Tag: EU

Lockdown in Germany

More refugee drama in Germany:

Heavily-armed officers are surrounding a home in the town of Chemnitz

A German town is in lockdown as armed police are hunting for a man suspected of planning a bomb attack on an airport. The suspect has been named locally as Jabir A – a Syrian who was under surveillance by the Federal Office for Constitutional Protection in Cologne, say reports. He is suspected of plotting a bomb attack on a German airport, according to Online Focus.

It is understood the suspect entered Germany last year with refugees from Syria. Residents have been ordered to remain indoors as large-scale closures and evacuations take place in the town and the suspect remains at large.

Ah, those poor Syrian refugees. I’m sure the good people of Chemnitz are so glad now that they opened their hearts and homes to them. After all, who could possibly have predicted something like this would happen!

It won’t be too long before refugees will be shot on sight and the policy will be celebrated by many of the very people who welcomed them. I said at the time they should have simply sunk the boats and blocked the borders. Now the moral cost of resolving the situation will be considerably higher.

A missing mandate

When elected politicians ignore the people, the people will ensure their voices are heard and their will is ultimately obeyed.

Over the past several months, the German people have become increasingly frustrated with Merkel’s “open-border” policy that has allowed over 1mm migrants to flow into the country from the Middle East and North Africa.  The flood of migrants has brought with it a wave of violent crime including sexual assaults resulting in a rising nationalist tension as people have turned their backs on Merkel and her Christian Democratic Union party in recent elections.

The most recent example of backlash over the migrant crisis comes from the small German town of Oersdorf in Northern Germany.  The Mayor of Oersdorf, Joachim Kebschull (61), was recently beaten unconscious outside of the city’s Town Hall where the construction committee was meeting to discuss a new housing development for migrants.  The mayor was apparently struck with a club from behind as he stepped out the Town Hall building to get a laptop from his car.

According to DW, Kebschull had been receiving threats for months.  In fact, the committee meeting had already been postponed twice over bomb threats.

The controversy surrounded a local subsidized housing revitalization where the mayor wanted to offer apartments to asylum-seekers.  “If we could also offer a family of refugees a new home in our village, we would like to take this opportunity and make a small contribution to people who had to flee their homes,” the association said in a statement on its website.

It will be interesting to see if the mayor learns anything from the experience or if he’s going to follow Angela Merkel’s lead and keep doubling down. Germany will not tolerate this invasion much longer and it won’t surprise me in the slightest if these one-off attacks – this is not the first attack on a pro-migrant politician – are replaced by a more organized campaign over the next year.

Keep in mind that this sort of violent response to an authority figure is very much a “last resort” behavior on the part of Germans. They are far more inclined to violence in obedience to authority than in resistance to it. It is a telling indicator that the German political establishment has lost the proverbial “Mandate of Heaven” and is on the verge of entering a pre-revolutionary state.

Right now, there is still the hope that the AfD will come to power and set things straight. But if they are, like the Front National, kept out of power through collusion by the major parties, or if they fail to repatriate the invaders, Germany is going to see violent civil strife that goes well beyond the Red Brigades scare of the 1970s.

The decline and fall of Angela Merkel

Germans continue to turn away from Angela Merkel and the CDU:

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party suffered a bruising loss in Berlin state elections Sunday while the right-wing populist AfD gained fresh support, capitalising on anger over her open-door refugee policy.

The anti-Islam Alternative for Germany party won over 12 percent, according to public broadcasters’ projections, in the capital which has long prided itself on being a hip, diverse and multicultural city.

The strong AfD result, thanks to support especially in the vast tower block districts in Berlin’s former communist east, meant it has now won opposition seats in 10 of Germany’s 16 states, a year ahead of national elections.

Merkel’s centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won just 18 percent — its worst post-war result in the city, before or after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall — likely spelling the end of its term as junior coalition partner to the Social Democrats (SPD), who won around 22 percent.

It’s not as if things are going to get better for the CDU if they don’t promptly return all of the migrants who have invaded Germany over the last year.

