Topic: Apostasy in the Middle East - Are We Heading for Armageddon Upon Revelation the Antichrist?
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| Detail from The Last Judgment by Jacob de Backer (c. 1589) |
Section I. Europe's Economic and Social Malaise Spawns Fascist and Religious Clashes:
As we watch the constant horrors unfold before our eyes the series of disturbing events unfold as is widely reported in the war between Israel and Hamas along the Gaza Strip, few have any inkling of what is transpiring in Iraq, what has already occurred in Syria, nor what already has been happening in Egypt and the latest U.S. Embassy in Libya evacuation over the past three days. In Europe, anti-Semitism has reached heights not seen since the Third Reich and Fascist Italy systematically cleansed the continent of 7 million among its Jewry as the protests within the growing populations of each nation riot and brutally murder or maim the Jewish peoples in Paris and Marseilles in France, Berlin in Germany and in so many other areas at the heart of a historically-volatile region politically wrought with old nationalist grudges of their neighboring nation-states. The European Union is on the verge of its final collapse, and more than a generation after her refusal to accept entry into the federalized unit over his objection to the abolition of the British Pound Sterling led to her forced resignation following a No Confidence vote in Parliament, Margaret Thatcher is being proven prophetic and has been vindicated because should the Conservative Party wins total control of the House of Commons as it currently is in a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats under Prime Minister David Cameron, Britain is poised to vote itself out of the EU and to cut all ties in terms of its economic protectionism arrangement with what is known as the Eurozone, the arbiter of monetary policies on the continent, and its destruction of the continental economies due to a radical transformation from a century of socialist economics into the present failure of austerity, leading Spain, Portugal and Greece economically-depressed worse off than America experienced its own economic horrors during the Great Depression. France, the second largest economy on the continent is itself mired in about 10.25% unemployment at the last opportunity I took to check, and Germany currently looks to be sliding into its own recession.
Economic Figures within the Eurozone:
What are the exact figures on economic development within the Eurozone? Where better to gather reference materials than from the horse's mouth itself, Eurozone, EU and European Statistical Data:
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| Unemployment figures for the Eurozone nations, updated 8 May 2014 |
What may we derive as significant from this graph? In indicating total unemployment, Greece is experience more than 27% having filed for unemployment; like here with the U.S. figures of total labor force participation, this is simply the official unemployment total. In Spain, 26% are unemployed. Croatia's rate is third at 17% and Portugal, Spain's Iberian Peninsular neighbor, is roughly 16.33% according to the bar graph. The Germanic states of Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands appear to be the healthiest under austerity, with Denmark appearing to serve as the standard bearer for Scandinavia. In total, only 12 nations within the confederation are experiencing unemployment south of 10%. Britain as of May stood at around 7%. The unhealthiest regions continue to be on the Iberian Peninsula, the former Soviet republics which have never truly taken off under capitalism as they had so hoped, and of course the culturally-tied Greek speaking states of Greece and Cyprus, the latter of which appears to experience 17% unemployment.
For inflation, the following information will be provided below on the prices for commodities:
In measuring European commodities in bulk and volume, the Metric System is always used, never our own standard. The page, much to my chagrin utilizing a Wiki format and therefore is easily altered (but hopefully only by an Eurozone official), interprets the data as follows:
Euro area annual inflation was 0.5% in June 2014, stable compared with May. A year earlier the rate was 1.6%. The flash estimate for June, published on 30 June 2014, was 0.5%. Further information on the accuracy of the flash estimates can be found in the article 'Inflation – methodology of the euro area flash estimate'.
Looking at the main components of euro area inflation, services had the highest annual rate in June (1.3%, compared with 1.1% in May), followed by energy (0.1%, compared with 0.0% in May), non-energy industrial goods (-0.1%, compared with 0.0% in May) and food, alcohol & tobacco (-0.2%, compared with 0.1% in May).
To look at these figures, the Eurozone's total inflation statistics are actually lower than our own. And how they measure this can be understood below:
Each of the main components contributes in varying degree to the headline inflation in the euro area. In terms of weight, set at 1000 for the all-items HICP, services is the largest component, accounting for around 42.8% of individual consumption expenditure in the euro area. It is followed by non-energy industrial goods with around 26.7%.
Food, alcohol & tobacco and energy account for 19.8% and 10.8%, respectively. Together, they comprise less than one third of euro area expenditure, but they can have significant impacts on the headline inflation as their levels tend to fluctuate significantly more than the other components.
