Monthly Archives: October 2015

Does Europe Need a Union for the Mediterranean?

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If you like the European Union, just wait till you see the Mediterranean Union!

In his latest essay, Fjordman pulls the lid off “EuroMed” and takes a look at his continent’s Eurabian future.

Does Europe Need a Union for the Mediterranean?
by Fjordman

Gisèle Littman was born to a Jewish family in Cairo, Egypt, in 1933. She has for years written under the pen name Bat Ye’or (“daughter of the Nile”). In several books she has explained the culture and mentality of dhimmis, non-Muslims submissive to Islamic rule. Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis from 2005 is perhaps her most controversial work.[1] While it has been dismissed as a “conspiracy theory” by hostile mass media, Bat Ye’or herself never claimed to invent the term Eurabia. This was the name of a French journal in the 1970s.[2]

The names and agreements referred to in her book are real. I have checked some of them personally. The only possible criticism that one might raised against Bat Ye’or is to say that she might have misinterpreted these agreements. They exist.

She describes the way in which Europe is gradually being transformed into a civilization of dhimmitude, an appendix to the Middle East that is subservient to Islamic demands. This process began in the 1970s with pressure from Palestinian terrorism and the blackmail of Arabs from Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) during the 1973 oil embargo. Certain European countries, particularly France, wanted to create a Euro-Arab bloc in an attempt to make up for declining international influence. The Euro-Arab Dialogue was born. In exchange for opening markets for European products in the Middle East, efforts were made to spread the Arabic language and culture in Europe and present a positive picture of Arab-Islamic civilization. This further included a positive attitude towards Muslim immigration to Europe, and supporting the Palestinians against Israel. The Euro-Arab cooperation has expanded to include mass media, academia, cultural centers, school textbooks, youth associations, tourism and interfaith dialogue. These developments have been supported by Western European leaders, whether through stupidity or otherwise.

Bat Ye’or also describes the Barcelona Process. It was created in 1995 with the intention of bringing Europe and the Arab world closer together. According to the EU’s website, “The Barcelona Process was launched in November 1995 by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the then 15 EU members and 12 Mediterranean partners, as the framework to manage both bilateral and regional relations. Guided by the agreements of the Barcelona Declaration, it formed the basis of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership which has expanded and evolved into the Union for the Mediterranean. It was an innovative alliance based on the principles of joint ownership, dialogue and co-operation, seeking to create a Mediterranean region of peace, security and shared prosperity.”[3]

In order to reinvigorate this Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and the Barcelona Process, a Union for the Mediterranean between the member states of the European Union and the Arab League was created in 2008. It says on their website that “The Union for the Mediterranean is a multilateral partnership aiming at increasing the potential for regional integration and cohesion among Euro-Mediterranean countries.”[4]

The Union for the Mediterranean has a joint secretariat. The members meet on a regular basis at the level of senior officials from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the 43 countries, EU institutions and the Arab League. The meetings are chaired by a co-presidency, one from the European Union side and the other from the southern Mediterranean side. The work of the UfM Secretariat is carried out in close collaboration with a network of partners and institutions, from government officials to the private sector and civil society. It encompasses interfaith and intercultural dialogue, as well as issues related to migration. Their own website states in English that the Union for the Mediterranean comprises the 28 EU member states, the European Commission and 15 Mediterranean countries. The League of Arab States, or Arab League, participates in all meetings at all levels of the Union. The Arab League represents countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Yemen and Qatar. Mauritania in western Africa is a full member of the Union for the Mediterranean, enjoying the same formal status there as Algeria, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Malta, Morocco, Denmark, France, Jordan, Lebanon, The Netherlands, Palestine, Poland and Turkey.[5]

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Baroness Cox Takes a Stand Against Sharia

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Caroline Cox is a cross-bench member of the British House of Lords and a staunch opponent of Sharia in the UK. She appeared recently on the BBC with Nigel Farage of UKIP to discuss her proposed bill that would close loopholes in British law that allow women to be oppressed and discriminated against in the country’s notorious sharia courts.

