Refugees land on Akrotiri
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Nomorefreetime,
I remember the incident well, the migrants landed at the bottom of the cliff in the only place that you couldn't climb up so we used the mighty Walter to lift them to the top. Had to use the helicopter like a crane or it would have taken all night with the slow winch.
The staish wasn't too happy with the crew as we gave the administrators a lot of work. I nearly cried all night into mt beer
I remember the incident well, the migrants landed at the bottom of the cliff in the only place that you couldn't climb up so we used the mighty Walter to lift them to the top. Had to use the helicopter like a crane or it would have taken all night with the slow winch.
The staish wasn't too happy with the crew as we gave the administrators a lot of work. I nearly cried all night into mt beer
Too many "http" in the link! Try....
Migrant crisis: Disturbances at UK military base in Cyprus - BBC News
Migrant crisis: Disturbances at UK military base in Cyprus - BBC News
Take it all this is happening way way away from the flightline, 
, the ammo dump, the officers mess, 
the NCO mess and families quarters but more importantly where Bono starts up their instruments 
for his weather balloon
When was the last time an RAF base had kindly let their doors open to escaping refugees / locals and all hell broken loose?
I am guessing the cops on camera are not Provost but MoDP that are stifling the crowds?
On a more serious note, take it there are very serious implications in lieu of this bad behavior?
Cheers
, the ammo dump, the officers mess, the NCO mess and families quarters but more importantly where Bono starts up their instruments for his weather balloonWhen was the last time an RAF base had kindly let their doors open
to escaping refugees / locals and all hell broken loose? I am guessing the cops on camera are not Provost but MoDP that are stifling the crowds?
On a more serious note, take it there are very serious implications in lieu of this bad behavior?
Cheers
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
Take it all this is happening way way away from the flightline
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Europe is rapidly becoming engulfed by an unprecedented tidal wave of alien immigrants. Our politicians are helpless and clueless. I fear there will be a breakdown in civil order - and sooner rather than later.
Ah where our AAC UN Flight was based at one time. I asked for an attachment to what I thought was the Flight still there only for my Colonel to say "Ah you want to join the Argentinians?" one drill night at uni in the late noughties.
Then he laughed and went "mmmmm so you still want to join the Argentinian army then" and it twigged that we had no longer had an AAC ft with Gazelles with white bands on and that the Argentinian Army Aviation had the pleasure. Guess my various books on the AAC were a tad outdated
Thinking outside the box how many reckon the 'accidental' washed up on shore underneath our noses is truly that considering the poor souls had no way of navigating anywhere?
Cheers
Then he laughed and went "mmmmm so you still want to join the Argentinian army then" and it twigged that we had no longer had an AAC ft with Gazelles with white bands on and that the Argentinian Army Aviation had the pleasure. Guess my various books on the AAC were a tad outdated
Thinking outside the box how many reckon the 'accidental' washed up on shore underneath our noses is truly that considering the poor souls had no way of navigating anywhere?
Cheers
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
There are undoubtedly some poor ignorant real refugees embedded; but when they end up dropped off a very small sea frontage, and subsequently have individuals "attempting suicide" at their treatment, complaining of pregnant women being "beaten by the British", chanting "Guantanamo" behind the wire for the cameras (when they can claim asylum in Cyprus and walk out, or be returned 60 miles across the Med*); and pleading for sanctuary in England - it's an obvious PR exercise.
Regretfully it's a hard head, hard lip, hard luck scenario. Thankfully they obviously didn't bank on being moved to Dhekelia and the opportunity to disrupt operations at Akrotiri.
*I noted the child (obviously) crying on camera about not being able to sleep in a freezing tent - when he'd reportedly come from a tented camp in Jordan/Lebanon - less than a 100 miles away - and at a higher altitude.......
Regretfully it's a hard head, hard lip, hard luck scenario. Thankfully they obviously didn't bank on being moved to Dhekelia and the opportunity to disrupt operations at Akrotiri.
*I noted the child (obviously) crying on camera about not being able to sleep in a freezing tent - when he'd reportedly come from a tented camp in Jordan/Lebanon - less than a 100 miles away - and at a higher altitude.......
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As always, our (Western) media hype it for all their worth because it makes THEM important.
So where do we go? Sadly it'll be the politicians' bag until the revolution - when you consider in Germany, German citizens have been served eviction notices in favour of 'immigrants'.
In our own society (UK), immigrants have the highest priority for housing . . . that rule was NEVER envisiged for these circumstances. But until politicians grow a pair 'we' are stuck with the invasion - and those invaders are playing the media like a fine fiddle . . .
So where do we go? Sadly it'll be the politicians' bag until the revolution - when you consider in Germany, German citizens have been served eviction notices in favour of 'immigrants'.
In our own society (UK), immigrants have the highest priority for housing . . . that rule was NEVER envisiged for these circumstances. But until politicians grow a pair 'we' are stuck with the invasion - and those invaders are playing the media like a fine fiddle . . .
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
Torygraph: Second German woman evicted from her home to make way for refugees
A woman in Germany is being evicted from her home of 23 years to make way for asylum-seekers, in the second such case to emerge.
Gabrielle Keller has been given until the end of the year to leave her flat in the small southern town of Eschbach, near the border with France. The flat belongs to the local municipality, which says it is needed to house refugees. “I think it’s a scandal to throw tenants out of their apartments,” the 56-year-old Ms Keller told SWR television. “I can’t see the sense of it.”.......
Ms Keller’s case follows that of Bettina Halbey, a nurse who is being evicted from her home of 16 years in the town of Nieheim, hundreds of miles to the north.
Mario Schlafke, the mayor of Eschbach, says the town had no choice but to ask Ms Keller to leave. “The council hasn’t taken a frivolous decision,” he told Welt newspaper. “The alternative would have been to set up beds in the gym.”
The town of just 2,400 people is under pressure to find space for refugees, and Ms Keller’s flat is one of only two owned by the local municipality. It is not social housing and Ms Keller is a rent-paying tenant. A shipping container has already been set up as temporary accommodation on a local football field, while a family of eight are being accommodated in a youth centre. “Our backs are to the wall,” Claudia Geiselbrecht, a local councillor, told Badische Zeitung, a local newspaper.
The municipality says it has offered to help Ms Keller find new accommodation, a claim she denies. She has hired a lawyer and vowed to fight the eviction........
A woman in Germany is being evicted from her home of 23 years to make way for asylum-seekers, in the second such case to emerge.
Gabrielle Keller has been given until the end of the year to leave her flat in the small southern town of Eschbach, near the border with France. The flat belongs to the local municipality, which says it is needed to house refugees. “I think it’s a scandal to throw tenants out of their apartments,” the 56-year-old Ms Keller told SWR television. “I can’t see the sense of it.”.......
Ms Keller’s case follows that of Bettina Halbey, a nurse who is being evicted from her home of 16 years in the town of Nieheim, hundreds of miles to the north.
Mario Schlafke, the mayor of Eschbach, says the town had no choice but to ask Ms Keller to leave. “The council hasn’t taken a frivolous decision,” he told Welt newspaper. “The alternative would have been to set up beds in the gym.”
The town of just 2,400 people is under pressure to find space for refugees, and Ms Keller’s flat is one of only two owned by the local municipality. It is not social housing and Ms Keller is a rent-paying tenant. A shipping container has already been set up as temporary accommodation on a local football field, while a family of eight are being accommodated in a youth centre. “Our backs are to the wall,” Claudia Geiselbrecht, a local councillor, told Badische Zeitung, a local newspaper.
The municipality says it has offered to help Ms Keller find new accommodation, a claim she denies. She has hired a lawyer and vowed to fight the eviction........
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I have yet to read a more succinct description of the present situation than: "...the Middle East is basically moving to Europe after Germany did the national equivalent of advertising a house party on Facebook." Whatever happened to critical thinking in foreign policy? - Spectator Blogs
The problem is simply scale. Our past experience was fundamentally different: refugees were few in number (Huguenots), migrants were actively sought (post-war Commonwealth) and asylum seekers were either small in number or their stay was temporary (1/4 million Belgians 1918-19, free passage home). The scale of the current crisis is of wholesale, permanent population transfer (who will return to Somalia, Syria, Afghanistan from Germany??) from countries whose total populations number in the hundreds of millions.
An effective remedy in the medium term is to effect a reasonable settlement in Syria (are dictators more intransigent these days with the spectre of The Hague looming in the retirement?). In the short term, I think the Turks have found themselves in a position of power over the EU.
The problem is simply scale. Our past experience was fundamentally different: refugees were few in number (Huguenots), migrants were actively sought (post-war Commonwealth) and asylum seekers were either small in number or their stay was temporary (1/4 million Belgians 1918-19, free passage home). The scale of the current crisis is of wholesale, permanent population transfer (who will return to Somalia, Syria, Afghanistan from Germany??) from countries whose total populations number in the hundreds of millions.
An effective remedy in the medium term is to effect a reasonable settlement in Syria (are dictators more intransigent these days with the spectre of The Hague looming in the retirement?). In the short term, I think the Turks have found themselves in a position of power over the EU.
