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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Jan 9, 2015 6:31:51 GMT -7
Breitbart London
The European Civil War: Elites vs People in a Fight for Survival by Gerald Warner7 Jan 2015559 Europe is in a state of war: specifically, a civil war between the self-appointed elites who have destroyed much of the continent’s freedom, culture and prosperity and the insurgent populations they have deceived and enslaved. This is a war to the death; only one side can survive the outcome. Try, as they say in the modern argot, to get your head round this. The people of Germany, like those of many other European countries, are feeling increasingly desperate about the imposition upon them of mass immigration – an inflow that is unending and which is largely composed of Muslims who are hostile to Christianity and the indigenous culture. Well, you might think, that is a serious situation; but fortunately Germany is a representative democracy and when citizens make their concerns known to their representatives, the government will surely take steps to help them. Not so. German Chancellor Angela Merkel used her New Year’s Eve address to vilify her fellow citizens in the Pegida movement who are protesting against the Islamisation of the West. According to their chancellor, these people who simply wish to live in a country that is recognisably Germany “have prejudice, coldness, even hatred in their hearts”. Yet the number of asylum seekers in Germany rose to 200,000 in the past year – quadruple the figure for 2012 – and immigration reached a 20-year high. There are similar situations across Europe. But the governments of Germany, Britain and other EU states are not simply behaving incompetently and allowing their populations to be overrun through their ineptness. On the contrary, they are actively promoting the destruction of their own societies, in the interests of globalisation and the elimination of national identities and cultures. Merkel has mobilised all the forces at her disposal in an attempt to suppress the incipient rebellion against liberal totalitarianism. All the usual suspects have rallied to the regime: the state broadcaster, Germany’s legacy parties, the financial establishment, the churches… The Catholic Church, whose adherents are the victims of mass murder in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Nigeria and every other country where jihadism is running rampant, switched off the lights of Cologne Cathedral to obscure the Pegida marchers who are trying to prevent a further influx of Muslims into Europe. Turkeys voting for Christmas? Yes, because senior clerics in Germany are concerned only with trousering the massive handouts the government lavishes on registered denominations: rendering unto Caesar is the priority of organised religion in Germany. What Frau Merkel wants, she gets. Naturally, Rentamob has organised counter-demonstrations, the ones that will be given prominence by the BBC. Violent leftists are trying to prevent the Pegida marches from spreading beyond Dresden to the rest of Germany, where polls show one German in three would like to join them. It is the Marxist and Anarchist thugs’ responsibility to prevent that, at all costs, by intimidation. The establishment will try to laugh off the notion that such disparate elements as politicians, bankers and far leftists could be engaged in a joint enterprise – a crazed conspiracy theory, surely? Consider, then, the remarks made by Peter Sutherland, the “Father of Globalisation”, Bilderberg organiser and uber-Europhile to a House of Lords committee in 2012. Migration, the Well-Lunched One declared, was a “crucial dynamic for economic growth” in some EU nations “however difficult it may be to explain this to the citizens of those states”. Declining populations in countries like Germany was the “key argument” for “the development of multicultural states”. He condemned Europeans “who still nurse a sense of our homogeneity and difference from others. And that’s precisely what the European Union, in my view, should be doing its best to undermine.” That is plain speaking. A member of the innermost elite confirms the EU’s role as undermining homogeneity. Europe, formerly the most civilised entity in the world, is to be subsumed into a globalised pool of cheap labour exploited by large corporations and regulated by bureaucrats. All distinctive culture, national identity, the Judaeo-Christian ethic and everything that contributed so greatly to human civilisation are to be expunged in favour of profit for the few and state regulation for the many. Such soft totalitarianism might seem less frightening than Nazism or Communism, but the end product will be in every way as nightmarish. It must be defeated. Until now, the populations of Britain, Germany and other EU states have behaved like somnambulists, passively accepting the projected New Order. The one consolation is that some people, though still only a minority, are waking up. The movements expressing their concerns – Pegida, UKIP and others – are Davids facing the Goliath of EU totalitarianism. The forces ranged against them are massive and endowed with all the resources of the state and plutocracy. Yet they are the only hope of saving the nations of Europe from cultural extinction. Their one potential strength is popular support. Will you be with them? |
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Post by karl on Jan 9, 2015 8:20:14 GMT -7
J.J.
Interesting point of view as proposed by Mr. Gerald Warner {of Craigenmaddie} as to a European Civil War of Elites versus people in fight for survival.
The body of his composition is a bit muddled, but has some good points in the power of suggestion. If to take literally, the most of us are envolved in a fight for survival, the name being: Competition. We live in a competitive world from our early lives through our years of education and training to gain the tools to be competitive once we enter into the work force. Then we compete with others for our positions in life. This is the reality of our working life and in some cases, our private lives.
