Bulgaria again and an example of a border fence success story (for Greece)!

10/26/2013 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

Update! What do you know, Bulgaria is building a fence, check it out here.

As I scoured my alerts this morning I see there are several about Bulgaria struggling to cope with the Syrian refugee flow coming across their border from Turkey. Previously I speculated that the flow out of Turkey toward Bulgaria instead of Greece was due to Greece’s strengthened border security. This article confirms that.

See all of our recent coverage of poor Bulgaria’s predicament, here.

From Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (emphasis mine):

About 100 people are arriving at Bulgaria’s border with Turkey daily, and the numbers are rapidly increasing. In the past, Bulgaria received, on average, 1,000 migrants and asylum seekers per year. This year, more than 6,500 have arrived, leaving officials scrambling to find housing and funds to accommodate them.

Arrivals have increased steadily since August, and at the current rate, the ministry of the interior estimates it will have received 11,000 to 15,000 by year’s end – the vast majority Syrian.

“We see that the government is overwhelmed, and that the reception capacity has been depleted,” said Cheshirkov.

Smugglers who used to lead migrants from Turkey into Greece are increasingly moving them to Bulgaria instead, in part due to the construction of a 10.5km fence at one of the most popular crossing points along the Turkish-Greek border.

Bulgaria, a country of just 7.5 million people, is one of the poorest in the European Union.

“We are just at the beginning of this crisis,” Vasil Marinov, deputy minister of the interior, told IRIN.

Of course no one ever says a word about how Turkey, which is financially and militarily in a better situation, should be stopping them on their side of the border!

It’s all about those damn Saudis!

10/22/2013 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

Obama in the famous butt shot bowing to King Abdullah (“yes massah”)!

Update: Here is more—good riddance to bad rubbish!

I saw this story in my small-city newspaper the other day and it frosted me—‘Saudi withdrawal stuns UN Security Council‘ about how the “Kingdom” turned down a seat at the UN Security Council (good!) because they are p*****-off at Washington for not starting more wars in the Middle East with Syria and with Iran. Who the hell do they think they are?

Are we starting costly wars to protect Saudi Arabia? And, in the wake of those wars, we get the Muslim refugees (the Saudis take none!) who come to America where Saudi Arabia builds them mosques and schools and we pay for their welfare. What do we get out of this deal?

From AFP at Yahoo News (emphasis mine):

UNITED NATIONS (United States) (AFP) – Saudi Arabia angrily rejected a UN Security Council seat Friday, accusing the UN body of “double standards” over the Syria war and other trouble spots in an unprecedented diplomatic broadside.

The Saudi snub sparked disarray at the Security Council. The oil-rich Gulf monarchy had only won the seat on Thursday at a UN General Assembly election.

World peace and security—blah! blah! blah!

But senior UN envoys said they did not expect the Saudi government to reverse the decision, which was announced in an outspoken foreign ministry statement.

“Work mechanisms and double-standards on the Security Council prevent it from carrying out its duties and assuming its responsibilities in keeping world peace,” the ministry said.

Saudi Arabia “has no other option but to turn down Security Council membership until it is reformed and given the means to accomplish its duties and assume its responsiblities in preserving the world’s peace and security.”

The government said “allowing the ruling regime in Syria to kill and burn its people” with chemical weapons is “irrefutable evidence and proof of the inability of the Security Council to carry out its duties and responsibilities.”

Diplomats and analysts said the Saudi gesture was mainly directed at the United States, which first threatened a military strike against Syria then backed down and which has started a dialogue with Riyadh’s arch-foe Iran.

By the way, we have been following the Syrian “refugee crisis” closely and have not seen one word about Saudi Arabia offering to take a single Syrian “refugee” in response to the UN’s call for countries “with the means” to step up and offer third-country resettlement. I have not seen the UN call them out on it either! Shouldn’t Samantha Power be lecturing them on the ‘responsibility to protect?’

Bulgarians protest Syrian ‘refugee’ invasion from Turkey at historic Shipka Pass

10/21/2013 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

This is so interesting, I wish I had time to really get into the history of Bulgaria and how it threw off Ottoman (Muslim) rule in the Russo-Turkish war for the liberation of Bulgaria in 1877-78.

Are the Turks once again moving in on their Christian neighbors and using Syrian refugees as the invading army?

I think so!

Here is the news story (yesterday) from Novinite (Sofia) that prompts my inquiry (emphasis and links added are mine):

About 200 people have blockaded Sunday the Shipka Pass in the Stara Planina Range in central Bulgaria in protest against opening a new refugee shelter in the town of Kazanlak.

