Category Archives: Balkans

Rep. Steve King’s Remarks Subtitled in Bulgarian

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Last Wednesday we posted a video of Rep. Steve King calling out the Obama administration for interfering in foreign elections, including those in Israel and Macedonia. The most egregious use of taxpayer dollars was for the translation of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals into Macedonian so that it could be distributed by George Soros’ local affiliates before the elections.

Citizens of Israel, the Visegrad Four nations (Hungary, Poland, Czechia, and Slovakia) and possibly other members of the East Bloc may be very interested in this video, so we’re subtitling it in different languages. Previously: Polish, Hungarian.

The following version subtitled in Bulgarian may be of interest to residents of the southern and southeastern Balkans, including Macedonia — where many people understand Bulgarian, a closely-related language.

Many thanks to Tanya T for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

The original English transcript is here.

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USA kongresszusi képviselő bizonyítja: Orbánnak igaza volt Sorossal kapcsolatban

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Translation of the Hungarian title: “US congressman confirms: Orbán was right about Soros”

On Wednesday we posted a video of Rep. Steve King calling out the Obama administration for interfering in foreign elections, including those in Israel and Macedonia. The most egregious use of taxpayer dollars was for the translation of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals into Macedonian so that it could be distributed by George Soros’ local affiliates before the elections.

Citizens of Israel, the Visegrad Four nations (Hungary, Poland, Czechia, and Slovakia), and possibly other members of the East Bloc may be very interested in this video, so we’re subtitling it in different languages. Previously: Polish.

Many thanks to CrossWare for the Hungarian translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

The original English transcript is here.

Hungarian transcript:

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Ingerencja administracji Baracka Obamy w kampaniach wyborczych innych krajów

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Last night we posted a video of Rep. Steve King calling out the Obama administration for interfering in foreign elections, including those in Israel and Macedonia. The most egregious use of taxpayer dollars was for the translation of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals into Macedonian so that it could be distributed by George Soros’ local Balkan affiliates before the election.

Citizens of the Visegrad Four nations (Hungary, Poland, Czechia, and Slovakia) and possibly other members of the East Bloc may be very interested in this video, so we’re going to subtitle it in different languages.

The first language is Polish. Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, Green Infidel for the Polish title, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

The original English transcript is here.

Polish transcript:

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Rep. Steve King on Obama’s Interference in Foreign Elections

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The talking heads in the media and Democrats in Congress have been obsessing about supposed Russian interference in last fall’s presidential election. In response to the continuous Trump-Russia-Putin litany, Congressman Steve King (R-IA) came back with his own list of the Obama administration’s interference in foreign elections — including one in Macedonia, which I had forgotten about. Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals translated into Macedonian, paid for by the American taxpayer!

But that evil Vlad Putin, he’s the REAL election meddler who needs to be watched…

For more on Rep. King’s efforts to investigate Obama and the Clintons, see this Sioux City radio report, or The New York Post.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for subtitling and uploading this video:

Video transcript (including footage at the end that was left out of the video above):

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The Gravedigger of the Left

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Note: This article was originally posted on May 4, and was a sticky feature for several days. Scroll down for more recent items.

Mária Schmidt is a Hungarian historian and university lecturer. In the following essay she outlines the trajectory of George Soros’ career and describes his ongoing nefarious schemes with great lucidity. Her account is literally horripilating: it made my skin crawl to read what this vile man has unleashed upon the world. This “globalized” world.

Many thanks to CrossWare for undertaking the extended task of translating this important article that was originally published at the Hungarian website Latoszogblog.hu:

The Gravedigger of the Left

by Mária Schmidt
April 16, 2017

Case study

Once upon a time there was a huge mining complex in the vicinity of Trepča, where gold, silver, zinc, lead and cadmium were extracted from about forty different mines. These mines gave jobs to the people who lived there. One of them, named Zvecan in Kosovo, had exceptionally rich quarries. Once upon a time the International Crisis Group (ICG), which was established in 1995, was a highly respected, expert, independent research and analysis Institute, created and operated to avoid wars and to build a more peaceful future. Sitting on its board of directors, George Soros — the great philanthropist and part-time humanist, who provides generous donations to ensure its operation — and his son determined that it would be of crucial importance for the future of Kosovo to boost mining production in Trepča. The exploitation of local natural resources would play a large role when Kosovo became independent. The independent ICG experts stated that very unfortunately local production was underfinanced, and the factories were badly managed and harmful to health and the environment. Oh, and the locals were exploited by Belgrade. “Trepča is the Berlin wall of Kosovo. For the longest time it has been the symbol of Serbian tyranny against the Albanians in Kosovo,” they argued professionally. Then war broke out in Kosovo.

