refugee border crossings this year is estimated at around 190,000.

But Hungary isn't the only country to close its borders and tighten up security measures in the past few days. The Schengen system of open borders between EU nations seems to be falling apart.

Germany, which has willingly received the bulk of the refugees so far, stepped up their border controls this week, halting trains from Austria and stationing more police on their border with Austria. Slovakia (which has said it only wants Christian refugees - they have no mosques, apparently) has done the same on their borders with Hungary and Austria. Austria in turn sent the army to its borders. Hungary had done the same, with authorities planning to arrest and jail anyone entering the country illegally. Police in riot gear blocked the main railway track used by migrants. Hungarian police detained 9 Syrians and 7 Afghans, accused of 'breaching' the new razor-wire barrier. The government has made a decision to declare a crisis in the south of the country because of the 'problem'. Finland plans to increase its border monitoring; along with the Czech Republic and Poland, too.

Today, Tuesday, after the detentions in Hungary, migrants have begun a sit-down hunger strike.
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Putin: ISIS puts Europe and Russian in danger, has plans for Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem


RT
Tue, 15 Sep 2015 09:22 UTC
Putin
© Michael Klimentyev / RIA Novosti
Islamic State has designs on the holy cities of Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem and endangers Europe and Russia, Vladimir Putin said. Moscow is concerned about IS-trained jihadists returning to EU countries, the CIS and Russia.

The situation is very serious, Putin said, adding that Moscow is very worried that IS terrorists are publicly announcing their designs on Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem. The jihadists also plan to spread their activities to Europe, Russia, central and southeastern Asia.

"Extremists from many countries of the world, including, unfortunately, European counties, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) undertake ideological and military training in the ranks of Islamic State [IS, formerly known as ISIS/ISIL]," said Putin. "And certainly we are worried that they could possibly return."

Putin said it's necessary for geopolitical ambitions to be set aside in the fight against IS terrorists.

"Simple common sense, responsibility for global and regional safety require uniting efforts of the international community [to fight] such a threat. It is necessary to set aside geopolitical ambitions, drop so-called double standards, the policy of direct or indirect use of separate terrorist groups for achieving one's own goals, including removing the governments and regimes."

Comment: Putin is speaking the surface-level discourse on ISIS: accepting its reality at face value and presenting threats and solutions based on this narrative, at least on the surface. In reality, any statements about ISIS, or plans against ISIS, are simultaneously directed against ISIS' masters: the U.S. Because a defeat of ISIS (which everyone in the West claims to want) would actually be a defeat of the U.S.'s greatest allies in the destabilization and destruction of Syria. And it looks like some German elements are perhaps starting to see the light and are using some common sense. Of course, that could spell trouble in and of itself: 'ISIS among the refugees' - Prelude to another European "terror attack"?

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Evil Rays

Recycling the propaganda: Iran is the new Iraq

Brandon Martinez
Non-Aligned Media
Mon, 14 Sep 2015 09:10 UTC
war on Iraq Iran
© Unknown
An old dog can't learn new tricks.

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US and Russia: Making forays into each other's territory


FARS News Agency
Sun, 13 Sep 2015 18:02 UTC
Putin/Obama
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One supports the government while the other backs "trusted" terrorists in Syria, and the similarities between the two parties begin and end there.

This week, however, their paths crossed in a manner that the US government did not appreciate: Russia is "reportedly" increasing its involvement in Syria, backing the military in the fight against ISIL, al-Qaeda, affiliates and proxies.

The US government has picked the "military intervention" card to fight back - claim territory - which is absurd. After all, the US and its NATO-Arab allies are also "supposedly" bombing ISIL targets in Syria!

Moscow has confirmed it has "experts" on the ground to support its long-time ally in the Middle East, but Russian officials decline to comment on the scale and scope of their military presence. Damascus, for its part, denies Russians are involved in combat. Then again, even if Russia decides to increase the presence of its military advisers, it should be welcome news for at least Washington's European allies who are struggling with the Syrian refugee crisis at their own doorstep.