The following clip was taken from that BBC segment. Pay special attention to what the female Muslim lawyer has to say about the effects of sharia on women in Britain:

Below are excerpts from a report in The Daily Mail about Baroness Cox’s bill:

Muslim men in some communities in Britain are having up to 20 children each with multiple wives under Sharia law, potentially leaving the youngsters ‘vulnerable to extremism’, peers warn.

Cross-bench peer Baroness Cox said yesterday the men’s behavior is creating ‘dysfunctional families’ — with some divorcing their wives by simply saying or writing ‘I divorce you’ three times.

She also gave a number of ‘shocking examples’ of how the Islamic legal system ‘discriminates’ against Muslim women, whom she said needed better protection under equality legislation.

Addressing the House of Lords, she said one woman had told her: ‘I feel betrayed by Britain. I came here to get away from this and the situation is worse here than in the country I escaped from.’

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Baroness Cox then spoke of how her Muslim friends had told her that in some communities in the UK ‘with high polygamy and divorce rates, men may have up to 20 children each’.

‘Clearly, youngsters growing up in dysfunctional families may be vulnerable to extremism, she said.

She added that ‘demography may affect democracy’.

In another example of how Muslim women need greater protection, Baroness Cox told the story of ‘Roma’ — not her real name — who suffered physical abuse at the hands of her Pakistani husband.

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Pretend We’re on the Heath, King Lear

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Sheesh. Okay, here comes another weather warning.

First, the washing machine’s pump quit functioning – midwash, of course – so the Baron has driven out to finish rinsing a coverlet. Despite the repairman’s assurances that the new part would be here “soon” we’re playing it safe by having the B take that half-finished wash to the laundromat. I know from experience it will be the first of next week before we have a functioning washer again. There is something in the nature of carpenters and repairmen that prevents them from delivering the Naked Truth. Since I’ve stared at her haunches a right good many years now, I’ve come to prefer her lineaments. But repairmen find it painful – they have to avert their eyes and give you “good” news.

Meanwhile, the shredded remnants of Hurricane Patricia, the one that was supposed to destroy the coast of Mexico but didn’t, has made her leisurely way from the Gulf up to us. There’s thunder out there, and on the radar I counted at least eleven storm cells bound to come on through, headed northeast…more or less.

Y’all know the fragile nature of our electric connection by now. As the lines come down the mountain, trees and branches could end up falling on any of them. Our electric co-op has a year-’round schedule of cutting those suckers back, but this is a heavily forested area. Timber is raised as a cash crop. That’s why we got a gas cooking range a few years ago, to save at least that stress. Wish we could power our phone and internet connection with gas…

Several people have asked why the electric lines aren’t buried underground as they are elsewhere. It’s true that some affluent areas have done just that but the mountains and the Piedmont area and the scattered nature of rural homes in a sparsely settled area put that cost out of reach of most of the co-operative’s customers. Our area didn’t even get electricity until the early 1960s. You can see that history laid out in Schloss Bodissey’s architecture: the kitchen and bath were integrated into the existing house at a much later date than the original construction. When this place came into being it was two rooms and a screened-in porch. They heated and cooked with a wood stove and carried water in from the well. There was a small pasture, a hen house, and a hand-tilled garden. I would love to have seen it in its original configuration but they darn sure didn’t have luxuries like cameras or the film to buy and develop.

All of which is to say, if you notice the comments aren’t coming in, or new posts aren’t appearing, it simply means ol’ Thor is in a mood; you can’t ever tell. And perhaps nothing will happen but I’ll fill the water jugs anyway. Yes, the pump in our deep well runs on…electricity.

Dad’s Army

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Autumn Fundraiser 2015, Day Three

We’re rolling on into the middle of our fundraising week here at Gates of Vienna.

