I’m not sure how I’d class that.Is it exactly a “cartoon”? I mean yes,in a way it is certainly.But most cartoons,even when meant to point to something, have a “hint” of “humor” (usually sarcastic humor).But in this case, and a few others I’ve seen, they are without any humor.And lead directly to sympathy and horror.I think I’d call it more a “drawing”.
I think the picture, drawing, cartoon or whatever you want to call it is right on the money. I think if you dial down your political correctness gauge a bit and open your eyes you will see it as it is – it is a reflection of the western brand of absurd selective cognition by sweeping away anything they don’t want to face under the guise of political correctness. It also steers the masses away from the critical debates which it ought to have.
If anything this is just like the sakers piece on charlie hebdo. All the complainers are barking up the wrong tree.
Political correctness is making the world dumb and gullible. Thank you for demonstrating. QED
The cartoon has nothing to do with the mythical ‘political correctness’. It is a straight-forward comment on the vicious hypocrisy of the Western MSM hate and propaganda machine becoming falsely concerned over one drowned child, while more or less ignoring the millions of children who have become the victims of Western state terror, either direct or through Western proxies like Daash. That’s my take on it, at least,
Assad barrel bombs are not terrorism? Just the evil western MSM hate and propaganda machine at work. I guess I’ll go back to watching Fox news so I don’t have to ponder the possibility that both are happening and both are recognized as happening. Mumblebrain it is.
To honestly think that the world does not know about innocent civilian life being caught in the crossfire of war is dumb and gullible on your part. Throw in a pool of blood under a mound of bodies in a ‘drawing’, and all you get is crass hyperbole.
Is there such a thing as degree of causality? Remaining in a contested battlefield vs killed trying to escape? That is why one is more tragic than the other, by degree. Both are acknowledge by the world, and even by the MSM god forbid. Contrary to what the artist, the saker, and you are trying to convey. Boo hoo hoo and cry me a river.
R; Would you be kind enough to elaborate on what is so shocking about this drawing to you?
For reference, I’ll tell you what I found/find shocking; being on a boat off the coast of Thailand and see a [dead] bloated, male body pop out of the water, wearing nothing but underwear.
All I can say to you is that as being an ex-Border Patrol Agent I have seen plenty of dead migrant bodies. Tragic. You buys that ticket and you takes that ride. Some times you get away and good luck to you. Sometimes you meet me in the middle of the desert and price subject to change upon attitude of customer, and sometimes you get yourself killed because your father was the smuggler in charge and he was driving the boat to fast and didn’t listen to his wife screaming at him to slow the f***k down. That’s the latest I heard on Drudge. yummy
I have been a ‘foreigner’ most of my life. I have pursued love, life and happiness around the globe and I fully realize how fortunate I’ve been to do so for so many years.
Not one country kicked me out, not a single country told me I was not welcome and I could find work everywhere.
Would the same have happened if I wasn’t white?
Would the same have happened if I had been a woman?
Would the same have happened if I didn’t have the skills I have?
Personally, I can’t blame anyone for trying to find their fortune elsewhere.
I can [and I do] blame those who use these kinds of situations or these unfortunate deaths, for their personal betterment [be it financial or political].
I too, have seen a lot of dead bodies, blood and body parts. It’s then that one realizes we all look the same on the inside.
But I’m still not sure as to what you found shocking about the cartoon/drawing/sketch. I
Let’s not allow political correctness stand in front of the hipocrisy, shall we?
This hard to swallow satire, makes us look unto our westernized selves, nauseates us. It just proves that there is less and less room for humour under the depravity we’re imposed. I rather face it, by now unsurprised, and allow my peers do the same and not fear the reality.
Which shows a total lack of class is the manipulation and exploitation by certain European leaders, and the media in their hands, of the body of a dead child, and by certain sectors of the population in which I enclose you, now tearing their hair so much, when the crisis of refugees / migrants is very old and you remained very quiet when the EU developed the FRONTEX legislation (and migrants were drowned by thousands in the Mediterranean waters or were beaten and returned “in hot“ by the Civil Guard in the southern Spanish border), leaving for the southern countries, Greece, Italy and Spain, precisely the hardest hit by the crisis originated in the US and conveniently used by Germany and its entrepreneurship, the full weight of the management of this, since long, pressing problem .
To begin with, the child’s body was manipulated. All drowned appear parallel to the waves and with untidy clothes, this is known by anyone living on the coast. Then, you have that the child is placed perpendicular to the waves and his clothes arranged for him to be photographed by the media that “published in unison the same photo on the front page the next day.” Look, in such simultaneity, some with not so much class as you, we see a “je suis charlie” in the making.
Then, there is the representative of German businessmen, Ulrich Grillo, calling for “solidarity” because he needs 800,000 workers as cheap labor to pull the wages of German workers on the floor and ensure their rate of profit, but the European legislation prevents from import them in such number. What better way to pressure a change in the European labor and migration legislation than to create a massive wave of “refugees” and spread chaos in Europe?
Finally, the Pope, calling the good Christians to welcome “refugees” at home. Here, now, one finds, every day, on the street or at the store, that people have forgotten their neighbors who have been evicted and seek in containers for years ( all these, curiously, anyone wants them at home, because the Pope has not called to pick them up, one wonders why ). The other day, a lady with whom I meet several days at physiotherapy, and that results to be “very Catholic and rich”, according to her own words, said she would welcome some of these “refugees” at home, because it was told by the Pope and, moreover, “they are people who have money.” For classy, this “lady”, do not you agree?. Without words. To go to piss and take no drop.
What the Pope does not understand is that most Europeans live in apartments of 50 square meters ( in the best case ) and other many in the streets, and also many, at least in the South, have family on the dole or with misery pensions to who have had long ago and have to help and that is preciselly thanks to the efforts of the families, that our “governments” have managed to contain social unrest. On the other hand, the Vatican is very large and have much money, and as they have always liked too much people with money, why not ride there a shelter for these “refugees”, particularly from the violent type?
Yesterday, in an special program on the crisis of “refugees”, now flooding televisions, public or private ( who cares? For today have been advertised several “specials” in which we, for sure, are not going to see the images of violence from the so called “refugees” ) they commented that Merkel has gone from being the “bad girl”, the “face of the IV Reich”, to be the “guardian angel” of the “refugees”. Now the “bad guy” is Viktor Orban and those “racist” Hungarians . People, suddenly, a little months from general elections in Spain, and with an unprecedented boom of the left, has forgotten the “austericidio”, to which we have been undergone by Merkel and their local lackeys from the past 7 years, the problems of their fellow citizens, the rampant corruption and mismanagement, to be manipulated like morons with the manipulated photo of a dead child.
I would say that is this Europe, blind and deaf to what it wants, manipulable ad nauseam, who has very little class.
Agreed, the use of “migrant” in the cartoon betrays the cartoonist’s snideness. If the label were “victim of flight from terror” it would be a more honest and troubling cartoon. Are the “international media” are so aligned with the powers that sow Mideast terror that they are functioning as enforcers?
OffGuardian has a video of (what appears to be, and no reason to doubt it) an ordinary German giving his views on the lies about the ‘migrant crisis’ whilst driving in his car. It truly is wonderful. There are English subtitles but they do not do justice to the splendour of his statement.
Now you know why I don’t have television lo these many years. I do not need to be lied to. I do not need to converted into an infant by their “entertainment..”
yes, great video. I don’t know how many Germans/Europeans feel the same way, but I’ll bet that number is growing day by day. What does it mean? It’s beginning of the end for MSM….!!!!! Hard to believe, but I think it’s true!
