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By wmw_admin on December 13, 2018

An increasingly familiar tale from Germany

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By Irish Savant on December 13, 2018

Dont blame the migrants for flocking to White countries. Theyre no more to blame than are flies drawn to a juicy cow pat. Our internal traitors are the SJWs

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By wmw_admin on December 3, 2018

Expanding the Third World into the West through migration will enable the elite to exercise their power far more brutally and despotically than they do now

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By wmw_admin on November 30, 2018

Wherever they went, the Jews threw open to [the Muslim invaders] the gates of the principal cities. [Spain, 709 AD]

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By wmw_admin on November 26, 2018

Similarly, another study found more than half of migrants to Italy were suffering from mental illness, which made them prone to aggressive behaviour

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By wmw_admin on November 24, 2018

The US. Australia, Hungary and Poland have now been joined by Switzerland as more governments pullout of the UNs proposed migration pact

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By Paul Joseph Watson on November 22, 2018

Newly released reveal that 58 percent of convicted rapists and 85 percent of all convicted assault rapists in Sweden were born outside of Europe

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By wmw_admin on November 21, 2018

While some were authentic refugees many more were opportunists from North Africa and the Middle East who took advantage of Merkels open border policy

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By wmw_admin on November 20, 2018

In December 2018, world leaders will sign the UN agreement Stefan Molyneux examines precisely what this will entail

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By wmw_admin on November 19, 2018

Theyre not people in need, said one Mexican woman. Theyve come here to destabilize the country.

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By Irish Savant on November 18, 2018

If Trump doesnt firmly halt this invasion his support among his base will collapse

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By Paul Joseph Watson on November 15, 2018

Worst decision seen in post-war politics in Europe

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By wmw_admin on November 14, 2018

An Israeli private military contractor, Elbit Systems Ltd, has been awarded a contract to Monitor European Coasts.

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By wmw_admin on November 14, 2018

Migrants coached to act like persecuted Christians so as to exploit the sympathies of stupid border guards in the predominantly Eastern Orthodox Greece

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The migrant crisis - The Truthseeker

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Europe's Refugee and Migrant Crisis - Sputnik International

Around 71,000 migrants made it to Europe by sea just five months into 2017, a UN Migration Agency report said.

The migrants all have one thing in common: they search for greener pastures elsewhere when home holds no hope.

Masiyiwa, the founder and CEO of Econet Wireless, a pan-African telecoms company, is putting his money where his mouth is by traveling across the continent in a series of townhalls where he directly connects and engages with young people.

At one townhall held in Lagos, Nigeria in September, Masiyiwa was so taken with one young entrepreneur's business idea that he donated $100,000.

"I believe sharing ideas with each other is so important to the future of the African continent," Masiyiwa -- who is worth an estimated $280m -- says.

By teaching young Africans to be self-reliant and proactive, the telecoms tycoon is encouraging them to stay in their countries and contribute to the development of the continent.

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Secure centres for migrants may be set up in EU states to process asylum claims under a deal reached after marathon talks at a summit in Brussels.

The controlled centres would be set up by EU states on a voluntary basis and migrants whose claims were rejected would be "returned".

Refugees could be resettled in EU states which agreed to take them.

The deal follows weeks of diplomatic wrangling over migrant rescue ships, and which country should take them in.

Coastguard officials said on Friday that around 100 people were thought to have drowned off the Libyan coast, with 14 rescued.

They were found in waters to the east of the capital, Tripoli.

There were no details on which countries might set up the secure centres or take in refugees, but French President Emmanuel Macron said they would be in countries where migrants first arrived in the EU.

"We have struck the right balance between responsibility and solidarity," he said.

Numbers illegally entering the EU have dropped 96% since their 2015 peak, the European Council says.

Italy - the entry point for thousands of migrants, mainly from Africa - had threatened to veto the summit's entire agenda if it did not receive help.

"After this European summit, Europe is more responsible and offers more solidarity," said Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. "Today Italy is no longer alone."

Other leaders struck a more cautious note.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said more needed to be done to resolve disagreements.

And European Council President Donald Tusk said it was "too early to talk about a success".

"We have managed to reach an agreement in the European Council. But this is in fact the easiest part of the task, compared to what awaits us on the ground when we start implementing it," he told a news conference.

By Adam Fleming, BBC News, Brussels

A few things stand out as wins for Italy's new prime minister. The summit's conclusions now include a statement about the need for boats that pick up migrants in the Mediterranean to respect international law.

But the big one is approval of the concept of closed, secure processing facilities for migrants arriving in the EU. Some say this will make it easier to send back people whose claims for asylum are rejected. Others are already describing them as prisons.

This paragraph is full of caveats, commas and sub-clauses - all the hallmarks of something drafted in the middle of the night.

Another striking pledge is for an ambitious partnership with Africa. That's the EU trying to balance its tough internal approach with a friendly external one, and offering incentives to North African countries to host facilities where migrants can be assessed for resettlement in Europe.

The 28 EU leaders also agreed several other measures:

Mr Conte had earlier taken the rare step of blocking the conclusions of the joint communiqu until the leaders had settled the migration issue. Both Italy and Greece want other countries to share the burden.

However several Central European states have so far rejected an EU scheme to relocate 160,000 refugees from overcrowded camps in Greece and Italy.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel had said that the migration issue could be a defining moment for the EU - but she also needed the summit to avert a political crisis at home that could bring down her government.

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Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, from her Bavarian coalition partner the CSU, had given her a deadline of this weekend. He has threatened to start turning away migrants who have already registered elsewhere from the border in his home state.

Without the CSU, Mrs Merkel would lose her parliamentary majority.

After the talks, she acknowledged the EU still had "a lot of work to do to bridge the different views".

About 56,000 migrants have arrived in Europe so far this year, the International Organization for Migration says. More than a million people arrived in 2015.

This month's tensions over migrant rescue ships barred from entry to Italian ports - most recently German charity ship Lifeline - have put the issue firmly back in the EU spotlight.

The Lifeline was only allowed to dock in Malta after intense diplomacy among several EU states, who each agreed to take some of the migrants on board. Malta said Norway had now also agreed to take a share.

Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontires (MSF) branded the new EU deal inhumane.

"The only thing European states appear to have agreed on is to block people at the doorstep of Europe regardless of how vulnerable they are, or what horrors they are escaping - and to demonise non-governmental search and rescue operations," MSF's emergencies chief Karline Kleijer said.

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The EU money should be for employment, not for cows. Even back in 2005 Tony Blair was asking for a new European Union: more investment, research, innovation, and training, rather than 40% of the budget being spent (as is still more or less the case today) on an agricultural sector that employs just 5% of its workforce. And its hard to argue with that; the EU seems increasingly remote from the problems its citizens face. But is it the EU itself thats the problem, or the way national politicians and governments put policies into action?

Take the European council meeting on Thursday and Friday this week. Were set for a clash on migration policy. Something big is at stake: the EUs principles of solidarity and respect for human rights.

Putting up walls to keep out migrants is not only immoral, it threatens the blocs internal free movement of goods and people. It risks blowing up the passport-free Schengen agreement, one of the EUs signature achievements. With populist forces gaining strength, the battle will be hard-fought. The very foundations of the EU are now in doubt. Is this what EU citizens really want?

To be sure, the EU failed to anticipate the scope of the 2015 migration crisis. But todays dismal turn of events has more to do with how national politicians have behaved than with the European project itself. Politicians should explain the complexities of migration rather than pander to anxieties and alarm citizens. Throughout history, Europes very fabric was born of age-old movements of entire populations. With so many desperate people on the move today, seeking safety or simply a better life for themselves, migration cannot simply be stopped. Instead it must be managed.

But theres an obvious discrepancy between what the EU commission is proposing and what national governments are ready to do. For instance, Brussels institutions have published a plan for Africa, calling for spending of 32bn (28bn) over six years and focusing particularly on infrastructure. Will the leaders of EU states accept it, even though its a bare minimum? Or will they try to take the easier route of building walls and barriers in order to allay the very fears some of them have fanned?

Look at the facts: the number of migrants arriving in Europe by sea has dropped spectacularly in Italy, by over 70% compared to last year. But that reality has gone almost unnoticed. There is no large-scale migration crisis in Europe now. Instead, what were seeing are domestic political crises in which the theme of migration is exploited by demagogues.

Europes image has suffered as a result of teetering from one crisis to the next. We almost forget that the EUs founding ambition has in fact been accomplished. A magnificent common architecture was erected after the devastation of 20th-century war, it was built up through stages, thanks to the vision of a handful of great political leaders.

Now the enthusiasm of its early days has faded, and what remains of the union is a complex institutional system resting on values that are not always respected. From 1950, the road to Europe was built one step at a time. First came the Coal and Steel Community (aimed at avoiding the risk of secret re-arming, as Germany had done in the interwar period); then came the common market, the parliament and the commission; then the euro, the dismantling of internal borders, and attempts to forge a common foreign and defence policy.

Each time this process of European unification has stalled, the need for better governance has became clearer. But instead, national egotism has morphed into the twin tigers of nationalism and populism, and citizens looking to Europe to fulfil the needs not met by their governments (security, jobs and welfare) have become frustrated. Emotionally, they still expect much more.

Europe, whether we like it or not, has penetrated our conscience deeply. The profound rage of remainers in the UK is just one example. For many people Europe embodies hope for their personal future, as well as for their country: the hope that Europe will be able to do more and govern better than national elites. This has certainly held true in my country, Italy.

Naturally, the elites who make decisions for Europe are the same ones who decide everything at a national level. Within the EUs complex and now strained institutional set-up it is often the member states who take the decisions: this happens within the European council of leaders and ministers, in a qualified-majority voting system. And sensitive decisions must often be unanimous, which gives each state a veto power.

The dominance of the nation state also goes some way to explaining why the needs of citizens in terms of jobs and social policies are paid insufficient attention. Take the Maastricht treaty. It has been essentially used in the name of economic and fiscal rigour a topic dear to the heart of the conservative European Peoples party, which has long acted as the de facto ruler in Brussels. That is largely what has turned the eurozone into a bogeyman for people who care about social justice. But heres the thing: only the budget deficit and GDP parameters of the Maastricht treaty were enacted. The parts that pointed to social policies have been left to languish. Who is aware today that the Lisbon treaty, in article 3, talks of goals relating to social progress and economic growth, and that it even mentions full employment?

If we want to understand the roots of our distress over Europe, we should look more closely at the way national politicians have interpreted the unions treaties. Its social ambitions seem to have vanished, just as its principles on asylum have been hammered by national leaders. Domestic politics are at fault not the EU itself, whose architecture must be improved and strengthened, but whose policies can be changed. Lets cut the EU some slack. It is imperfect, but much of what has gone wrong is the result of decisions or attitudes made at a national level. Scapegoating the EU is part of todays unchained madness.

Antonella Rampino is a journalist and political commentator based in Rome

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EU leaders have differed sharply over how a new deal on curbing irregular migration will work.

The agreement foresees the creation of secure centres to receive migrants.

France's president said his country would not set any up as it was not the EU country where migrants landed first.

Italy's prime minister - who had held up agreement at the Brussels summit - said centres could be anywhere within the EU. EU President Donald Tusk warned of difficulties to implement the deal.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke of a "significant step forward" but said more must be done to resolve disagreements.

By Katya Adler, Europe Editor, BBC News, in Brussels

So has Europe's migrant crisis now been solved? In a word, no. On two fronts. Firstly, that of preventing illegal migration and saving migrant lives.

Take for example the processing centres that are to operate inside and outside the EU. The idea behind those is to put economic migrants off coming to Europe as they'll know only those with a legal right to asylum or refugee status can stay. But these processing centres are voluntary. We don't know where or when (or if) they will be operational - and in the meantime, migrants will keep making that perilous journey across the Mediterranean.

The second failure is more of a half-failure, and it's a political one. Let's face it - with the sharp drop in arrivals to Europe, the stresses and strains between EU countries are clearly political. The fact that leaders like Germany's Angela Merkel leave this summit claiming that "a significant step forward has been taken" is a hint that, in true EU summit style, leaders have papered over the cracks.

But is Europe North, South, East and West united now over a common migrant and asylum policy moving forward? Absolutely not.

The deal is being billed as a lifeline for Mrs Merkel, who has faced a political crisis at home where a key ally, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, has threatened to start turning away migrants who have already registered elsewhere.

Italy also differed with Spain and Greece who agreed to take back migrants registered on their territory who had travelled on to Germany.

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte had earlier taken the rare step of blocking the conclusions of the summit's joint communique until the leaders had settled the migration issue.

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The 28 EU leaders agreed several other measures, including:

The centres are meant be set up by EU states on a voluntary basis, but there are no details on which nations might host them or take in refugees.

French President Emmanuel Macron said they would be in countries where migrants initially arrived in the EU, and that France would not have any as it is "not a country of first arrival".

But Mr Conte told reporters that all EU states would be able to establish the centres, "including France". He suggested Mr Macron had been "tired" when he spoke.

About 56,000 migrants have arrived in Europe so far this year, the International Organization for Migration says, compared to more than a million in 2015.

Several Central European states have so far rejected an EU scheme to relocate 160,000 refugees from overcrowded camps in Greece and Italy.

Non-governmental organisations have fiercely condemned the deal, saying it betrays vulnerable people and those trying to stop them dying in the Mediterranean.

The deal also aimed to "demonise non-governmental search and rescue operations", MSF's emergencies chief Karline Kleijer said.

On Friday, around 100 people were said to have drowned off the Libyan coast, with 16 rescued.

Italy's anti-immigration Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has previously railed against rescue ships run by international NGOs, and said on Friday that they helped people traffickers "consciously or not".

"The NGOs will only see Italy on a postcard," he told Italian radio. "The ports will be closed all summer."

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In recent months, Europe has looked on with horror at the deaths of thousands of people in the Mediterranean as they drowned trying to make their way from the Middle East and North Africa into the EU.

Many people have been left alienated by the rhetoric surrounding the story, from accusations of hate speech directed at Sun columnist Katie Hopkins to home secretary Theresa May confirming she wanted to return people fleeing their own countries back to where they came from.

The below cartoon has been shared a lot on social media in relation to the deaths in the Mediterranean.

But the cartoon is actually from 2014 and from Australian cartoonist Simon Kneebone, who drew it in response to boats of people trying to reach Australia from Indonesia.

Sadly, the cartoon could just as easily be applied to the thousands of Rohingya migrants - Burmese Muslims - stranded on boats in the Andaman Sea.

i100.co.uk spoke to Simon to talk about the cartoon, the issues surrounding it, and why it still resonates with people.

What prompted you to draw the cartoon?

"In recent years there have been many boatloads of people, originally from Iraq, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and now Syria attempting to reach Australia from Indonesia. There have been incidents that have shown just how dangerous the voyage could be - a film of a boat breaking up on rocks at Christmas Island in a storm, refugees struggling in the waves, is hard to forget. However, what inspired the cartoon was the hardening attitude shown by our government in talking about these people. Slogans like 'stop the boats' morphed into 'turn back the boats'; refugees, if they did get picked up, would be sent to offshore detention centres and told that they could expect never to be resettled in Australia. To me this attitude purposely ignored the actual people who were driven to leave their homes, family, culture and former lives. I don't think anyone would do that lightly. So the cartoon tried to take a step back, and show that we are all humans on a small planet, trying to hang on."

Are you surprised that a year on, the issue has gotten so much worse?

"It is depressing, but not surprising. I think that the causes of these great movements of people escaping terrible circumstances, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for example, have radiated seismic waves of social collapse that are going to be harder than ever to repair. An unfortunate outcome is that life has become devalued. People have become commodities, trafficked by the disposable boatload, tainted as 'economic migrants' because they paid the traffickers."

Why do you think your cartoon is being shared again now?

"The issues are complicated and complex. I think that we perhaps have mixed emotions, that we might not always be comfortable with. We feel for the refugees but are threatened a bit as well. The cartoon sidesteps getting bogged down in the angst, and says simply that we all fellow humans on this planet And where we happen to be on the planet isn't that important. I think it is being shared because it resonates with our inner human."

Do you think labels such as 'migrants' or headlines like 'Europe's migration crisis' obscure people's humanity?

"These labels do carry a lot of assumptions - 'migrant' and 'economic migrant' do imply self-determination and financial motivation - upwardly mobile go-getters! They do not explain the reasons why people are heading for Europe (or Australia). Here in Australia 'asylum seeker' is not used, nicely removing the idea that anyone would be seeking asylum. The media cannot speak directly to the refugees. We do not hear their stories and they are anonymous."

The cartoon tried to take a step back, and show that we are all humans on a small planet, trying to hang on.

How is the issue perceived in Australia, as compared to Europe?

"The Australian government's tough stance does resonate with quite a lot of people I suspect. John Howard, a former prime minister said 'we will determine who comes here', which was a 'are you with us or against us?' type of statement. That sort of thing helps some people decide what they think! It is uncomfortable to see other countries in SE Asia using the Australian policy as justification for their treatment of the refugee boats from Myanmar. The attitude in Europe does seem more generous and humanitarian. I do feel that, given the opportunity, very many Australians would welcome and support refugees who came by boat (as we do the refugees who come through the official system). We did have a detention centre a few miles from where I live. There was opposition to it at first, but that waned as the children settled into local schools and the community became involved in various ways. When it was closed, and the refugees moved, there was strong community anger. The local politician explained on radio that as they had stopped the boats they could no longer 'get the stock'."

For more information about what you can do to stop people drowning in the Mediterranean, visit Amnesty International's 'Don't Let Them Drown' campaign page.

Thanks to Simon Kneebone for permission to reproduce the cartoon.

All other images via Getty.

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