A couple of months later the local leader of the occupying UN forces, Bernard Kouchner, who came from the Doctors Without Borders organization — also financed by Soros — was shocked to discover that working in the Trepča mines and factories in Zvecan was very harmful to health, especially for children and pregnant mothers. The UN forces therefore immediately expropriated the mines and processing plants. Then, in a generous gesture, every property in Kosovo. Only because of the coincidence of coincidences were Soros’ private investment companies then given the opportunity to invest $50 million in the area. Simultaneously, the US government has committed $100 million collateral as security for investments in the Balkans.

Soros was selected from among sixteen other candidates, presumably in an open and fair procurement process. So funding was provided in Zvecan, with the obvious aim that further mining not damage the employees’ health, especially that of pregnant mothers and children. All this took place in accordance with the requirements of an open society and the guidelines from independent experts, as elsewhere, all the time, where events meet with a happy ending. This story is quoted on the basis of an earlier article, because not so long ago and not so far from us in time, unsuspected by many of us, Soros and his network used similar methods everywhere, followed the same recipe, and kept the same goals in mind as they operated. When the deal is not lucrative enough, they move on and leave everything behind broken and used up. The mines and downstream plants in Kosovo were recently taken into public ownership, which the northern Kosovo Serbs refused to acknowledge.

The recipe

The recipe is simple. Find a worthwhile business goal. Send forth your civilians (NGOs), destabilize the area and organize an appropriate media tailwind. Go for chaos, and if you have it, you will be the one to organize the assistance for reconstruction, while cherry-picking the most profitable businesses. Break down the borders, so they do not obstruct your movement. Break down national sovereignty, so the interests of the locals and residents will not slow you down. Buy all the experts, with money, scholarships, awards, fame, recognition, hype — whatever the price of someone is. Call them experts; independent; democrat and progressive. Prevent anybody from uncovering their backing, hide their professional incompetence, just as we have seen it in the scandal about the second time they faked global warming data, as it was an obvious organized forgery. So buy the local media: TV, radio, daily and weekly newspapers and the Internet portals, rename them as independent too, and pay them to work towards some goals identified by you. Make them ballyhooed and reward them well. The media stuffed with money by Soros can be recognized from the way they follow the old Leninist tactic: they always use personal attacks. They never present the case, or the allegations; they never argue about the issues; they do not fatigue themselves or the audience with the refutation of ideas. They intimidate people, and if that’s not enough, destroy them; therefore their journalists and activists are specialists in character assassination.

The Soros-type so-called “civilian organizations” — which he keeps in the manner of gentry — are also the trustees of “independence” and “professionalism”. They refer to themselves and each other warmly “as an objective” organization. Enthusiastically and without complaint, they can sent into battle at any time, with any goal that is assigned to them by the Soros empire. Soros’ unprecedented power and influence derives from these all-encompassing auxiliary troops and cross-border networks. They are moved by him in an organized and coordinated way. Occasionally in line with US foreign policy interests, contrary to those interests some other times, often serving them, at other times in a temporary alliance with local leaders, but always in hope of a lavish profit. After all, he is a businessman, or more precisely a speculator who earns by destroying others while he piles up lavish profits.

The Soviet empire becomes the Soros empire

The big game that takes place in the background, the game played by the superpowers, regional and local power centers, often can’t be easily detected, but sooner or later the puzzle comes together. The bottom line is always the same: to take possession of new spheres of influence, or retain existing ones. Such was the case after the collapse of the Soviet empire, as it created a power vacuum. Now, looking back to the past, we can state that in our region, by the end of the 1990s, the change of spheres of influence took place relatively smoothly with a relatively low level of blood sacrifice.