Trump goes transnational

This is from a Lega Nord rally in northern Italy. The man in the center of the picture is Matteo Salvini, a Euro MP and an official of the quasi-separatist Northern League, which favors independence for Padania, which is an artificial region which includes Toscana, Lombardia, and the Veneto, and has a population of 33 million. La Val Seriana is an area near Bergamo; beautiful country.

Germans demand a solution

Albeit not a Final one, yet. The Governor of Bavaria and head of the CSU party has issued something of an ultimatum to Angela Merkel:

Ever since German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened up the country’s borders to refugees in early September of 2015, Horst Seehofer has been using every opportunity at his disposal to voice his disagreement. As head of the Christian Social Union (CSU) party, he is not someone who can easily be shrugged off. The CSU is the Bavarian sister party to Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The two parties, which collectively are known simply as the “union,” have a long tradition of campaigning together ahead of general elections and of divvying up cabinet posts should the center-right end up in government, which, for the last 12 years, it has. The CSU has no chapters in any other state while the CDU has no state chapter in Bavaria.

As the rift has widened, Seehofer has begun calling that long partnership into question, even raising the possibility that his party might campaign on its own ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections and put up a CSU chancellor candidate. To avoid that eventuality, he is demanding that Merkel take clear steps toward reversing her immigration policies and adopting a ceiling on the number of refugees Germany is willing to take in, a step Merkel has refused to take, citing potential inconsistencies with the German constitution. Last week, the CSU released a paper, called “Germany Must Remain Germany,” outlining steps it would like to see taken, including the abolishment of dual citizenship and a preference for migrants from the “Christian-Western culture.”

SPIEGEL: We have examined dozens of interviews that you have given in recent months. You talk a lot about refugee policy, but one thing is constantly left ambiguous, perhaps intentionally. What concrete steps does Angela Merkel have to take before you will say: “Okay, now we’ll back off?”

Seehofer: We want a solution to the immigration problem. To do that, we first need a ceiling. We don’t want unlimited immigration like we saw last year and that’s why we need binding measures as a guarantee. When announcements are made that we are combatting the root causes of flight, then they must be combined with concrete measures. When it is said that those who don’t have a right to asylum will be sent back, then we together with the federal government must enact a detailed, binding repatriation program. We want a clear system of rules that clearly and credibly reduces immigration to a reasonable level.

SPIEGEL: So you are sticking to your demand for a hard ceiling of 200,000 immigrants per year despite its potential inconsistencies with the guaranteed fundamental right to asylum?

Seehofer: Yes. We want a policy that safeguards this ceiling. We also, by the way, already changed the constitution to make this possible 23 years ago. With the support of all parties. Our constitution does not require us to take everybody who appears at our borders and demands asylum. And when someone comes from a safe country of origin, we can immediately repatriate them. The ceiling will work and it is consistent with the constitution.

SPIEGEL: The chancellor and several other CDU politicians have repeatedly insisted that they will not accept a ceiling. If the approval of such a ceiling is the prerequisite for an agreement, then there won’t be any agreement.

Seehofer: We’ll see. We will not back away from the 200,000 ceiling. It’s about our credibility, plain and simple.

SPIEGEL: Given that anything seems possible at this point, is a situation conceivable whereby the CDU enters the campaign with Merkel as its candidate for chancellor and the CSU says: We won’t support her?

Seehofer: We as a party will make personnel decisions in the first quarter of 2017. German history is full of serious mistakes pertaining to premature personnel decisions.

SPIEGEL: Last weekend, CSU leaders presented a paper containing the party’s refugee policy demands and it is full of odd sentences. Such as this one: “We are opposed to our cosmopolitan country being changed by immigration or refugee flows.” How cosmopolitan can a country be if it doesn’t want to be changed by immigration?

Seehofer: The paper’s title is: “Germany Must Remain Germany.” The chancellor has used almost the exact same formulation. When she says it, it’s considered liberal and future oriented. When we say it, it’s seen as reactionary and backwards.

SPIEGEL: Merkel never said that immigration cannot be allowed to change the country.

