Stockholm is reeling as two schools, a police station and dozens of cars were set ablaze in the fifth night of riots.Twelve people were arrested as rioters and police clashed with stone throwing youths in poor, largely immigrant districts of the Swedish capital.Blogger and social commentator, Mishra Mrutyuanjai, believes Sweden has full right to apply restrictive immigration policies when there aren’t many jobs to offer to the people who come to the country. RT: You are a member of the Swedish Democrats known for their have an anti-immigration stance. Youth unemployment in the suburb at the center of these riots is close to 30 per cent – is that to blame?Mishra Mrutyuanjai: Let me start by saying that I’m a member of the Swedish Democratic Party, which stands for fair immigration policy. It’s not an anti-immigration political party. Secondly, I think what has really caused these riots is, you know, a lack of open debate. And, you know, many rioters including myself have warned for long time that this kind of things do happen and now they’re happening. RT: Riots flared up in an immigrant suburb of Malmo five years ago, and violence is hitting Stockholm now. What can be done to stop it from happening again?MM: What really is required in Sweden is to shed this guard of political correctness. We’ve had this is Sweden… one of my good Swedish friends has said to me: in Denmark, you have an open debate; in Norway, you have a half-open debate; and in Sweden you have, actually, a closed debate. What we, actually, should start doing in Sweden is to start debating about things among other issues like what we recently now see happening in Stockholm. RT: Are there similarities between these riots and others, like the London riots of 2011, or those in the suburbs of Paris that flare from time to time?MM: Well, there are similarities and there are also arguments for that it’s quite unique because one must understand that Sweden is a very generous welfare state. It, actually, had given more to its immigrants than is the case in France or London. But the thing is that it’s a never-ending story like, I mean, the demands keep on increasing. Probably it’s high time that Sweden starts making demands on its immigrants and say: well, you have to learn the language; well, you have something more to do to get employment etc. and etc. RT: Do you think that the measures are you talking about will be able to improve the situation and how soon it can happen?MM: Well, this very generous and open immigration policy has resulted in a kind of ghettoized suburbs. And you see these problems emerging from these suburbs. So, first and foremost, there’s a need of a very realistic immigration policy which means that when there aren’t so many jobs that there’s a need of some restrictive and selective immigration policy. And this is in the interests of immigrants. Mind you, these aren’t just Swedish people saying this. I’ve written this in my blog that immigrants want that they should be getting jobs before they keep on inviting more and more people to Sweden. … Read More
‘They don’t want to integrate’: Fourth night of youth rioting rocks Stockholm
On the fourth night of violence, youths torched over 30 cars along with a restaurant in Skogas, south of Stockholm. Three law enforcement officers were injured, police spokesperson Kjell Lindgren reported.Stockholm firefighters were busy throughout the night, saying they had “never before seen so many fires raging at the same time.” Still, the fourth night of violence was relatively quiet compared to the previous three, RT’s Peter Oliver reported from Stockholm.Leaders of immigrant communities were out on the streets in a bid to stop young people from rioting. Despite their efforts, as soon as the night fell, groups of arsonists took to the streets to set cars on fire. RT’s Peter Oliver witnessed rioters throwing stones at police and journalists alike.Civil disorder in Stockholm started on Sunday, when police shot and killed a 69-old-man in his apartment after he confronted officers with a machete; the unrest has since continued throughout week.Community leaders insist that a main reason for the violence is the high rate of unemployment in immigrant communities, particularly in the suburb of Husby near central Stockholm, one of the worst affected by the nighttime violence, Peter Oliver reported.Although Sweden’s unemployment rate is below the EU average, joblessness among those under 25 has reached nearly 25 percent. The RT crew in Stockholm noted that a majority of those taking part in the violence are young.Parents of the rampaging teenagers and community religious leaders are now spending sleepless nights on the street in an effort to prevent their children from wreaking havoc.For years, Sweden – one of Europe’s most tranquil countries, famous for its attractive immigration policies and generous welfare system – has been accepting an influx of immigrants. These migrants have failed to integrate into Swedish society, and are only in the country to enjoy the country’s social benefits system, Swedish journalist Ingrid Carlqvist told RT.