The main components and their relative weights for 2014 are presented in Figure 3 and Table 2, respectively.
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| Figure 3: First portion of of the main components of the euro area HICP |
Relative weights of the HICP components (%) - 2014
The breakdown of the HICP into four main components does not follow the standard COICOP classification, but groups items from different expenditure classes into four broad product categories. For further details on the composition/sub-indices, please see Eurostat's COICOP/HICP classification.
By nation, the following information may be extrapolated. As the Eurozone, as is true with the EU, is a confederation under protectionist economic arrangements, each state is its own sovereign government and economy even though they vote upon a continental parliamentary body.
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Table of the Eurozone's Inflation Trends
While inflation consistently remains below 2%, it should be noted that because each state is also independently governed, all figures vary. Turkey, the lone state within the European Union with an Islamic majority, is experiencing significant problems with inflation and unemployment, and with rampant corruption with their current Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey's involvement in the Arab Spring diffusion will be discussed once I complete the next article on the Israeli-Hamas war within the Gaza Strip. Its role, I can tell you, is most difficult to reconcile, as Erdogan has made statements comparing Israel to Hitler in Nazi Germany for their "genocidal" activities versus their Hamas foes, while having to take care in realizing that at some point, ISIS and Hezbollah are sure to join forces to complete the absorption of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan before turning their attention towards invading Anatolia - the land in which Turkey is located - in order to reach the Bosporus Strait follow their toppling Istanbul and Ankara to launch their conquest of Europe. Once Turkey is invaded, NATO will be required to act militarily to defend and repel their mujahidin invaders.
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Section II: Mass Increases in Violent Rioting Resulting from Anti-Semitism from Muslims and Pro-Palestinian Support Against Israel:
I would be remiss to neglect discussing Europe's place in the series of crises since on the surface, the Western fight for survival begins there. We are all well-aware of Russia and Ukraine being on the brink of war, and as today the White House announced that it had acquired satellite imagery of Russian military installations firing into Ukrainian airspace and territorial holdings a mere four months following Russian forces rigging the elections on the Crimean Peninsula to annex it as part of Russia, the issue is perhaps at its most perilous. In less than one week, Russian forces either through their state-sponsored separatist forces in eastern Ukraine having shot down first Malaysia MH 17 along the Russo-Ukrainian border followed by Thursday's shooting down of two Ukrainian fighter aircraft - likely old MiG jets remaining from its years as part of the former Soviet Union - war is likely a matter of inevitability, not a question of if. I started a blog entry the week of the Malaysia MH 17 shooting (which was over a week and a half ago) and never finished both because I started writing it around 10:30 PM and did not stop until nearly 3 AM as a result of pulling articles and posting an entire list for you of Russian state media television called RT.com. Since I have yet to complete the blog due to feeling under the weather for several days and because I continue to find so many geopolitical crises transpiring that tie into the Obama White House at such a rapid rate of the media covering each one, it has been extraordinarily difficult to maintain tabs on each and to simply recall that aside from these issues still like others more immediately pressing to Main Street U.S.A. like education and the economy. As a result, I plan to address in one to two blogs the Russian crisis by also including materials I research in January and February prior to the invasion by Moscow of the Crimean Peninsula. There are more details just within these scenarios than you are aware, and you will read them from my blog where you may or may not locate such literature anywhere outside of Glenn Beck's radio and talk shows on The Blaze.
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Within the European Union you will continue to read of enormous escalations of violence via riots and general targeted attacks by Muslims against the continent's Jewry. From Paris and Marseilles to Berlin and beyond, there have not been such escalations of anti-Semitism at these levels since the reign of the Third Reich and Fascism in Italy. As the rise of grotesque violence by the rapidly rising Muslim population reach near epidemic proportions, you should perhaps consider some information provided below courtesy first of France 24 English:
Marseilles gangs out of control?
Latest update : 2013-06-28
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Four gangland murders in three weeks. But is Marseille really the most dangerous city in Europe? François Picard’s panel reacts to a special report on police reaction to a changing drug trade in the Mediterranean port city.
