It’s easy to get an op-ed in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, or the New York Times.
Well sort of. All you need is a high profile stature. No matter how inane the post by Paul Krugman, Larry Summers, or in this case former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, a major media outlet will publish it, without rebuttal, and without any serious comments.
With that bit of a rant out of the way, please consider Remake the Union to Heal Europe’s Rifts by Nicolas Sarkozy.
On June 23, the British people decided to leave the EU. I am sorry they did because I believe the UK belongs in Europe. But I respect their choice. I can think of nothing worse than suggesting their decision might be disregarded.
The approaching political talks will be tough and the associated technicalities complex. Article 50, the mechanism for departing the EU, provides a two-year timeframe to reach an agreement, and failure to do so will result in automatic exit. The question is whether the UK and its 27 partner nations will have enough time to reach a mutually satisfactory agreement enshrining most of the bond they already share, or be forced into a much harsher break-up. Nobody knows the answer yet.
The Europe of the euro needs to deepen its integration, under sound economic governance, once and for all. The foundation for this was built during the crisis in 2010-11, when the European Stability Mechanism was created and eurozone summits began. This Europe needs to take a few steps further, providing more permanent leadership for its eurozone summits, setting up a central secretariat to serve as Europe’s treasury, and turning the ESM into a fully fledged European monetary fund.
This enlarged Europe also needs to review the commission’s prerogatives, to prevent it from bypassing European and national lawmakers, and unilaterally stifling our entrepreneurs and our citizens with the technical constraints it inflicts on them.
Lastly, Europe needs a new immigration policy. It needs a new Schengen, shared immigration and asylum policies, and consistent employment laws regarding foreigners to end social dumping. Foreigners should not receive non-contributory benefits until they have completed five years’ residence. We need to protect Europe’s borders effectively. We need to join forces to send those who have entered illegally back to their country of origin. We need to rank co-operation aimed at stemming illegal immigration among our foreign policy priorities. Countries that refuse to co-operate should be denied EU aid. This must be combined with a European “Marshall plan” for Africa.
In the meantime, I believe we should put accessions on hold, even in the case of countries that have grounds for joining, such as the Balkan states. And, as I have said before, I categorically oppose Turkey’s accession.
Once Europe emerges from its overhaul, it will be up to British leaders to decide whether to ask their people about joining the union again. The choice will be the British people’s to make, and theirs alone. Europe must not reform because it hopes to bring the UK back to the fold: it must embrace reform because its future and its survival depend on it; because reform is as urgent as it is vital.
Sarkozy’s Fantasyland Proposal
As is sometimes the case in these high-profile op-eds, the writer gets something correct while missing the big picture.
Sarkozy has one valid idea: immigration reform. But he totally blows it with a European “Marshall plan” for Africa idea.
Good grief. Does the average unemployed youth in Greece, Italy, or Spain give a rat’s ass about a Marshall plan for Africa?
Hell no! They want a Marshall Plan for Greece, for Italy, and Spain.
Sarkozy’s Marshall Plan for Africa idea shows how much out of touch these politically correct buffoons are.
Beppe Grillo in Italy, Marine le Pen in France, and AfD in Germany feed off nonsense such as Sarkozy proposed.
Mob Rule Irony
That is not the only point Sarkozy missed in his nannycrat rant for more Europe.
Sarkozy says “The question is whether the UK and its 27 partner nations will have enough time to reach a mutually satisfactory agreement enshrining most of the bond they already share, or be forced into a much harsher break-up. Nobody knows the answer yet.”
Got that? It takes 27 nations to agree on when and how a nation can leave the gang. That’s not quite mafia material, but it’s close.
Quite literally, 27 nations have to agree to do damn near anything in the EU.
One nation can handcuff the others, as does France with its inane agricultural tariff policy. A majority of nations are fed up with France but nothing can be done. France has a veto. In fact, every country has a veto.
As for his “Marshall Plan” idea, all 27 nations have to agree. Sanctions on Russia? In this case (and thankfully), all it takes is for one nation to say no, and the sanctions are off.
Pleading for more Europe, Eurobonds, or treaty changes requires unanimous approval.
If Sarkozy had an ounce of sense he would be calling for a complete overhaul of EU rules and Eurozone rules as well.
A couple of people are doing just that: Marine le Pen and Beppe Grillo. Inane ideas such as a Marshall Plan for the Africa further their cause.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Sarkozy is suffering from something akin to Mussolini Syndrome. A Marshall Plan for Africa is really a longing, a nostalgia for French African colonies to send all their misfits and unemployed to be rid of them in the guise of doing work to help Africa. I think Africa has been there, done that, and can do without the ICC and more foreign interventions. But with USA military bases allover Africa under various pretexts, can’t really blame the French guy for wanting a share of the pie. Neo-con NYT is perfect place for that pitch.
More than $6 trillion in aid has been given to subSaharan Africa in the last 50 years. It has disappeared without a trace, except in the offshore bank accounts of some leaders……The average IQ in subSaharan Africa is 70…..
When you feed starving Africans, 10 years later you have twice as many starving Africans. Maybe it’s time to quit interfering with these people and let them sort themselves out.
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Jesus said it is NOT RIGHT to take the children’s bread and cast it to the dogs.
But this is exactly what evil demented cultural marxists advocate… to disinherit and destroy the children of White Christian Europe by giving their inheritance to third worlders.
Hopefully, evil cultural marxists who foster this globalist hive-mind insanity will soon reap the whirlwind they have sown.
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Just so…
Sarkozy wrongly equates Europe and the EU, telling us – ” the British people decided to leave the EU. I am sorry they did because I believe the UK belongs in Europe”.Where the UK does not belong is in the failing EU of the Euro, over-regulation, and Eurocrats.
Try telling that to the like of Deloiite.
Sarko tried increased deportation during his tenure, the difference in numbers was indiscernable compared to the migrant population, caused too much social tension to be pushed further… would need martial law in France.
As Joel says above for the Marshall plan. Will add that schemes exist already to that end, favoured route of direct political corruption.
I don’t think he is serious in his proposals, knowingly so, they are just a cover piece for greater central power and the French dirigiste dream.
There are easier ways to cut through EU legislation.
http://cfdunn.co.uk/content/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Gordian_knot_Cut.jpg
Sarkozy can not stand that Hollande stole both the presidency and the title of “France’s biggest idiot” from him. He will not stop until he reclaims at least one of the two…
Hi Mish,
Thanks for your thoughts. – Some people seem to forget that the French have had a big playing ground in Africa (jardin de jeu) for at least 50 years, from which many big French corporations extracted good profits. At the beginnning of the EU, France made Brussels pay for most of all the aid sent to the former French territories in Africa.
The money which has been sent in general to Africa has been mainly lost, because it served only the corporations and the local politicians, who then sent most of the money right back to Europe. Therefore, the idea of a kind of Marshall Plan would be good biz for European corporations and just one more bad deal for the people of Africa.
The fact that European Govs are not even able to send the people back, because the different governments refuse to take their own people back, just confirms the incompetence of the European Govs.
A man who lost to Hollande will, under normal circumstances, have no chance to come back to power.
I’m having a hard time imagining where a Marshall plan for Africa even starts. Maybe it was mistranslated, maybe he said “Martial plan” for africa, that makes some sense
Does the term “Balkans” come to mind? Africa makes the Balkan area look like a playground. The tribalism of Africa is the main problem – and the fact that people do NOT want to work for their goods, just take from the next tribe over. Anytime an area is successful there the neighbors destroy if for their own profit – short lived as it is.
Stop bankers from confiscating people’s stuff by printing. That’s how best to improve the average person’s lot. The free market can’t allocate capital to its most productive use when bankers are printing diverse weights and measures.
“weights and measures” – too true. Honest both is the basis of all commerce and prosperity. Fiddle with either and moral corruption results.
the entire EU political apparatus has been suffering from dreams of megalomania
for ages.(and has been since the time of the Napoleonic Wars)
Africa no longer needs a Marshall plan.
African economies have begun turning themselves around from around since early 1990s
using their own boot-straps.(and with a lot of cheap loans from China etc)
the Mombassa Nairobi railway SGR
is one particular example i keep looking at.
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=954002&page=181
and http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2639
All Africa needs is France to head up a Marshall Plan. History has shown France’s disregard for West Africa’s economic well-being. The historic devaluing of the Franc and the corresponding CFA devastated these countries to France’s profit.
Just another megalomaniacal narcissist.
The contemporary “political process” throughout the West now selects for this type only.
“We need to protect Europe’s borders effectively. We need to join forces to send those who have entered illegally back to their country of origin. ”
This and Merkel’s migrant-fest smell of Hegelian Dialect.
Looks like the Brits left before the trap could be sprung
Entrapping the enemy, neutralizing demographic weapons of mass destruction and undoing deadly national diversity by returning invaders back to their native lands… sounds like a page out of history… an idea whose time has come again. But it’s not Sarkozy’s idea nor his inclination. He’s just trying to position himself to ride the coattails of the coming White European nationalist wave. There will be many politicians like him, I hope the people aren’t fooled.
Entrapping the enemy, neutralizing demographic weapons of mass destruction and undoing deadly national diversity by returning invaders back to their native lands… sounds like a page out of history… an idea whose time has come again. But it’s not Sarkozy’s idea nor his inclination. He’s just trying to position himself to ride the coattails of the coming White European nationalist wave. There will be many politicians like him, I hope the people aren’t fooled.
The French have just pushed through the creation of the TES database, even though it was recently ruled unconstitutional
http://www.bbc.com/news/37894968
As someone suing the French state for fraud and theft of personal (and including biometric) data, I’ll add my two cents.
Apart from the possibility of government misuse, and third party hacking, there is a fine line of trust, one that is partly psychological.
The simple question is :
Do you entrust the fairness of the state and judiciary to legitimately access and use your details.
If not then you should have to suffer the question of that you are being registered, portrayed, and distinguishable as of a certain identity, of whatever kind, against your will. That allows an authority the ability to claim, even if, especially if, it is within law.
In other words you would be granting legitimacy to the ability and actions of others.
For what?
Because you are a good guy, because the state has made itself, and hence you, enemies?
They can get f*****.
By suing, and winning, though I hold no illusions that any data will actually be fully erased, and more likely be tagged, I hope to destroy the ability of the French state to ever use it legitimately.
For me, that counts.
It will end up with chipping. Only a matter of time when the older generation are out of the way and young numpties take over that have no understanding for the true freedom of the individual.
Chipped under the skin at birth and without the chip ID there will be no social benefits or ability to transact in the economy.
The older generation who are majority White.
Cultural marxists have overtly said old White people need to hurry up and die… so the marxists can have their planet-wide brave new third world.
What amazed me was the precept and the complete disconnect between what any ‘normal’ person would call integrity and actual action. A complete one way street that is well beyond absurd and that I can only describe as an unquestioning cleptomania . I cannot explain my circumstance here, short of it is that they put you out of your way to obtain an obliged official document, agree to provide that, take your money and all personal detail, then arbitrarily withold that document, without viable recourse or justified explanation, keep your money, leave you stranded after wasting months, empty your details into their public database, use their contacts to then persecute you based on the credibility that they are to do with you which in turn is based on your interaction in the application, openly menace your family and send false disturbing messages to members of your family. Blatant, technical and quiet, always with an answer to deflect. And that is by no means the worst of it.
For what?
N.o.t.h.i.n.g.
Because you are naive enough to allow them to practice their skills.
They are Nazis, in the proper sense of the word.
Arbitrary illegal arrest, coerced signatures, no problem here. My story… well you read up afterwards and then you find out how pervasive this all is across the continent… no one wants to know, people cling to being on the ‘right side’, they brush it off as ‘must have done something ‘. So it continues and deconstructs. I know various populations over decades, I know what they are going through, they are little match individually , their focus is short or misplaced, easy targets.If they get over their fear they will overthrow though, without even properly understanding why or what future to make.
Welcome to EU, welcome to the French state.
” They are Nazis, in the proper sense of the word. ”
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The irony of that word… especially if it is used in legal documents.
Hitler’s National Socialists did not call themselves, “Nazi.” It was a term used by the Allies as an insult. Think deplorables.
Ignatz of Bavaria no less.
Putin is constantly creating “anti-Nazi” laws… ironic spin on Russia’s “holy fool” tradition.
In the Russia/Ukraine dispute, Russians called Ukrainians, Nazis. Ukrainians called Putin, Hitler.
There is a neo-nazi element in the current rulers of Ukraine and neo-nazis were the muscle that were stirring the situation before the russian speaking president yanukovich was forced to flee for his life after he foolishly agreed to remove police from the Streets of Kiev in order to agree to peace with the demonstrators many of whom were supported by democracy supporting organisations like the ones Soros runs and after international pressure from USA and EU.
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There are ukrainians who consider russians sub-humans and celebrate those ukrainians who worked with nazis during world war two against russia.
This is a problem in a country where almost half of the people are ethnic russians and russian speaking.
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One of the first acts the new ukranian leadership did was make ukrainian the only official language and remove russian language from schools.
This was a monumental failure and showed to which degree russian hating neo-nazis were calling the shots.
This led to Putins thugs taking Crimea to save the russian navys major port whose lease was up for renewal and 90% russian speaking Crimeans.
This further led to civil war between russian speaking regions of ukraine and ukrainian speaking regions and with many in the ukrainian army refusing to fight against russian speaking ukrainians the neo-nazis formed their own military units so neo-nazis were attacking russian speaking ukrainians and USA under Obama was so totally blind and foolish they cheered this on instead of telling Ukrainians to STOP the craziness and keep russian as official language and give the russian speaking areas self-determination in a federal ukraine and instead of demanding that neo-nazis are removed from all positions of power in Ukraine.
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Putin is a thug but the “enemy of my enemy is my friend” foreign policy strategy USA has used in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq and Libya is completely and totally stupid and US should stop their insane policies that are causing chaos and worsening most situations despite many CIA agents wanting to be Jason Bourne and play CIA-agent in foreign lands.
Not only did Ukrainians side with the Germans against the Bolsheviks… plenty of Russians did also.
Contrary to Hitler hating Russians, many of the White Russian diaspora lived in Hitler’s Germany. Hitler donated money for them to build a Russian Orthodox church in Berlin. Churches were reopened in German-occupied areas of Russia. The Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia which was headquartered in Belgrade, escaped to Germany when the red army approached [after the war, they moved from Germany to the USA.]
Here is a book that might interest you.
” The Russian Roots of Nazism
White Émigrés and the Making of National Socialism, 1917–1945 ”
http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521070058
Having the right to publish in NY Times reinforces the bond of belonging to a club from wherever the author. Thanks for letting me know what’s going on in the alternative media, I mean MSM.
Why do people even read it? Same for the FT.
The web is making some societies hard to govern as they turn off from the mass brainwash of the standard media outlets.
Any politician relying on the NYT, FT, CNN, FOX etc is lost before they even start.
Legitimacy immediately evaporates.
Sarkozy just killed his political career by demanding shared asylum policies. He is either totally incompetent OR he is part of those who want open borders forever and to fill Europe with tens of millions asylum seekers as soon as possible.
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Remember as a president Sarkozy talked tough but did NOTHING (the only accomplishment Sarkozy has is CREATING the rush to Italy and through Italy to rest of europe from Libya in the first place by bombing Gaddafi with Hillary Clinton and letting ISIS and extremist islamists take control in Libya and start the rush to europe whereas Gaddafi kept borders CLOSED because Silvio Berlusconi used to pay him development aid to keep Libyas borders closed.)
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Even Francois Hollande (4% approval and totally failed president) had to do something and close Frances border with Italy in june of 2015 by demanding french border police STOP asylum seekers coming throuh Italy which lessened the flow to Italy (since the route to france was blocked) and made Greece the huge rush it was in July 2015- December 2015 and continuing in 2016 until Austria and Slovenia closed their borders and the rest of countries in balkans also closed their borders with Macedonia building a wall with fences on their border with Greece.
Some who originally got to Italy actually took ferries to Greece and went to western europe through Greece in 2015 in addition to people knowing already in Iraq, Afganistan etc. that Greece was the country to go to where you could get to welfare-europe through facebook.
Hollande allowed those who got to France through frances border with germany and that were dreaming of UK that has even BETTER welfare than rest of europe to get to Calais and did NOT register them and Hollande was just hoping they would get to UK and thereby made Calais a living hell.
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Letting people get to Calais is the same exact stupid policy that makes asylum seekers to come as the original push to north by Greece and Italy.
IF NOBODY could get through Italy and Greece then only thousands would seek asylum in Europe instead of millions because they are not seeking asylum they are seeking the 1000 euros a month and free apartment for the rest of their lives and family re-unification to welfare and all western european goodies free dental/medical/daycare/school/university that one gets when one gets asylum based on a fairytale they tell.
IF NOBODY could get through France to Calais then there would be nobody in Calais and there would not be people getting to UK and UK would still be part of Europe.
The Calais mess was shown DAILY in UK media.
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Shared asylum policy means that Sweden’s insane policy and germanys insane policy of everyone can come and if you tell a fairytale how you were “threatened” by somebody you will get asylum will be forced on every EU country through EASO (European Asylum Support Office) which took asylum policy, asylum bureaucrat training and modules according to which one should make asylum decisions that were DEVELOPED IN SWEDEN and tried to push them to be an european wide system. EASO was not mandatory however so not all countries started using their stuff but those that did start to use it voluntarily saw that their acceptance rates of asylum seekers increased a lot and this was one of the reasons for the rush of 2015.
Local politicians were scared silent to stay anything because they wanted to be humane and they did not want to be called “racist” if they opposed common EASO stuff which was stupid, ineffective and naive and created an asylum acceptance automation.
EU commission wants to make EASO MANDATORY by giving EASO more powers and making EASO fully-fledged European Union Agency for Asylum.
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Shared asylum policy means creating the total stupidity that EU commission has demanded in May 2016 where there would be permanent burden sharing like EU commission demanded that EU commission would decide each countrys magic number of how much asylum seekers they should take and once this magic number was surpassed so that a country received 150% of their magic number in asylum applications then everybody else coming to that country would be burden shared around europe which would mean that after a couple of months Greece and Italy would have received 150% of the magic number and EVERYBODY after that would be burden shared around europe which would mean that people would know that EVERYBODY going to Italy and Greece get to welfare-europe which is the goal of the people that have come and want to come.
This would mean TENS of millions would come instead of the millions that came during 2015.
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The previous “voluntary” burden Sharings in 2 rounds where Angela Merkel and Claude “lie when its serious” Juncker blackmailed other EU countries to take a total of 160,000 asylum seekers from Greece and Italy were stupid decisions which sent the signal that “come everybody” and “even if Greece and Italy would stop you (not likely) you would still get through with EU burden sharing quota of 160,000 and reach welfare-europe” but the permanent burden sharing would be beyond idiotic.
Austria has not taken these burden sharings (160,000 around europe) and neither has the eastern european countries and rest of the countries have been really slow with their bureaucracy to take them.
There are only 3 countries which have Stupid and incompetent leadership at the moment that have taken the majority of those burden shared so far and they are France, Netherlands and Finland which are apparently those countries who do anything to please Angela Merkel and Claude Juncker.
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Millions of asylum seekers came to Europe in 2015 BECAUSE Greece and Italy were pushing everybody through and the message spread that one did not have to stay in Greece and Italy and get 0 euros but that Greece and Italy governments and bureaucrats were pushing everybody through so people were getting to Germany, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, France,Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and getting 1000 euros a month (on average) and FREE apartment for life and family re-unification straight to welfare and free medical/dental/school/university/daycare etc… and MOST asylum seekers were accepted and all you had to do was to tell a lie and a fairytale about how you were “threatened” in Iraq , Afganistan, Somalia which all have mostly safe areas with peaceful situation or tell how you escaped “horrible” army service of 18 months for eritreans (free everything for the rest of your life in western europe OR 18 months in the army in desert).
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Syrians were given 100% acceptance even though ALL syrians reaching Europe were already COMPLETELY SAFE in Turkey but since Turkey only gives free tent, free food and free water and free heater to the tent and if you find work you can rent a nice inexpensive apartment for yourself in Turkey this was not enough for those syrians who heard that the acceptance percent is 100% and you can get free money and free apartment and free everything for the rest of your life if you reach western europe.
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There should be NO common policies in Asylum or immigration but Greece and Italy should be kicked out of EU unless they control their borders and register everybody so nobody would come when reaching europe would mean 0 euros in Italy or Greece and hard work in countries with large unemployment.
Here is a link to the total DISASTER immigration reform that EU is planning since May 2016:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-1620_en.htm
In the old movie, “The Boys from Brazil”, one of the things they did was to recreate the environment in which the original Hitler arose. The oppressive anti-White EU is the evil decadent Weimar Republic on steroids. Knowingly or unknowingly, the EU is sowing the seeds of its own destruction at the hands of another White European nationalist force that will make Hitler look like a choir boy [pun intended.]
Hitler was a total loser, idiot and failure who was completely crazy and evil man.
Hitler is the reason that talking about problems that certain kinds of immigration causes has been taboo in europe for the last 20+ years.
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The direction needs to be changed now but it needs to be changed humanely and by making it a policy to settle all future refugees to peaceful areas in africa and middle-east and deporting all criminals, terrorists and islamists to their home countries and by stopping the current european policy of giving citizenship to people on welfare and stopping the current european policy of multiculturalism where people are encouraged to keep their own cultures instead of assimilating and where people are taught their own language for example somali, arabian and dari (afganistan) in europes schools because the “common wisdom” is that learning your own language helps you to integrate so european schools are pumping out kids of refugees who do not speak the local language properly cause they spent time learning somali, arabian and dari in european schools
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The political correctness needs to be completely stopped and giving passing grades to kids who didnt learn the needed things must be stopped and education must be tied to receiving any assistance from society so if familys kids show the middle finger to teachers and learn nothing then they are kept in the same year for an extra year and benefits to the family cut instead of the current policy of letting people pass their class despite not learning and letting their family continue on benefits despite telling their kids that they do not need to study cause the teachers are infidels.