“The problem is not from the Swedish government or from the Swedish people,” the editor in chief of Dispatch International said. “The last 20 years or so, we have seen so many immigrants coming to Sweden that really don’t like Sweden. They do not want to integrate, they do not want to live in [Swedish] society: Working, paying taxes and so on.”“The people come here now because they know that Sweden will give them money for nothing. They don’t have to work, they don’t have to pay taxes – they can just stay here and get a lot of money. That is really a problem,” Carlqvist added.“The police could do so much, [instead] they have told the public that they mean to do as little as possible. But they could go there and use water cannons, they could not let people out onto the streets at night. There are so many things they could do within the law – but they don’t do it,” she said.Young Muslims who enjoy tolerance, social institutions and welfare while living in Sweden nevertheless refuse to integrate into the West, Gerolf Annemans told RT. Annemans is the parliamentary leader of Vlaams Belang (‘Flemish Interest’), a Belgian far-right nationalist political party.“They [Muslim youths] have always sought excuse to show that they are not agreeing with the basic values of Western society,” Annemans said, pointing to the recent cases of the Boston Marathon bombing in the US and yesterday’s beheading of a British soldier in the UK. “It’s always the same problem. There is a massive refusal by Muslim youngsters of the basics of Western society… and they take any excuse whatsoever to show that with violence – that is where the problem is,” he said. … Read More
‘Was the machete supplied by William Hague?’
Arming the opposition who kill civilians on the ground in Syria and pursuing an inadequate domestic immigration policy, Rattansi argues will lead to “new MI 5 operations to infiltrate Muslim communities and create more antagonism and inspire more events” similar in grotesque to Woolwich murder.“Foreign Secretary William Hague is completely out of his depth when it comes to Syria. The idea that he is backing the kind of people that hacked the soldier to death,” Rattansi told RT.RT: The man with blood on his hands in the video says ‘the women in our country have to see this every day’. What do you think he meant?Afshin Rattansi: If indeed that is a complete video. It is very interesting that the corporate broadcasters were afraid of broadcasting it, Whitehall sources already spreading the information as far as I understand, the British Broadcasting cooperation not to broadcast that video. I have the full statement actually from that video, so it is not just about warning women not to see it. So for instance, ‘Do you think David Cameron is going to get caught in the street? Do you think it is your politicians that are going to die? No, it is going to be the average guy and your children, so get rid of them. Tell them to bring our troops back so we can all live in peace.’ What a grotesque thing for this man, if indeed it is this suspect responsible for this killing. What a grotesque thing to say because, it is William Hague and David Cameron that are supporting these type of attack theory, people who hack people to death in Syria. So what a confusion, if these two suspects are indeed the men who hacked this British soldier, if he is a British soldier, to death. How confused are these people?RT: To what extent has Britain been prepared for an attack like this to occur? (There have been threats against British soldiers in the UK before.)AR: The problem we have here is that we have a country; the problem as far as the government is concerned is that the entire country does not support the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq. It is not being consulted about the tax payer backing the sort of people hacking people to death in Syria. There is no way that the law enforcement officials can protect the country from some an event like this from happening.The way it can do is to forge community relations to not have foreign policy bent on murder and so forth, which has been talked about time and time again. We got to see that in communities like Woolwich, a very poor, although again, this has nothing to do with this action and what is always problematic about outlier incidents as the one in London is that some kind of policy will be made and the absurdity of Cobra, this meeting that the Prime Minister has to coordinate some kind of national terrorism strategy on the basis of this very, very rare event that we have seen on the Streets of Woolwich is in itself very absurd. The real questions were asked around the time of the beginning of the Iraq war.RT: The dead man was reportedly wearing a shirt branded ‘Help for Heroes’ which is a military charity. Does this mean military personnel will be forced to take