If to take as example: A single man and a single women. What do they do? They of course look for a life mate that will met their expectations. The expectations may be of different avenues between the man and the women, but non the less, it is a competitive search withen a field of many different people until the one that meets the expectations of the person in their search.
In our work life, it is similar, but more specific, for the perfect marrage between the employer and the employee is a competitive search for a person to meet the expectations required by the employer. This is the world of competitive selection.
Perhaps Mr. Warner is alluding to this prospective in his writings or perhaps my self have misunderstood the primary mark of his point as a non-hitter.
All things must have a name, if to call the leaders of industry as Elites, then so be it. For some one or ones must be at the helm of each respective industry. To say these people are against immigrants is not very realistic. For industry is a people business, it takes people to operate the wheels of production rather to be a service or a product of manufacture, it still takes people. In this self, the various service industries coupled with the various manufacturing sources of products, are created for people. For with out people to purchase these various products, their would not be a manufacturier or service industry, we would be nothing.
What is needed and more so with then the compative world we live in, is people with the correct skills and level of education for industry to draw upon. With many of the immigrants and in this case as brought forward, Muslims. Do not have those skills, nor do they wish to obtain through training and various avenues of opportunity, to obtain the educational level to compete in our world. For their survival, this indigent immigrants then rely upon the various welfare agencies for their lively hood.
With the above though, it is a mistake to use a common lable to name all immigrants as indigent, for this is a mistake. For many immigrants into our competitive world do have skills and educational level to successfully compete in our world of industry and do so very successfully.
To say this is a civil war, I do not think so. But, it is a competitive world that each must find their level of compentance and work to do better. For the future is what we make of it, only in minor cases is the future given.
In short, I think Mr. Warner has a point, but it is to the reader to locate it. Perhaps this is what the ententions are of Mr. Warner in presenting his proposition, is to create the maze for only those able to understand the hidden clues to locate the heart of his point.
Or, perhaps I have misunderstood and have not correctly used the tools of comprehension.
Karl
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Post by karl on Jan 10, 2015 6:25:38 GMT -7
Pieter
Thank you for entering your thoughts and professional manner in admonishing what I had entered in the former reply. You are right of course and took the correct course in reply, and, I do agree with you.
Pieter, your Europe is no different then mine, our work differs in the manner of conditions and application. With this though, we were shaped by the same conditions as people of the North sea coast. In this manner, our reactions are very similar.
The situation as you have very well out lined in the manner of an increasing conflict between our respective laws concerning immigration and the open border policy was devised by honest makers for the benefit of honest people. But as events have come into conflict by dishonest individuals being primarly the Muslim immigrants taking advantage of access into our respective open borders and taking up residence as they wish to do. Often this is in contradiction of the requirements of gaining citizenship they agreed to upon their entry applications.
As with the above, a few would be acceptable, but what do you do with a number of 4 million? For once they have entered upon our soil, they are under the lawful protection until at which point they are expelled out of the country which of course will not be the case as it stands.
The question upon the desk of action, is how best to bring resolution to this issue and yet stay withen the stated laws of the land.
Yes, people are becoming fed up with the abuses of these Islamics with their refusal to intergrate into the society of their adopted land, their refusal to abide by their enitial equirements to learn the language {in this case German} and take advantage of opportunities in the labour market. For in opposite, many have instead, taken advantage of the welfare systems for their welfare and in return, have increased their family numbers with new births, all on the backs of working people paying taxes.
The match that lighted the fuse was in short past being the book published by Thilo Sarrazin formally of The Bundesbank, out lining the Dumbing of German Society.
With the above, was to toss the pebble that has started a landslide leading directly into the office of the Chancellor. Contributing factors has become a conflict of words and foreseeable actions instigated by Bavarian Horst Seehofer of the Christian Social Union has called for a halt to future Turkish and Arabic immigration. Bavaria has a very powerful enfluence in Berlin and with this, carries a considerable amount of weight in decisions. With this, currently a considerable amount of pressure has been instigated by the CDU for a harder line to be placed upon immigrants demonstrating resistance to intergration into German Society.
What this means in realistic terms is failure in the Chancellors office, the failure is to create multicultural society of intergration in the manner of people of different cultural backgrounds living and working together side by side. This has not worked.
For in the opposite, has arisen increasing ant-immigrant opinion amongst the German People. For as a whole, they are fed up with the issues of cultural divisions between the Islamics and related issues of crime.
For in past, a considerable amount of latitude has been given for Islamics to continue their religious habits in such things as wearing of burqa, hiding the female face in public, separate markets with Arabic language used, increased building of new Mosques and minarets. In short, creating a little Muslim society withen a society.
The people are increasingly fed up with this and the heat is building in the Chancellors office.
My self,,,I am happy to be in Mexico.
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Post by pieter on Jan 11, 2015 14:14:04 GMT -7
Karl,
Maybe we have been to tolerant, appeasing, accomodating, soft, weak and greedy in our allowance towards the Muslim migrants (back then callled 'guest workers' or 'foreign employee's') in the sense of allowing them to built their Islamic pillars, Muslim ghetto's in European cities and towns, and not forcing them in the seventies, eighties and nineties to learn our languages propperly and respect our cultures, secular principle of 'separation between church and state', rules, laws, social codes (etiquette), the importance of education, professional skills and competition.
Part of the blame can be directed to the political elite, the politicians (parliamentarians), governments, employers (organizations) and unions of that time. Everybody was political correct, progressive and pro affirmative action. Some were indifferent and some earned money with the cheap labour of the muslim migrants and their capital (their factories and machines) which were able to produce competitive (profitable) products for the market.
So there is partly a hypocritical, opportunistic guilt behind the problem of Muslim minorities in Western-Europe and Muslim migration, and partly naive, idealistic and electoral (the muslim vote) reason. We can't correct that error of the past, but we can separate the wheat from the chaff. We don't need people who reject our culture, values, system, principles, Freedom, democracy, laws and rules. Muslims who respect our constitution, democracy, laws and rules can stay and are welcome.
Cheers,
Pieter
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Post by pieter on Jan 12, 2015 10:56:30 GMT -7
Dear friends, I think that Europe is trying to find a new aproach towards terrorism today. It is wrestling with it's Muslim migrant community, and a radical extremist minority within that minority, the Salafist and Wahabist, the agressive Sunni-Muslim Islamist Jihadists of ISIS (Islamic State) and Al Qaida. That threat is spread across Europe with the various networks and terror cells in various countries. Fact is today that we are surrounded by extremists of any kind. Neo-Nazi networks, Rightwing populist movements, far left extremist terror cells (from European seperatists, to far left anarchist anti-global freaks, Greek anarchist terrorists of the 17 September movement, Turkish Dev Sol left extremists with a suicide bombing herritage, PKK members in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium -radical Kurds-, the Iranian sectarian Left-wing nationalist, Marxism-Leninist, Islamic socialist and Anti-imperialist Mojahedin-e-Khalq, and violent native European anti-globalists of the Black Block and Autonomen movements in Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands [in the recent past] and other European countries. Germany and ScandinaviaNeo-Nazi terrorism exists, examples of that are the National Socialist Underground movement in Germany, which murdered 11 people. Anders Behring Breivik in Norway, In Germany, immediately after World War II, Allied forces and the new German government attempted to prevent the creation of the new Nazi movement through a process known as denazification. However, with the onset of the Cold War it had lost interest in prosecuting anyone.Many of the more than 90,000 Nazi war criminals recorded in German files were serving in positions of prominence under Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Not until 1964 and 1965 were the former SS members from Treblinka brought to trial by West Germany. The government had passed laws prohibiting Nazis from publicly expressing their beliefs. Displaying the swastika became an offense punishable by up to one year imprisonment. Nevertheless, some former National Socialists retained their political beliefs and passed them down to new generations who formed the extreme-right National Democratic Party ( NPD). After German reunification in the 1990s, post-National Socialist groups gained more followers, mostly among the younger generation in the former East Germany. They have expressed an aversion to people from Slavic countries (especially Poland) and people of other national backgrounds who moved from the former West Germany into the former East Germany after Germany was reunited. According to the annual report of Germany's interior intelligence service (Verfassungsschutz) for 2012, at the time there were 26,000 right-wing extremists living in Germany, including 6,000 neo-Nazis. The Neo-Nazi organizations are not outlawed in Germany, although Holocaust denial is, according to the German Criminal Code (Strafgesetzbuch § 86a) and § 130 (public incitement). Neo-Nazi activities in Sweden have previously been limited to white supremacist groups, none of which has more than a few hundred members. The main neo-Nazi organizations as of 2014 are the Party of the Swedes and the Swedish Resistance Movement. AustriaThe Kärntner Heimatdienst (" Carinthian Homeland Service", KHD) is a German nationalist advocacy group in the Austrian state of Carinthia established in 1957. The KHD describes itself as a " non-party patriotic citizens' initiative". It adopts the tradition of the German-Austrian paramilitary forces during the Austrian-Slovene clashes in Carinthia in the aftermath of World War I. As an officially approved traditions association it receives direct funding by the Carinthian state.  The Kärntner Heimatdienst  Former FPÖ leader Jörg Haider The organization claims a membership of about 20,000, including some influential members of right-wing political parties, such as the Freedom Party of Austria and the Alliance for the Future of Austria. Since the late 1990s the association has tried for a rapprochement in several round table talks with organizations of the Carinthian Slovenes. In 2005 this dialogue group ( Konsensgruppe) reached a provisional agreement on coexistence including the installation of bilingual name signs wherefore it was awarded the European Citizens' Prize in 2008. The KHD is nevertheless reproached with proximity to far-right politics and continuous contempt for the Slovene minority rights, while the Austrian State Treaty of 1955 in its Article Seven states that organizations aiming to divest any minority rights should be prohibited. In recent years it has been in pursuit of more general populist issues like Islamophobia, the opposition to multiculturalism, or the resistance against war reparations.
The association is also a founding member of the Ulrichsberg Memorial Association (Verein für die Heimkehrergedenkstätte Ulrichsberg) which organises an annual memorial service held by World War II veterans and expellees at the Ulrichsberg, a prominent hill overlooking the historic Zollfeld plain north of the Carinthian capital Klagenfurt. The event has been regularly attended by former Waffen-SS (HIAG) members and far-right activists, the former Carinthian governor Jörg Haider delivered some of his most controversial speeches here. In 2009 Austrian Defence Minister Norbert Darabos cancelled any active support by the Austrian Bundesheer.
Ulrichsberg memorial service, 2006
In the Netherlands, people with a historical awareness, cultural knowledge, and insight information about the 19th century, the First World War, the Interbellum period (1919-1939), the Second World War, the Cold War and the Post Cold War era (1989-2015) consider Austria a country with a Brown (=SA, expression for Nazi or fascistoid entity), because they say the Entnazificierungs policies didn't work as well in Austria as in Germany. The Alp country had to much chance to develop differently then other European countries with it's neutral or independent naturure or status. Old SS, SA and NSDAP members had an easier life in Austria after the Second World War then in Germany, is that Dutch (and other European) thinking of some intelligentsia members or other developped people. A strange 'brown', reactionairy (far right) conservative country with an Austrofascism (German: Austrofaschismus) and Nazi heritage and thus with strange people. Personally I considered Viennese people less pleasent people than the people in met in Berlin. I have been to both Berlin and Vienna (Pieter). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrofascism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_National_Socialism
That Austria has parties like the Freedom Party of Austria (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs, FPÖ) and ´The Alliance for the Future of Austria´ (Bündnis Zukunft Österreich, abbreviated to BZÖ' and a Christian democratic Conservative party ´The Austrian People's Party´ (Österreichische Volkspartei, ÖVP) which cooperated with the FPÖ in a coalition government adds to that ´Brown´ image. By the way all Austrian parties had Nazi and former SS members in it´s ranks also Bruno Kreisky´s Social democratic SPÖ. Linked or close to Austria many Germans and other Europeans consider the Bavarians also a Brown country, due to it´s ultra conservative heritage, and Nazi roots.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Party_of_Austria
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_the_Future_of_Austria
Switzerland
The neo-Nazi and white power skinhead scene in Switzerland has seen significant growth in the 1990s and 2000s. It is reflected in the foundation of the Partei National Orientierter Schweizer in 2000, which resulted in an improved organizational structure of the neo-Nazi and white supremacist scene.
From the mid-1990s, these remaining fringe parties were mostly absorbed by the expanding Swiss People's Party (SVP), which had initiated a revival of right-wing populism from the late 1980s. The party has variously been identified as "extreme right" and "radical right-wing populist", reflecting a spectrum of ideologies present among its members. In its far right wing, it includes extremist members such as Ulrich Schlüer, Pascal Junod, who heads a 'New Right' study group and has been linked to Holocaust denial and neo-Nazism.
By the 2007 federal elections, the expansion of the SVP had reduced the far-right fringe parties to below 3% of the popular vote, including 1.3% for the Christian right Federal Democratic Union of Switzerland (founded 1975), 0.5% for the regionalist Ticino League (founded 1991) and 0.5% for the Swiss Democrats.
The neo-Nazi and white power skinhead scene in Switzerland has seen significant growth in the 1990s and 2000s, growing from an estimated number of 200 active individuals in 1990 to 1,200 in 2005 (or from 0.003% to 0.016% of the total population). This development occurred in parallel with the increasing presence of right-wing populism due to SVP campaigns, and is reflected in the foundation of the Partei National Orientierter Schweizer in 2000, which resulted in an improved organisational structure of the neo-Nazi and white supremacist scene. The PNOS has succeeded in having a member elected to municipal governments in Langenthal in 2004 and Günsberg the following year.[
The Swiss Federal Police in 2005 counted 111 right extremist incidents in 2005, estimating that the number of individuals involved in the "right extremist scene" grew by 20% to from ca. 1,000 to 1,200. At the same time, the number of loosely involved sympathisers fell from 700 to 600, so that the overall number of people involved with right extremist activism grew by some 6% from 1,700 to 1,800 people (or 0.024% of the total population).
Far-right activists briefly won the attention of mainstream media for disrupting the 2005 celebration of the Swiss national holiday on the Rütli Meadow. The 2006 report[18] reports 109 right extremist incidents, of which 60 involved physical violence (65%). The size of the right extremist scene remains stable at 1,200 active individuals. As opposed to the preceding year, the police reports a significant increase in left extremist incidents, their number rising by 87 to 227, incidents involving physical violence likewise accounting for 65%.
Bund Oberland, a group associated with the white power skinhead Blood and Honour network has also been active in the country, especially in the distribution of CDs.
A minor Swiss National Party was briefly active under the leadership of David Mulas, dissolved in 2003. This group was closely linked to the National Democratic Party of Germany.
The far-right groups further declined in the 2011 federal elections, the Swiss Democrats remaining the largest with 4,838 votes or 0.20% of the total vote, less than half than in 2007. Smaller groups participating in the elections were the Swiss Nationalist Party in Berne and Vaud (1,198 votes, 0.05%) and Eric Weber's Volksaktion in Basel-Stadt (810 votes, 0.03%).
Netherlands
The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism reports that on 17 May 2011 in Leek, Groningen, antisemitic graffiti were found at a Jewish school. The graffiti consisted of a swastika and the text “C18”, or Combat 18, a neo-Nazi organisation active throughout Europe. The number 18 refers to the initials of Adolf Hitler, A and H being the first and eighth letters of the alphabet, respectively.
Combat 18 (C18) is a neo-Nazi organisation associated with the Blood and Honour organisation, based on the principles of "leaderless resistance". It originated in the United Kingdom but has since spread to other countries. Members of Combat 18 have been suspected in numerous deaths of immigrants, non-whites, and other C18 members. The 18 in its name is derived from the initials of Adolf Hitler: A and H are the first and eighth letters of the Latin alphabet. Combat 18 members are barred from joining the British Prison Service and police. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_18
Blood & Honour is a neo-Nazi music promotion network and political group founded in the United Kingdom in 1987. Originally founded by Ian Stuart Donaldson and Nicky Crane, it is composed of white power activists and other white nationalists and has links to Combat 18. The group organizes white power concerts by Rock Against Communism (RAC) bands and distributes a magazine of the same name.
There are official divisions in several different countries around the world. In the United States, two rival groups lay claim to the name. Blood & Honour is banned in several countries. Germany outlawed it in 2000, Spain in 2011, and Russia in 2012.
Blood & Honour took its name from the motto of the Hitler Youth, Blut und Ehre, and a song of the same name by the white power band Skrewdriver. Sometimes the code 28 is used to represent Blood & Honour, derived from the second and eighth letters of the Latin alphabet, B and H. Though different national chapters of Blood & Honour use different nationalist symbols based on their location, common symbolic traits include the usage of a modernized Blackletter script, colours of the Nazi German flag, and other Nazi symbolism, including the Totenkopf death's head insignia of the SS-Totenkopfverbände and concentration camp units and triskele.
Hungary
Today, Neo-Nazism in Hungary takes the form of hatred towards Judaism, it can be observed from many prominent Hungarian politicians. The most famous example is the MIÉP-Jobbik Third Way Alliance of Parties. Antisemitism in Hungary is manifested mainly in far right publications and demonstrations. Hungarian Justice and Life Party supporters continued their tradition of shouting antisemitic slogans and tearing the US flag to shreds at their annual rallies in Budapest in March 2003 and 2004, commemorating the 1848–49 revolution. Further, during the demonstrations held to celebrate the anniversary of the 1956 uprising, a post-Communist tradition celebrated by the left and right of the political spectrum, antisemitic slogans were heard from the right wing crowd. The center-right traditionally keeps its distance from the right-wing Csurka-led and other far-right demonstrations.
Ukraine
Ukrainian dressed in the SS Galician Division uniform, Sunday, July 21, 2013.
In 1991 Svoboda (political party) was founded as 'Social-National Party of Ukraine'. The party combined radical nationalism and neo-Nazi features.[101] It was renamed and rebranded 13 years later as 'All-Ukrainian Association Svoboda' in 2004 under Oleh Tyahnybok. By 2005 an important step toward heroization of Ukrainian nationalism was Victor Yushchenko's appointment of Svoboda member Volodymyr Viatrovych as head of the Ukrainian security service (SBU) archives. This allowed Viatrovych not only to sanitize ultra nationalist history, but also officially promote its dissemination along with OUN(b) ideology based on 'ethnic purity' coupled with anti-Russian, anti-Polish and anti-semitic rhetoric; denial of UPA war crimes, and the paradoxical glorification of Nazi history with concomitant denial of wartime collaboration wrote Professor Per Anders Rudling. The extreme right wing now capitalize on 'Yushchenkoist' propaganda initiatives. This incudes Iuryi Mykahl’chyshyn, an ideologue who proudly confesses himself part of the fascist tradition. The autonomous nationalists focus on recruiting younger people, participates in violent actions, quoting "anti-bourgeoism, anti-capitalism, anti-globalism, anti-democratism, anti-liberalism, anti-bureaucratism, anti-dogmatism". In 2009 Svoboda fetched 34% of votes in one region of the state. Svoboda is part of a right wing Alliance of European National Movements. Per Anders Rulig has suggested that "Viktor Yanukovych has indirectly aided Svoboda" by "granting Svoboda representatives disproportionate attention in the media".
