Post by jakaswanga on Apr 20, 2015 20:38:55 GMT 3
DEATH IN THE MEDITERRANEAN and the moved heart of Europe.
1.Mateo Renzi, Prime Minister of Italy: ''Europe must ensure those boats do not leave Libya.''
Fair Enough, that is a naval blockade.
2. AFRIKA RISING: Young men in the prime of their powers, in the age group 17-25 years, leaving Africa in droves to seek greener pastures everywhere far. And dying by the swarms. Alas, the Rising Africa has neither room for nor need of them. Ballast must be thrown over board in dire times.
Fair enough, but methinks political science in Africa must stand up to be counted, or keep the silence of death. Rising economies do not treat her young as garbage, one would have thought they need that robust energy of youth in disciplined and organised form, building, building up the rising.
Alas, wishful thinking. Watch them become somebody else's problem, even in death.
3: PRELUDE: EU CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL AND HER IRON NERVES.
I think her nerves are still holding well, even as she politically disintegrates into a heap of something better flushed down the historical gutter. And besieged she certainly is.
Dissolving her away have been the crises in Greece, the Euro (currency) rigidity, the Ukraine, her relationship with the USA, and of course immigration politics; but now, this humanitarian one shoots to the top: African and Arab immigrants are dying in droves as they cross from the hell of their countries to the promised paradise of Europe.
And it is such a wretched, pitiful sight that jars even the most opaque of hearts. The price of fish labelled product of the Mediterranean has collapsed in the EU. Baah!
But I grant while the going lasted Angela Merkel branded a positive, even indelitable mark, on her land. She was an assistant to the then Chancellor Helmut Kohl, when she realised the rotund men around him who were front runners in the competition for the CDU helmsmanship, were of rubbery knees and the character wax. They readily melted under heat. So she turned on the heat and sort of ''killed off'' all of the possible crown princess, men like Wolfgang Schauble, Edmund Stroiber, and Fredrick Merz. Thereafter she eventually usurped the Chancellorship for the fair gender. That was a first in German history. Tough girl.
Austere Merkel and Angela the Miserquickly went to work and put Germany's finances in order; panel-beat German industry to competitive shape; kept abreast keeping her house in order and even ruthlessly culled errant bankers. She twitched her nose at the Anglo-Saxon banking culture of super bonuses, and rather spent extra monies on the re-training of German labour to ever increase their technical and technological sufficiency's. Very quickly she had outpaced moribund France, leaving Germany as the only motor of the Eurozone economy, and ,with that, the indisputable power at the centre of Europe. Even Great Britain, grumbling as usual, had to recognise this reality, and dejectedly sunk deeper unto the bosom of the Transatlantic cot.
And thus Angela earned the title IRON CHANCELLOR but bore it with deliberated grace, since a bushwhacking Germany scares the other Europeans sh!tless.
ut today that has run its course and she is pale at home.
Perhaps it is the old story of all good runs come to an end.
MERKEL'S UNSURE GLOBAL FOOT.
Immobilised in indecision even as Europe looked up in trepidation at Germany to assume command of EU foreign policy, Angela Merkel opted for a meek let-Washington-take-the-lead and Germany will cautiously follow role.
A fatal mistake.
She behaved as if she had never heard of, or never been briefed on the Wolfowitz Doctrine. This is a restatement of the Geopolitical Chess game of Zbigniew Bzerzinski. In short, any power that potentially will rise enough to challenge the dominance of the USA, must be destroyed by all means necessary.
With China rising
, and Putin, fuelled with petro dollars, revving up Russian independence on the international scene, the storms of the conflict had taken definite coordinates. And so as Angela still played ostrich with German power, the Ukraine burst open. The United States had seized the initiative as the EU dithered in customary confusion. Victoria Nuland birthed and midwifed a coup, Victor Yanukovich fled to Russia. ---Neither was Vladimir Putin asleep. In the twinkle of an eye he moved: a referendum, some parliamentary footwork in Moscow, and the Crimea which the Americans were aiming at as the jewel on the NATO crown, reverted to Russia. The rest could now play out slowly. But as the infuriated USA fired up war gear against Russia, German public opinion -smarting from NSA intrusions--- dragged the humiliated Merkel to action and she engaged Putin to try work things out in the Ukraine as opposed to total war.
Meanwhile there was Greece. On its part drowning in debt like African immigrants in the Aegean sea. The economic crisis became a political crisis, and this developed into a confidence crisis within the EU. Then there was the Italian Draghi at the ECB. As if he were Mugabe printing Zimbabue dollars like money has no relationship to value, the Italian went on a Euro-printing binge, fraying everybody's nerves in Frankfurt and Berlin. Still Merkel's nerves held. Significantly.
