The heat is on German Chancellor Angela Merkel, from within and outside her own party following a Terrorist Act in a Berlin Christmas Market that left a now revised 12 dead and 48 injured.
An asylum seeker was arrested, but Police Launch New Manhunt After Admitting They May Have Arrested Wrong Man.
German police have released the man arrested over the Berlin terror attack over lack of evidence, meaning the real culprit is still at large and armed and dangerous.
Police urged people to remain “particularly vigilant” and to report “suspicious movement” to a special hotline.
“We have the wrong man,” an unnamed police source told Welt newspaper earlier. “This means the situation is different. The real culprit is still armed and can commit further atrocities.”
The man arrested on Monday night under suspicion of ploughing a 7-tonne truck through a Christmas market in the heart of Berlin, killing 12, was named in German media reports as a 23-year-old asylum seeker of Pakistani origin.
He denied involvement in the attack, according to police, and this evening he was freed.
Merkel Rift Widens
The market carnage in Berlin ensures campaign will be dominated by open-door policy and terrorism, as it should be. This Raises Election Stakes for Angela Merkel.
If the driver turned out to be an asylum seeker, Ms Merkel said, it would be “particularly sickening” for the “many, many Germans who every day help refugees” and for the “many people who really need our protection”.
“The problem for Merkel is that she is so closely identified with the refugee issue,” says Hendrik Traeger, a political scientist at Leipzig University. “She put her heart and soul into the open-door policy. For her, it’s personal.”
Politicians from the rightwing Alternative for Germany party seized on the Christmas market attack as a symbol of her failure. “These are Merkel’s dead!” tweeted Markus Pretzell, a AfD politician.
Long-time observers of German politics were shocked. “It’s a sign that next year’s campaign is going to be very unsavoury, very Trump-like,” says Jürgen Falter of Mainz University. “Blaming Merkel for that attack when we still don’t even know who carried it out and what their motives were marks a new coarsening of the political culture.”
But for Ms Merkel, the danger comes not just from the far-right but also from inside her own ranks. Horst Seehofer, leader of the CSU, the Bavarian sister party of her Christian Democrats, says it is time to “rethink and readjust our entire immigration and security policy”.
Such interventions from Mr Seehofer are not new. But the dissatisfaction runs deep even in Ms Merkel’s CDU. “We are in a state of war, although some people who always see only the good side don’t want to see that,” says Klaus Bouillon, the CDU interior minister of Saarland.
The rift dividing Ms Merkel from large swaths of her party was plain for all to see this month when delegates at the CDU’s annual conference in Essen voted to limit immigrants’ rights to dual citizenship in defiance of the party leadership.
If Merkel wins the German election, it’s because no one strong in CDU/CSU wants to challenge her.
Her immigration policy has been a disaster. The only person who would not do things differently is Angela Merkel.
Offered a chance to do things differently, she stated she would go back far enough in time to better prepare for the refugees.
That is an amazingly naive perception of the state of affairs. Had the doors not closed, the refugees would never have stopped. There would be millions more of them, had not the borders been shut.
To halt the refugees, Merkel chose to get into bed with the oppressive regime of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, dictator of Turkey, rather than handling the crisis (of her own doing), internally.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
The anti-immigrant Dutch politician Geert Wilders said “Merkel has blood on her hands”. Many would agree. Allowing unvetted hoards of muslims into europe is cultural suicide. Fortunately for the US, the new president is not going to make the same mistake.
Saddam Hussein, when being interrogated after his capture, warned that “westerners do not understand the Arab mind”. That certainly seems to be true, and something western leaders who think they can interfere in middle east politics would do well to consider.
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In all seriousness, what do you think Saddam was referring to?
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Saddam is referring to the fact that Middle Easterners are extremely clannish and violent, and need to be ruled by a strong and repressive ruler. Clearly true, but didn’t fit the idiotic Bush ‘democracy’ narrative.
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Us Christians can be naive at times, but GWB’s heart was in the right place after seeing what he thought was the suffering of people under a cruel tyrant. Of course, almost all middle eastern countries are ruled by cruel tyrants, so what was new about Saddam? Maybe the Bushes thought he was the most cruel and needed to be eliminated.
The need for clans (which we Americans have no history with except for Native American tribes) is not unique to the middle east. They are a way of life for many people around the world and represent a method of self-defense in a violent society.
