Councils refuse to reveal number of homes they give to foreigners: Authorities stop giving figures amid worries over impact of immigration

Many people I am sure have their own standard about where a government passes that fulcrum into totalitarianism. There are lots of markers where this could be reasonably argued. For me, it is where a government hides information from the public for fear that the public would object to, or attempt to alter public policy. I accept that in war time, some things may be kept secret. But what is the excuse in domestic policy such as this?

From the Daily Mail:

  • MPs have called for an inquiry into the suppression of council house information
  • Last year the Government acknowledged that nearly 800,000 public-owned houses are occupied by foreigners

By Steve Doughty

PUBLISHED: 00:49 GMT, 3 January 2013 | UPDATED: 07:55 GMT, 3 January 2013

Councils are trying to cover up the number of taxpayer-subsidised homes they are handing to foreigners, it was claimed yesterday.

Local authorities have stopped giving figures for how many houses and flats they have given to foreign citizens amid rising worries over the impacts of immigration, a report said.

Councils in London, where one in five publicly-financed homes are already known to be occupied by foreigners, are among those no longer supplying the figures.

Refusal: Local authorities have stopped giving figures for how many houses and flats they have given to foreign citizens amid rising worries over the impacts of immigration, a report saidRefusal: Local authorities have stopped giving figures for how many houses and flats they have given to foreign citizens amid rising worries over the impacts of immigration, a report said

Now MPs have called for an inquiry into the suppression of information on who gets council and housing association homes.

Labour’s Frank Field and Tory Nicholas Soames said in a statement on behalf of the cross-party Balanced Migration group: ‘This is a huge issue for many people.

‘The Government must now launch a full inquiry into what is going on in the allocation of social housing in London.’

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200 families claiming housing benefit have 10 or more children as taxpayers face £150million bill for ‘benefit broods’

I can see this working out really well in the long run!

H/T EDL Buck

Daily Mail

  • At least 40,000 families with five or more children are getting extra payouts
  • The total handouts to these parents come to £350million a year

By Gerri Peev

PUBLISHED: 09:58 GMT, 31 December 2012 | UPDATED: 22:45 GMT, 31 December 2012

Nearly 200 households with ten or more children are costing the state £2million a year in housing benefit.

An estimated 380,000 households with more than two children rely on the handouts to pay their rent.

Some 42,000 of these have more than five children, receiving on average £7,500 for their housing costs. And 190 families have ten or more children, receiving on average £10,526 in housing benefit.

Enslaved: Rising unemployment has created an environment where the less well-off have become dependent on welfare, the study found. (File photo)Living on the state: At least one parent in 40,000 families with five or more children is claiming a welfare payout from the Government in addition to child benefit

Families with three or more children cost taxpayers some £2.3billion in housing benefits. The government has vowed to cut this back by imposing a cap on the maximum amount that can be claimed in welfare to £26,000 a year.

Cabinet ministers have also triggered controversy by urging welfare recipients to consider whether they can afford to have more children.

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‘I am very concerned for the well-being of Western culture’

 

Israel Hayom:

Professor Afshin Ellian was born in Iran, was persecuted by the ayatollah regime and was granted asylum in the Netherlands • He then became a philosopher and harsh critic of Islam • He talks about Europe’s weakness in the face of Islam and says that “without the State of Israel, the Iranian utopia is meaningless.”

Dror Eydar

The problem isn’t with Muslims, but fundamentalism. Iranian-born Professor Afshin Ellian.

Photo credit: Ziv Koren

Upon his arrival to Israel, Afshin Ellian was informed by Immigration that they would waive the stamping of his passport. He could not understand. “You were born in Iran,” he was explained. “Despite holding a Dutch passport, you are also Iranian, and an Israeli entry stamp in your passport is a punishable offense in Iran.” Ellian insisted. “No, please stamp my passport. It is an honor for me to be in Israel.”

Dr. Afshin Ellian, a Dutch professor of law, philosopher, poet and sharp critic of Islam, was born in Iran in 1966. The Iranian Revolution broke out when he was thirteen, and three years later he became a fugitive, wanted by the Ayatollah regime for forbidden political activity. He fled to Pakistan and from there to Soviet-ruled Afghanistan. In 1989, Ellian received political asylum in the Netherlands and subsequently pursued a career in legal academia. He also writes columns for several newspapers in the Netherlands and abroad. Due to his consistent criticism of the Iranian regime and certain aspects of Islam, a death fatwa has been issued against him.

 

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Three articles on the failure of cities to nations. Islam and socialism. Both cancers upon the world.

First, from a Russian writer. Thanks Hermes for this one.

Pravda.Ru

Why Depardieu, the rich and the poor flee France and Hollande

21.12.2012

By Nicolas Popov

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Is it a tempest in a glass of water, as would ask inspector Clouseau? I don’t know, may be. French superstar Gerard Depardieu wants to give back his passport ; he is tired of paying so much taxes, up to 85% of his income, tired too of being insulted repeatedly in a country where public insulting  has become a full-time job, involving now even the PM, his cabinet and a bunch of petty manipulators of opinion. If you study the case, you will find that the partisans of tax-raising are the worst warmongers too. Nobody is perfect, yet someone has the ability to be totally imperfect!

Depardieu is facing a French “new wave” of insults and sarcasms. Since the government’s official newspaper, Liberation, has insulted Bernard Arnault, the prestigious manager of LVMH and the richest man in Europe for having fled to Belgium (“scram, you rich jerk!”), nobody is spared by the French autocratic press, financed by public money and the unavoidable Rothschild heir, who enjoys wasting his money in crippled media. So the French star is being labelled a jerk, a lame-duck, a vile servant, even an asshole (in the front-page!) not to say worse… lately a French actor, a rather radical chic one, Philippe Torreton, used again the tribune of Liberation to insult our national Obelix! Yet our last national glory, Brigitte Bardot, has replied violently, as she is used to do: “The unknown Torreton, may keep his thrash, his vulgarity and his jealousy, his rage too to insult those who deserve better than him.” Dear BB: she is finally defending the Gauls, after having spent so much time in defending less valuable mammals!

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Detroit. How a city is poisoned by multiculturalism:

Thanks Don L

Detroit Yes

Default The Tragedy of Detroit – By Frosty Wooldridge

THE TRAGEDY OF DETROIT
This is a powerful message about the failure of the Great Society.

How in the world do we get out of this mess? This is a perfect example of how good intentions without good foresight can produce an absolute nightmare. Never underestimate the downside of human nature. The author of the following piece is a U.S. journalist who writes for seventeen national and two international magazines.

THE TRAGEDY OF DETROIT: HOW IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURALISM DESTROYED IT
By Frosty Wooldridge

For 15 years, from the mid 1970s to 1990, I worked in Detroit , Michigan. I watched it descend into the abyss of crime, debauchery, gun play, drugs, school truancy, car-jacking, gangs and human depravity. I watched entire city blocks burned out. I watched graffiti explode on buildings, cars, trucks, buses and school yards. Trash was everywhere! Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it and just ignored it.

Tens of thousands and then, hundreds of thousands today exist on federal welfare, free housing and food stamps! With Aid to
Dependent Children, minority women birthed eight to 10 and, in one case, one woman birthed 24 kids as reported by the Detroit Free Press-all on American taxpayer dollars. A new child meant a new car payment, new TV and whatever mom wanted. I saw Lyndon Baines Johnson’s “Great Society” flourish in Detroit. If you give money for doing nothing, you will get more hands out to take money for doing nothing.

Mayor Coleman Young, perhaps the most corrupt mayor in America, outside of Richard Daley in Chicago, rode Detroit down to its knees. He set the benchmark for cronyism, incompetence and arrogance. As a black man, he said, “I am the MFIC.” The IC meant ‘in charge’. You can figure out the rest. Detroit became a majority black city with 67 percent
African-Americans.

As a United Van Lines truck driver for my summer job from teaching math and science, I loaded hundreds of American families into my van for a new life in another city or state. Detroit plummeted from 1.8 million citizens to 912,000 today. At the same time, legal and illegal immigrants converged on the city, so much so, that Muslims number over 300,000. Mexicans number 400,000 throughout Michigan, but most work in Detroit .

As the whites moved out, the Muslims moved in. As the crimes became more violent, the whites fled. Finally, unlawful Mexicans moved in at a torrid pace. Detroit suffers so much shoplifting that grocery stores no longer operate in many inner city locations.

You could cut the racial tension in the air with a knife! Detroit may be one our best (extreme) examples of multiculturalism: pure dislike and total separation from America!

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Germans are easy prey:

A translation by Hermes on Gates of Vienna:

Lebanese clans in Germany

As a lacuna in today’s Christmas cheer, consider this article from Sezession about the ascendancy of Lebanese and Kurdish criminal gangs in parts of Germany. The criminal “youths” are able to act with near impunity, with the police and society at large almost helpless in the face of their violent criminality.

Many thanks to Hermes for the translation:

Germany: a “society of prey” — Kurdish-Lebanese clans and the helplessness of the constitutional state

While the federal government and the opposition in the Bundestag adamantly regard immigration as an indispensable contribution to Germany, the intensity of the conflicts between some groups of immigrants and German society is steadily increasing.

One example of this are many social problems caused by members of Kurdish-Lebanese clans in Berlin, Bremen, and Essen, cities which according to declarations from judicial authorities are out of control. As a consequence, the state and the society may face helplessly phenomena associated with this, such as violence and crime.

Regarding Lebanese clans, hierarchically organized groups meet strong ethnic self-awareness and a strong family cohesion which is supported by a large number of young men ready to fight a modern society composed of small families and with liberal institutions that can hardly assert themselves when facing this challenge.

An employee of the LKA Berlin had already pointed out the problem in detail in 2002. The Berlin youth court Judge Kirsten Heisig accused the Lebanese clans of “unrestrained degradation of society”, while the Berlin chief public prosecutor Roman Reusch warned in connection with them of “civil war-like conditions” in the city. An anonymous crime investigator mentioned that this group considers Germans to be “a society to be looted, both as born victims and losers,” and the sociologist Ralph Ghadban sees their behavior as a “threat to social peace.” A confidential report of the Conference of Interior Ministers stated several years ago that any attempt of integration regarding this group had failed and that the dismantling of these criminal structures with a corresponding ethnic background would be possible in the best of cases “only in certain areas”. The chairman of the Police Federation in Berlin, Eberhard Schönberg, spoke in this regard about “the state’s complete loss of authority”.

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The most violent country in Europe: Britain is also worse than South Africa and U.S.

And wouldn’t you know it, England is a ‘gun free zone’.

Daily Mail:

By James Slack
UPDATED: 18:14 EST, 2 July 2009

Britain’s violent crime record is worse than any other country in the European union, it has been revealed.

Official crime figures show the UK also has a worse rate for all types of violence than the U.S. and even South Africa – widely considered one of the world’s most dangerous countries.

The figures comes on the day new Home Secretary Alan Johnson makes his first major speech on crime, promising to be tough on loutish behaviour.

Britain even has a worse violence rate than South AfricaBritain has an even worse violence rate than South Africa (file picture)

The Tories said Labour had presided over a decade of spiralling violence.

In the decade following the party’s election in 1997, the number of recorded violent attacks soared by 77 per cent to 1.158million – or more than two every minute.

The figures, compiled from reports released by the European Commission and United Nations, also show:

  • The UK has the second highest overall crime rate in the EU.
  • It has a higher homicide rate than most of our western European neighbours, including France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
  • The UK has the fifth highest robbery rate in the EU.
  • It has the fourth highest burglary rate and the highest absolute number of burglaries in the EU, with double the number of offences than recorded in Germany and France.

But it is the naming of Britain as the most violent country in the EU that is most shocking. The analysis is based on the number of crimes per 100,000 residents.

In the UK, there are 2,034 offences per 100,000 people, way ahead of second-placed Austria with a rate of 1,677.

league of shame

The U.S. has a violence rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents, Canada 935, Australia 92 and South Africa 1,609.

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Britain will be ‘swamped’ by TB unless high-risk immigrants are routinely given blood tests, experts warn

Daily Mail:

  • 9,000 cases of tuberculosis in the UK last year – up 5% on the year before
  • Immigrants currently screened using chest X-ray
  • But experts argue this 100-year-old method only spots people with advanced disease, meaning many with no symptoms are missed
  • Calling for blood test used in the U.S. to be standard test

By Anna Hodgekiss

PUBLISHED: 07:01 EST, 7 December 2012 | UPDATED: 11:16 EST, 7 December 2012

Britain will be 'swamped' by tuberculosis unless new measures to diagnose the diseaseBritain will be ‘swamped’ by tuberculosis unless new measures to diagnose the disease

A leading doctor has warned that Britain will be ‘swamped’ by tuberculosis unless new measures to diagnose the disease in immigrants are introduced.

The disease, which was rife in Britain until the 1950s, is an increasing and worrying problem in urban areas. Rising immigration has seen a surge in cases in the last 20 years.

Under current rules, new immigrants from countries where TB is common are required to have chest X-rays before being allowed into Britain.

But doctors argue this century-old method only spots active TB once it is already destroying the lungs – meaning cases are often diagnosed far too late.

Other countries such as the U.S. use a blood test, which can detect the latent TB in those not displaying any symptoms. Cases have fallen since this technique was introduced in 2007.

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Tanks on the streets of Cairo after seven people die in violent clashes over Morsi’s bid for absolute power

H/T EDL Buck

Daily Mail

  • Seven killed and hundreds injured as rival supporters clash outside palace
  • Military move in but vow not to oppress demonstrators
  • Bloodiest battle since last year’s uprising that brought down Hosni Mubarak
  • Opponents of President Morsi say his rule is ‘no different’

By Steve Robson

PUBLISHED: 09:23 GMT, 6 December 2012 | UPDATED: 17:20 GMT, 6 December 2012

The Egyptian army was today patrolling the streets of Cairo after deadly clashes between supporters and opponents of the country’s Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi.

Seven people have been killed and almost 500 injured as the tension which has building since the President assumed near total powers over the country threatens to erupt.

Supporters of Mr Morsi attacked his opponents who had gathered to protest outside the presidential palace overnight.

Moving in: An Egyptian Army tank deploys near the presidential palace to secure the site after overnight clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed MorsMoving in: An Egyptian Army tank deploys near the presidential palace to secure the site after overnight clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi

 

Peaceful: Egyptian Army generals have promised that they have moved in to keep the peace between rival groups who have clashed outside the presidential palace Peaceful: Egyptian Army generals have promised that they have moved in to keep the peace between rival groups who have clashed outside the presidential palace

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Video from Magic Martin:

Violence in Egyptian streets grows till it resembles a Saudi wedding

Thanks for keeping us up to speed Martin

The fireworks starting at about 1:20 is the highlight of this one.

Wadayagonna bet that now no one will be able to buy fireworks.

Below: Everything on fire.

Attempted kidnapping of two women

This is interesting viewing. Major stand off between the nicely equipped police and what look like fairly well regimented secularists with makeshift rock shields out of corrugated steel or tin. People are wearing rock-protect-head-gear reminiscent of the heady days of Tahrir Sq. when the revolution that ousted Mubarak brought them the Ikhwan.

Seriously escalating violence in the streets. This is bordering on the surreal. Even for Egypt as of late. Once again, thoughts wishes and hopes for the secularists. And how wonderful that somewhere in the world there are people brave enough to stand up to the Islamic fascists that would obliterate everything of value in human existence. We, the readers of this site, all have a dog in this fight. The supporters of this site know who that dog is. May the Ikhwan be defeated, crushed and treated every bit as harshly as they would treat us if they succeed and may Egypt know its full potential as an enlightened state after that. Below, people are robbing firetrucks of their axes and other potential weapons

The video below is chaotic even for war. The google translation of this clip says that its “war in front of the federal palace” and goes on to say, “The streets either short war between federal forces civil opposition to the policies of Mohamed Morsi, between his militia that carried out the attack on peaceful demonstrators, carrying cartridge and live bullets and Almlotov and rebels responded with brick”

At 45 seconds, someone fires a gun from behind the makeshift shields

According to the news, this demo is called, ‘Morsi’s last warning’. Lets hope he doesn’t heed it and the secular mob crushes Ikhwan for good.

More chaos and pandemonium. Live rounds, shotgun shells found

Fireworks and Molotov’s ignite violence at presidential palace:

Everything in flames

Muslim Brotherhood guy injured. Korans and fancy hats all around

Violence in Tunisia: already 5 days of rioting in Siliana

H/T Magic Martin

Translation: Michael Laudahn

Ici France

Tunisia riot map

 

Riots have erupted saturday for the fifth day in a row in Siliana, epicentre of Tunisian ire vis-a-vis the hopes deceived by the 2011 revolution, and violence has also occurred at a neighbouring town, according to witnesses.
Like these past days, some hundred youngsters have attacked police in Siliana throwing stones, and one officer was injured at his head, according to an AFP journalist.

The forces of order have responded by shooting a major amount of teargas, while protesters again constructed barriers made of tyres and burning branches.

Some 20 km away from Siliana, in Bargou, inhabitants have blocked a road and thrown stones at police vehicles rolling towards Tunis, according to witnesses and a security source. The forces of order responded by using teargas.

Meanwhile, negotiations have been under way in Tunis between the government and trade union representatives, who claim the retreat of police reinforcements, the resignation of the Siliana gouvernor, and an economic assistance plan for this disadvantaged region.

Still in Tunis, 200 persons demonstrated – like the past days – before the interior ministry at Avenue Habib Bourguiba, supporting the population of Siliana who they consider a victim of police repression.

The rulers fear an expansion to other regions, and say to refuse to cede to violence, while riots already have erupted in two more tunisian cities, during the night from friday to saturday.

The demands expressed in Siliana remind of those at the 2011 revolution’s origin, the government – under leadership of the islamist Ennahda party – being accused to have failed in its economic policy. Since the start of the violence, some 300 persons have been injured.

More videos below the fold.

Thanks to Magic Martin for digging them up for us.

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Violence against Bremen citizens: Expel the chronic offenders, along with their parents

Translation by Michael Laudahn

From Bild. De

The first borough burgomaster (SPD) [socialist] uses plain speech / Expel the chronic offenders, along with their parents

1 Blumenthal borough burgomaster Peter Nowack sides with the peaceful citizens

Melitta H (89) was beaten and almost killed by a chronic offender (15)

2 Melitta H (89) was beaten and almost killed by a chronic offender (15)

These neighbors living in the calm section of the street wish to finally live securely and peacefully

3 These neighbours living in the calm section of the street wish to finally live securely and peacefully
Blumenthal ñ On George Albrecht-Strasse we find Bremen’s worst horror housing area.

Police sorties are a daily occurrence here. Robberies, threats, thefts, drug trafficking, violence. A female pensioner (89) was beaten and almost killed by a chronic offender (15). The few honest residents live in fear. Now, borough burgomaster Peter Nowack (SPD) demands that politicians and authorities intervene rigorously. The social democrat is the first [official] to talk turkey.

‘The carrot-and-stick method does no longer work. Tell them there are no more carrots. I am fed up with the condition that some clans, mostly roma, make the government pay for almost anything, but consider the street an area immune from prosecution. Even they need to exert discipline, obey rules and laws. Those who don’t must no longer be pampered.’

The last major incident was in the middle of october, when 20 patrol cars had to intervene, in order to terminate a punchfest involving 50 residents. According to the police, it was mostly serbs and arabs using knives, clubs and teargas.

Neighbour Ramona Nomigkeit dares no longer let her child (8) play outside all alone: ‘These criminal gangs spit at us, swear at us and steal from us.’ Also neighbour Irene Boschen is fearful: ‘They bellow at us, ‘Fucking germans’, even had displayed a sign between their houses reading, ‘No entry for germans’.’

Already in 2008, interior senator Ulrich Mäurer (61, SPD) declared the street a social hotspot. ‘The clans originating from different ethnic groups make the neighbourhood insecure by provoking appearances, targetted disturbing actions and crime.’ In 2011, the interior authority [headed by Mäurer] made the street enter the ‘List of dangerous places’ in Bremen. Nothing has changed since then.

Borough burgomaster Nowack demands drastic measures: ‘For example the 15-year old boy, who is in remand for attempted murder of the 89-year old pensioner. He is not an EU citizen. In his case, I expect to see him condemned, then expelled along with his parents. For if a youngster like him commits more than 100 criminal acts, then also his mother and father have failed.’
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Syria has disappeared from the Internet

Fox:

Published November 29, 2012

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    In this image taken from video obtained from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a Free Syrian Army fighter fires his weapon toward a military tank, unseen, in Daraa, Syria, on Tuesday, Nov. 27 2012. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

A few hours ago, Syria, the Middle Eastern country in the middle of an especially bloody civil war, disappeared from the Internet.

The research firm Renesys, which keeps track of the status and health of the technical underpinnings of the Internet around the world, just reported that at 10:26 UTC this morning — which, by my watch, would have been 5:26 am ET — effectively all of Syria’s international Internet connectivity shut down.

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Thieves are stealing birds and eggs for the dinner table, say shocked witnesses.

Now and again you may hear an ‘ignorant redneck’ in a Western country say something like: “Why do these people come here to get away from the complete dump they turned their own nation into, then proceed immediately to turn our country into the exact kind of dump they ran away from?”

Well I don’t know why other than the Islamic thing. But this isn’t a bad example of how.

This story goes right to the heart of the concepts of the savage Vs. the civilized man. The civilized man works cooperatively with others in order to have public parks and to allow wildlife to thrive instead of selfishly extinguishing life from an area all protect with not just taxes, but more importantly, restraint. It simply wouldn’t occur to us to do this. When we want food, we rely on ancient inventions called, ‘agriculture’ and animal husbandry in order to get it. As opposed to stealing it from a public trust.

H/T Michael Laudahn

New Zealand Herald:

Thieves are stealing birds and eggs for the dinner table, say shocked witnesses.
A spate of brazen thefts - and slaughter - of park dwelling birds from city parks has stunned onlookers. Photo / Greg Bowker

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A spate of brazen thefts – and slaughter – of park dwelling birds from city parks has stunned onlookers. Photo / Greg Bowker

Wild birds including ducks, geese and pheasants are being poached from public parks in Auckland and being turned into dinner.

Witnesses told the Herald they have seen birds being caught with nets and hooks, and some even having their necks wrung in front of shocked onlookers at Cornwall Park and Western Springs.

Ram Patel said he was “totally stunned” when he saw two Asian men catching a goose and a duck using a net at Western Springs last Tuesday, and then taking them away in a canvas bag.

“At first I thought they were park rangers or something but realised they were poachers when I saw them driving off in an old Japanese car,” he said.

Mr Patel, 21, a student living in Mt Roskill, said the two men had a bag of eggs with them which he believed were also collected from the park.

“They were really rough with the animals and didn’t care if they lived or died when they were shoved into the bag, which made me think that these people wanted them for food and not pets.”

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Excerpts of depressing Swiss documentary on the state of Europe today.

Hermes watched the whole 55 minute documentary for us and translated about 7 minutes of it which we titled and posted here. Here is a link to the whole documentary for anyone who would like to see it all (in German) and although the idea was to only include the translated bits, there was a short segment showing Greece’s Golden Dawn that, while not translated or subtitled, I couldn’t resist including as it pretty much settles any dispute about their ideological roots.

Thank you Hermes and Gates of Vienna for all the work involved in this.