* There’s probably some behind-the-scenes propaganda campaign at work here. The media, politicians, oligarchs, and Deep Staters work very closely together to mount sustained propaganda campaigns.
I remember back when the Serbians were supposedly ethnically cleansing the Kosovars in 1999, the television channels and papers kept showing up the same image of a refugee woman over and over again. It was bizarre how often she kept appearing. So much so that someone mentioned it on one of the major cable networks.
If anyone questions whether propaganda campaigns ever occur, I’d point at the Iraq War debate. Not only did the media not challenge even the most blatant lies told by the govt (Saddam did 9/11), but some media outlets (New York Times, Fox News) even created their own unique propaganda.
* Germany looks at this as a “reverse Holocaust”. They can finally remove the indelible stain by greeting the trainloads of miserable masses with teddy bears instead of barbed wire. Sending large sums of money to Greeks via electronic transfer just doesn’t offer the same opportunity for moral preening. Plus Greeks are Christians and members of the EU, so their victim status is highly suspect.
* The connection of the migrant flood with holocaust imagery seems to be very popular with American commentators. So to expunge their “indelible” genetic guilt (how would that even be possible if it’s “indelible”?), it is the consensus that Germans have to embrace their own demise with enthusiasm.
* There is a obvious media campaign for the refugees bu you want to know the real reason behind it?
Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi was the father of the European Union and he wrote this book in the 1920s:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nikolaus_von_Coudenhove-Kalergi
“In his book Praktischer Idealismus (Practical Idealism), he wrote:”
“The man of the future will be of mixed race. Today’s races and classes will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-Negroid race of the future, similar in its appearance to the Ancient Egyptians, will replace the diversity of peoples with a diversity of individuals.”
“Instead of destroying European Jewry, Europe, against its own will, refined and educated this people into a future leader-nation through this artificial selection process. No wonder that this people, that escaped Ghetto-Prison, developed into a spiritual nobility of Europe. Therefore a gracious Providence provided Europe with a new race of nobility by the Grace of Spirit. This happened at the moment when Europe’s feudal aristocracy became dilapidated, and thanks to Jewish emancipation.”
* That reminds me that Arabs generally have a positive image of Germany, not least because of the way the Germans rid their country of Jews (though they generally don’t believe in the Holocaust.)
There’s more to it than than that though: Germany was for centuries a weak and divided nation, frequently invaded, occupied and humiliated by outsiders, which though its own efforts drove out foreigners, achieved national unity and became a great power. The Arabs identify with this and see it as an example to emulate.
* This whole refugee circus is a stunning slap in the face to actual European youth who are unemployed. As the economic powerhouse, Germany could do something about youth unemployment rates above 50% in Spain and Greece, and above 20% in many European countries, including Sweden. This episode really does close the door (if it wasn’t already) on any pan-European solidarity. The dream is over, Europeans need to admit this and support the nationalist parties who have been proven right again and again.
* I am completely stunned to witness the level of suicidal inanity on display in Europe. Germans rushing out with gifts to welcome the invaders who will murder, plunder, and rape them for their own amusement? I always knew that this, in essence, was buried in all the sentimental tripe of multiculturalism, but I was still unprepared to see it manifest in such melodramatic extremes.
The Germans are making a huge mistake. I have experience with these people; I’ve worked around denizens of the Middle East and Africa before, and I can tell you that a more unscrupulous horde of petty cutthroats has never existed. They would be no match at all for an aroused Western force, but a repressed and romantic retinue of German idealists will experience a living hell at their hands. What would it take to get it through Germany’s collective head that these “refugees” will never respect or understand those occidental niceties with which they are welcomed? That they are incapable of appreciating the self-deference and self-command that allows a Westerner to ironically and even gleefully give place to another’s culture, and that they will never return the gesture in kind?
I can only hope that Germany reverts to its historic norm and, after succumbing to abject humiliation, suddenly defends itself with great fury.
* Arabs are just heavily into machismo.
Your typical Lebanese is example enough of that.
What on earth is more macho than the Wehrmacht, the Nuremberg rallies, the uniforms, the parades, the military hardware, and taking on the entire world?
* This is the problem with expecting people to feel too much remorse for their history. I once felt that the Japanese were assholes for not owning up to their actions during World War II. Now I get it. Their ancestors did bad things. So what? We all have ancestors who did bad things.
You can learn too much from history. Guilt is being used as a political weapon, and it is often being used by people with far greater atrocities in their past than those made to feel guilty. The past (and present, and future) of Africa and of Islamic countries is one long story of oppression and bloodshed. What the hell does Germany have to do with it? Nothing.
* I hope Germany enjoys its decision to replace their historic high-achieving minority population with their dysfunctional hillbilly cousins. The former was native to the land for over a millennium and responsible for some of the nation’s greatest recent achievements — the latter are still boinking goats.
* But they were able to take on the entire world because of the opposite of machismo- they could rely on each other. In the psychology experiment called the dictator game, German children gave away half their money . The Germans will not break ranks, that is why after D day the Allies found they could not break through as expected, and Germans had to be blasted out of their positions by heavy artillery. Yes in WW that cohesion meant they were successfully aggressive , but their humanitarianism is also cohesive. Germany is the most formidable country in the world, and they are smashing stomping and destroying the immigration policies of the whole of Europe . Hungary and Romania are being told they do not have the right to disagree with humanitarian policies being led by German decisions, and must obey without argument or comment.
* Deutsche Welle reported that the German government was insisting that all the other European countries share the burden and take in large numbers of these Middle Easterners even against their will. The German government has helped create this crisis by holding out incentives to the migrants that if they complete the obstacle course of passing through other countries they’ll be rewarded. They are trashing the rest of Europe. They destroyed much of Europe before and now they’re doing it again today by other means. The recent depictions of Merkel with a Hitler mustache are not so far off the mark after all. That government needs to go.
* I was going to raise the issue of the Turks admitted to work in Germany back in the 60′s and 70′s. I assume they have all been assimilated. (Where is that sarcasm punctuation mark when I need it?) I seem to recall one of the former German Prime Ministers admitting, after he left office of course, that it was a big mistake to admit Turks to solve the labor shortage back then, but I can’t find those remarks. Does that ring a bell with anyone?
* When will the financial markets reflect the effects of immigration on the value of European companies?
Consider this scenario:
1. Millions of immigrants a year pour into Europe, especially Germany, from third-world countries, and there is no end in sight. Indeed, the flow increases as the immigration routes become well-established. (Regular bus, rail, and sea service.)
2. Large slums become established in major European cities. Riots become routine. Angry leaders emerge in the immigrant community decrying mistreatment. Claims that the immigrants have a historic right to be in Europe and to govern themselves become widespread. Religious violence increases as fiery Islamic militants bring the fight to European soil big time.
3. Financial analysts quietly begin to incorporate immigration factors into their projections, such as (a) lower immigrant skill levels, (b) the drag on the economy from increased social spending, and most importantly, (c) the possibility that Europe’s historically productive institutions and culture will devolve into less productive third-world institutions and cultures.
Financial analysts could easily start applying discounts of 10% to 50% on European companies to reflect the possibility that Europe will become Brazil or Syria in the not-too-distant future. Financial analysts will be the first to unsentimentally evaluate the effects of immigration. Imagine the effect on the markets of an oil refinery being blown up by the newcomers.
Maybe if the stock market craters, Merkel and other European leaders will begin to care. Politicians are extremely sensitive to stock market jitters, and they care very much about what worries investors.
Since financial markets are forward-looking, maybe this will happen soon. (If we are lucky.)
This may already be happening. Perhaps some of the recent drop in European stock prices was due to immigration concerns.
