Environmentalists Hype The Summer Heat, Ignore The Winter Chill And Call It Science

You might think the world is burning and we're all doomed if you beleived the latest hysterical ravings of climate scientists, but while wildfires rage in Greece, here in the north of England it's so cold I've had to put my heating on as we endure the coldest July on record.

Wildfires rage on the Greek Island of Rhodes - Picture: skynews.com

 According to Daniel Turner, founder and executive director of the nonprofit climate change scepticism advocacy group Power the Future, who insists that environmental activists are hyping up heat events such as the hot weather parts of the  United States and southern Europe seeing right now. While mainstream media reporters are whipping themselves into a frenzy over the summer's heat, the kind of temperatures being recorded should not be causing surprise and dismay since since the affected areas are part of the Northern Hemisphere, where the months of July and August “should be hot,” according to Mr. Turner. He accused environmentalist scaremongering groups of hyping up heat while ignoring the  recent intense winters experienced in the same areas of the world.

“It’s very strange, though, that the environmental left loves to talk about the summer, they love to talk about the heat. Because it’s sexy, the heat is oppressive, it’s very uncomfortable. But the cold is actually much more deadly,” he said.

“On average, four times more people die of the cold. And yet when we have terrible winters, we don’t blame that on climate change. We just call that winter because it doesn’t fit the narrative that the planet is getting warmer. So they just ignore the winter."

This is something my fellow 'conspiracy theorist' Graham Lear and I have noticed over perhaps as much as fifteen years now.  While year after year environmentalist groups and government departments claim a new record has been set for the hottest year ever, either the data is being manipulated or these wonderful sciencetits (sic) with their marvellous mathematical models are deficient in basic numeracy skills because they do not understand how to calculate a simple average.

Turner's stance is refreshing but he faces a tough battle to be heard above the screeching of the numerous climate change alarmist groups such as the one which responded to his criticism of alarmism with predictions of imminent desolation and catastrophe as a result of our climate crimes;

https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-heat-in-north-america-europe-and-china-in-july-2023-made-much-more-likely-by-climate-change/

This article makes the statement;

• ”Unless the world rapidly stops burning fossil fuels, these events will become even more common and the world will experience heatwaves that are even hotter and longer-lasting. A heatwave like the recent ones would occur every 2-5 years in a world that is 2°C warmer than the preindustrial climate.”

When I was working in the nuclear industry in the 1980s the engineers and designers would refer to the academic experts who advised government policy makers as "often in error, never in doubt". It seems the climate ‘experts’ are cast from the same material, they have no doubt whatsoever that whatever is happening to the climate (if anything) it is all the fault of humanity. 

The more they repeat this mantra with the certainty of zealots, the more it seems like the credo of some weird doomsday cult, there are echoes of the notion of original sin and that we are all sinners and debase ourselves before the righteous and sacrifice all the benefits of civilisation in order to be saved.

 In this respect it echoes the Abrahamic religions in the way it uses guilt to keep they leity in line and preserve the power of the elite priesthood. Judaism, Christianity and Islam all rely on keeping people in fear of divine retribution but having been brought up in what can be loosely described as the Christian tradition I can only comment on the scam that has held Christian churches together for almost 2000 years. When people say to me now, "Jesus died on the cross for your sins," I will answer, "That's tough but I didn't ask him to."

I refuse to feel guilt about a myth. We are all responsible for our own actions and have a duty to inform ourselves of the likely consequences of what we do and then to behave as decently as we can in the circumstances. But just as I reject allegations that I bear some responsibility for the death of a charcter believed to have lived 2000 years ago, I am no more going to accept responsibility for extreme weather events when those who accuse me are flying around the world in private jets to lecture us more humble folk on the sacrifices we must make in order to 'save the planet.'

It seems to me that if we do as the doom mongers suggest and immediately and suddenly stop burning fossil fuels, the misery and suffering created will be immense and will hit the poorest in society and the people of the poorest nations hardest.

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Brutal Scenes From Greek Anti-Austerity Protests

August 20, 2018

After eight years of austerity, four governments, three bailout programs, a country full of misery, a capital full of protesters, and a whole galaxy of Molotov cocktails, firecrackers, riots, and clashes with police, Greece does not seem to have moved forward at all. As Greece prepares to exit its third bailout program since 2010, The Daily Stirrer takes a look at the latest outbreak of Greek street protests, the result of almost nine crisis-filled years.

In one particularly violent episode, a mass brawl broke out outside the Ministry of Administrative Reform in Athens, this clip shows demonstrators being rather brutally pushed back by riot police.