To everyone who has chipped in so far: Thank you!

To those who have yet to give: It’s time to turn your pockets inside out and see if you can find anything besides lint!

What’s notable about the week’s effort up to this point is the modest level of individual donations — times are tough for everyone. However, the increase in the number of donations (quite a few of them from first-time donors) has made up for it. That’s the great thing about crowdfunding.

Tip jarDymphna’s excellent fundraising post last night (if you missed it, go here) reminded me of the days when she and I used to collaborate from time to time on posts. Nine or ten years ago, before I moved my office up here to the Eyrie at Schloss Bodissey, we would sit together in front of the computer with one of us typing (usually me) while we put together a post on something that interested us both. Each of us would throw out suggestions and phrases as we went along, revising and reworking until we were both satisfied. The final result was an amalgam, and even though we have distinct writing styles, when I look back at those old pieces, I can’t tell which portion was Dymphna’s and which was mine.

We were no spring chickens even then, and now we’re definitely Geezer Warriors of the Counterjihad. However, the most significant aspect of the current conflict is the Information War, and unlike a regular war, it’s not just a young man’s game. If your brain can still function — which mine can, at least some of the time — depth and breadth of experience can count for as much as youthful vigor in the propaganda trenches.

I suppose that makes us part of the 21st-century equivalent of Dad’s Army.

Which brings us around to the theme of this week’s fundraiser, which is “Home”.

“Dad’s Army” was a popular nickname for what was more properly known as the Home Guard. During the Second World War the institution functioned as a backup military auxiliary in Britain. The photo above is from a popular television comedy series called Dad’s Army that ran on the BBC while I was living in England in the 1960s.

British comedy programs (or, more precisely, programmes) that became popular at home were often adapted for the American market and shipped across the Atlantic. Two of the most famous ones from that period were Steptoe and Son, which became Sanford and Son in its stateside version, and Till Death Us Do Part, which became All in the Family.

But the same thing didn’t happen with Dad’s Army. The most likely explanation is that there was no equivalent American experience that could replicate the wartime context of the series. Since the War of 1812 (which was a small piece of the Napoleonic Wars), there has never been any real threat of a mass invasion of the Continental United States. During WW2 we had Japanese and German subs off our coasts, and spies and provocateurs who infiltrated our cities, but no one ever thought it likely that the massed forces of Hitler or Tojo would land on our shores.

The situation was quite different in Britain. After Dunkirk there was a very real possibility — considered by many a likelihood — that the Wehrmacht would launch a cross-Channel invasion onto the southern shores of England. With most of the regular army tied up abroad, the Home Guard was formed in an attempt to provide a buffer that could help hold off the Germans until regular military forces could be redeployed to Britain.

Dad’s Army included not just those who were too old for military service, but also young men who failed to meet the medical requirements for service, or were deemed unfit in other ways.

Initially the Home Guard was woefully short of modern firearms. Some units were equipped with halberds, hastily fashioned pikes, and other makeshift weapons. You can see visual gags based on those weapons in the following video, which features the intro and theme song for Dad’s Army:

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/27/2015

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Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, warned that the “refugee” crisis may threaten the cohesion of the EU. Meanwhile, Martin Schulz, the president of the EP, accused European governments of acting in their national interests instead of the interests of the “community”.

In other migration news, Germany is sending police to Slovenia to help patrol its borders.

In other news, the European Commission is considering a proposal that would allow Britain to abolish the VAT on tampons. The so-called “tampon tax” is considered sexist in the UK.

To see the headlines and the articles, click “Continue reading” below.

Thanks to C. Cantoni, Fjordman, Insubria, JD, Nick, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.

Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. We check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.

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When We Return To Austria, It Will Be On Horseback

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The makers of this German news report are evidently unaware what the Hosts of Mohammed do when they are on horseback, but I’m certain that the “refugee” who says he looks forward to being in the saddle is well aware of Islam’s equestrian martial traditions.