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Zana Ramadani: “No Other Religion Brings Forth So Many Murderers as Islam”

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Zana Ramadani is a former member of Femen, and one of the activists who founded of Femen in Germany. She was born in Germany of Albanian stock — her parents were from Macedonia, and her mother was a believing Muslim.

Many thanks to Nash Montana for translating this interview with Zana Ramadani published in Tages Anzeiger:

“Muslim mothers raise their sons to be losers”

In her bestseller The Veiled Threat, Zana Ramadani writes about macho men, coddling educators and the West in the clutches of an integration frenzy.

[Photo caption: The former Femen activist Ramadani in Berlin: “Muslim women are the biggest oppressors of their daughters.”]

You tangle with everybody in your book: with politics, especially the Left, with feminists, conservative Islam, Muslim machos and their enabling mothers. Do you need police protection?

That’s a lot more difficult to get than one might imagine. I have filed numerous reports with the police, but because the threats, especially on social media, are almost all anonymous, the police can’t do very much. I therefore applied for a gun license last year.

Who shows the most severe reactions?

The gender-feminists. They ridicule my education, call me a single incident and relativize. The conservative Muslims, on the other hand, don’t criticize; they only threaten me.

What do the threats look like?

Well, you can find pretty much anything there. They call me a whore, they threaten me with rape, murder, and since I am pregnant now, they threaten to kick my child out of my body.

Are you afraid?

It would be absurd to say no, I’m not afraid. It weighs on me, yes, but I try to not let it take over.

Is it especially bad that you as a Muslim woman criticize Islam?

If I were a German woman, they would call me a Nazi-slut and a racist; we know these accusations always come up first. But because I am a Muslim woman, it makes it harder and therefore worse. That I as a woman express myself critically against Islam is the worst of all. And so I am simply called mentally ill and traumatized. But they also fear me more, because I know very well what it is I am speaking of. Whenever possible, my opponents always avoid sitting across from me in talk shows.

What do you have against feminists? You were a member of Femen yourself at one time.

I am only against one very particular brand of feminists. Those who speak of solidarity among women but don’t live it. Those that think the only evil in this world is the white Western male, and he can be criticized without limit, unimpeded, while they automatically call you a racist if you criticize men from foreign cultures that are extremely misogynistic. Feminism is about human rights: one should be able to criticize anything and everything that abuses women’s rights, even Muslims. So when feminists call me a racist when I do that, I have a problem with their understanding of what feminism is.

Is this the reason you left Femen?

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Final Solution for the Macedonian Question?

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The territory that is now called the Republic of Macedonia has had the misfortune to be treated as a geostrategic plaything by the Great Powers ever since it was wrested from the Turks more than a century ago. The latest machinations began after the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. On the one hand, the Western powers — the EU and the USA — seem determined to hand Macedonia over to its Albanian minority. On the other hand we have the Russians, who want to maintain solidarity with their Slavic cousins in the Balkans and prevent an unbroken chain of Islamic territory stretching from the Bosphorus to the border of Croatia.

The following essay discusses the Macedonian crisis in detail. The original German text was made available to Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, who asked JLH to translate it. It was also posted by the Wiener Akademikerbund. A shorter version may be found at Andreas Unterberger’s website.

Many thanks to JLH for the full translation.

Final Solution for the Macedonian Question?

The 15% Albanian minority is holding the Republic of Macedonia hostage.

by Dr. Harald W. Kotschky, in Skopje
March 21, 2017

Just imagine, if:

Carinthia, 2017: The small Slovenian minority is demanding that Slovenian be the second language for official matters and everyday discourse, including bilingual place names and street signs in the entire province. On pain of draconian legal penalty, the innkeeper in Mallnitz has to speak Slovenian with his guest from Globasnitz. The state name and the national anthem must be bilingual and the state flag must include a Slovenian symbol. For years now on festive occasions in mixed language areas, there have been no red-white-red flags on the streets and public and private buildings — only the Slovenian national flag. 50% of all officials, of the executive authorities, of the military command must come from the Slovenian population.

Does that seem absurd? Well, exactly that is happening, mutatis mutandis (just exchange “Slovenian” for “Albanian”) a mere thousand kilometers from Vienna, in the Republic of Macedonia.

