The Ideology of Failure

by Stephen Pax Leonard

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  Source: Rob Wainright, Director of Europol. The figure was used in a European Parliament briefing: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/EPRS/EPRS-Briefing-548980-Foreign-fighters-FINAL.pdf

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  Source: article in the Östgötakorrespondenten, the 29th of December, 2009.

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  The Middle East Media Research Institute TV Monitor Project (MEMRI) has a whole library of recordings. Available at: http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/4970.htm

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  Source: http://www.thelocal.se/discuss/lofiversion/index.php/t44886.html

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  Source: http://www.thelocal.se/20111020/36866

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  Source: Foreign Policy article, February 2016.

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  Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcsG-u2GtZE

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  Source: http://www.thelocal.se/20150202/eight-swedes-questioned-over-ferry-gang-rape

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  The artist won US$15,000 for the work and was paid US$5,000 of tax-payers’ money to do the exhibit.

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  Source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (2014).

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  Even in the 2016 Swedish Government Budget Statement, the Government describes its philosophy as ‘feminist’: ‘The proposals are informed by a feminist philosophy based on…’. Available at: http://www.government.se/articles/2015/09/the-2016-budget-in-five-minutes/

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  Available at: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Freedom-of-the-Press-Act-of-1766

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  Available at: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Press%20Subsidies%20%26%20Local%20News%20the%20Swedish%20Case_0.pdf

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  Source: SVT debate, 27th September 2013.

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  Available at: https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2015/sweden

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  Available at: https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2016/sweden

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  Available at: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0021/23952/subsidies.pdf

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  Private individuals are not allowed to own satellite dishes in some countries such as Singapore where the People’s Action Party (PAP) has maintained its unbroken rule in Government since 1959. One reason contributing to the ruling party’s predominance is their strong control of the Press and the news media.

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  Source: http://www.pressreference.com/Sw-Ur/Sweden.html

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  Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-baltimore-secret-surveillance/

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  It is perhaps worth pausing for thought at this moment, and bearing in mind that the US is a country that has, with the exception of five years, been at war for its entire existence.

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  Source: https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/do-swedes-do-internet-policy-and-regulation-sweden-snapshot

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  Available at: http://www.globalresearch.ca/swedish-intelligence-service-spying-on-russia-for-us-national-security-agency/5362967

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  Source: http://www.svt.se/ug/read-the-snowden-documents-from-the-nsa

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  In Romania, I have seen great crowds queue to enter churches at Easter in the way that shoppers in the West queue outside department stores on Boxing Day.

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  Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/01/belgian-priest-stabbed-in-his-home-after-refusing-to-give-cash-t/

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  Source: http://www.loc.gov/law/foreign-news/article/norway-change-in-churchstate-relations/

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  Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwPPRYl0xQE. An extraordinary speech which he must have regretted after the change in the political climate in France eight years later when he lost the the Republican candidacy to Fillon.

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  Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q94syUDDhxA

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  Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18519395

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  Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw

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  Source: T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

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  Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pk2UMqqyfY

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  Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb9QAUsUA98

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  Source: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06DAMASCUS5399_a.html

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  Readers might want to remind themselves of the contents of Victoria Nuland’s (US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the State Department) intercepted phone call where the extent of American plotting in the run-up to the overthrow of Yanukovich is detailed, and where she shouts ‘Fuck the EU’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QxZ8t3V_bk

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  Available at: https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/attach/133/133780_Foundations%20-%20-1.doc

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  It seems that Heidegger shared my concerns when he described the plight of many modern Germans as follows: ‘Hourly and daily they are chained to radio and television. Week after week the movies carry them off into uncommon, but often merely common realms of the imagination, and give the illusion of the world that is no world. Picture magazines are everywhere available. All that with which modern technologies of communication stimulate, assail, and drive man — all that is already much closer to man today than his fields around his farmstead, closer than the sky over the earth, closer than night over day, closer than the conventions and customs of the village, thus the tradition of his nature world’ (Notes on the Return and Kapital: 49).

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  Bernard Cazeneuve, the French Interior Minister, speaking in March 2016.

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  Source: Stockholm’s County Administrative Board, Länsstyrelsen, 2011.

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  Source: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Unemployment_statistics

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  Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSX2ALtIejw

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  Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhhdh6vwFW0

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  Available at: http://www.euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/news/refugee-crisis-reveals-fundamental-splits-in-european-political-parties/

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  Available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/21/the-next-e-u-president-says-islam-has-no-place-in-his-country/?utm_term=.f3668f5309f1

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  Available at: http://www.dteurope.com/politics/hungary/hungarian-pm-evaluates-2014.html

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  Available at: http://www.kormany.hu/en/the-prime-minister/the-prime-minister-s-speeches/the-next-years-will-be-about-hardworking-people

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  Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hnq5gEzZ8Q

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  Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2dgmKElZA8

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  Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuMTzyxAuzs

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  Source: Prof. Jenny Cheshire lecture, General Linguistics seminar, University of Oxford, 2015.

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  Source: See Projections of the Ethnic Minority Populations in the United Kingdom 2006-2056 (2010: 31-4, Conclusion), University of Oxford: ‘If overall net immigration continues as projected by the ONS, and if the ethnic distributions assumed here are even approximately correct, then the ethnic composition of the United Kingdom would be irreversibly transformed within the current century’.

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  Source: http://rowanwilliams.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/1135/sharia-law-what-did-the-archbishop
-actually-say

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  Source: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/11/british-muslims-strong-sense-of-belonging-poll-homosexuality-sharia-law

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  Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2f8nYMCO2I

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  Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85UjD5sWnlQ

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  It is wrong to assume that big economies are necessarily successful ones. Of the ten countries in the world with over 100 million people, only the US and Japan are prosperous, and both of those are indebted and in decline. In a context of free trade and globalisation, it is better to be a small, flexible economy. Evidence for this comes from Iceland which was bankrupt in 2008, but just a few years later was one of the fastest growing economies of Europe when other larger European economies were still stagnant.

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  Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/world/europe/15iht-union.4.13722883.html

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  Source: https://twitter.com/mediaserviceseu/status/748137210516504576

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  The UK would have struck a free trade deal with the US years ago (as the US has already done with Singapore and South Korea) had it not been part of the European Union, whose mass, complexity and multiple interests means every negotiation process is endless. Negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP, the proposed trade agreement between the EU and the US) have been going on for three years already (and now look to be completely dead-in-the-water) whereas the US-South Korea Free Trade Agreement was completed in thirteen months. It took the European Union four years to agree on the Chocolate Bill and issue a new directive. In October 2016, the Canadian Trade Minister, Chrystia Freeland, announced that the EU was ‘not capable’ of an international trade deal. ‘Not capable’ because twenty-eight countries cannot agree on anything except to pay the EU institutions’ useless officials’ inflated salaries for meddling with national sovereignty and for creating thousands of new, unneeded laws.

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  Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34468694

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  A former German President once put it as high as 84 per cent: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/8067510/Up-to-half-of-British-laws-come-from-Europe-House-of-Commons-Library-claims.html

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  Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/8067510/Up-to-half-of-British-laws-come-from-Europe-House-of-Commons-Library-claims.html

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  Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2f8nYMCO2I

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  Page 59 of the Eurobarometer 2013 report: http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/eb/eb79/eb79_publ_en.pdf

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  Source: http://www.cer.org.uk/sites/default/files/westerwelle_report_sept12.pdf

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  Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-urges-more-attacks-on-western-disbelievers-9749512.html

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  Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/26/men-hostages-french-church-police-normandy-saint-etienne-du-rouvray

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  Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/12121070/Migrant-fatally-stabs-female-refugee-centre-worker-in-Sweden-say-police.html

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  Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/36713031/more-than-40-sex-assaults-reported-at-two-swedish-festivals

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  Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/12188274/Police-warn-women-not-to-go-out-alone-in-Swedish-town-after-spate-of-sex-attacks.html

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  Source: World Affairs Journal (May/June 2015).

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  European Parliament Directorate General for External Policies: ‘The Involvement of Salafism/Wahabism in the support of arms to rebel groups around the world’ (2013).

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  In an interview with the Swedish newspaper Göteborgs-Posten, October 22, 2000.

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  Source: Ungt val (eng. Young Election/Choice) section of the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, March 15th 2002.

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  Source: The Telegraph, 18th July 2015.

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  Source: http://www.thelocal.se/20141014/former-swedish-mp-calls-minister-an-islamist

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  Source: http://www.ngo-monitor.org/reports/swedish_funding_for_hamas_terror_via_islamic_relief_worldwide_the_burden_of_proof_is_on_europe/

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  According to Stefan Jonsson, formerly of Dagens Nyheter and now a Professor of Ethnic Studies.

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  As reported by the Norwegian Minister of Finance, Siv Jensen, at a speech given at the Fremskrittspartiet annual meeting (2015).

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  Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/26/norway-to-pay-asylum-seekers-extra-money-to-leave/

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  Source: http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/NATO

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  Source: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/09/theresa-may-rejection-of-enlightenment-values

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  Source: http://www.ekonomifakta.se/Fakta/Arbetsmarknad/Fortidspensionerade-och-sjukskrivna/Sjukskrivna/

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  Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/opinion/sunday/cracks-in-the-liberal-order.html