SS Galician Division veterans, left and right foreground, near the village of Yaseniv in western Ukraine on Sunday, July 21, 2013.
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After Yanokovych's ouster in February 2014, the interim Yatsenyuk Government placed 4 Svoboda members in leading positions: Oleksandr Sych as Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, Ihor Tenyukh as Minister of Defense, lawyer Ihor Shvaika as Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food and Andriy Mokhnyk as Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine. However, the U.S. State Department has stated in a March 5, 2014 fact sheet that "Far-right wing ultranationalist groups, some of which were involved in open clashes with security forces during the EuroMaidan protests, are not represented in the Rada."
Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council chief Andriy Parubiy, one of the founders of Social-National Party of Ukraine, oversees the "anti–terrorist" operation against pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. Andriy Biletsky, the head of the ultra-nationalist and neo-Nazi political groups Social-National Assembly and Patriots of Ukraine, is commander of the Azov Battalion, a pro-Ukrainian volunteer paramilitary group fighting pro-Russian separatists in Donbas region.
Russia
Radical nationalism in Russia refers to some far-right and some far-left extremist nationalist movements and organizations. Of note, the term "nationalist" in Russia often refers to radical nationalism. However, it is often mixed up with "fascism" in Russia. While this terminology does not exactly match the formal definitions of fascism, the common denominator is chauvinism. In all other respects the positions vary over a wide spectrum. Some movements hold a political position that the state must be an instrument of nationalism (such as the National Bolshevik Party, headed by Eduard Limonov), while others (for example, Russian National Unity) resolve to vigilante tactics against the perceived "enemies of Russia" without going into politics.
Historically, the first prototype of such groups started with the Black Hundreds in Imperial Russia. More recent antisemitic, supremacist and neo-fascist organizations include Pamyat, Russian National Socialist Party and others.
In 1997, the Moscow Anti-Fascist Center estimated there were 40 (nationalist) extremist groups operating in Russia. The same source reported 35 extremist newspapers, the largest among these being Zavtra.
In spite of repression by governmental authorities, a right-wing extremist movement has established itself in Russia.
Russian neo-Nazis have made it an explicit goal to take over the country by force, and have put serious effort into preparing for this. Paramilitary organizations operating under the guise of sports clubs have trained their members in squad tactics, hand to hand combat and weapons handling. They have stockpiled and used weapons, often illegally. On August 15, 2007, Russian authorities arrested a student for allegedly posting a video on the Internet which appears to show two migrant workers being beheaded in front of a red and black swastika flag. Alexander Verkhovsky, the head of a Moscow-based center that monitors hate crime in Russia, said, "It looks like this is the real thing. The killing is genuine ... There are similar videos from the Chechen war. But this is the first time the killing appears to have been done intentionally." A Russian neo-Nazi group called the Russian National Socialist Party claimed responsibility for the murders.
Greece
The far right political party Golden Dawn (Chrysi Avyi) is generally labelled as neo-Nazi, although the group rejects this label. A few Golden Dawn members participated in the Bosnian War in the Greek Volunteer Guard (GVG) and were present in Srebrenica during the Srebrenica massacre. Another Greek neo-Nazi group is the Strasserist "Mavros Krinos" (Μαύρος Κρίνος – Black Lily).
In the elections of 6 May 2012, Golden Dawn received 6.97% of the votes, entering the Greek parliament for the first time with 21 representatives. Due to no coalition amongst the elected parties so as to form a Greek Government, new elections were proclaimed.
In the elections of 17 June 2012, Golden Dawn received 6.92% of the votes, entering the Greek parliament with 18 representatives.
Belgium
A Belgian neo-Nazi organization, Bloed, Bodem, Eer en Trouw (Blood, Soil, Honour and Loyalty), was created in 2004 after splitting from the international network (Blood and Honour). The group rose to public prominence in September 2006, after 17 members (including 11 soldiers) were arrested under the December 2003 anti-terrorist laws and laws against racism, antisemitism and supporters of censorship. According to Justice Minister Laurette Onkelinx and Interior Minister Patrick Dewael, the suspects (11 of whom were members of the military) were preparing terrorist attacks in order to "destabilize" Belgium. According to journalist Manuel Abramowicz, of the Resistances network, the ultras of the radical right have always had as its aim to "infiltrate the state mechanisms," including the army in the 1970s and the 1980s, through Westland New Post and the Front de la Jeunesse.[23]
A police operation, which mobilized 150 agents, searched five military barracks (in Leopoldsburg near the Dutch border: Kleine-Brogel, Peer, Brussels (Royal military school) and Zedelgem– as well as 18 private addresses in Flanders. They found weapons, munitions, explosives, and a homemade bomb large enough to make "a car explode." The leading suspect, B.T., was organizing the trafficking of weapons, and was developing international links, in particular with the Dutch far right movement De Nationale Alliantie.