But the underbelly was yet to explode. ---Angela Merkel and her EU (or Berlin think-tank) had not bothered to develop an alternative policy toward the near Middle East. As states disintegrated in a domino sequence, they shrugged mute. Here again the Europeans preferred to let the Yankees take the lead. But North Africa and the Middle East is a European backyard, while to the USA it is a very far from my bed show, and, the truth be said, turmoil thereabouts is not exactly incompatible with Yankee geopolitical calculations. May be the Europeans, looking at the Mediterranean sea, relaxed in the assurance of their fortress, finding in that water mass a natural insurmountable barrier, foolproof against the dark enemies from Africa and Arabia.
And that is now proving to be the sorriest miscalculation. And because Italy is putting out a begging hand for her naval operations to be subsidised, it means Mateo Renzi is telling Angela to pay up!
Germany is the paymaster, even when France keeps her 400 idle troops in Bangui, CAR. Merkel pays the upkeep.
And now as plans are whispered to salvage the rumoured 700 bodies in hollows of the sunken ship for a decent burial, the German taxpayer fears the worst! (no, neither the African Union nor the Arab League see the point of denying fish their fodder at the bottom of the sea).
In Germany, a xenophobic movement called PEGIDA is gathering pace, demonstrating and inspiring the torching of temporary hostels housing refugees from the middle east and beyond. Graffiti leaves no room to be desired, and small town Germany and her mayors are smelling the political coffee. It has not escaped folks that in France the National Front is a front runner for power. Fired by xeno- and islamophobia. (and beneath the surface is of course the historial white fear of single, sturdy and sex-starved young black males loosed upon chaste white females!)
Therefore the gates of chaste Troy must be locked to thwart the long-co.cked desires from dark continents.
(Turks = swines)
But here is the problem. The oversupply of willing corpses. Cannon fodder charging the machine-gun, wave after wave.
Even if 500 die per day in the sea, 500 are arriving the same day. 20 million people are on the move from West Africa, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and from as far as Afghanistan.
And the way they are crossing the sea! If a boat sinks, sometimes whole families and villages extinct.
EUROPEAN RESPONSE. (the ANTI PULL FACTOR!
1. THE Europeans decided to be coldly ruthless. Insanely ruthless at first. They would just watch all these people die. May be even send frogmen to rip open the rubber boats to help matters? Death on such a scale would surely act as DETERRENCE. The days when blacks could blackmail whites claiming Africa is their burden are long gone.
lo! who would dare put to sea in a rickety to cross the Mediterranean if drowning was the guaranteed outcome? And so European helicopters hovering in the sky filmed drowning Africans and Arabs without radioing for rescue vessels. And naval vessels patrolling the area changed course to avoid the tedium of rescue.
Operation deterrence was in full swing. And rolling.
The blowback would be quick, and equally pathological.
1. Some Cadets from naval vessels who had stood by and not gone to the rescue suffered moral qualms, and inspite of all pep-talk, collapsed into permanent depression, unable to live with their moral cowardice and criminal negligence. --poor weak souls!
2. Some captains preferred to be relieved of command and be demoted. -unpatriotic cowards!
3. A walk along the beautiful beaches of Southern Europe became a sure rendezvous with a rotting, fish-gnawed foreign corpse ferried in by the wandering waves of the night.
4. Fishermen trawling the sea increasingly came up with more dead bodies from Africa and Asia than fish. Some decided they were better employed running RESCUE SERVICES, seeing their own navy had become sea-sick!
'
I remember an old Sicillian talking to young men of his village: ''We are a sea people. The first rule of the sea is never sail past a drowning man. If the order from Brussels is let them drown, our village, and hopefully the whole of Sicilly and Italy, aware of our watery heritage, must exercise a moral autonomy and go to the rescue of drowning people. Because that is who we are. A people of the sea!'' and he grinned a toothless grin. The ancient civilisation in his heart a nuclear bomb to the bureaucrats running the EU.
That was several years back. I instinctively knew this was a treasure, and I filed it -this Mafioso islander! I waited for his wisdom to explode like a grenade on the face of whoever would be ruling the EU when the crisis reached a boiling point.
Now, in the past two [ April 17/19 2015] days, 1200 people have died in the Mediterranean in their crossing from Libya. And there is a dangerous detail. While a year ago most of the seafarers were young men, now, an increasing percentage are women and children, even infants.
