Archive for September 11th, 2015

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11/09/2015

How Will Germany House All Its Refugees?

Human Wrongs Watch

By Yermi Brenner*
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BERLIN, 7 September 2015 (IRIN)*  – As 18,000 asylum seekers arrived in Munich over the weekend, local authorities scrambled to find them all beds. Sites for trade fairs, an abandoned car showroom, even railway carriages, have all been turned into emergency accommodation. But as trainloads of newcomers keep arriving, the options are dwindling and the shortage of refugee housing has reached crisis levels.
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**Photo: Gordon Welters/UNHCR | Thousands of refugees, mostly Syrians, arrived at Munich’s central train station this weekend. They all need to be found accommodation.

Germany registered 218,221 asylum applications in the first seven months of this year, already surpassing its total number of applications for 2014. It is expected to receive as many as 800,000 asylum applications by the end of 2015, according to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees.

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11/09/2015

Make Bombs, Not Refugees

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By Pepe Escobar*
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9 September 2015 (RT) – The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming! Well, the Russians are always coming. The Russians never stopped coming since those heady Cold War days. The Russians are “invading” Ukraine. Every day. For over a year now. Now the Russians are “invading” Syria.
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**Two destroyed tanks in front of a mosque in Azaz, Syria. From March 6 to July 23, a battle between the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the Syrian government was fought for control over the city of Azaz, north of Aleppo, during the Syrian civil war. | Author: Christiaan Triebert | Source: Flickr: Azaz, Syria | Wikimedia Commons

**Two destroyed tanks in front of a mosque in Azaz, Syria. | Author: Christiaan Triebert | Source: Flickr: Azaz, Syria | Wikimedia Commons

That’s just a prelude. Soon the Russians will be invading the whole Middle East, the whole of Eastern and Western Europe, the whole Arctic. And then, one day, surreptitiously, they will be back in Cuba, ready to invade Florida and then the whole homeland.

History now repeats itself under the eternal recurrence of farce. About the best illustration of the propaganda modus operandi underlying the current exceptionalist hysteria over Russia’s alleged “military incursion” in Syria was penned way back in 2011 on Counterpunch by the late, great Alex Cockburn. Enjoy:

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11/09/2015

European Powers Prepare to Sink Refugee Vessels in Mediterranean

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By Alex Lantier*

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11 September 2015 (WSWS) – As hundreds of thousands of refugees flee to Europe to escape wars in the Middle East and Africa, the European powers are drawing up plans to block the flow of refugees into Europe by sinking their vessels in the Mediterranean.

Asylum-seekers and economic migrants take to the seas, waiting out the dangerous journey in the boat’s cramped cargo space. Photo: UNHCR/A. D’Amato

Asylum-seekers and economic migrants take to the seas, waiting out the dangerous journey in the boat’s cramped cargo space. Photo: UNHCR/A. D’Amato

A group of European countries led by Britain is circulating a draft resolution at the UN Security Council that would allow European warships to board and destroy vessels carrying refugees from Libya. Those aboard the refugee ships would then be detained and taken to Italy.

Those suspected of being the vessel’s crew would face prosecution, while refugees would be processed by Italian authorities and face expulsion.

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11/09/2015

‘Extremely Alarming’ Food Insecurity Figures in (Liberated) Afghanistan

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The number of people in Afghanistan resorting to selling land or turning to friends or family for help because of food insecurity has doubled in the last year, according to a joint report released on 10 September 2015 by the United Nations and partner agencies.

An Afghan farmer and his son bring in the wheat from their harvest. Photo: FAO/Giuilio Napolitano

The 2015 Seasonal Food Security Assessment in Afghanistan (SFSA), published by the country’s Food Security and Agriculture Cluster (FSAC), found that at the peak of the lean season the number of Afghans facing severe food insecurity increased from 4.7 per cent of the population 12 months ago to 5.9 per cent today.

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11/09/2015

A Plan to Get 1 Million Syrian Children in School in 21 Days

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With more than 4 million children having left Syria – half of them for Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey – in a “crisis of biblical proportions,” the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education on 10 September 2015 said $250 million could get 1 million refugee children in school by the time the UN General Assembly meets later this month.

Girls in Damascus, Syria, shown in their classroom with school bags and stationery supplies they received from UNICEF and partners. Photo: UNICEF/Tomoya Sonoda

“While the recent focus has rightly been on refugees entering Europe, there are 4 million refugees – 2 million of them children – who are holed up in Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon, many living on the streets in a crisis which is now of biblical proportions,” Gordon Brown told reporters at UN Headquarters via telephone.

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11/09/2015

Elites Want More Refugees: Why?

By Robert J. Burrowes*
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9 September 2015
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There is much being written about the refugee crisis in Europe at the moment but none of what I have read explains why the problem is occurring and what will need to be done for the problem to be addressed.
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**Syrian Civil War refugees in neighboring countries (as of 4 September 2015) | Author: Furfur | Wikimedia Commons

**Syrian Civil War refugees in neighboring countries (as of 4 September 2015) | Author: Furfur | Wikimedia Commons

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Refugees are just one symptom of a deeper crisis.
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Moreover, like other symptoms of this deeper crisis, the global elite is happy to use this symptom to keep us utterly preoccupied; after all, the immediacy of the refugee problem is all too demanding of our attention and our compassion.

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