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The report that confirmed no WMDs in Iraq also confirmed that Saddam could have his WMD program up and running within months of the Iraqi sanctions being lifted.
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Clans are likewise a method for offensive purposes. The problem is that almost everyone is wired with behaviors derived from the animal world – such as using others as objects with little or no consideration for their wishes.
A good addendum to the Golden Rule would be do nothing to another unless they agree with what you want to do to them.
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Christian Celtic culture was extremely clannish and violent within recent history. In the US, the Hatfields and McCoys followed that tradition. The Scots-Irish that settled Appalachia still show signs of that culture. Religion has little to do with it.
Iranians are Muslim and are certainly not clannish.
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Iranians are persian and shia.
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Most muslims are arab and sunni.
Al-Qaida is sunni organisation, ISIS is sunni organization, Wahhabists and Salafists are sunnis.
Saudi Arabia and Qatar (supposed american “allies”) would like to see all shias including country of Iran completely destroyed.
Syrian ruler Assad is alawite which is a branch of shias thereby Saudis and Qataris hate him and all other alawites who form the core of Syrian government,
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Saudi Arabians (sunni) and Qataris (sunni) consider shias (iranians and some alawite syrians) like Hitler considered jews,
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The instability in Middle East starts from Saudi Arabia and Qatar exporting extremist thought and extremist interpretation of islam and supporting sunni-extremist organizations like ISIS and Al-Qaida financially, politically and operationally by Saudi citizens and Qatari citizens.
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Saudi Arabia and Qatar are using sunni-extremists to kill as many shias as possible and USA gives them cover to do that by securing Saudi Arabia and Qatar against war with Iran so US security guarantees let Saudis and Qataris to use american soldiers as cover behind whose back they can run and continue supporting slaughter of shias by extremist sunnis without worry.
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Considering that by supporting Saudia Arabia and Qatar USA makes possible continued slaughter of shias around Middle-East by extremist sunnis the country of Iran understandably does not like America very much.
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USA should not play favorites.
If Saudi Arabia wants to support ISIS and Al-Qaida slaughtering shias they should know that Iran can invade their whole country. This would stop support of extremist sunnis by Saudis really quick and make Middle East much more peaceful but unfortunately Saudi Arabia and Qatar have BOUGHT many ex-generals and other expert talking heads to be their spokesmen in USA media and political elite just like Saudis and Qataris almost had their own US president in Saudi and Qatari money financed Hillary Clinton.
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@ Jon Sellers
Of note – Iranians also aren’t Arabs. Iran observed Zoroastrianism from the 5th century BC until the 7th century, when their empire was overthrown by the Umayyads caliphate and the Iranian national association with a Zoroastrian past was disarmed.
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You cannot actually be serious with your reasoning of Bush Junior’s wanting to invade Iraq?
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Bush’s head should have been in the right place. As General Odom put it, Iraq was “the worst strategic blunder in the history of U.S. foreign policy.”
Either Bush was a good hearted moron, or he was serving someone else’s agenda.
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MUH DAMAKRACEE
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Noone “need to be ruled by a strong and repressive ruler”. Period. People just need to be willing and able to defend themselves. Instead of time and again falling for the scam that the self promoting scumbag du jour will do it for them, if only they relax their guard and disarm.
The impulse that allowed guys like Saddam to rule largely unchallenged for so long, was the same one that has ruined the West over the past 150 years: The silly notion that “we”, or more accurately “they” need some government or “ruler.” And that there exists some form of “legitimate” rulers. Due to them having blue blood, being divinely ordained, being elected, being from Mars, being Bruno Mars, or any other weird excuse some people may currently find convenient for harassing others.
Laying down arms and entrusting a slick talking “leader” may initially sound good, as accepting responsibility for ones own defense is a bit of a drag, as well as costly both in time, money and effort; compared to the alternative of bending over, grabbing ankles and fantasizing about massa being nice and going easy. But in the end, all you’ll end up with is Saddam jailing you. And banksters robbing you, then jailing you for the crime of no longer having anything left for them to rob. It always starts out slow, then get progressively worse. year in, year out. Just like the only truism of US Presidents, is that number X will inevitably be worse than number X-1.