Mass Demonstrations for an Undivided Macedonia

Fomented by the USA and its Brussels helpers — helpers who may justly be called “quasi-governors” on the basis of their years of intervention in the domestic affairs of this sovereign state — the years-long political crisis in the Balkan Republic of Macedonia is reaching a climax, and may result at any time in violent confrontations. The fuse is lit.

Based on the results of snap elections in December, 2016, the foreign provocateurs want to pressure the president into creating a ruling coalition drawn from the ethnic Macedonian Social Democratic Party and all the ethnic Albanian parties. This would be a decisive step toward splitting the multi-ethnic land along linguistic boundaries.

For three weeks, on a daily basis, around 150,000 persons from all social classes and all ethnic groups, regardless of political preferences — excepting Albanians — have been demonstrating in all the larger cities and towns, for an undivided Republic of Macedonia. Peacefully, in contrast to the Soros network-instigated hooligan-like demonstrations of last year, from which the damage to public buildings may still be seen.

Today alone, in the capitol city of Skopje, more than 50,000 persons were on the street. The initiatives emanating from a non-partisan committee of citizens, artists and intellectuals are ignored or distorted by the mainstream media.

2002 Potemkin Census

The roughly 2.2 million population of the small, landlocked state in the center of the Balkan Peninsula includes more than a half dozen ethnic groups, outside of the autochthons (54% ethnic Macedonians). The political landscape is laid out according to ethnic criteria.

The largest minority is the almost exclusively Muslim Albanians, whose clearly marked territory is in the northwest, along the borders of Albania and Kosovo. Over the centuries they have trickled in over the mountains from the Adriatic area. The greatest influx was after the Second World War, when many ethnic Albanians moved from Kosovo and southern Serbia to the more liberal Yugoslavian republic of Macedonia.

Their present number is debatable. 25% is proposed, but the 2002 poll on which this is based was shadowed by irregularities. First, there was its “Potemkin” aspect — villages known to be abandoned were suddenly replete with life. Albanians came en masse over the Kosovo border, moved from village to village and played “resident population.” Furthermore, there was a long wait for the results of the census, which suggests “adjusted” numbers. Ethnic Albanian politicians (with the support of the quasi-governors) have successfully opposed a new census since 2012. Because a properly achieved result would reveal that the Albanian minority does not reach 20% of the entire population, and this would mean the loss of granted privileges. The number of Albanian speakers could hardly exceed more than 15-16%, as is seen through extrapolation from documents of the social insurance bureau and passport authority.

Albanian Chauvinism — Biblical Leavening in the Land[1]

In the sense of the Huntington thesis[2], Macedonia is a classic “fault-line country” between two cultures — the Christian-Macedonian and the Islamic-Albanian. The significance of religious factors may be seen in the fact that the few Albanians who are willing to integrate into the majority society are almost exclusively from the Catholic or atheist (former Communist) environments.

Practically all other members of the Albanian minority in Macedonia have a twofold lack of allegiance to the state, and live in parallel societies. They see both their ethnic and national identity as Albanian and are inclined toward one of the two “motherlands” — Albania or Kosovo.

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A Mental Patient Went on a Rampage With an Axe in Düsseldorf

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At least that’s what the authorities say — the official line is that there’s no indication of terrorism. We still don’t have a Mohammed Coefficient, but we now know the attacker is from the Balkans — “the former Yugoslavia”, which nicely elides the question of whether he is a Serb, Croat, Slovene, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Bosnian, or Kosovar. Hmm…

The cellphone video below was taken by an eyewitness. I’m told that the young man who took the footage has the unmistakable accent of a culture-enricher, and may be Middle Eastern.

Many thanks to Egri Nök for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling. WARNING: There are no instances of graphic gore in this video, but you will see large blood-splatters on the platform, so sensitive readers may want to skip it.

Below is an article about the attack from RP Online, also translated by Egri Nök:

Axe-Attack at Düsseldorf Main Train Station

Person on rampage allegedly 36-year-old from Wuppertal

Düsseldorf. A man armed with an axe has injured seven people at the Düsseldorf main train station on Thursday evening. According to information made available to our editorial staff, a 13-year-old girl is among the injured. The alleged attacker was arrested.

