Who Runs The Migrant Media Campaign And What Is Its Purpose?

September 3, 2015

The current moral hand-wringing media campaign around migrants from Syria has some similarities with the propaganda campaign that accompanied the putsch in Ukraine and the attack on Libya. It includes false information, photos of unknown provenance, lame "heartbreaking" personal stories and no mentioning or questioning at all of the real reasons why people are moving.

That the U.S., Turkey and the GCC countries are actively waging war against Syria and causing the plight is not discussed at all. That these "refugees" are now mostly migrants coming from rather safe places in Turkey is left out. Instead we get, at least in Europe, a sudden barrage of the-sky-is-falling coverage in all media all the time.

There will be over time a huge backlash against European politicians who, like Merkel, practically invite more migrants. Wages are stagnant or falling in Europe and unemployment is still much too high. The last thing people in Europe want right now is more competition in the labor market. Parties on the extreme right will profit from this while the center right will lose support. Why is Merkel willing to pay this price?

Though I can not pinpoint it, the feeling I and others get is that this campaign is directed and has some certain aims.

Help me here. What is behind this campaign?

Is Erdogan pushing refugees out of Turkey towards Europe because of criticism against his policies?

Is the campaign intended to gain public support in Europe for a big intensification of the war on Syria?

@EjmAlrai
The war in #Syria is due to escalate as never seen before with #Turkish & #Arab forces are drawing plans to enter the country "2fight #ISIS"

The migrants media campaign does not feel like a normal headline rush but like a planned information operation. Who is behind this campaign and what is the intent?

Posted by b on September 3, 2015 at 14:15 UTC | Permalink

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I think Putin is mistaken about America and refugees.What the hell are all these central American and Mexicans,but refugees from Americas trade steals?
Our payback resembles Europes’,as small Zionist minds overcome smaller Poison ivy league minds.
And yeah,the Zionists now say they will open their borders to one and all!NOT.
Check out today NYlying Times,and Ann Barnards article and comments on how the US bears responsibility for the refugee crisis.And the comments blaming it solely on the victims of the region get massive support,while the reasonable ones get little.What a Zionist scam on the world.

Posted by: dahoit | Sep 4 2015 16:25 utc | 101

Posted by: dh | Sep 4, 2015 11:34:06 AM | 96
Assad will not be gone. It is possible that Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria agree on the Kurdish question without having to go into talks about it.

Posted by: somebody | Sep 4 2015 16:36 utc | 102

@101 Well anything is possible. I tend to think a political solution will be found in Syria that will include Assad. But it has to be regional i.e minus outside interference. Israel wants him gone and the SAA in disarray.

Posted by: dh | Sep 4 2015 16:48 utc | 103

when was it that Merkel was telling the Palestinian girl on tv that she had to go back because Germany couldn’t accept everyone who came as refugees? and Merkel can’t find money for German pensioners or Greek citizens but opens the doors wide open to potential ISIL terrorists.
German citizens are being spied on on the pretext of controlling terrorism and then they let the scum of Syria have the run of the place? this is laughable. The German government should resign immediately.

Posted by: Mischi | Sep 4 2015 16:59 utc | 104

best joke of the yr, from ….who else but a murcunt ?
*china should take on more responsibility as a super power [sic], it should take in these poor souls* !
i break it, now u own it !
trust the cunts to think up such gem hehehe

Posted by: denk | Sep 4 2015 17:23 utc | 105

Posted by: denk | Sep 4 2015 17:23 utc | 106

just realized … Ayslan Kurdi of Kobane was a little Kurdish boy from Kobane, that town were reduced to rubble with months of airstrikes to “liberate” it from ISIS … Good chance this is all about the KURDS, not “Syrians” … and KURDS in Turkey.
“”Turkey has been dismayed at finding what amounts to a Kurdish statelet controlling 250 miles of its southern frontier.
Worse, the PYD and the YPG are the Syrian branch of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a powerful guerrilla organisation that has been fighting the Turkish army since 1984.
This summer, Rojava, a fertile wedge of territory full of wheat fields and dotted with oil industry “nodding donkeys”, looked idyllic and peaceful compared with the rest of Syria.
But for Syrian Kurds the future is full of menaces in the shape of a hostile Turkey to the north and IS to the south.
Moreover, any potential winner of the civil war in Syria may swiftly move to extinguish the Kurdish independent entity.
In the face of these dangers, it is no wonder that Syrian Kurds will take any risk to escape to Europe or anywhere else where they might find safety.””
http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/desolation-and-ruin-of-aylan-s-home-1.1910878#.VenWGJas_K8
#1 KURD advocate: John McCain

Posted by: Susan Sunflower | Sep 4 2015 17:45 utc | 107

Refugees in Hungary trying to cross the border to Austria have huge symbolism for Germans.