The Muzzies seem to finally have figured it out. At least somewhat. Doesn’t mean you have to do everything the most destructive and violent way possible, but getting rid of the rulers, the governments, the “one percenters,”, the “Soros'” the “protected”, the “system” what have you, is an unquestionable good thing. It’s the only way thee world will ever get any better. And as long as the above guys are resisting (and who can blame them……), things are bound to be a bit rough on occasion. Every war has casualties. The war on the global banksters and their lackeys will be no different. But that in no way means it is not a necessary one to fight and win, if humanity is ever going to be worth even bothering with again.
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You’d have to live in the middle east a fair while to understand what his statement means. There is no other way to explain it. (Us) expats living there new exactly what would be the result of invading Iraq, and if we did, western intelligence did. Western action is not judged by what its leaders think, but by what is done.
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‘knew’
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Here is a more detailed explanation for you, Irondoor:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-19/saddam-husseins-cia-interrogator-admits-being-convinced-he-should-have-been-left-pow
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The CIA operative is correct if any of you have lived in the middle east. It is tribal, faction based and religious sector based. Bush 2 went back for revenge and nothing more.
These people have been killing one another off for over one thousand years. It does indeed take a strong leader to keep the sects inline. No I do not condone the gassing of people. As long as one country left another alone it was fine with me. I am sure the equality bunch will not like me but that’s ok. Throughout history the ME countries needed strong ruthless leaders.
Who are we to dictate to another country that has not attacked us or our allies? Look in the ME today and it s chaos. Why? because we thought we could just topple leaders that did not play the dollar for oil game or did not adhere to our way of life. Sanctions were not working for the most part as every nation on earth needs oil.
Terrorists you say well they were financed by Saudi Arabia and most of the terrorists were from there as well.
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Destruction of countries Iike Iraq, Libya and Syria is the sole reason for inflow of refugees. These countries were protection for Europe against chaotic economic migration from Africa. Now that these countries have been turned into chaotic and lawless failed states in control of of terrorists and criminal smugglers, EU pays the price. Governments who supported creation of this mess are responsible for refugees, not Merkel. Her only mistake was that she or anyone in EU did not have the courage to say no to destruction of these countries and their dictators. They were their dictators after all, who are we to judge them. Now Americans get the oil and EU gets the refugees, fair feal.
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Merkel demanded that BORDERS MUST NOT BE CLOSED.
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If Borders had been closed in the summer of 2015 when the rush through Greece started after leftist-communist Alexis Tsipras of Greece and his Syriza party had stopped border controls and stopped detentions in early 2015 and started pushing everybody coming from Turkey to Greece towards northern european welfare countries which were the wanted destinations of the “asylum seekers” then there would not be so many rapes, murders and terror acts and assaults in Europe and there would not be over million muslims getting welfare and waiting for an asylum decision to be given to them so they can bring also their family on welfare through family re-unification thanks to EU-directives.
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If there would be NO way from Greece and Italy to northern Europe NOBODY would come.
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Merkels idea to solve things was to keep borders open and lure more and more people to drown in mediterranean sea because they dreamed about German and Swedish welfare and wanted to reach it.
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Merkel also pressured other EU countries to accept burden sharing of 160,000 people from Greece and Italy which meant that EU would transport people to welfare europe if some countries would close their borders.
This burden sharing was lobbied by Italian Matteo Renzi when France closed their border with Italy in summer of 2015 when Italy had pushed over 100,000 asylum seekers to the north in 2014 by Renzi after giving them boat rides to italian mainland from the coast of Libya to “save people from drowning”.
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Italy, Greece which pushed asylum seekers to the north thereby luring more to come should be boycotted by all.
Germany and Sweden which lured asylum seekers to europe by easily given asylums and free welfare money and free apartments and wanted borders to be kept open should be boycotted by all.
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The irony is Sweden was demanding that everyone must keep their borders open until Sweden itself was forced to close its borders because there were no more places to give accommodation for the people coming and there was massive rape epidemic and lots of violent crime including killings of asylum seeker center workers by the asylum seekers that came because Sweden lured them and demanded that they must be let through to Sweden so other countries must keep their borders open.
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Collective insanity…
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We have been pounded with lie after lie about the migrants that were called refugees, that we are supposed to welcome these peaceful muslims; that these migrant welfare seekers were necessary to supply workers we needed. Oh, and we are getting highly skilled engineers, and doctors when the average IQ of these “refugees” is 68, and the standard for mental retardation is below 70. I could go on and on. All lies, what is the real reason they are coming being brought here at a time when freedom and free speech is being legislated into oblivion, and of course we can’t talk about that either because it’s fake news.
