Newly arrived refugees involved in Cologne assaults: German police

Posted by: Nick | Jan 8 2016 20:18 utc | 3

@2 Hopefully not to blow it up as feared by PavewayIV..

Posted by: Lozion | Jan 8 2016 21:12 utc | 5

@Nick@3
Newly arrived refugees involved in Cologne assaults: German police
It would be nice to check the source of your info.
On same subject,
Dusseldorf Residents Form Anti-immigrant Militia

After attacks on women committed in Cologne on New Year’s eve the inhabitants of Düsseldorf decided to organize patrols to protect the cities from migrants, reported on Friday Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
For this purpose the activists created a group on Facebook, which, according to the publication, already has more than 3.3 thousand members. The description of the group noted that members must patrol the streets of Düsseldorf on weekends and during major events, to “show their presence” and make “the city safer for our women.”
Meanwhile, local police is skeptical with regard to the activists. “The monopoly on power belongs to the state (…) Criminal prosecution is not a function of citizens”, — said a spokesman for the Dusseldorf police.
“T-online” notes that at the moment the group on Facebook is made up of a large number of radicalized citizens, but this is not the first attempt by the right to pit the society against migrants.
After the riots in Cologne police received 170 complaints, 117 of them referred to cases of sexual violence. As reported by the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Germany Tobias Plate, the identity of 32 rioters was established: 29 of them are migrants with a residence permit in Germany, 18 people have a refugee status.
Similar incidents have occurred on New Years in the German cities of Hamburg and Stuttgart. Violence and harassment by migrants was also experienced by women from the Swiss Zurich and Austrian Salzburg.

Either La Merkel et al made a strategic mistake with unintended consequences, or part of their unspoken plan was the rebirth of Nazism. Now the neo brown shirts are ready to defend the fatherland from filthy Muslims hell-bent on raping their women, and the German right/neo-nazis will justify their anti-immigration drive on the actions of a not-so few. If there was no plan to pit Germans against immigrants before La stupid Merkel allowed for Erdogan’s blackmail to proceed, the results are the same as those of a well planned, socially engineered, purposely created and manipulated conflict.

Posted by: Lone Wolf | Jan 8 2016 21:36 utc | 7

@Oui@8
Note found with sexist remarks translated from Arabic to German on persons near Central Station in Cologne
I saw your response, we are on the same page with our concerns. The note is an image file and I couldn’t get it translated. If you read German, mind to translate it for me, maybe others who are following the thread? Just the yeast of it is enough. Thanks.

Posted by: Lone Wolf | Jan 8 2016 22:34 utc | 9

Trying to follow nmb’s link @1 without actually being shortened and sold myself led me to Pepe Escobar of 29 Dec

The lame duck Obama administration – whatever rhetorical and/or legalistic contortions – still sticks to the Cold War 2.0 script on Russia, duly prescribed by Obama mentor Dr. Zbigniew “Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski.
That follows a “tradition” Bill Blum, for instance, has extensively documented, as since the end of WWII Washington attempted to overthrow more than 50 governments – the absolute majority full democracies; dropped bombs on the civilian population of over 30 nations; attempted to assassinate over 50 foreign leaders; attempted to suppress nationalist movements in 20 nations; interfered on countless democratic elections; taught torture through manuals and “advisers”; and the list goes on.
The key front though is the Russian economy; sooner or later there’s got to be a purge of the Russian Central Bank and the Finance Ministry, but Putin will only act when he has surefire internal support, and that’s far from given.
The fight to the death in Moscow’s inner circles is really between the Eurasianists and the so-called Atlantic integrationists, a.k.a. the Western fifth column. The crux of the battle is arguably the Russian Central Bank and the Finance Ministry – where some key liberalcon monetarist players are remote-controlled by the usual suspects, the Masters of the Universe.
The same mechanism applies, geopolitically, to any side, in any latitude, which has linked its own fiat money to Western central banks. The Masters of the Universe always seek to exercise hegemony by manipulating usury and fiat money control.
So why President Putin does not fire the head of the Russian Central Bank, Elvira Nabiulina, and a great deal of his financial team – as they keep buying U.S. bonds and propping up the U.S. dollar instead of the ruble? What’s really being aggressed here if not Russian interests?

I agree with Pepe’s last point (first point in the article’s order). Push has come to shove along the financial axis.

Posted by: jfl | Jan 8 2016 23:45 utc | 11

A very interesting video from TeleSur by Tariq Ali talks to Paul Murphy, a socialist member of the Irish Parliament, about Irish politics and the parties lining up in advance of elections in the next few months.
http://videos.telesurtv.net/en/video/491064/the-world-today-491064

Posted by: Jack Smith | Jan 8 2016 23:58 utc | 13

On the Cologne attacks. A woman witness, Syrian by her accent, said on the BBC that she recognised Maghrebi accents in the attackers, with one from Aleppo, amongst others.
Disgusting as the event may be, I doubt that it is to be attributed to asylum-seekers. It’s all been a field-day for the racists.

Posted by: Laguerre | Jan 9 2016 0:26 utc | 15

“A woman witness, Syrian by her accent, said on the BBC that she recognised Maghrebi accents in the attackers, with one from Aleppo.”
An idiotic construct and sentence to say the least.
Really? Did they find a passport or ID?

Posted by: Neretva’43 | Jan 9 2016 1:11 utc | 17

Where the national government will regain control first: Mosul or Malheur Wildlife Refuge?
And where are our numerous American counter-insurgency experts? Total absense of useful or even useless advise — and scant action by the government. Should there be a travel advisory for south-east Oregon and north-east Nevada? Should the government offer weapons and training to the local friendly tribes, Northern Paiute and local non-militant ranchers? Should we identify a moderate faction among the occupiers of the Wildlife Refuge? Or should we bomb until the sand glows (but what about the birds? and making a marsh glow may be hard; a note to Senator Cruz — there are actually quite a few wetlands in Middle East). If we borrow ideas from Senator Rubio, we should do “whatever it takes”, increasing support of Israel and sanctions on the usual suspects. But either I am reading wrong media, or the vast nation suddenly experiences a dearth of smart alecs.