Many with intelligence and personal integrity understand what is going on. I would wager that they number between 5% to 10%. A very substantial number that can tip public opinion the other way.
The problem is that people who can see behind the lies and propaganda are systematically marginalized, while the propagandists are all in key positions of power and media influence.
Those with levers to shape public opinion are all in on the act. This is the main problem in Europe today.
Image of dead kids: Yes, I struggle with cynicism each day and the temptation to turn the rage onto others. ..In reality the hegemon pressitutes see the immigrant flood as “the Zombie Apocalypse” only the one useful dead child humanized only in death ( there have been many drowned in other boats) makes their headlines in their war against Assad but the logical solution is? Stop bombing and destroying the infrastructure of other countries including Syria which by the way they are doing by their air attacks. IS will occupy a town and the Syrian army will push them out and so it might go back and forth. Meanwhile the US, UK etc. bombs the infrastructure of that town–to the victor goes the spoiled spoils.
Remember how the unwashed masses of New Orleans were treated–herded like cattle into a hot amphitheater under guard? I feel sad for the young father who made a calculated risk ( he paid the boat captain a tidy sum by the way) in order to gain his family a better life but he lost so terribly badly. Between a rock and a hard place. At least the Pope told every parish to adopt a refugee family.
the Jesuits were always helpful to the masses, but the RC Church also has huge investmetns in the destruction of Syria..don’t be fooled. Their money is not where their mouth is. As if the RC Church couldn’t stop this if they wanted to.
Chimmy the scapegoat has been unmasked ? Maybe English is not your first language…scapegoat is the victim not the aggressor…and I would say the viewpoint of an ape is pretty dim….not much going on in there without any criticism to apes…after all, they’re only little critters….but, ok, I can go along with the last part of the comment…media=control of narrative…
Sorry about being abstruse. In my comment, I was trying to say in the time in which we live (eschatology) aggressors now have to play the victim. The ape is the one that mimics Christ –minus of course compassion and possibly other things. I suppose I had my head up in the air reading books and stuff.
I think perhaps someone could send this cartoon to editors of Charlie Hebdo in an open letter, and see if they will publish it, with the suggestion that it will increase their reputation for true “free expression” and so increase their readership (i.e. $$$$) by many percent.
Of course, the cynic in me doubt they’ll publish it, or even worse, change the “international media” person into Assad…., but that’s why you want to do it as an open letter.
if the text is “victims of terror”, guess what, all idiots (and there are so many) in the West think it means Assad the terrorist (I kid you not). While “victims of regime change” has no such ambiguity.
Incidentally, we have been wondering why the refugee crisis is exploding to such an extent right now. Why not a year ago already? After all, the civil wars in Libya, Iraq and Syria have been raging for quite some time. A number of explanations suggest themselves. Word has probably gotten around that European welfare states are a worthwhile destination. Moreover, ISIS is gaining more and more ground in Syria and with Damascus surrounded, the collapse of the Assad regime is coming ever closer – and keep in mind that Assad is the only guarantor of security for Syria’s Christian and Shi’ite minorities. If we were among them, we’d have packed our bags a while ago already.
What else is different to before? One thing is the recent expansion of war in the region by Saudi Arabia (which is committing war crimes on a grand scale in Yemen with Western connivance – something the Western mainstream press is more or less silent about) – a country that incidentally is not prepared to take in even a single Syrian refugee (!). The other is Turkey’s decision to suspend the peace process with the Kurdish PKK and go on the attack all over the Kurdish region. Perhaps though there are also reasons we don’t know about (yet). In any case, it is odd that the crisis is suddenly coming to a head like this.
Here is another oddity we have come across: there are US based sources creating web sites like this one that is telling Germans to openly break the law and smuggle refugees into Germany. According to the “whois” registration entry the web site belongs to an organization with a US address. Originally the “whois” entry mentioned the Ayn Rand Institute, but after we sent an email asking for comment, this was scrubbed (it is possible that the institute’s name was misused – its German chapter has commented elsewhere that the institute “had nothing to do with the site”).
Here are two articles in the German press on the topic (you will have to use Google translate for an English version): “US web site Fluchthelfer.in openly calls for smuggling asylum seekers into Austria and Germany” and “Was the Ayn Rand Institute abused by “Fluchthelfer”? We cannot comment on this further, because we don’t know enough, but it is an oddity we thought we would mention (perhaps some of our readers know more about it?).
Q; …the collapse of the Assad regime is coming ever closer…
R; Russia will not allow this to happen. It won’t happen. This is not an ordinary street fight, with 2 drunk dudes devoted to pugilism. What you see here is history unfolding. This is the slo-mo beat up of a bully [the US], in real time.
But don’t take my word for it. Watch what happens between now and early 2016.
if i were a convinced conspiracy theorist i might have picked up
on some stories/ snippets i’ve read…like
10000 dollars to travel to Europe is now 2000 dollars, begging the question that are people traffickers becoming philanthropists or what?
different amounts of money in other stories are….
7000 euros to 14000 euros, and is now 2000 euros,
and the difference is being funded…..
by Soros…
i must stress that these snippets are not given much credence
by including any links, references or ‘evidence’ what so ever.
nevertheless, they are there to be found, read, commented on,
dismissed as kooky conspiracy foil hatted enthusiasts, or further
researched for the ‘evidence’.
Why now? Very large refugee camps holding ~2 million were set up in Turkey. They appear to have been well-run and well-funded via the UN. The refugees appear to have received a small stipend, which could amount to a tidy sum over 4 years. However, recently the UN funding has dried up (some mebers not contributing or withdolding paments?) and suddenly there is a mass exodus. As a metaphor, this could be considered a controlled demolition of a refugee camp. Where do the refugees go? Certainly not to Syria. It wouldn’t take much encouragement for them to head north ‘where the streets are paved with gold’. Slip in a few hard core ISIS members and you could really ‘f the EU’.
As a naked ape, through millions of years of evolution, I, as do many others, are honed in on protecting what can be labeled scientifically as ‘our collective offspring.’
If anybody wants to get to the nitty-gritty side of us, use children.
My gut tells me something is very wrong with the ‘original’ picture of this child, as it has been shown all around the world through MSM heaving channels.
Normally dead bodies sink, only to be brought up again by decomposition [gasses]. This boy must have had a very high level of buoyancy.
Are there any medical experts out there who can shed more light on this?
Pope on point: He reiterates the Vatican’s stance on evolution
November 5, 2014 12:00 AM
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By the Editorial Board
When Pope Francis said last week that evolution and the Big Bang theory did not conflict with Catholic teaching, it really wasn’t news. This pope just has a talent for framing long-held beliefs in a fresh way, as he has done before in taking up the cause of the poor. Instead, this news was more a timely reminder.
Despite that unfortunate business with Galileo 400 years ago over his alleged heretical beliefs on the movement of planets, anybody who has been paying attention lately understands that the church has not been at war with scientific knowledge. Other popes have expressed the same ideas, especially on evolution.
Q; This pope just has a talent for framing long-held beliefs in a fresh way.
R; I’ve never had discussions with the pope. I deal with ordinary people. Some of whom believe they really have to ram the teachings of christ through my mind.