By Arne Lieb, Stefani Geilhausen, Klas Libuda, H. Pawlitzki

According to police, it is a 36-year-old man from the former Yugoslavia who lives in Wuppertal. He is said to suffer from mental illness. The man attacked passengers with an axe at Düsseldorf train station around 8.50 PM. Seven were injured, three of them gravely. One of the injured suffered a skull fracture.

Police and firemen were out in force; special forces (SEK) were at the scene, too. The main train station was cordoned off. Police call the act a rampage. There are no clues yet indicating a terrorist background.

The alleged attacker was arrested shortly after the attack in the close vicinity of the train station. He had fled over the tracks out of the train station and jumped from a railway bridge onto the Ellerstraße underpass. In doing so, he was seriously injured and is currently receiving treatment under police supervision.

Initially, the officers could not rule out the possibility of another perpetrator. A police helicopter circled over Düsseldorf. But there were no concrete clues indicating a second perpetrator at any time. Police held several suspicious persons at the train station in temporary custody to screen them. “At the moment, there does not appear to be a second perpetrator,” police spokesman Markus Niesczery said in the late evening.

Mayor Thomas Geisel arrived at the train station to get an overview of the situation and to thank the rescue forces. Police chief Norbert Wesseler also arrived at the train station late in the evening. The train station remained closed until approximately 12:30am (CET). Then all platforms except 13 and 14 were opened again. The forensics had not yet finished there. A cleaning squad came to cleanse the visible traces of the attack from train station.

Eyewitness tells of the consequences of the attack

A young woman who entered a commuter train bound for Mettmann told of a 13-year-old girl’s axe injury. The witness described the gaping wound on her upper arm as if someone had chopped with an axe into a tree. “I tended her wound and called her parents,” the woman reports. Luckily there was a doctor’s kit on the train from which the victim could be provided medical help.

A man in his late 20s was dragged into the train by his friend, apparently unconscious, the witness continues. He was injured in the head, but became responsive again later. Several passengers immediately looked after the man on the train. The train had stopped, everywhere were special forces policemen.

The conductor had closed the train doors, the witness reports. Some passengers demanded to leave the train. But as the doors could not be opened individually, everyone had to stay on board the train. Only when the Federal Police arrived did the conductor open the doors. He said: “You are now safe, the police are standing on the track.” The passengers were not able to leave the train station immediately. They were interrogated by police as witnesses.

Another witness describes the attacker

Tobias Schneeberger (30) from Ratingen was also an eyewitness. He says that around 8:50pm he and his girlfriend and their four children (nine months, two, five, and seven years) were waiting at platform 10 for the S6 to Cologne. At track 13 the S28 to Mettmann arrived. As Schneeberger watched, the perpetrator exited the train and ran up and down the platform with an axe.

He describes the man as between 30 and 40 years old, his appearance reminiscent of a drug addict. People ran away screaming; bags were flying all over the place. The trains sounded their horns without stopping, “to jar the attacker”. The attacker then ran from platform 13 to platform 10. “I concluded this from the movement of the screaming people,” said Schneeberger. He pushed his girlfriend and his children into the elevator by which they were standing. “I placed myself in front of the children, so that they could not see the man”. The elevator took them downstairs and they left the train station.

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“I Think There Will Always Be Migration”

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The following report from Bulgaria discusses the Great Migration into Europe. According to its analysis, the wave of immigrants has become too large to stop, and further mass migration into Europe is inevitable.

Bulgaria is a major hub on the new routes from Turkey and the Near East, but it is not a preferred destination for the “refugees”. Virtually everybody who arrives in Bulgaria intends to keep moving, most of them towards Germany. So even though they have to put up with the squalid disease-ridden crime-infested migrant camps, the Bulgarians are largely spectators to the current transformation, which mainly affects Western Europe.

Many thanks to Tanya T. for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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Jihad Terrorist Attack Thwarted in Austria

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While Donald Trump was taking the oath of office today in Washington, police in Vienna were arresting an Albanian mujahid who was allegedly planning a bomb attack in the city. Thanks to a tip from foreign intelligence, the would-be bomber was located and apprehended by counterterrorism police.

