In this mailing:
- Drieu Godefridi: Central Europe
and the U.S.: The New Alliance
- Fjordman: One Week in
Sweden
- Amir Taheri: How Iran Tried to
Turn Arab States into Fading Ghosts
by Drieu Godefridi • November 12,
2017 at 5:00 am
- Even German Chancellor
Angela Merkel recognized that multiculturalism has failed. All
scientific studies show that a significant number of Muslims
in Europe are fundamentalist; and that thousands of young
European Muslims went to Syria to join ISIS. And yet, it is
insufferable to Brussels and Berlin, to hear that the people
of Central Europe have no intention of following the same
path.
- The European Court
of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the EU have made
sure, through ruling after ruling, that it is virtually impossible
to expel a "refugee" after his asylum request has
been rejected.
- The UN
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) defines
itself as a scientific body, although in reality,
unsurprisingly, it is a purely political body. In
composition, competence or functioning, there is not a shred
of science in the IPCC. Yet, in the name of this
"science", European politicians are extracting from
their people trillions in additional taxes, building
pyramids of new regulations and inflicting prohibitions in every
sphere of human activity.
Pictured:
The Prime Ministers of the Visegrad Group countries meet in Prague
on December 3, 2015. From left to right: Slovakia's Robert Fico,
Poland's Beata Szydło, Czech Republic's Bohuslav Sobotka and
Hungary's Viktor Orbán. (Image source: Chancellery of the Prime
Minister of Poland)
On immigration, on sustainable development and on
many other subjects, the convergence between the United States and
Central Europe is now as evident as the new divide between Western
Europe and Central Europe.
The European mindset is shifting. Twenty-three of
the 28 governments of the European Union now have parliamentarian
majorities on the center-right of the political spectrum.
Everywhere in Europe, the "left" is on the run.
This is particularly true in Central Europe. The
soon-to-be Austrian Prime Minister Sebastian Kurz won the election
on an anti-immigration platform and is on the verge of forming a
government with the right-wing Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) which
owes its own success to the same topic.
In the Czech Republic, political parties on the
right now hold 157 of the 200 seats in the Parliament and tycoon
Andrej Babis — "the Czech Trump" — is set to be the
next prime minister.
by Fjordman • November 12, 2017
at 4:30 am
- In Sweden,
car-burnings are not major news anymore; they have become a
part of daily life. Cars are torched in Swedish towns on a
regular basis.
- Between January and
September 2017, Sweden experienced 6000 car-burnings. That
equals roughly 22 car fires per day. Schools and other
buildings are sometimes targeted by arsonists as well.
- Meanwhile, a report
claims that Swedish students and other citizens have been
pushed to the back of the public-housing queue. The
authorities thus sometimes prioritize recently-arrived asylum
seekers and immigrants over the country's native population.
Cars burn
in the Stockholm suburb of Husby during a riot on May 20, 2013.
(Image source: Telefonkiosk/Wikimedia Commons)
If you search for crime, you can find it in any
society. Sadly, in Sweden today, you do not have to search very
hard. A casual look at newspapers on any random day will be filled
with stories about armed robberies, sexual assaults, rapes, public
gang shootings and perhaps explosives in restaurants. This crime
wave is no longer merely confined to the major cities. Many smaller
towns and some rural communities are now affected as well.
by Amir Taheri • November 12,
2017 at 4:00 am
Lebanon's
outgoing Prime Minister, Saad Hariri. (Image source: kremlin.ru)
If history is a stage on which the fate of nations
is played out, knowing when to step in and when to bow out is of
crucial importance. Being in the wrong place at the wrong time and,
even worse, in the wrong context, could lead to loss and grief.
These may have been some of the thoughts that
Lebanon's outgoing Prime Minister Saad Hariri may have had in mind
when he decided to throw in the towel rather than pretend to
exercise an office without being able to do so in any effective
manner. Hariri realized that he was in office but not in power.
Whatever the reason for Hariri's departure, I think
he was right to withdraw from a scenario aimed at turning Lebanon
into a ghost of a state with a ghost of a president and ghost prime
minister and parliament.
|
No comments:
Post a Comment