Fabrice RIZZOLI. Author, "Petit dictionnaire énervé de la mafia" ("The Little Angry Dictionary of the Mafia");
Tony KENNEYBREW. Attorney, Paris Bar;
Adrien CHEVALIER. Researcher, Think Tank Different;
Emmanuel ROUX. General Secretary, Union of Police Commissioners;
Thierry AGUILA. Documentary filmmaker, "L'hôtel de Police de Marseille" (from the Marseille suburb of La Ciotat).
Produced by Anelise Borges, François Picard, Mary Colombel, Christopher Davis.
Parlez-vous francais? Je ne pas parle la langue tre bien, mais je vais le dire la cliche "ce qui sera sera"! And just so you know, that was my own very poorly-translated phrase which says in English, "Do you speak French? I do not speak the language very well, but I will say the cliche "what will be, will be"! For the record, I have never tasted nor do I ever intend to eat any escargot.
Moving right along, you need to know that Marseilles, the second largest city in France, has the largest Muslim population in the nation with as many as 40%. Not coincidentally, it also is the most crime-ridden and dangerous in France and, according to Frontpage Mag is also ranked atop of all Europe in crime. Of course, Paris too has seen its share of violence courtesy of Muslims targeting Jews and Christians, and with that, I will provide you with more footage from France 24 English discussing this growing threat to Western Civilization into separate videos:
Below, however, is the most recent reports regarding the riots between Muslims and Jews in France:
As the beleaguered Socialist government of President Francois Hollande has engaged in an U-Turn back into austerity measures as well as the rise of far right-wing Fascist opposition to him with elections approaching, he recently reshuffled his cabinet, as did British Prime Minister David Cameron. And the reason for why the rise of Fascist politicians can be attributed to forced radical acceptance by each state in Europe as it continues to spread to a feverish partitioning of the European Union due to nationalism rising as the peoples of Europe demand to reclaim their cultural identities.
WorldViews
What Europe thinks of Muslims, Jews and Roma
By Adam Taylor May 13
Ahead of the upcoming European Union parliamentary elections, the Pew Research Center released its latest survey data for France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom.
There are a number of interesting points in the report, but one striking section shows the varied views about minorities in the region. And while perspectives on Muslims and Jews are largely mixed, the mostly negative views about the Roma people are striking.
Here's a rundown:
Three countries polled – Italy, Greece and Poland – had more heavily negative views of Muslims than positive.
It should be noted that these three nations actually have fewer Muslims living there than Spain, Germany, France and the United Kingdom. France, the country with the highest Muslim population, according to Pew, has the most favorable view, while the United Kingdom, home of a recent "halal pizza" scandal, has the least negative view.
Europe's attitudes toward Jews are more favorable, though Greeks are split.
Again, countries with a larger Jewish population, such as the U.K. and France, tend to view them more favorably, and Germany, which obviously has a unique history on this front, views its Jewish population least negatively. Greece, where just 0.04% of the population is Jewish, according to the Jewish Virtual Library, is the most split about Jews: It's also worth noting that the popular Greek right-wing party Golden Dawn has been accused of neo-Nazism.
The most negative views in Europe aren't directed toward Muslims or Jews. Rather, it's Roma.
This chart is really quite remarkable, showing that Spain is the only nation where more people hold positive views of Roma than negative. In Italy, just 10 percent have positive views about Roma, while 85 percent have negative views.
Unfortunately, it's not entirely surprising. Roma, often dismissively referred to as "gypsies" in Europe, have suffered discrimination in Europe for centuries, and some estimates suggest that 70 percent of their European population was killed during the Holocaust. Last year, Europe's tabloid media got into a frenzy over allegations that Roma families in Greece and Ireland had stolen "blond girls." (In both cases, it was later confirmed that the children were actually Roma).
Many are predicting a good showing for right-wing and nationalist groups in the elections, which begin May 22. If so, these charts may be worth remembering: As Pew notes, "negative sentiments about all three groups are consistently more common among people on the ideological right."
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There is one fundamental truth about history: it never dies. It is being repeated yet again. And in other words, any European confederation was doomed to fail; I will repeat that Margaret Thatcher was again correct as she predicted the eventual decline in the Euro and the single currency.
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Again, France is not alone in facing a national existential crisis on the continent. Frontpage Mag published another article discussing the spread of continental jihad as the war between Hamas and Israel rages longer. The video you are about to watch is from Berlin, in which you may notice the title of it is in German, which translated says "Anti-Semitism on the streets of Berlin":
At a rally, aside from the usual Allah Akbar stuff, there were cries of “Jew, Jew, Cowardly Pig, Come Out and Fight Alone.”