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In some elements there are increased incidence of disabled children as it is acceptable for cousins to marry cousins and deformity is seen as the will.of Allah.
Some elements can be considered very backward but not addressed by the western authorities as it’s seen as a cultural issue. Dumb ass political correctness again. Also high incidence of domestic abuse. All related to cultural and religious norms that should NOT BE TOLERATED in the west.
The west is to blame for tolerating it.
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It is something I just don’t fathom how Merkel and other leaders would want to bring this into their Country and on their Citizens
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At a certain level MENA is considered owned by the west, and the old continent is considered a part of that reality that must adapt to it ,and that is there to adapt to it in return for adapting the region of MENA .
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Because governments create problems and then offer themselves up as the solution.
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That or are determined to save face at all costs.
They are starting to like the war meme in Europe now. Various countries declared war on others over the last years, including Germany, but no, instead we have this, and …
‘We are at war, the suspect is on the run’
It could not be more absurd… well it probably could but I don’t like to think how.
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Merkel is an example of a politician who can NOT admit when he made a mistake which leads to more and more errors being made to cover up the original mistake because the leader and her close circle can not admit a mistake.
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If Germany had a truly free press it would rub Merkels face in her mistakes so much that either Merkel would be forced to admit her mistakes and say she is sorry with tears in her eyes and resign OR the german public would get so outraged that there would be daily demonstrations for Merkel to resign and all CDU/CSU politicians supporting Merkel would be booed wherever they went.
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Unfortunately German press has so far treated Merkel like russian press treats Putin.
Complete and baseless leader worship where Merkel can do no wrong in Germany according to mainstream german media just like Putin can do no wrong according to russian media.
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Demographics. German is would otherwise become Japan.
Also. in my opinion, a strong EU desire the dilute race, religion, identity to country. Thereby the EU can form a new empire.
The EU has a very strong influence on this is mould a new United States of Europe.
Anything any group can take pride in is to be ELIMINATED. Country, religion, race etc.
Some of the words from the EU zealots are SCARY.
Once really up and running with hard power as well as soft they will confront Russia and the US. The real target is to have a market, population and military able to face down USA, China within 100 years. Sooner it happens the happier they will be.
It’s all related.
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In 100 years the EU will be Muslim.
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Yet another advantage of autonomous cars/trucks is that they should end attacks like this, as the vehicles should be programmed to avoid hitting humans.
Of course, someone will raise the possibility that hackers might be able to reprogram the vehicles TO hit humans. So I guess the programs will need to be protected by strong security and not allow the controlling ROM to be replaced. Another checkpoint for the developers.
Maybe the manufacturers can even add sensors to cars/trucks that detect explosives in the vehicle, refuse to move and inform the police, thus also eliminating the possibility of using driven or stationary cars as bombs.
Hey CNN, how about getting some pundits to discuss this?
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Of course it might be easy to leave bombs on board and have them blow up at crowded intersections. Don’t even have to be a suicide bomber.
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Which is why I said there might be bomb sniffers on board. Maybe required by the government.
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Huh? It’ll actually make attacks easier, since the drivers will no longer have to commit suicide.
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Exactly, and you can mod. any self driving vehicle to whatever. IS has programs already to build remote/self driving vehicles for this purpose.
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No politician could be this willfully stupid. The forces that pull Angela Merkel’s strings are so compelling and so powerful that she has no other practical option than to continue down the same course that guarantees the demise of her own country. Given all the evidence of the problems these Muslim refugees have caused the German and the Euro citizens – she won’t even concede that her past policies were harmful and in hindsight would’ve changed them provided the opportunity.
Merkel is a possessed and controlled woman. She’s not a leader. She’s a conduit for evil powerful forces that do not have Germany’s best interests at heart.
This should be obvious to any thinking adult.
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Like Heinlein indicated, those who should be in government would only be those who don’t want to be in government.
I say don’t want government.
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Merkel is a collectivist — calling her a “globalist” is great marketing spin on George Soros’ part, but its the same stupid idea that led to fascism every other time it was tried.
Agree with Mish that Merkel is still in office only because no one else in the CDU wants to clean up her mess. But a xmas massacre is going to make “Anyone but Merkel” a very popular candidate. Either the CDU comes up with another name, the SPD comes up with a fall guy, or one of the really crazy parties will step in.
Merkel has blood on her hands, and it won’t wash off in time for elections (probably not ever). The CDU knows this, even if they don’t admit so publicly.