Into the argument, the Syrian crisis needs a political solution not bombs. While Tehran and Moscow have made it clear that President Bashar Assad must be included in the necessary political negotiations to bring the fighting to an end, Washington and its allies continue to demand that the Syrian president should step aside.

Even though all share the same declared enemy in ISIL, the White House continues to frown on Iranian-Russian efforts to bolster the Syrian army and has rebuffed diplomatic overtures that would include President Assad.

Comment: Regardless of the yin/yang posturing and its absurdities, we have an ever-widening circle of war, destruction and horrific acts to humanity. Reasons become confounded, obscure, and twisted by which the common folk suffer for the self-serving and diabolical aims of the few. For this, who among us is willing to pay the price?

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Dollars

9/11 Trillions: Just follow the money


Corbett Report
Fri, 11 Sep 2015 00:00 UTC
Forget for one moment everything you've been told about September 11, 2001. 9/11 was a crime. And as with any crime, there is one overriding imperative that detectives must follow to identify the perpetrators: follow the money. This is an investigation of the 9/11 money trail.


Comment: This is a fascinating documentary of who, what, where, when, how and why. The money trail that was supposed to disappear with the events of 9/11 was not completely obliterated and in turn becomes obvious by the excellent work of connecting the dots in this video. Must see.

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Wall Street

Pope Francis blames unjust socioeconomic system for refugee flows


RT
Mon, 14 Sep 2015 00:02 UTC
Pope Francis
© Max Rossi / Reuters
Pope Francis has blamed the "bad and unjust" global capitalist system for the refugee and migrant crisis that Europe is facing right now - while warning that Islamic State jihadists may take advantage of the massive influx to slip into EU undetected.

Calling economic migrants and the flow of refugees fleeing war zones in the wider Middle East and Africa only the "tip of an iceberg" the pontiff highlighted what he believes to be the root cause of the crisis.

"The cause is a bad and unjust socioeconomic system, in everything, in the world," Pope Francis said in an interview with the Portuguese Catholic broadcaster Radio Renascenca. "These poor people are fleeing war, hunger, but that is the tip of the iceberg."

"This migration phenomenon is a reality," Francis said. "When there is an empty space, people try to fill it. If a country has no children, immigrants come in and take their place. I think of the birth-rate in Italy, Portugal and Spain."

Comment: He really doesn't get to the real cause of the refugee crises: of the bombings by the West, other countries, and their proxies that obliterate nations that once prospered socially and economically. On the surface, though, he's right. The refugee crisis does create a scenario that can easily be exploited by "ISIS"/Western Intel: 'ISIS among the refugees' - Prelude to another European "terror attack"?

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War Whore

Migrant crisis could be perfect excuse for overt regime change in Syria

Pepe Escobar
Sputnik
Fri, 11 Sep 2015 21:09 UTC
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© REUTERS/ Dimitris Michalakis
So Europe has suddenly, miraculously "discovered" that the civil war/proxy war raging in Syria since early 2011 has hemorrhaged into an extremely serious refugee crisis.

European Sturm und Drang on what to do about the refugee drama is unprecedented in modern times. Bitterness permeates the fault lines separating fear and intolerance from generosity and solidarity.

Among quite a few progressive circles, there are widespread fears that the current Western media campaign centered on the plight of refugees may be a catalyst to prepare European-wide public opinion for an all-out war in Syria before the end of 2015.

There had been an unspoken consensus among non-sectarian close observers of Syria and Lebanon that "Assad must go" — the Obama administration mantra — won't be fulfilled anytime soon.

Thus the current flood of refugees released from Turkish "holding camps" on their way to Europe — by direct orders from Ankara, with a little encouragement from Washington.

The plight of the refugees would then become the perfect excuse to precipitate a new R2P (responsibility to protect) war; Libya remixed, with fighting ISIS/ISIL/Daesh — the fake "Caliphate" — barely disguising the real agenda (which Washington shares with Ankara, Riyadh and Doha, not to mention London and Paris): regime change in Damascus.
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Western governments who created refugee crisis now whine that they cannot cope

Henry Kamens
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 14 Sep 2015 22:22 UTC
Syrian refugees
© Santi Palacios/Associated Press Syrian refugees wait near the border railway station of Idomeni, northern Greece, to cross into Macedonia.
The Western European governments which have so enthusiastically supported the attempts to overthrow President Assad of Syria are now saying that they are in the midst of the worst migration crisis they have ever known. Well now you know how it feels, chummy. Having created the situation in the first place, knowing it would generate thousands of displaced persons, you now say you can't cope with what everyone else has had to cope with for generations.

Western Europe always portrays asylum seekers as "gold diggers" who are just trying to escape poverty and find an easy life. It doesn't say so out loud, but refugee policy in every country is based on this assumption. As Western governments don't want to admit that most of the world's conflicts are created by them for their own purposes, as in Syria, promoting such a view is necessary to disguise the humanitarian consequences of their actions.

But only a tiny proportion of people claiming they are fleeing persecution ever make it to Western Europe or North America. The need for refugee resettlement in Europe will rise sharply in 2015, according to UNHCR, but this is largely accounted for by the conflict in Ukraine and the huge outflow from Syria affecting all regions of the world.

Over 90 per cent of the world's asylum seekers live in countries as poor, or poorer, than those they have left. These countries nevertheless manage to provide basic support precisely because their own populations know what poverty is like, and this is the crux of the issue.

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Yoda

Lavrov: The US knows ISIS positions and refuses to bomb


Fort Russ
Sun, 13 Sep 2015 00:00 UTC
Lavrov
© www.rt.comUS playing a deceptive game with its coalition.
Lavrov: "Russia has information that the US knows the position of the IS, but does not bomb them"

Russia has information that the US know the specific location points of the "Islamic State" (extremist organization banned in Russia), but did not give an order to strike on the positions "of the IS," said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

In the program Sunday Times on Channel 1, Lavrov said that the US government "was not originally very careful in creating a coalition, or conspired towards goals that were not the declared ones."

According to the foreign minister, the coalition was created spontaneously, "within just a few days it was announced that it includes a number of countries and then begun strikes."

Lavrov said that the analysis of aviation operations in countries included in the coalition, "creates a strange impression," - as if in addition to fighting "the IS" "there is something else which is a concern of the coalition."

The minister said: "I hope not to disappoint anyone in saying that some of our colleagues from the incoming coalition of countries have information on where exactly and on what positions are "IS" or other subdivisions, and the commander of the coalition (the United States ) does not give consent to striking them. "

Comment: The US-Israeli IS deception is unravelling. Bombing IS is a convenient excuse for a broader spectrum of targets, none of which seem to be IS.

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Snakes in Suits

Cameron seeks consensus to bomb Syria in face of Corbyn opposition


RT
Mon, 14 Sep 2015 21:00 UTC
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© Paul Hackett / Reuters
Prime Minister David Cameron will renew his push to secure Parliamentary permission to bomb the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in Syria, despite Labour's election of anti-war stalwart Jeremy Corbyn as party leader.

A spokeswoman for the Prime Minister, who is currently visiting refugee camps in Lebanon, told Reuters on Monday: "The PM thinks there is a strong case for taking action against ISIL in Syria in the way that the UK is taking action against ISIL next door in Iraq."

"That remains his view. It hasn't changed because there has been a new leader of the opposition elected but, as he has said before, he wants to proceed with consensus on this matter and I think that is how he will continue to approach the issue," the spokeswoman added.



Comment: Patho-logic: Introduce ISIL in places you can bomb, wait until it goes to places you want to bomb. Voila, a precedent.
See also:
Fighting Assad by fighting ISIS: U.S. considers bombing oil pipelines

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