Mass rallies in Athens always seem to descend into violence, like the one featured below, as Greece's parliament voted on further erosions of Greek sovereignty to unlock the EU bailout money, with protesters chanting against Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and throwing incendiary flares at police wearing anti-riot gear.

Since the Greek crisis started in late 2009, the country has racked up a massive debt and pursued strict austerity policies to unlock international emergency loans. In 2015, Greece's creditors — the Eurozone and the IMF — launched a third stability support program in eight years. The bailout, which made up some 86 billion euros, was provided in exchange for austerity measures that included pension cuts and tax increases. It is scheduled to expire on August 20, 2018, but Greece's road to recovery is not over yet, and will not be over until the nation is released from the suffocating constraints of The Euro (€) the European Union single currency.

BREXIT vs. GREXIT – The Truth About The European Union And How It Treats Members

Brexit: But will they let us leave (Image source: lepeuple.be/>

With every day that passes, in the news of the Brexit campaign and the news flowing from the rest of Europe, the true face of Europe is revealed more clearly and we see the nature of the beast, the authoritarian, inhumane, centralised power structure that was the hub of the Roman Empire, Byzantium, The Holy Roman Empire, The Ottoman Empire, the Portuguese, Spanish, British, Dutch and French Empires that raped and plundered Europe, Asia, Africa and South America for centuries. Every day the neo-colonial, totalitarian authority in Brussels hands down new laws. And unlike the Anglo Saxon legal codices, the Liber Judicialis and the Magna Carta which guided lawmakers in the modern world, and in which people were permitted to do anything not specifically prohibited in law, under the repressive tyranny of the European Union Bureaucratic Dictatorship, it is unlawful to do anything not specifically permitted by law.

The European new colonialists, mostly German and French with selected placemen and women from the other twenty six nations for the sake of appearances, who direct the self-declared European empire pull the strings via such semi-secret organizations like the Bilderberg Group, CFR (Council on Foreign Relations), Chatham House, WEF (World Economic Forum), ECB (European Central Bank) and so on. The true controllers are the faceless people, the figureheads, nonentities like Bush, Obama, Clinton, Merkel, Hollande, Cameron et al are mere vassals, lackey who must do the bidding of their masters.

The only thing that will halt the European Union in its tracks, stop the push beyond Europe's geographical borders and prevent EU expansion to incorporate Asian, middle eastern and north African nations is war. Unless the testicularly deficient politicians of EU member states regrow their balls and stand up to the bean counters of Brussels. That's what they are, bean counters, pen pushers, desk jockeys, compromisers, deal makers; not one among them is a risk taker or a person who has advanced because of their willingness to put their arse on the line. But while we know that the worst tyranny is the tyranny of the weak, we should not forget that while their timidity compels them to hide behind from organisations, their arrogance one they have a little power always leads them to abuse it. And in world politics arrogance prompted by a belief that failure is impossible, has one inevitable result.

The twin monsters of the developed world, The EU and The USA appear to be preparing for war, by provoking Russia and China, encircling Russia with NATO planes, missiles and tanks, and encroaching on Chinese territories with war ships in the South China Sea, and with slanderous propaganda against any sovereign nation that refuses to bend to the US / EU / NATO global hegemony. As things stand today there looks to be only one thing that can prevent the rush to war. BREXIT. Should Britain, in its referendum, vote to leave the EU, it is not exactly a deal breaker, but the fall out will buy time for wiser, more reasoned voices to be heard.

The campaign to keep Britain in the European Union has been dubbed Project Fear, all the arguments have been based on predictions of economic catastrophe should we leave and downright lies about supposed benefits that have come from EU membership. The most risible of the latter is the claim that all British workers rights come courtesy of Brussels. In fact the first British employment rights law, which protected workers from unfair treatment should they leave a job without the employers permission, was passed in 1823 when most of our current EU partners did not even exist as nation states but were part of empires in which social conditions had changed little since the days of feudal lords.

It must be entertaining for pundits in India, China, Russia and around the world to observe the state of decay that now prevails in Europe and the spectacle of Brexit: British voters in the limelight for exit or no exit from the European Union. With all the fake statistics and unsupported projections of the future catastrophe, (apparently 600 economics academics are sure the British economy will collapse - the same 600 economics academics as failed to predict the 2008 crash, told us Quantitative Easing would restore universal prosperity and failed to predict the bursting of the dotcom bubble in 1999 ,) nobody really knows what they are talking about.