Many thanks to Egri Nök for translating this article from the Kronen Zeitung:

With homemade bomb

We were targeted by terrorism: Attacker arrested in Vienna

A bloodbath in Vienna was barely prevented this Friday evening. Officers of the special force COBRA arrested an 18-year-old terror suspect, who, according to several tips from foreign secret services, had planned a bomb attack in Vienna in January. This Friday the high-threat suspect entered Austria, and from then on his every step was surveilled by the investigators. Then in the early evening, the anti-terror unit seized and arrested the suspected assassin.

There had been increasing evidence that “a group of ethnic Albanian radical Islamists” were planning an attack in Vienna between January 15 and 30. The national authorities were informed and on the alert.

Indeed, the urgently suspected IS sympathizer entered Austria on Friday. He allegedly had built an explosive device on his own in Germany, to carry out a bloody attack in Vienna.

Seizure in the Quellenstraße

The authorities subsequently monitored the suspected attacker. On late Friday afternoon, at 6:03 PM, the apprehension took place in Favoriten: the suspect was located, overpowered and arrested. Thereafter, an apartment in the nearby Rotenhofgasse was meticulously searched by the investigators — the findings of this police operation have not yet been released.

Police ask for increased vigilance

Meanwhile, the police in Vienna are asking the population for increased vigilance, especially at heavily frequented places. The executive is to be immediately informed of anything suspicious that is observed — such as abandoned luggage — says the police spokesman Thomas Keiblinger. Additionally, “Officers in uniform and in plainclothes are increasingly on the move.” Minister of Interior Wolfgang Sobotka and top Austrian politicians thanked the security forces for their excellent work.

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The Bulgarian Border: “Our Whole System is Worth Nothing”

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The following clip from Bulgarian TV features an interview with a man who is familiar with the border between Bulgaria and Turkey, and considers the defenses there useless.

Tanya T., who translated the video for subtitling, includes this note:

The man being interviewed, Mjad Algahfari, heads a translation firm. It is mainly his team of interpreters that work with Border Police. He had withdrawn his team because he hadn’t been paid.

Bulgaria has a huge green border with Turkey. Defending it properly would require a great number of trained people, stationed all along it. This would also mean new facilities would have to be built. Finding the people would be difficult, also because border policemen are badly paid.

Some 160 million was promised by the EU, but it’s not known whether the new money will be sent, and there are limitations to what it may be used for — it can’t be used for the fence, for example, because EU officials are “against fences”. It may be spent on accommodating the migrants, and on surveillance.

The fence is being destroyed every day. Migrants fell big trees onto it, smashing it in order to cross, but they usually cut it. There are rumors that all wire cutters in Turkey have been sold out (it was even mentioned on state TV).

Border policemen are only allowed to behave as a reception committee.

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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The Balkan Route Reopens

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The “Balkan Route” for migrants into Europe was ostensibly closed early last year. This was especially true for Hungary, which now receives only a trickle of migrants from Serbia.

The route to through Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria is another matter. “Refugees” who travel through the Balkans are still arriving in German in appreciable numbers. The following article does not mention modes of transport except to say what we all have been expecting: an increasing number of migrants are arriving concealed on freight trains. There is no longer an open trafficking of immigrants on NGO-chartered buses with a full media spotlight, so we may assume that most of the rest of the arrivals — which would be the bulk of them — are traveling in the cargo compartments of trucks under a false bill of lading.

Many thanks to Egri Nök for translating this article from the Rheinische Post:

Federal police counted roughly 110,000 illegal entries in 2016

6,850 persons arrived via Balkan Route

January 4 2017

Berlin. In spite of its so-called closing, the way across the Balkan Route remains an important route of flight. In Passau [the border crossing between Austria and Bavaria] 6,800 persons have been captured since the border closing.

By Jan Drebes

Despite distinctly declining refugee figures, coping with illegal migration was one of the main tasks for the Federal Police in the past year. Nationwide, from January through November 2016, officers have captured a total of 105,872 persons who entered illegally; the numbers for December are not yet available.

At the same time, for the security service it is plain to see that even though the Balkan Route is officially rated as closed, it remains one of the most important routes of migration to Germany from the south. The route that leads from the Mediterranean Sea over Italy was intensely trafficked as well.