Posted by: Piotr Berman | Jan 9 2016 1:25 utc | 19

“Turkey got 3 billions euros from the EU to do that.”
For what? for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f5DCgL970U
Not for humanitarian needs no. In the age of globalization we have Americanization/Israelization of the borders. Trump must be proud of Turkey and EU. Flow of capital aka liberalization and privatization yes, but flow of people is no, no.
No doubt that fake terrorist attack in Paris and “manhunt” Belgium and Germany, than “rape” again in Germany and so on events are directly related to “The Refuge Question”.

Posted by: Neretva’43 | Jan 9 2016 1:43 utc | 21

For those who love Abby Martin RT Breaking the Set. Just release today TeleSur
The Empire Files: The Most Dangerous Year for Muslims in America
FRIDAY JANUARY 08, 2016
http://videos.telesurtv.net/en/video/492547/the-empire-files-492547
Abby Martin interviews Dr. Deepa Kumar, professor of media studies at Rutgers University and author of *Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire*, about the roots of this alarming situation. From confronting right-wing arguments, to examining the reality behind Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims, to how Islamophobia is a reinforcement and basis for the structures of Empire, the first Empire Files episode of 2016 gives essential context to the wave of anti-Muslim hate in America and beyond.

Posted by: Jack Smith | Jan 9 2016 2:15 utc | 23

@ 20 “There were apparently only a couple of actual rapes.”
Only? Were you expecting more by any chance from people who have been given free accomodation, food and money to spend?
We must expect that among the immigrants there are radicalized Muslim males for whom non-Muslim women are tantamount to cattle or worse. Their prophet advocated the taking of sex slaves even within marriage. Non-believers or infidels who are male can be beheaded and their wives taken as “war booty” as stated again by the prophet. Whether these people can ever be properly assimilated into Western culture is highly unlikely. So let’s get real about this. There have been a spate of court cases in Britain where mainly Pakistani gangs have used under-age, mainly white girls for the sex trade, and where they were abused, raped repeatedly and beaten. Police estimate at least 1400 young girls in one city (Rotherham) were subjected to horrifying abuse. Local councils, social workers and police knew about it for years were too afraid of raising tensions to do anything about it. The same ocurred in Holland and Sweden is now the rape capital of Europe.

Posted by: Lochearn | Jan 9 2016 2:29 utc | 25

@19 Piotr Berman
I understand that Oregon Security Dept. has now authorised the training and equipping of several moderate Texan militia to deal with the Christian Extremist Insurgency. Nevada State security department expressed concern at the Oregonian strategy, after several Californian moderate forces went rogue after a deal between the states went awry, the West Coast Insurgency taking with them donated vehicles that have now been seen on social media patrolling the Malhuer Wildlife Refuge. Hawaiian Island Security have placed 3 of the Islands on Orange alert, due to the high concentration National Parks and a recent sharp rise in Christian Fundamentalist activity across the islands at around 6pm on Sundays.

Posted by: MadMax2 | Jan 9 2016 2:40 utc | 27

Neretva’43 | Jan 8, 2016 9:16:21 PM | 25
What would Jesus do and say?
Jesus will tell you to get off your high horse and shut up.

For the mouth speaks what the heart is full off.
Luke 6:45

Posted by: Lone Wolf | Jan 9 2016 2:43 utc | 29

From the Borderlands of Banderastan. Politics in Kiev continues to fragment.
Former Pravyi Sektor honcho Dmytro Yarosh began forming his own party, with an eye towards running for the Ukrainian presidency. You may recall he resigned in the fall, citing policy differences with the rest of the leadership.
According to the account at Fort Russ, it will hold a founding conference in February. Using the regional leadership of his hometown and base of Dnepropetrovsk, Yarosh gathered about 40 assorted PravSek moderates there and solidified his plans. The intent is to put some distance between himself and Pravyi Sektor, as it is “entrenched in bad repute, being accused of excessive radicalism, links with criminal circles, participating in robberies, looting, and such.”
According to Unian, Yarosh said he wants to create not a narrow movement but a “national, patriotic one in order to unite all patriots of Ukraine. Without [the] radicalism typical of peripheral social groups and without liberal empty rhetoric.” But he adds that new party will “not abandon the revolutionary path but we categorically reject pseudo-revolutionary activity that threatens the existence of Ukraine as a state and stains the reputation of the patriots.”
And what national-patriotic movement is complete without its own private army? Two battalions of volunteers and a medical unit are coming along with the new movement. Yarosh says that while it will oppose the present government, it is also against bloddy, “doomed-to-failure revolts against it as an option.” The forces, he says, will continue to “fight at the front line against the foreign aggressor.”
Would a “guaranteed to succeed revolt” be a possibility, perhaps?
Kolomoisky, an extent rival to Poroshenko and his circle of Kiev oligarchs, is also based in Dnepropetrovsk and the two figures were earlier linked when Kolomoisky was removed as governor of the region.
The Crimean Tartars who, along with Pravyi Sektor are blockading the peninsula, intend on being the vanguard of the liberation of the Crimea. The Tartar leader, Islyamov, believes that the return of the area to the Russian Federation will prove toxic and “break the country up into components….”
The Kyiv Post reports him as saying that “When the Crimea is returned to Ukraine, said Ilyamov, it will be Crimean Tatar ‘like it was before’ and not ‘pseudo-Russian, pseudo-Ukrainian, pseudo-Tatar.'” Maybe we should make it Greek, like it was before?
Interestingly, Kyiv Post goes on to note criticism by human rights activists as criticizing the blockade, as well as polling and its earlier reportage showing that the blockade has worsened the region’s opinion of Kiev.