The people of a nation that straddles its old empire and the new bureaucratic empire, are daring to take steps to sever the umbilical cord that links Britain to Brussels, having woken up to the fact that the EU feeds off member states, not vice versa. But will the monster let Britain take that step, the goal since the end of World War Two has been global governance, a totalitarian meritocracy, its members chosen from the ranks of the elite.


Is the Brexit vote a show, a demonstration that the controllers are in charge and know how to bring unruly puppies to heel. Is it a demonstration of power to remind other EU awkward squad members who is in charge. There is already ample evidence that the EU and its fans in Westminster have manipulated news coverage to undermine the credibility of LEAVE campaigners, the fortuitously timed assassination of a popular pro EU politician, scandals, smears, and biased media coverage. And if in spite of all that the LEAVE campaign does win past experience tells us the European Commission will simply refuse to accept the result, just as they did with previous referenda in Ireland, France and The Netherlands.

Unfortunately most voters have short memories and have forgotten what the authoritarian, fascistic European Union commissioners did to Greece within the past few years. All EU member states are theoretically equal, but Greece is not on a par with the Great Britain either economically, politically or militarily. Having been dragged into the EU's Single Currency System (the Euro), Greece found its weak, agriculture and tourism based economy tied to the German manufacturing powerhouse. And unable to set its own interest rates or revalue its currency, Greece sank. The EU should have cancelled Greece's debts and cut it loose. Instead the tyrannical pen pushers and bean counters crushed the Greeks, and by deposing a democratic government and putting in place EU bureaucrats to administer vicious austerity policies, the controllers humiliated this proud little nation. Why? Because they could.

There is no way to politely describe this ongoing, legalized crime against Greece and its people, already a humanitarian crisis has been engineered. People have starved to death in an EU nation because of policies imposed by the EUnd savings, professional women have prostituted themselves for a few Euros in order to feed their families, pensioners who prudently saved for retirement are reduced to begging as the EU allows banks to plunder pension funds and savings. These punitive actions against Greece (and potentially against any other disobedient member state) have served no purpose other than to assert the power of the EU bureaucracy. Can Britain stand up to the bean counting bullies. With its powerful finance industry it ought to be able to, British banks can paralyze the global economy. But would British political leaders, the pussy whipped old Etonian sissy Cameron, the bumbling buffoon Johnson, or the superannuated student radical Corbyn be able to summon the testicular fortitude to make a stand, or the credibility to deliver a Churchillian address on the lines of "We shall fight them on the beaches."

The people of Britain, the rest of Europe and the USA are blinded by a gigantic propaganda machine funded by limitless millions of Euros, dollars, pounds of fiat currency created by the hardly regulated, too-big-to-fail banking monster.

The top-notch politicians of France, Belgium, Spain and Portugal are no better. Against public will, they follow the orders of Washington and Brussels to the letter, enslaving and impoverishing tens of thousands of people by imposing austerity, producing poverty, disease and death. Spain, according to official statistics, is recording 11 suicides per day, of which at least half are directly related to the economic crisis, unemployment, desperation. Cancer rates have drastically increased since 2008.

Kicking Greece into oblivion is unimportant to the EU. But a possible Brexit – the Great British Empire leaving the corrupt EU, or Italy or Spain – that would be a calamity. The EU will not let it happen without a struggle. Few people however, seem to recognize the insult to Greece constituted by threats of expulsion from the Euro and the EU by Germany’s New Unhappy Lords as the bluff they are. Greece was not allowed to leave the Eurozone because there are still public assets to be stolen, treasures to be plundered and idyllic islands where rich businessmen and professionals can build holiday homes on sites once filled by fisherman's cottages. The Greek territory and strategic position is needed by NATO, the vassal - EU’s military command center for the protection of the US dominated global corporate empire.

Brexit vs. Grexit; the elite vs. the un-people. Can we win? Probably not this time, but the fight is only just starting.



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Wikileaks obtained information (we understand it was minutes of an on the record discussion  that took place on March 19, 2016, between two top IMF officials — Poul Thomsen, the head of the IMF's European department, and Delia Velculescu, the IMF mission chief for Greece.

The IMF executives believe that the likely Greek default on its third bailout will coincide with Britain's possible Brexit and it would be hard for the EU to deal with two major events at the same time.

"This is going to be a disaster," Velkouleskou said during the meeting.

According to the leaked information, the IMF wants to tell Germany that it will leave the Troika, composed of the IMF, European Commission and the European Central Bank, if the IMF and the Commission cannot reach agreement on the Greek bailout.

The IMF wants Greece to accept more austerity measures, such as raising taxes and cutting pensions. According to the leaked conversation, Greece needs to accept more of these draconian measures or the EU will face the threat of "an imminent financial catastrophe."

 However, the Brexit referendum in June "will paralyze European decision making at the critical moment," the IMF officials fear, according to WikiLeaks. We don't see why they are worried, Britain's EU referendum is a matter for Britain alone. Unless of course the EU, IMF and United Nazis Nations plan to overturn the vote and tell us we can't leave. These supranational bureaucracies are not fans of democracy.


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Migrants Riot And Use BATTERING RAM To Smash Through E U Border Checkpoint

 Migrants try to smash through border post between Greece and Macedonia (YouTube)

Migrants, mostly Muslims from the Middle East, who, as we reported yesterday, have massed at the border between Greece, their point of arrival on European soil, and Macedonia, a small E U  country through which they must pass to continue their journey to the welfare handout promised lands of northern Europe, have earlier today used a home-made battering ram in an attempt to force their way through a border control point between greece and Macedonia. They also threw rocks at police, who retaliated with tear gas.

The migrants destroyed a gate on the border but Macedonian military personnel were on hand and it is not clear if any rioters actually managed to get through the broken gate. Today’s events signal an escalation of the violence that has become the trade mark of these people, who are not needy refugees or political asylum seekers fleeing persecution but economic migrants . The disturbances, which began yesterday, when migrants held a demonstration, blocking railway lines whilst shouting “open the border”, which demonstrates the sense of entitlement instilled into these people by left wing propaganda that tells them they are needed and will be welcomed in Europe..

Macedonia began to close off its border with Greece in January of this year, as the number of migrants entering from Turkey continued to grow, far outstripping the million plus seen last year. According to Reuters, another 110,000 have arrived this year, mostly from Turkey via Greece.

Around 6,500 have built up on the Greek side since the Macedonian authorities said they would only allow Syrians and Iraqis through last week, blocking the passage of those from Afghanistan, North Africa and elsewhere.

Immigrants mass at the border between Greece and Macedonia (Image source)

Macedonia is just one of several Balkan countries to have erected fences in an attempt to reduce the influx of migrants. There has been a so-called domino effect, as countries including Germany, Sweden, Austria and Hungary have all partially or completely closed off their borders.

Alexis Tsipras, the Greek Prime Minister, has threatened to block EU legislation, including David Cameron’s “reform deal”, unless other member states accept more migrants.

“We will not accept turning the country into a permanent warehouse of souls with Europe continuing to function as if nothing is happening”, he said last week, adding: “Greece will not agree to deals (in the EU) if a mandatory allocation of burdens and responsibilities among member countries is not secured.”
Tsipras also withdrew the Greek ambassador from Vienna in protest at the lack of support being offered by other nations during the migrant crisis. Austria is now accepting only 80 migrants a day.

If EU leaders cannot agree that travellers arriving at the EU's external borders without passports or any travel documents must eith be turned away or housed in special camps, if EU 'human rights' rules prevent member states from rounding up illegal immigrants and deprting them, if Hausfrau - Voksfuhrer wo instigated the migrant crisis as part of a stratedy for German domination of Europe cannot be persuaded she is wrong and is destroying the EU, then the community of nations will disintegrate.

Britain should leave before that happens. Multiculturalism has failed. Globalism is just another term for Corporate Naziism.

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Migrants Mass At Greek Border Waiting To Cross Into Europe

Migrants trying to cross from greece into Macedonia so they can continue to the welfare handout promised land of northern Europe

And you though the prospect of Britain leaving was the biggest problem facing the European Union at the moment?

In spite of having run for over a year so far, the migrant crisis is still getting bigger. Here's news on the latest development.

An estimated 6,500 undocumented travellers (i.e. no passports, no ID, no visas etc.) were assembled at the Idomeni camp on Greece’s northern border with Macedonia on Saturday according to news feeds, after four Balkan countries announced a daily cap on migrant arrivals.

The log jam began after Macedonia began refusing entry to Afghans and imposed stricter document controls on Syrians and Iraqis, slowing the passage of migrants and refugees to a trickle.

The situation now looks set to worsen significantly after EU members Slovenia and Croatia,and Macedonia, as well as Serbia, a non EU nation which has allowed migrants free passage through its territory but no refugee of asylum seeker status, said they would limit the number of migrants entering each day to 580.

The tighter controls have left thousands stranded in Greece, as the bloc’s worst migration crisis since World War II shows no sign of abating.

Macedonian authorities opened the Idomeni border crossing on Saturday afternoon and dozens of migrants were allowed to pass through, with local Greek police sources saying 300 were expected to cross the frontier by the end of the day.

More than 20,000 refugees and other migrants are currently on Greek soil, according to the office of migration minister Yiannis Mouzalas.

Friday’s announcement by four Balkan states came a week after Austria said it would only allow 80 people to claim asylum per day, and also pledged to limit the daily number of people passing through the country to 3,200. Hungary, another nation with a common border with Serbia, closed its borders several months ago.

The latest move has sparked a bitter spat between Athens and Vienna, with Greece fearful it would trigger a domino effect, leaving thousands stranded on its territory as migrants continue to land on its beaches from Turkey.

Austria accuses Greece of deliberately not policing its borders properly and allowing migrants to continue their journey towards northern Europe as a way of passing on the problem of dealing with the lawless, illiterate insurgents to other EU nations.

“Europe can’t be indifferent to those of our partners who don’t respect their obligations,” Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos said of the border restrictions on Saturday.

Last week, the EU told Austria that limiting asylum claims was “plainly incompatible” with European and international law.

If you think that is bad, there is an even bigger problem going to hit the EU in early summer as the Italian banking system goes belly up. You heard it here first ...

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USA, EU and Turkey are not going to like this Greece /Russia deal

It is common knowledge that Greece is on the way out of the EU. Though the bureaucrats of Brussels, increasingly paranoid about EU member states that challenge their authority will try to bully Greece into staying, the Greeks have a new best mate in Russia. It is logical therefore that as Turkey's increasingly unstable Prsident Erdogan continues to provoke Russia in any way he can, Members of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Greek administrative region of Evros are floating proposals of trade ties with Russia and could offer their port city Alexandroupolis as an alternative route for Russian cargo to bypass the Bsophorous and Dardinelles, the narro straits that are the only route to the Mediterranean Sea from Russia's posts on The Black Sea.

“We could work together in different areas, taking into account that the city is home to one of the largest ports that allows to bypass Bosphorus and the Dardanelles,” Evangelos Lambakis, the mayor of Alexandroupoli, told the press. Alexandroupoli is the capital city of the Evros regional unit.

Professor Valentin Katasonov believes that this initiative could grow into a larger partnership, since Turkey severely damaged relations with Russia not just by downing a Russian bomber over Syria but because of its illegal oil trade and arms trafficking with ISIS.

“We indeed need access to the Mediterranean Sea bypassing Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, [the narrow straits that separate mainland Turkey from the Turkish enclave in Europe in which Istanbul is situated.] There is another alternative – a channel through Iran. This project, first conceived approximately a century ago, is now also on the agenda,” Katasonov said.

Russia has always feared, should hostilities break out with Turkey, the Turks would simply scupper ships in the Bosphorus and Dardinelles, blocking Russia's main trade routes.

Although Greece’s offer could help Russia bolster the security of its shipments, not all risks will be eliminated.“Not all transit countries are friendly towards Russia. We need to take into account risks that our land transportation could face. Land shipping does not require massive investment, so this is a viable option,” he added.Should Evros proceed with this initiative, it will have to abide by this commitment due to the tough economic environment Greece is dealing with, Katasonov emphasized.

NATO and the West will not be happy with the move. However, there is no alternative for Greece. Last summer the Greek government inked three-year deals with the IMF and the European Union, but the situation will heat up in mid-2016 (as I told you in another post, a major banking crisis is expected in Italy before the end of June. The issues that were discussed in 2015, like Grexit, will resurface.


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NATO Warships in the seas Odysseus Sailed Spell Trouble For EU

by Ian R Thorpe

Sorry about the cryptic headline, it's just my classical education manifesting itself.

Not Odysseus' ship but a NATO gunboat patrolling the Aegean (Image source)

The animosity between Greece and Turkey is at least as ancient as the history of Turkey itself. Greece was one of the oldest civilizations while Turkey has only existed as a nation since the disintegration of Byzantium, the eastern part of the Roman Empire. And there are plenty of reasons, mostly dating back through the almost 1000 year era during which the Ottoman Turks ruled Greece and The Balkans.

Having a strong sense of history, as befits such an ancient nation and culture, the Greeks think they deserve more respect for the times they were in the front line when the Ottoman Turks set off to conquer the whole of Europe.