In other major German cities, more anarchy ensued eerily representative of the Night of the Broken Glass:
In Dresden (eastern Germany), a synagogue was spray-painted with the slogan “stop killing people” (in English).
In Frankfurt (western Germany), a synagogue was sprayed with “f**k the Jews”.
In Detmold (western Germany), a memorial stone in front of a synagogue was desecrated with red paint, making it look as if it was bloodied.
The article rather in a rather foreboding manner stated the following in a very sarcastic, yet descriptive manner:
Or Germany, where the new Nazis who have traded armbands for Keffiyahs are making themselves felt.
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Riot in Paris in protest of Israel's role in the conflict with Hamas.
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Reports from Switzerland, the only truly neutral state on the continent, were most disheartening in considering after 80 years, passions and feelings of extreme nationalism have devolved a once-war weary continent into anarchy:
The Jewish community in Zurich is concerned over antisemitic incitement on social networks in connection with a pro-Palestinian demonstration today.
Some comments include: “A good Jew is a dead Jew”, “the only medicine against Jews was Adolf Hitler” and “We must exterminate the Jews”.
Sadly, what the Muslims in Europe do not understand is how Hitler had designs upon slaughtering them too had he conquered the Near East.
In briefly re-mentioning the French crises, these details were made readily available:
Fourteen French police officers were wounded and 38 people were arrested at an unauthorized rally to protest Israel’s actions in Gaza.
One group of a dozen men spoke loudly about “hunting Jews and killing them”.
And in the Netherlands, near where the United Nations (UN) War Crimes Tribunals meet to conduct trials, this was posted:
A chief rabbi of the Netherlands said unidentified individuals hurled stones at his home in what he said was the second anti-Semitic attack on him in a week.
Britain has not at all been spared, and as you are well-aware, Subway restaurants are now required to provide only halal meats as a choice due to cries of outrage by Muslims:
Some of the cars flew Palestinian flags, and occupants shouted and swore at Jewish pedestrians (including “Heil Hitler”). Cans and eggs were thrown at Jewish pedestrians from at least two of the cars.
Similarly, that same day in Glasgow on the fringes of a demonstration, a man of south Asian appearance was heard shouting “f**king kill the Jews”.
This is, if you do not mind my saying, the damnedest example for a faith proclaiming to be the religion of peace I have ever read or witnessed. The only peace Islam teaches is not one of gregariousness to people of other diverse origins or faiths, but rather one where the ultimate penalty is a choice to make and still used anyway upon the forced conversion of a person from one faith to Islam. And with the British, long our most loyal and key ally on the geopolitical stage, tax dollars are funding "jihadertisments":
Should Britain fall prey to jihadists, America will be largely isolated from the remainder of NATO. Britain historically serves as the U.S. buffer with the continent's oft-times divergent designs.
As with the remainder of Europe, the greatest concern for British national security is the exodus of what to date have been over 400 Muslims to Iraq to fight for ISIS. According to Allen West, this is more than the sum total of volunteers joining the British National Guard. He provided information from the UK's Daily Mail for you to consume:
More Brits signing up to fight with jihadist militants in Iraq and Syria than for the UK Army Reserve
Several hundred Brits thought to be fighting in Middle East killing fields
But just 170 recruited as reservists in 12 months to April despite hiring push
Figures 'shameful, embarrassing and will cause deep concern' say MPs
By TOM MCTAGUE, MAIL ONLINE DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR
PUBLISHED: 03:27 EST, 17 June 2014 | UPDATED: 07:35 EST, 17 June 2014
More British citizens signed up to fight in Iraq and Syria than joined the Army Reserve last year, it can be revealed.
Just 170 extra reservists enlisted over the past year - despite a Government target to boost the stand-by force by 11,000 by 2018.
But at the same time the brutal al-Qaeda inspired ISIS forces tearing through Iraq have been boosted by 'several hundred' Brits, ministers told MailOnline.
In the whole of 2013 the number of British Army reservists actually fell by 50 to just 19,150 at the start of the year.
Over the 12 months to April this year – a period during in which the Government claimed recruitment had improved – the number of reservists in Britain increased by just 170.
The Army's stalling recruitment drive comes despite a pledge to raise the numbers of reservists to 30,000 by 2018.
The Ministry of Defence has insisted it was confident the target would be met - as part of plans to slash the size of the regular Army from 102,000 in 2010 to 82,000 in 2018.