The program was aired by Spiegel TV Magazin, and the producers did their best to show how nice everything is. Just a little hike in the Alps for some unfortunate “refugees”. Idyllic scenery, kind people to greet them, free transport, maps handed to them, signposts for their convenience, temporary living quarters with all the modern conveniences — it’s all so nice.

Yes, a few words of demurral are allowed in here and there, but nothing strident, nothing “extreme”. Just some crotchety old country people, geezers and ignorant hicks. People who don’t understand the radiant future that awaits them in Modern Multicultural Germany.

Notice that all the migrants speak English to the interviewer, requiring a voice-over for the German-language audience.

Notice also that the maps handed out to the “refugees” have Arabic writing on them.

Does anyone besides me find that fact chilling?

Many thanks to Nash Montana for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Transcript:

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Through a Glass Darkly

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I had an email exchange with one of our British contacts this morning, with the focus on the “refugee” crisis. At one point in the conversation, referring to the German government’s immigration policy, our correspondent said:

What they have done there is breathtaking, truly astonishing. And there will be another two million next year trying to get in, at the very least. Not counting all the “family reunification”.

Below is an excerpt from my reply:

The uncertainty factor comes into play this winter. If something isn’t done, those “refugees” will freeze to death in droves. When they do, the photographers and videographers will be there (probably outnumbering the migrants) to make sure their pathetic suffering is recorded in loving detail and beamed to every TV screen in the world. It will be like the Dead Baby Porn, only a couple of orders of magnitude larger.

That will put Chancellor Merkel in a hard place. In order to keep those invaders warm, she will have to move them inside. But there aren’t enough king-sized heated tents for them, and I don’t think Germany can manufacture new ones quickly enough. She will have to empty more schools, hotels, and privately owned buildings to get them indoors. But even that will be a huge logistical undertaking.

When she attempts that, there will be a lot of blowback. Good, obedient Germans will go along with things for a while, because that’s their nature. Seething with concealed anger, but obeying orders, jawohl. For a while. Until they reach that tipping point. And then their reaction will make PEGIDA look like a Sunday school picnic.

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The Swedish Media and the “New Swedes”

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Last week’s school murders in Trollhättan gave Swedish journalists what they have wanted desperately for a long time: a murderous lunatic who was also an ethnic Swede. Our Norwegian correspondent The Observer examines the political, social, and journalistic context of a murderer who doesn’t have to be “pinkwashed”.

The Swedish media and the “New Swedes”
by The Observer

The humanistic Übermenschen (journalists and politicians) who are working tirelessly on transforming Sweden into Western Europe’s first failed state must have been in a state of absolute panic when the first reports about the deranged Trollhättan school killer[1] started trickling into the politically correct Swedish newsrooms recently. No doubt they hoped with all their hearts that the sword wielding maniac who had donned the intergalactic version of the Burqa, a sinister looking black Darth Vader outfit, before going on a mad killing spree at a local school wasn’t a “new Swede”, and in particular not one who was in any way shape or form affiliated with a certain “religion that only wants to bring peace and harmony to the world”.

Maybe the Übermenschen of Sweden even went over possible angles and ways to describe the incident while it was still being played out. In their minds, that would at least lessen the significance of the perpetrator’s ethnicity, send out a crystal-clear message to any Swedes who might be tempted to make an issue out of the killer’s cultural background, and last but not least severely tone down or completely ignore the killer’s motivations should it turn out that he didn’t have Klingon as a native tongue, but rather spoke an archaic desert language and followed an earthly religion that condones stoning of women, killing of apostates and the severing of limbs, just to name a few juicy details.