Seehofer: Look, Bavaria is a dynamic, cosmopolitan state. Those who don’t adapt fall behind. But we need ground rules. In every governmental speech I give before state parliament, I say: Bavaria will remain Bavaria. That’s not a contradiction.

SPIEGEL: Another question about your paper: In rejecting dual citizenship, the paper says that it is impossible to “serve two masters.” We always thought that it wasn’t citizens who served their state, but the other way around.

Seehofer: You aren’t asking why we are opposed to dual citizenship. Instead, you are quibbling over locution. The sentence is true and completely okay. I am allergic to this paternalism and censorship.

I thought it was particularly interesting that DER SPIEGEL was particularly interested in undermining the CSU demand for banning dual citizenship. Dual citizenship is one of the least defensible aspects of globalism, so it is something of a weak link that nationalists will do well to attack.

Notice that despite the headlines and the various outrages, the German establishment is considerably to the right of the the American establishment on immigration. Seehofer is openly saying things even Donald Trump wouldn’t dare, and he’s not only an elected politician, he’s one of the most powerful men in the country. And he’s a moderate compared to AfD.

The Russians aren’t coming

The Saker explains that Russia wouldn’t take Ukraine even if it could do so without firing a shot:

Russia is much weaker than what most people think. Her landmass is immense and her military arguably the best on the planet, but population is relatively small, and her economy a struggling one. Yes, the future does look bright for Russia, but presently she simply does not have the means to single handedly rescue (resurrect, really) the Ukraine. Not even close.

The reality is that even Crimea has presented Russia with major challenges. After 25 years of total neglect, Crimea basically needs to completely rebuilt most of its infrastructure. The Kremlin has poured billions of Rubles into numerous and large modernization programs, including an immensely expensive but vitally needed bridge over the Kerch strait, and she will continue to rebuilt Crimea in spite of the immense costs involved. Down the road, of course, Crimea will end up being very wealthy, courtesy of an immense tourist potential, the presence of a much expanded Black Sea fleet and because of its strategic location. But for the foreseeable future, Crimea will remain a major burden which Russia will struggle to deal with.

The situation in the Donbass is even bleaker. If Crimean was neglected, the Donbass has been almost totally destroyed. Right now the Russians are paying the pensions of the local population because the Ukronazis have stolen them, in direct violation of the Minsk Agreements. Russia is also alone in supporting the Novorussian republics with humanitarian, medical, technical, administrative and military programs. And while the Novorussians have done an amazing job rebuilding much of Donetsk and a few other cities, most of what lies within artillery range of the Ukronazi forces still lies in ruins and the economy is more or less at a standstill. This will not change until peace truly returns to the region.

What is already quite evident that regardless of who will be in the Kremlin and regardless of how much good will and self-sacrifice the Russians will have, Russia simply does not have the means to salvage the Ukraine. It just ain’t happening. Furthermore, polls show that most Russians are categorically opposed to a full reintegration of the entire Ukraine into Russia. Who could blame them? They are not only acutely aware that the Ukraine has turned into one bloody hell of a mess, but that an entire generation of Ukrainians has now been terminally brainwashed with russophobic hatred. And, frankly, Russia has no use for Nazis of any kind, even if they are fellow Slavs or even if they are basically the very same nation as the Russian one.

So even if tomorrow Petro Poroshenko and his gang decided to invite the Russians to come in an fix this bloody mess, the Russians would decline (so much for the warnings about a Russian invasion!). Oh sure, there are a lot of Ukrainians who kid themselves and think that “the Russians will come and fix this”, but this is a pipe-dream: the Russians ain’t coming. At most, Russia will let the DNR/LNR get back the territories which belonged to their regions and Mariupol might be liberated. But that’s about it. And even if by some miracle the Novorussian tanks end up in Kiev, I don’t see them staying there for very long because the Kremlin fully understands that if they grab it, they own it and they have to fix it. Eventually Russia will, of course, simply be forced absorb the Donbass and make it a part of Russia, mostly because there is no way the Donbass will ever go back to the Ukraine again, but even this process will take time.