Posted by: rufus magister | Jan 9 2016 2:59 utc | 31

um.. o////o

Posted by: neretva’43 | Jan 9 2016 3:07 utc | 33

From the bloody pages of IS crimes, one more.

ISIS Militant Executes His Own Mother
The killing was reportedly carried out in the Syrian town of Raqqa
An Islamic State militant carried out a public “execution” of his mother because she asked him to leave the group, activists say.
Ali Saqr, 21, killed his mother, Lena al-Qasem, 45, outside the post office in Raqqa, Syria, eyewitnesses said.
Raqqa has served as IS’ de facto capital since the group captured the city in August 2013.
IS does not tolerate any dissent and imposes brutal punishments, often carried out in public.
The UK-based monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) and the activist group “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently” reported the incident.
Lena al-Qasem had reportedly told her son that the US-led military alliance fighting IS would “wipe out” the group, and tried to convince him to leave the city with her.
Her son is then said to have informed the group of her
comment, and they ordered her killing.
Ali Saqr is reported to have shot her outside the post office where she worked, in front of hundreds of people.
IS, a jihadist group which follows its own extreme version of Sunni Islam, took over large parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014.
Since then the group has killed more than 2,000 people for reasons including homosexuality, and for the alleged practice of magic and apostasy, according to the SOHR.

Posted by: Lone Wolf | Jan 9 2016 3:16 utc | 35

Hey Lone Wolf
This is it, thank you. I have my Eureka moment.
This is exactly why the White Man need border walls and razor fences.
But they might be some “sleeper cells” and “organically grown” tevovists.
Search for an Absolute Security is continuing.
Prevention is key. We need Another Brick in the Wall.

Posted by: Neretva’43 | Jan 9 2016 3:41 utc | 37

“Europe runs the risk of turning black from illegal immigration, it could turn into Africa. […] We need support from the European Union to stop this army trying to get across from Libya, which is their entry point. […] At the moment there is a dangerous level of immigration from Africa into Europe and we don’t know what will happen. […] What will be the reaction of the white Christian Europeans to this mass of hungry, uneducated Africans? […] We don’t know if Europe will remain an advanced and cohesive continent or if it will be destroyed by this barbarian invasion. We have to imagine that this could happen but before it does we need to work together.”

Gaddafi
It was known that he supported and protected “uneducated Africans”. He was desperate and trying to save own life from “white Christian Europeans”. In vain. Now when stop and think about everything one should ask are WCE sane? What’s wrong with them?
Reading Edward Said will help. Are WCE constructed as “rational, peaceful, liberal, logical” (E.S.) as they claim to be? Given their arrogance and hubris they will not relent and admit failure. They will turn printing preses on and provide unlimited amount of money needed to build the walls.

Posted by: Neretva’43 | Jan 9 2016 4:03 utc | 39

@33 Neretva
Don’t forget to add Australia to you list of infamy…the wild colonial boys are writing the modern textbook on how to use a liquid fence. The offshore island ‘processing centres’ are akin to concentration camps…the horror of indefinitely living with your rapist indefinitely while you are denied an abortion caused by said rape…people sewing their mouths shut in protest… Only half a year a ago the latest in a series of dirty tricks by the Aussie Guvna… Oh yes…a redneck paradise… Good onya mates…
Australia has hit ‘new low’ amid claims of payment to people smugglers
Indonesia lashes out at Canberra, where prime minister Tony Abbott has not denied claims that the navy paid traffickers $5,000 to turn back
Tony Abbott refuses to rule out paying people smugglers
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jun/13/pressure-on-abbott-over-claims-people-smugglers-were-paid-to-turn-back-boats

Posted by: MadMax2 | Jan 9 2016 4:34 utc | 41

Well, last year Putin spent Christmas Eve (Old Calendar) at the village church in which he was baptized as a baby, and this year at the village church where his parents were baptized. The choir and young readers sounded lovely.

Posted by: juliania | Jan 9 2016 5:43 utc | 43

Wow, the bastion of bleeding-heart libertarian-ism, Indonesia, lashes out at Canberra.
This conflating of national identity and national interest with White Man and Nazis, sounds a lot like support for the New World Order.
If you are an Australian, Mad Max II, then it sounds like you don’t get out very often. The demographics of larger cities (Sydney) can no longer be characterized as “White”. But don’t worry, with the help of the Left, bad (Catholic) Tony Abbott has already been supplanted by Goldman Sachs man-about-town.

Posted by: DM | Jan 9 2016 6:16 utc | 45

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-08/empires-us-fall-when-corruption-becomes-rampant
Scroll down to comment riff by Radical Marijuana, then follow this crazy deep thinker.
http://www.thesavvystreet.com/the-fall-guy-is-in-place-for-the-next-financial-crisis/
Subscribe. As soon as you read this guy, you’ll realize he’s better than sellout Tiabbi.
The rest is war pron dancers and oil mist in the wind, a Javanese shadow morality play.
Why waste your time? Nobody from CIA:State or Mossad:ISIS will ever visit your kitchen.