Two further incidents of neo-Nazism in Belgium include: Demonstrators at an anti-Israel rally in Antwerp, on November 18, 2012 chanted “Hamas, Hamas, all Jews to the gas.", Murdering Jews by gas was the most common of murder methods by the Nazis, after 1941. On October 9, 2012 in Brussels, A synagogue was vandalized by two unidentified male perpetrators who spray-painted “death to the Jews” and “boom” on the wall of the Beth Hillel synagogue.
France
Neo-Nazi organizations in France are outlawed, yet a significant number exist. Legal far-right groups are also numerous, and include the Bloc identitaire, created by former members of Christian Bouchet's Unité Radicale group. Close to National Bolshevism and Third Position ideologies, Unité Radicale was dissolved in 2002 following Maxime Brunerie's assassination attempt on July 14, 2002 against then-President Jacques Chirac. Christian Bouchet had previously been a member of Nouvelle Résistance (NR), an offshoot of Troisième Voie (Third Way) which described itself as "nationalist revolutionary". Although Nouvelle Résistance at first opposed the "national conservatives" of Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front, it changed strategy, adopting the slogan "Less Leftism! More Fascism!" Nouvelle Résistance was also a successor to Jean-François Thiriart's Jeune Europe neo-Nazi Europeanist movement of the 1960s, which had participated in the National Party of Europe, along with Oswald Mosley's Union Movement, Otto Strasser and others. The French government estimated that neo-Nazi groups in France had 3,500 members. In 2011 alone, 129 violent actions were recorded in France against the Jewish pupulation, with 60.5% of those cases occurring in the Île-de-France region. The CNCDH notes that in 19 cases, these violent actions could be imputed to persons of ‘Arab origin or Muslim confession’, with 15 others relating to neo-Nazi ideology, mainly consisting of displaying swastikas. In relation to these violent actions 36 persons were arrested, 28 of whom were minors. Of the 129 violent actions recorded, 50.4% were for degradations, 44.2% for violence and assault and battery, and the remaining 5.4% for arson. In France in 2011, 260 threats were recorded, with 53% of those (138 cases) occurring in the Île-de-France region. Of these threats, 15% related to neo-Nazi ideology, with another 14% imputable to persons of ‘Arab origin or Muslim confession’. Thirty-two persons were arrested in relation to these threats, nine of whom were minors. Of the 260 threats, 44% consisted of speech acts and threatening gestures and insults, 38% of graffiti and the remaining 18% of pamphlets and emails.
al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
23 November 2002: A group of Algerian soldiers are ambushed. Nine died and twelve were wounded.
February 2003: 32 European tourists are kidnapped. One died of heat stroke, seventeen hostages were rescued by Algerian troops on 13 May 2003, and the remainder were released in August 2003.
12 February 2004: Near Tighremt, Islamic extremists ambush a police patrol, killing seven police officers and wounding three others. The assailants also seized firearms and three vehicles.
7 April 2005: In Tablat, Blida Province, armed assailants fire on five vehicles at a fake road block, killing 13 civilians, wounding one other and burning five vehicles.
15 October 2006: In Sidi Medjahed, Ain Defla, assailants attack and kill eight private security guards by unknown means.
11 April 2007: Two car bombs were detonated by the group. One was close to the Prime Minister’s office in Algiers and the blast killed more than 30 people and wounded more than 150.
February 2008: Two Austrians were captured in Tunisia and taken via Algeria to Mali and freed later that year, the kidnappings were attributed to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
December 2008: Two Canadian diplomats were taken hostage along with their driver in south-western Niger while on official UN mission to resolve a crisis in northern Niger. The driver was freed in Mali in March 2009. The diplomats were freed in Mali in April 2009. The kidnappings were attributed to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
22 January 2009: Four Westerners were kidnapped while visiting the Anderamboukane festival in Niger near the border with Mali. AQIM demanded the British government release Abu Qatada, and on 31 May 2009 a statement was released claiming Edwyn Dyer had been executed, which was confirmed by the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on 3 June 2009. All of the other tourists were eventually released.
30 July 2009: At least 11 Algerian soldiers are killed in an ambush while escorting a military convoy outside the coastal town of Damous, near Tipaza.
March 2010: an Italian national, Sergio Cicala, and his wife are held hostage. They were released on April 16, 2010.
21 March 2010: Three militants are killed by security forces near El Ma Labiod, 35 kilometres (22 mi) from Tebessa.
26 March 2010: Three militants are killed and another captured by security forces in Ait Yahia Moussa, 30 kilometres (19 mi) from Tizi Ouzou.
14 April 2010: According to Algerian officials, at least ten militants are killed during a counter-terrorist operation in Bordj Bou Arreridj wilaya.
16 September 2010: seven employees from Areva and Vinci are kidnapped in Arlit, Niger (five French, one Togolan and one Malagasy). The capture was claimed on 21 September by AQIM in a communiqué published in Al Jazeera. Three of the hostages were released on February 24, 2011. The other four were released on October 28, 2013.
25 November 2011: Three Western tourists were abducted in Timbuktu, including Sjaak Rijke from the Netherlands, Jorgen Gustafsson from Sweden and Stephen Malcolm McGowan from the United Kingdom. A fourth tourist, from Germany, was killed when he refused to cooperate with the perpetrators.
9 December 2011: AQIM published two photos, showing five kidnapped persons of European descent. French hostage Philippe Verdon was killed in March 2013. His body was found in July 2013. French hostage Serge Lazarevic was released on December 9. 2013.
30 September 2013: AQIM claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing in Timbuktu that killed at least two civilians.
FIS
The Islamic Salvation Front (Arabic: الجبهة الإسلامية للإنقاذ, al-Jabhah al-Islāmiyah lil-Inqādh; French: Front Islamique du Salut) is an outlawed Islamist political party in Algeria. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Salvation_Front
Armed Islamic Group of Algeria
The Armed Islamic Group (GIA, from French Groupe Islamique Armé; Arabic الجماعة الإسلامية المسلّحة al-Jama'ah al-Islamiyah al-Musallaha) is an Islamist organisation that wants to overthrow the Algerian government and replace it with an Islamic state. The GIA adopted violent tactics in 1992 after the military government voided the victory of the Islamic Salvation Front, the largest Islamic opposition party, in the first round of legislative elections held in December 1991. During their 1994 hijack of Air France Flight 8969 the GIA announced "We are the Soldiers of Mercy".[1]
Between 1992 and 1998, the GIA conducted a violent campaign of civilian massacres, sometimes wiping out entire villages in its area of operation (see List of Algerian massacres of the 1990s; notably the Bentalha massacre and Rais massacre, among others.) Since announcing its campaign against foreigners living in Algeria in 1993, the GIA has killed more than 100 expatriate men and women in the country. The group uses assassinations and bombings, including car bombs, and it is known to favor kidnapping victims. The GIA is considered a terrorist organisation by the governments of Algeria and France. Outside Algeria, the GIA established a presence in France, Belgium, Britain, Italy and the United States.
GIA in France
The Algerian state pursued a number of strategies against the GIA. One was to encourage France to take an active part in the fight against the networks of the GIA in France, and thus to cut off its principal means of support abroad. In an unsuccessful attempt to keep France out of the struggle, the GIA hijacked Air France Flight 8969, which was due to fly from Algiers to Paris in December 1994. A GIA mole named Omar Nasiri (a pseudonym for a Moroccan spy and author of Inside the Jihad) and a police raid of a safe house discovered their plan was to crash it on Paris, a plan prevented when the GIGN stormed the plane at Marseille.
The GIA conducted a series of bombings in France from 1995 to 1996. Analysis of a bomb with a failed trigger mechanism made it possible to identify a conspirator, Khaled Kelkal, who was shot and killed by French gendarmes on 29 September 1995. In late 1999, several GIA members were convicted by a French court for the 1995 bombing campaign.
In 1998, prior to the World Cup, France in collaboration with other European countries launched a vast preventive operation against the GIA. About 100 alleged members of the group were arrested throughout Europe. In Belgium, security forces seized weapons, detonators and forged identity papers. On 11 June 1999, the GIA announced a jihad on French territory in a threatening letter addressed to the media. |
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Post by pieter on Jan 12, 2015 14:07:26 GMT -7
Dear friends,
And next to that people just live their lives, go to their jobs, study, learn, read, watch television, go to the pub and restaurants, the cinema, theatre, the Opera, Shopping Malls, the Gym, driving to other towns or cities for city trips or just to go out. They enjoy the family life with their wives and children, or husband and children if they are women. They visit their parents or grandparents and take care for them if they need help. They enjoy listening to or making music themselves. They draw or paint, write poetry or a diary. They like or dislike computer games, are fond of soccer (Football), field hockey, tennis, basketball, running (jogging), swimming or just walking thought the park or the woods. Politics goes on about domestic and regional (local) subjects as ever. Traffic jams or nice empty roads in less crowded country area's or city neighborhoods.
It is good to try to enjoy life in stressful or instablile times. We have to go on living and don't have to think about terrorism, extremism, crime, hardship, suffering, death or loss every day or every moment of the day.
We want to be positive, optimistic, loving and caring and responsible citizens. Fathers and mothers, as borthers and sisters, as sons and daughters, as friends, as colleages, as neighbors and as strangers to fellow compatriots or friendly foreign visitors (tourists).
Cheers,
Pieter
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