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Refugee Crisis

Refugee Crisis - What a mess Central Europe is presently exposed to as a direct consequence of the worst refugee crisis ever! I feel I have to get this off my chest for it has truly been making me sick to my stomach that hundreds of thousands of Syrians are migrating across Europe these days. I would not call myself a racist, but I can certainly not deny feeling increasingly hostile and with it immeasurably discontent seeing this endless stream of refugees. It just can't be that their own immediate neighbors in the Middle East turn a completely deaf ear on Syria, keep their borders closed and so basically promote the migration of a people that is overall of the same faith and shares the same language being pushed into the heart of Christian Europe. What are those selfish barbarians thinking? Why allow anyone like Assad to treat his own people like garbage is the primary question we should ask ourselves? Secondly, why has there not been any global joint effort to not just temporarily stall but affectively extinguish that new radical movement down there? Because these issues have not been satisfyingly addressed in the fastest and most radical way there is, we Europeans are having a refugee crisis on our hands beyond any compare. My next question goes right to the oh so efficient European Union which presently appears to be leading itself entirely ad absurdum again. Why on earth is there only a handful of EU states willing to take on this by now completely unstoppable mass inundation of war- struck folks? To my understanding, the EU consists of 28 nations altogether, so how come only Germany, Austria, Slovenia ,Greece and a few others are currently letting those refugees in? Sorry, I am not quite done yet ranting and raving. In fact, I am just getting warmed up. It is totally beyond my grasp what Germany is actually attempting to achieve promising to take in up to 800 K people? The world record as far as the highest number of refugees next to hundreds of thousands existent foreigners and with it the greatest discordance and distrust among their own people, maybe? I would seriously love to ask the German Chancellor in person why after inviting over two thirds of a million refugees into Germany, they are suddenly building barbed wire fences like in the good old days? Sorry, but this definitely defies all logics. Why do you think Hungary is finally protecting their closed borders if necessary by forcible means? Why is Great Britain refraining from taking more than just a laughable 120 refugees? Why is Denmark insisting on temporarily just accepting a small number of women and children only? Why is France showing such noble restraint to inviting those many refugees? And why haven't we heard one single peep from Switzerland in this matter yet? Go figure! Looking towards Austria, I would like to state how ashamed I am of our politicians and church institutions such as Caritas alike for continuously forcing more and more refugees onto my own people! Just disgusting! Do the math, with only 8.5 million inhabitants, we shall soon be drowning in unrest, upheavals, riots, violence and crime in peaceful Austria. Hello! Time to wake up! We may rather sooner than later face conditions similar to those of a civil war. Not if but rather when things start escalating between Muslims and Christians over lack of space, lodgings, allowances, carelessly wasted subsidies which actually the poorest of my nation would be primarily entitled to, religious, cultural, traditional and social divergences, there will just not be enough police or military to deal with those nuisances. We have to finally close our borders, too, for we will be tossed into pure chaos and anarchy if we don't. And here's a final thought, whoever seriously assumes those people will ever voluntarily go back to Syria when the war is over, gravely errs for nobody likes to abandon a welfare oasis like in Germany or Austria once they have got a fair taste of a much easier and a much more promising life. - More next time.      

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May I introduce myself ...

Hi, my name is Marion. I am originally from Austria, Europe and have been living here in New England for five and a half years ever since I got acquainted and subsequently wed to my sweet husband. I speak a few languages, and have always kept my ear on the ground as to what is going on around me politically, socially, economically, and most of all psychologically no matter where I am as I feel it is of magnificient importance to stay updated at least on the surface of major matters which simply make or break a country's society. Sure, I am not in the position whatsoever to bring changes upon this or that people, but I should at least be able to express my free opinion about what bothers the heck out of me and hopefully others too. The reason why I wanted to start blogging is that I simply do no longer want to just sit around idle and keep accepting and excusing certain occurrencs, events, trends, situations, developments, and facts because everybody ...