Posted by: Chipnik | Jan 9 2016 6:26 utc | 47

nmb, jfl, anyone following Pepe’s article re necessity for Putin to escape the IMF/Fed system.
I can’t imagine why Pepe wd think Putin wants to escape. Nabuillina is a protege of his, was his econ adviser, was helping to interview possible cadidates for Central Bank head when Putin hired her instead; she’s not really qualified. He could have had several different economists who want more independent policies. Others speculated at the time that because she is known to be close to Putin, she wd have more authority. She and her policies have been highly criticized– but not by Putin. Her policies are EXACTLY the Washington Consensus. One economist actually said that she had been given a Fed memo as to how to handle the devaluation crisis and had followed it to the letter.
She received an Annual Central Banker of the Year Award (or something like that) at an IMF/WTO dinner.
I’ve no idea where Pepe’s coming from; he was among the worst cheerleaders for the BRICS banking institutions and the AIIB, all dollar-denominated. Using IMF/WTO personnel too.
When Malaysia & a group tried to get clear of the IMF/Fed system Russia didn’t join them. When Latin America tried, ditto.
In Putin’s defense, he CANNOT fire Nabuillina. (Maybe Pepe’s just ignorant.) That nice constitution that the US wrote for Russia in the 90s writes the laws governing the Russian Central Bank (RCB) right into it. I don’t know how many other countries are similarly shackled. Central banks are INDEPENDENT from govts (& therefore ruled by the international bankers.) N cannot be dismissed, nor can she be ordered to change her policies. The purpose of the whole Washington Consensus, monetarist IMF/Fed system is to prevent any other economies from emerging.
They made exceptions to the rules for China; obviously they WANTED China to develop; that’s why they helped her by exporting jobs, investment and technology while allowing her monetary freedom to issue her own currency apart from any reference to export income or the dollar.
Starikov lays it all out for you here, spoon-feeds you the parts of the constitution pertaining to RCB, ways in which monetary laws prevent Russia’s development, etc. Same stuff I’ve been saying forever: Countries labelled developing can issue their own currency only in an amount equal to their export income. So they have to give insane priority to exporting instead of serving the domestic needs. Also they have to borrow dollars, euros or pounds to meet their investment needs. That’s why nations everywhere are in debt-slavery. Dollar as reserve currency is only a small part of it. Nothing will suffice except for nations to take back monetary and trade sovereignty. Putin has not even hinted at either. But we know he’s a patriot, so maybe he’s under compulsion.
http://lit.md/files/nstarikov/rouble_nationalization-the_way_to_russia's_freedom.pdf

Posted by: Penelope | Jan 9 2016 7:01 utc | 49

52
Everytime I post here on MoA, my Android tablet software announces my (covered over) webcam ‘can’t read your eyes’, and ‘please run the system hardware check’.
I offer that syncopancy without comment. We all know we’re monitored like koen, it’s just a bit disconcerting it always flags after visit to MoA’s soft hangout.
No matter, we’ll shortly be dying by the billions: https://youtu.be/ixx1c3RSw_8

Posted by: Chipnik | Jan 9 2016 7:33 utc | 51

I just finished listening to the audio book of David Talbot’s The Devil’s Chessboard. Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government. It was very good I think.
I’ll spare you a full review, but the Dulles era has some very important and interesting similarities with our own (in fact, the ties are most certainly those first formed during the Dulles brothers tenure at State and CIA). Talbot doesn’t delve deeply into these more recent aspects, but he does acknowledge them. And the similarities are quite clear. We find Dulles attempting to convince his superiors of the need and advantages of dealing with “moderate Nazis” like Reinhard Gehlen, so today there are personalities in our government following a policy of working with “moderate Islamists” and “moderate ultra-nationalists” to achieve our goals.
Initially I had heard that it was a Allen Dulles biography, and though there is a lot of detail about his personal life, his marriage, and even his kids, I would say it strays from what one might consider a “standard” biography and is more about Dulles and his times. For instance, there are a couple of chapters devoted just to the Kennedy Assassination, another on Oswald, and one on the “Generals’ putsch” in France in ’61. Perhaps someone looking for more focus on Dulles the man might be disappointed by this, but for someone like myself interested in the history and insights of era Dulles lived in. The era covered is approximately the 1930s through the 1969.
Talbot uses Dulles life as the base to build up the important (and to my mind misunderstood and misconstrued) stories in recent US history. That story is, of course, the following: despite the impression most Americans have of our country fighting the ultimate “good war” against universally despised enemies – that fact is that the ruling elite of the US was deeply split. A large portion of the US elite was sympathetic to the Nazis. Indeed, the pro-Nazi segment of the US elite had built up ties with Germany during the inter-war period. The bonds were economic, political and even ideological – indeed, these links were so important that likely Germany would not have been able to rearm itself without the help of these “patriotic” Americans (Talbot makes clear that in some cases this kinship was evident even during the war itself!).
And no one represents the fascist sympathizing segment of the US elite like Allen Dulles. And Talbot tracks this key figure’s fascist ties as he rises in the US power structure from his early years as an OSS man wheeling and dealing with Nazi generals in Bern, Switzerland and on through Dulles’ creation and/or support of fascist governments in Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa during the Cold War. Talbot covers the events surrounding Dulles life excellently. Especially moving was his chapter on Guatemala – the tragedy of the Arbenz family as a mirror of the tragedy of Guatemala is covered through the eyes of the grandson of Arbez. Talbot covers the horror stories of the results of America working closely with dictators like Trujillo, the Shah, Mobutu Sese Seko, and Batista (he misses Indonesia though, an operation that caused the death of 1,000,000 Indonesians). But of course, as an American, the most important question to Talbot is that of Dulles role in the Kennedy assassination. Talbot covers this topic well and makes a very good case for Dulles involvement – including revealing (from his day calendar) the fact that “fired” and “retired” from the CIA Allen Dulles, spent the weekend – from the time Kennedy was shot and killed Friday through the hours that Oswald was gunned down – at a CIA command facility in Virginia.

Posted by: guest77 | Jan 9 2016 8:28 utc | 53

I’m afraid the Czech president who blew it might be right: only the MB could coordinate something on that scale
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/08/cologne-violence-suspects-include-asylum-seekers

Posted by: Mina | Jan 9 2016 8:50 utc | 55

oops, screwed that up.

https://blogs.princeton.edu/mudd/2008/01/allen-dulles-papers-released-by-cia-to-princeton-are-now-online/

Allen Dulles papers released by CIA to Princeton are now online
Posted on January 23, 2008 by Dan Linke

The Central Intelligence Agency has released to Princeton University some 7,800 documents covering the career of Allen W. Dulles, the agency’s longest-serving director, which now can be viewed online at http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/st74cq497

Dulles (1893-1969), a Princeton alumnus who headed the CIA from 1953 to 1961, was renowned for his role in shaping U.S. intelligence operations during the Cold War. Last March, the CIA released to Princeton a collection of letters, memoranda, reports and other papers — some still redacted — that the agency had removed from Dulles’ papers after his death and before their transfer to the University in 1974.