But this would require an extra 2,750 reservists a year to be recruited.
The MoD said: 'Although there have been a number of technical challenges, the programme is on track and the Reserves are now growing in size for the first time in 18 years.'
Foreign Affairs Select Committee member Mike Gapes said it was 'shocking and very worrying' that more British citizens were prepared to risk their lives fighting alongside terrorists in the Middle East than had signed up for the Army Reserve.
Foreign Secretary William Hague, speaking in the Commons yesterday, said it was 'inevitable' that Brits were fighting alongside ISIS forces in Iraq and suggested 400 had travelled to the Middle East to join the battle against President Assad in some capacity.
He said: 'There are clearly a pool of people who are being recruited by these extremist groups through the internet. It is very serious and we have got to be very tough on it.
'These figures show there is a minority of people who are fanatical and prepared to join extremist groups, but also that the Government's recruitment to the Army Reserves is not going very well at all.
'There are large numbers living in this country going to fight for these vile terrorist organisations and that's very worrying, particularly if they are returning to Britain having seen what they have seen and looking to recruit terrorists back here.'
The revelation comes after former Prime Minister Tony Blair said British fighters returning from Iraq and Syria were the Government's single, biggest security concern.
Mr Blair said: 'If we don't deal with the Syria issue then the problems are not just going to be for Syria and for the region, the problems are actually going to come back and they are going to hit us very directly even in our own country.'
He added: 'If you talk to security services in France and Germany and the UK, they will tell you their biggest single worry today returning jihadists fighters - our own citizens by the way - from Syria.'
Charlie Cooper, an expert at the anti-extremist think tank, Quilliam Foundation, said the number of Brits signing up to fight in the Middle East would only grow.
He said: 'People are going from Britain and the EU to fight for ISIS - the estimate is more than 500 and that number will probably rise.
'If you want to go and fight jihad, ISIS, which holds a particularly extreme view of Islam and wants to create an extreme Islamic utopia, is a very attractive group to fight for.'
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My final comment upon Britain's clash of cultures will be to post a video about Subway offering only halal meats:
The lady apparently is willing to protest intolerance to the most intolerant, murderous faith in world history. Akin to what America is experiencing rapidly with the Obama administration manifesting an America governed under Sharia law (a topic which will be discuss in depth in a later blog), all cultures globally are in danger of extinction as they each are under attack by the entire faith of Islam. Islam is not a peace religion; those who claim to be "moderates" or "peaceful" are not at all what they claim to be because they merely turn a blind eye or approve passively of what their fundamentalist rulers or clerics do which are so very evil. To continue to pretend if we ignore the problem that it will be pacified will not lead to a peaceful resolution nor coexistence; death is the lone fate possible by what Walid Shoebat, a former PLO member and Muslim who converted to Christianity, claimed to be the work of Satan. Mr. Shoebat, if you will recall my writing about this topic last summer, addressed his belief that the faith of Islam serves as the conduit of Satan in the coming of the Antichrist. You may read his contention and learn of his book chronicling his beliefs in full at the following URL. As for his page, I have taken an image of it and will post it as a .png file below. If you have difficulties enlarging it as it is a very lengthy page, please E-mail me not at my Gmail account, but my AOL address: Dagan81@aol.com:
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The Resurrection of Fascism on Continental Europe:
Nearly 70 years following the liberation of Europe from Nazi Germany and Italy, Fascism has returned in national parliamentary elections and even the recent vote for the European Union seats. None are more notorious than the frightening slide to the Far Right in Greece, the one state in Europe on the brink of absolute economic collapse. The International Monetary Fund has already bailed out the state as the debt is perhaps insurmountable today, unemployment is approximately 28% and the embattled Greeks face a Euro which today is almost worthless due to hyperinflation.
Global Research addresses this issue which has diffused well beyond the birthplace of democracy:
“Fascism Inc.”: Greece and the Rise of the Extreme Right in Europe
By Aris Chatzistenaou
Global Research, May 23, 2014
kontext-tv.de
Region: Europe
Theme: Culture, Society & History, Global Economy, Police State & Civil Rights
by The independent newscast Kontext TV
With
Aris Chatzistenaou, journalist and filmmaker from Athens, director of “Debtocracy”, “Catastroika” and “Fascism Inc.)
