Europol highlights vast criminal networks behind migration crisis

Europol highlights vast criminal networks behind migration crisis

Tony Barber in London

Terror groups 'using migrant routes': Warning of 'increased risk' after Interpol report says extremists are making 'opportunistic use' of smuggling networks and 800,000 people are waiting to flee Libya 

Europol report showed the criminals' turnover could even total up £5bn. 
They laundered cash across borders and ran proceeds through businesses. The report also identified 250 smuggling 'hotspots' along migrant routes.

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The smuggling of migrants into Europe is a rapidly expanding, multi-billion-euro business that involves more than 40,000 people in loose criminal networks, according to the EU’s law enforcement agency.

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More than 90 per cent of the more than 1m irregular migrants who surged into Europe last year had used services provided by criminal networks and their associates, said Europol this week. The agency’s report underlines the challenge EU governments face in trying to reduce the bloc’s refugee and migrant crisis to manageable proportions.

However, the report, “Migrant Smuggling in the EU”, draws a clear distinction between the migration crisis and terrorism on European soil. It says that despite some isolated cases in which suspected terrorists have used migrant routes to enter Europe, “members of terrorist groups or returning foreign fighters with EU nationality . . . typically do not rely on the facilitation services offered by migrant smuggling networks”.

Europol describes a rich range of criminal activities that have grown up around the migration crisis, including forgery of documents, corruption of law enforcement officers, sexual exploitation of unaccompanied minors and forced labour to make migrants pay off debts to smuggling networks.

“In 2015 alone, criminal networks involved in migrant smuggling are estimated to have had a turnover of between €3bn and €6bn. This turnover is set to double or triple if the scale of the current migration crisis persists in the upcoming year,” the report says. “Migrant smuggling is a highly profitable business. In most cases, migrant smuggling services require limited investment by the networks involved and are in persistent high demand.”

Europol says it holds intelligence on more than 40,000 people suspected of involvement in smuggling migrants. The suspects come from more than 100 countries, but their most common nationalities or places of birth are Bulgaria, Egypt, Hungary, Iraq, Kosovo, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey.

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In depth - Europe’s migration crisis

A migrant family walk toward the border after arriving at the railway station of Botovo, near the Croatian-Hungarian border, on September 21, 2015. Hungary has emerged this year as a "frontline" state in Europe's migrant crisis, with 225,000 travelling up from Greece through the western Balkans and entering the country from Serbia and most recently Croatia. Last week Hungary sealed its southern border with Serbia, forcing tens of thousands of migrants to enter Croatia, from where many then again crossed into Hungary and headed for Austria and beyond. AFP PHOTO / STRINGER

The EU is struggling to respond to a surge of desperate migrants that has resulted in thousands of deaths

Some 44 per cent of smuggling networks consist of non-EU nationals, 30 per cent consist of EU nationals only and 26 per cent are mixed, the report says. Europol has identified more than 230 locations, in and outside the EU, where migrant-smuggling or activities that assist it take place. The top 11 hotspots for migrant-smuggling outside the EU are in north Africa, the Middle East and Turkey — Amman, Algiers, Beirut, Benghazi, Cairo, Casablanca, Istanbul, Izmir, Misurata, Oran and Tripoli.

The main European cities where migrants are helped to move to other EU destinations include Athens, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Hamburg, London, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Paris, Rome, Stockholm, Thessaloniki, Vienna and Warsaw.

Although most migrants arrive by land or sea, Europol predicts that migrant smuggling by air will increase. Though it is a more expensive form of travel that depends on fraudulent documents, it is seen as safer and offering high chances of success, Europol says.

Bosses of criminal networks tend to operate remotely, maintaining contact with a limited number of local cell members, according to Europol. The cells’ tasks include buying or renting vehicles, recruiting drivers and boat crews, collecting and transferring money from migrants, arranging counterfeit documents and making contact with would-be migrants on social media.

Europol quotes from the social media page of one trafficker: “The cost of a package with travel from Turkey to Libya by air and onward sea journey from Libya to Italy costs $3,700. For the sea journey adults cost $1,000. Three children cost $500.”

$3bn-$6bn

Estimated 2015 turnover of criminal networks involved in migrant smuggling

The report says counterfeiting of documents increased significantly in 2015. “The false documents used by irregular migrants originate mainly in Athens, Istanbul and Syria as well as Asian hubs such as Thailand,” it says.

A police investigation in Albania led to the discovery of a counterfeiting print shop with the latest equipment worth millions of dollars. Having received orders from smuggling networks in Bulgaria and Turkey, the suspect who ran the shop forwarded false documents via small parcels and couriers to irregular migrants in Greece, enabling them to travel on inside the EU.

Highlighting forced labor among migrants, Europol says police uncovered a Pakistani criminal network that smuggled Pakistani migrants to the EU, where they were forced to work in restaurants owned by members of the network in Spain.

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"There is an elitist master plan created by Illuminati to destroy Europe’s borders and old culture ethnically, religiously, economically for the purpose of a one-world government (NWO). Order out of chaos is the motto of the Masonic spirits behind it."

Unless the borders are closed without further delay, the increasing mass invasion will end with European genocide.

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The tragic but brutal truth: They are not REAL refugees!

The tragic but brutal truth: They are not REAL refugees! 

Despite drowning tragedy thousands of economic migrants are still trying to reach Europe. Syrians, Libyans and Moroccans came ashore from the Italian naval ship They waved at the waiting crowd of TV crews as if they were celebrities  Total of 12,000 migrants rescued from boats off coast of Libya in past week

By SUE REID IN SICILY FOR DAILY MAIL

PUBLISHED: 23:54 GMT, 27 May 2016 | UPDATED: 00:58 GMT, 28 May 2016

   

Whatever David Cameron and his fellow European leaders tell us, the enormous one-way flow of migrants to the West is changing Europe irretrievably and for ever.