Europe, with the EU as one of the leading civilisations of our times, boasting a GDP second to only the USA, essentially a grand empire headquartered in the Belgian city of Brussels, is folding back her hands in the face of drowning children, and shrugging: ''what can I do? You should not have sailed! -irresponsible parents!''
Well, Italy is not waiting, the Italian navy has broken rank and decided to go to the rescue. That is a continentally large scale evacuation exercise, and have exhausted all their yearly budget in a week!
Italy pleads for EU help after latest migrant boat disaster
NB: An Italian captain out of coffee in the cold in the Mediterranean: ''well, we bombed Libya so we could take the oil. I guess we now gotta take the people first! The oil later! -got a drink on you mate!?''
The most powerful
ruler in Europe is of course Angela Merkel. She runs the financial motor.
But of course she is German, and Germans are making it clear everyday they do not want any more foreigners in their land, especially Muslims and Blacks. Many are only interested in Aryan brotherhood.
What can Merkel do? Aaah, original German steel, these are the people who built crematoria to take care of their Jewish problem. I trust they are capable of watching 20 million Africans and Arabs drown in the Mediterranean and go on enjoying their sleep, daily. (they are not the emotional southerners prone to much siesta and easily moved to tears by tales of drowning barbarians).
That is also what civilisation can do to one. Totally extirpate emotion from decision making.
Steel mind. A robot.
Well. they should not have sailed. They should have stayed to build their countries into paradises too, or just die in their many wars. Riddance is riddance.
As a German girlfriend once told me. ''It is not Germany's duty to save anybody from their preferred way of death''. It made sense to me then. And she added before kissing me: ''Many African countries are richer than Germany. It is just that you are stupid at administration!'' (and I knew she said niggah silently to spare my ego!)
THE BYSTANDER EFFECT.
www.everydayanalysis.com/post/111857103429/the-bystander-effect-a-modern-day-apathy
Mediterranean migrants: Hundreds feared dead after boat capsizes
The following is from November 2011.
Check from 47:00; Bad time to be a blackman in Libya. (Gadaffi gone)
1.Mateo Renzi, Prime Minister of Italy: ''Europe must ensure those boats do not leave Libya.''
Fair Enough, that is a naval blockade.
2. AFRIKA RISING: Young men in the prime of their powers, in the age group 17-25 years, leaving Africa in droves to seek greener pastures everywhere far. And dying by the swarms. Alas, the Rising Africa has neither room for nor need of them. Ballast must be thrown over board in dire times.
Fair enough, but methinks political science in Africa must stand up to be counted, or keep the silence of death. Rising economies do not treat her young as garbage, one would have thought they need that robust energy of youth in disciplined and organised form, building, building up the rising.
Alas, wishful thinking. Watch them become somebody else's problem, even in death.
3: PRELUDE: EU CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL AND HER IRON NERVES.
I think her nerves are still holding well, even as she politically disintegrates into a heap of something better flushed down the historical gutter. And besieged she certainly is.
Dissolving her away have been the crises in Greece, the Euro (currency) rigidity, the Ukraine, her relationship with the USA, and of course immigration politics; but now, this humanitarian one shoots to the top: African and Arab immigrants are dying in droves as they cross from the hell of their countries to the promised paradise of Europe.
And it is such a wretched, pitiful sight that jars even the most opaque of hearts. The price of fish labelled product of the Mediterranean has collapsed in the EU. Baah!
But I grant while the going lasted Angela Merkel branded a positive, even indelitable mark, on her land. She was an assistant to the then Chancellor Helmut Kohl, when she realised the rotund men around him who were front runners in the competition for the CDU helmsmanship, were of rubbery knees and the character wax. They readily melted under heat. So she turned on the heat and sort of ''killed off'' all of the possible crown princess, men like Wolfgang Schauble, Edmund Stroiber, and Fredrick Merz. Thereafter she eventually usurped the Chancellorship for the fair gender. That was a first in German history. Tough girl.
Austere Merkel and Angela the Miserquickly went to work and put Germany's finances in order; panel-beat German industry to competitive shape; kept abreast keeping her house in order and even ruthlessly culled errant bankers. She twitched her nose at the Anglo-Saxon banking culture of super bonuses, and rather spent extra monies on the re-training of German labour to ever increase their technical and technological sufficiency's. Very quickly she had outpaced moribund France, leaving Germany as the only motor of the Eurozone economy, and ,with that, the indisputable power at the centre of Europe. Even Great Britain, grumbling as usual, had to recognise this reality, and dejectedly sunk deeper unto the bosom of the Transatlantic cot.
And thus Angela earned the title IRON CHANCELLOR but bore it with deliberated grace, since a bushwhacking Germany scares the other Europeans sh!tless.
ut today that has run its course and she is pale at home.
Perhaps it is the old story of all good runs come to an end.
MERKEL'S UNSURE GLOBAL FOOT.
Immobilised in indecision even as Europe looked up in trepidation at Germany to assume command of EU foreign policy, Angela Merkel opted for a meek let-Washington-take-the-lead and Germany will cautiously follow role.
A fatal mistake.
She behaved as if she had never heard of, or never been briefed on the Wolfowitz Doctrine. This is a restatement of the Geopolitical Chess game of Zbigniew Bzerzinski. In short, any power that potentially will rise enough to challenge the dominance of the USA, must be destroyed by all means necessary.
With China rising
, and Putin, fuelled with petro dollars, revving up Russian independence on the international scene, the storms of the conflict had taken definite coordinates. And so as Angela still played ostrich with German power, the Ukraine burst open. The United States had seized the initiative as the EU dithered in customary confusion. Victoria Nuland birthed and midwifed a coup, Victor Yanukovich fled to Russia. ---Neither was Vladimir Putin asleep. In the twinkle of an eye he moved: a referendum, some parliamentary footwork in Moscow, and the Crimea which the Americans were aiming at as the jewel on the NATO crown, reverted to Russia. The rest could now play out slowly. But as the infuriated USA fired up war gear against Russia, German public opinion -smarting from NSA intrusions--- dragged the humiliated Merkel to action and she engaged Putin to try work things out in the Ukraine as opposed to total war.Meanwhile there was Greece. On its part drowning in debt like African immigrants in the Aegean sea. The economic crisis became a political crisis, and this developed into a confidence crisis within the EU. Then there was the Italian Draghi at the ECB. As if he were Mugabe printing Zimbabue dollars like money has no relationship to value, the Italian went on a Euro-printing binge, fraying everybody's nerves in Frankfurt and Berlin. Still Merkel's nerves held. Significantly.
But the underbelly was yet to explode. ---Angela Merkel and her EU (or Berlin think-tank) had not bothered to develop an alternative policy toward the near Middle East. As states disintegrated in a domino sequence, they shrugged mute. Here again the Europeans preferred to let the Yankees take the lead. But North Africa and the Middle East is a European backyard, while to the USA it is a very far from my bed show, and, the truth be said, turmoil thereabouts is not exactly incompatible with Yankee geopolitical calculations. May be the Europeans, looking at the Mediterranean sea, relaxed in the assurance of their fortress, finding in that water mass a natural insurmountable barrier, foolproof against the dark enemies from Africa and Arabia.
And that is now proving to be the sorriest miscalculation. And because Italy is putting out a begging hand for her naval operations to be subsidised, it means Mateo Renzi is telling Angela to pay up!
Germany is the paymaster, even when France keeps her 400 idle troops in Bangui, CAR. Merkel pays the upkeep.
And now as plans are whispered to salvage the rumoured 700 bodies in hollows of the sunken ship for a decent burial, the German taxpayer fears the worst! (no, neither the African Union nor the Arab League see the point of denying fish their fodder at the bottom of the sea).
In Germany, a xenophobic movement called PEGIDA is gathering pace, demonstrating and inspiring the torching of temporary hostels housing refugees from the middle east and beyond. Graffiti leaves no room to be desired, and small town Germany and her mayors are smelling the political coffee. It has not escaped folks that in France the National Front is a front runner for power. Fired by xeno- and islamophobia. (and beneath the surface is of course the historial white fear of single, sturdy and sex-starved young black males loosed upon chaste white females!)
Therefore the gates of chaste Troy must be locked to thwart the long-co.cked desires from dark continents.
(Turks = swines)
But here is the problem. The oversupply of willing corpses. Cannon fodder charging the machine-gun, wave after wave.
Even if 500 die per day in the sea, 500 are arriving the same day. 20 million people are on the move from West Africa, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and from as far as Afghanistan.
Last modified on Sunday 19 April 2015 14.25 BST
A major rescue operation is under way in the Mediterranean after as many as 700 migrants are feared to have drowned just outside Libyan waters, in what could prove to be the worst disaster yet involving migrants being smuggled to Europe.
Italian coastguards have retrieved 49 survivors so far and about 20 bodies,
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/18/-sp-world-briefing-europe-worsening-migrant-crisis
A major rescue operation is under way in the Mediterranean after as many as 700 migrants are feared to have drowned just outside Libyan waters, in what could prove to be the worst disaster yet involving migrants being smuggled to Europe.
Italian coastguards have retrieved 49 survivors so far and about 20 bodies,
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/18/-sp-world-briefing-europe-worsening-migrant-crisis
And the way they are crossing the sea! If a boat sinks, sometimes whole families and villages extinct.
EUROPEAN RESPONSE. (the ANTI PULL FACTOR!
1. THE Europeans decided to be coldly ruthless. Insanely ruthless at first. They would just watch all these people die. May be even send frogmen to rip open the rubber boats to help matters? Death on such a scale would surely act as DETERRENCE. The days when blacks could blackmail whites claiming Africa is their burden are long gone.
lo! who would dare put to sea in a rickety to cross the Mediterranean if drowning was the guaranteed outcome? And so European helicopters hovering in the sky filmed drowning Africans and Arabs without radioing for rescue vessels. And naval vessels patrolling the area changed course to avoid the tedium of rescue.
Operation deterrence was in full swing. And rolling.
The blowback would be quick, and equally pathological.
1. Some Cadets from naval vessels who had stood by and not gone to the rescue suffered moral qualms, and inspite of all pep-talk, collapsed into permanent depression, unable to live with their moral cowardice and criminal negligence. --poor weak souls!
2. Some captains preferred to be relieved of command and be demoted. -unpatriotic cowards!
3. A walk along the beautiful beaches of Southern Europe became a sure rendezvous with a rotting, fish-gnawed foreign corpse ferried in by the wandering waves of the night.
4. Fishermen trawling the sea increasingly came up with more dead bodies from Africa and Asia than fish. Some decided they were better employed running RESCUE SERVICES, seeing their own navy had become sea-sick!
'
I remember an old Sicillian talking to young men of his village: ''We are a sea people. The first rule of the sea is never sail past a drowning man. If the order from Brussels is let them drown, our village, and hopefully the whole of Sicilly and Italy, aware of our watery heritage, must exercise a moral autonomy and go to the rescue of drowning people. Because that is who we are. A people of the sea!'' and he grinned a toothless grin. The ancient civilisation in his heart a nuclear bomb to the bureaucrats running the EU.
That was several years back. I instinctively knew this was a treasure, and I filed it -this Mafioso islander! I waited for his wisdom to explode like a grenade on the face of whoever would be ruling the EU when the crisis reached a boiling point.
Now, in the past two [ April 17/19 2015] days, 1200 people have died in the Mediterranean in their crossing from Libya. And there is a dangerous detail. While a year ago most of the seafarers were young men, now, an increasing percentage are women and children, even infants.
Europe, with the EU as one of the leading civilisations of our times, boasting a GDP second to only the USA, essentially a grand empire headquartered in the Belgian city of Brussels, is folding back her hands in the face of drowning children, and shrugging: ''what can I do? You should not have sailed! -irresponsible parents!''
Well, Italy is not waiting, the Italian navy has broken rank and decided to go to the rescue. That is a continentally large scale evacuation exercise, and have exhausted all their yearly budget in a week!
Italy pleads for EU help after latest migrant boat disaster
NB: An Italian captain out of coffee in the cold in the Mediterranean: ''well, we bombed Libya so we could take the oil. I guess we now gotta take the people first! The oil later! -got a drink on you mate!?''
The most powerful
ruler in Europe is of course Angela Merkel. She runs the financial motor.But of course she is German, and Germans are making it clear everyday they do not want any more foreigners in their land, especially Muslims and Blacks. Many are only interested in Aryan brotherhood.
What can Merkel do? Aaah, original German steel, these are the people who built crematoria to take care of their Jewish problem. I trust they are capable of watching 20 million Africans and Arabs drown in the Mediterranean and go on enjoying their sleep, daily. (they are not the emotional southerners prone to much siesta and easily moved to tears by tales of drowning barbarians).
That is also what civilisation can do to one. Totally extirpate emotion from decision making.
Steel mind. A robot.
Well. they should not have sailed. They should have stayed to build their countries into paradises too, or just die in their many wars. Riddance is riddance.
As a German girlfriend once told me. ''It is not Germany's duty to save anybody from their preferred way of death''. It made sense to me then. And she added before kissing me: ''Many African countries are richer than Germany. It is just that you are stupid at administration!'' (and I knew she said niggah silently to spare my ego!)
THE BYSTANDER EFFECT.
www.everydayanalysis.com/post/111857103429/the-bystander-effect-a-modern-day-apathy
Mediterranean migrants: Hundreds feared dead after boat capsizes
The following is from November 2011.
Check from 47:00; Bad time to be a blackman in Libya. (Gadaffi gone)
in horrid events that happened far, where non of their citizens perished.
