As time goes on, Germany is rapidly turning into a textbook example of how multiculturalism works in the real world. Unfortunately, it is one of many different examples. The rank and file of the politically correct progressives, simply can’t wrap their minds around a very simply concept. When you place two or more vastly different cultures under the same roof, sparks will fly. It’s inevitable. If you look at any nation in world with more than one culture within its borders, you will see violence.
Some nations manage to keep these social pressures under control, and only experience brief bouts of crazed violence. Others frequently find themselves broiled in sectarian violence and civil wars. There are a few exceptions to this rule, such as Canada or Switzerland. However, their largest ethnic groups still have a shared European history, and they are economically prosperous.
When everyone has the ability to succeed in these societies, sectarian tensions fall by the wayside. The moment you take that prosperity away, or if the cultures in question are simply incompatible, they will fight each other at some point.
The million plus refugees that have arrived in Germany over the past year, fall under both of these categories. They will be neither prosperous nor compatible. If previous immigrant groups are any indication, such as the migrant wave of Turks that arrived on work visas several decades ago, then this new batch of refugees will be a massive of failure. There are 3 million Turks living in Germany, many of them second or third generation. They are largely poor, uneducated, dependent on welfare, and restricted to self-imposedurban ghettos. By and large they have failed to integrate or adopt German culture in any way.
These two cultures will clash at some point, and it will happen sooner rather than later, now that a new generation of migrants has arrived. In any case, the culture of these refugees isn’t the only problem. The gender ratio of these people should be setting off alarm bells in the minds of every native German citizen. Even the New York Times has admitted that this is going to end in disaster.
With the current migration, though, we’re in uncharted territory. The issue isn’t just that immigrants are arriving in the hundreds of thousands rather than the tens of thousands. It’s that a huge proportion of them are teenage and twentysomething men.
In Sweden, for instance, which like Germany has had an open door, 71 percent of all asylum applicants in 2015 were men. Among the mostly-late-teenage category of “unaccompanied minors,” as Valerie Hudson points out in an important essay for Politico,” the ratios were even more skewed: “11.3 boys for every one girl.”
As Hudson notes, these trends have immediate implications for civil order — young men are, well, young men; societies with skewed sex ratios tend to be unstable; and many of these men carry assumptions about women’s roles that are diametrically opposed to the values of contemporary Europe.
Of course, there is the final option. Send all these people home, or at the very least, send the young single males home. Considering how these guests have behaved so far, I can only imagine what they will do when you try to deport them en masse. What will happen when you get hundreds of thousands of poor, irate, and entitled young men with recent experiences in a war zone, pull them out of the comforts and pleasures of Western society, and threaten to send them all back to their shattered home nations?
Do you think they might resent that? And considering that they’re starting to form these “flash mobs,” do you think they might start organizing, and fight back against any efforts to deport them? Do you think that might radicalize thousands of these men?
One way or another, Germany has just dug itself into a whole that it will literally have to fight its way out of. The day is rapidly approaching, when Germany will be torn apart by ethnic civil strife and war.
In the aftermath of the outrageous pattern of mass rapes in Cologne – and more broadly across Europe and the Western world– by asylum-seeking migrants from Syria and other Middle Eastern countries, there is even more evidence that politically-correct leaders are doing all they can to downplay crimes and reports of crimes committed by refugees.
And it doesn't seem to matter who gets hurt in the process.
The wave of rapes amounts to one of the biggest sources of contention in an already difficult clash of cultures between the Islamic and Christian worlds.
After the events in Cologne raised questions about the highly coordinated and repeated sexual crimes by migrant groups, the Swedish media was forced to admit that it looked the other way after a source exposed – more than six months ago – at least 90 cases of unsolicited groping by males from Afghanistan or Syria during a summer music festival.
Apparently a psychologist working with the police contacted the media, who despite initial interest, passed on the verifiable story over concerns that it was only fueling an anti-migrant narrative favored by the Social Democratic party in Sweden.
