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What's the Issue?
What's the Issue?
Date: 2015-09-18
Invasion, yes invasion, I call it an invasion because that is how I see it. When the western media seems totally slanted towards a pro-refugee perspective. Please don't get me wrong, I have my sympathies for the plight of these poor people who are fleeing the horror that has come from the United States supporting the rebel forces aimed at ousting the Assad regime. Make a small note here that they are fleeing the atrocities committed by the terrorist rebel forces and not fleeing the Assad regime.
So I see on the news channels like CNN, BBC, Sky and the like a very pro-refugee stance. Very little to almost no mention of the total lack of refugees going to Arab states. This open arm approach in the mainstream media has not gone unnoticed. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said recently "Europe's response is madness. We must acknowledge that the European Union's misguided immigration policy is responsible for this situation. Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe. If Europe does not return to the path of common sense, it will find itself laid low in a battle for its fate."
With the "Shengen" status now under serious risk of being revoked what had me gasping for a grip on sanity was one news service that purported a slant against Putin, saying that he was responsible for the massive migration of the refugees into Europe. I nearly fell off my chair laughing. Putin sounds like the only voice of reason out there, warning that IS terrorists are publicly broadcasting their intensions to take hold of Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem, and to spread to Europe, Russia, central and South Eastern Asia. Putin is calling for a united front in the fight against the scourge that is IS, an organisation started in part by the funding of the CIA.
I doubt the Western forces will join Putin in eradicating IS, they turned down the proposal to end the conflict peacefully in 2012 and it looks to me like things are going according to plan. And war, being the big business it is, might just be the objective behind the scenes. I pray not.
In Korea they are rattling their sabres with a thunder that should put the fear of God into us all. "If the US and other hostile forces persistently pursue their reckless hostile policy towards the DPRK, we are fully prepared to respond with nuclear weapons at any time," are reportedly the words from the mouth of North Korea's director of their Atomic Energy Institute.
Here at home Homo naledi opened up a can of worms with Zweliinzima Vavi tweeting his opinion for all to see and stirring up a flurry of responses. "No one will dig old monkey bones to back up a theory that I was once a baboon."