Posted by: guest77 | Jan 9 2016 9:08 utc | 57

Link for above post 60 re: Shillary the Warhawk and friends destruction of a stable north African country, lifting the lid on sub saharan migration. Gaddafi was Europes friend you evil f*****g ****.
http://thedailycoin.org/?p=58173

Posted by: MadMax2 | Jan 9 2016 9:31 utc | 59

Penelope @ 48
You might like to know that the way rape statistics are gathered and reported in Sweden is very different from how it’s done in Australia and most other Western countries. In Australia, if a woman is raped by a man every day for a full calendar year, all those 365 or 366 incidents of rape are counted as one case. Should the woman and police press charges against the rapist, that case leads to one trial.
In Sweden, those incidents are counted as separate offences and should the woman try to press charges, she would have to press separate charges for each incident, each incident would lead to one trial and the court system there would have to deal with 365 or 366 rape trials whereas in Australia and most of the rest of the Western world, there’d only be one trial.
Likewise, in Australia if the woman was gang-raped by 30 men, that incident counts as one, whereas the Swedish woman gang-raped by 30 men would have to report 30 incidents to police.
Not only does the peculiar Swedish system of collecting rape statistics lead to Sweden being the Rape “Capital” of the World, it also discourages Swedish women from going ahead with pressing charges against serial rapists or people involved in gang-rape.
From Amnesty International, “Rape and Human Rights in the Nordic Countries” (2008), quoted on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Sweden#cite_note-method-15
“The Swedish mode of recording is sometimes referred to as ‘extensive counting’, since the crime statistics cover reported acts of rape. If a woman reports that she was subjected to several rapes by a group of men, or to repeated rapes on different occasions by one and the same man, each rape will be registered as a separate offence in the Swedish crime statistics. Furthermore, if a woman is subjected to repeated rapes during the same day by the same perpetrator, this may be registered as one or several crimes, depending on whether it is possible to distinguish each separate act.”

Posted by: Jen | Jan 9 2016 10:30 utc | 61

What happened in Cologne was similar to what happened in Egypt in 2011. The phenomenon is so frequent that the Muslims have a word for it: el-Taharush el-Gensi, sexual harassment in groups.

Posted by: Nick | Jan 9 2016 11:25 utc | 63

Those with better memory will remember when NATO intervene in Kosovo. When Kosovars start to pouring in EU its “rapid reaction cultural mechanism” set in motion. Suddenly Kosovo Albanians were involved in prostitution, there were “drug dealers”, weapon merchant, they “raped our woman”, “sudden” hike of crime rate were attributed to them. What not, everything imaginable that was Kosovo Albanians, nation of less than 2 million. Talented folks.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/08/cologne-violence-suspects-include-asylum-seekers
Take for example this BS from fascist’s paper the Guardian. One can find all elements of a propaganda. It was written, by purpose, to confuse its readers, crammed with fictitious events and none evidence. And there is “obtained by the German newspaper Bild”. None other than Bild. Fascist Bild. If one wish to read text like those they are posted all the time at Pamelageler.com or Daniel Pipes the the like. But there is time when folks like them became mainstream.
Main purpose of this and similar texts is to Appeal to Emotion. In order the lie to be believable, which is not that hard when it comes to the WCE, there must be the Native Informant there to tell story from first hand. The WCE is not racist, no way, there is even Tunisian-German who saw whole situation who were there,

“Clients I’ve spoken to who were there at the station to peacefully see in the new year say that there were also Albanian, Kurds, Montenegrins, Syrians and Iraqis involved in the tumult,” said Mehdi Labidi, a Tunisian-German.”

“Their” evilness and disrespect for local regulation is the norm as Frau Merkel said “to send a clear signal to people who do not want to stick to our legal framework”. That’s right.

“Evidence has emerged that similar attacks had taken place in seven other German cities. After Cologne, Hamburg appears to have been the worst affected.”
“Finnish police reported an unusually high level of sexual harassment in Helsinki on New Year’s Eve and said they had been tipped off about plans by groups of asylum seekers to sexually harass women.”
“Swedish police said at least 15 young women had reported being groped by groups of men on New Year’s Eve in the city of Kalmar.”

There are very well organized and coordinated. They communicate by using cell phone, just like in Paris.

Posted by: Neretva’43 | Jan 9 2016 12:38 utc | 65

The propaganda is full speed, and they have enough zombies to act when and where they need it. Yesterday French MSM were all on the guy who killed his mother for IS, and the French women who joined IS and taught their kids to play football with human heads (I doubt it works).

Posted by: Mina | Jan 9 2016 12:58 utc | 67

post 67, typical and orthodox example of a Native Informant.

“Clients I’ve spoken to who were there at the station to peacefully see in the new year say that there were also Albanian, Kurds, Montenegrins, Syrians and Iraqis involved in the tumult,” said Mehdi Labidi, a Tunisian-German.”

Secondly written in third person.
Interesting piece about speaking in third person.

The third person is the most common point of view used in fiction writing and is the traditional form for academic writing. Authors of novels and composers of papers use “he,” “she,” or “it” when referring to a person, place, thing, or idea.

bed fiction Guardian.