The Swedish paper Nyheteridag published the story: Exposing Major PC Cover-up in Sweden – Leading Daily Dagens Nyheter Refused to Write About Cologne-like Sex Crimes in Central Stockholm:
The Cologne sex assault on New Year's Eve, where groups of Arab and North African men groped more than a hundred German women, has shocked Europe this last week. But a very similar incident, with a large number of perpetrators and victims, took place in the Swedish capital last summer. That incident however was silenced by large Swedish newspapers and media companies, despite repeated attempts from police officers to contact journalists. This is how leading Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter tried to cover up a politically inconvenient sex assault story.
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Hordes of young men pressed against young girls, fondled and tried to cop a feel over and under skirts, pants and shirts. There were severe sexual assaults happening right in front of the stage, where artists such as Larsson and rapper OIAM performed.
During a single night police and security guards had to intervene against around 90 younger males, but even adult men took part in the abuse, says an eye witness to Nyheter Idag. The eye witness has professional experience from working at the Stockholm Police Department as a psychologist.
"She was very interested and listened until I told her that all the boys and men that were apprehended were young asylants (unaccompanied is the terminology used by Swedish authorities) from Afghanistan and Syria. I sensed that she changed the tone (of her voice). But she also said that she would contact the police," he tells Nyheter Idag… [The reporter] was interested in it for half day or a day, then she wasn't anymore."
The police officer, who has worked as a police officer for over 20 years, emphatically states several times that the events in Kungsträdgården were systematic and extensive in number. This was what he wanted to tell Hanne Kjöller of Dagens Nyheter.
"Why the widespread sexual harassments, in the midst of central Stockholm, with some minor exception, were left in a media shadow, is unknown to me. But the very suspicion that the sexual assaults were considered awkward to (write about) is a betrayal of the victims," writes Wierup in the very same newspaper that covered up the whole incident to begin with.
What is absolutely insane is that certain groups of rapists are overlooked because the weight of politically-correct guilt over discrimination forbids the political action necessary to stop what is going on.
Instead, the political considerations apparently trump the crime – no matter how serious. The right of Swedish women, and those across Europe, to be unmolested and left alone is peanuts next to the enormous task of selling the public on a rash wave of hording Muslim men in the name of compassion and the cultural melting pot.
As Zero Hedge points out:
[T]he long and the short of it seems to be that a major Swedish daily was engaged in a coverup right up until the attacks in Cologne thrust the issue into the spotlight.In any event, we now await the inevitable public backlash and attendant protests in Stockholm which will become the latest example of a "civilized" Western city torn apart by the bloc's worsening migrant crisis.
Until someone in Europe has the wherewithal to address the problem in real terms, women will continue to be at total risk, and the police and officials have been instructed to stand down. But no one is holding their breath. England, for example, has taken extra measures to cover-up high level pedophiles, and prevent reporting on egregious abuses allegedly committed by British politicians – so there's that trend.
Meanwhile, Swedes will behave like other Europeans have been –bewildered and frightened by the recent arrivals, and quick to arm themselves with whatever means of defense is legal and available in their locale.
Elin Krantz was a 27-year-old Swedish model that promoted diversity and multiculturalism. She was young, she was beautiful and now she is dead at the hands of an African "refugee" immigrant.
Krantz was a member of "We Like Diversity" on Facebook and had referred to herself as "multicultural." Born a Swede, Krantz was all for unvetted immigration and it didn't even matter if the people assimilated into her society or not.
However, her life would be forever changed and ended at the hands of an African immigrant who did not share her same view nor values.
Elin Krantz and her alleged killer were riding the same tram to the Hisingen neighbourhood near Gothenburg in western Sweden.Shortly thereafter Krantz was raped and murdered in a wooded area not far from the tram stop, according to information from the investigation.…The violence was so severe that it also caused nerve damage in Krantz's brain, resulting in a lack of oxygen.The 23-year-old is suspected of having raped Krantz by holding her down and forcing her legs apart. He then allegedly dragged her body over uneven ground and then placed it on a large stone block, according to prosecutors.
Here's the sad reality though, the 23-year-old man that raped and murdered Krantz was an immigrant from Africa to the united States via a marriage to an Ethiopian woman and then immigrated from Virginia to Sweden. Understand that while living in the US, Yohannes "was sentenced to 13 months and 11 days in prison for drunk driving, hit and run and provision of false testimonies. He whined that he's being mistreated in the USA because he's black and was granted refugee status in multiculturalism embracing Sweden. To thank Sweden for what she'd done for him, he raped and murdered one of her natives."
The nation's attention turned to Oregon this week when a group calling itself Citizens for Constitutional Freedom seized control of part of a federal wildlife refuge. The citizens were protesting the harsh sentences given to members of the Hammond ranching family. The Hammonds were accused of allowing fires set on their property to spread onto federal land.
The Hammonds were prosecuted under a federal terrorism statute. This may seem odd, but many prosecutors are stretching the definition of terrorism in order to, as was the case here, apply the mandatory minimum sentences or otherwise violate defendants’ constitutional rights. The first judge to hear the case refused to grant the government’s sentencing request, saying his conscience was shocked by the thought of applying the mandatory minimums to the Hammonds. Fortunately for the government, it was able to appeal the decision to judges whose consciences were not shocked by draconian sentences.
Sadly, but not surprisingly, some progressives who normally support civil liberties have called for the government to use deadly force to end the occupation at the refuge. These progressives are the mirror image of conservatives who (properly) attack gun control and the PATRIOT Act as tyrannical, yet support the use of police-state tactics against unpopular groups such as Muslims.
Even some libertarians have joined the attacks on the ranchers. These libertarians say ranchers like the Hammonds are “corporate welfare queens” because they graze their cattle on federal lands. However, since the federal government is the largest landholder in many western states, the ranchers may not have other viable alternatives. As the Oregon standoff shows, ranchers hardly have the same type of cozy relationship with the government that is enjoyed by true corporate welfare queens like military contractors and big banks. Many ranchers actually want control of federally-held land returned to the states or sold to private owners.
Situations like the one in Oregon could become commonplace as the continued failure of Keynesian economics and militaristic foreign policy is used to justify expanding government power. These new power grabs will increase the threats to our personal and economic security. The resulting chaos will cause many more Americans to resist government policies, with some even turning to violence, while the burden of government regulations and taxes will lead to a growing black market. The government will respond by becoming even more authoritarian, which will lead to further unrest.
Fortunately, we still have time to reverse course. The Internet makes it easier than ever to spark the ideas of liberty and grow the liberty movement. Spreading the truth and making sure we can care for ourselves and our families in the event of an economic collapse must be our priorities.
We must help more progressives understand that allowing the government to run the economy not only leads to authoritarianism, it impoverishes the lower classes and enriches the elites. We must also show conservatives that militarism abroad inevitably leads to tyranny at home. We also need to continue exposing how the Federal Reserve feeds the welfare-warfare state while increasing economic instability and income inequality. This week’s Senate vote on Audit the Fed is important to our efforts to help the American people learn the full truth about our monetary system.
One thing my years in Washington taught me is that most politicians are followers, not leaders. Therefore we should not waste time and resources trying to educate politicians. Politicians will not support individual liberty and limited government unless and until they are forced to do so by the people.
The Hammonds were prosecuted under a federal terrorism statute. This may seem odd, but many prosecutors are stretching the definition of terrorism in order to, as was the case here, apply the mandatory minimum sentences or otherwise violate defendants’ constitutional rights. The first judge to hear the case refused to grant the government’s sentencing request, saying his conscience was shocked by the thought of applying the mandatory minimums to the Hammonds. Fortunately for the government, it was able to appeal the decision to judges whose consciences were not shocked by draconian sentences.