I’m of the ‘live and let live’ branch of humanity, together with a lot of other apes and we’re having fun throwing bananas at each other, until one goes one… :o)
OK, but the point is that the Vatican officially has no strong quarrel with people as naked apes and evolution (or big bang and science in general), even if some laymen, and even some clergy do. A problem is that the church tries to keep the lay population in the fold even while knowing what they say is not exactly true. Even with Galileo the objection was not what he said but who he was saying to. They do a balancing act by fudging and get into very tangled webs. Trying to mix systems invites this sort of thing.
Interestingly, even Dawkins is a bit muddled in his thinking too, in terms of logic and semiotics. If it were numbers, even irrational ones, there is some number which is smaller than x and another larger than x regardless of what precision one is working at. The egg comes before the chicken, from a bird which is not defined as a chicken, even if the definition is arbitrary.
Well, here nor there, I suppose regarding the topic of the drowning, although I guess we could relate it somehow, in terms of epistemology, if we tried. Perhaps my first shot at it would be the issue of victim of terror vs migration, as migration was in the same context as terrorism. In this case the particular migration is not the chicken, but the product of the terrorist (war & economic exploitation) proto-chicken which lays the migration egg. The politics and media fudging make the clerical fudging look like extraordinary clarity — and moving the body for a better photo in itself illustrates that.
I hope this comment is not unwelcome. To my thinking darwinian evolution is BS, but at the same time it is part of the research project known as “biology.” On most days, I guess that I would consider myself a “theist.” As far as naturalistic accounts for the origin of life, the one I like best was outlined in Thomas Gold’s Deep Hot Biosphere .
Thiery Meyssan, I believe, also noted that if the child had indeed washed ashore as was not planted for a photo, his body would be parallel with the shoreline. not perpendicular. BTW I am only a religious person at certain times of the day — having different creation myths shouldn’t affect our communication.
I think I actually saw something worse– and I’ve repressed where it was. The headline was “We Are John” (or whatever the name was of the drowned child). Beneath the headline were a bunch of people– adults & children– dressed like the dead child in his red tee shirt, etc. & lying on the beach by the water in the exact same attitude as his photo.
OffGuardian has an analysis of how the footage of Alan came to be taken and reveals that if all the media stories are correct, he was taken out of the water TWICE. Once by a bar tender who was first on the scene, and once again later by the police officer once the world media had gathered to film the scene…
This cartoon, drawing, pic…..whatever name you wish to attach to it, was posted by the Saker to highlight the rank hypocrisy and the Orwellian obtuseness that characterise the MSM.They selectively mention only the things that drive the agenda of the Anglo-Zionists and this is always done without any context or objective debate.
For the MSM the truth is NEVER an option.
Western audiences sitting at home watching TV are fed a steady diet of blatant lies, and contrived scenarios, which render them ignorant and confused. Its almost like they are left in a state of mental paralysis, a stupor, if you will.
. NO CONTEXT!
. NO DEBATE!
. NO TRUTH!
Ignorance is NOT bliss! I would say given what is going on now; it is downright dangerous.
Remember: the TRUTH exists, it is LIES that are invented……..
I agree wholeheartedly with your comment. The only exception I would take, however, is your characterization of our rulers being “Anglo-Zionist.”
I cannot think of one “Anglo” person in a position of Real Power. Can you name me one “Anglo” owner of the mighty Federal Reserve? Or any other PRIVATELY-OWNED JEW Central Banks?
For the past 3 decades all the directors of the Fed have been JEWS! There isn’t even the pretense of it being run by “Anglos” anymore.
If you haven’t noticed lately, the president of the United Snakes of America is Barack Obama. But don’t be fooled by his Muslim name or his brown face, he is 100% jew puppet, if not 50% jew because his mother was a jewess.
In short, the Empire is Jewish! Stop slandering Anglos.
Justice For Chinese,point taken. I just didn’t want to shock the brain-washed masses. Most cabinet positions across the West have long being commandeered by the ‘Chosen’- or they have what amounts to a virtual veto over who gets selected. Comparatively speaking, the US is the most compromised, from this perspective.Just don’t tell that to the TV-absorbed masses.
Remember when Obama just came in and tried to bring Chas Freeman on board? AIPAC vetoed that decision.
“(….) Chancellor Merkel appealing to humanity and values, and reaffirming his “great European leadership” (…)
(…) The German establishment needed, certainly, an image campaign and the refugee crisis has given. (….)
(….) Germany is the “first European recipient” of refugees, an example to complexed France under the shadow of her National Front. “The French hypocrisy and the German example”, headlines the Mediapart website. (…)
(…) Who will remember that was in Germany where have been made some of the greatest hate crime of postwar Western Europe-including the biggest terrorist plot in the last twenty years (NSU) with overt complicity from the security apparatus, that is where the migrants residences burn more frequently and where the corridors of the metro are more dangerous to the dark people? An “example” that passes over the fact that the vast majority of “emigrants” in Germany are Europeans of Christian tradition. A comparative stroll through the streets of Berlin and Paris offers an overwhelming visual evidence in this regard. A city with the ethnic colors of Marseille is completely unthinkable in Germany, where the number of mixed marriages between Germans and Turks (the exception) is insignificant. (….)
(…) Certainly, all this will not be remembered to us by the Federation of German Industry (BDI) with its phantasmagorical complaints about the lack of manpower. These educated and middle-class Syrians who shout “Germany, Germany!” at Budapest station and are fleeing from a war that Europe, and France in particular, have fostered, are the solution: the ideal resource of a strategy to maintain low wages policy that ruined the few European partners still able to produce as France. Several million of them will help keep the quotes of the federal geriatric whose pension funds were merged into the banking casino, just as it happened in Spain with the five million foreigners they entered in our “labor market” between 1998 and 2008 in the boiler of the “bubble” (….)
(…) it would be best to start thinking about; an active policy of peace, diplomatic conflict resolution, banning arms exports ( business in which Germany is the European leader and the EU world’s leader ), in a less unjust and unequal economic order, a way of life less linked to financial considerations and more sustainable”.
Includes an excellent analysis on the situation around Syria: “Six months for Syria: geopolitical movements (including Kurdistan)” by Alberto Cruz for CEPRID which I highly recommend, A MUST READ!
Elsi, thank you. Very informative. I’m going to read it again tonight.
I understand that Barzani is connected to Genel Energy, which is one of Rothschild’s cash cows– hence Barzani’s privileged extra-constitutional status.
“(….) In the Bible lawyer men wrote that women had to die in circumstances that now seem terrible. A long time ago. Today women continue to die at the hands of men.(…)
(….) George Ritzer says in “The McDonaldization of the world” that the logic of garbage burger has moved to many places in our everyday life. One is to prefer the devil known to the unknown good. For what are you about to cross in yourself a squid sandwich in the Plaza de Atocha in Madrid if you can come from Ohio and eat a shit burger on an identical local of that at your town in the American heartland? Woody Allen says that is only in Europe where he is understood, but that must be because he has not seen “The Wire” which also the gringos like. They are a complex people who complicate the lives of almost everyone else.(….)
(….) Scary movies where people scream and pass a bad time belong to a universe that is beyond me. They are very gringas. But they are complex. In the latest film by Fernando Leon, “A perfect day”, the violence gets you between the bones. It talks about war. One of the most terrible. Which took place in front of our eyes and with our permission. The film, like war, is terrible. But not a single death or a stroke, not a drop of blood is seen. Fernando Leon is an artist. So the film is full of hope. And despite its roundness, they are not going to make a series. He has already told us what he wanted to tell. In our smallness there is also the possibility to be great.(…)
(….) At the time, the news told us the barbarity of refugees but said nothing of the causes of the war that is killing them. Instead, we were told that there are terrible mafias who are abusing the exiles. If we shudder with the mafia, we would ask who has broken their countries(….)
(….) The refugees come to Europe because Bush started a war in Iraq, because NATO supported the crazy Islamists, because arms companies made IS infinitely more terrifying than any bad from the films. We are scared by the mafias and the Islamists. They sometimes have the pecualirity to be victims and perpetrators and, above all, always they understood well with other executioners. (….)
(….) Freddy Krueger part his chest part of laughter in the movies. As if he despised his victims. There’s a picture in the Azores, where Bush, Blair and Aznar, while they set out the war in Iraq without UN authorization, they were dying of laughter. They died but lied. Those who really die are the refugees who want to reach Europe and suffocate, drown, get sick, tear their flesh with the blades that we have put to make border endless scripts to produce fear. If only it were a movie of Wes Craven, but this is a film of Bush, Blair, Aznar, the Republican Party, the Labour Party, the Popular Party. Fear of First Class(….).
(….) As slaves in ancient Greece, who could not dress as slaves to not be seen that there were many. Now it’s the same but different. The Greeks today are also slaves but they can vote. And some Freddy Krueger in Germany laughs loudly. And more Greeks die and more die earlier. But those movies will be seen by fewer people because they are subtitled.(….)”
These people may have their hearts in the right place, but it’s their heads that badly need fixing. Instead of protesting for giving asylum to refugees/migrants, they should be protesting against bombing ala regime change! These people, however honest or fair minded they think they are, are off the real cause of these floods by miles and miles. Sorry, I have to agree, they are fools…
Thailand issues warrant for Chinese man in bombing probe
Then you read this Chinese man’s name:Abudusataer Abudureheman
Does that sound Chinese?
His photo is better yet. No a sign of an Han, Manchu or SE Asian ethnicity.
He’s a Uyghur. But the media has to protect Uyghurs. They are good because Chinese are bad.
That’s the meme. That’s the headline. But that is not the facts.
Later, they cover their ass, sort of, but defuse the obvious.
When the bombing occurred, I said it was Uyghurs. The clue? Tourist attraction in Thailand. Who are the world’s tourists for the last decade? Chinese. So, with that background, I “guessed” Uyghurs. Who would finance this and why Thailand? CIA and because Thailand is turning toward China for investment and infrastructure like rail and ports. US is upset with the military government. So, two birds with one stone.
And the connection of the first arrests was Turkey. The facts all connect to Uyghurs. They are trained for terror in Turkey and Turkish border with Syria.
But watch the misleading headlines that taint the stories. They program or lie to you from the first words. That’s some of the art of propaganda.
The claims about Ab. Kurdi are being widely circulated.
According to original reports on the death of young Alyan, his brother and their mother, Ab. mentioned that in the event of failure, he and his wife planned to meet in Bodrum, which seems to have been a regular haunt: the family had been living in social housing in Turkey for three years.
Now the news the French consul in Turkey has been suspended for selling boats to smugglers from her sailing shop in…Bodrum.
Wonder if anyone could establish a connection between the two?
Clearly the ‘refugee crisis’ and its treatment by the western media Wurlitzer, should alert us that something is afoot. Suddenly official Islamophobia and its exploitation urging increased surveillance, security and ‘anti-terrorist’ measures, has suddenly been dropped in favour of ‘cutting through red tape’ to enable thousands of ‘Syrian refugees’, many without identification or documents to pour into Western countries, the same ones where ‘austerity’ is in full swing. What is going on? Why now? Where are we heading. I’m reading everything I can find on this and finding useful bits here and there, but am still waiting for something that puts it all together. I do know that if and when such an analysis does materialize, there’s a good chance it will show up here…
I think there is a hidden reason behind the huge display of the boy’s photo – perhaps justify a more bloody action against Syria, in a typical move of the Empire, invent a commotion to justify their murders.
But it may also be that the quality of that sad picture has most captured the minds of people – because the boy seemed in sleeping position, as well was approached in a beautiful and touching cartoon in which he appears sleeping in a bed.
This of all the political cartoons gets your goat? Really shows a lack of class on your part.
Then you get upset when people throw crap your way like chimps. Shock value for what? ratings?
I’m not sure how I’d class that.Is it exactly a “cartoon”? I mean yes,in a way it is certainly.But most cartoons,even when meant to point to something, have a “hint” of “humor” (usually sarcastic humor).But in this case, and a few others I’ve seen, they are without any humor.And lead directly to sympathy and horror.I think I’d call it more a “drawing”.
Yes , and let’s put it in the line of William Hogarth & Co . There was no ” political correctness ” then ,
their satire was biting .
@brett cooperman
I think the picture, drawing, cartoon or whatever you want to call it is right on the money. I think if you dial down your political correctness gauge a bit and open your eyes you will see it as it is – it is a reflection of the western brand of absurd selective cognition by sweeping away anything they don’t want to face under the guise of political correctness. It also steers the masses away from the critical debates which it ought to have.
If anything this is just like the sakers piece on charlie hebdo. All the complainers are barking up the wrong tree.
Political correctness is making the world dumb and gullible. Thank you for demonstrating. QED
The cartoon has nothing to do with the mythical ‘political correctness’. It is a straight-forward comment on the vicious hypocrisy of the Western MSM hate and propaganda machine becoming falsely concerned over one drowned child, while more or less ignoring the millions of children who have become the victims of Western state terror, either direct or through Western proxies like Daash. That’s my take on it, at least,
Assad barrel bombs are not terrorism? Just the evil western MSM hate and propaganda machine at work. I guess I’ll go back to watching Fox news so I don’t have to ponder the possibility that both are happening and both are recognized as happening. Mumblebrain it is.
To honestly think that the world does not know about innocent civilian life being caught in the crossfire of war is dumb and gullible on your part. Throw in a pool of blood under a mound of bodies in a ‘drawing’, and all you get is crass hyperbole.
Is there such a thing as degree of causality? Remaining in a contested battlefield vs killed trying to escape? That is why one is more tragic than the other, by degree. Both are acknowledge by the world, and even by the MSM god forbid. Contrary to what the artist, the saker, and you are trying to convey. Boo hoo hoo and cry me a river.
@ Brett Cooperman
Q; Shock value for what?
R; Would you be kind enough to elaborate on what is so shocking about this drawing to you?
For reference, I’ll tell you what I found/find shocking; being on a boat off the coast of Thailand and see a [dead] bloated, male body pop out of the water, wearing nothing but underwear.
All I can say to you is that as being an ex-Border Patrol Agent I have seen plenty of dead migrant bodies. Tragic. You buys that ticket and you takes that ride. Some times you get away and good luck to you. Sometimes you meet me in the middle of the desert and price subject to change upon attitude of customer, and sometimes you get yourself killed because your father was the smuggler in charge and he was driving the boat to fast and didn’t listen to his wife screaming at him to slow the f***k down. That’s the latest I heard on Drudge. yummy
@ Brett Cooperman,
Thank you for your reply.
I have been a ‘foreigner’ most of my life. I have pursued love, life and happiness around the globe and I fully realize how fortunate I’ve been to do so for so many years.
Not one country kicked me out, not a single country told me I was not welcome and I could find work everywhere.
Would the same have happened if I wasn’t white?
Would the same have happened if I had been a woman?
