AlterMainstreamInfo — IMF’S RECIPE FOR EUROPE: “WITH LOW WAGE EXPLOIT THE REFUGEES’

The International Monetary Fund in January published a report which calls on European countries to accept the majority of refugees and to temporarily employ and pay them with less than the guaranteed minimum wage.

The IMF in its report recommended the implementation of short-term differentiation between asylum seekers and EU citizens through “temporary” and limited deviations from the minimum wage for refugees.…

South Front
IMF’S RECIPE FOR EUROPE: “WITH LOW WAGE EXPLOIT THE REFUGEES’
Published at AlterMainstreamInfo, translated by Mario Andrijasevic exclusively for SouthFront

Tony Cartalucci — Social Engineering 101: How to Make a Refugee Crisis

I have to admit that that when this first surfaced some time ago, I thought it was likely just conspiracy theory. However, now my outlook has shifted. Neoliberalism and neoconservatism are really beyond the pale, and nothing seems improbable now.

New Eastern Outlook
Social Engineering 101: How to Make a Refugee Crisis

Tony Cartalucci

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Numbers can go a long way toward filling that gap. For example: According to annual figures from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, released on Thursday, in 2014 there were almost 60 million refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) around the globe right now. Put another way, that’s one in every 122 people worldwide. Put yet another way, that’s roughly the equivalent of the entire population of Italy being pushed out of their homes.

Not since World War II have there been so many refugees or IDPs. (Finding definitive numbers is tough, but the UN reports that the number of refugees and IDPs last exceeded 50 million during the Second World War, an astonishing figure given that the global population was significantly smaller then.) The annual Global Peace Index, released on Wednesday and based on the number of refugees and IDPs recorded through the end of 2013, offers some more detail about how the number got so high. Most of the growth in that period was actually not from refugees—that number had grown a comparatively scant 23 percent between 2004 and 2013—but among IDPs, or those uprooted within their home country, whose ranks had swelled by more than 300 percent since in that time.

Unsurprisingly, many of these people are concentrated in the Middle East and in particular in Iraq and Syria, where ISIS’s advance and the Syrian civil war have driven many people from their homes. A third of the world’s refugees come from those two nations alone. The Global Peace Index reported that more than 9.5 million Syrians, or 43 percent of the Syrian population, had been displaced. Last year, Uri Friedman dug deeper into displacement in Syria; Alan Taylor this week compiled a powerful gallery of Syrians attempting to get over the Turkish border and escape ISIS fighters.

The Atlantic
Violence Has Forced 60 Million People From Their Homes
David A. Graham