Sadly, but not surprisingly, some progressives who normally support civil liberties have called for the government to use deadly force to end the occupation at the refuge. These progressives are the mirror image of conservatives who (properly) attack gun control and the PATRIOT Act as tyrannical, yet support the use of police-state tactics against unpopular groups such as Muslims.
Even some libertarians have joined the attacks on the ranchers. These libertarians say ranchers like the Hammonds are “corporate welfare queens” because they graze their cattle on federal lands. However, since the federal government is the largest landholder in many western states, the ranchers may not have other viable alternatives. As the Oregon standoff shows, ranchers hardly have the same type of cozy relationship with the government that is enjoyed by true corporate welfare queens like military contractors and big banks. Many ranchers actually want control of federally-held land returned to the states or sold to private owners.
Situations like the one in Oregon could become commonplace as the continued failure of Keynesian economics and militaristic foreign policy is used to justify expanding government power. These new power grabs will increase the threats to our personal and economic security. The resulting chaos will cause many more Americans to resist government policies, with some even turning to violence, while the burden of government regulations and taxes will lead to a growing black market. The government will respond by becoming even more authoritarian, which will lead to further unrest.
Fortunately, we still have time to reverse course. The Internet makes it easier than ever to spark the ideas of liberty and grow the liberty movement. Spreading the truth and making sure we can care for ourselves and our families in the event of an economic collapse must be our priorities.
We must help more progressives understand that allowing the government to run the economy not only leads to authoritarianism, it impoverishes the lower classes and enriches the elites. We must also show conservatives that militarism abroad inevitably leads to tyranny at home. We also need to continue exposing how the Federal Reserve feeds the welfare-warfare state while increasing economic instability and income inequality. This week’s Senate vote on Audit the Fed is important to our efforts to help the American people learn the full truth about our monetary system.
One thing my years in Washington taught me is that most politicians are followers, not leaders. Therefore we should not waste time and resources trying to educate politicians. Politicians will not support individual liberty and limited government unless and until they are forced to do so by the people.
The stock market is in far worse shape than we are being told. As you will see in this article, the average U.S. stock is already down more than 20 percent from the peak of the market. But of course the major indexes are not down nearly that much. As the week begins, the S&P 500 is down 9.8 percent from its 2015 peak, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 10.7 percent from its 2015 peak, and the Nasdaq is down 11.0 percent from its 2015 peak. So if you only look at those indexes, you would think that we are only about halfway to bear market territory. Unfortunately, a few high flying stocks such as Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google have been masking a much deeper decline for the rest of the market. When the market closed on Friday, 229 of the stocks on the S&P 500 were down at least 20 percent from their 52 week highs, and when you look at indexes that are even broader things are even worse.
For example, let’s take a look at the Standard & Poor’s 1500 index. According to the Bespoke Investment Group, the average stock on that index is down a staggering 26.9 percent from the peak of the market…
Indeed, the Standard & Poor’s 1500 index – a broad basket of large, mid and small company stocks – shows that the average stock’s distance from its 52-week high is 26.9%, according to stats compiled by Bespoke Investment Group through Friday’s close.
“That’s bear market territory!” says Paul Hickey, co-founder of Bespoke Investment Group, the firm that provided USA TODAY with the gloomy price data.
The rapid decline of the markets last week got the attention of the entire world, but of course this current financial crisis did not begin last week. These stocks have been falling since the middle part of last year. And what Bespoke Investment Group discovered is that small cap stocks have been hurt the most by this current downturn…
Here’s a statistical damage assessment, provided by Bespoke Investment Group, of the pain being felt by the average U.S. stock in the S&P 1500 index:* Large-company stocks in the S&P 500 index are down 22.6%, on average, from peaks hit in the past 12 months.* Mid-sized stocks in the S&P 400 index are sporting an average decline of 26.5% since hitting 52-week highs.* Small stocks in the S&P 600 index are the farthest distance away from their recent peaks. The average small-cap name is 30.7% below its high in the past year.
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