greater security measures in their own country?AR: Britain is one of the few countries in the world whose soldiers cannot walk freely on the streets of Britain. Many people from abroad when they visit Britain are surprised that British soldiers when they leave their barracks have to change to civvies to walk around. That is the legacy of anti-militarism that is widespread in the society. Although in recent years you began to see soldiers walking around in uniform, but all this man was wearing ‘Help for Heroes’ t-shirt. This channel has been covering in detail the appalling nature of aftercare for ex-servicemen and women by the British government and it is up to private charities and begging bowls to help the aftercare of British soldiers that is what that t-shirt meant. I’m sure people who help the heroes will be planning marches of thousands of people wearing those t-shirts in days to come to show solidarity with those charities that help the servicemen and women.RT: Britain’s PM Cameron is cutting short his trip to Paris to hold an emergency security Cobra session. Is it that serious?AR: I think what is serious about it is that David Cameron and his opposite number Ed Miliband have deliberately tried to put the immigration debate up on political and editorial ladder. They’ve received opposition from UKIP and other parties; even without UKIP, they are looking for a middle swing vote in 2015 election and both Ed Miliband and David Cameron have deliberately been targeting immigration, consequences of which is to make immigrant minorities and the children of immigrants and the grandchildren of immigrants more uneasy.It is simple addition sum. You create austerity, you create austerity Britain, then you create hatred between working class communities of all faiths, all creeds, all colors and you have that type of recipe. And what Cameron and Miliband are trying to do is to get those swing votes of those who want the far right in power. And I’m not going to give publicity to the far right but apparently they had plans for Woolwich, they were tweeting about it within hours after hacking to death of this British soldier.RT: As for Britain’s involvement in supporting Syria’s rebels, as well as military support in the Libyan revolution and campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. Will there be any consideration about how dangerous Britain is being made because of this military action?AR: I think it is clear to most analysts, even those on the conservative benches who fought in wars that the Foreign Secretary William Hague is completely out of his depth when it comes to Syria. The idea that he is backing the kind of people that hack the soldier to death, just being able to say that sentence seems plainly absurd. But it is true that David Cameron and Hague are at the forefront, along with Francois Hollande in Paris, trying to support the rebels that are hacking to death Christians, Muslims, people of no faith at all in Syria. Perhaps it is time for Barack Obama to give them some advice, because certainly the conservative government and the Labor opposition in this country seem to understand in no way how their foreign policy affects things here and affects British interests.RT: Last week, shocking footage emerged of a Syrian rebel reportedly eating the flesh of a murdered army soldier. What are your thoughts about whether such brutal, random, attacks will increase?AR: If those reports that you have put on your channel were as widely broadcast on corporate media channels here and terrestrial channels here in Britain, perhaps the people would have seen how alike the events in Woolwich were to the hacking we saw in the streets, I think it was Homs, but of course this kind of attack has been occurring all over Syria. Except the British government has been supporting people with the machetes. I have to say when I first heard about it and that it was a machete and it was involving knives, and then there was of course the inevitable – they were Islamists, or some connection to Islam, one had to think - was the machete supplied by William Hague? One good thing that I should add is that it leads the identity driven corporate media, terrestrial media are attempting to reinforce in the minds of the British people that 2 billion Muslims, that you can’t judge them by actions of these two people.RT: Do you think the UK government be looking at revising their foreign policy?AR: In no way will they change their foreign policy. They will react completely wrongly just as they did after 07/07, invent new MI 5 operations to infiltrate Muslim communities and create more antagonism and inspire more events, if the past is anything to go by, more tragic terrible violent events like the ones we saw today in Woolwich. … Read More
Senate Panel Approves Even More Stringent Biometric Measures
The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system. … Read More
Tech Industry Pushes to Amend Immigration Bill
Executives from Silicon Valley say the Senate immigration bill imposes too much regulatory control over a company’s hiring of temporary foreign workers or laying off American workers. … Read More
‘Central banks looking at Bitcoin as real threat to dominance’
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed that there was an “ongoing investigation” that followed the blocking of the account of Dwolla, a business that allows users to convert U.S dollars into BitCoin and back again.According to the Department of Homeland Security in the US, the peer-to-peer currency violates new laws that require online transfer systems to identify its users.“The shutdown of Mt.Gox is a little bit worrying, it looks as if the US government wants to put a stranglehold on the kind of business that’s popping up around Bitcoin, but, crucially, it doesn’t affect much the currency itself. It’s just the exchanges around it and the US exchanges. And by the nature of it, Bitcoin being an international currency, shutting down an exchange like Mt. Gox, even if it affects the liquidity of Bitcoin, can’t kill Bitcoin.”What’s more, the idea of rivalry between Bitcoin and regular currency is a relatively new phenomenon, as Mahdawi indicated.“Central banks around the world are looking at the development of Bitcoin with a lot of fear, and not just central banks, but the traditional banking as a whole. If you think about it, Bitcoin has been around since 2008, it’s been around for ages. The regulators didn’t pay any attention to it whatsoever, they dismissed it as sort of monopoly money.”According to Mahdawi, just in the past few months, Bitcoin has really gained legitimacy, we saw the huge spike in terms of its value, we’re seeing investors pour money into Bitcoin. “A couple of weeks ago, Union Square Ventures, a very credible investment group, spent $5 million investing in Coinbase, which is sort of a PayPal for Bitcoin. A lot of infrastructures are building around Bitcoin, and that’s why the [Federal Reserve] is looking at it as a real threat to its dominance,” she said.The virtual currency leads to people re-assessing the value and the meaning of money, Mahdawi stressed.“The interesting thing about Bitcoin is that it’s made everybody start to talk about what money is, and why money has any value. If you think about it, since 1971, when the US came off the gold standard, the dollar hasn’t been linked to gold, it hasn’t been linked to anything. You have a piece of paper which says ‘In God we trust’ on it, but it isn’t the government we trust. That piece of paper is absolutely meaningless. You’re putting your trust into banks and central authorities. Bitcoin is a whole new idea of money when the money is basically regulated by network and by people.Mahdawi believes that with people losing trust in governments, the idea of something like Bitcoin is really gaining in popularity, and people are beginning to realize that dollars are no more real as a currency than something like Bitcoin and they are starting to re-assess what the future of money is. “Bitcoin isn’t going to wipe the dollar off the face of the Earth in the next few years, but I think we’re going to see the emergence of the alternative currencies in a world where traders buy through the internet, in a borderless world with the internet, so the idea of sovereign currency is starting to make less and less sense,” she said.Mahdawi suggests that Bitcoin could represent a new path in the history of currencies.“We’ve been in the recession now for several year, the eurozone crisis…People are starting to realize that the government isn’t the best people to put their money to, the government isn’t necessarily going to protect their money for them. So something like Bitcoin represents a call for alternative, [an idea] that you might be better off putting your money in technology rather than in the government. We’re seeing lots of governments beginning to scratch their heads and think about ways they could regulate Bitcoin, think about what things like Bitcoin means to them. Last October, the European Central Bank produced a paper on virtual currencies, and that was the first time that a public institution had produced any kind of meaningful document that looked at virtual currencies.”The journalist notes that if you look at the bibliography of that document “you will find that the European Central Bank is looking at Wikipedia articles, at Mashable articles trying to find out what on Earth the virtual currency means for them.”"This week, in the UK, a lot of government officials and people involved in financial regulation got together to start thinking about what Bitcoin means for them. All over the world, the governments are starting to take note and kind of wonder what the future of money means, and how that’s going to affect their dominance,” Mahdawi added. … Read More
Money to be Made on Immigration Reform? Gerald Celente Blasts The Temple of Money Lenders [PR E12]
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