9,028 Persons captured at airports

Thus, at the German-Austrian border alone Federal Police officers counted 76,366 persons who entered illegally. At airports, 9,028 migrants were captured. The border Switzerland, with 6,770 persons, was the third most trafficked.

It is striking that even after the evident closing of the Balkan Route in early March 2016 the police administration at Passau still caught a large number of persons. From April through December the officers counted 6,850 cases. Persons who illegally entered and also came via the Balkan Route, but were registered in Rosenheim, may be added to those numbers . But the 14,350 cases reported from there since April do not allow any conclusions about their respective routes, as many refugees from Italy arrive in Rosenheim, too.

What is clear is that most illegal immigrants come from Syria, Afghanistan or Iraq. Of the approximately 106,000 cases, roughly 25,000 were Syrians, 20,000 Afghans, and 13,000 Iraqis.

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More on the Truckload of Chocolate Iraqis in Romania

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Last night we posted a translated article from Romania about 48 Iraqi migrants who were discovered in the back of a tractor trailer that was supposed to be carrying a load of chocolate candies.

Below is a video of the truck being emptied at the border control station between Bulgaria and Romania. Watch all the Iraqis exit the truck. When they’re all finally out on the garage floor, you can see there were no chocolates at all in the cargo compartment — nothing but Iraqis.

This must have been a fairly sophisticated operation. It presumably included the collusion of the trucking company, forged documents, and the suborning of inspectors at various points along the route. However, the traffickers must have failed to bribe the customs inspectors at Girgiu crossing:

Our Romanian correspondent Stefan cel Mare sends this brief report about illegal migrants who try to enter Hungary:

Romania is not member of Schengen. And Romania upgraded all its frontier surveillance installations. Romania at this moment has probably the best-protected frontier in Europe. As far as I know, there are not so many trying to cross over Romanian frontier, and probably most of them are caught.

In 2016 there were boats coming from Turkey with refugees, just as in Greece. But Romania is not a member of Schengen, so Romania is not following Schengen regulations where migrants are concerned. They are arrested and returned to the country of departure.

According to instructions from the interior minister, it looks like the troops at the frontier have the right to open fire against those who don’t surrender or stop when they are discovered and told to stop and surrender.

The EU commission is very angry about this decision and is pushing the Romanian interior minister to cancel it. Up until now, the order is still in force. Any individuals or groups who refuse to stop and surrender can be subject to open fire.

Stefan cel Mare also translated the following five news stories from the past few months. The first is from September 14, 2016:

An operation in force at the frontier between Romania and Hungary, in Timis County. An important capture on the “migrants’ road” to Europe.

Timisoara. A “lightning-bolt operation” last night by frontier police troops from Timis County and officers from Anti-Organized Crime, near the Hungarian border.

24 migrants were discovered in a minibus, a few kilometres from the frontier with Hungary, at the crossing point Cenad, in Timis County. Among them were five females and four kids, the smallest eighteen months old. They were transported there by a group of four Serbian traffickers.

The story of the 24 migrants is as follows…

Some time ago, the same group of 24 migrants was caught and expelled to Serbia, according to the protocol between Romania and Serbia… This time, the group appealed to a Serbian group of traffickers to take them into Hungary, in exchange for payment. Now they again tried their luck to cross into Hungary.

Frontier police and anti-organized crime officers followed the group from where it entered Romania until the frontier point at Cenad, in order to also arrest the traffickers. All migrants were arrested, as well as two traffickers. Two other traffickers escaped for a short time, but they have also been arrested by police as they tried to get out of Romania.

The second article is from October 3, 2016:

“General Headquarters” of illegal human traffickers. The 250 km of frontier between Serbia and Romania became the new El Dorado of human traffickers.

Wars in the Middle East followed by uncontrolled mass migration of millions who try to find new routes to Western Europe. This seems to be how the Romanian/Serbian frontier came to be the new El Dorado for human traffickers selling the European dream for thousands of euros. There is not even one day that frontier police do not find and catch groups of up to tens of migrants trying to force the border.