Twelve thousand migrants have been rescued from people-smugglers' boats off the coast of Libya and heading for Italy in the past week alone. And more – maybe a million more – who come from the Middle East, Africa and South Asia will soon be on their way there, too.

For more than 15 years now, I have reported on the steady flow of migrants heading for Europe. In countries across the Continent, I have spoken to those who have traveled thousands of miles, and never ceased to be amazed by their resilience and determination to find a better life.

More than a thousand refugees of sub-Saharan origin arrived in Salerno from the Channel of Sicily carried by the Siem Pilot ship

I have witnessed fatal tragedies as migrants make their way across perilous seas, despair and disappointment as their hopes turn to ashes, and resentment and anger from Europeans who feel their own countries and cultures are threatened by this relentless tide of incomers.

But this week, on the quayside of pretty Porto Empedocle in Sicily, I came across a scene that convinced me more than ever that the explosion in migration is completely out of control.

I watched as 540 Syrians, Libyans and Moroccans came ashore from the Italian naval ship that had plucked them from the sea after the boat taking them to a new life across the Mediterranean capsized.

Coming down the gangplank they waved at the waiting crowd of TV crews, international charity workers, UN officials, police and Red Cross doctors, as if they were celebrities on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival. The crowds cheered back, shouting 'buongiorno' (good morning) and clapping as the arrivals set foot on dry land.

Such was the surreal carnival atmosphere that it was almost impossible to comprehend that hours earlier these smiling migrants had been involved in a life-or-death struggle. Or that they were in Italy only because they had paid smugglers, now growing rich in chaotic Libya, for a place on a flimsy wooden boat to illegally enter Europe where they were now being accepted with open arms.

Crammed to the hilt, their boat sank after 240 of the passengers had already been taken off and ferried to safety on the Italian navy ship.

The remaining 300 passengers had then panicked and rushed to one side of the vessel, tipping it over. Only the best efforts of the navy, who threw scores of red lifebelts and rafts into the water, saved all but a handful of them. The ship's captain, Francesco Lavezzo, took his turn in front of the cameras in Porto Empedocle. He said an uplifting memory for him was when a rescued migrant girl smiled with excitement as she was given a white teddy bear by his crew on board the ship.

It was a tear-jerking story – and one that sugars and distorts the tragic but ugly truth about this sorry episode. For whether we like it or not, large numbers of those coming ashore in Sicily were not refugees fleeing persecution or war. Many were economic migrants, who may have come from countries run by despots, or live on less in a year than most in the West get paid in a week – but who have now slipped into Europe illegally with few questions asked.

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The port-side party atmosphere also seemed offensively incongruous. For next to the noisy quayside welcoming party stood a line of hearses waiting to take five bodies to a Sicilian morgue. They were the migrants who had drowned after the boat upturned – the ones who had not been so lucky.

The hearses would be in use again shortly afterwards. A second boat full of migrants capsized the following day and up to 30 were feared drowned as another 88 were hoisted to safety.

But it's not just Sicily. Across the water on Italy's mainland, the southern port of Salerno yesterday received more than 1,000 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa who had been recovered by a Norwegian ship.

As soon the Siem Pilot docked, those most unwell were taken on stretchers to makeshift medical tents set up on the quay. Among them, 173 were found to have scabies. The arrivals, including tens of pregnant women and at least 107 children, many clutching teddy bears, then lined up to fill in registration forms and have their photographs taken by immigration officers. Twelve thousand migrants have been rescued from people-smugglers' boats off the coast of Libya and heading for Italy in the past week alone

Twelve thousand migrants have been rescued from people-smugglers' boats off the coast of Libya and heading for Italy in the past week alone.Officials said they came from 20 countries, mostly sub-Saharan, including Nigeria, Mali, Cameroon, Somalia, Gambia, and Senegal. They had departed from the Libyan city of Sabratha on Tuesday night in dinghies.

What seems incontrovertible about the biggest migration crisis in Europe since the Second World War is the extraordinary number of people who are prepared to risk their own lives, and even their children's, to reach the West. Yes, the risks are huge, but they understand that the odds of survival are stacked in their favour, and greedy people-traffickers in Libya encourage them by telling them so. And there is also an official safety net: under EU rules, member countries have a duty to send their navy to rescue anyone in peril on a vessel in their own territorial waters.

These rescue vessels simply act as a magnet for more migrants to try the crossing. They know that if they reach Italian waters, they will most likely survive and be taken to their destination even if the smugglers' craft in which they are sailing does not make it. What is certain is that some of those brought to safety in Porto Empedocle this week will have vanished from Italy within weeks. They will simply walk out of the migrant hostels after taking a hot meal and a shower.

The Norwegian ship 'Siem Pilot Stavanger' arrives at Manfredi pier of Salerno port carrying 1,017 refugees

Last year, a staggering 47 per cent of the 153,000 migrants who arrived in the country did not even attempt to claim asylum. Many ran away, travelling to northern Europe to try their luck at getting into prosperous Britain, Germany or Sweden. Of course, some do stay in Italy. In the midst of economic woes, the country has been forced rapidly to extend its hospitality.

Last year the highest number of migrant housing places Italy had to provide was 67,000. This March that had risen to 106,000.

An increasing number of them are unaccompanied children less than 18 years old. They have been sent as forward scouts by their families back home, who one day hope to join them.

Each migrant, whether a grandmother, a young man looking for work or a baby, is an extra mouth to feed, another human to clothe who needs a bed to sleep on. No wonder Italy is buckling under the strain.

The EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini estimates that half a million more migrants are currently waiting in Libya hoping to reach Europe on traffickers' rickety boats. Migration experts have said the true number could be twice that figure. Officials said they came from 20 countries, mostly sub-Saharan, including Nigeria, Mali, Cameroon, Somalia, Gambia, and Senegal. They had departed from the Libyan city of Sabratha on Tuesday night in dinghies Officials said they came from 20 countries, mostly sub-Saharan, including Nigeria, Mali, Cameroon, Somalia, Gambia, and Senegal. They had departed from the Libyan city of Sabratha on Tuesday night in dinghies

For other paths to Nirvana are closing. Migrant numbers on the route from Turkey to Greece, through the Balkans and up to northern Europe have dwindled in the face of border checks and barbed wire fences in less welcoming Austria and Hungary. More than a million people reached Europe that way last year after Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel invited in all Syrian refugees fleeing civil war and the horrors of the Islamic State which has taken over swathes of their country.

What a can of worms she opened. What a seismic shift she has caused in Europe. For countless numbers of those who took up her offer were not refugees from beleaguered Syria at all.

Thousands upon thousands chanced their luck by pretending to be Syrians, while in fact they hailed from the Balkans, from Albania, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Morocco, Egypt, Iran, Iraq or from Africa.

Today, safely in Germany, many don't even bother to lie about their background and no sanctions are imposed on them for their deception. Last year I did actually meet a Syrian in Calais, a well-dressed man who had booked in to my hotel there. The 32-year-old was a civil servant who had reached Europe by sailing from Turkey to mainland Greece on a traffickers' boat.

Once there he headed north to France by train.

'I am going to Britain,' he told me with certainty at the French port. 'I have the cell phone number of an agent here in Calais who I will pay to hide me inside a car on a ferry to Dover.

Thousands upon thousands chanced their luck by pretending to be Syrians, while in fact they hailed from the Balkans, from Albania, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Morocco, Egypt, Iran, Iraq or from Africa

Thousands upon thousands chanced their luck by pretending to be Syrians, while in fact they hailed from the Balkans, from Albania, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Morocco, Egypt, Iran, Iraq or from Africa

'I am not going to wait with these other migrants in the mud of the camps. They are not Syrians. They are from Africa and Afghanistan where there is no big war like ours.'

When you look at the latest asylum claims in the UK, you realise what he said is right. The figures have jumped by more than a third to the highest annual level for more than a decade, according to the Office for National Statistics.

In the year to March, the largest numbers came from Iran, followed by Eritrea, Iraq, the Sudan, and Pakistan – all countries which certainly have their troubles but nothing like the difficulties facing Syria. Indeed, Syria accounted for only 2,500 of the total 34,687 UK applications.

Libya's former dictator Colonel Gaddafi, before he was deposed and killed in 2011, promised the West that he would turn Europe into a Muslim country if the EU did not support his power struggle with insurgents and extreme Islamist's.

He threatened to allow traffickers to operate unhindered – they already existed on a limited scale in Libya – and let them flood our Continent. Last month, Frontex, the EU Border Force, warned that terrorists are infiltrating Europe by pretending to be refugees. It pointed out that two of the bombers in last November's Paris attacks arrived on a smugglers' boat from Turkey.

At the G7 summit in Japan this week, David Cameron warned that Islamic State is gaining a foothold in Libya, and pledged Britain would send a Royal Navy warship to patrol Libya's coast to help tackle people-smugglers.

But he failed to acknowledge that it was his own gung-ho decision to help remove Gaddafi using British armed forces that reduced Libya to the terrifying anarchy it is in today. Frankly, the Prime Minister's gunboat diplomacy smacks of gesture politics. The plan is for the vessel to turn back smugglers' boats – but there are simply too many of them. At the G7, Mr Cameron said the migrant challenge would take time to solve. With more boats packed with eager passengers setting sail from Libya for Italy each day, time is what we have not got.

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Commentary:

What do you do when the boat is full??

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Surge in number of migrants trying to reach Europe

Surge in number of migrants trying to reach Europe

(CNN)They come from more than 20 countries, drawn to Libya as the funnel to Europe.

Eritreans want to escape repression or military service; Somalis flee Al-Shabaab and clan warfare; Syrians have given up hope of returning home. In villages in Senegal and elsewhere across West Africa, young men sell all they have in the hope of a better life in Europe, perhaps hoping to join a cousin or brother who made it.

Motivations among the tens of thousands making the trek to the Mediterranean coast are as many and varied as the nationalities involved, according to researchers and human rights groups. But in 2014 more than 80% of them headed for the Libyan coast as the easiest point of embarkation.

From the Horn of Africa to the Atlantic, from Syria and Gaza, these would-be migrants travel well-established smuggling routes. Along the way they must cross deserts and mountains, risk kidnap or robbery, are often cheated or left stranded.

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One African migrant reported surviving on toothpaste for days. A teenage Somali who made it to Malta told researchers that he had warned other family members not to come. "I tell them its 95% sure that you will die," he said.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has tracked the migrant flows through North Africa for years. Eritreans have long been prominent among the travelers, escaping an authoritarian government, poverty and indefinite military service -- a land without possibilities

"Many conscripts are not demobilized from the military as scheduled and some were forced to serve indefinitely under threats of detention, torture, or punishment of their families," according to a report by the Regional Mixed Migration Secretariat (RMMS) in Nairobi last year.

Push, pull factors

They travel to Sudan, so long as they can avoid kidnap by tribes on the border, and are handed from one group of smugglers to the next in relay. One Eritrean woman told the UN Refugee agency (UNHCR) this month that she had paid $5,000 to reach the Mediterranean.

Eritreans and Syrians made up half of the migrant traffic to Europe last year, according to Arezo Malakooti, director of migration research at Altai Consulting and author of one of the most detailed studies of migration patterns. Malakooti has recently visited seven countries, including Libya, Tunisia and Morocco to update her study.

The "push factor" is much greater than the "pull" of Europe, she says. Upheavals and instability across much of Africa and the Middle East -- combined with the perception that Libya's doors are open -- have led to a massive increase in the numbers trying to reach Libya. "Worsening repression in Eritrea" has been one factor, she says -- while Eritreans already in refugee camps in Sudan have decided to make a dash for the Mediterranean.

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One reason is that other routes -- through Saudi Arabia and to Israel -- have become more difficult: Israel has adopted a much tougher approach on would-be Eritrean migrants trying to enter the country through the Sinai desert, including detention, and Yemen's implosion has cut off that conduit. As one Eritrean told the humanitarian journal IRIN last year: "People were traveling to Israel because it was the only way, and now they're traveling to Europe because it's the only way."

Somalis, often seen as the third most numerous nationality among migrants headed to the Mediterranean, face a perfect storm of crises. "Extreme poverty; prolonged insecurity; sexual violence and other serious human rights violations; lack of access to basic needs such as food, medical services, healthcare and livelihoods" are all contributory factors, says the RMMS.

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West African exodus

The IOM told CNN it is seeing a spike in would-be migrants from Senegal, Mali, Guinea and Gambia in West Africa. Many reason that Libya's chaos is an opportunity: border posts are left abandoned, the coastline unguarded. Most West Africans make the journey for economic reasons; the majority are single men in their twenties.

Populations in the region are swelling but farmland and economic security shrinking. Often, say researchers, the oldest son leaves to find work so he can remit funds home -- perhaps misled by fables of riches. Malakooti noted in a recent report that "unrealistic expectations of their migration is fueled by migrants in destination who rarely send negative news home because of the pressure on them to succeed."

Surge in number of migrants trying to reach Europe

But West Africans who have sold livestock or other possessions only to be caught or stranded can face destitution when they return home: 400 Senegalese were recently repatriated from Libya by the Red Cross and IOM.

Malians have the added incentive of the recent conflict in which jihadist groups seized nearly half the country before French-led intervention pushed them back. Joel Millman of the IOM says there's also been an increase in the number of Nigerian Christians following this route, escaping the chaos and brutality inflicted on their towns and villages by Boko Haram.

Another disturbing phenomenon, according to Malakooti, is the trafficking of African women for prostitution to Italy through Libya. While still a small fraction of the overall migration, the number of women smuggled for sexual exploitation in Europe rose threefold in 2014, she says.

Why migrants are risking their lives to reach Italy

Hubs and Routes

A Geneva-based group, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, estimated last year that about half of West African migrants pass through the town of Agadez in northern Niger. A crackdown in 2013 on organized convoys leaving Agadez stemmed the flow for a while, but gangs from the Toubou tribe, which controls the cross-border trade, developed new routes and raised their prices.

A migrant might pay as much as $300 to reach southern Libya in a truck or pick-up, according to researchers. Reliable figures on the numbers passing through Agadez are difficult to come by, but the consensus among experts is somewhere between 2,000 and 7,000 every month.

Other hubs include Khartoum in Sudan, a way-station for migrants from East Africa, and Tamanrasset in southern Algeria, where a fake Malian passport aids passage. Algeria has also been a destination for Syrian refugees, but new visa requirements have forced them to seek other routes -- often through Turkey and the Greek islands.

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Hundreds of thousands of other migrants have already been in Libya for years, attracted to jobs as day laborers when Moammar Gadhafi was in power. Now they face violence, discrimination and religious persecution -- and are unable even to remit home what little they earn. So at least some are embarking on a journey to Europe they never intended to take. Malakooti believes this is a major factor in the rising numbers trying to reach Europe.

The recent murder of Egyptian and Ethiopian Christians by ISIS's Libyan affiliate may have hastened the departure of some.

A similar dynamic applies to Syrian refugees. "Initially, they remained in Lebanon, Jordan and other neighboring countries to wait out the conflict," says Malakooti. Now they've given up, or the resources to accommodate them have evaporated -- and have decided to try to reach Europe and start over.

Within Libya, the smugglers for the most part appear to be small groups or individuals rather than large networks, according to human rights organizations. They cluster in dusty towns such as Sabha and Qatrun and use what are known as 'connection houses.'

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ISIS impact

Those driving migrants to Tripoli may have no connection with gangs at the coast. Such a journey, across the desert to avoid checkpoints, might cost a migrant $200: in a failed state that sort of cash quickly generates armed rivalries. Tribal feuds, roaming militias and criminal gangs mean migrants need the skills of a smuggler.

The arrival of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Libya has further complicated passage; in January jihadists killed 14 Libyan soldiers near Sabha.

Malakooti detects a changing pattern since the Syrian conflict began. It has injected more money into the smuggling business, which has therefore become more organized. The more reliable groups can charge more; she says some migrants buy a "package" from smugglers that includes overland and sea travel.

Syrian migrants are relatively better off than West Africans, and may pay more to guarantee a place on the top deck of a vessel. Africans are more often locked in the hold and are more vulnerable if a vessel sinks, or consigned to an inflatable dinghy.

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Fearing arrest, the smugglers rarely travel on the boats themselves, instead giving a compass or GPS device to the migrants, who then set off with no navigational skills and often no experience of the sea in boats that should never have left port.

As Libya becomes more dangerous for migrants, other countries on both sides of the Mediterranean are looking on anxiously. Some West Africans opt to travel through Morocco -- even though the chances of detection there are much greater and the sea crossing to Spain very difficult. "A migrant might need 50 or 60 attempts before making it to the Spanish coast," says Malakooti.

Tunisia has massively increased security along its eastern border with Libya; both Algeria and Morocco have begun building fences along their border -- against both terrorism and clandestine migration. But they may be little deterrent.

The Eritrean writer Abu Bakr Khaal made the desperate voyage to and across the Mediterranean himself. In his novel "African Titanics," he describes the "dangerous lure" of escape. Only too late do the migrants discover a grim reality at sea:

"'If God loved me he would not have brought me here,' groaned one of the passengers. Assured he had uttered the most fitting farewell to life, he threw himself into the sea. The boat moved forward at the whim of the waves."

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Migration flow into Europe : >

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Commentary:

No one will be able to handle this enormous human tragedy flowing into a minuscule European area,already overfilled,with an economic downward trend and unemployment at an all time low.

This amounts to a massive exodus of entire populations from countries unable to shoulder their responsibilities,running away to certain death with their families,or enclosed in prison-like camp areas near the European borders with no hope of ever entering.

Another thought springs to mind:  Could the "Push Factor" be organized by someone with an interest to destroy the European civilization,culture and democracy? Paying organized human smuggling gangs a pro capita reward would certainly be an effective way to flood Europe,as well as a reduction of the Earth´s population,by the thousands drowning on the crossings. I can see the shadows of the NWO lurking in the background.

Perhaps Europe will be forced to re-colonize the countries they have escaped from,in order to re-stabilize their economy and secure law and order. I fear many African countries achieved their independence far too early without ensuring the establishment of a competent government.

This tragedy can be compared with a ship wreck,where there is only ONE lifeboat left,and it is full to capacity. The sea is full of victims,soon to drown. If we take more on board, we all drown!!

The human tragedy of a Muslim invasion of Europe.

Perhaps,in the end, a Trump wall will be the final solution? 

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Is the Pope betraying Christianity?

Is the Pope betraying Christianity?

The Pope says that ISIS’ conquest of the Middle East is just like Jesus sending out his disciples.

I must have missed that bible chapter where Jesus’ disciples behead people, force them into sex slavery and make them pay a tax on pain of death if they refuse to convert.

When will the Pope actually behave like a Christian by defending Christianity instead of constantly undermining it?

The Pope´s speach :>

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Commentary:

Very strange behavior of the Pope lately.  He also have close connections with Peter Sutherland  (also called The Devil´s Advocate) and have made him a special envoy of the Vatican to oversee the waves of immigrants/refugees flooding into Europe. Peter Sutherland was also appointed by United Nations for the same role.

They are both in favor of creating a future mixed race of humans with no adherence to their country and without democracy. The result will be a slave like race with a mix of Arab and African genes which will suit the global elite´s plan for their New World Order which will have ONE religion only,and the Koran will replace all other faiths,

There has also been rumors that the Pope is planning to go into early retirement this year.
To be announced during his visit to Argentine at their Centenary celebration.

Sounds crazy,yes,but we shall have to keep this under consideration and keep our eyes open.




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That does not necessarily mean we agree with ALL of them.

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Ja,vi elsker dette landet med de tusen hjem... Norwegian anthem - 17 May

17th MAY - NORWEGIAN INDEPENDENT DAY 2016

Ja, vi elsker dette landet,
som det stiger frem
furet, vejrbidt over vandet,
med de tusen hjem.
Elsker, elsker det og tænker
på vor far og mor
og den saganat, som sænker
drømme på vår jord.

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New feature film Amerigeddon issues dire warning to Americans,and the World.

NEW FEATURE FILM AMERIGEDDON ISSUES DIRE WARNING TO AMERICANS

Director Mike Norris, son of Chuck Norris, issues call to action to protect America’s freedom

Gary Heavin | Infowars.com - MAY 10, 2016 125 Comments 

New Feature Film AMERIGEDDON Issues Dire Warning To Americans

Dallas, Texas (March 1, 2016) – AMERIGEDDON, coming to theaters nationwide May 13, 2016, has been described as “the movie the establishment doesn’t want you to see.”

Showing what happens when a not-so-future U.S. government conspires with the United Nations to stage an attack on the energy grid, AMERIGEDDON depicts a country ruled by martial law in which citizens are stripped of their constitutional rights and their guns.

A group of patriots fight back and rescue the country from slipping into irreversible chaos.

AMERIGEDDON’s release in an election year is not coincidental. The film illustrates a dystopian future all patriots must guard against and is a call to action to preserve the Second Amendment and stop executive rule by fiat. 

Director Mike Norris, son of Chuck Norris, asks for like-minded Americans to support the film. “The fact that a recent poll showed a majority of Americans are enraged with the federal government points to a frenzy of unrest with the dictatorial way in which our country has been run,” said Norris.

“My family has long been involved in protecting the rights of Americans. We are concerned about the future and and see this film as a call to action. We urge people to join us in theaters and show Hollywood and politicians that true patriots will fight for their rights and want to see their values represented on-screen.”

A collaboration between Norris and entrepreneur and writer Gary Heavin, AMERIGEDDON seizes on fact-based threats and asks the ultimate question, “What happens when government turns on the people it’s supposed to protect?”

Executive Producer Gary Heavin believes the film’s message warning is timely.

“We made a movie that is fun to watch but it is based in reality. In AMERIGEDDON, survivors of an EMP attack on the United States must live in a state of martial law led by the United Nations. American soldiers must decide whom they serve, second amendment rights are curtailed and food, water and survival become our primary concerns—unfortunately, these are all likely scenarios resulting from a very real threat,” said Heavin.

“I believe if we can entertain while we inform, more people will wake up; and if we hope to restore our freedom we must share the truth with as many people as possible.”

Co-written by Norris and Heavin, the film features Marshall Teague (THE ROCK), Annalynn McCord (“Dallas”, “90210”), Dina Meyer (“Starship Troopers”), Spencer Neville (“Days of Our Lives”), Mike Norris (“Walker, Texas Ranger”), Diane Ladd (JOY) and India Eisley (“The Secret Life of the American Teenager”).

About ForeWarned Films: Forewarned Films was created as a joint venture between Mike Norris and Gary Heavin as a platform to produce films and television programs to further narratives that protect patriotic values in a time of great social change that threatens the underpinnings of America.

AMERIGEDDON is the first of a series of planned films and television projects to help protect the country’s freedoms.

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Commentary:

How do we interpret this film?

1. A threat from ´the global elite´ if Donald Trump is elected President.
2. They are trying to make people believe it´s just a film,a fantasy,when in fact it is real.
3. Although independently produced by Mike Norris,I hardly think it would have been allowed by the ´elite´ as they own and control Hollywood and all the film industry in the US.

The release,timed perfectly just a few months prior to the presidential election,must in my opinion,be interpreted as a warning to the electorate,if they make the ´wrong´choice.

Although very courageous and noble of Mike Norris wanting to protect patriotic values in a time of great social change that threatens the underpinnings of America, I don´t  think the protesting faction of the population have the resources or organization to fund and create such a controversial film at this time.

Illuminati have on several previous occasions left hidden signs well ahead of the happening, for example 9/11.  Although this time it is TOO obvious, if things are held too close to your eyes,you will not see it!!

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Who controls Congress,the US President,the UN and NATO?

Who controls Congress – Who controls the US President – Who controls the UN? Who controls NATO and all the Intelligence services?  No prizes for guessing!

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Back in 2009 was indeed a very sad day for democracy and a truly disgraceful day for the credibility of the US Congress. It was a clear indication that the United States of America had finally become the most undemocratic country when if succumbed to its partner in crime Israel? Maybe these photographs are in the wrong sequence? Should it be The Knesset above Congress and the UN?

If you can recall the UN commissioned Judge Richard Goldstone to investigate if Israel had been guilty of crimes against humanity in its attack on Gaza in 2008/9. The result of this investigation came out in the Goldstone Report but as one would expect the Zionists went into action in an attempt to stop any spin off or potential damaging publicity.

Congress decided to vote on the findings of this report and as one would expect the results clearly showed a very biased support for Israel and one would not have to burn up any brain cells to guess who was responsible for this. The ratio of voting was 344 against the Goldstone Report and only 36 who voted for it.

As one expect Congress pushed Obama to reject the  Goldstone Report and that same Zionist pressure influenced the UN Security Council, namely the US, to use its veto power to scuttle the entire document and add it to the hundreds of US Resolutions that Israel has ignored to date.

It is blatantly obvious that both Israel and the US are looking for another war in the Middle East. If one could even imagine WW3 centred on the Middle East with today’s weaponry that have the ability to write off the entire region, (including the possible instigators themselves, Israel) and contaminate the world beyond .

I guess the “Zionist Mafia”(the New World Order) would even possibly use Israel as a pawn or sacrificial lamb to meet their own economic targets.  If we can recall it was Netanyahu who once said in the lead up to the Israeli election that next time we go into Gaza we will remain until Hamas has been removed. On top of this we have the darling of the US, Hilary Clinton keeping the full pressure on Iran even though this has nothing to do with Iran’s nuclear research programme.

The entire attitude of President Obama and the Government are showing clear signs of the same old aggressive foreign policy and even Biden and Romney have openly declared their intention to attack Iran. It is fact that all of this aggression was planned 20 years ago by the New World Order and has nothing to do with Iran’s nuclear capabilities!!

Again we have to look into the background as to why these “Iron Fist” aggressors appear to be pushing for another conflict. It is obvious that as far as the energy world is concerned the US and its allies are acutely embarrassed that they have no control over the vast resources of Iran. It is also fact that they oppose the proposed Iranian pipeline (IPI) that will bring oil/gas directly in Pakistan and possibly into India, which is in direct competition with their own Proposed TAPI pipeline in Afghanistan (yes you guessed correctly the war is all about oil) . Then we have the issue of the large gas reserves sitting in offshore Gaza that Israel so painfully want to acquire. Some years ago the head of the IDF once stated that Hamas had to be removed in order to drill for these resources.

Why is it that we, the general public, cannot see through this false façade of deceit. It they remove Hamas they can then move forward with their illegal puppet, Abbas,and get these natural resources moving (not as that makes any difference anyway because Israel is already in the process of siphoning off Gaza’s gas)………where did we hear that before?  Wasn’t that the case in Kuwait when they siphoned off Iraqi reserves (a technique known as diagonal or slant drilling) which directly resulted in an attack on Kuwait by Iraq and lead to the current Iraq situation?

We continue to be blinded by our illustrious leaders about the so called wars of democracy, how we must strengthen our resolve in keeping up the fight in Iraq, Afghanistan or soon maybe Pakistan in order to make the streets of the US and Britain safe from terrorism. What absolute baloney!!

When we observed Obama go out in the early hours to meet the returned dead (which he has since stopped doing) or when we heard our Prime Minister in the British Parliament start his day by saying how saddened he was to learn of the death of another group of brave gallant soldiers and that his thoughts are with their loved ones etc etc……..this is surely the most insincere orchestrated PR exercise that continues to be played out on the screens of our TV’s

I must remind you that the New World Order have no feelings for such sacrifices and that they all look upon the troops like Kissinger did when he said “Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”

Do we, the blind public, ever consider that our respective governments continue to use weapons containing uranium components that not only kill innocent people worldwide (on a massive scale), but also kills our own troops?

Do they tell these brave men that go to war “If the Taliban don’t get you our DU will”?

Do they ever tell the troops that this is all in the name of economic greed (Oil and Gas) or to prop up the price of  a barrel of oil?

Do they tell you that this war is to protect the opium crop in Afghanistan that is so important for the well being of the major banks and as a source of funding for our intelligence services and their “Black Ops”?

Did they tell you that they ignored the plea from the Pakistan Army (who were fiercely fighting terrorist) that they asked for US support on the other side of the border in Afghanistan in order to box them in and didn’t get it?

Did we understand that they told us this war was all about combating terrorist and yet they didn’t make any attempt to back up Pakistan who had more troops in the region at the time than the entire total of coalition forces?

Don’t you think it is rather strange that the area adjacent to this hot bed of fighting had never been visited for almost three years by US forces (oh sorry a small US squad did spend two days there around the time). Could we ever imagine that the Pakistan Army could now push these  so called terrorist  back over the border into Afghanistan and allow the whole cycle to start again?

It is fact that throughout the war in Afghanistan most of the fighting was in and around the opium crop and had nothing to do with fighting terrorists but all about protecting the drug trade!!

I urge the people of America, Britain and Europe to read between the lines and see our respective  governments for what they are. Take note that all the troops in Afghanistan are also dying along the route of the proposed pipeline  (US funded TAPI pipeline) i.e. Italian, US, UK and Canadian troops……just look at the statistics and location and ask your political representatives why only in this region?

So back to the impoverished people of Palestine……how can they sustain this heroic stance against the might of Israel and the US? How can the United Nations and we the world continue to watch this mass genocide? How can the United Nations and the world continue to allow our respective military to use Uranium based weapons?

Then we come back to the G3.5 (US, UK France and little old Merkel) continuing to apply pressure on Iran and then the G20 headed by the US (as usual) pushing aggressively for a ban on nuclear weapons. This is an absolute joke. Of course they want to ban the huge nuclear deterrents otherwise known as Ballistic Missiles which are aged and now obsolete but do we really understand what is going on here?

Nuclear missiles are exactly what they say they are “Nuclear deterrents”…they have never been used and only serve as a threat/deterrent. On the other hand with see a re classification of so called “Conventional Weapons” being designed  by the US such as “Low Yield Nuclear Bombs” (B61 etc ), not covered under the NPT,  and the extensive use of their nuclear wast (depleted uranium) in most of today’s weapons.

We are now also seeing  a new generations of weapons emerging that are even more deadly than the larger nuclear weapons. These “Mini Nukes” have the ability to not only do a very effective job on the so called enemy (Those that own the huge natural resources) but also have the ability to “Depopulate in mass”. Could we ever imagine that currently many of the Islamic populations are so badly contaminated that one could question whether it is possible for them to have a natural DNA anymore? Then we have even more technology emerging such as “Cold Fusion Weapons”, “Star War Weapons” “HAARP” and “Mind Control Weapons” etc.

To date the New World Order has “Nuked” the Balkans, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Gaza, North Pakistan and Libya. That same contamination is now spreading at an alarming rate into cross border Pakistan, India, Himalayas (the birthplace of major Asian rivers), China, Thailand, Malaysia. Singapore Indonesia and beyond. It is also generating itself around the globe on the wind until it eventually is rained or snowed  out into the soils of our respective countries. If one can relate to Chernobyl and how its contamination spread around Europe, then we must fully understand that these new “Mini Nukes” have the potential to make Chernobyl look insignificant by comparison.

It is fact that as long as these wars continue  we have suspended in the world atmosphere many thousands of nuclear weapons in the form of gas that contains millions upon millions of radioactive nano particles…….all waiting to come down to mother earth!!…………..the map I produced above clearly shows how this contamination moves around the globe and remember any planned attack on Iran will become the most catastrophic event in the world’s history and will spread around the entire Middle East from Turkey to India and from the Caspian Sea to the Horn of Africa…….all within four days and around the rest of the world within a month.

Let’s also look at another thermometer for war when we look at the  price of oil. It appears that every time the oil price plummets the US goes onto a war footing in order to bring the oil price back up. It would also be true to say that whenever the popularity of any leader starts to fail, they start a war to rally their people into a patriotic frenzy and “Hey presto job done”.

We cannot leave this story without talking about the next generation of “Robotic Wars” where a person can sit in his armchair in the US and play with his/her computer game and control a UAV over Iraq, Afghanistan or Pakistan (and likewise the Israelis). These UAV can carry Hellfire Missiles and Bunker Busters and all at the hands of one person who is not in the theater of war. These UAV’s have accounted for the death of many innocent civilians and in some respects could be considered illegal indiscriminate weapons. In Pakistan they have already been responsible for over 700 civilians all at the hands of a person in the US who controls the “Drones” attack.

Let’s again come back to the current time when we again see the power and strength of the Israeli lobby almost ridicule the UN, US and Europe into violating whatever it so chooses. We saw Livni rush over the pond to meet with Rice on her last day in office to sign a MOU. This MOU promised Israel the military security of the Eastern Mediterranean by both US naval forces but also that of NATO. I again ask the question what has NATO got to do with Israel?

One must look at the evil intentions behind American foreign policy that remains aggressively unchanged. Remember Bush’s words “an enemy to one is an enemy to all”. In the past the United States has stood out alone as an aggressive military power and it was Bush himself who realised that if this term could be expanded he could pull in other countries into almost any US conflict. This was carefully manipulated in the Gulf when suddenly the term “US forces” changed into a new terminology of “We and our NATO Allies”. The Afghan war suddenly changed from US/British led invasion to a total NATO war.

The New World Order  once again carefully manipulated the UN Security Council (which it controls) into approving the war in Afghanistan. It assumed an incredible title the “International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) where the term US led was dropped and became  a NATO-led security and development mission in Afghanistan (established by the United Nations Security Council).

I find it absurd that the term “Security Assistance” was used when in actual fact this is a full scale war. Likewise, the term “Development Mission” is equally as absurd when no development has taken place apart from a major highway between Herat and Kandahar…..this so happens to be the route for the TAPI pipeline that will run alongside this highway……..”Are we all starting to get the true picture now”?

We now have a situation whereby senior staff at NATO are visiting Israel and wishing to carry out joint exercises. This is a clear indication that Israeli now has NATO supporting it as well as the US and one could well see the day when Israel becomes a member. Can one imagine how such manipulation works? Imagine Turkey is a member of NATO (currently on tender hooks with Israel) and then we may see Israel join the fold……interesting hey?

Over more recent time  we again saw further manipulation by the US in trying to include oil and gas installations and transport routes coming under the protective umbrella of NATO this in reality means that any attack on a NATO country facility or pipeline etc  could constitute an attack on all.

Before closing this article one must also look at the greater ” New Word Order Geo Political Plan” and remember their intentions:

To take control of the world’s natural resources

To control the international markets for those resources

To control the transit/trade routes, sea lanes and pipeline routes for those resources

One must also look at their military intentions both in the past (which at the time failed) and their current growth and I am sure you will agree that its a repeat of the same old game all over again.

Remember the New World Order controls the UN, WHO and UNICEF etc, they control most of the world’s political scene, the judicial and educational  systems and more importantly NATO is their military arm!!

Before leaving this topic I would like to introduce you to some well orchestrated tactics by the US and British Governments some years ago when they tried to extend NATO around the globe. Many people would not know of this plan and thank God it failed miserably. The globe was split into three zones, those being US/Europe – Middle East – Asia/Far East. Each zone were given names NATO – CENTO – SEATO. This basically was all in connection to the “Cold War” and was intended to stop the growth of the USSR (Communism). History fortunately repeated itself when the countries in the Middle East and South East Asia realised that this was a type of US/UK controlling mechanism and backed out of this sinister plan. To some extent we can see the American Bald Eagle’s Talons’ reaching out yet again all in the name of economic greed for the control of oil and not democracy!

CENTO

Lets just take a look at this activity that passed by almost unnoticed many years ago: The Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) also known as the Middle East Treaty Organization (METO) which also had another titled  known as the Baghdad Pact was initiated in 1955 by the United Kingdom – Iran – Iraq – Pakistan and Turkey. Could we ever imagine such a pact today when the UK has since gone to war with Iraq, threatens Iran and bullies Pakistan. It all came to no avail and failed in 1979. This map shows it coverage at the time:

SEATO

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) started on the 8th of September 1954 as a means to block further communist gains in Southeast Asia. It also failed on the 30th of June 1977. I believe  those partner countries realized that something more sinister lay behind this false façade set up by the US and UK governments and again closed the door.

Current NATO and Potential NATO Partners

Today we see the re emergence of this same growth in NATO which originally started with the US and Western European Nations uniting into a common goal of stemming Russian Growth and the spread of communism. Now we again see the “Bald Eagle Talon’s” extending to bring more countries into the fray that were once part of Russia i.e. Georgia etc. This madness in growth has no end and I am sure before long that NATO will spread way beyond the shores of the North Atlantic and embed itself well beyond Europe. We must again remember that this US backed plan will bring many other countries into conflict based on the original theme “An attack on one is an attack on all”

In addition to this cancerous growth we have the following countries (as per above) that, if they have the political will and ability, could deepen their relationship and possibly join NATO.

Some of these countries were very much part of the Russia alliance and it is again the talons of the “Bald Eagle” that is wishing to split up Russian in order to fulfill their long term economic goals such as US/EU pipeline projects and to secure their own long term energy requirements. Add to this the even bigger picture of pulling in other countries such as Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia. Now we can see two fronts developing here at the same time. One being the old cold war issue between US/UK/EU and the Russian States and the second front of trying to split up parts of Arab League whilst at the same time strengthening Israel and bringing them into the NATO/European fold. This serves two purposes –  it allows the US/UK/EU commercial consortium’s to challenge Russia’s dominance in the supply of energy requirements to Europe and beyond and at the same time allows the softer Arabic nations to join a US/UK/EU type of alliance and thus further alienating border countries such as Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. These three countries would then be encapsulated entirely by Turkey, Israel, Jordan and Egypt along with their rich natural resources much of which is still unexplored. This same exercise also nibbles away at the Russian States and the Arab League.

It is time for those that seek peace in the world to stop this US led controlling mechanism and demand an end to all wars, close down all military activity and bases that exist on Islamic soil and bring the troops home. This can now only be achieved by mass peaceful demonstrations and for the voting public to vote out of office all of those candidates who promote such conflicts. We now see a line up of many national leaders using aggressive language to other less fortunate countries……..I distinctly remember David Cameron when he was leader of the opposition who changed the politic propaganda terminology from Education, Education, Education to Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghanistan.

We see Obama and and the Presidential front runner repeating the same old line of  “Keeping the streets of our cities safe from terrorism”….why don’t they understand that if they pull troops and bases out of Islamic lands that terrorism will stop……….that is assuming it every existed in the first place!!!!

It would be so enlightening  to see huge peace rallies in all major capital cities of the world where people are armed with old shoes to throw at there respective leaders or their official residencies. If ever we see such an event it will truly be a moment in history when people power changed the course of history and stopped our aggressive economic greed for oil and natural resources. Add to this the power to stop all weapons that contain uranium in any form and we will be well on the way to bringing common sense back into this world. How can our leaders bully third world countries on global warming issue (which is a farce anyway) and at the same time spread their nuclear waste around the globe to contaminate its residents. This alone is killing in mass millions of people as well as attacking the very DNA of life itself……….oh well that’s what “Agenda 21” is all about

Peter Eyre- Middle East Consultant 6/9/2012 

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