Posted by: somebody | Sep 4 2015 18:29 utc | 108

Not too long ago there were many countless meeting of “friends of Syria” in Istanbul, Paris etc etc.. WHERE THE F*CK ARE THEY NOW?????
When will Sunnis across the region realize Shias are not their enemies but instead those that taught and continue to teach them to take up armed against anyone else not Sunni???
5 years ago being a Syrian, Libyan was priceless. Today, most have no home – all because they fell for the lies pumped into their heads by Qatar’s Al-Jazeera and other Western/GCC media outlets. Not even the GCC countries that keep pushing Syrians and Sunnis to continue this madness are taking in any refugees.. Qadaffi(may his soul rest in peace) and Assad warned the West as much that the consequences of their stupid policies will backfire. All the EU leaders are now blaming each other and nobody wants to admit fault.
The real threat now is Da’esh mixing among these refugees and having safe havens in Europe. These monsters have no love for humans.
Another dimension is how Turkey is using the refugees in their country to pressure the EU… Erdogan is trying to tell the EU that if they don’t let him have his authoritarian ways, he’ll flood their streets with the mess they created in Syria.
Sad thing is, nobody will learn any lesson from this sad episode.

Posted by: Zico | Sep 4 2015 18:49 utc | 109

German soldiers, by the way, are in Erbil, training Kurdish Peshmerga. So are the US. This here is a German think tank paper arguing for the integration of the PKK – in German – May this year.

Posted by: somebody | Sep 4 2015 18:55 utc | 110

The oligarchy has lost confidence in their German vassals following the disastrous Ukrainian info war campaign and the exposure of its German media 5th column:
“The German question is open and for the US it will decide the outcome of the next 20 years.”
– George Friedman at the Chicago Council, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o060JXXVQ4U (see 8:50)
Thierry Meyssan asserts US chaos strategy at work in “The European Union is blind to the military strategy of the United States ”
http://www.voltairenet.org/article187588.html
Riseup.net, a Seattle based civil society NGO, has setup a highly professional German language illegal immigration promotion platform at http://www.fluchthelfer.in
Barclays Private Equity, now Equistone Partners Europe, has bought OX Group in 2013, which runs immigration facilities on the continent:
http://www.equistonepe.com/detail/investment-details-translated?id=259&back=326&lan2=de&lan=en&list=all
http://www.epochtimes.de/welt/rothschild-und-die-asyl-industrie-das-lukrative-geschaeft-mit-den-fluechtlingen-a1261679.html
Germany is now covered with immigration camps and houses:
http://www.der-dritte-weg.info/index.php/menue/1/thema/5598/Kein_Asylantenheim_in_meiner_Nachbarschaft.html/Kein_Asylantenheim_in_meiner_Nachbarschaft.html
Treacherous German gov does nothing to stem the flow of smartphone wielding agressive young well fed African and Albanian men. Even calling Erdogan to stop sending Syrians from Turkey is beyond the German minister of the interior.
There is a growing sense of treason and impending doom which I havent seen in my life, see former news anchor Eva Herman here: http://www.wissensmanufaktur.net/fluechtlings-chaos (German)
Kelly Greenhill has researched “Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement as an
Instrument of Coercion”, http://calhoun.nps.edu/bitstream/handle/10945/11515/SI_V9_I1_2010_Greenhill_116.pdf?sequence=1
Personal conclusion:
expect a 1933-type regime change in Germany.
Objective: mentally and physically strangle Germany while arming the Intermarium for war.
The importance of the Russian game and the track record of “Conjuring Hitler” out of nothing suggests so, http://www.guidopreparata.com/chpg/2CH-E-Con.pdf .