Would the same have happened if I didn’t have the skills I have?
Personally, I can’t blame anyone for trying to find their fortune elsewhere.
I can [and I do] blame those who use these kinds of situations or these unfortunate deaths, for their personal betterment [be it financial or political].
I too, have seen a lot of dead bodies, blood and body parts. It’s then that one realizes we all look the same on the inside.
But I’m still not sure as to what you found shocking about the cartoon/drawing/sketch. I
@Brett Cooperman on September 11, 2015 · at 1:47 pm UTC
Looks like that this class is better for you………….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL_GShyGv3o
So you are trying to label me a neocon? First time for everything. And to you sir or madam being anonymous and all I say…..good day
Let’s not allow political correctness stand in front of the hipocrisy, shall we?
This hard to swallow satire, makes us look unto our westernized selves, nauseates us. It just proves that there is less and less room for humour under the depravity we’re imposed. I rather face it, by now unsurprised, and allow my peers do the same and not fear the reality.
Which shows a total lack of class is the manipulation and exploitation by certain European leaders, and the media in their hands, of the body of a dead child, and by certain sectors of the population in which I enclose you, now tearing their hair so much, when the crisis of refugees / migrants is very old and you remained very quiet when the EU developed the FRONTEX legislation (and migrants were drowned by thousands in the Mediterranean waters or were beaten and returned “in hot“ by the Civil Guard in the southern Spanish border), leaving for the southern countries, Greece, Italy and Spain, precisely the hardest hit by the crisis originated in the US and conveniently used by Germany and its entrepreneurship, the full weight of the management of this, since long, pressing problem .
To begin with, the child’s body was manipulated. All drowned appear parallel to the waves and with untidy clothes, this is known by anyone living on the coast. Then, you have that the child is placed perpendicular to the waves and his clothes arranged for him to be photographed by the media that “published in unison the same photo on the front page the next day.” Look, in such simultaneity, some with not so much class as you, we see a “je suis charlie” in the making.
Then, there is the representative of German businessmen, Ulrich Grillo, calling for “solidarity” because he needs 800,000 workers as cheap labor to pull the wages of German workers on the floor and ensure their rate of profit, but the European legislation prevents from import them in such number. What better way to pressure a change in the European labor and migration legislation than to create a massive wave of “refugees” and spread chaos in Europe?
Finally, the Pope, calling the good Christians to welcome “refugees” at home. Here, now, one finds, every day, on the street or at the store, that people have forgotten their neighbors who have been evicted and seek in containers for years ( all these, curiously, anyone wants them at home, because the Pope has not called to pick them up, one wonders why ). The other day, a lady with whom I meet several days at physiotherapy, and that results to be “very Catholic and rich”, according to her own words, said she would welcome some of these “refugees” at home, because it was told by the Pope and, moreover, “they are people who have money.” For classy, this “lady”, do not you agree?. Without words. To go to piss and take no drop.
What the Pope does not understand is that most Europeans live in apartments of 50 square meters ( in the best case ) and other many in the streets, and also many, at least in the South, have family on the dole or with misery pensions to who have had long ago and have to help and that is preciselly thanks to the efforts of the families, that our “governments” have managed to contain social unrest. On the other hand, the Vatican is very large and have much money, and as they have always liked too much people with money, why not ride there a shelter for these “refugees”, particularly from the violent type?
Yesterday, in an special program on the crisis of “refugees”, now flooding televisions, public or private ( who cares? For today have been advertised several “specials” in which we, for sure, are not going to see the images of violence from the so called “refugees” ) they commented that Merkel has gone from being the “bad girl”, the “face of the IV Reich”, to be the “guardian angel” of the “refugees”. Now the “bad guy” is Viktor Orban and those “racist” Hungarians . People, suddenly, a little months from general elections in Spain, and with an unprecedented boom of the left, has forgotten the “austericidio”, to which we have been undergone by Merkel and their local lackeys from the past 7 years, the problems of their fellow citizens, the rampant corruption and mismanagement, to be manipulated like morons with the manipulated photo of a dead child.
I would say that is this Europe, blind and deaf to what it wants, manipulable ad nauseam, who has very little class.
Great political cartoon by Jalal Hajir. It summarizes so well MSM morbid depravity .
Perhaps, this site ought to collect such cartoons from the whole world. I am sure Donbass and Russian cartoonists have quite a collection, by now.
Regards, Spiral
Tons of great Russian cartoons on Politkus.ru. Covers all the topics related to Russia, Donbass, hegemony, hypocrisy, etc.
The so-called “migrants” are people fleeing state-sponsored terrorism. So what’s the point?
Agreed, the use of “migrant” in the cartoon betrays the cartoonist’s snideness. If the label were “victim of flight from terror” it would be a more honest and troubling cartoon. Are the “international media” are so aligned with the powers that sow Mideast terror that they are functioning as enforcers?
“The so-called “migrants” are people fleeing US-sponsored terrorism.”
Corrected your error.
OffGuardian has a video of (what appears to be, and no reason to doubt it) an ordinary German giving his views on the lies about the ‘migrant crisis’ whilst driving in his car. It truly is wonderful. There are English subtitles but they do not do justice to the splendour of his statement.
http://off-guardian.org/2015/09/10/video-german-man-could-not-bear-media-lies-about-refugees/comment-page-1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1PEWCmEMJM
Now you know why I don’t have television lo these many years. I do not need to be lied to. I do not need to converted into an infant by their “entertainment..”
Anonymous that was a great rant. Thank you.
yes, great video. I don’t know how many Germans/Europeans feel the same way, but I’ll bet that number is growing day by day. What does it mean? It’s beginning of the end for MSM….!!!!! Hard to believe, but I think it’s true!
@ alan,
Q; Hard to believe, but I think it’s true!
R; One of the reasons this is happening, is becasue of ‘social’ media.
The question thus arises; how long will these ‘masters’ allow us to use it?
that sure was a weird doll he had on his dashboard…what was that ?
Many with intelligence and personal integrity understand what is going on. I would wager that they number between 5% to 10%. A very substantial number that can tip public opinion the other way.
The problem is that people who can see behind the lies and propaganda are systematically marginalized, while the propagandists are all in key positions of power and media influence.
Those with levers to shape public opinion are all in on the act. This is the main problem in Europe today.
Stavros H,
As Wm Engdahl says, “Yeah they occupy the levers of power, but their control is only a quarter of an inch deep.”
Ganz genau meine Meinung. Wir sollten nicht nur die Lügen-Presse aber auch die ganze westliche Scheiß-Ideologie sofort kriminalisieren.
***Nussiminen you know you’re supposed to post in English…mod
This girl, also have some very interesting and true facts:What The Media Is Hiding –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHFnvFbThDE
Image of dead kids: Yes, I struggle with cynicism each day and the temptation to turn the rage onto others. ..In reality the hegemon pressitutes see the immigrant flood as “the Zombie Apocalypse” only the one useful dead child humanized only in death ( there have been many drowned in other boats) makes their headlines in their war against Assad but the logical solution is? Stop bombing and destroying the infrastructure of other countries including Syria which by the way they are doing by their air attacks. IS will occupy a town and the Syrian army will push them out and so it might go back and forth. Meanwhile the US, UK etc. bombs the infrastructure of that town–to the victor goes the spoiled spoils.
Remember how the unwashed masses of New Orleans were treated–herded like cattle into a hot amphitheater under guard? I feel sad for the young father who made a calculated risk ( he paid the boat captain a tidy sum by the way) in order to gain his family a better life but he lost so terribly badly. Between a rock and a hard place. At least the Pope told every parish to adopt a refugee family.
the Jesuits were always helpful to the masses, but the RC Church also has huge investmetns in the destruction of Syria..don’t be fooled. Their money is not where their mouth is. As if the RC Church couldn’t stop this if they wanted to.
In age in which the scapegoat has been unmasked, this is what, from the viewpoint of the ape, sovereignty is reduced to: control of the narrative.
Chimmy the scapegoat has been unmasked ? Maybe English is not your first language…scapegoat is the victim not the aggressor…and I would say the viewpoint of an ape is pretty dim….not much going on in there without any criticism to apes…after all, they’re only little critters….but, ok, I can go along with the last part of the comment…media=control of narrative…
Sorry about being abstruse. In my comment, I was trying to say in the time in which we live (eschatology) aggressors now have to play the victim. The ape is the one that mimics Christ –minus of course compassion and possibly other things. I suppose I had my head up in the air reading books and stuff.
I think perhaps someone could send this cartoon to editors of Charlie Hebdo in an open letter, and see if they will publish it, with the suggestion that it will increase their reputation for true “free expression” and so increase their readership (i.e. $$$$) by many percent.
Of course, the cynic in me doubt they’ll publish it, or even worse, change the “international media” person into Assad…., but that’s why you want to do it as an open letter.
I think changing “victims of terror” to “victims of regime change” will be most appropriate.
Im afraid I dont really understand the point of this. Arnt both bad?
if the text is “victims of terror”, guess what, all idiots (and there are so many) in the West think it means Assad the terrorist (I kid you not). While “victims of regime change” has no such ambiguity.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2001/09/21/a-war-prayer/
by Mark Twain
It is very interesting to return to 9/11/01 in the CP archives and fead forward from there. In doing so, I found this.
http://english.farsnews.com/imgrep.aspx?nn=13940617001240
found on a comment on
THE PHONY “REFUGEE CRISIS”, BY THIERRY MEYSSAN
do have a look for the propaganda set up.
An interesting take on ‘Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs’
By The Numbers</p.
A few oddities being mentioned in http://www.acting-man.com/?p=40000
A Few Oddities
Incidentally, we have been wondering why the refugee crisis is exploding to such an extent right now. Why not a year ago already? After all, the civil wars in Libya, Iraq and Syria have been raging for quite some time. A number of explanations suggest themselves. Word has probably gotten around that European welfare states are a worthwhile destination. Moreover, ISIS is gaining more and more ground in Syria and with Damascus surrounded, the collapse of the Assad regime is coming ever closer – and keep in mind that Assad is the only guarantor of security for Syria’s Christian and Shi’ite minorities. If we were among them, we’d have packed our bags a while ago already.
What else is different to before? One thing is the recent expansion of war in the region by Saudi Arabia (which is committing war crimes on a grand scale in Yemen with Western connivance – something the Western mainstream press is more or less silent about) – a country that incidentally is not prepared to take in even a single Syrian refugee (!). The other is Turkey’s decision to suspend the peace process with the Kurdish PKK and go on the attack all over the Kurdish region. Perhaps though there are also reasons we don’t know about (yet). In any case, it is odd that the crisis is suddenly coming to a head like this.
Here is another oddity we have come across: there are US based sources creating web sites like this one that is telling Germans to openly break the law and smuggle refugees into Germany. According to the “whois” registration entry the web site belongs to an organization with a US address. Originally the “whois” entry mentioned the Ayn Rand Institute, but after we sent an email asking for comment, this was scrubbed (it is possible that the institute’s name was misused – its German chapter has commented elsewhere that the institute “had nothing to do with the site”).
Here are two articles in the German press on the topic (you will have to use Google translate for an English version): “US web site Fluchthelfer.in openly calls for smuggling asylum seekers into Austria and Germany” and “Was the Ayn Rand Institute abused by “Fluchthelfer”? We cannot comment on this further, because we don’t know enough, but it is an oddity we thought we would mention (perhaps some of our readers know more about it?).
@ alan,
Q; …the collapse of the Assad regime is coming ever closer…
R; Russia will not allow this to happen. It won’t happen. This is not an ordinary street fight, with 2 drunk dudes devoted to pugilism. What you see here is history unfolding. This is the slo-mo beat up of a bully [the US], in real time.
But don’t take my word for it. Watch what happens between now and early 2016.
if i were a convinced conspiracy theorist i might have picked up
on some stories/ snippets i’ve read…like
10000 dollars to travel to Europe is now 2000 dollars, begging the question that are people traffickers becoming philanthropists or what?
different amounts of money in other stories are….
7000 euros to 14000 euros, and is now 2000 euros,
and the difference is being funded…..
by Soros…
i must stress that these snippets are not given much credence
by including any links, references or ‘evidence’ what so ever.
nevertheless, they are there to be found, read, commented on,
dismissed as kooky conspiracy foil hatted enthusiasts, or further
researched for the ‘evidence’.
Why now? Very large refugee camps holding ~2 million were set up in Turkey. They appear to have been well-run and well-funded via the UN. The refugees appear to have received a small stipend, which could amount to a tidy sum over 4 years. However, recently the UN funding has dried up (some mebers not contributing or withdolding paments?) and suddenly there is a mass exodus. As a metaphor, this could be considered a controlled demolition of a refugee camp. Where do the refugees go? Certainly not to Syria. It wouldn’t take much encouragement for them to head north ‘where the streets are paved with gold’. Slip in a few hard core ISIS members and you could really ‘f the EU’.
Disclaimer; if you are a religious person
a) don’t read this
b) please don’t respond to it
Thank you.
As a naked ape, through millions of years of evolution, I, as do many others, are honed in on protecting what can be labeled scientifically as ‘our collective offspring.’
If anybody wants to get to the nitty-gritty side of us, use children.
My gut tells me something is very wrong with the ‘original’ picture of this child, as it has been shown all around the world through MSM heaving channels.
Normally dead bodies sink, only to be brought up again by decomposition [gasses]. This boy must have had a very high level of buoyancy.
Are there any medical experts out there who can shed more light on this?
A bit of an aside, but referencing your intro:
http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2014/11/05/Pope-on-point-He-reiterates-the-Vatican-s-stance-on-evolution/stories/201411030007
Pope on point: He reiterates the Vatican’s stance on evolution
November 5, 2014 12:00 AM
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By the Editorial Board
When Pope Francis said last week that evolution and the Big Bang theory did not conflict with Catholic teaching, it really wasn’t news. This pope just has a talent for framing long-held beliefs in a fresh way, as he has done before in taking up the cause of the poor. Instead, this news was more a timely reminder.
Despite that unfortunate business with Galileo 400 years ago over his alleged heretical beliefs on the movement of planets, anybody who has been paying attention lately understands that the church has not been at war with scientific knowledge. Other popes have expressed the same ideas, especially on evolution.
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@ blue,
Q; This pope just has a talent for framing long-held beliefs in a fresh way.
R; I’ve never had discussions with the pope. I deal with ordinary people. Some of whom believe they really have to ram the teachings of christ through my mind.
I’m of the ‘live and let live’ branch of humanity, together with a lot of other apes and we’re having fun throwing bananas at each other, until one goes one… :o)
OK, but the point is that the Vatican officially has no strong quarrel with people as naked apes and evolution (or big bang and science in general), even if some laymen, and even some clergy do. A problem is that the church tries to keep the lay population in the fold even while knowing what they say is not exactly true. Even with Galileo the objection was not what he said but who he was saying to. They do a balancing act by fudging and get into very tangled webs. Trying to mix systems invites this sort of thing.