This is why the entire 250-kilometre frontier with Serbia has been “concreted” [like a wall made of concrete] — according to a well-thought-out plan by the interior minister — with a large number of troops and new electronic surveillance system, with a complete drone system flying along the frontier. It is clear that our country is now a point of interest on the migration route, and many traffickers smelled the scent of money, filling their pockets with money from migrants.

Individuals specialized in illegal border crossing, human traffickers, are attempting on a daily basis to observe the Romanian-Serbian frontier, in order to find breaches in our surveillance system. Some of them moved legally into Romania in order to inspect the frontier from the Romanian side, and eventually to receive the illegal groups and take them to Hungary. Almost all of the traffickers who moved into Romania legally are Serbians, members of gangs in Serbia. Serbians have the right to move temporarily to Romania.

In one day, undercover police officers specialized in human trafficking arrested two Serbians traffickers. Police forces refuse do provide more information, because many other undercover Romanian policemen are involved in missions in Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia. The last two traffickers caught were Milorad P. and Slobodan O. Both organized a route from Belgrade to Hungary, and a group was intercepted 24 hours before they were arrested.

“The traffickers’ new technique is ton find in Serbia migrants, teach them how and where they can cross the border for €2000-€3000, and then the migrants form groups trying to follow the instructions, because traffickers learned that they don’t have to risk being arrested.”

October 1, 2016:

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A Truckload of Chocolate Iraqis

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As reported in last night’s news feed, 48 Iraqi migrants were discovered in the back of tractor trailer traveling from Bulgaria to Hungary. They were detected at a customs station in Romania, and are now in custody in Bulgaria.

There are several things about this case (and other similar cases in the last few months) that cry out for more attention:

  • These are just the ones who were caught. How many other loads of “refugees” go undetected and arrive safely at their final destinations in Europe?
  • These puir, puir Iraqis wanted to go to Hungary, or so they said. But every other migrant trying to get into Europe is trying to get into Germany, Sweden, or Britain. Was Hungary supposed to be a transshipment point, with a final destination elsewhere?
  • Moving migrants into Europe in trucks or freight cars is a risky and expensive business. Who is paying for it? Surely not the “refugees” themselves. Are the Open Society Foundations (or their surrogates) involved?
  • In order to get these enrichers into Europe, it is almost certain that organized crime is involved. Which criminal outfits are most active in this business? The Kosovars? The Albanians? The Turks? The Bulgarians? Or someone else?
  • The entire operation is being conducted on behalf of someone with an interest in replacing the population of Europe. What person or group is pushing this?

I don’t have any answers to these questions yet, but I’m paying close attention to the news stories as they appear. Thus far we have seen migrants stowing away on freight cars traveling across the Brenner Pass from Italy into Austria (with some of them freezing to death en route), in a truck crossing from Germany to Belgium, and in trucks traveling through the Balkans to Hungary and points beyond.

Many thanks to Stefan Cel Mare for translating this article from StirileProTV:

48 Iraqis found in a chocolate truck a Giurgiu customs point. Where did they intend to go?

On Friday police from Giurgiu customs discovered 48 Iraqi citizens who wanted to enter Romania illegally, hidden in a goods truck full of chocolate.

According to a press release from the General Department of Frontier Police, on Friday, at the frontier crossing point in Giurgiu, a Bulgarian citizen driving a truck registered in Bulgaria presented documents for the goods he was transporting — boxes of chocolate candy — with intention to cross through Romania to Hungary, as the final destination was a company in Hungary, according to documents.

Because of the risk factor, a Romanian-Bulgarian police team was formed and proceeded to do a full control of the truck, because the Romanian police detected a very high CO2 concentration in the goods compartment. In this way, the Bulgarian police were called, and with them the truck’s goods compartment was opened, and inside they discovered hidden 48 persons – 17 minors, 9 females and 22 males, the police report shows.

According to preliminary information, they are all Iraqi citizens, adults between 20 and 45 years old, and the youngest minor is only few months old.

During their interrogation the migrants declared they wanted to go to Hungary, and the driver of the truck did not know about the fact they were hiding in his truck. According to frontier protocol between Romania and Bulgaria, the Bulgarian authority received the migrants and the truck driver, with the obligatory condition to continue the investigation and to apply the legal penalties.