Bias_2012 wrote on Jan 11^th, 2016 at 2:51pm:


At her core, she is still right leaning in terms of economic policies. 

If you refer the streak of loonie leftie due to her refugee policy, well, I do not look at this way.   First of all, there are only two ways that you can go about the Syrian Crisis.   
1. Close the border at EU frontier countries - create better safe havens for refugees (or attempt to).
2. Accept refugees and try to placate the issue. 

Solution one seems to work well on paper.  But in reality, as the European winter sets in, there will be tremendous amount of people either starving or freeze to death.    Plus refugee camps are breeding ground for terrorism - just see whats happening in Palestinian camps.

Solution two seems to be the better way.  HOWEVER, as past few months have shown, the ISIL will take advantage of this, and fan more resentment towards refugees, especially in countries where economy is not doing so well.  The attack on Paris, and the rather 'intentional' leaving of a fake Syrian passbook did exactly that.  That will cause a wave of anti refugee protests, and increasing support for far right parties in many European regions (as I have predicted).    In the end, if there are more violence, then the Merkel government will fall.   A far right government will attribute everything violent towards the muslims.  And the events that lead to WW2 will repeat itself once again.   

Read the day of broken glass, and appreciate how history are repeating itself. 

If everything goes to bad, I just wish that Australia can be smart and remain neutral in the wars and conflicts to come.

Maqqa wrote on Jan 11^th, 2016 at 10:12am:


and that's where western countries should have left them.

Although the rape took place in June, police kept silent about it for nearly three months, until local media published a story about the crime. According to an editorial comment in the newspaper Westfalen-Blatt, police are refusing to go public about crimes involving refugees and migrants because they do not want to give legitimacy to critics of mass migration.


◾A 13-year-old Muslim girl was raped by another asylum seeker at a refugee facility in Detmold, a city in west-central Germany. The girl and her mother reportedly fled their homeland to escape a culture of sexual violence.


◾Approximately 80% of the refugees/migrants at the shelter in Munich are male... the price for sex with female asylum seekers is ten euros. — Bavarian Broadcasting (Bayerischer Rundfunk).


◾Police in the Bavarian town of Mering, where a 16-year-old-girl was raped on September 11, have issued a warning to parents not to allow their children to go outside unaccompanied. In the Bavarian town of Pocking, administrators of the Wilhelm-Diess-Gymnasium have warned parents not to let their daughter's wear revealing clothing in order to avoid "misunderstandings."


◾"When Muslim teenage boys go to open air swimming pools, they are overwhelmed when they see girls in bikinis. These boys, who come from a culture where for women it is frowned upon to show naked skin, will follow girls and bother them without their realizing it. Naturally, this generates fear." — Bavarian politician, quoted in Die Welt.


◾A police raid on the Munich refugee facility found that guards hired to provide security at the site were trafficking drugs and weapons and were turning a blind eye to the prostitution.


◾Meanwhile, the raping of German women by asylum seekers is becoming commonplace.

THE German city of Cologne is reeling at revelations a series of hundreds of violent sexual assaults on New Year’s Eve on local women were co-ordinated.

Police in the city now say they have recorded more than 500 cases of New Year’s Eve violence.

The assaulted have shocked Germany and put a spotlight on the 1.1 million asylum seekers who arrived in the country last year.

Blame for the violent attacks has largely fallen on migrants, piling fresh pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel over her liberal stance on immigration.