Posted by: Neretva’43 | Jan 9 2016 13:32 utc | 69

Penelope @48: I’ve given up on you guys…
I saw the video that you linked to about Sandy Hook. It raised some interesting and important points that deserve answers, like:

>> the closure of public records in the entire state (!!);
>> the traffic jam in front of the school;
>> the slow removal of victims;
>> the strange story of the janitor;
>> the Banker that lived next door to the shooter who created a fund for victims on the SAME DAY as the killings;
>> the $50m plan to tear-down and rebuilt the school (even Columbine HS didn’t do that – how old was the school? why so much Fed$$ for a local school??)

But there were also some flaws : it’s natural for people whose loved one’s were killed to lobby against guns and the possible drug industry connection was interesting but not strong enough. I also thought that the summary at the end should’ve been at the beginning because not everyone will watch the whole video.
I am still skeptical of FF but I have an open mind because there are too many hidden agendas. For example, many believe that the ‘fast and furious’ scandal was ultimately meant to build a case for gun control.

As a result of a dispute over the release of Justice Department documents related to the scandal, Attorney General Eric Holder became the first sitting member of the Cabinet of the United States to be held in contempt of Congress on June 28, 2012. Earlier that month, President Barack Obama had invoked executive privilege for the first time in his presidency over the same documents.

PS At least one other person also wrote to thank you for linking to that video.

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jan 9 2016 14:49 utc | 71

Lets not forget that the Syrian refugee migration is a manufactured crisis – as b pointed out early on when he noted that it fuels calls that “something must be done!” about Assad/Syria.
EU President Donald Tusk has talked publicly of this:

“For the first time in my political career I have heard politicians openly declaring that the refugees heading to Europe are their method of getting (us) [the EU] to act a certain way,”

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jan 9 2016 15:01 utc | 73

@ dahoit | Jan 9, 2016 9:51:32 AM | 74
here is an important article for you. While the whole article is astonishing I’ll post just one small passage. If someone can not figure out who the real (not perceived) enemy than s/he is lost cause.
“For the Wealthiest, a Private Tax System That Saves Them Billions”
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/30/business/economy/for-the-wealthiest-private-tax-system-saves-them-billions.html?_r=3
“We do have two different tax systems, one for normal wage-earners and another for those who can afford sophisticated tax advice,” said Victor Fleischer, a law professor at the University of San Diego who studies the intersection of tax policy and inequality. “At the very top of the income distribution, the effective rate of tax goes down, contrary to the principles of a progressive income tax system.”

Posted by: Neretva’43 | Jan 9 2016 15:33 utc | 75

Saudi psy-ops
http://el-akhbar.com/en/Fake-Images-Starvation-Madaya-53082/

Posted by: ruralito | Jan 9 2016 15:39 utc | 77

Janet Montgomery: (Janet Screaming)
Janet Montgomery: Janet Screaming
Leah Rachel: (Leah Screaming)
Leah Rachel: Leah Screaming
Janet Montgomery: (Janet Screams)
Janet Montgomery: Janet Screams
Leah Rachel: (Leah Screams)
Leah Rachel: Leah Screams
Shandi Screams: No
Shandi Screams: Noooooooooooooo
Mary Jane Watson: (Screaming)
Mary Jane: (Screaming)

Posted by: ioana screaming | Jan 9 2016 15:52 utc | 79

When I filled tax return last year they had found mistake $120, no I am not complaining. But a creeps for that article are handling billions as I hundreds.
Health care in the US as the highest form of social control.
The fee for not having health insurance in 2016
https://www.healthcare.gov/fees/fee-for-not-being-covered/
Percentage of income
2.5% of household income
Maximum: Total yearly premium for the national average price of a Bronze plan sold through the Marketplace
Per person
$695 per adult
$347.50 per child under 18
Maximum: $2,085
Leaving this abominable country is ongoing dream. At this point I just can not understand who wants to come here?

Posted by: Neretva’43 | Jan 9 2016 15:54 utc | 81

“The Comoros and Djibouti have cut ties with Iran.”
That’s going to hurt. LOL

Posted by: Neretva’43 | Jan 9 2016 17:58 utc | 83

Lozion@54 Re: “…So what do you make of it? A few Socom troops to hold the dam but official denial to not antagonise Turkey’s no Kurds west of the Euphrates redline?…”
Turkey never said Americans can’t cross the Euphrates – that ‘red line’ was directed at the Kurds. That said, no Americans – either active-duty military or homicidal mercs acting as agents for the U.S. – should be in Syria at all. Obama publicly declaring that he was going to violate the constitution by sending some troops there does not absolve the military from their responsibility to refuse to follow an unconstitutional order or commit war crimes. Some people never learn from Nuremberg.
Erdogan is simply playing dumb for now regarding Tishreen.
In any case, the LCC reports were describing the presence of ‘Americans’ at the dam – that would be along with the several hundreds (thousands?) of SDF troops involved in the operation. The Americans are not single-handedly holding the dam. The Americans could just as likely be Academi/Xe mercs – that’s how our cowardly, treasonous military brass typically skirts the U.S. Constitution. One Arabic social media site says they are just American YPG volunteers. The engineering teams fixing the dam could also be the Americans that the LCCs are claiming to see. Who knows – there’s a good chance that all of the above are involved to some degree.
By now, the U.S. is probably bringing in a lot of equipment/personnel to their new Sweidiyeh Oil Field guard post, otherwise known as the not-so-secret Rumaila/Rimelan/Rumelan air base found here. The airstrip should be long/wide enough and useable by any of our small transports like C-130s or C-17s. Point is that there are probably plenty of other ‘Americans’ of some type running around NE Syria today than the rumored 50 from Kobane.
If the ‘Americans’ are actually there and are really U.S. SF guys, then they are most likely embedded as SDF advisors or JTACs. The residential area of Tishreen is on the west side, and the SDF has supposedly set up a command center there. So for the hundreds of SDF troops present around Tishreen, there would be a handful of SF guys doing their specialized jobs, either in the command center or from well-disbursed observation points.
Despite the FARS/LCC characterizations, the Americans are unlikely to be standing on top of the dam pacing back and forth guarding it from ISIS – that would be the SDF soldiers’ job. If ISIS attacked in force, then U.S. advisors will advise SDF commanders and the JTACs will steer a few bombs to head-chopper positions. Same thing would be true if ‘only’ Arab SDF units were on the west side of the Euphrates and/or moving up to Manbij – there would be a few SF guys moving with them to advise or direct air strikes. JTACs have to be close to the lines of contact, so they are with/near the front-line SDF troops well west of the Euphrates.

Posted by: PavewayIV | Jan 9 2016 18:46 utc | 85

PressTV is showing an exciting war documentary made by two Iraqi journalists who are – I don’t know, “embedded” we might say in the West – with some anti-ISIS Iraqi fighters.

Posted by: guest77 | Jan 9 2016 19:36 utc | 87

Now Pegida is getting in on the act in Cologne. How this is turned from a worthy issue of stopping sexual assault and protecting women to a drooling “kick out the immigrants” bully-fest proves just how unsettled the body politic of the EU is – despite the noble airs of the bureaucrats running the place.

Posted by: guest77 | Jan 9 2016 20:10 utc | 89

@91 & @86 paveway.. thank you for your posts on this ongoing topic and for the additional links..
I concur. Keep us updated with your insight if so inclined. Many txs.

Posted by: Lozion | Jan 9 2016 22:03 utc | 91

I want to add to the shout out to Paveway. Awesome contribution to our understanding. Every time.
Thank you.

Posted by: Jackrabbit | Jan 9 2016 23:11 utc | 93

Sheikh Nimr: Martyr of World War III

Saudi Arabia is in dire trouble today as the outcry over recent executions mounts. The execution of Shia Sheikh Nimr Baqr al-Nimr in the most brutal day of executions in the country in three decades has now sparked violence across the region. If Saudi Arabia is destabilized, the Middle East could easily turn into a bloodbath of biblical proportions. This begs the big question, “What is really behind these apparently symbolic executions?” […]
[…] In the Shadow of Machiavelli
The best clue as to “who stands behind” this new Saudi-Iran crisis comes to us from the Washington Post. For anyone still unaware, this Amazon owned media outlet is the perfect barometer of what is NOT true in the world of international affairs these days. Using “reverse news” psychology here, the article by Karen DeYoung tells us all we need to know about al-Nimr’s execution. If you will allow me this quote:
“Obama administration officials expressed deep concern Sunday that the abrupt escalation of tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran could have repercussions extending to the fight against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, the diplomatic efforts to end Syria’s civil war, and wider efforts to bring stability to the Middle East.”
Citing unnamed officials in Barack Obama’s administration has become the guiding principle of corporate media in America these last few years, and the Washington Post misdirects have never been more transparent than today. This piece is misleading, supportive of Saudi and US disruption in the region, and anti-Iranian to the extreme. The author continues using another source who is a “authorized to convey Saudi thinking on the condition of anonymity,” if you can imagine such a conveyance. According to the WP, Saudi Arabia is framed as the only nation “doing something”, and I quote:
“Tehran has thumbed its nose at the West again and again, continuing to sponsor terrorism and launch ballistic missiles and no one is doing anything about it.”
Then BAM! Steve Bezos’ newspaper barks the real intent of this propaganda bit bringing Russia into the fray with:
“ Iran, along with Russia, is the leading backer of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a member of a minority Shiite sect, and Riyadh views the civil war as part of Iran’s fight for sectarian dominance.”
As I type this from our offices in Germany, US F-15 and F-16 fighters fly overhead in a continuous stream from the US air base at Spangdahlem Air Base. I mention this only because 2 years ago we seldom if ever heard fighter aircraft overhead. These days even locals wonder if the flyovers have a purpose beyond intimidation, or at least some residents have expressed this to me personally. The current undeclared war of resolve, it bears witnessing and a focus on all these events in the Middle East. My point being, Riyadh’s actions of the last few days are part of an overall western strategy of unrest. If the Washington Post tells you Obama’s White House is worried over something, you can count on the Washington having been part of the cause of the event. In this case we see the “never say die” war against Assad and Russia in the works. It is a crazy bit of irony that WP’s editor Karen DeYoung was once quoted as saying; “We are inevitably the mouthpiece for whatever administration is in power.“
Meanwhile, at the newspaper (The Wall Street Journal) owned by billionaire Rupert Murdoch (who has energy investments in the region) we have another indicative report, or should I say “counter indicative?” Jay Solomon reports on the weeping sadness of Barack Obama that his non-existent peace plan for Syria may be derailed by Riyhad’s decision to sever ties with Iran. Within this report the “real” mission of the Saudis, and Washington’s current administration is revealed. I’ll rely on another quite to clue the reader. Referring to the John Kerry brokered “plan” the Wall Street Journal writer inadvertently betrays the Obama administration with:
“Under the deal, Iran in the coming months is set to receive as much as $100 billion in frozen oil revenues, which could be used to support its proxies in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.”
To sum up here, the goal all along has been misdirect from Obama’s team. The Iran deal, the parlaying at various peace accords, all the State Department’s efforts have been designed to frame the United States as peace loving, with the teddy bear John Kerry as a sort of Mother Teresa of détente. Has anyone noticed yet how every deal the man makes goes south in the end? Now Iran coming out of decades of useless sanctions is on the rocks, as was planned so it appears. The WSJ piece further implicates (by inaccuracy) the White House’s Machiavellian strategies with.
“ As the conflict deepened over the weekend, with Saudi Arabia officially severing ties with Iran, U.S. officials expressed skepticism over how much influence Washington had in heading off a conflict based on centuries-old religious divisions.”
It is with this, and with the ad nauseam with which mainstream media parrots State Department rhetoric we find the true backers of terrorism and strife in the Middle East. The statement misleads readers into believing the situation in the Middle East is “out of the control” of Obama and Washington, when the reverse is absolutely true. The story goes on to plant the seed of military support for Saudi Arabia should the situation escalate, which it is certain to with the help of the lame duck Obama.
When all is said and done, Nimr Baqr al-Nimr was a man of peaceful advocacy for the people of his belief and his region of Saudi Arabia. There is literally no proof to the contrary, yet he was summarily executed by a regime notorious for beheading its citizens. The Unites States of America has not only backed this regime, but has aligned herself in an auspicious manner over the years essentially using the Saudis as a vassal for regional control. This section of a WikiLeaks cable damns the Saudis for helping create the mess in Syria and elsewhere:
“The USG engages regularly with the Saudi Government on terrorist financing. The establishment in 2008 of a Treasury attache office presence in Riyadh contributes to robust interaction and information sharing on the issue. Despite this presence, however, more needs to be done since Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qa’ida, the Taliban, LeT, and other terrorist groups, including Hamas, which probably raise millions of dollars annually from Saudi sources, often during Hajj and Ramadan. In contrast to its increasingly aggressive efforts to disrupt al-Qa’ida’s access to funding from Saudi sources, Riyadh has taken only limited action to disrupt fundraising for the UN 1267-listed Taliban and LeT-groups that are also aligned with al-Qa’ida and focused on undermining stability in Afghanistan and Pakistan.”
Revelations Verse 19:11
The cable is from the US State Department to various offices of the Saudi government, that of the UAE, Kuwait, and Qatar. This cable, along with dozens of other revelations about the backers of terror in the world, leaves no room for ambiguity. But what’s far more disturbing is the way Washington, London and to a lesser extent Brussels are portraying current unrest as some type of religious war. The Christian-Jew-Muslim aspects of these crises are being used to hide the real cause of corporate governments supplanting rights and freedoms. This is a larger argument, but the correct one at this stage. What the world suffers from now is a hell bent effort by the godless of the world (elite bankers) to once again spark crusades for the purposes of strategy and profit. Most people reading this fully understand this, even though the exact culprits may be obscure.
The summary of this story is fairly easy to parlay. Saudi Arabia just made a play for the neocons in Washington, the bankers in London, and for the Tel Aviv instigators who have so far remained in the shadows in all this. They created a martyr who may well serve their utterly evil needs, to set the world on fire one more time. Let me leave you with the most damning quote I have yet found. It is from WikiLeaks, and implicates the Obama and previous US administrations:
“WikiLeaks cables (see below) show that the US has been tracking, and exploiting, the rise of ISIS since 2006, when the organisation first appeared in Iraq as a direct result of the Bush-Blair invasion. Like Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, ISIS are the mutations of a western state terror dispensed by a venal imperial elite undeterred by the consequences of actions taken at great remove in distance and culture. Their culpability is unmentionable in “our” societies.”
Make no mistake here, America and Britain created this mess in the world, with the help of profiting allies like Saudi Arabia. The WikiLeaks revelations tell of former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas’ statements on this too. What he revealed is that Britain basically made plans for the Syria disaster years ago. What we are witnessing is a last ditch effort to counter Vladimir Putin’s play in the region, and to either win a new Syria partitioning, or else burn the deserts in total. This is a world war in the making, and the man on the pale horse seems evident now, the leader of the faithful and true. God help us all.