Posted by: Christoph (German) | Sep 4 2015 20:26 utc | 111

Since most Shiia live in either Iraq or Iran which are both Shiia majority states and are considered various degree less than Muslim, less than human, less than citizens in most Sunni states, and the Iraqi government is still using death-squad militias .. It’s a bit premature to suggest the Sunni population in their vicinity should be more “trusting” … there have even been some “victory slaughters” of Sunni in the past year
http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/11/06/breaking-badr/
Debaathification has been “eased” periodically and then reinstated … I don’t have time now to see if the “new guy” has accomplished anything … haven’t heard of anything and, yes, I would remember. Vague promises have been made … some progress was recinded during the last battle of Fallujah in the years prior to ISIS>

Posted by: Susan Sunflower | Sep 4 2015 20:43 utc | 112

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2015/09/europe_refugee_crisis_the_eu_has_failed_to_confront_the_wars_in_syria_and.html
I generally consider A. Applebaum a reliable representation of what people like Nuland are saying … what’s amazing is her simplistic view of things.
Anyway, according to Anne, the migrant crisis is Europe’s fault for sitting on their hands and failing to “do something” about the war in Syria …
My impression has been that “we” have been promising to “do something” for a couple years now — despite never really coming up with much of a plan of action beyond training soldiers (60 at last count, many of whom were promptly “decommissioned”
There has not been “anything” that has stood out as some “best course” — particularly since we have refused to talk to, much less negotiate with stakeholders. Hence we have — quite predictably — in fact not “done something” — however while we’ve been standing in the middle of the room scratching our head, we have made it — beyond reasonable — that no one / everyone else has “not done anything” too.
Embarrassing blame game — America’s finest insiders’ finest contribution to the discussion …

Posted by: Susan Sunflower | Sep 4 2015 22:10 utc | 113

oh, predictably gets a dig in

“”Here is what no one wants to say: This is, in essence, a security crisis. For years now, Europeans have chosen to pretend that wars taking place in Syria and Libya were somebody else’s problem. It’s also a foreign policy crisis: At different times and for different reasons, all of the large European states—the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany—have blocked attempts to create a common foreign and defense policy, and as a result they have no diplomatic or political clout.
They haven’t wanted European leadership, and most of them wouldn’t have wanted American leadership either, even if any had been on offer. The richest economy in the world has a power vacuum at its heart and no army. “”

We were the ones who refused to rein in the Saudis, who kept promising various forms of aid to the “rebels” (if only we could have found the “good ones” we knew were there) and claimed to be flabbergasted, absolutely caught with our pants down (again) when ISIS rolled into Iraq … even with all our satellites and telecom surveillance. Oh, and we’re the ones who spent most of a decade paying for the training of a largely ghost army in Iraq — the corporeal segment of which turned tail and ran when the enemy approached, invaded across their internationally recognized border, onto their home turf …

Posted by: Susan Sunflower | Sep 4 2015 22:20 utc | 114

– Turkey has more a one problem:
– It has gone through a credit boom in the last say 10 to 15 years as a result of high oil prices (think: Gulf States). That credit boom is now about to burst.
– About 2 million syrian refugees have fled to Turkey.
– Turkey, being the most important NATO member, has bowed to US pressure. The “unrest” in the Ukraine had major impact on Turkey. As a result of “tensions” in the Ukraine, turkish textile exports to Russia have completely collapsed. It meant that urkish textile production dropped by some 50%.
– Tourism coming from Europe has also dropped. And tourism is a BIG supporter of the turkish economy.
Offloading those syrian refugees to Europe, is meant to aleviate economic pressures on Turkey. It also could be a way to retaliate against the NATO for not giving too much support to Turkey.

Posted by: Willy2 | Sep 4 2015 22:48 utc | 115

Turkish exports have dropped as a result of a declining russian ruble:
http://www.dailysabah.com/money/2015/01/08/loss-in-exports-to-russia-exceeds-1b-in-2014.

Posted by: Willy2 | Sep 4 2015 22:53 utc | 116

Willy2 — Definitely sounds as “we” mismanaged Turkey very very badly over years. As a poor country looks like they’ve been paying dearly for our misadventures.
Their refugee load (CIA-WFB)
2013 Turkey : Refugees (country of origin): 5,277 (Iraq) (2011); 177,387 (Syria) February 2013
2014 Turkey: Refugees (country of origin): 11,322 (Iraq) (2012); 580,756 (Syria) (2014) February ?2014
2015 Turkey: Refugees (country of origin): 13,467 (Iraq) (2013); 783,065 (Syria) (2014) – June 2014
(prior to 2013, very few uncounted Iraqi refugees who instead went to Syria and Jordan in great number
In 2012 Syria’s refugee load was: refugees (country of origin): 1-1.4 million (Iraq); 522,100 (Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA)
while in 2012 Lebanon had refugees (country of origin): 405,425 (Palestinian refugees (UNRWA)); 50,000-60,000 (Iraq)
Gotta wonder exactly why “we” or anyone else were even slightly eager to destabilize Syria and depose Assad back in 2012 …

Posted by: Susan Sunflower | Sep 4 2015 23:56 utc | 117

Great thread and important aspect of the Syria War. I think people covered all the reasons quite well.
This latest tune being banged out on The Mighty Wurlitzer serves a great number of purposes, of course. First and foremost, though, this is an attempt to gain political advantages over Europe from the misery of the refugee flows and the fear it will create inside European politics. With friends like the USA, who needs enemies?
Prior to the latest events, the media did their best to keep the migrant narrative and the Syrian War narrative isolated from one another – this is now impossible.
Though the migrant problem has been being reported on quite a bit over the last few months, but the media has – until now – deftly presented them as economic migrants. They did this by being very, very quiet about the origins of the “migrants”, tucking information about their origin buried away deep in the back paragraphs of stories. Clearly the purpose of this of course was to hide the very real consequences of all these wars that Western governments are engaged in. Though the citizens of the West knew their countries were engaged in these wars, but like any good magician, the media kept their attention focused on the ISIS freak show and ignored the other issues. Now this separation is impossible, but the US, having created the situation that produced the refugees in the first place, now aims to profit from the sad images and stories to turn up the heat on Syria.
1) That this follows recent stories of increased Russian intervention are no mistake. I presume this has some kernel of truth to it because of Russia has lately been speaking about the creation if an international effort to battle terror and, with the recent small setbacks in Syria probably needs to making adjustments. This narrative is classic US propaganda. We’re not going to increase the fighting because of geo-politics, its because of “the children!”.
2) I see a social engineering effort occurring as well. One of Europe’s distinct political advantages has been the social cohesion of those countries. This helped the European labor unions and the left in general. The European elite was missing one important weapon that the US always had – the use of race-baiting to cause splits among the working class. The refugee problem can create the sense of social crisis, especially when it is presented (as it was for months) as economic migration. Slowly but surely, the EU will develop its own underclass which, via the local political entities and media (and outside ones as well), can be used to cause dissension amongst the working class. As Ben pointed out, these are the side effects of neo-liberalism. The idea presented earlier that this is some sort of “invasion” of Europe that was presented here is idiocy, it is a good example of some of the thinking that will come to the fore if the media plays it like that.
3) Zico’s excellent comment is very true: “The real threat now is Da’esh mixing among these refugees and having safe havens in Europe.” This is another goal, I’m sure, of the intelligence agencies. And leaving the impression that this is occuring is cause for more “Americanization” as described in #3 – more excuses for political spying and repression inside Europe.
4) As a practical matter, I think probably they’re going to try and impose the long-desired no fly zone. If partition is the goal, then they’ll have to follow up on the recent success that ISIS and Al Qaeda have racked up over the summer. If partition is the only goal, then this may be the time to complete the Syrian effort.
This:

The media campaign is run by myself and people like me on Facebook. All of the main agitators are people I know that actually give a fuck about people suffering and dying.

While it may well be true that people actually give a fuck, the fact it that this has been ginned up in social media by the governments involved using the usual techniques which is how people first learn of it and begin to spread messages about it to their friends and connections. I don’t think there is any doubt that this is a definite effort to change the narrative in the West which is currently “Assad is a monster, ISIS is a monster, but there is little we can do and the people there have to work it out for themselves” to “THHHEEE CHHHIIIILLLDDRREEEN!” for the liberals, and “your town is going to be full of Muslims” for the conservatives.
Anyway, I say again that is amazing (bordering on traitorous) that European politicians are blindly following the USA in these wars on their doorsteps. Europe is facing events which may well fundamentally transform their countries and their geopolitical situation (including the possibility of terrorist campaigns or even nuclear war). A situation which has, for the last 70 years, been very advantageous for them. European politicians seem ready to sell their countries out simply to prove that they are loyal allies to the USA.
It is bizarre.
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“Who controls most of western media to such a degree they can create a focused narrative?” The transnationals control the media which has, in the USA, been consolidated down to a small clique of billionaires at this point, and it shows. The range of opinion presented in the main stream media in the USA goes from A to A.

Posted by: guest77 | Sep 5 2015 4:16 utc | 118

shame about that, sorry folks

Posted by: guest77 | Sep 5 2015 4:17 utc | 119

A five year old boy was shot in the chest while playing outside in Cleveland Ohio, Friday. He did not survive. No media in the U.S. or Europe would publish a photo of his lifeless body, Black Lives Matter is silent and there is no political will to address the problem in government, locally or nationally. But the photo of the dead Syrian boy is all over the U.S. media.

Posted by: Alias Madd | Sep 5 2015 4:54 utc | 120

Merkel’s decision to arm the Kurds
The Turkish and the Kurdish lobby in Washington

Turkey employs an all-star lobbying team of former government officials, including former Democratic lawmakers Dick Gephardt and Al Wynn; former Republican Senator Tim Hutchinson; retired Central Intelligence Agency Director Porter Goss; and, until he was indicted in June and left the Dickstein Shapiro law firm, former Speaker of the House Denny Hastert. Others on the payroll include Brian Forni, a former Democratic aide, the law firm Greenberg Traurig, and Goldin Solutions, a media strategy firm.
A number of public relations firms and lawyers help sponsor junkets to American politicians and journalists to visit Turkey. Turkish Coalition of America, a Turkish interest group that helps to sponsor the trips, retained Brown, Lloyd and James, the lobby group that, in an ironic twist, previously represented Assad’s wife.

Supported by well-connected ex-officials such as former U.S. ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad, Kurdish officials say they believe Washington is edging toward direct support despite opposition from Baghdad and no public statements by U.S. officials to justify that optimism.
In early July, as senior Kurdish officials were visiting Washington, Kurdistan President Masoud Barzani asked the region’s parliament to prepare for a referendum on independence.
“The United States is not ready to come out and say it supports Kurdish independence because it would seem like they were advocating the disintegration of Iraq,” a Kurdish official in Washington said on condition of anonymity.

Whose media campaign is it?
Barzani

“The image of the drowned Kurdish child from Kobani is another symbol of the tyrannized Kurdish people in the world,” Barzani said in his statement.
“The World is responsible to protect the Kurdish nation and prevent the repetition of calamities before the Kurdish people,” he added.
“The time is here to end the tragedy and expatriation of the Kurdish nation and let them live on their land peacefully with honor,” the president said.
“The departure of Aylan and his family, who abandoned their homeland for Europe, is an example of the tyranny the Kurds have been suffering from since last decades,” his statement added.
“Although we call on the citizens of Kurdistan not to leave their country, the international community should help adopt those refugees turning to the European countries, and receive Kurdish migrants without discrimination,” Barzani urged.

or Davutoğlu

Drawing attention to the ongoing Syrian crisis (now in its fifth year), Davutoğlu underlined that the U.N. Security Council should make a decision for the protection of Syrians inside Syria.
“For the last four years, I have been trying, under my capacity as the foreign minister and now as the prime minister, with our president, … to persuade world leaders for the need of the establishment of a secure zone inside Syria. We proposed a solution in which refugees would be sheltered in their homes,” therefore, he added, decreasing the amount of refugees.
This proposal was not related with Turkey’s national security, he said, but was aimed at finding a way to protect Syrians. “Turkey can defend and is defending itself against those ill-intentioned ones. But who will protect Syrians? We have warned for the last four years. There are developments just like the ones occurred in Srebrenica if secure zones are not established. Today is the day to act together,” he said.

Let me guess. Someone did not realize the kid was Kurdish.

Posted by: somebody | Sep 5 2015 8:27 utc | 121

Posted by: Willy2 | Sep 4, 2015 6:48:36 PM | 112
Or on Merkel’s decision to arm the Kurds.

Posted by: somebody | Sep 5 2015 8:31 utc | 122

A business model is slowly evolving and appearing, with elements reminiscent of Groupon, Uber, Airbnb. Most of it on Facebook, and grouped according to nationality (because of language, and because different ones are treated differently by the authorities.)
Traiffickers do their publicity, and thousands of comments, maps, etc. give advice.
Positive results. (If one can consider anything positive…):
Current prices are about half of 6 months ago, because of competition. Mediterranean crossing to Greece or Italy: 600-800 euros. Bus Istanbul to Izmir, and on to Greece: 1,200 dollars. A Portuguese or Spanish passport now costs a mere 4,500 dollars. Schengen visas are not priced (v. expensive.)
The trip is now much easier to plan, and perhaps thus safer. The refugees are more self-reliant, and less vulnerable, because they get fair quality information.
Crooked traffickers are slowly being eliminated. Their actions, names, and descriptions are going up and read by tens of thousands of people.
(from news.)

Posted by: Noirette | Sep 5 2015 8:54 utc | 123

Pro-Israel Lobby AIPAC Defeated in Iran Deal Battle
Looks like the AIPAC was actually shutdown on the Iran Deal. Their own fault, walking into the punch, but maybe after they take the fall …
Gaza Strip Could Be Unlivable By 2020: Israel Blockade And War Takes Its Toll On Palestinians
… we Americans and Europeans will like the feeling of knoocking down the bully, will pull up our socks, will indulge ourselves and break the blockade in Gaza … to ‘teach the Israelis a lesson’ … and to ‘make up’ for, in our twisted minds, the little drowned boy on the beach.
The Palestinians we take no responsibility for, never have. And we try to turn the same blind eye on the Afghans, the Iraqis, the Libyans, the Syrians, the Ukrainians … whose sufferings we are exclusively responsioble for. Maybe we can ‘help’ the Gazans without taking responsibility for them. That’s what we want, in the depths of perverted souls. Help save them from the ‘nasty’ Israelis.
I think the Palestinians, will take help anyway they can get it. And, thanks to decades of indoctrination, we all have plenty ’nuff guilt leftover to spare the Israelis some of what they’ve so generously ladled out to us. They need nothing more than a good drink to help them get over their ‘loss’.
And after putting Gaza back together … all the money’s been pledged already … maybe then we can shut down the Yemeni Holocaust, and look over, rather than overlook, ‘our own’ monstrous war crimes in AILSU … and elsewhere.
You know, give peace a chance.

Posted by: jfl | Sep 5 2015 10:14 utc | 124

On a cynical world-weary note, Bodrum (google images) is a gorgeous expensive resort town and having little dead children (and larger children much less adults and their flotsam and jetsam) washing up on the beach is a PR disaster, bad for business … possibly even a reason to have avoided “excessive press interest” in the problem ….

Posted by: Susan Sunflower | Sep 5 2015 18:24 utc | 125

@126 Coming as it does from gross, knucle-dragging internet dipshit, who could really care?

Posted by: guest77 | Sep 5 2015 23:40 utc | 126

In Munich they have decided now to go less bureaucratic and “welcome the refugees first before they get registered”. This is not the Germany I know. This is not the conservative government I know.
I like it though I am suspicious. Something reminds me of Joschka Fischer’s Ukraine visa scandal in the run up to the Orange revolution.
Whom are they trying to get into Germany in the run up to a future Syria?

Posted by: somebody | Sep 6 2015 7:41 utc | 127

some refugees are from RAQQA
family from Raqqa, #Syria, now in #Munich, #Germany
pic.twitter.com/rFSneLppFg

Posted by: brian | Sep 6 2015 11:59 utc | 128

Øystein Bogen
@oysteinbogen
Vast majority of refugees I talked to past week came from camps in #Turkey,not straight from war.Why the sudden influx to EU? #refugeecrisis

Posted by: brian | Sep 6 2015 12:03 utc | 129

@57
‘I think the intensity of the passions over the refugee problem derives precisely from our bad conscience; we know that things can only get worse unless we change our policies;
whos bad conscience? mine is clean, so are most peoples….and sociopaths who orchestrated this chaos have no conscience

Posted by: brian | Sep 6 2015 12:22 utc | 130

Diplomatic sources in #Greece say #Turkey is encouraging & facillitating sudden refugee influx into EU from #Syria https://twitter.com/ekathimerini/status/640447904478445568 …

Posted by: brian | Sep 6 2015 12:35 utc | 131

Vladimir Suchan ‏@SuchanVladimir 28m28 minutes ago
Yes, overlooked fact: the mainly male refugees influx has been organized (is also business); Turkey plays a key role https://twitter.com/akarlin88/status/640505075736055808 …

Posted by: brian | Sep 6 2015 13:20 utc | 132

About climate change, drought and Syrian uprising … blaming Assad.
“Water withdrawals upstream by Turkey for their own agricultural production in the southern Anatolia region, and broader changes in regional hydrology…have further contributed to a reduction in surface flows inside of Syria.”
See report – Dividing Conflict Zones New and Old: the Tigris-Euphrates BasIn

Posted by: Oui | Sep 6 2015 21:48 utc | 133

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