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There is huge problem in europe with the second generation and third generation muslim kids of refugees dropping out of school and not getting jobs and staying unemployed and hating the country they live in despite the country funding them with free apartments and generous welfare once they turn 18 years old and funding their parents for tens of years showing their kids the example that hating the country they live in is the right way despite the country giving them EVERYTHING for free.
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The family re-unification process must be stopped for people living on welfare and it must be stopped also for people earning small wages because the family re-unification process stops westernization because girls get an arranged husband from the home country forced by their family and guys get an arranged wife from their home country because their family arranges it and they get a guaranteed virgin who knows nothing about western values and is confined to home because they do not know the local language at all and who hold backwards islamic beliefs.
The muslims in the west must be westernized and this becomes reality only if the importation of wifes and husbands from middle east and africa is stopped completely for people on welfare or on small wages and muslim and african youth must marry other muslim and african youth already living in the west or locals.
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For people who earn good money and got themselves educated I would still allow family re-unification and marrying from back home because they have a higher likelihood of choosing an educated wife/husband but even to the family re-unifications there must be immediate courses in the western values and history and laws and norms of the country and female equality and separation of church and state and language training.
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For people who were already given citizenship in a western country their citizenship must be revoked if they support sharia law, islamists, islamic-supremacism, arab-supremacism, terrorism or commit assaults, rapes and killings.
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The choice must be to assimilate and westernize or get out of europe and other western countries.
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There are currently millions of people in europe who got asylum or residence permit on flimsy and madeup basis or who no longer have a need for protection because the situation is now peaceful in the country they fleed from so all asylums and residence permits must be made temporary and these people must be sent back if the situation in the country they fleed has become peaceful or if on review their basis for claiming asylum is found to be insufficient.
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The current system is that almost nobody returns to their home country because the western european system of welfare and free life is too addictive even if the situation returns peaceful in the country they fleed.
This must be reversed and these people sent home once the situation is peaceful UNLESS they work and pay for their own life and their children study and also find work and the whole family wants to assimilate and become western in their thinking and behavior.
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Mark my words… it’s coming…
Typical Zioglobalist double-speak from a polished political crook who as much as anyone “uncorked the African bottle.”
Sarkozy isn’t French.
Sarkozy was born in Paris; I think he is French.
Interesting factoid: One of his first acts upon becoming president of France was to more than double his own salary.
Depends on your view of the world:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_sanguinis
Being born in France does not make one French.
That’s globalist mentality.
Sarkozy has Libyans blood on his hands as much as Hillary Clinton.
If Gaddafi would still be in power Libya would be peaceful country and NO asylum seekers would be coming to Europe through Libya because Gaddafi kept borders closed because Italys Silvio Berlusconi gave him development aid to keep borders closed.
Only people suffering under Gaddafi were islamists and terrorists and that is why Hillary Clinton backers Saudi Arabia and Qatar HATED Gaddafi and wanted him killed,
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What sealed Gaddafis fate was that he apparently tried to buy Sarkozy through campaign funding and that sealed his fate that he would be killed because Sarkozy did not want it come out that he was bought by Gaddafi.
If Gaddafi had been allowed to escape Libya he would have told the truth about Sarkozy and thereby destroyed Sarko’s political career so Sarkozy had a french fighter jet destroy Gaddafis convoy because Sarko wanted to win a second term as president.
Gaddafi was killed by ISIS-style stabbing by islamists who caught him hiding wounded in a drain pipe after french fighter jet bombed Gaddafis convoy.
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Google: Gaddafi Sarkozy funding
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Sarkozy is so unlikable that even Hollande was able to beat him and even Hollande has done more to try to close Frances borders than Sarkozy ever did. Now Sarko dreams again because he is globalists puppet so he believes he can do it despite losing to Hollande earlier and Hollande being a disaster.
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Gaddafi was stupid and should have bought Hillary Clinton instead through Clinton Foundation “charity” like Saudi Arabia and Qatar have bought Hillary Clinton.
Arab spring never reached Marocco because King of Marocco had already bought Hillary Clinton so professional islamists controlled by Saudi Arabia and Qatar and Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood were not sent to Marocco to inflame the situation and create Arab spring in there.
Exactly right.
Strange. I thought the Paris Climate Treaty was the Marshal Plan for Africa, with an exemption for China; no sense having the Chinese peasants paying for African economic development in reparations for past Western colonial climate sins.
A Marhsall Plan for Africa kinda makes some sense. Africa accounts for a significantly smaller percentage of global economic output relative to their population and is the only part of the planet with a growing population. Getting Africa moving might benefit everyone economically so the real question is how to pay for it and do it in a way that doesn’t in-debt us further because we clearly can’t afford it.
I agree that Spain, Greece, etc. needs its own Marshall Plan or some kind of genuine assistance…debt write off really.
Why do we always approach this from a westernizing perspective?
People behave as most other creatures, they reproduce. If you inadvertently upset what was a natural balance of a people, you end up with problems. Countries need to evolve over centuries, preferably without being plundered or misled.
Why do we not get beyond wanting to take care of everyone and everything else, I believe in compassion, but there is a point where it is obvious that there is a deficiency of thought or understanding. That is not compassionate, but ultimately selfish, and demonstrates only our perceived self importance being played out at the cost of others.
We are encouraged by our own ideals and social structure to be this way, but it has not been properly considered at the current scale in which our attitudes and abilities are being applied.
Spot on.
Africa can feed her own people but now Africa is for example exporting flowers to Europe and at the same time getting food aid from the extra food production in USA that destroys local agriculture products markets in africa because its impossible to compete with free.
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Only things africa should be given is condoms for men and free presriptions for the pill for women and free vasectomies for african men after 2 kids and free hormone implants for women lasting for 5 years after they have had the first child so the first child gets support in early childhood instead of getting 5-7 sisters and brothers during that time.
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Education for girls is the only thing besides the ones above that africa should get as development aid.
A lot of sense in that. Africa needs African solutions to African problems. Perhaps Sarko is concerned Africa might just become a competitor 50 years hence so wants to turn it into France before they get chance.
Still trying to civilize the world
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-38018272
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-12591452
The US goal in WW1 was to destroy the monarchies of Europe and [to paraphrase President Wilson’s WW1 speech to congress] “make the world safe for democracy.” Also in his April 1917 war speech, Wilson praised the Russian revolutionaries who had just deposed Russia’s 900 year old monarchy [we all know how well that ended] and said they were America’s “partner.” 60 years before, in 1857, a speech was given to congressmen at the Capitol in DC advocating the USA destroy all European monarchies via war and revolution… turning them into democracies with the USA as their instructing big brother. So the US foreign policy of nation-destroying/nation-building is not new.
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This is an example: http://strongerunions.org/2016/07/29/tanzania-and-uganda-stand-up-against-unfair-eu-east-africa-economic-partnership-agreement/
Let Africa export agricultural goods on a level playing field into the EU. Common Agricultural Policy to protect French farmers is harming Africa and African development.
No good being indignant about African problems but at the same time deliberately making life awkward and refusing to trade fairly and openly.
EU hypocrisy.
This is relevant. And fascinating.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/this-is-how-steve-bannon-sees-the-entire-world?utm_term=.vp35RLb6Bj#.kep46Jdj5n
Very interesting, thank you for posting that.
As Chief White House Strategist going forward it is a fascinating insight. The links to UKIP are made clear. I didn’t have a clue on any of this until reading your link.
I hope he is not as clueless as he appears in that article.
My opinion:
There is NOTHING that can’t be made worse through EU-reform and common EU-policy.
Something that is the problem can NOT be the solution. EU is the PROBLEM.
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EU is the problem and EU caused those millions to come in 2015 after Greece and Italy pushed everybody to the the north.
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EU has continuyally DESTROYED immigration and asylum policies with EU-directives:
1. Demanding fast processing times (how do you quickly process a person lying to you and with no proof: you grant them asylum to do it quickly like EU demands)
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2. Demanding quick and easy family re-unifications (getting your family with you in welfare in western europe in 3-6 months instead of 2-5 years increases the desirability of Europe quite a lot)
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3.Demanding common standards (EASO) mean that the same kind of lie and fairytale the asylum seeker memorized from Facebook gets you an asylum in all EASO using EU-countries.
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4.Providing sea taxi service from Libyan waters so smugglers need to just put people in boats that stay afloat for a couple of miles and EU does the rest with boat rides provided by EU increases the amount of people coming
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5. EU and Juncker especially were together with Angela Merkel DEMANDING that everybody should be let through and EU was actually threatening and criticizing Austria and Slovenia which finally stopped the insane rush by closing their borders.
EU was telling Austria and Slovenia to CONTINUE letting everybody through which would have meant that Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia would not have closed their borders and everybody could still get welfare-europe through Greece.
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6. The deal with Turkey did NOT stop the flow but the flow had already 90% stopped thanks to closing the borders initiated by Austria and Slovenia but EU and Juncker and Merkel wanted the deal with Turkey no matter what (idiotic visa freedom promise to 80+ million turks) to CLAIM they were doing something so they could claim credit for stopping the flow instead of people seeing that EU and Juncker and Angela Merkel were responsible that it took so long to close the borders and stop the flow.
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7.Hungary showed the right way and was the first country to close its borders and say that these people coming are not a blessing but they bring crime and hostile attitudes incompatible with european society in September (border closed with Serbia) and October (border closed with Croatia).
Merkel lived in a fantasy bubble until New Years eve 2016 in Cologne and the mass harassments and rapes with police doing nothing and trying for 6 days to hide what happened and LIE to germans.
The rape epidemic which was revealed after that that had been happening during 2015 and there are vicious gang-rapes and large increase in rapes all over europe and not just in sweden and germany.
EU called hungarians fascist and racist and xenophobic and every bad name in the book.
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8.If Hungary had NOT closed its borders then Austria and tiny Slovenia would not have been in a position to close the whole balkan route from Greece to welfare paying europe in March 2016.
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9, Burden sharing EU pushed through in two pieces during 2015 for a total of 160,000 from Greece and Italy WORSENED the situation, current EU plans for a permanent burden sharing system would worsen the situation further by creating an automatic hell machine which could not be stopped after Greece and Italy had received a couple months worth of asylum seekers and reached the 150% level of the amount of asylum seekers EU would decide was their magic number.
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10. EU has planned that asylum applications should be taken under processing in Northern Africa and Turkey and neighboring countries of Syria, (this has actually been discussed as a SOLUTION to the problem of Greece and Italy letting everybody go through them which shows that EU bureaucrats are the most imcompetent people on earth)
This would mean 20-40 million asylum applications the first year and if the processing was done by EASO (like EU wants) by those idiotic EASO modules and procedures originally developed in Sweden (which EU loves) then there would be 18-36 million people coming to europe in a year.
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EU has BAKED the CAKE of 2015 with EU-directives, with EASO and with letting Greece and Italy push everybody to the north and actually incentivizing them to push everybody to the north
It was originally EU courts decision criticizing Greeces detention facilities in 2011 that led to EU deciding that OK no dublin returns to greece anymore so everybody coming thru Greece gets to seek asylum in western europe even if their fingerprints were take in Greece.
For Italy the EU policy was “please take peoples fingerprints and register them” and when Italy did not do this the EU-policy was to tell EU-countries “if there is no match in the EU-fingerprint database you have to process their asylum application” which meant that Greece and Italy were pushing people north.
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However after leftist-communist Alexis Tsipras came to power in Greece he did in early 2015 what he had promised to do in his political campaign (so it should not have been a surprise to incompetent eu-bureaucrats) and that is to stop detention in Greece completely and stop border control completely and let people go freely and humanely where they wanted.
This is what multiplied the numbers coming through Greece, leftist-communist idiocy with human rights in action.
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Also leftist Renzi in Italy increased the amount of people Italy was pushing to the north during 2015 so much that even leftist Hollande had to close borders between Italy and France in june 2015 to stop Italy pushing asylum seekers to France and further north through France.
During 2014 Italy had already picked up 170,000 people from Mediterranean sea with many already from the border between libyan waters and international waters so people wanting to go to Italy did not have to reach Italian waters anymore like in previous years.
Out of the 170,000 Italy gave a sea-taxi service to in 2014 Italy “lost” over 100,000 which were not registered and no fingerprints were taken.
Italy just did not register these people at all or gave people an appointment time to go leave their asylum application and have their fingerprints taken and over 100,000 people continued to welfare paying Europe instead of Italy already in 2014.
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Tsipras and Renzi are totally immoral and both should be voted out by their people and EU is the problem and Juncker should be kicked out by all european states but apparently Merkel is supporting Juncker to save herself and Juncker is supporting Merkel with EU authority to save himself.
Gaddafis convoy that was trying to flee Libya was bombed by an french fighter jet because Gaddafi had apparently threatened Sarkozy by reminding him that Sarkozy was BOUGHT by Gaddafi and that he would make this public if France bombed Libya.
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Gaddafis location was revealed when he made a satellite call and his location was immediately given by US to France because France itself does not have capability to eavesdrop on satellite phones and French fighter jet proceeded to bomb a fleeing convoy of cars trying to get out of Libya.
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Once France had started bombing Libya after being egged on by Hillary Clinton it became either Sarkozy or Gaddafi situation.
Gaddafi had to die so Sarkozy could get re-elected especially after Gaddafis son was so stupid to speak about how Sarkozy was bought publicly before the demise of Gaddafis regime and death of Gaddafi.
However Sarkozy lost to Hollande because Hollande spoke better and seemed more likable than Sarkozy during the presidential campaign and the muslim population in France voted as one block against Sarkozy.
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Right now there are millions more muslim voters in France and the amount is increasing all the time so if Le Pen does not win the next election it is game over and France will never have a president who would close borders, stop family re-unification as a route to move to europe to get welfare and stop racilization of muslims by deporting all islamists and terrorist sympathizers and criminals.
In most large french cities muslims are over 50% of the babies being born so France will become majority muslim country if policies are not changed soon.
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From independent:
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Nicolas Sarkozy DID take $50 million of Muammar Gaddafi’s cash, French judge is told
John Lichfield
Thursday 3 January 2013
The Independent Online
Nicolas Sarkozy DID take $50 million of Muammar Gaddafi’s cash, French judge is told
Sarkozy and Gaddafi pictured in Paris in 2007
Documentary proof exists that France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy took more than €50m from the late Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, a French judge has been told.
The claim, leaked today, was made just before Christmas by a Lebanese-born businessman, Ziad Takieddine, who has been a fixer for legal – and allegedly illegal – dealings between France and the Middle East for 20 years.
Expanding on claims already made by one of Mr Gaddafi’s sons and a French investigative website, Mr Takieddine told an investigative judge that he could show him written proof that Mr Sarkozy’s first presidential campaign in 2006-7 was “abundantly” financed by Tripoli. The payments, he said, continued after Mr Sarkozy became President.
In total, he said, they exceeded the €50m in illegal payments to Mr Sarkozy claimed by Mr Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam just before the demise of the Libyan regime – thanks partly to French and British airstrikes – in 2011.
Mr Takieddine’s claims were rejected today as “outrageous” and “self-interested” by sources close to Mr Sarkozy. Last year President Sarkozy denounced a similar claim by the investigative website Mediapart as “grotesque”.
The Lebanese businessman is himself under formal investigation for allegedly organising and receiving illegal kick-backs on arms deals over two decades. He today admitted that his allegations against Mr Sarkozy were part of a proposed trade-off with the French judicial system.
He told the newspaper Le Parisien that he was ready to show investigators proof of Gaddafi’s alleged financial dealings with Mr Sarkozy if a judicial investigation was launched into Libya’s financing of French politicians. This implied that he was trying to minimise allegations against him, dating back to 1993, by igniting, or re-igniting, allegations which were more recent and more explosive.
“Yes, Libya financed Sarkozy,” Mr Takieddine told Le Parisien.
The claims, however self-interested they may be, are deeply embarrassing for Mr Sarkozy. Mr Takieddine had close business and personal relations for many years with a string of centre-right politicians, including the former President’s childhood friend, Brice Hortefeux, his close ally and former interior minister, Claude Gueant[acute on e] and the current head of Mr Sarkozy’s centre-right party, Jean-Francois Copé. He is also known to have played a significant role in Mr Sarkozy’s dealings with Gaddafi to free Bulgarian nurses falsely imprisoned in Libya in 2007.
link to the independent news:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/nicolas-sarkozy-did-take-50-million-of-muammar-gaddafis-cash-french-judge-is-told-8435872.html
It’s not just France, Europe is on borrowed time.
Exit ramp of history – from 2003 – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2870526/Personal-view-This-constitution-will-propel-Europe-on-to-historys-exit-ramp.html
How well has LBJ’s Great Society Plan worked out for the American ghettos? It just made them bigger and the nation deeper in debt.
Sarkozy must have manure for brains.
Europeans are slowly waking-up. As usual the ‘political class’ is the last to get it.
Change will come, but it will not be ‘nice’.
Expect more turmoil to come.
Not that much different then when many were surprised that Trump won. Democracy is messy, that is why our founders choose a republic. But we have over the last 200 plus years destroyed the republic in favor of democracy.
This has created great conflicts in our legal structures as there are still “States” and a “Constitution” which were all creations of the “Republic”.
Wow. I used to be a fan of Mish for years. Somehow I lost sight of his blog over time. Now I stumbled upon this article posted on ZH.
And I can´t disagree more. Totally out of touch are people who reside in the US and don´t experience what Europe is these days.
The REFUGEE wave is massive! Governments are being spept out of power because of the outrage of European voters. Right wing populists come to power. Even the Brexit was centered around the migrant crisis.
If there is one idea that makes sense, then it´s help for Africa.
Those poor, hopeless, delusional African souls will come in millions as long as the continent suffers. They cost European taxpayers billions every year. Also it´s nearly impossible to protect the European borders. And once they are in it´s very hard to send them back, even if asylum is denied. So – all youth unemploment aside – it´s in Europe´s own interest, that the economies of Africa improve.
It saddens me that ideology seems to trump logic thinking. You can do better, Mish!
Best wishes from Europe!
Those poor, hopeless, delusional African souls will come in millions as long as the continent suffers. They cost European taxpayers billions every year. Also it´s nearly impossible to protect the European borders. And once they are in it´s very hard to send them back, even if asylum is denied. So – all youth unemployment aside – it´s in Europe´s own interest, that the economies of Africa improve.
It saddens me that ideology seems to trump logic thinking. You can do better, Mish!
Good Grief
What the hell about that do you disagree with. There is an endless demand for free goods and services, and someone has to pay for them. Europe cannot afford those waves of immigration and the masses know it even it fools like Merkel don’t.
“Europe cannot afford those waves of immigration”
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That´s why Sarkozy calls for economic help in Africa. Because it´s more effective than dealing with millions of migrants. Over here in Germany for most of those african refugees asylum is denied. But you can´t move them back as quickly as you want. Some can´t prove their identity, some disappear in Germany, some of their countries don´t take them back. And even if they do, it takes years because airlines only allow for a few deported migrants on each flight.
The migrant wave is single biggest threat to Europe. Be it a union or independent countries. It´s impossible to build a wall around Europe like you guys over there.
I´m not a Sarko fan (quite the contrary) and i respect your view of the European Enion. But when an idea makes sense there´s no need to tear it apart.
Not sure what happened to your sharp view of the world or to your style of writing. One can critize the other side without calling them all sorts of things.
All the best!
Oh please… feed the vermin and maybe they will infest someone else’s house.
There is no way to reach a deluded people intent on committing suicide.
calling people vermin is …
Anyway – i´m open to better solutions. How would YOU deal with the immigrant crisis?
Be it in Syria or Africa or anywhere – when people suffer they look for richer countries. So the logic says you improve the conditions in those poor countries. As they are lacking capital an initial impulse has to come in the form of European money.
The beauty of the thing is that it´s much cheaper to invest in Africa than providing food, shelter, clothing, healthcare, deportation etc. for millions of migrants coming to Europe.
And if you succeed with such a plan you open a whole new market to European companies. Africa has so much potential with young economies and cheap labor. China was the first to recognize that and they´re doing deal after deal in Africa.
And if you succeed with such a plan you open a whole new market to European companies.
Why stop with Norther Africa? Why not all of Africa? Why not India and China too. Heck look at the slums in France, or Chicago. Let’s have a Marshall Plan for the world! Free food and money for everyone.
Mish
” calling people vermin is … ”
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Is what? Deplorable ?
Maybe you have never experienced hordes of illegal third worlders invade and take over your community. I have. A Mexican flop house [with so many illegals crammed in many were sleeping in cars] moved in next door to me in what was once a nice middle-class White neighborhood. My entire county was declared a sanctuary for illegals by the Mexican sheriff.
Agree completely this guy is lodt
I´m afraid you don´t get my message, Mish.
All I´m telling you is that Sarko prososes this plan not because he´s good at heart or in love with the African people. But because it´s the only way that less refugess will come to Europe. We can´t build a wall nor can we shoot them.
And that´s the reason why you won´t heard about a Marshall plan for India. Those people don´t matter to Europe.
@Atossa: Thanks for your constructive answer. I still haven´t learned what you would do about Europe´s immigrant crisis.
” @Atossa: Thanks for your constructive answer. I still haven´t learned what you would do about Europe´s immigrant crisis. ”
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” The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers. ”
But seriously, Europe’s problems originate with Europe’s evil leadership and injustice system. Any solution must begin with cleaning house [yes that’s a pun] from the top down.
As Putin said in his biography about his enemies… go on the offensive, hit first and hit hard so the enemy can not strike back. As Putin said in an interview with Le Figaro, hit once, but hit on the head.