Posted by: Lone Wolf | Jan 10 2016 1:18 utc | 95

The idea that the Russians cannot do what it takes to save themselves because the Americans wrote a law for them saying they cannot is ludicrous. Not part of the problem … the problem. It does seem to be fact that there are many neolibracon Russians in high places, apparently.

Posted by: jfl | Jan 10 2016 1:51 utc | 97

95
I don’t agree with your SITREP and strategic analysis, but will defend to the death your wrong to say it.
Iran just shipped out the last of it’s 20% – 90% U235, and is now in exactly the same situational analysis viz Tel Aviv as Saddam was after he destroyed his WMDs, as Gaddhafi after he destroyed his WMDs and as Assad after he destroyed his WMDs, …and KSA has already jumped the shark to prove it.
What is causing Shi’ia riots is not so much the execution of a single Shi’ia cleric, but the KSA stampede deaths of an estimated 2,700 Shi’ia during the last Hajj, after KSAs funding I$I$ to destroy Iraq’s return to full oil production (you never heard word one about I$I$ until after the Iraqi oil minister had foolishly boasted about returning to, and even exceeding, pre-war levels).
People living in MENA inherently understand it’s all and exclusively just oil cartel wars, and understand intrinsically that economic sanctions by NATU and USIL are there for one purpose only: to preserve North Sea, West Texas, Bakken and Turkey-Israel oil profits. Now just as sanctions are (allegedly) being lifted, KSA has deliberately overproduced oil below Iran’s profit price-point.
So the Persians clearly see KSA/IL as a betrayer and active agent of their destruction, as they should, and they understand that now that they are defanged, if you will, the Sword of Damocles hangs over them whether they’ll ever get their frozen accounts thawed, or ever be able to obtain long-term supply contracts at these pump-to-dump KSA prices, and find any shipping guarantees and delivery insurance with US Navy all up in the region ‘looking for pirates’.
It’s all just oil cartel wars, absolutely nothing to see here folks, your gas prices ain’t goin’ down and your taxes ain’t either, and the price of everything will continue inexorably to rise under the total U$ PetroDollar Hegemony and humanity’s first-ever $TRILLION WehrMacht enforcers.
There’s not point chewing our beards about some distant ‘earth like’ astrobiology (sic) discovery, just as there’s absolutely no point turning on CNN/MSNBC for a daily dose of 5 Minutes of MENA H8.
Just war pron feeding ZioFB, ZDrudge, Zeitbart, ZFox/WSJ advertisers. Read your Sartre instead.

Posted by: Chipnik | Jan 10 2016 2:11 utc | 99