In an astonishingly frank statement Mrs Merkel yesterday told the European Parliament,

“There are those who think there is little to be gained from trying to determine Europe’s nature; I have to say, speaking frankly, that I take a completely different view. I think back to Jacques Delors, who, famously, said: ‘We have to give Europe a soul’. To that, I would add, putting it in my own way, that we have to find Europe’s soul, for the fact is that we do not need to give Europe a soul, since it already has one.”

History’s atrocities rate as entry-level: we have improved on our patrimony. Although my years as an early teen in the outermost circle of the Gulag spoke against it, a new book has shocked me. The result was to give you access to Recsk: The story of a forced labor camp (G. Böszörményi). A difficult undertaking for, as a survivor put it “living in an American milieu (teaching economics) I must be silent because they would not believe what I went through.”

Unfortunately, if you think that what you find below is “history” you are wrong. You are even more off the target in case you assume that whatever was in the past is gone and therefore it is of no relevance for the present and the future. In the case of some building blocks of the “past” the idea that the past is gone might fit. As far as the Bolshevik-determined-past is concerned, the assumption is wrong. It is off beam because the guilty remain unexposed and even less have they been held accountable. Therefore the villains you encounter below are around, directly or through their off-spring in power, or at least well off for they have been allowed to hold on to their loot. Accordingly, they regret nothing and have never even been forced to whisper a perfunctory “sorry.” With the political criminals being around the kind of “history” you encounter here is not a chapter in a closed past. Much rather it is an encounter with the well-camouflaged personal background of the current ruling classes of Central and Eastern Europe.

The acceptance speech made last Sunday by Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s Interior Minister and now Union pour un Mouvement Populaire presidential candidate, has attracted considerable attention for its references to Turkey’s European future. Sarkozy categorically stated that “Turkey has no place in the European Union,” that Europe “must give itself borders,” and that “not all countries have a vocation to become members of Europe, beginning with Turkey which has no place inside the European Union.”

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The Netherlands may soon witness an outburst of ethnic violence. An official report published last Wednesday states that “tensions between various ethnic and cultural groups of youths are seriously underestimated.” The report points out that the Dutch authorities fail to grasp the gravity of the problem. It warns the government in The Hague that if nothing is done the country will soon witness situations similar to those in France. There violent clashes, which erupted in late 2005, have led to the police abandoning immigrant suburbs to gangs of Muslim youths, who have now taken over effective control of more than 750 French urban neighborhoods.

A quote from the Telegraph website, 12 January 2007

Clarke danced on with a fixed smile despite their protests. The anti-BNP demonstrators were met with cries of “shame” from the audience, and bundled out of the auditorium by security guards.

Last Monday the Dutch Central Statistics Office CBS presented its latest demographic forecast. The figures show that the immigrant population in the Netherlands will grow from 19% of the population today to almost 29% by 2050. By the middle of the century the Netherlands is predicted to see its overall population grow to 16.8 million, from 16.4 million today. However, while the number of non-immigrant Dutch will decrease by 1.2 million in the next four decades, the number of immigrants will increase by 1.6 million.

Today 80.8% of the Dutch population is indigenous. According to the CBS this number will decrease to 71.5% in 2050. The number of immigrants from Western countries (mainly East Europeans) will rise from 8.7% today to 12.5%, and the number of non-Western immigrants from 10.5% to 16%.

Here is another example of how the Eurabian networks and the EU are holding Europe hostage. On January 1st, Bulgaria became a full member of the European Union. This means that the Bulgarian nurses who have been sentenced to death in a ridiculous trial in Libya are now EU citizens.
The nurses were accused of infecting Libyan children with HIV at a hospital in Benghazi in the 1990s. Some expert studies, however, suggest the infection was present in the hospital before their arrival and its real cause was poor hygiene.

A quote from Radio Poland, 6 January 2007

Polish Police is looking for women who have had sexual contact with the Cameroonian refugee, poet and journalist Simon Moleke [winner of the 2006 PEN and Oxfam Freedom of Expression Award], who has been charged and arrested for intentionally infecting women with the HIV virus. Moleke is known in Poland for his poetry and involvement in leftist activism. It is feared that he has purposefully infected at least several Polish women. The case has surfaced only recently, but as records on the internet forum of the Green Party website show, the intentional spreading of HIV by Moleke might have been known to the leftist activist circles as early as over half a year ago.

A quote from Michael Freund in The Jerusalem Post, 10 January 2007

Soon enough, most of what we now think of as Western Europe will be transformed into a branch of the Muslim world, which is sure to make it an even less welcoming place for Americans, Israelis and for Jews. That, at least, is the unpleasant, yet entirely unavoidable conclusion to be drawn from Europe’s headlong demographic drive toward oblivion. [...] The figures are so bad that in many European countries, the total number of deaths each year has actually begun to exceed the number of births.