Introduction – March 8, 2020
Overwhelmed by a tide of displaced persons, Greek islanders are hitting back at those they see as responsible for the crisis. This includes United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) officials and journalists working for the mainstream media.
On Saturday night a fire tore through a refugee centre on the island of Lesbos. Although the cause of the fire is still unknown, given rising tensions over the refugee crisis we wouldn’t be surprised if arson was involved.
The fire follows attacks on journalists reporting on the crisis and islanders themselves actively preventing “refugees”/”asylum seekers” from landing.
Although we don’t condone the islander’s actions we can understand their anger. The corporate media invariably portrays the “refugees”/”asylum seekers” in a sympathetic light but rarely acknowledges the fact that many are economic migrants who have been lured to Europe by the prospect of generous welfare handouts.
The corporate media has also consistently ignored the role of organised crime and human traffickers in the crisis.
Add to that the fact that the media has played down the role that billionaire George Soros has played in financing migrant support groups, and its easy to understand why locals are angry. Ed.
Greek Islanders Attack Journalists Covering Refugee Boat Pushback
The National Herald – March 5, 2020
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Greek officials should investigate attacks on reporters covering the arrival of migrants and refugees on the island of Lesbos, assaulted after trying to document islanders keeping away a boat with women and children.
“Greek authorities must quickly and thoroughly investigate the attacks on reporters covering refugee movements on the island of Lesvos and ensure that they can continue their reporting safely and without fear,” said CPJ Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator Gulnoza Said in New York.
“Greek police have an obligation to protect members of the press,” she said, with video footage showing German photojournalist Michael Trammer being beaten and kicked to the ground by a furious mob before some Greeks tried to stop it.
A group of locals attempted to stop a dinghy carrying migrants from coming in to berth at Thermi port and attacked the reporters who were capturing it, trying to prevent any coverage of the event.
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— SKAI.gr (@skaigr) March 1, 2020
Freelance photojournalist Michael Trammer, freelance photographer Raphael Knipping, Der Spiegel reporter Giorgos Christides and freelance photojournalist Julian Busch were among those targeted by unknown assailants, CPJ said.
They shouted insults at a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) official and attacked journalists and photographers covering the event, said the Turkish pro-government newspaper The Daily Sabah.
Members of the group were seen violently attacking and kicking Trammer, who later tweeted about the incident.
“My cameras were thrown in the water. I was beaten and kicked heavily. This lasted a while. No police on site, also as I left. Some locals that disagreed with what the attackers did took care of me,” Trammer tweeted, sharing photos and videos from before and after the attack, showing his head bandaged. He later tweeted that he had also decided to leave Lesbos “for security reasons.”
Greek islands have seen a surge in arrivals after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan opened the borders after the deaths of 33 Turkish soldiers in an area of northern Syria they’d invaded, making the Turkish leader expect his country would be overwhelmed with more refugees and migrants, adding to some 5.5 million there now.
While thousands stormed the land border at the treacherous Evros River, where many in the past have drowned trying to cross, some 500 had come to Greek islands from Turkey which had already let human traffickers operate during a largely suspended 2016 swap deal with the European Union, which closed its borders to them.
Tensions are soaring on the islands where residents and officials want the New Democracy government to suspend plans to build new detention centers to vet those ineligible for asylum, with about 42,000 penned up two years or more.
That has spilled over into violence with protesters battling riot police in confrontations so intense, fueled by the government’s intention to seize properties to build centers, that the police had to be taken off the island after eight were attacked in a hotel.
This is what happens when the elite deliberately ignores the wishes of the public…..it is surprising the Greeks haven’t directed their anger toward them.
Western countries are going to have to decide whether they are democracies or FAKE oligarchies….a line needs to be drawn in the sand.
Example….Boris Johnson was elected PM primarily because the public THOUGHT he MAY clamp down on the authorised invasion of Britain.
Five years time and the public will realise he has NO INTENTION OF STOPPING THE THIRD WORLD INVASION……..after that the British Secret Police may not be able to ward off a general insurrection.
vespasian is right again
the public in many countries in europe
are at boiling point, they knew the jews are behind all this migration, they wont let any non jew into israel, and are cleansing the Middle east of all non jews and pushing them over to us.
Where are the voices of dissent ?
only in France do we see the yellow vest movement speaking for us all
Greece is not a country and the Greeks are not a nation; 3/4 of their population are Christian orthodox Turks: some of those had to convert to save their lives because they couldn’t run away after the Greek independence. 1,6 million more came from Anatolia after the Venizelos-Mustafa Kemal agreed to an exchange of population to homogenise the population of their countries. The rest are Macedonians. Two elements unite them: language and religion. The language is their weak point: they don’t have one! Before the Christian Era, they where never united and formed small city states continuously fighting each other. The Roman invasion stabilised the country and brought a relative stability. When the Roman Empire started to collapse, they came under Byzantine rule. When Byzantium started to go wobbly on the knees, the Turks crossed the Gallipoli strait well before they took Constantinople and occupied almost all the modern Greece. Their occupation was the best thing which happened to Greece: they were forced by the Turks to be united around the Orthodox Church as they did not deal with non-Turks in an individual level but as part of their religious community. The head of each community (called “millet” by the Turks) would run their affairs. The modern Greek, contrary to general Christian belief, has never produced anything remarkable for the last 20-22 centuries and all those temples, statues etc. are from a short lived pre-Christian era. Also, after the collapse of the Roman Empire, the outlying illiterate European elites, kings and their cronies needed something to grab. Though the Roman culture was far more superior to that of Greece, the Roman influences and terror was too recent and they choose the Greeks instead. Also, the first European language bibles were translated into greek, thus facilitating the acceptance of “Greek civilisation”… The only effect this acceptance on the Greeks was to bloat their self esteem and they became a spoiled brat on the side of Europe. If you remember that their employees have earned themselves regular bonuses for JUST TURNING AT WORK IN TIME will remind you their view of themselves. Their quarrel with Turkey in the Aegean is totally illegal: contrary to international law, they claim that the Aegean should be divided between the islands and Turkish shores on a median line and anything west of the line is their… With this mentality, we could also claim that anything west of median line between France and the Channel Islands would belong to Britain! IMHO, there is more chances one day France accepting this arrangement than the Turks doing it.
One day the Turks will have enough of these shenanigans and will finish this idiots who think that E.U. would move their armies against Turkey to defend them.
By the way, Lesbos is less than ONE mile from Turkey and if Turkish Government allowed it, the local peasant would swim and take it just by themselves…
The Population of Greece is 10,761,523 (July 2018 est.)
Ethnic groups Greek 91.6%, Albanian 4.4%, other 4% (2011) note: data represent citizenship; Greece does not collect data on ethnicity
Religions Greek Orthodox (official) 81-90%, Muslim 2%, other 3%, none 4-15%, unspecified 1% (2015 est.)
91.6% of the people identify themselves as “Greek” and they are not mainly of the so-called “Turkish” decent which is a hodgepodge of tribes forcefully converted by the sword to Islam. Turkey has a population of about 80 million but they know that in a war with the Greeks, the Greeks will fight to the death, and the West will eventually come to their aide.
Turkey and taqiya go together and the remarks of Alan Dwight Dale are filled with as much taqiya as his pseudonym. Erdogan his leader is taquiya incarnate – the right to lie to your opponents.
The main scourges of the world these days are Islam, Zionism, communism, unbridled capitalism, and they are all inflicted on people by Satan.
Ever wonder why Islamic women are so oppressed and subservient. It is simply because shit flows downhill. The men are totally oppressed and subservient to a false idea of God, whom they believe is unforgiving. They live in a state of constant fear and oppression. The oppressiveness is so great that Muslims are generally the most backward people of the planet. They are not permitted to question or criticize any aspect of their teachings, for fear of their lives. If they convert to Christianity they fear for their lives. The proof to us of this oppressiveness is that if you criticize their beliefs, the first thing the do is resort to threats and violence. It is now much the same these days if you criticize the abuses of Zionism. As for the oppression of people by communism, take a good look how it totally F#@& up the Russians for 70 years, and now look at the monster which has arisen in China.
As for our unchecked corporate and bankster power in our capitalist system, and the chronic dissembling, lying, brainwashing, oppressive media, we are no better. Our secular system of the West is also a belief system as religious as any other, and it resides on top of a precarious huge debt bubble, which appears to rely on constant deception, endless wars and plundering to keep it inflated.
As for Christians, “We behold the splendor of God, shining on the face of Jesus.”
Fred- You are a VERY insightful, intelligent MAN- And as a White Christian American woman- I want to thank you-
Putin and Erdogan held a press conference in Moscow, after coming to an agreement to de-escalate the conflict in Idlib province.
Putin extracted most of what he wanted from the Turkish leader, while giving Erdogan yet another off ramp from his misadventures in Syria, and a way for him to save face as he travels back to Turkey.
Good analysis by Alexander Mercouris!
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@ Fred B
//The main scourges of the world these days are Islam, Zionism, communism, unbridled capitalism, and they are all inflicted on people by Satan.//
Thank you for your biased opinion.
Look at the topic from a distance. Hard to disagree that the main scourages of the world are White Judeoanglosaxons. During last centuries they destroyed North America, Africa, India, China, Australia and other places.
Example: it is extremely difficult to find Australian in Australia. Now Australians make up less than 2% of population of the continent, the place is inhabiteted mainly by White immigrants. The same situation in North America.
Now White barbarians are busy genociding peoples of Iraq. Demonic Muslims resist and this resistance is probably the reason for your hatred. In the same way North Americans and Australians were hated in the past.
Look at it from a distance: Judeoanglosaxons are scum of the Earth – this is what many people believe.
Please be informed: Lord Jesus had not resurrected. This story is total baloney.
“Trying to document islanders keeping away a boat with women and children”.
Well, that’s a ‘jouralist’ lie right there…
That is unless…it is the first ever migrant boat that contains anything other than fighting fit young men of military age.
Poor Fred B… even weak at arithmetic: add up your percentages and see. Greeks are not a nation: full stop! The language is mainly Macedonian. These peasants did not have a common language and when needed to write, used one with an alphabet. The Macedonian than was more or less like the English today: no longer the language of a nation but a “lingua franca” in the central Balkans and all of the Near and Middle East after Alexander (a Macedonian King and Emperor) and the Seleucid Empire. Even the Jews used it. Proof? The Bible of Christ was first translated into Greek by his followers who were… Israelites! Today, some African people use solely English in statecraft, education, arts, media. 2-3 more generations and they will be totally anglophone: will they be English? I know Greeks very well: I lived with a female for longtime. As for your insults to Islam and Muslims: it’s up to them to respond as it is none of my concern. As for Christians, they are so successful (!) that they butchered each other in their millions since 15.th century on the mentally debilitating quarrel of “did Jesus on the cross owned his loincloth or not!” Hitler who occupied Greece was also Christian, remember? What a bunch of retards!
The Turks are a great nation as are the Russians, English, Spanish and some more. Proof? All of those mentioned run the known world with an iron fist for many centuries. What did the Greeks do? If I recall well, their last attempt to conquer a bit of land was a disaster and they were chased to the sea like rabbits by the Turks and only the magnanimity of Mustafa Kamal Pasha saved their bacon.
As to Sheri, the white American woman(?), I don’t even answer her.
Greek authorities in my views , should give a medal to the citizens that beat up the journalists . The citizens defend their land from invaders and the journalist , brainwashed by politically correct ideology spread by the useless body called UN , fail to see the point of view of the citizens . The citizens have the right to oppose the treating of their island as a garbage dump .
Jews are not whites you motoons they hate white. White freemason are the traitors.
Media only ignores the human trafficking because it is part of the corruption working as a subversion unit.
Why do people think the press are off limits. It is beyond reasonable doubt what global media is these days a straight out criminal enterprise that is part of the criminal establishment that will never be held to account.
Establishment says we can’t attack press because if we started doing that, it would be a free for all so they are given freedoms, a privilege unique in our system.
This is government standing over us in the most polite way, protection of a mouthpieces is an age old standover merchant tactic. Because of Greece’s freedom and democracy b.s. we will never see it as a population while being bred on it. This violence should be happening far more often anywhere in the deemed west.
Gotta luv the truthseeker in one day I could call someone bent yet the next day thank that same person for today’s learning put so well. D, Dale cheers and thankyou,
Fred B, what ever ya reckon it doesn’t matter, Your standover Christian ways are over while Christian man is world known for what he does, you’re a prime example of the western religions disturbed conditioning. How could a person so clicked on with the geopolitical overview and articulate about it, be so flippin ignorant of growth the most Godly thing in all creation.
The most content, intellectual, calm and genuinely happy women I have ever come across on the net have been Muslim I just don’t see what you’re on about Fred in that attempt to stir up the commie feminists for empire’s sake. You’re a good little British agent aren’t ya wanker. Seek pleasure in doing Zionisms work for them Fred do you. As you’re talking it’s the scourge of the earth which would have got nowhere without your British Christian attitude. Your lot gave the jews their power and you know this yet throw off on Muslims. Something seriously not right in that. Anyway, superb comments.