So, why is the Obama administration beating the drum about a Russian invasion of a) Ukraine, b) the Baltic States, and c) Western Europe? Because the USA is doing what it has often done before, attempting to cover its own aggressive actions by portraying them as necessary defensive ones.

However, the fact that it is US troops that occupy dozens of other countries, and that it was the US that overthrew the elected Ukrainian government makes it very clear that while the Russians are not the good guys, the US, and to a lesser extent the EU, are the bad guys of the scenario.

And believe me, none of this has escaped the attention of the people of both Eastern and Western Europe. Putin and the Russians may not be on their side, but unlike the USA and the EU, they are not actively encouraging and enabling the one-million-strong invasion of Europe by warriors of Islam.

Alt Deutschland

Here is hoping the AfD exceeds expectations today:

Voting began on Sunday in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where polls show the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party making huge gains amid growing discontent with Chancellor Angela Merkel and her open-door refugee policy.

The election, taking place exactly a year after Merkel’s decision to open Germany’s borders to hundreds of thousands of refugees, will be followed by another key vote in Berlin in two weeks and national elections next September.

Voters already punished Merkel in three state elections in March, voting in droves for the AfD and rejecting Merkel’s Christian Democrats.

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is a small coastal state in northeastern Germany with just 1.3 million eligible voters, but losses there would be humiliating for Merkel, who has her own electoral district in the state.

Founded two years after the last election in the state in 2011, the AfD is expected to capture 22 percent of the vote, the same as Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), junior partner in the state’s ruling coalition, according to a poll by broadcaster ZDF.

I’m putting this up just to confirm what the expectations actually were, before the media starts attempting minimize the significance of whatever happens.

Front National: stop immigration!

Chute du nombre d’expulsions de clandestins : un signal catastrophique


While France is facing an unprecedented influx of migrants, we learned this morning that the number of illegal evictions fell 20% during the first six months of 2016, 2,000 fewer expulsions. While deportation cannot be the only response to illegal immigration, since we must first put all the possible means in place to stop the flow of arrivals upstream, this decline is still catastrophic. It will necessarily be heard by the smugglers and the mafias which carry migrants to France as a terrible signal of laxity, a call to come to France, with incalculable consequences.


The National Front demands the expulsion of all illegal immigrants unlawfully present in France, and the dismantling of mafia networks of illegal immigration. It will not skimp on the means to achieve this objective, which is the only acceptable one in a republic worthy of the name. This policy is effective if it is accompanied by a full and final restoration of our national borders and a clearly stated policy choice: stop immigration.


One can almost hear the tumbrils beginning to roll again in France.

16 Punkte der Alternative Rechte

I expect some will even say that it reads better in the original German. Any corrections to the translation would be welcomed. In any event, it will be useful to see these 16 points translated into many different languages, so that it can serve as a starting point for all the various nationalities to whom it may prove appealing.

1. Die Alternative Rechte steht politisch Rechts, sowohl in der amerikanischen wie auch in der europäischen Deutung des Begriffs. Sozialisten sind keine Alternative Rechte. Progressive sind keine Alternative Rechte. Liberale sind keine Alternative Rechte. Kommunisten, Marxisten, Kulturmarxisten und Neokonservative sind keine Alternative Rechte.

2. Die Alternative Rechte ist eine alternative zur konservativen Hauptbewegung in den USA, die dem Namen nach in Russel Kirk´s 10 konservative Prinzipien eingekapselt ist, aber in Wirklichkeit in Reformpolitik übergegangen ist.

3. Die Alternative Rechte ist keine defensive Haltung und lehnt das Konzept der edlen und prinzipiellen Niederlage ab. Es ist eine zukunftsorientierte Philosophie des Anstoßes, im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes. Die Alternative Rechte glaubt an den Sieg durch Beharrlichkeit und zum Verbleib in Harmonie mit der Wissenschaft, Wirklichkeit, kulturellen Tradition und der Lehren der Geschichte.

4. Die Alternative Rechte glaubt, die westlichen Zivilisation ist der Gipfel der menschlichen Leistung und unterstützt seine drei grundlegenden Säulen: Das Christentum, die europäischen Nationen und das griechisch-römische Erbe.

5. Die Alternative Rechte ist offen und bekennend nationalistisch. Sie unterstützt jeden Nationalismus und das Recht aller Völker zu existieren, homogen und unverfälscht durch ausländische Invasion und Einwanderung.

6. Die Alternative Rechte ist gegen Globalisierung. Es wendet sich gegen alle Gruppen, die für Ideale oder Ziele der Globalisierung arbeiten.

7. Die Alternative Rechte ist anti-egalitär. Sie lehnt die Idee der Gleichheit aus dem gleichen Grund ab, wie sie auch die Ideen von Einhörnern und Kobolden ablehnt, stellt fest, dass die Gleichheit der Menschen in keiner beobachtbaren wissenschaftlichen, rechtlichen, materiellen, intellektuellen, sexuellen oder geistigen Form existiert.

8. Die Alternative Rechte unterstützt die wissenschaftliche Methode. Sie akzeptiert die mutmaßlichen aktuellen Ergebnisse der wissenschaftlichen Methode, während sie versteht das a) diese Schlussfolgerungen anfällig für zukünftige Änderungen sind, b) dass Wissenschaft anfällig für Korruption ist, und c) dass der sogenannte wissenschaftliche Konsens nicht auf Wissenschaftlichkeit beruht, sondern auf Demokratie und daher an sich unwissenschaftlich ist.

9. Die Alternative Rechte glaubt Identität > Kultur > Politik.

10. Die Alternative Rechte lehnt die Regelung oder Herrschaft jeder einheimischen ethnischen Gruppe durch eine andere ab, vor allem in den souveränen Heimatländern der beherrschten Völker. Die Alternative Rechte steht im Gegensatz zu jeder nicht heimischen ethnischen Gruppe in jeder Gesellschaft, die zu starken Einfluss durch Nepotismus, Stammesdenken oder andere Mittel erhält.

11. Die Alternative Rechte versteht, dass Vielfalt + Nähe = Krieg.

12. Der Alternativen Rechten ist es egal, was Sie davon halten.

13. Die Alternative Rechte lehnt den internationalen Freihandel und den freien Verkehr von Menschen ab, die der freie Handel erfordert. Die Vorteile der inner-nationalen Handels ist kein Beweis für die Vorteile des internationalen Freihandels.

14. Die Alternative Rechte glaubt, dass wir die Existenz von weißen Menschen und eine Zukunft für weiße Kinder sichern müssen.

15. Die Alternative Rechte glaubt nicht an der allgemeinen Vorherrschaft einer Rasse, Nation, Menschen oder Unterarten. Jede Rasse, Nation, die Menschen und die menschlichen Unterarten haben ihre eigenen einzigartigen Stärken und Schwächen, und besitzen das Souveräne Recht, unbehelligt in der einheimischen Kultur zu leben, die es bevorzugt.

16. Die Alternative Rechte ist eine Philosophie, die auf den Frieden zwischen den verschiedenen Nationen der Welt Wert legt und stellt sich gegen Kriege, die Werte einer Nation einer anderen aufzwingen sowie die Bemühungen, einzelne Nationen durch Krieg, Völkermord, Einwanderung oder genetische Assimilation auszurotten.

Die Alternative Rechte ist eine westliche Ideologie, die an Wissenschaftlichkeit, Geschichte, Wirklichkeit glaubt und das Recht einer genetischen Nation zu existieren und sich selbst in ihrem eigenen Interesse zu regieren.

Preach, preacher

“Today it is written in the book of fate, that hidden, faceless world powers will eliminate everything that is unique, autonomous, age-old, and national. They will blend cultures, religions, and populations, until our many-faceted and proud Europe will finally become bloodless and docile. If we resign ourselves to this outcome, our fate will be sealed and we will be swallowed up in the enormous belly of the United States of Europe. 


We must therefore drag the ancient virtue of courage out from under the silt of oblivion.


First of all, we must put steel in our spines, and we must answer clearly, with a voice loud enough to be heard far and wide, the single most important question determining out fate. The question upon Europe stands of falls is this:


Shall we be slaves – or men set free?” 

– Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary