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Europe's Refugee Crisis Solved? An Egyptian Billionaire Has A 'Solution'
With the refugee crisis in Europe reaching epidemic levels and European leaders impotent, it appears an Egyptian Billionaire has a solution. As Al-Arabiya reports, Naguib Sawiris has offered to buy an island off Greece or Italy and develop it to help hundreds of thousands of people fleeing from Syria and other conflicts.
The problem is not getting better on its own...
Sawiris announced his solution on Twitter...
Greece or Italy sell me an island,ill call its independence and host the migrants and provide jobs for them building their new country
— Naguib Sawiris (@NaguibSawiris) September 1, 2015
Crazy idea .. Maybe but at least temporary until they can return to their countries ??!!
— Naguib Sawiris (@NaguibSawiris) September 1, 2015
As Al Arabiya reports, Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris has offered to buy an island off Greece or Italy and develop it to help hundreds of thousands of people fleeing from Syria and other conflicts.
The telecoms tycoon first announced the initiative on Twitter.
"Greece or Italy sell me an island, I'll call its independence and host the migrants and provide jobs for them building their new country," he wrote.
More than 2,300 people have died at sea trying to reach Europe since January, many of them Syrians who fled their country's four-and-a-half year conflict.
Sawiris said in a television interview that he would approach the governments of Greece and Italy about his plan.
Asked by AFP whether he believed it could work, he said: "Of course it's feasible."
"You have dozens of islands which are deserted and could accommodate hundreds of thousands of refugees."
Sawiris said an island off Greece or Italy could cost between $10 million and $100 million, but added the "main thing is investment in infrastructure".
There would be "temporary shelters to house the people, then you start employing the people to build housing, schools, universities, hospitals.
"And if things improve, whoever wants to go back (to their homeland) goes back," said Sawiris, whose family developed the popular El Gouna resort on Egypt's Red Sea coast.
He conceded such a plan could face challenges, including the likely difficulty of persuading Greece or Italy to sell an island, and figuring out jurisdiction and customs regulations.
But those who took shelter would be treated as "human beings," he said. "The way they are being treated now, they are being treated like cattle."
Sawiris is the chief executive of Orascom TMT, which operates mobile telephone networks in a number of Middle Eastern and African countries plus Korea as well as underwater communications networks.
He also owns an Egyptian television channel.
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Something needs to be done as one young Syrian sums it all up...
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Brilliant idea. Good man.
Yes, if only there was such a thing as a free market...
Sorry, that has not existed for a very long time, if ever...
Can he buy one more island for people who want to escape central banks and stupid governments?
how about carving out a slice of the Nile Delta Region you genius and letting them all go there. What's next? Hunger Game Olympics and sell the TV Show to NBC...
Something smells in this proposal, and it's not the smell from the refugees: Why doesn't he do that in ... EGYPT??????? Or Qatar? Or Dubai? Or any other country he's doing business in already? (He's sold of his Greek businesses years ago).
The nice thing is that it would be more convenient for NATO to bomb if it were off the coast of southern Europe.
Any guesses on who this guy thinks the new King of this country should be ?
Goldman has already created an asset-backed security for this hypothetical island. Naming contest begins now...
No need for an island. There's plenty of room in Egypt.
Just like the guy who upped his workers minimum wage to 70,000 and found out there was unanticipated effects, doing refugees on a large scale could have unanticipated side effects too. That 70,000 guy had a small number of employees. Refugees in the 10s of thousands or more would seem ripe for effects.
An interesting question on this. The Greek islands have been stomped around on for thousands of years. I would think that any island that was easily viable and productive capable would have already have been spoken for. Is this guy angling for the funding that the EU might provide, with intent on underfunding the islanders?
Alcatraz might be rented. At least there the cold waters prevent leaving by swimming and shoddy rafts.
How about here: http://tinyurl.com/pgk2dkh
Then he could be the Count.
but...but..but the island would tip over (hat tip to Rep. Hank Johnson)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnk0tIqsbYM
The truth is that that island would end up being a Muslim island. And these people are not going to settle for a Muslim destination. Oh, and they aren't going to give up their "Islamicity" either. No, they want to go to Europe and Islamize it, so that it too will become a Muslim hellhole.
Lesson: Fight for your culture or lose it, Western civilization. The invaders are at the gates.
western leaders seem bent on creating a calyphate on their own soil for some reason which i cannot fathom
The "reason" is the myth of "multiculturalism". It states that all cultures are of equal value. This is a lie. Some cultures are "richer" than others. Some have higher values than others. Western culture holds women and children in higher esteem than the Mulsim cultures. There they are nothing but chattel. Liberals, leftists, socialists, Marxists and Maoists will tell you that either a) all cultures are of equal value or b) culture does not matter and that it is a "bourgeoisie" irrelevancy.
True indeed, the vast majority of the Egyptian population lives on a very narrow strip of land next to the Nile River. The rest is totally empty. I have crossed the Western Desert of Egypt and can attest to its emptiness
The real knee slapper being that he seems to expect Italy or Greece to create jobs in the process. Am I reading this wrong?
This island story is so easy to poke fun into. You just know it's going to be done Hotel Caifornia style. "You can check in anytime you like, but you can never leave".
And face it, no one anywhere in Europe really wants these people and since Greece is now their official bitch the rich oligarch types would favor these people being out of sight and out of mind
Any guesses about the time it will take for the island's denizens to call for autonomy, so they can be governed by Sharia law?
First one island. Then another. Then a bigger one, because they keep coming. Soon, all of Sardinia and Corsica. Then, Spain. And finally, all of Europe, because this is the destiny of a people that count themselves as the lowest in the world. with a culture that is of no importance: to bow down and be driven to extinction by those better suited to survival. And when it is our turn to flee, all doors will be closed to us. We are, after all, white.
That's what nuclear weapons are for. In the meantime, there's boxcars and napalm. White Power.
Those countries have fewer islands and who would live there anyway? This is a brilliant idea. If they provide internet then all those refugees can earn $5,000 per day in their spare time or whatever the amount is that I keep reading about. If it's in the comments section of ZeroHedge it must be true!
A billionaire with a solution can only mean socialize the losses and privatise the profits in the end.
This island has no secrets, not from me. It loves me, and I love it, and when I paint my face I'm a part of the island. The swarthiness of my face hidden behind the clay and charcoal. I leave behind "Egypt", it's not important anymore, our island is all that matters. The rhythm of the hunt, the sun, beats deep in my blood. The littl'uns play, eat, and sleep, there good for nothing and just take up precious space on my island.
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Some recurring themes Golding wrote about were:
People will abuse power when it's not earned.
When given a chance, people often single out another to degrade to improve their own security.
You can only cover up inner savagery so long before it breaks out, given the right situation.
It's better to examine the consequences of a decision before you make it than to discover them afterward.
The fear of the unknown can be a powerful force, which can turn you to either insight or hysteria.
Same as it ever was....
"People will abuse power when it's not earned." -- of course and don't forget, absolute power corrupts absolutely...
We are where we are because we have not allowed people to experience real consequences for bad behavior....
"Free John Corzine"! ...oh wait, nevermeind.
same as it ever was...
Send them all back. End white genocide.
They'd also need a way to keep the Ziopaths out. Given that, it would be safe, successful.....and a cool place to hang out.
Yes, if only there was such a thing as a free market...
Sorry, that has not existed for a very long time, if ever
Cheer up. Free markets have existed since the beginning of the human race. It exists wherever people exchange of their own free will. That's what the "free" in free market means. It has no form. It has no number. It is omnipresent wherever people exchange value for value. It cannot be eradicated without eradicating the human race.
Government intervention distorts price discovery in the free market; but it cannot outlaw it out of existence. The communists tried and failed miserably as every other government is following the same path.
Questions:
Why should any unoccupoed habitable island have to be paid for if no one is demanding pubic funding for services, infrastructure, energy, etc..?
Why can't anyone who wants to simply take possesion?
Wasn't this exactly how the whole Western Hemisphere was seized despite the native cultures/tribes?
Wasn't Australia the british Empire's island for undesirable immigrants and criminals?
Are these dsignated as wildlife sanctuaries or..??
Who owns what is never occupied?
Finally the world is beginning to realise that instead of looking to politicians for answers, we should look to billionaires.
That's fucking funny.
"Finally the world is beginning to realise that instead of looking to politicians for answers, we should look to billionaires... who bought the politicians long ago."
Go to the source!
Maybe we would have less poor and displaced if the Billionaires had never aggregated the wealth and bought the politicians out?
Back to the issues of monetary, fiscal and resource control... and that dreaded concept of population control.
That is the real problem that no one dares to confront: over population.
Sustainability isn't just a question of available resurces; but, a question of population stability and resource distribution.
Even if govenance and social customs were reformed globally the issue of population control will eventually have to be addressed either via concensus or War..
IF populations were stabilized at some level and wealth less prone to aggregation and sequestration via force/criminality/corruption these problems would not exist to such an eggregious extent...
You say the "real problem is overpopulation," but you do not cite a single fact to support your claim.
Agreed, but apparently he doesn't realize that these refugees are being used as a weapon against Western European demographics.
Yes but what an excellent idea to "de-weaponize them."
It's only for teenage girls.
underrated comment.
Come to think of it, why buy an island when you can get the Chinese to build you one?
This guy is a little late to the game. The war refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos already outnumber the 86,000 citizen population of the island.
http://www.ibtimes.com/refugee-crisis-2015-lesbos-mayor-calls-state-emer...
There you go. A modern day Alcatraz
"Escape from New Greece"
They could name the island Canada!
Not In My Back Yard
Not In My Big Yacht
Yeah, we can call it Slavery Island. They'll have refugee auctions twice a day and send them around the world to work in sweat shops or, for the lucky ones, as an indentured servant for some rich family.
What the fuck else are you going to do with hundreds of thousands of people on an island?
Will there be cockfighting and bare-knuckle boxing to bet on?
Back in the carefree days of slavery in the US there certainly was.
Cockfighting? Why you always have to be hating on the Reggie?
He is "the finest of swordsmen", according to Barry.
When you pack a fucking Claymore, technique is optional. Or so I've heard.
thank you....exactly. Greek/Italian islands are NOT for massive amounts of people who want to be survivalists. They will eventually be a) dead b) parasites of other broke countries or c) turned into sweat shop labor.
Will they work to construct a giant pyramid?
is it a 'final solution'?
Global warming, sea levels rise......
Like Ellis island, with the additional gas chamber feature.
that's revolting. shame on you.
Dang.... now I feel bad...
C'mon! I was obviously provoked by the "final solution" Nazi reference....
I thought this was fight club! No holds barred!
Dang... I'm sorry....
Yeah.. Yeah what a great idea?!!...
Let's talk to a guy that is a card carrying Zionist insider who made his money how?... to take all those refugees to put them on a bunch of islands that his friends looted for "pennies on the dollar" in domiciles that will eerily resemble Regional sector(s) like this one TBD!...
Didn't they try this with one of the Hawaiian Islands awhile back?
That was a leper colony.
What would you call an island full of destitute, emaciated, disease ridden refugees from Northern Africa and the Middle East?
Location Zero
A target rich environment.
Make sure it's big enough so it doesn't tip over.
That almost happened once.
Can't send them to Guam I heard. It is right there at the edge of stability.
No man's island.
Why is Afghanistan not included in your map? Cause we certainly are getting more and more refugees from Afghanistan as well. Wait a minute - Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria - wasn't a certain country involved in these countries and created this vaccum of power? By Bombing or by supplying weapons to islamist groups like Al-Nusra or by supporting them through Saudi-Arabia... yeah, I thought so.
But yeah, let's blame the Russians for this mess.
SOunds like a good stinking idear to me!
Hungarian leader says he doesn't want big influx of Muslims - then shuts down the trains that would let them get further north. Sounds like a plan Obama would come up with!
Its to deter the others from even trying.
He is also building a dog food plant there.
I wonder......?
Shelve them on an island. LOL "underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."
'The Island of Doctor Moreau'
Ah, ah, ah....
Suddenly billionaires care about every day people... How much money would this dude make just laying the under water high speed comm cables to the 'rescue island' island...
Not buying his authenticity - sorry.
But why an island ?
Didn't the EU already gave up on Greece and are selling assets ?
Why not sell him the whole of Greece as a total package ?
hear hear
You'd need a trillionaire (quadrillionaire?) buyer to payoff the IMF/EU liens against the Greek title.
Balkans Part Deux!
Dovie'andi se tovya sagain (It's time to toss the dice)
The Daily Economist
I just want the chairmanship of the new central bank, please.
We shall be calling our currency "Freedom".
Maybe we could get the Brits to draw a couple lines on a map of the Middle East - something in between Syria and Egypt - a create a new nation there!
Wait now... We already tried that...
Syria and Egypt were also created as lines drawn by the british.
The two men in the video's background seem very familiar with one another. I assume they are leaving Syria before ISIS gives them flying lessons from a rooftop. The boy is an unconvincing liar, of course they want to go to Europe.
I don't know enough about these poeple and their motives to make a judgement.
do they want free shit from germany and are they cowards for not staying in syria and fighting what's ruining hteir countyr?
are they like John Galt and want out because they see their cuotnry going to hell in hand basket?
If they are the latter, get them that island and let them build! If the former, they are doomed.
They are the latter. They are the Free Shit Army, and these are the skirmishers. They won't integrate, they won't be productive members of society. They are there to consume like locusts.
lets all crowdfund a purchase of an island in the middle of pacific ocean and put all the politician, bankers and such there and nuke it
I have a better idea. Why don't we find an island and fill it with bankers and oligarchs, give them nothing to survive on, and televise it for the whole world to see?
I see you developed my idea further... I condone this message^^^^^
I think George Carlin had a similar idea, but with other people.
In order to televise it unimpeded, we would need to throw all the media moguls in there as well.
Will the Greeks sell him an island and invite such a Trojan Horse disaster to themselves? I think not.
All the warmongers should be rounded up and put on the worst Aleutian island. After that Western nations should rebuild all the Syrian towns and cities that were destroyed for nothing. Syria was a functioning nation until the idiots in DC came up with this insane plan to blow it up.
The Europeans richly deserve to be saddled with all these refugees for participating in the destruction of their homelands. Europeans of all people should be aware of mass destruction and millions of displaced civilians.
Remember what Barbara 'Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies they were in the past...they're going into multicultural mode' Spector had to say about Europe's future. They are gone.
When exactly did the "idiots in DC" get involved?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_Spring
How much does the government pay you to be a troll? A really stupid one at that.
If you had been paying attention instead of memorizing your propaganda assignments, you would remember that John McCain and friends armed the Syrian rebels and assisted in igniting this bloodfest. Didn't your handlers tell you about that?
Europe needs millions of low wage workers to subvert the status quo. Immigration will be championed by politicians under the guise of humantarian need. The US used Asia to destroy American jobs. The EU doing their part to destroy europeans jobs. Its all planned.
This idea can't be any good because the UN didn't come up with it.
I can see it now. Egyptian billionaire buys Greek Island for refugees to live on.
6 months later...Egyptian billionaire finalizes plans to build (6) 5 star resorts on Greek island for refugees.
Wonder how many of those Refugees he will get to move to that Island if he buys one? All they are after is Paradise like Germany, England, Sweden where they get looked after for life. Matter of fact, they will have first choice before the Locals get anything. It is wrong to call them Refugees once they have left Greece or Italia. There right Title should be Invaders, because thats what they are.
I like the idea of buying an island and calling its independece just like that. could be the only place of freedom left.
There's a reason why these people are not stopping in Turkey or Egypt or in the Balkans. It's not refuge they are seeking, it's subsidy.
I think its more like the crusades v2.0
Hold up one second. Couldn't it be possible that they have witnessed years, if not decades, of violence and they just might be thinking that Islam might not be the optimal belief?
I'm not sure 'these people' even understand subsidies - I could be wrong though.
And since the new host countries need a dependent voting block an a time of evaporating legitimacy, they will be welcomed with open arms.
La Liberté!
Indeed. Have we got to the "la Morte" part yet?
Liberia anyone ?
I didn't know the CIA's Operation Mockingbird was open to 13 year-olds. Smart move. That'll get the soccer mom and teeny-bopper demographics screaming for Assad's blood.
So it will be an all muslim male Island?
Within 6 months they slaughter each other and leave for the next island.
They don't slaughter each other unless there is a stinking Americunt son of a bitch nearby . LIKE YOU!!!!!!
Rwanda. GFY.
i suggest him to buy some land from ISIS first
It's called a Muslim invasion of Europe. Stop calling them refugees. Tjhey are invading enemy soldiers. They want your house, your car, your money, your LIFE and to TAKE your life. And your daughter's sweet pussy. Never forget that the conqueror's ALWAYS take the women of the conquered people. Which is why Western Europe is this mixed race mongoloid Islamic mess.
Stop being an idiot. Fucking Americunt Christers are much worse.
I wish America were still a white Christian nation. It is a mongoloid brown nation under the control of the Jews and they are banning Christianity as we speak.
When did sharia law become Jewish law?
Yes you are THICK which means STUPID in British English.
Dumber than a box of rocks.
I guess you have never been to Africa. Very few Muslims. Mostly Christians
What kind of moron would willingly go to Africa for any reason? You must have mistaken me for some imbecile Leftist European woman. I'm an American man and the only reason I'd go (back) to the shitskin lands is to put them in the ground.
I don't know what you call " very few". Muslims are estimated at 40-45% of the population. They seem to be having a wonderful time killing Christians as well there.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/christianattacks.htm
Enjoy your Muslim Majority coming soon to your world. I stand by Willy.
Miffed
Christian? Muslim? Voodoo? alksklklkikll bork bork? whatever, that's just typical h. africanus behavior.
Seriously, a majority-illiterate population doesn't get to identify themselves by a book they didn't write and can't read.
Finally a real solution! Certainly not the sign of a politician.
This is a great idea... instant society, that will work. Regardless of the outcome, what is the plan for the hundreds of millions who are going to follow?
Yeh great plan.
Europe gets another enclave of well integrated peace loving people, and the ECB gets a few million euros.
Whats not to like (sarc)
Read "The Camp of the Saints".
He's been sitting on $B's while his own country has been decimated, now wants to help other countries' poor, sure, sure thing.
Plenty of unoccupied land in the Sahara desert. Just need a few billion invested in enough solar panels to power a desalination plant.
This brilliant report by Anne Williamson was posted on the Lewrockwell site today
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/09/anne-williamson/mass-migration-madness/op
The article points out that Washington’s agents are actually paying smugglers to get the refugees into Europe to help destabilize countries like Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary which were going to back the Russian Balkan steam pipeline and these countries were also opposed to Russian sanctions. Washington wants to create a civil war in Macedonia in order to divide Macedonia between its neighbors
Only two things you need to know about immigrants: None of our rules apply to them at all, but we most assuredly have to abide by whatever rules, laws and sensitivities they bring over from their failed countries.
Good idea. Use open source crypto-currency for the island's monetary system.
Once this island is purchased for refugees. Who will build the prisons? Who will build the body parts factory? who will dig the graves? Who will keep away the media?
A profit must be turned.... I don't trust the MF. What do you think will happen on an island of defenseless refugees? Free cheese and BBQ? We wont even care for our own economic refugees in the U.S. Perhaps we should name it Soylent Green Island.
Sure lets build an Islamic enclave in a Christian country that alreay cannot afford to care for it's own people. I think the US is doing that in Minnesota and it is going great!
Will never happen. Why: all the "Gutmenschen" in europe they want these so called refugees or whatever they are. Why: highly paid gov. jobs to all those slicky socialists and believe me, they are mushrooming as hell. All these refugees they create jobs, a hell of jobs and votes for the socialist governments.
Yes, this is the logical end game of socialism/communism (same thing). What's happening in Europe now is the end game and will collapse every socialist nation in Europe in our life time. Probably in about 15 years. They cannot tax the few non-government workers hard enough to pay for all the socialist bureaucratic bloat + tens of millions of black and brown housepets that worship Muhammed.
Low IQ races will NOT assimilate and because of that NUMEROUS problems arise.
This has been observed time after time after time.
Just look at our own low IQ race after 100+ years of being free, coddled and given preference over more educated people, they continue to be dumb fucks and cause the majority (PER CAPITA) of violent crime.
FBI Table 43 Look it up!
12.9% Nigger
~17% Wetback
~60% Caucasian
Do the per capita breakdown.
Fuck your PC. Facts and observable behavior will NOT be covered up or apologized for!
Letting niggers/ other low IQ races is a death sentence for a stable culture. Look at how our once stable culture is being turned upside down.
FACT
Critical thinking and forming ones own opinions based on empirical observations of reality are anti-revolutionary behavior comrade. Report to your nearest Bolshevik re-education center at once!
The father of the kid who drowned said, he wanted to go to Europe to get his teeth fixed. He had been already living in Turkey for 3 years, and paid $4,000 for the dangerous boat ride.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/image-of-syrian-boy-washed-up-on-beach-hits-...
Sometimes, but only sometimes....natural selection delivers.
I cannot imagine living in one of those countries, trying to mind my own business, and never being able to feel safe. I hope the jihadis sink into the pits of the earth, but I wish peace for the people who are trying to rear their children responsibly in this terrible environment. If I were a Kurd or a Christian or a Jew living in Turkey, I'd be looking for a boat, whatever kind of a boat, that might take me and my family out of that country.
While TFJ billionaires use other people's money to destroy countries like Ukraine and turn them into cesspools of sex slavery and organ harvesting. What a charming people.
Maybe he can merge it with the isle of lesbos and turn it into a transgender event.