In Greece and other European countries, economic elites have been supporting fascist parties in order to enforce a radical neoliberal agenda in the crisis, says filmmaker Aris Chatzistefanou.
In his new documentary “Fascism Inc.” he shows how industrials and bankers in the 1920s and 30s supported fascists in order to destroy socialist movements and trade unions. Today – again in times of crisis – this pattern reoccurs at the periphery of Europe: In Greece, extreme right wing parties like “Golden Dawn” and “LAOS” have been supported by big ship-owners and media corporations. Meanwhile in Ukraine the EU, US and IMF support a government with the participation of the neo-Nazi party Svoboda in order to enforce their economic and geopolitical agenda.
In his new documentary „Fascism Inc.“, Aris Chatzistefanou shows how industrials and bankers supported fascism in the 1920s and 30s in order to destroy socialist movements and trade unions. Today – again in times of crisis – this pattern reoccurs at the periphery of Europe: In Greece extreme right wing parties like “Golden Dawn” and “LAOS” have been supported by parts of the economic elites and media corporations. “LAOS” was even welcomed by the EU and the IMF as part of the non-elected government of Lucas Papadimos. In the Ukraine as well the EU, the US and the IMF have supported a government with the participation of the Neonazi party Svoboda in order to enforce their economic and geopolitical agenda – a risky game that can easily get out of control.
Aris Chatzistenaou, journalist and filmmaker from Athens, director of “Debtocracy”, “Catastroika” and “Fascism Inc.)
Transcript:
Fabian Scheidler: Welcome to Kontext TV. Greece, we often here nowadays, is recovering. Prime minister Samarás speaks of a „success story“, Angela Merkel talks about a „much more optimistic climate“. The austerity measures, forced on Greece by the EU and the IMF and pushed especially by the German government, were, it is often claimed – in spite of all hardships – the only way to get out of the crisis. But what is the actual situation in Greece? With a youth unemployment rate of more than 60 per cent, can we really speak of a „success“? Which effects do the austerity measures have on public heath, education, workers’ rights and the environment? Our first guest is Aris Chatzistefanou from Athens. He is a journalist and documentary filmmaker. His films „Debtocracy“ and „Catastroika“ have reached large audiences worldwide. Now his latest film „Fascism Incorporated“ has been released. Welcome to Kontext TV, Aris Chatzistefanou.
Aris Chatzistefanou: Thank you for having me.
Fabian Scheidler: Talk about your new film. What is it about and why did you choose to treat this subject now?
Aris Chatzistefanou: In one way fascism Inc. is a continuation of our previous documentaries “Debtocracy” and “Catastroica”. We are always trying to understand economics and politics – word politics, world economics – by taking the example of Greece that we believe is an experimental case for what is coming. And our motto is: What happens in Greece never stays in Greece. And I’m afraid that these rise of far right and neo-Nazi movements that we have seen in the past few years in Greece we will see in other European countries where austerity was imposed in the same way and where there was a direct attack against democracy in order to impose this economic policy. We start our story from the early 20s and 30s in Germany and Italy and we are trying to make the connection between the rise of fascism and economical elites. We take the example of big industrialists like the Krupp family in Germany or the Agnelli or others in Italy – Alfa Romeo or Pirelli. The way that the supported directly fascism the way that they supported blackshirts in order to attack big strikes in factories. And then we are coming to Greece. We are talking about the German occupation of the country, the civil war after the occupation and then we go to the dictatorship and to what is going on today. And every single time we find the same background to the crisis. It’s always the economical leads who fear that when the political establishment cannot play its role any more, cannot support them in a way, they are eager to play even with fascism. Even though it’s not what they would like to do. It’s the last resort or choice for them in order to control the situation. And I’m afraid that they’ve tried to do that in Greece even though right now Golden Dawn members – the Neo-Nazi party members – are in prison they managed to impose their agenda to the mainstream political parties and that’s the real danger.
Fabian Scheidler: You already mentioned the 20s and 30s in Italy and Germany and industry and banks supporting fascism. In which ways did they support fascism?
Aris Chatzistefanou: At the first stages they just support gangs of blackshirts as we describe in the documentary. They attack unionists; they attack the big strikes in factories. After that if they see that the political establishment, the police forces or even the judiciary cannot play anymore their roles they are ready to accept fascists coming to power. But then the game changes. It’s not any more a small gang of blackshirts that work as an instrument of this big capital. Because fascism at the end of the day is a massive movement and that’s the real problem. Not only for all of us but also for the people who support fascism, these economic elites. It’s not like a game that you push a button and create fascism and then you can push again the same button and stop it. As a massive movement it can lead to very dangerous directions And that’s what happened in Italy that’s what happened in Germany and we were on the brink in Greece if you think that Golden Dawn took around 7 % in the last elections and that even when they killed a hip-hop artist we received the first polls showing that they still have 7 to 10 % you realized that it has gained some characteristics of a massive movement. People who know that this is a Nazi party, they know that they are murderers, but they still support it because there is now other alternative for them at the point. In that sense we see a combination of political and economic elites supporting the first stages of fascism and then losing control and we are in this very delicate position right now in Europe not only in Greece.
Fabian Scheidler: Which role do European crisis policies and austerity measures play in the context of the rise of fascism especially in Greece?
Aris Chatzistefanou: First of all fascism always finds fertile ground in times of Crisis. Not only when there is poverty but when left wing parties don’t have concrete alternatives for the exit of this crisis and that’s exactly what happened in Greece in the past few years. The Greek left even though it managed to predict the crisis and it made the right analyses, when people where asking what should we do now there is no one strong voice coming from the left with some specific proposal and as Wittgenstein was saying every fascism is a lost revolution and I’m afraid that we’ve lost one revolution in Greece because of the crisis. Now it’s not only what happens from below it’s also happens from the European Union don’t forget that a few years ago when the y wanted to impose a dictatorship. I call it a dictatorship. It was a technocratic government of Mr. Lucas papdemos who was a banker and a non-elected prime minister. The EU came and said we want a big coalition government in which LA O.S. party will participate LA O.S. is a far right party, its members love the dictatorship some of them are neo-Nazis. They are anti-Semites but he EU hat no problem whatsoever to bring this party in power in order to impose their economic policy and in order to save big financial institutions in France Germany and other countries of the European core. In that way they indirectly opened the gates for the neo-Nazis in Greece and I’m afraid that the same thing happens right now in the Ukraine or even in Norway. In countries where fare right parties have started playing a big role in the government. Or don’t forget Italy with Gianfranco Fini. He was accepted as a member of Berlusconi government for many years and the Europeans were happy with that. So we have a problem also coming from Brussels.
Fabian Scheidler: You already mentioned Ukraine. We can see an alarming rise of fascist parties in the Ukraine right now. The EU and the US closely cooperate with the government in Kiev in which the extreme right wing even neo-Nazi party Svoboda plays a big role. How do you judge European and western policies in the Ukraine crisis and do you see parallels to Greece?
Aris Chatzistefanou: We have many parallels in Greece, starting from the second world war because don’t forget that there was quite big part of population in the Ukraine that collaborated with the Nazis and after the win of the Soviet union these people, these hardcode fascists had to leave and go to the U.S. and Canada where they started rewriting history. They were trying to find excuses for the way that they collaborated with the Nazis in a way the same thing happened in Greece in the 90s there was a new movement in Greek universities trying to find excuses for Greek collaborators. And don’t forget that Greece was the only country where the collaborators in a way won the Second World War. They weren’t the losers, they weren’t punished in any way but on the contrary because of the civil war they became the state apparatus and at the same time they became the economic elites. In Ukraine it took some more time but these people and these theories came back after the orange revolution. And the European Union and United states played a crucial role in accepting parties like Svoboda which don’t forget that until a few years ago it was characterised as a national socialist party. It was its official name they never hide that aspect. So they accept not only far right parties they accept Neo-Nazis in Government in order to play their games which is not only the geostrategic game against Russia it’s also an economic game because we see again in Ukraine the IMF imposing its rule on the people giving some loans and then actually taking control of the government. And again and again the neo-Nazis play the role of an instrument of the economic elites. To give you an example in Greece the neo-Nazis if you see their economic agenda it’s a neoliberal agenda. When they were members of parliament they supported the ship owners they supported privatisation they supported whatever the government and the extreme neoliberals in Greece wanted to do and I’m afraid the same thing happens in Ukraine. So it’s not only politics it’s not only history it’s the economy, stupid, as they used to say in the U.S.
European austerity policies are laying the ground for the rise of fascism in Europe. Greece is on its way to become a “Third World country”, says Chatzistefanou. Public health and the education system have already been largely destroyed while public debt has risen from 120 per cent of GDP to 180 per cent since the beginning of “rescue measures”. At the same time Greek parties like “PASOK” and “Nea Dimokratia” have adopted positions from the far right especially concerning migration policies. As Yunous Mohammadi from the Greek Forum of Refugees reports more and more asylum seekers are arrested and detained in prison camps under inhuman conditions. According to Aris Chatzistefanou there is a real danger that Greece could become the blueprint for other European countries.
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Conclusion: Europe's Jewry Embarks Upon a Mass Exodus to Israel:
Europe is historically among the most diverse collection of nations on Earth with regards to people of differing faiths and ethnicities, races and cultures. The Americas could never exist as they do today without their founding both continents and learning that indeed, the world was not round after all. When I read of socialists complaining regarding the controversy that the "original" natives who had roamed the land nearly 10,000 years ago were in fact here since the dawn of man, they would be wrong. Like the WASP settlers who landed at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 and establish the first community in which the prime purpose was to cultivate and harvest a non-indigenous cash crop known as tobacco, the original Indians crossed over into North America from Siberia along what likely was a glacial land bridge in the Bering Strait. This means, indeed, the original nomadic wanderers were indeed pilgrims in their own right, and like with the Jamestown settlement as well as the establishment of Plymouth Plantation and the Massachusetts Bay colonies between 1620 and 1630, they were wayward sons and daughters of distant lands. Neither group were refugees, though, as Jamestown was again a settlement based upon open sea trade as those tobacco harvests were packaged and made voyages to Europe. For Puritan New England, however, it was a settlement whereby its inhabitants sought religious liberty from their England as the Crown through the Church of England intended to coerce them into converting to the state-sanctioned faith or face imprisonment somewhere as in the Tower of London. The Puritans were of the Congregational denomination, as that meant they were Protestants during the time when the Reformation was still growing in intensity in England as forces from the Anglican denomination under King James I clashed with their Catholic adversaries, a civil war which would see much more bloodshed from Oliver Cromwell and Guy Fawkes before the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89 settled the score, and established due to the influence of John Locke what today is the world's oldest democracy as the House of Orange under William and Mary ascended to the monarchy as ceremonial figures and heads of state, but virtually neutered of power as Parliament became to the sovereign body politic. And as the bloodshed along the isles of Britannia waned and more interest mounted with religious settlements in Philadelphia with William Penn's Quakers, Maryland and its Catholic ex-patriots under Lord Baltimore, or known by official title, George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore. Even in New England, some puritans were in dissent of the community's practices in their faith; Roger Williams, who settled Rhode Island and Anne Hutchinson in Connecticut, the theme was the same in principle: the right to choice, to the free exercise of one's faith and enjoying privacy of home life.
I now am directing your attention to what differs between the settlement of British North America and the devastation, destroy, and genocidal acts wrought upon the world by Islamic mujaheddins. Having read a fair deal of world history during my lifetime, there were nine crusades of which we know for certain which were fought between European Christians and those in Islamic hordes, killing tens of millions of innocent people for nothing more than being guilty of apostasy in order to wipe out all infidels in order to manifest the rise of a caliphate. Each crusade was set in the vicinity of the Holy Land, and among the major proposes for waging war were the searches for the Holy Grail and to reclaim the Holy Land. In light of the 21st Century exodus to the Holy Land by Europe's Ashkenazim Jews - some of the most brilliant men and women in world history among this very distinguished portion of the 12 tribes which engaged in the Diaspora. Today, Christians are growing alarmingly thin in numbers due to genocide and expulsions from their native homelands according to the State Department as Sec. of State John Kerry continues to serve as President Obama's messenger of death to Israel and all Christians and Jews in the region. Crisis is the two-headed serpent which breeds the discontent behind desperation, and as most people look to Fascist political parties on the rise to take power to change their standards of living, they essentially sell their souls in forfeiting essential liberty for security. This was a tactic Adolf Hitler used during the same conditions which had plagued Weimar Germany since the harsh arbitration for peace had been dictated within the War Guilt Clause of the Treaty of Versailles by French President Georges Clemenceau and to a far lesser degree, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. When a state's civilian population are robbed of their already bare pantries and wallets, Evil is just around the corner lurking, preparing to hand out an offer they will not be able to refuse. And so in closing, I will provide for you a full play list courtesy of Jewish News One, the world's first all-Jewish network.
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