The rally comes on the heels of news that the Bulgarian government plans to transform the unused building the police school into a refugee camp.

Last evening, an initiative committee was formed in the town with the participation of heads of large local enterprises, representatives of business, politicians from the municipality, NGOs and youth organizations to support the declaration of the local government, opposing the opening of the shelter.

The committee has decided to start a petition for a local referendum on the preservation of the school building as is and against making it a refugee camp. The second decision was to stage protest rallies and blockades of the Shipka Pass Sunday and Monday until the end of the emergency sitting of the central government.

Locals say they have nothing against the refugees and understand their plight, but stress the shelter will be detrimental to the beautiful nearby town park and will threaten national security as Arsenal Kazanlak, one of the largest military plants and weapons producers in Bulgaria, is located in the town.

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Bulgaria is the gateway to the European Union for refugees fleeing Syria via Turkey, many crossing the border illegally to seek asylum.

Readers, it is up to Turkey to stop Syrians at their border (just like it’s up to Mexico to stop Central Americans from crossing into Mexico!). Turkey is obviously permitting the Syrians to move across Turkey and into Bulgaria. President Erdogan (Obama’s pal) is capable of stopping the flow into Bulgaria if he chose to!

For further reading, I see that Andrew Bostom has references to Bulgaria in his history of Jihad: The Legacy of Jihad, Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims. Will let you know later what I find.

We have been writing about Bulgaria and Syrians (click here) in recent weeks. I think the BBC needs to update its migration map—add in the Turkey to Bulgaria leg!

UN wants to move 30,000 Syrians out of their “cultural zones” to yours in the West

10/20/2013 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

There is really nothing new, except maybe the number, in this piece about how the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is begging the West to get the Middle Easterners out of the Middle East.

Syrian refugees: Here we come!
Photograph: Hadi Mizban/AP

Note that they mention Western countries which “have the means,” can afford an influx of poverty, but no mention of the RICH Islamic countries, most notably Saudi Arabia which has the money and the land to accommodate a couple hundred thousand or so of their fellow Muslims.

See first Daniel Pipes’ brilliant idea of keeping Muslims in their own cultural zones, here!

From World Bulletin:

The U.N. refugee agency on Friday appealed to European and other states to grant asylum to more Syrians as increasing numbers flee their country in perilous journeys across the Mediterranean.

Naturally there is crisis-mongering about how people are dying trying to get across the Mediterranean from Libya, but not one word to suggest that the West clamp down on the now lawless Libya which allows the boats to launch from its shores. How about stationing some warships along the coast of Africa and sending some of the boat people back, or load them up and take them to the EMPTY UN state-of-the-art refugee camp Al-Azraq! The flow will quickly subside!

The U.N. agency has proposed that Western countries admit up to 30,000 Syrian refugees on resettlement, humanitarian admission, or other admission programmes by the end of 2014.

So far this year, 16 Western countries have pledged to resettle 10,240 Syrian refugees, including 500 announced by France this week, the UNHCR says. Germany accounts for 5,000.

“UNHCR is calling on countries that have the means to do so, in Europe or beyond, to offer solidarity through not only financing and other contributions, but through measures that would mean third-country resettlement and family reunifications,” Fleming said.

This civil war will end sooner or later, so why is it imperative to permanently move the ‘migrants’ to a third country, unless of course this is really about UN-facilitated Al Hijra!

US readers should make it clear to your elected officials in Washington that we can’t afford more imported poverty!

France caves to pressure, agrees to take 500 Syrians

10/17/2013 ~ Ann Corcoran ~ Leave a comment

French President to Guterres: O.K. O.K. we’ll take 500!

No word on whether some of that number will be the Calais occupiers.

From France 24:

France has agreed to take in 500 Syrian refugees at the request of the United Nations following talks in Paris between French President François Hollande and UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, the UN agency said Wednesday.

Even the Socialist Hollande knows what Muslim immigrants have done to France! Maybe they will insist on Christians only.

With no end to the conflict in sight, the UN agency has urged EU nations to offer asylum to some 10,000 Syrians this year and another 30,000 in 2014.

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Some 50,000 Syrians have so far applied for asylum in the EU, mostly in Sweden and Germany.

Speaking of Sweden, they are hastening their country’s decline with a record number of asylum seekers—mostly Syrians and Eritreans—tweeted by Fjordman, here.

Photo is here.