(See http://www.catholiceducation.org/en/science/faith-and-science/evolution-in-the-eyes-of-the-church.html )
Here’s an interesting video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv0LVRKjt2U
Catholic Cardinal George Pell admits he believes in evolution, so where does the church stand?
Interestingly, even Dawkins is a bit muddled in his thinking too, in terms of logic and semiotics. If it were numbers, even irrational ones, there is some number which is smaller than x and another larger than x regardless of what precision one is working at. The egg comes before the chicken, from a bird which is not defined as a chicken, even if the definition is arbitrary.
Well, here nor there, I suppose regarding the topic of the drowning, although I guess we could relate it somehow, in terms of epistemology, if we tried. Perhaps my first shot at it would be the issue of victim of terror vs migration, as migration was in the same context as terrorism. In this case the particular migration is not the chicken, but the product of the terrorist (war & economic exploitation) proto-chicken which lays the migration egg. The politics and media fudging make the clerical fudging look like extraordinary clarity — and moving the body for a better photo in itself illustrates that.
I hope this comment is not unwelcome. To my thinking darwinian evolution is BS, but at the same time it is part of the research project known as “biology.” On most days, I guess that I would consider myself a “theist.” As far as naturalistic accounts for the origin of life, the one I like best was outlined in Thomas Gold’s Deep Hot Biosphere .
@ chimmy,
Q; I hope this comment is not unwelcome.
R; Of course not. There’s nothing wrong with having different opinions. I actually encourage having them. It’s healthy and natural.
The Universe = Energy = Opposite Forces or U=EOF2. It’s that simple.
I object when voices are censored and silenced though…
@ blue,
You should have a talk with Galileo Galilei about the freedom of the church.
Thiery Meyssan, I believe, also noted that if the child had indeed washed ashore as was not planted for a photo, his body would be parallel with the shoreline. not perpendicular. BTW I am only a religious person at certain times of the day — having different creation myths shouldn’t affect our communication.
I think I actually saw something worse– and I’ve repressed where it was. The headline was “We Are John” (or whatever the name was of the drowned child). Beneath the headline were a bunch of people– adults & children– dressed like the dead child in his red tee shirt, etc. & lying on the beach by the water in the exact same attitude as his photo.
Grotesque.
This tells it all: the amorality of the profit motive:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34229332
OffGuardian has an analysis of how the footage of Alan came to be taken and reveals that if all the media stories are correct, he was taken out of the water TWICE. Once by a bar tender who was first on the scene, and once again later by the police officer once the world media had gathered to film the scene…
http://off-guardian.org/2015/09/07/why-has-one-small-childs-horrific-death-been-turned-into-a-media-event-and-war-cry/
Well documented and disturbing
This cartoon, drawing, pic…..whatever name you wish to attach to it, was posted by the Saker to highlight the rank hypocrisy and the Orwellian obtuseness that characterise the MSM.They selectively mention only the things that drive the agenda of the Anglo-Zionists and this is always done without any context or objective debate.
For the MSM the truth is NEVER an option.
Western audiences sitting at home watching TV are fed a steady diet of blatant lies, and contrived scenarios, which render them ignorant and confused. Its almost like they are left in a state of mental paralysis, a stupor, if you will.
. NO CONTEXT!
. NO DEBATE!
. NO TRUTH!
Ignorance is NOT bliss! I would say given what is going on now; it is downright dangerous.
Remember: the TRUTH exists, it is LIES that are invented……..
I agree wholeheartedly with your comment. The only exception I would take, however, is your characterization of our rulers being “Anglo-Zionist.”
I cannot think of one “Anglo” person in a position of Real Power. Can you name me one “Anglo” owner of the mighty Federal Reserve? Or any other PRIVATELY-OWNED JEW Central Banks?
For the past 3 decades all the directors of the Fed have been JEWS! There isn’t even the pretense of it being run by “Anglos” anymore.
If you haven’t noticed lately, the president of the United Snakes of America is Barack Obama. But don’t be fooled by his Muslim name or his brown face, he is 100% jew puppet, if not 50% jew because his mother was a jewess.
In short, the Empire is Jewish! Stop slandering Anglos.
Justice For Chinese,point taken. I just didn’t want to shock the brain-washed masses. Most cabinet positions across the West have long being commandeered by the ‘Chosen’- or they have what amounts to a virtual veto over who gets selected. Comparatively speaking, the US is the most compromised, from this perspective.Just don’t tell that to the TV-absorbed masses.
Remember when Obama just came in and tried to bring Chas Freeman on board? AIPAC vetoed that decision.
“Europe in the face of its died child”: by Rafael Poch
http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=202929
“(….) Chancellor Merkel appealing to humanity and values, and reaffirming his “great European leadership” (…)
(…) The German establishment needed, certainly, an image campaign and the refugee crisis has given. (….)
(….) Germany is the “first European recipient” of refugees, an example to complexed France under the shadow of her National Front. “The French hypocrisy and the German example”, headlines the Mediapart website. (…)
(…) Who will remember that was in Germany where have been made some of the greatest hate crime of postwar Western Europe-including the biggest terrorist plot in the last twenty years (NSU) with overt complicity from the security apparatus, that is where the migrants residences burn more frequently and where the corridors of the metro are more dangerous to the dark people? An “example” that passes over the fact that the vast majority of “emigrants” in Germany are Europeans of Christian tradition. A comparative stroll through the streets of Berlin and Paris offers an overwhelming visual evidence in this regard. A city with the ethnic colors of Marseille is completely unthinkable in Germany, where the number of mixed marriages between Germans and Turks (the exception) is insignificant. (….)
(…) Certainly, all this will not be remembered to us by the Federation of German Industry (BDI) with its phantasmagorical complaints about the lack of manpower. These educated and middle-class Syrians who shout “Germany, Germany!” at Budapest station and are fleeing from a war that Europe, and France in particular, have fostered, are the solution: the ideal resource of a strategy to maintain low wages policy that ruined the few European partners still able to produce as France. Several million of them will help keep the quotes of the federal geriatric whose pension funds were merged into the banking casino, just as it happened in Spain with the five million foreigners they entered in our “labor market” between 1998 and 2008 in the boiler of the “bubble” (….)
(…) it would be best to start thinking about; an active policy of peace, diplomatic conflict resolution, banning arms exports ( business in which Germany is the European leader and the EU world’s leader ), in a less unjust and unequal economic order, a way of life less linked to financial considerations and more sustainable”.
“Manipulation and propaganda on account of the plight of Syrian refugees is discovered. Maybe nothing is what it seems …”
http://www.elespiadigital.com/index.php/noticias/historico-de-noticias/10641-se-descubre-la-manipulacion-y-propaganda-a-cuenta-del-drama-de-los-refugiados-sirios-puede-que-nada-sea-lo-que-parece
“The campaign and the stupidity: time for Syria (1)”: by El Territorio del Lince blog:
http://elterritoriodellince.blogspot.com.es/2015/09/la-campana-y-la-estupidez-los-tiempos.html
Includes an excellent analysis on the situation around Syria: “Six months for Syria: geopolitical movements (including Kurdistan)” by Alberto Cruz for CEPRID which I highly recommend, A MUST READ!
Elsi, thank you. Very informative. I’m going to read it again tonight.
I understand that Barzani is connected to Genel Energy, which is one of Rothschild’s cash cows– hence Barzani’s privileged extra-constitutional status.
“Fear of First Class”. by Juan Carlos Monedero:
http://www.comiendotierra.es/2015/08/31/miedo-de-primera/
“(….) In the Bible lawyer men wrote that women had to die in circumstances that now seem terrible. A long time ago. Today women continue to die at the hands of men.(…)
(….) George Ritzer says in “The McDonaldization of the world” that the logic of garbage burger has moved to many places in our everyday life. One is to prefer the devil known to the unknown good. For what are you about to cross in yourself a squid sandwich in the Plaza de Atocha in Madrid if you can come from Ohio and eat a shit burger on an identical local of that at your town in the American heartland? Woody Allen says that is only in Europe where he is understood, but that must be because he has not seen “The Wire” which also the gringos like. They are a complex people who complicate the lives of almost everyone else.(….)
(….) Scary movies where people scream and pass a bad time belong to a universe that is beyond me. They are very gringas. But they are complex. In the latest film by Fernando Leon, “A perfect day”, the violence gets you between the bones. It talks about war. One of the most terrible. Which took place in front of our eyes and with our permission. The film, like war, is terrible. But not a single death or a stroke, not a drop of blood is seen. Fernando Leon is an artist. So the film is full of hope. And despite its roundness, they are not going to make a series. He has already told us what he wanted to tell. In our smallness there is also the possibility to be great.(…)
(….) At the time, the news told us the barbarity of refugees but said nothing of the causes of the war that is killing them. Instead, we were told that there are terrible mafias who are abusing the exiles. If we shudder with the mafia, we would ask who has broken their countries(….)
(….) The refugees come to Europe because Bush started a war in Iraq, because NATO supported the crazy Islamists, because arms companies made IS infinitely more terrifying than any bad from the films. We are scared by the mafias and the Islamists. They sometimes have the pecualirity to be victims and perpetrators and, above all, always they understood well with other executioners. (….)
(….) Freddy Krueger part his chest part of laughter in the movies. As if he despised his victims. There’s a picture in the Azores, where Bush, Blair and Aznar, while they set out the war in Iraq without UN authorization, they were dying of laughter. They died but lied. Those who really die are the refugees who want to reach Europe and suffocate, drown, get sick, tear their flesh with the blades that we have put to make border endless scripts to produce fear. If only it were a movie of Wes Craven, but this is a film of Bush, Blair, Aznar, the Republican Party, the Labour Party, the Popular Party. Fear of First Class(….).
(….) As slaves in ancient Greece, who could not dress as slaves to not be seen that there were many. Now it’s the same but different. The Greeks today are also slaves but they can vote. And some Freddy Krueger in Germany laughs loudly. And more Greeks die and more die earlier. But those movies will be seen by fewer people because they are subtitled.(….)”
This leaves me speechless (witnessing their level of naivity and zombification):
Solidarity With Refugees: Tens of thousands turn up for support march in London (VIDEO)
http://www.rt.com/uk/315170-london-rally-refugees-corbyn/
These people may have their hearts in the right place, but it’s their heads that badly need fixing. Instead of protesting for giving asylum to refugees/migrants, they should be protesting against bombing ala regime change! These people, however honest or fair minded they think they are, are off the real cause of these floods by miles and miles. Sorry, I have to agree, they are fools…
Latest on ZH (at own risk) :
Behind The Media Propaganda: Father Of “Drowned Syrian Boy” Was People Smuggler
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-12/media-propaganda-full-frontal-father-drowned-syrian-boy-was-people-smuggler
Forget The Greek Crisis, Immigration Will Divide Europe Against Itself
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-12/forget-greek-crisis-immigration-will-divide-europe-against-itself
Media?
Here’s a story whose headline is massaged to throw a reader off 180 degrees.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/12/asia/thailand-bangkok-bombing/index.html
Thailand issues warrant for Chinese man in bombing probe
Then you read this Chinese man’s name:Abudusataer Abudureheman
Does that sound Chinese?
His photo is better yet. No a sign of an Han, Manchu or SE Asian ethnicity.
He’s a Uyghur. But the media has to protect Uyghurs. They are good because Chinese are bad.
That’s the meme. That’s the headline. But that is not the facts.
Later, they cover their ass, sort of, but defuse the obvious.
When the bombing occurred, I said it was Uyghurs. The clue? Tourist attraction in Thailand. Who are the world’s tourists for the last decade? Chinese. So, with that background, I “guessed” Uyghurs. Who would finance this and why Thailand? CIA and because Thailand is turning toward China for investment and infrastructure like rail and ports. US is upset with the military government. So, two birds with one stone.
And the connection of the first arrests was Turkey. The facts all connect to Uyghurs. They are trained for terror in Turkey and Turkish border with Syria.
But watch the misleading headlines that taint the stories. They program or lie to you from the first words. That’s some of the art of propaganda.
He Who Says It First Is Right–J. Goebbels.
@Martin in S.E.B.
The claims about Ab. Kurdi are being widely circulated.
According to original reports on the death of young Alyan, his brother and their mother, Ab. mentioned that in the event of failure, he and his wife planned to meet in Bodrum, which seems to have been a regular haunt: the family had been living in social housing in Turkey for three years.
Now the news the French consul in Turkey has been suspended for selling boats to smugglers from her sailing shop in…Bodrum.
Wonder if anyone could establish a connection between the two?
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/-france-suspends-honorary-consul-in-turkey-over-boat-sales-to-migrants.aspx?pageID=517&nID=88387&NewsCatID=359
Alyan & Elian – 16 years apart – Coincidence? > >> https://goo.gl/vozdYj
http://www.vineyardsaker.co.nz/2015/09/09/the-phony-refugee-crisis-by-thierry-meyssan/
Refugee camp in Hungary: Extreme act of violence similar to civil war (July 2015, near DEBRECEN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW854LvtN4o
ZeroHedge (at own risk) “Psychopaths Are Running The World” Former US Marine Blows Whistle On Syrian False Flag, Exposes Real Agenda
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-12/psychopaths-are-running-world-former-us-marine-blows-whistle-syrian-false-flag-expos
Clearly the ‘refugee crisis’ and its treatment by the western media Wurlitzer, should alert us that something is afoot. Suddenly official Islamophobia and its exploitation urging increased surveillance, security and ‘anti-terrorist’ measures, has suddenly been dropped in favour of ‘cutting through red tape’ to enable thousands of ‘Syrian refugees’, many without identification or documents to pour into Western countries, the same ones where ‘austerity’ is in full swing. What is going on? Why now? Where are we heading. I’m reading everything I can find on this and finding useful bits here and there, but am still waiting for something that puts it all together. I do know that if and when such an analysis does materialize, there’s a good chance it will show up here…
Now a fact, just new this hour:
Germany Reintroduces “Border Controls” With Austria, Sends Riot Police As Refugee Crisis Spirals Out Of Control
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-13/germany-reintroduces-border-controls-austria-sends-riot-police-refugee-crisis-spiral
I think there is a hidden reason behind the huge display of the boy’s photo – perhaps justify a more bloody action against Syria, in a typical move of the Empire, invent a commotion to justify their murders.
But it may also be that the quality of that sad picture has most captured the minds of people – because the boy seemed in sleeping position, as well was approached in a beautiful and touching cartoon in which he appears sleeping in a bed.
Let’s wait…
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