The EU has to be in total panic (well Juncker is probably too drunk to know what is happening, but the little euro-crats have to be in a panic). Whomever replaces Merkel, even if it is just a warm body to keep the seat out of AfD hands, is going to be a lot less supportive of EU fascism.
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Mish has been calling end of Merkel fot some time now and she is still here. Pretty much like recession call in US…
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Fred, I hope the EU crats are capping themselves.
It is indeed a form of fascism.
There is an evil at the centre that reprogrammed all who get close to it.
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IT’S THE EU !!
I’m not joking.
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Yes. There is no way any of this could take place without EU. Her nature fits into what is offered. EU is like a very powerful force that has no body, no face of its own, and it finds that the modern political class are ideal hosts.
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Mish, Off subject, but here’s one that will bring you closer to home for 3 minutes:
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Most illuminating. Someone has to meet Illinois’s pension liabilities though.
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The government employees known as judges seem to think the pension liabilities must be met (they have a conflict of interest). Reality has a different view. Ask Detroit or Valhalla CA.
Reality will eventually prevail over corrupt IL courts, like it or not.
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NOBODY needed to get to Germany to get protection!
All syrians were already completely safe in Turkey which gives tents, food, water and schooling for syrian refugees and lets syrians also rent inexpensive apartments where they want if they have savings or if they start a business or work in Turkeys flexible labor market with much lower unemployment than Greece for example.
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Syrians came to Germany because Germany (and Sweden) PROMISED 100% acceptance rates, permanent residences immediately and gave free apartments and free welfare money like candy.
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Syrians were able to come to Germany because Merkel DEMANDED that borders must stay open no matter what and Merkel called Hungarians racists for trying to control their borders like Schengen agreement and Dublin treaty demand so that there must be no passing through of asylum seekers and that asylum seekers must seek asylum in the first country they reach.
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Merkel even wanted Austria and Slovenia to continue letting people through when the route to Germany had started going through Austria-Slovenia-Croatia-Serbia-Macedonia when Hungary had closed its borders.
Despite Merkels demands that borders must stay open Austria and Slovenia closed their borders and stopped the passthrough and Austria decided to accept MAX 80 asylum seekers per day and when that decision was deemed lawful by European Council Slovenia was the final country completely closing the asylum seeker rush towards welfare europe by deciding that Slovenia would not let people through but accept 50 asylum seekers per MONTH.
This decision by Slovenia led to Croatia, Serbia and Macedonia closing their borders within 24 hours so that the 50,000 people in Greece wanting to go to welfare europe would not end up in a dead end in their country and start the rioting they were making in Greece demanding passage to Germany to get the free apartments and free welfare money they had heard about and which motivated them to risk drowning between Greece and Turkey and leave safe and humane conditions in Turkey to try to reach the welfare dream of western europe.
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In addition to the syrians there were also lots of afganistanis, iraqis, somalis coming to europe dreaming about welfare europe who were already safe in their home countries safe areas but decided to try to get to europe because their countrymen told them on facebook how western europe gives asylums based on just a story with NO evidence of persecution needed (this was because swedish asylum procedures that were the most lax, loose, stupid and incompetent were spread around EU by EU commission and newly formed bureaucracy EASO (European Asylum Support Office) and EU directives had loosened the asylum process by demanding quick asylum decisions meaning no time to even try to check the facts the asylum seekers claimed and EU-directive on quick family re-unification meant that once the asylum had been given based on just a story the family could quickly follow because EU-directive demanded quick family re-unifications making Europe more and more luring to people dreaming about welfare europe.).
NO iraqis, afganistanis or somalis should be given asylum because their countries have SAFE areas so according to international treaties this means their asylum claims should ALL BE REJECTED based on possibility of internal flight but EASO-modules originally from Sweden were beyond stupid and the asylum bureaucracies were full of leftist bureaucrats who desperately just wanted to “help” people instead of working like an immigration officials should by catching cheaters and liars.
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Another european insanity is rewarding army desertion of eritreans so that each eritrean army deserter is given permanent residence, free apartment and free money in western europe if they get there because they deserted eritrean army and there is a penalty for army desertion in eritrea so EASO thinks nobody should be returned to Eritrea.
The choice for eritreans is 18 months of army service in the eritrean desert OR free apartment, free welfare money and permanent residency in western europe if they can get to western europe.
Not surprisingly lots of eritreans desert army every year.
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ALL iraqis, afganistanis, somalis and eritreans should be returned to their home countries.
I am sure eritrea would remove punishments for deserting eritrean army if Europe promised to return eritrean army deserters and thereby stop the army desertion epidemic.
Iraqis, Afganistanis and Somalis can live peacefully in their home countries right now.
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Then there was also lots of purely ECONOMIC MIGRANTS who came to europe just to get money and decided to try their luck in the “tell a sad story and you might get asylum” lottery tht is the inept and incompetent european asylum system and these are pakistanis, bangladeshis, palestinians, nigerians, gambians, tunisians, moroccans, albanians, etc. etc. ALL of whom should be immediately reurned to their home countries.
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NOBODY would come to Europe if there was NO way to welfare europe from Greece and Italy which give NO welfare to asylum seekers in the asylum seeker phase and NO welfare after they have been given asylum.
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Merkel and Germany and Sweden and other western european countries MUST STOP LURING PEOPLE TO COME so people will not drown in the mediterranean sea and terrorists and rapists and criminals stop coming to europe among the millions lured by european welfare and lax, loose and incompetent asylum process where asylums are given based on lies, fairytales and made-up stories examples of which are being spread by successful asylum seekers on facebook.
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EU Commission.
There is an evil element there that will only be seen with hindsight.
God only knows where it will finally lead but every chance to nowhere good.
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“Syrians were able to come to Germany because Merkel DEMANDED that borders must stay open no matter what and Merkel called Hungarians racists for trying to control their borders …”
Bingo! Racism has zero to do with this. Rational discrimination against a culture based on the last empire religion of antiquity has everything to do with the anti ” refugee ” movement.
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I blame Merkel’s support for Obama/Hillary’s mad destruction of Libya and Syria even more than her refugee policies. No wars, no refugees. How difficult is that to comprehend?
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The funding and arming and supporting of “moderate” syrian rebels aka Free Syrian Army (which turned out to be nothing but an ISIS front) by John McCain and other US politicians and CIA was stupid beyond belief.
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The murder of Libyas Gaddafi by French fighter jet when he was fleeing and the support France and USA gave to libyan rebels who turned out to be islamists, muslim brotherhood and Al-Qaida and who later killed American Ambassador was even bigger stupidity.
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Now both Libya and Syria are complete messes and if Syria does not turn into a country completely controlled by ISIS americans can thank “evil” Russia for it.
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There should be test to get into Intelligence Agencies that would stop all the people who want to play agent and watched too much Jason Bourne and too much Jack Bauer.
Currently CIA apparently has way too many people who want to play “secret agent” and think arming islamist crazies is a good thing in some far-fetched scenario done by an CIA analyst never leaving his desk and followed by “playing secret agent” fanboys of CIA on the ground…
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There are plenty of asylum seekers from all over the place in Germany. This suspect is from Pakistan, comitted minor offences, but lives happily in Germany as asylum seeker.
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well, there was a war in syria without billary and Merkel…………..but Merkel is toast…….she’s lost the next election she just doesn’t know it yet.
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https://www.wri-irg.org/news/2006/pflueger-en.htm
In effect German policy spilt over to Syria, even if the Germans were not frontline. They helped take out the Iraqi Ba’ath party. What is declared and witnessed vs. what kind of support or encouragement was committed privately is something else too. In short, you cannot exclude any country showing open involvement in hostilities, and that therefore includes Merkel. The German population were by majority against any involvement.
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As to Merkel’s personal stance :
http://www.dw.com/en/angela-merkel-spoke-in-berlin-and-dw-checked-the-facts/a-19439266
As the leader of the opposition Christian Democratic Union at the time, Merkel announced her support for the United States and United Kingdom before the Iraq War began in 2003. Merkel defended the US-UK invasion as an unavoidable approach to damage containment – despite broad reservations among the German population and the CDU party base.
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201609091045136979-germany-september-11/
“It was only by chance — that a social democrat like [Gerhard] Schroeder was chancellor — that Germany did not take direct part in the Iraq War. With Merkel in the seat, German military would have gone, she even went to Washington to apologize for Schroeder’s decision,” Broeckers said.
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Soros sponsors invasion of barbarians , newleftists ( communists) invites terrorists and average European still support such politicians as Merkel , Juncker , Timmermans or Schulz – for them the biggest enemy is Catholic Church not muslims. Stupid European paid . pays and will pay again .
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Juncker was chosen to lead EU like China chooses leaders so there was nothing democratic about it and Juncker continues to be a leader for the same reason Paul Ryan leads the republicans in congress.
Nobody else wants to do the job among those who could be picked to do it so lying drunk Junker keeps doing stupid decisions one after another.
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Merkel is still supported by germans because most of german media creates a hero cult and keeps the hero cult up about Merkel the same way that russian media does about putin.
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Germany desperately needs an honest media that really brings political responsibility to Merkel and those politicians who support Merkel.
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Forget it. Won’t happen. EU won’t allow it as Germany is too important to the project and must be under control.
Yes, the EU is able to influence.
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Heavens to Merkeltroyd! Exit stage left! Bing!
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Merkel going is only any use if it also flushes out Junker, Tusk and Selmayr.
Otherwise NOTHING WILL CHANGE.
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Tusk was DEMANDING in 2015 that EU countries must start using DETENTION for up to 18 months for all asylum seekers as allowed by EU law to stop asylum seeker crime and discourage more asylum seekers from coming.
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Tusk also had a deal with Turkey already negotiated where Turkey would take back asylum seekers coming to Greece but then Merkel held “private” talks with Turkey and incompetently promised 80 millions turks visa-freedom to Europe which Turkey of course took when Merkel was incompetently and cluelessly offering it under political pressure back in Germany to do “something” because Merkel had demanded that borders must stay open and Austria and Slovenia had despite Merkels threats already closed their borders and stopped 90% of the arrivals already which showed that Merkels insistence on open borders had been complete stupidity.
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Merkel is a politicians politician always trying to save her face and career and only caring about politics.
Merkel does not care one bit about asylum seekers raping german children and german women and killing germans, she just cares about her political stature.
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The tragedy of CDU/CSU party is that all are afraid to challenge Merkel.
There should be a rule in every party that the current leader must always be challenged by somebody instead of the current coronations of Merkel as done at CDU/CSU.
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The suspect was known to police for minor offences, but hey this is Germany; this does not effect his asylum application, nor the fact that he was from Pakistan, i.e. he does not need asylum. My bets is they are looking for a Russian connection.
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According to EU law EVERY asylum seeker can be kept in DETENTION for up to 18 months.
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All crimes, assaults, rapes and terrorism that asylum seekers commit is a POLITICAL CHOICE by Angela Merkel and rest of clueless western european politicians because they CHOOSE to let asylum seekers move freely after registration instead of using detention.
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The US, Europe and all of Western Civilization will never extricate itself from the middle east as long as the middle east has all its money concentrated in an uber wealthy elitist ruling class. Karl Marx was right that the west would sell the tool for its own distruction. The west would sell its children (unborn killed via abortion) and its future if enough money were offered.
Do you think all this legally informed political correct speech, conformist pro-immigration and deflection of various crimes and corruption and terrorism is by simple ideology. News flash! No ideology survives unless it is backed by money and media where it roles into govt, law, taxes and public opinion.
Think about why Christianity has been eviscerated and wiped out in Europe. The people didn’t want it. It was wiped out by people with money to wage the lawsuits and protests leaving a vacuum for cultural Marxism and islam.
Nationalism, the nation-state, Christianity, traditional values and family, the deportation of those who will not assimilate and who are criminals…and finally energy independence are what is needed. People think renewables are all about environment and global warming. They are wrong. Its a covert cover to use technology to combat energy dependence on failed despotic Islamic states. It has been a govt strategy since atleast the Carter Administration but the govt knew the American people would never accept the equivalent investment of a 40 year moon mission to create energy independence nor would the American people accept higher energy prices that the govt could justify but not publicly…so they coopted the green movement. Public relations media then made saving the planet and the green movement the key platform for renewables. Last point…its a deal with the devil the west has been kicking down the road. The dollar is backed by the petro-dollar….which will change as oil is replaced by renewables…on the other hand the US cannot be economically and culturally subservient to OPEC. Either leg is going to break. I think the strategy has been to kick the can down the road and hope that a feasible transition will reveal itself.
Interesting hypothesis…when the oil economy diminishes…and Islamic jihad has no unlimited funding…will north Africa escape Islam and will it rejoin Europe? History has a way of repeating itself. Many people have theorized that jihad are the last gasps of Islam trying to take as much as they can before the financing for Islam runs out.
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