There is even in this era of globalism and harmonisation (LOL) considerable animosity between Greece and Turkey, most recently centered on Cyprus, where — in 1974 — Turkey occupied a third of the island in response to an Athens-backed coup aimed at annexing Cyprus to Greece.

In spite of the fuckwitted determination of Brussels ruling bureaucracy to fast track Turkey into the EU, the Turks still refuse to acknowledge the Republic of Cyprus (an EU member since 2004) as the sole authority on the island, and recognizes the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus since its establishment in 1983.

This has been a major sticking point in the question of admitting Turkey into the EU as a full member. Another is a dispute over territorial sea limits between the two nations. Erdogan's position on the Kurds — as well as the continuing crises in neighboring Syria and Iraq are exacerbating the situation. Nobody is talking about Turkey's links to ISIS of course or its illegal oil trade with the terrorist group trying to establish an Islamic Caliphate in Syria and Iraq.

In an apparent effort to reduce the flow of migrants making their way from Turkey to Greece across the Aegean Sea, and because of the mistrust between the nations on either side of that body of water, pressure has been put on NATO (of which both Greece and Turkey are members)by the EU to deploy ships to the Aegean Sea, which has now put it on a collision course with both Athens and Ankara.

The ongoing dispute over territorial sea limits between the two nations is another problem, particularly with Turkey's lunatic President Erdogan's apparent eagerness to provoke a shooting war with Russia and his attacks on the Kurds in his own country, Syria and Iraq. The continuing crises in neighboring Syria and Iraq are exacerbating the situation. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg admits the deployment of warships in The Agean puts it at the center of a diplomatically sensitive situation. He told a press conference:


"Our ships will be providing information to the coastguards and other national authorities of Greece and Turkey. This will help them carry out their duties even more effectively to deal with the illegal trafficking networks," Stoltenberg said in a statement.

"We are also establishing direct links with Frontex, the European Union's border agency. We will conduct our activities in the Aegean Sea. Our commanders will decide the area where they will be operating, in coordination with Greece and Turkey. NATO vessels can deploy in the territorial waters of Greece and Turkey.

"Greek and Turkish forces will not operate in each others territorial waters and airspace. NATO's task is not to turn back the boats. We will provide critical information. To enable the Greek and Turkish coastguards, as well as Frontex, to do their job even more effectively."

The NATO operation will not involve turning back migrant boats or picking up those trying to enter Europe illegally;

Turkish vessels will not cross into Greek sea areas and Greece will not operate in Turkish waters. This could actually make the migrant crisis worse, with Greece and Turkey unable to act effectively outside their own territorial waters both are stymied. Illegal migrants respect no boundaries.

With Greece loudly complaining about a lack of EU assistance in dealing with its growing migrant problem — and the closing off of its northern borders — with little ability to actually patrol the whole Aegean Sea on its own, the situation for Athens is impossible. Turkey has come under severe criticism for failing to impose border controls under a US$3.35 billion EU program and has seemed unwilling — so far — to strengthen its land or sea military assets, it too looks likely to be unable to stem the maritime migrant flow. Erdogan is more intent on using the situation to blackmail the EU into stumping up yet more money in return for (so far worthless) promises of cooperation from the Turkish government.


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Greece's route out of Europe

Financial web sites are reporting that the Greek government have caved in to EU bullying and accepted all the austerity demands in return for a few more months of economic chaos before the stricken country is finally forced out of the EU. These reports are not true.



Earlier this morning as Alexis Tipras was again urging voters to reject more austerity in the referendum to be held this coming weekend, finance minister Varoufakis said he would cut off his right arm before accepting a "Yes" vote. Doesn't sound much like a cave in to us.



As we have reported several times recently, while the Syriza bosses have been playing mind games with the Eurorats of Brussels they have also been spending a lot of time cosying up to Moscow. And nothing would suit the Russians better than to prise Greece out of the EU.



There is a very simple way for Greece and Russia to win here and tell Washington along with Brussels to go to hell. First Greece quits the Euro and starts issuing Drachmas. Then Russia announces that it will peg the Drachma to the Rouble and make them convertable. Greece agrees to credit any fees from the south stream pipeline targeted to terminate in Greece back to any Rouble debt they incur.



Its a safe bet that the other PIIGS countries, Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Spain countries would follow suit and both NATO and the EU will start to unwind.



Europe would be pushed into the Russian orbit and without the political cover of NATO the wars the USA is running in the middle east would have to end immediately. Check and mate for the fools in Washington who thought they could control the world. Greece and eventually Britain and Europe can at last be completely free of the Washington warmonger's malign influence for good.


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