Trollhättan is a small town situated on the western coast, not far away from Sweden’s second city Gothenburg, which has the dubious honour of having sent more fighters to ISIS that any other region of Sweden[2]. Thus the Übermenschen who secretly feared that it could be the work of a “New Swede” were certainly not unjustified in suspecting that it could have something to do with ISIS and that it was perhaps just a case of the “war being brought back home to Sweden”. After all, it was only a couple of weeks ago that hard-core Muslims in Gothenburg showed their brazenness and demanded that Christian Assyrians in the city convert or die[3]. The Arabic letter for Christian was even painted on the wall of a restaurant owned by an Assyrian Christian family, so one can understand the Übermenschen’s fears in that regard.

It must then have been very satisfying for them to learn that their suspicions had been completely unfounded and that the mental duress that they had had to go through was in vain. The sudden explosion of endorphins and other happy chemicals must have resulted in lots of mental “high-fives” and heartfelt sighs of relief when the identity of the killer was finally announced, and it turned out that he was a white ethnic Swede. And not only that, the killer was also an evil racist who had clicked on like buttons of video clips praising Adolf Hitler on YouTube just as assiduously as they themselves click on the delete button in the editor’s window of the readers’ comments section of their politically correct newspapers.

Nor could they believe their luck when it turned out that the killer was a big fan of the Sweden Democrats, which meant that their prayers had finally been heard and that they at last had been given what they had been waiting for for so long, namely Sweden’s own version of Anders Behring Breivik. This one-in-a-million type of event is the equivalent of being dealt a Royal Flush in poker — it’s a hand so potent that it is capable of silencing any rational and lucid argument that would otherwise have to be countered with an unconvincing and feeble accusation of xenophobia, Islamophobia or racism. Now all the Übermenschen of Sweden have to do is to utter the word Anton Lundin Petterson a few times and people will soon get the drift and think twice before they voice an alternative opinion.

This latest incident is worth as much to a Swedish multiculturalist as 100 dead kids at a school campus in the US are worth to hard-core anti-gun campaigners, or a couple of dead black criminals are to the “black lives matter” campaign. The method is the same, the hatred is the same and the dishonesty is the same. The only difference is the agenda, and in Sweden the agenda is to silence any criticism of the new multicultural Sweden.

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Home With the Infidels

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Autumn Fundraiser 2015, Day Two

Whee! Day Two of the Fall Fundraiser is here!

For a while I was concerned we wouldn’t be holding this event; real life at Schloss Bodissey kept interfering. But we soldiered on — we always do — slogging through the various smoke bombs the Karma Dude set off in the last few days. He was just testing our mettle, just trying to see if he could get a rise out of us, just playing with what is left of our minds.

The Baron tells me the first full day of this Fall Fundraiser went well; he’s the one who does the heavy lifting around here so he keeps count. According to the B. the first day’s gifts were a nice mix of both our old faithful donors and some brand new ones. That’s always a good sign. Another thing I like is the variety of places y’all came from in order to keep us going. Those points on the map are truly ‘diverse’, as the PC gnomes might say. And the first-day number of donors is one of the highest yet for a single day. All of it makes me most grateful. Frankly, “relieved” might be closer to the mark when it comes to my feelings at the end of the first day. One always worries that Gates of Vienna news is so unrelentingly bad we’ll drive people away. Obviously it hasn’t. Thank you.

In the old days I did the majority of thank-you acknowledgements to donors. However, it began to take much longer, depending on my energy level, that the B took over so people would hear from us within a reasonable time. He has the advantage of not ending up by writing thank you notes that resemble War and Peace, at least in their word count.

Sigh.

Anyway, my great new plan for this fundraiser is to take up some of that slack on my off-days. “Off”-days in this context are the ones in which I’m not the one writing the fundraiser essay. Thanks to some new medication I have more energy now (for the moment at least) so we’ll see how that translates into real work here. My doctor says fibromyalgia treatment is a moving target, and I agree. Vicious little bugger, it is, too.

It was my suggestion that we use “Home” as our theme this time.

There are a number of reasons, public and private, for my choice of theme for this fundraiser. I’ll start with the latter since all of us know and experience only too well the public reasons. We’re all feeling the political pressure there, and some of us are beginning to be a bit avoidant when it comes to the news…

In choosing to consider my private reasons for this theme, I want to reflect on my deep concern for the uncertainty others face right now, and the ways they reflect my own experiences of Home. Some of them haven’t been conscious for a long time, but have been exhumed as I watch what is happening in the world to others, through no fault of their own. The fate of geography is indeed fraught.

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Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/26/2015

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A culturally enriched gunman attempted to crash his explosive-laden car through the gate of an army barracks near Namur in Belgium. Failing in his plan, he fled while being shot at by police, and then drove through a chain-link fence into a field, where he abandoned the car. The suspect in the alleged attack was later apprehended, and is in police custody. The incident had nothing to do with Islam.

In other news, more than thirty “refugees” refused to get off a bus in western Sweden at a remote holiday park where they were to be relocated. They said that the area was too rural, and they were afraid to be surrounded by so many trees.

To see the headlines and the articles, click “Continue reading” below.

Thanks to C. Cantoni, Diana West, Fjordman, Insubria, JD, Jerry Gordon, Nick, Vlad Tepes, and all the other tipsters who sent these in.

Notice to tipsters: Please don’t submit extensive excerpts from articles that have been posted behind a subscription firewall, or are otherwise under copyright protection.

Caveat: Articles in the news feed are posted “as is”. Gates of Vienna cannot vouch for the authenticity or accuracy of the contents of any individual item posted here. We check each entry to make sure it is relatively interesting, not patently offensive, and at least superficially plausible. The link to the original is included with each item’s title. Further research and verification are left to the reader.

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The Ongoing Muslim Invasion of Europe and the Limits of Human Compassion

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The latest essay by our Indian correspondent The Kafir considers the European “refugee” crisis from the standpoint of free-market economics.

The Ongoing Muslim Invasion of Europe and the Limits of Human Compassion

by The Kafir

“As long as an increase in population has been made possible by the growing productivity of the populations in the regions concerned, or by more effective utlilisation of their resources, and not by deliberate artificial support of this growth from outside, there is little cause for concern. Morally, we have as little right to prevent the growth of population in other parts of the world as we have a duty to assist it. On the other hand, a moral conflict may indeed arise if materially advanced countries continue to assist and indeed even subsidise the growth of populations in regions, such as perhaps the Sahel zone in Central Africa, where there appears to exist little prospect that its present population, let alone an increased one, will in the foreseeable future be able to maintain itself by its own efforts. With any attempt to maintain populations beyond the volume at which accumulated capital could still be currently reproduced, the number that could be maintained would diminish. Unless we interfere, only such populations will increase further as can feed themselves. The advanced countries, by assisting populations such as that in the Sahel to increase, are arousing expectations, creating conditions involving obligations, and thus assuming a grave responsibility on which they are very likely sooner or later to default. Man is not omnipotent; and recognising the limits of his powers may enable him to approach closer to realising his wishes than following natural impulses to remedy remote suffering about which he can, unfortunately, do little if anything.”

— F.A. Hayek, from the book The Fatal Conceit, page 114-115 of Kindle Edition.

The Fatal Conceit was originally published in 1988. I doubt any among the do-gooders of the West — the men in The UN, WHO, the whole NGO army, the socialist governments across the Western world — ever read it. Even if any of them did, they must have dismissed above passage in it, if not the whole book itself, as the evil propaganda by a bloodsucking capitalist: “Who else can advocate that infants in the poor countries should not be saved by sparing a little from the trillions the west earns every year, often by exploiting the natural resources of the poor countries?”

A little reflection after reading above book by the great Friedrich Hayek lays bare the horror the compassion of the Leftists has wrought over the past one hundred years.

Ideally, for a society, reduction in infant mortality rates, increase in life expectancy, improvements in the level of education of the population, and the availability of better health services should be a function of its increased prosperity. And equally ideally, the increased prosperity must be a result of free market order in place in that society not the result of some unearned windfall, such as oil or other mineral income in the Gulf countries of the Middle East. If the free market operates in a society, that society becomes rich because of private property rights, a contract system, and free trade and enterprise; and as a result its population grows. The children who survive into adulthood have jobs readily available to them in their own countries, because that is what free market order is all about.

But it is also possible to reduce infant mortality rates and increase life expectancy in a society by pumping money in from the outside, for targeted spending on vaccination, nutrition in early childhood, and basic health services. But in such a case, when those children grow up, they will not all have the means to earn a livelihood. They will feel all bottled up, and the skilful politicians will be able to divert the pressure towards the few rich in their own countries, and towards the rich, “colonial” West.

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What About Greece and Italy?

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JLH has translated three German-language articles about the Mediterranean end of the current “refugee” crisis in Europe. The Mediterranean littoral, especially insular Greece, is the first stop for the migrants arriving on the traffickers’ boats. They don’t want to stay — Southern Europe is too poor and welfare-deficient for their tastes — but they have a significant effect on the unfortunate coastal locales where they debark.

The translator includes this introductory note:

It occurred to me that we have been hearing lot about the people whose governments are forcing immigrants on them, and something about the immigrants themselves, and only coincidentally about the people who are chastised for not stopping it all, so I decided to do a little on Greece (and Italy). Here are three short articles arranged in order to answer the questions:

1.   When is a conservative not a conservative?
2.   Sauce for the goose can also cook the gander?
3.   Will it help if we vacation where the action is?

First, from the Griechenland Blog:

EVP Criticizes Greece for Wave of Refugees

October 22, 2015

Source: Panagliotis Sianis in To Pontiki

The European Peoples Party harshly criticizes Greece for its conduct in relation to the waves of refugees from the Middle East.

The leadership team of Nia Dimokratia (ND), in Madrid to participate in the congress of European people’s parties, finds itself faced with a document harshly critical of Greece’s attitude in the matter of refugees.

According to reports, the circulating draft caused tension, embarrassment and mobilization under the leadership of (interim chair of the ND) Evangelos Meimarakis to delete harsh expressions from the Central European-inspired draft.

Conservatives want to unload their responsibilities on the South

The subject of refugees evokes particular tension on the political stage of a number of nations, above all, Germany, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, etc., which are exerting pressure on the EU to take a stronger position toward the flood of refugees streaming from the Middle East in the direction of prosperous Central Europe.

Angela Merkel, who will arrive in Madrid on Thursday (October 22) — after the precipitous drop in her popularity, and a fierce reaction from her own CDU representatives and functionaries, as well as from the partner CSU of Bavaria — executed an about-face and is now exerting pressure on Greece for common patrolling with Turkey in the Aegean. So the conservatives of Europe are trying to throw the ball of their responsibilities for the situation in the Middle East to the countries in southern Europe for their negligent guarding of the borders.

The ND delegation in Madrid — already internally split over procedures for election of a new chair — must also deal with the pressure from the leadership of the EVP concerning the ND’s objections in the decision to fulfill the requirements (of the third memorandum [concerning Greece’s debt to the EU]), because there is a particular concern in the leadership of the EVP that the ND could backslide into the anti-memorandum rhetoric of 2010-2012, which occasioned the “freezing” of relationships of European conservatives with their Greek colleagues.

Second, from Tages-Anzeiger in Switzerland:

How Greece Expects to Manage the Refugee Crisis

October 10, 2015

The Greek government intends in ten days at the latest to set up a so-called “hotspot” on the Aegean island of Lesbos for reception and registration of refugees. Altogether five hotspots will be set up on the island of Lesbos, Kos, Samos, Chios and Leros. Most boat refugees crossing the Mediterranean from Turkey in search of the EU arrive at these Greek islands.

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Sunni vs. Shi’ites in Copenhagen

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Last Saturday a culture-enriching “Dane” discharged a firearm during a Shia Ashura event in Copenhagen. When he was picked up by the police, a crowd of Muslims attacked the police car, trying to get at him, and had to be beaten back by the police.

At the time he uploaded a video of the incident, Vlad Tepes speculated that the besieged gun owner in the police car might have been a Sunni Muslim who disrupted the Shi’ites at their festival. Sure enough, according to SHIA Waves TV, it was a Palestinian who was arrested for discharging a firearm.

Here’s a video of the mob. Savor the moment when the Danish police have to break out their batons and get to work.

Update: Vlad has appended new material to this video. Watch this version to the end — the new and surprising footage starts at 3:11, followed by Vlad’s excellent commentary:

The Old Infidel Folks at Home

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Autumn Fundraiser 2015, Day One

Yes, it’s that time again. Time to reach deep into your pockets and drag out a few bills for the cause.

Today begins the one week per quarter when we pester our readers for donations to support this blog. I warned you last time that we would be back when the leaves started to fall, and here we are.

Old hands at Gates of Vienna know the drill, but for newcomers, here’s the deal: By holding a bleg every quarter, Dymphna and I are able to pay the hosting fees for our site. We are also able to use the resources kindly provided by our readers for DDoS protection and other utilities that keep us up and running. Whatever is left over goes towards our upkeep here in the palatial Schloss Bodissey — an absolute necessity, given the fact that very little additional work seems to be coming my way at the moment.

The theme of this week’s fundraiser is a broad one: “Home”. In particular, the old infidel folks at home here in the Virginia Outback, running an international Counterjihad operation from their humble shack. You can imagine us as more easterly analogues of those folks in Kentucky from 1940 posing on the porch of their home with their homemade hoes (whooee — a lot of alliteration in there). That’s me, Dymphna, and the future Baron with his two imaginary younger siblings…

The word “home” comes from a Common Germanic root, appearing as ham, hem, heem, heim, heimr, haims, and other forms in various Germanic languages, both living and dead. Its root sense evokes a group of dwellings inhabited by a small band of people, perhaps roughly equivalent to what we would now call a farmstead. The English, with their seafarers’ longing for home, turned the noun into an adverb: we don’t just go homewards; we go home.

Tip jarHome, like any other concept in the hands of those who retail mass propaganda, meant something entirely different to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev back in the early 1980s when he coined the phrase “A Common European Home”. His use of the word “home” was like Hillary Clinton’s co-opting of the word “village”. In his case, it meant huge bureaucratic structures set up to manage the lives of people in what were formerly the nation-states of Europe, all in the name of preventing war and guaranteeing economic prosperity. He didn’t mean what was then the European Community, but he did mean something quite similar to the European Union, only with the USSR in the background running the show.

By the time Mr. Gorbachev put his head together with George H.W. Bush at the end of the decade, the two world leaders were in tune on such matters. The Common European Home would have been, in effect, the local European franchise of what Mr. Bush was pleased to call the New World Order. Everything in the new “home” would be carefully managed by the global elites for the common good, but without any significant input from all those ignorant common people, who didn’t really know what was good for them, anyway.

But then the Soviet Union fell apart and everything got chaotic for a while. Eventually the European behemoth came into being as the EU, absorbing former Soviet satellites and republics one by one, but excluding Russia. This new European home has lost any connection with nations and ethnicities. It is characterized solely by its “values”, which are vaguely defined, but include cradle-to-grave government control, pride parades, the celebration of diversity, and “tolerance” — especially a suicidal tolerance for as many illiterate Third World immigrants who care to walk across its borders and take up residence.

Which brings us to where we are now, here in the final twilight of the European Union. The current “refugee” crisis serves as the death knell for the pseudo-home created by the apparatchiks of the European mega-state. What comes after it is anybody’s guess, but its end is rapidly approaching.

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