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This Is The Scariest Chart For Angela Merkel
Having won Time's "Person of the Year" award, German chancellor Angela Merkel may have little time, or cause, for celebration.
The reason for that is that, as we noted yesterday when commenting on Donald Trump's snub of Time in which he said that it "picked person who is ruining Germany", is that according to increasingly more Germans, Trump just may be - in his trademark politically incorrect way - right.
Recall:
In past years, Angela Merkel has been feted like a superstar at annual meetings of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, earning thunderous ovations for defending German interests in the euro crisis and facing down Vladimir Putin over Ukraine. But a CDU congress in the southwestern city of Karlsruhe next week is shaping up to be a very different affair. Under intense pressure from conservative allies to reduce the flood of refugees into Germany, the 61-year-old chancellor faces the biggest test of her authority from within the party in years.
Her Bavarian allies, the Christian Social Union (CSU), have been pressing for a cap for months, and even some of Merkel's own ministers are lobbying openly for a tougher stance from the chancellor, who marked 10 years in office last month and must decide by next autumn whether she will seek a fourth term in 2017.
"Merkel has never endured such sharp criticism from within her own ranks since becoming chancellor," read a front-page editorial in conservative daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Monday. "Under no circumstances can she allow the congress to approve a resolution on refugee policy that includes the word 'Obergrenze'."
"The mood among conservative members of parliament is really catastrophic right now," said one senior CDU lawmaker, declining to be named. "Merkel is totally isolated." "She needs to wake up," said another top ranking party member.
Why this dramatic shift in opinion about a chancellor who until recently was seen as untouchable and simply indestructable, and suddenly appears to be all too fragile? The answer is shown in the simple chart below, which shows the soaring numbers of migrant arrivals in Germany.
The chart has major implications for Merkel's political career because, as the WSJ notes, the higher the number of migrants, the lower her approval rating... and the higher the rating of her conservative ally, Bavarian Premier Horst Seedorf.
Suddenly invincible Angela does not seem so unshakable. For those who have missed the story, here is what happened from the WSJ:
When refugees marched from Budapest Sept. 4, paralyzing Hungary’s main highway to Austria, Mr. Orban phoned Vienna. Mr. Faymann wouldn’t take his calls, aides to each say. Mr. Orban convened his national-security cabinet and decided to bus the migrants to the border. “If Austria wants them, they can have them,” Mr. Orban said, according to a person present.
Hungary’s foreign minister told his shocked Austrian counterpart the news at an EU meeting that day. Austrian officials, unprepared for mass arrivals, urgently sought German help.
The emergency caught Ms. Merkel on a day of party events in Essen and Cologne. In a volley of phone calls, she and Mr. Faymann shared a calculus, say aides to each: Only force could halt the migrants at the border; inaction could result in exhausted refugees dying on the highway.
Ms. Merkel made a snap decision that sent shock waves around Europe: Throw Germany’s doors open. Bypassing Europe’s asylum rules and skeptical members of her government, she ordered trains to carry the migrants to Munich.
Her aides couldn’t reach her coalition partner, Bavaria’s premier Mr. Seehofer. He, like Mr. Orban, wanted to stop the migrants; the two men became Ms. Merkel’s most outspoken adversaries. Mr. Seehofer declined to be interviewed.
Initially the Germans were delighted...
As Germans greeted refugees in Munich with sweets, toys and hugs, Mr. Orban told Ms. Merkel by phone her decision undermined the fight against illegal immigration and lured migrants to Europe, aides to each say. He lambasted German and Austrian volunteers who drove into Hungary to give Syrians a lift: “Legally they are human traffickers. Is that what you want?”
He told her Hungary was fencing off its southern border. If all EU countries did the same, he said, the crisis would end. “The Hungarian solution,” he said, “is the only solution.”
Ms. Merkel replied that if Europe wanted a wall, it would have to be high and defended with violence against civilians, and Greece could hardly wall the Aegean Sea. A fence might work for Hungary, she told Mr. Orban, but she sought answers for all Europe.
... But then the mood at home turned decidedly sour:
Backlash built against Ms. Merkel at home, where pro-refugee euphoria faded while as many as 10,000 arrived daily. Local governments struggled to house and feed them. In overstretched Bavaria, Mr. Seehofer threatened to sue the federal government unless Ms. Merkel set a cap on arrivals.
She dismissed the demand. “If we have to start apologizing now for showing a friendly face in emergencies,” she told reporters, “then this is not my country.” She knew she had to convince voters the situation wasn’t out of control. Immersing herself in the logistics of accommodating migrants, she learned details about heated tents and housing containers. She tightened rules on asylum-seekers’ benefits. She pushed for EU migrant-processing centers in Greece and Italy to block bogus asylum claimants.
Merkel then did half a U-turn, doing everything in her power to court not only Turkey but Eastern European nations in hopes they would accommodate the bulk of the refugees.
She courted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whom she had long mistrusted but whose help she needed to reduce the migrant flow. Mr. Erdogan’s demands, EU officials say, included money for refugee camps, visa-free European travel for Turks, revitalizing stalled talks on EU membership and regular summits with EU leaders. Visiting Istanbul in October, Ms. Merkel told him she was willing to talk about everything. One problem: Her party opposes Turkey’s joining the EU.
No problem: two weekends ago, Turkey was fast tracked for EU accession, with visa requirements set to be reduced, even as Turkey gets billions in "aid" to help with the refugee settlement
Then it was the Balkans' turn:
Balkan countries struggled with the buildup of migrants south of Hungary, whose anti-migrant fence created bottlenecks elsewhere. And many governments criticized Greece for waving migrants through.
At a summit of countries along the Balkan migration trail, called at Ms. Merkel’s behest, leaders warned they would build fences if Germany closed its border. Ms. Merkel said that, having grown up in communist East Germany, she opposed walling off countries but that there might be no alternative unless Greece and others helped manage the flow.
Under German pressure, the Balkan countries agreed to put up 100,000 people until the EU could find long-term homes. By November, far more were entering Europe. Germany alone expects to receive a million asylum-seekers this year.
When it came to vassal state Greece, Germany, pardon Europe, had a simple solution: threaten the country with expulsion from Schengen and an indefinite isolation from the European Union. Greece promptly threw in the towel and handed over control of its border to Brussels.
Meanwhile, the Paris terrorist event has rendered Merkel's initial "welcoming" stance impossible:
The Paris attacks have made Ms. Merkel’s remedies harder to sell. Eastern European leaders are still balking at taking Muslim refugees, although the EU quota decision is binding. Mr. Orban blames Germany’s open-door policy for admitting terrorists. “We are monitoring every Muslim in our territory,” Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico said publicly after visiting the French embassy there following the Paris attacks. He declined to comment.
In the end the biggest loser may be Europe itself, whose "union" is unraveling before our eyes. However, before Europe falls, the first casualty will be the person for whom a united Europe, at any means and at any cost, will be her one legacy, or perhaps epitaph.
In Germany, pressure on the chancellor is mounting inside her coalition. At their Nov. 19 party congress, Mr. Seehofer’s Bavarian conservatives voted to cap migration. Ms. Merkel told the congress turning refugees away was unworkable: “Isolation is not a solution in the 21st century.” Applause was sparse.
“You know we’re unrelenting,” Mr. Seehofer replied. “You haven’t heard the last of this.” He earned a thunderous ovation.
How does this end? Keep an eye on Merkel's "scariest chart" for hints: unless Germany can stem the influx of refugees (while making other European nations increasingly angry and unhappy with their lot in the EU) the damage to Germany's chancellor (who once cried when faced with the prospect of a Greek default) inflicted by five years of an insolvency European periphery will seem like a walk in the park compared to what the "refugee tsunami" will unleash first in Germany and then across all of Europe.
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Wolves ask the same of domesticated dogs.
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Why scared ?
Votes for Merkel increased by 210,000 in November alone.
When Germany goes under Merkel will flee to Russia and live happily ever after.
She hopes !
The irony here is incredible. No other single individual has been more responsible for the prospect of war and unrest in the union/region than her. What is crazier her winning this award or Obama winning the peace prize?
The rise of the Hun is emerging once again, will the fatherland engage to meet its greatest challenge in the processes of evolution and upliftment of the mortal races?
Immigration is nothing more than QE4. Decreasing population rates need to be offset. The only problem is that there are no jobs for these people, so they will heavily rely on welfare. I for one, applaud Germany, because they are actually testing this BS theory of open boarders.
Secondly pro uncheck-immigration folks thinks those against are bigots. In fact this will only increase anti immigration bigotry as society stresses increase. There will be an rise of and uber-trump maybe closer to hitler as a result.
These big gov loving liberals seem to want to regulate the piss out of everything. Except immigration?
If you are going to let massive amounts of people in, you better at least have quotas for different ethnicities. Otherwise you are growing one massive group that will not need to assimilate. They will simply bring their country here.
So thank you again Germany. I just hope the issues emerge before we have brought in 20 mil immigrates with no jobs to give them. It is all about employment and no one has it.
Citation Zerohedge: "Initially the Germans were delighted..."
No - most of the Germans were never delighted - our state broadcasters and politically driven mainstream press was "delighted". Critical citizens were immediately discriminated as extreme right-wings.
This is a little and delicate difference....
Hi netter nick, ich hab hunger
At this rate I'm gonna have to move to Russia, where it is still European.
Not Moscow then ;)
Everything seems to be working out well. If you're a member of a small group of oligarchs, the last thing you want is a nation of individuals who are highly educated, highly productive, and well-informed. The solution to that problem it is to reduce that population to a herd of mongrels that can be more easily controlled. Things are moving along nicely.
The bankers are happy.
May her next muticultural selfie come out of prison.
"In past years, Angela Merkel has been feted like a superstar at annual meetings of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, earning thunderous ovations for defending German interests in the euro crisis and facing down Vladimir Putin over Ukraine. But a CDU congress in the southwestern city of Karlsruhe next week is shaping up to be a very different affair. Under intense pressure from conservative allies to reduce the flood of refugees into Germany, the 61-year-old chancellor faces the biggest test of her authority"
Merkel has been a complete tool of Washington. It is clear to most people that her entire life's records, phone calls, internett use, private cables, private letters, etc. are all sitting safely in the NSA and CIA file on her. Her communist past is documented from pre teen years. There is nothing she has ever said, written or done that is not on file in Washington.
The famous phrase " We will take them all" , was a direct order from neo-Con Washington. As part of Washington's plan to weaken Europe in the future, so it can never be a rival, but only a loyal follower, Washington ordered Merkel to open the flood gates to millions of Muslims, all eager for free social benefits from Germany, and the other rich western Eruopean Nations. The influx will weaken the social order, and speed the day when no nationality will exist, all will be uniformly non-ethnic, non-racial. Each will be a uniform cog in American Europe. Crippled by the costs of mass migration, and torn apart by the ending of a dozen distinct European cultures, Europe will flounder as a second rate power always on the edge. Giving Washington both control and NATO control.
Merkel is a willing destroyer of all western europe. She hates all the western European cultures and ethnic groups, her liberal dream is a new European man. Non-White, Non-Christian, with no national loyalty. Just a consumer and willing soldier for NATO and the EU. Merkels dream is to see Europe look like the movie remake of "The Time Machine", where the hero goes into the future and all mankind is the same race, brown, black haired and unfamiliar with ethincity. A uniform race, Merkel is the Trojan Horse inside 2 thousands years of culture, and 36 thousand years of race and ethnicity. She hopes to expunge this history, all to please Washington, to please social liberals, and to please the corporate world. The corporate world wants to deal with and control a single uniform human population, all doing as media instructs, consuming, slaving, pay taxes, and silent.
Very well said. She is EVEN MORE than just the best employee of the DEUTSCHE BANK.
I would say Merkel is just a little bit overestimated.
She is a person without any opinion, without any idea of the country she is governing (...for the first time she passed the West German frontier with 35 - without any social adjustment or orientation phase. Her experience of West Germany is reduced to what she watched throughout the bulletproof glass of her first minister limousine...). Merkels cupboard ist full of skeletons - that makes she the perfect submissive political muppet to be a German chancellor.
The Coudehoven-Kalergi plan in full swing.
Moin Moin,
this is a picture from a race hygene fair in dresden.
Recognise the flag???
https://ixquick-proxy.com/do/spg/show_picture.pl?l=english&rais=1&oiu=ht...
Merkel is B'nai B'rith lodge. Need more Info?
http://www.zentralratdjuden.de/de/article/1596.b-nai-brith-auszeichnung-...
Who owns Time Magazine???
Greetings from Germany
Doing as she is told....muslims being used to disrupt ...soon to be culled in the middle east...along with a lot of the rest of us...
Raped Swedish woman didn't want to call the police: ''I feel sorry for him because he is a refugee''
There was a swedish medical doctor. She was raped by 6 or 8 of theses F***'S. She didn't report it at first, but a month later she quietly admitted to it, because that would't be nice for the athmosphere. HOW SICK CAN ONE BE???
Ask Mr Assange about the idiosyncracies of "Swedish" sex!.
Yes, I remember that story.
It is called the 'Stockholm syndrome'.
The scariest? Really? She only cares about Zio agenda and she has been doing really well. Its a major success!
From Germany:
All calm here. Migrant numbers decreasing, because some borders on the balkan have been closed. Also I think the migrants are not stupid and know they will freeze to death on the balkan route once the winter comes with temperatures of minus 10 or minus 20 Celsius (14 Fahrenheit to -4 Fahrenheit) so many probably postpone their journey to March 2016.
2016 will be the year of tough decisions and the year when everything will change, the question is to what.
Ironically 1938 the Time Person of the Year was Adolf Hitler, shortly after Germany went to war.
2015 Time chooses Merkel as person of the Year, and one day later the Germany army is on their way to join the war in Syria.
The populace still isn't worried too much about migrants. Those that are, are labeled "Nazis", and that keeps the others from admitting they are worried.
The only ones admitting openly and very strictly they don't want any more migrants coming in are my friends around here who came originally from Africa or Persia. They can do that because they can hardly be labeled "Nazis"
"Ironically 1938 the Time Person of the Year was Adolf Hitler, shortly after Germany went to war."
If 1938 was the year Hitler marched into Austria (Österreich), it was not war. It was Anschluss, or the annexation of Austria. The Austrians were eager to join Germany. Der wirkliche Krieg begann am 3. September 1939.
Bis spaeter, dude.
That's why I said shortly after. Also today the Arabs are eager to join Germany.
Improving demographics are good for the economy and inflation/GDP.
Hitler was person of the year...too.....
http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1936/1101360413_400.jpg
And he actually earned the title. http://thegreateststorynevertold.tv/
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tOxGRvRERJM/VmZWkWt1wvI/AAAAAAAAeaw/P62_8UiWcF...
Germans are National Socialists and have never stopped even after the defeat of the Nazi. However, the only thing that changed was the race war. Instead of Jews, it turned against the White Race.
The Progressives now feel they can openly diminish the White Race in Germany with impunity.
That is a big mistake and once again we will see Nazi's rise to power in Germany. The problem that you get will be if in the same Counter Revolution, the White Race in the US turns not to Capitalism but stops short and merely become Nazis and wage their race war on Blacks and illegal Hispanics.
One thing that Progressives do not understand is Capitalists are not racists; the two don't mix but National Socialists are always racists as it is a necessary part of National Socialism.
TAPERING
Now i know why "I'm dreaming of a WHITE Christmas"
Ja ja ...Jeremy Clarkson said, or someone else,,, white.
I am very saddened by Germany committing suicide, I loved living there.
BUT
I am SO VERY GRATEFUL that I sold out and moved out in 2010.
Me, too, although I sold up and moved out a lot earlier.
Isn't it peculiar how they make charts about refugee numbers but never about the COSTS???? That's what matters. Who cares really if a family from XYZ lives down the road (assuming the children are reasonably well mannered) - if you have to pay for their apartment, food, and schooling you get negative vibes every time you see them. Someone needs to get up at 6.00 am to pay for it all.
I predicted Merkel going by the end of 2015, von der Leyen has already been approved by Bilderberg. But Time Magazine has caused a delay now, but not more than 6 months, I reckon.
Humans love their cults of personality....I actually think its in their DNA for some reason, lost to the sands of time....
And with politicians representing:
1. Greed - Wanting too much of something.
2. Gluttony - Similar to greed, but gluttony is the action of taking too much of something in.
3. Lust - The need to fulfill unspiritual desires (not just sexual desires, but this is usually what lust is associated with.)
4. Envy - Jealousy; wanting to have what someone has.
5. Sloth - Being too slow or lazy at doing something.
6. Wrath - Vindictive anger; angry revenge.
7. Pride - Being too self-satisfied
Whats not to like?........
Germany is fine Sweden is fucked. They took in between 9500 to 10500 per.fucking.week. during the summer. They are sleeping in migration offices and under bridges. Tent cities are planned to house thousands.
This is accurate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KSJY0c8QWw
true but there is one point that sweden has going for it: they weren't the 'bad guys' in the war and thus lack an oversensitive historical perspectieve on foreigners. this is a problem DE (but also NL and probably a few other countries in the region) do have. "whatever we do, we cannot be compared to the guys 70 years ago".
Germany is fine Sweden is fucked. They took in between 9500 to 10500 per.fucking.week. during the summer. They are sleeping in migration offices and under bridges. Tent cities are planned to house thousands.
This is accurate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KSJY0c8QWw
US Granary needs replenishment for the RATS so what better way to do than to raid the Western Alliance's coffers. Never mind the immigrants who are moving into future wastelands (temporairly better than their homes). It is all about fund flows not the preys. Gated cities matter in the future not nations, culture, etc. Go Global.
The fact Merkel was "person of the year" demonstrates that the predators-that-be believe she needs more PR-repair than any other predator-that-be.
Everything "official" today is A BIG FAT LIE.
actually, I am wondering what the real Zionists think of this all. Rather than being surrounded by a couple of (relatively weak) Arab countries which can be contained with the help of white christian western countries, Israel will be surrounded by Arab countries and a Muslim dominated europe in a couple of years. Sounds like a bad deal to me.
what am i missing?
Former STASI asset, code name "Erika", Merkill is even more hated than that other infamous USSAN funded stooge of the Anglozionazi Empire of Chaos, Onkel Adolf. But considering the origins of the dreaded empire...Germanic tribes of Goths, Vandals, Angles and Saxons who should be surprised as the treachery coagulates in a global mess. United Snakes of Urupp slithers out of its hole in the pedophile politburo of BrUSsel$.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxons