@Pat O’Dwyer: How George Soros Singlehandedly Created The European Refugee Crisis – And Why
“Soros’s agenda is fundamentally about the destruction of national borders. This has recently been shown very clearly with his funding of the European refugee crisis.
The refugee crisis has been blamed on the civil war currently raging in Syria. But did you ever wonder how all these people suddenly knew Europe would open its gates and let them in?
The refugee crisis is not a naturally occurring phenomenon. It coincided with OSF donating money to the US-based Migration Policy Institute and the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants, both Soros-sponsored organizations. Both groups advocate the resettlement of third-world Muslims into Europe.
In 2015, a Sky News reporter found “Migrant Handbooks” on the Greek island of Lesbos. It was later revealed that the handbooks, which are written in Arabic, had been given to refugees before crossing the Mediterranean by a group called “Welcome to the EU.”
Welcome to the EU is funded by—you guessed it—the Open Society Foundations.
Soros has not only backed groups that advocate the resettlement of third-world migrants into Europe, he in fact is the architect of the “Merkel Plan.”
The Merkel Plan was created by the European Stability Initiative whose chairman Gerald Knaus is a senior fellow at none other than the Open Society Foundations.
The plan proposes that Germany should grant asylum to 500,000 Syrian refugees. It also states that Germany, along with other European nations, should agree to help Turkey, a country that’s 98% Muslim, gain visa-free travel within the EU starting in 2016.”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-08/how-george-soros-singlehandedly-created-european-refugee-crisis-and-why

@Pat O’Dwyer: George Soros: ‘I Am A God, I Created Everything, I Control America And Hillary Clinton’
George Soros claims he is a god and “the creator of everything,” however the billionaire globalist also warns he is a “self-centred” god who believes “normal rules do not apply” to him.

“I fancied myself as some kind of god …” he wrote. “If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble.“ When asked by Britain’s Independent newspaper to elaborate on that statement, Soros doubled down: “It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.“
http://americantoday.news/george-soros-i-am-a-god-i-created-everything-i-control-america-and-hillary-clinton/

@Pat O’Dwyer:

“The problem now facing Europe is that many of those head chopping jihadist US trained and funded mercenaries…”

You’ve still never proven this point you know. This has been claimed for five years and I still see no evidence to back it up.

@Jason Culligan: •
The truth about ISIS:
“West created ISIS/Daesh : John Pilger & Ken O’Keefe (Short video)
https://www.facebook.com/inspiretochangeworld/videos/1720708008200294/
Secret Pentagon Report Reveals US “Created” ISIS As A “Tool” To Overthrow Syria’s President Assad
But it’s one thing to speculate; it’s something entirely different to have hard proof.
And while speculation was rife that just like the CIA-funded al Qaeda had been used as a facade by the US to achieve its own geopolitical and national interests over the past two decades, so ISIS was nothing more than al Qaeda 2.0, there was no actual evidence of just this.
That may all have changed now when a declassified secret US government document obtained by the public interest law firm, Judicial Watch, shows that Western governments deliberately allied with al-Qaeda and other Islamist extremist groups to topple Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad.
According to investigative reporter Nafeez Ahmed in Medium, the “leaked document reveals that in coordination with the Gulf states and Turkey, the West intentionally sponsored violent Islamist groups to destabilize Assad, despite anticipating that doing so could lead to the emergence of an ‘Islamic State’ in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
According to the newly declassified US document, the Pentagon foresaw the likely rise of the ‘Islamic State’ as a direct consequence of the strategy, but described this outcome as a strategic opportunity to “isolate the Syrian regime.”
And not just that: as we reported last week, now that ISIS is running around the middle east, cutting people’s heads of in 1080p quality and Hollywood-quality (perhaps literally) video, the US has a credible justification to sell billions worth of modern, sophisticated weapons in the region in order to “modernize” and “replenish” the weapons of such US allies as Saudi Arabia, Israel and Iraq.
But that the US military-industrial complex is a winner every time war breaks out anywhere in the world (usually with the assistance of the CIA) is clear to everyone by now. What wasn’t clear is just how the US predetermined the current course of events in the middle east.
Now, thanks to the following declassified report, we have a far better understanding of not only how current events in the middle east came to be, but what America’s puppermaster role leading up to it all, was. ”
Read more :
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-23/secret-pentagon-report-reveals-us-created-isis-tool-overthrow-syrias-president-assad

@Pat O’Dwyer: General Wesley Clark explains how ISIS was created by U.S. and Allies
(We will take out seven countries in five years)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ojcoKnTGf4s

@Pat O’Dwyer:

John Pilger – A journalist with a life-long opposition to US and UK foreign policy which he labels as ‘imperialist’. What a completely neutral and unbiased source of opinion.

Ken O’Keefe – An eccentric Palestinian/American who was discharged from the military for his propensity to make up claims about superiors, tried to renounce his US citizenship twice and made a bogus claim that he disarmed two Israeli commandos during the Gaza flotilla incident. He’s also a 9/11 conspiracy theorist.

You really need to broaden your sources mate.

@Jason Culligan: Obama has confirmed that US had it’s hand in creating Daesh after invading Iraq. I think you need to get off your sofa and go to Syriab and Libya to finally open your eyes.

@Neil Mcdonough: Correct, but if Russia had not stepped at the invitation of the Syrian Government then this unfortunate country would have been turned into another complete disaster as we have experienced in Iraq and Libya. The US is only an Israeli tool to destabilize all strong neighboring countries and turn them into small caliphats continously at war with each other, easier to manipulate, and all sides supplied with US weapons.

I don’t understand how any self respecting media outlet can use unverified sources like the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights?

The news office is run from his home in Coventry by Rami Abdulrahman (sometimes referred to as Rami Abdul Rahman), a Syrian Sunni Muslim who owns a clothes shop. Born Osama Suleiman, he adopted a pseudonym during his years of activism in Syria, and has used it publicly ever since.[4] After being imprisoned three times in Syria, Abdulrahman fled to the United Kingdom fearing a fourth jail term and has not returned since.[3] In a December 2011 interview with Reuters, Abdulrahman said the observatory has a network of more than 200 people and that six of his sources had been killed.[3] However, in 2012 Süddeutsche Zeitung described the organization as a one-man-operation with a single permanent worker, Rami Abdulrahman.[5] In April 2013, The New York Timesdescribed him being on the phone all day every day with contacts in Syria, and checking all information by himself.[4] At high link popularity of the project in the media and the use of numbers of victims in the justification of political decisions at times expressed doubts about the reliability and fairness of the source, which is represented by one person without special training and experience, referring to them undisclosed network of activists in Syria.[6][7] SOHR has been accused of selective reporting, covering only violent acts of the government forces against the opposition for the first two years of its existence[8] and reporting militant anti government fighters in dead civilians tolls,[9] and has been described as being “pro-opposition”.

@Pat O’Dwyer: Now official :
2012 Defense Intelligence Agency document: West will facilitate rise of Islamic State “in order to isolate the Syrian regime”
Newly-Declassified U.S. Government Documents: The West Supported the Creation of ISIS
http://levantreport.com/2015/05/19/2012-defense-intelligence-agency-document-west-will-facilitate-rise-of-islamic-state-in-order-to-isolate-the-syrian-regime/
Here is what Ron Paul had to say : Former Republican congressman, and Republican presidential candidate, claims : New Evidence US Backed ISIS
http://truthinmedia.com/dr-ron-paul-new-evidence-us-backed-isis/

@Pat O’Dwyer: Sorry Pat, I don’t believe the Russians are involved here for anything other than their own strategic interests, which are no less ignoble than everyone else’s.

@Pat O’Dwyer: Israel Admits MOSSAD Is ISIS.. “MUST WATCH” !!
In this little known clip from years ago, Author Dan Ravi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sylmmj5evA4&feature=share

@Jason one phrase above any “Wikileaks”…you might read some of the Clinton mails

I was thinking the same. Who are the bad guys. And what’s the objective.

Are these the websites where people source their “news” these days? That’s scary in itself.

Jason Culligan – A frequent contributor to TheJournal.ie comments section who rarely misses an opportunity to highlight his ignorance.

@Neil Mcdonough:

As to Russia’s involvement, it’s a question of International (UN and Nuremberg) Law and Legitimacy – something which the Western media rarely, if ever, mentions, because that destroys their ‘narrative’ of Western ‘justice’ etc…

Assad’s government is the legitimate government of Syria. Fact.

Russia only became involved in Syria at the explicit invitation of Syria’s government. Fact.

When you are trying to decide the subjective question of ‘good’ vs ‘bad’, I suggest you start from positions in ‘Law’, since it is only ‘Law’ that separates actions from arbitrary anarchy, crimes and war crimes.

All countries have Geopolitical interests. It is how they pursue them that matters.

Take your blinkers off. Consider what Western media *does not* speak about, as well as what it does. Make the important *legal* distinction between what a country does internally (legally, their own business, most certainly absent a UN Resolution), and what it does externally, legally, everyone’s business.

@Mike Hall: You misunderstand me. I’m not saying for a moment that the wests ‘narrative’ is the correct one, just that all ‘narratives’ being pushed forward in this war are to be equally mistrusted, so I’m not the one wearing blinkers. Those that believe one side over another are however. If you read my posts you will see that I’m far from claiming there are good guys in this. You are extremely naive if you believe that the Russians involvement in this conflict is about anything other than pursuing their own interests. What’s legal and what isn’t is moot in a war situation. Who decides that after all?

@Neil Mcdonough:

You say “… What’s legal and what isn’t is moot in a war situation…. ”

This is where you are very profoundly wrong.

Why on earth do you think western MSM spend £$ millions on a propaganda narrative, attempting to legitimise their military aggressions?

They do this for the simple reason that International Law does exist, and the UN Conventions and Nuremberg profoundly matter, so they must try to justify their actions.

Your attitude toward this question of legitimacy is precisely the one of casual dismissal that the MSM elites’ narrative wants you to have. You are accepting their framing of what is important and what is not.

Please explain why you think ‘Rule of Law’ matters in a domestic context, but the other side of some arbitrary ‘border’, anarchy and ‘might is right’ are acceptable?

Of course Russia is pursuing their own interests.

What part of “.. It is how they pursue them that matters… ” did you not understand?

@Mike Hall: Why so uptight Mike? Look, I’m not arguing with you, I’ve already stated numerous times that I’m not believing any of the participants narratives, it’s not that complicated, and it doesn’t mean I’m disinterested or casually dismissing anything.
As for: “What part of “.. It is how they pursue them that matters… ” did you not understand?”, well, what is there to understand? They’re all pursuing their objectives by military means are they not? The rest is semantics in this increasingly insane world . . .

@Eoin Mulhern: You have to get the idea that one side is better than the other side(s) in this conflict out of your head if you want to get even halfway close to the truth here.

@Neil Mcdonough:

Agree with Niall on this

I’m not saying i know which side i’d like to see prevail here but i’m in no way inclined to believe the propaganda from either one

Both have blood on their hands

@Fox in the Box: From the thumbs we’re getting it seems many here still believe in ‘goodies and baddies’ . . .

@Neil and women, dont forget the roles of Merkel and the lovely HRC in all this…equality and all that!

@Lord Clanricarde: It’s nearly always men but, what role has Angela Merkel played in all of this if you don’t mind me asking?

Maybe not Merkel directly, but the world has now lots of powerful women sharing cabinet tables, executive boards and senior posts with their male counterparts. They have gobs too, but accept it all as just the way it is, greed and corruption and warmongering are no longer the sole territory of men.

@Greg Blake: It’s still predominantly male though, especially those that are doing the actual fighting and killing. I just wanted to know exactly what Angela Merkel has done that gives her anymore than a slightly peripheral responsibility for the war, other than being the leader of an EU country, one that to my knowledge has no direct involvement at least.

That’s true Neil, it is still male dominated, but at the levels of international politics and detente there are also quite a few women involved in the game. It no longer accurate to say it all greedy fat cigar smoking men. Women like Clinton, Merkel and May appear at the various round tables, there are now more women in influential positions in the UN, IMF, Strasbourg etc. and I don’t see any proportional reduction in conflict problems around the world. They seem to share the same priorities as the men and those priorities have little to do with worldwide victim creation. The only reason Merkel keeps getting a mention in the comments, is her obvious influence within the EU, who are happy to sit on their hands on many issues.