Quote:Speaking in Istanbul at a joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Merkel said Germany could help accelerate the path to visa-free travel to the EU for Turks and push forward Ankara's protracted EU membership talks.

Quote:Fortunately as far as i know, EU policy dictates that it must be a unanimous decision from all 28 member states, which will never happen.

(10-18-2015 01:37 PM)kbell Wrote:  



Quality actors. Credit to Deathtofatties.

(10-17-2015 07:49 AM)LEMONed IScream Wrote:  http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=eab_1445033279

An absolutely WTF video from Germany: Must watch

This is it. The moment an actual government official makes it clear. This is a total translformation. The end of rational law and rule by fiat and a population replacement. Germans told to leave Germany if they do not like the immigration policies of the Merkel government.

(10-18-2015 11:56 PM)Biologist Wrote:  

(10-17-2015 07:49 AM)LEMONed IScream Wrote:  http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=eab_1445033279

An absolutely WTF video from Germany: Must watch

This is it. The moment an actual government official makes it clear. This is a total translformation. The end of rational law and rule by fiat and a population replacement. Germans told to leave Germany if they do not like the immigration policies of the Merkel government.

Do these politicians and government officials not know that German citizens are the people who are keeping their country going? Not only this, do they not realise that it is the German citizens who have voted them in and are paying for their salary and other perks?

Imagine if a huge amount of Germans got upset at this speech and decided to leave Germany. Imagine a large amount of businesses were moved to other countries and many productive and smart people (engineers, technicians, scientists etc) left.

Are they so stupid to think that these "refugees" could replace these people, given that many of these refugees never attended school and are illiterate (let alone knowing the German language to any extent)?

(10-18-2015 11:56 PM)Biologist Wrote:  Imagine if a huge amount of Germans got upset at this speech and decided to leave Germany. Imagine a large amount of businesses were moved to other countries and many engineers, technicians, scientists etc left.

Are they so stupid to think that these "refugees" could replace these people, given that many of these refugees never attended school and are illiterate (let alone knowing the German language to any extent)?

(10-19-2015 06:47 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  Shit.

Are you telling me we won't be unlocking secrets of the universe anytime soon?

Quote:ZURICH, Switzerland – Swiss voters swung to the right in parliamentary elections on Sunday dominated by concerns over Europe’s migrant crisis, with the country’s largest party, the populist Swiss People’s Party, on track to win a record number of seats.

The Swiss People’s Party (SVP) was seen raking in 29.5 per cent of the vote, compared to the 26.6 per cent won in 2011 and beating its previous record score of 28.9 in 2007, the national broadcaster RTS projected.

Quote:The Socialists, the country’s second-largest party, were meanwhile seen shedding two of their current 46 seats, while the Greens and Green Liberal Party were seen losing five and six seats respectively.

The shift to the right comes as surging numbers of migrants and refugees moving through Europe have heightened the focus on the issue in Switzerland, even though the wealthy Alpine nation is yet to be significantly affected by the crisis.

Quote:"Yesterday, at the hospital we had a meeting about how the situation here and at the other Munich hospitals is unsustainable. Clinics cannot handle emergencies, so they are starting to send everything to the hospitals.

Many Muslims are refusing treatment by female staff and, we, women, are refusing to go among those animals, especially from Africa. Relations between the staff and migrants are going from bad to worse. Since last weekend, migrants going to the hospitals must be accompanied by police with K-9 units.

Many migrants have AIDS, syphilis, open TB and many exotic diseases that we, in Europe, do not know how to treat them. If they receive a prescription in the pharmacy, they learn they have to pay cash. This leads to unbelievable outbursts, especially when it is about drugs for the children. They abandon the children with pharmacy staff with the words: "So, cure them here yourselves!" So the police are not just guarding the clinics and hospitals, but also large pharmacies.

Truly we said openly: Where are all those who had welcomed in front of TV cameras, with signs at train stations?! Yes, for now, the border has been closed, but a million of them are already here and we will definitely not be able to get rid of them.

Until now, the number of unemployed in Germany was 2.2 million. Now it will be at least 3.5 million. Most of these people are completely unemployable. A bare minimum of them have any education. What is more, their women usually do not work at all. I estimate that one in ten is pregnant. Hundreds of thousands of them have brought along infants and little kids under six, many emaciated and neglected. If this continues and German re-opens its borders, I'm going home to the Czech Republic. Nobody can keep me here in this situation, not even double the salary than at home. I went to Germany, not to Africa or the Middle East.

Even the professor who heads our department told us how sad it makes him to see the cleaning woman, who for 800 Euros cleans every day for years, and then meets young men in the hallways who just wait with their hand outstretched, want everything for free, and when they don't get it they throw a fit.

I really don't need this! But I'm afraid that if I return, that at some point it will be the same in the Czech Republic. If the Germans, with their nature cannot handle this, there in Czechia it would be total chaos. Nobody who has not come in contact with them has any idea what kind of animals they are, especially the ones from Africa, and how Muslims act superior to our staff, regarding their religious accommodation.

For now, the local hospital staff has not come down with the diseases they brought here, but, with so many hundreds of patients every day - this is just a question of time. (My comment: only tuberculosis is problematic, the viral scare is less dangerous than actual violence and chaos. Though syphilis and other rare sexually transmitted diseases my become a problem for us. I doubt that they treat Syphilis properly and a girl who fucks a migrant might very quickly pass it on to you.)

In a hospital near the Rhine, migrants attacked the staff with knives after they had handed over an 8-month-old on the brink of death, which they had dragged across half of Europe for three months. The child died in two days, despite having received top care at one of the best pediatric clinics in Germany. The physician had to undergo surgery and two nurses are laid up in the ICU. Nobody has been punished.

The local press is forbidden to write about it, so we know about it through email. What would have happened to a German if he had stabbed a doctor and nurses with a knife? Or if he had flung his own syphilis-infected urine into a nurse's face and so threatened her with infection? At a minimum he'd go straight to jail and later to court. With these people - so far, nothing has happened.

And so I ask, where are all those greeters and receivers from the train stations? Sitting pretty at home, enjoying their non-profits and looking forward to more trains and their next batch of cash from acting like greeters at the stations. If it were up to me I would round up all these greeters and bring them here first to our hospital's emergency ward, as attendants. Then, into one building with the migrants so they can look after them there themselves, without armed police, without police dogs who today are in every hospital here in Bavaria, and without medical help.

(10-19-2015 11:17 AM)glugger Wrote:  Have they made it illegal to report on the refugees now? That's what that email above seemed to suggest.

(10-19-2015 03:50 PM)achromaticmike Wrote:  I'm embarrassed to admit this but I was beat up by a group of "refugees" a few weeks ago after getting pissy drunk at Oktoberfest and leaving the "black boxx" strip club in the Munich hauptbahnhof area around 4am that same night. They then proceeded to steal my Rolex Seadweller after I was unconscious. Luckily I wasn't stabbed or something and I just lost an expensive uninsured watch...

Quote:European nationalist parties are enjoying a worrying surge of support on the back of the continent's migrant crisis, a development that has been largely overlooked.

The rise of far-right parties in Europe — like the Front National in France or Golden Dawn in Greece — has been a major story over the last few years, but recent developments have received much less attention even though their gains have been more dramatic.

In several elections in the last month, radical parties to the right of Europe's mainstream conservatives are gaining strength. Opinion polls in other countries paint the same picture.

Few people pay attention to Swiss elections, and most people can't name the country's political leaders. Since most major decisions go to referendums, either at the national or local level, there's not quite as much for legislators to do. But this weekend the populist and right-wing Swiss People's Party won 29.4% of the vote, the largest proportion ever, after a campaign that focused on migration. According to the BBC it is being referred to as a "rechtsrutsch," or a slide to the right.

The Swiss People's Party is perhaps known best internationally for its use of pretty openly racist posters.

In Austria, there's been quiet momentum behind the far-right Freedom Party too. In late September, the party nudged the mainstream centre-left party out of second place in a state elections in Upper Austria. In 2010, one of the party's slogans was "mehr mut für unser Wiener blut," or "more courage for our Viennese blood."

In Vienna earlier this month, the social democrats won 39% of the vote, holding onto control, but the Freedom Party were hot on their heels, pulling in 31%. The centre-left party has been in power in the city since the end of the Second World War, and there was genuine concern that they could lose in one of Europe's cosmopolitan capital cities.

What's more, all polls since May have shown the far-right party in the lead or drawn for the lead, some recent ones by as much as 10 percentage points.

Like Swiss federal elections, it's reasonable to assume many people aren't paying attention to Austrian regional elections. But the strength of the far right doesn't end there.

In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders' PVV is 18 points ahead of the governing VVD in the latest polls. Marine Le Pen's National Front leads in most polls in France. In Italy, Matteo Salvini's Northern League is riding high.

In regional elections this year, it gained its best ever results in the five contested areas. In Veneto, the new Northern League governor immediately ordered the dissolution of migrant reception centres.

The parties have a less coherent view on economics, but share a eurosceptic and anti-migrant platform.

Salvini, Le Pen, Wilders and Christian-Stache (the leader of the Austrian Freedom Party) wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. Here's a snippet:

The situation is completely out of control. Too many fortune seekers, too much illiteracy. Some of the migrants are refugees, but the majority come for economic reasons. Our European economies and social-protection systems cannot cope with this. The media prefer to focus on families and children, but their images cannot conceal that the asylum seekers flocking to Europe are predominantly young men. Many are unskilled ...

The European Union has slowly been eroding Europe’s nation-states by gradually dismantling their sovereignty. It has robbed our countries of the right to conduct our own national asylum policies

The parties appeal to feelings of insecurity and instability, as well as a perception that control is being wrestled away from the institutions they know and understand, co-opted by distant and sneering cosmopolitan bureaucrats. Their way of life has been put under pressure and the people in charge basically don't care.

Progressive Scandinavia isn't exempt from the changes either. The Swedish Democrats surged to 3rd place in elections in September 2014, from 6th in 2010. A handful of polls since August have put them in first place, and several more have put them in second, behind the centre-left governing party.

The Danish People's Party came second in elections in June 2015, beating Denmark's main traditional centre-right party.

Migrants walk to the Austrian border in Nickelsdorf from Hegyeshalom, Hungary, in this September 26, 2015 file photo. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/FilesThomson Reuters
File photo of migrants walking to the Austrian border in Nickelsdorf from Hegyeshalom

It's not universal. Spain and Germany don't seem to have right-wing populist parties with the same sort of levels of support, though Angela Merkel's popularity has clearly begun to ebb over recent months.

In the United Kingdom, UKIP support seems to have peaked and fallen back a little — though it's uncharitable to UKIP to compare it to some of the parties listed here, they're all playing for the same disaffected demographic.

But in much of Europe far-right parties are steadily and constantly gaining ground. They're pressing against the invisible boundary that separates fringe groups from mainstream politics, and seem to be testing whether the distinction exists at all anymore.

Most are deliberately isolated from the process of political coalition-building, but some already exert influence on a national level — after the 2010 election, the Dutch government relied on the tacit support of the PVV to survive.

Many will have to sustain momentum for several years if they want to perform as well as they currently are in polls. What they can guarantee is that they'll have ample conditions. Europe's monetary union no longer seems to be under existential threat, as it was from 2010 to 2012, but growth is modest at best. There is very little to provide a feelgood factor.

What's more, the colossal movement of migrants and refugees into Europe isn't likely to stop or even slow anytime soon. According to a leaked document, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees sees at least 700,000 people seeking asylum in Europe this year, and a similar or "even greater" number in 2016.

At the moment, it seems like only a matter of time until one of these parties truly transforms the political makeup of Europe by breaking through and leading a government — just don't be surprised when it happens.