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The "rough guide" contains maps, tips and phone numbers of organisations which might help refugees making the perilous crossing.
This website and news shows that the refugees being sent to Europe are being guided by a handbook that is said to be from an organization funded by billionaire George Soros. The W2EU handbook for refugees = Welcome to Europe for the Refugees.
http://news.sky.com/story/1551853/sky-finds-handbook-for-eu-bound-migrants
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The truth has finally surfaced as to why Jan Bata was blacklisted during the Second world
War in Canada. It turns out that it was due to the efforts of one member of the Canadian government who was closely aligned with Thomas J. Bata. Glenn W. McPherson, an attorney, was the Canadian Enemy Property Custodian at the time and the person responsible for managing enemy property for the Canadian government.
The legal work Glenn McPherson did in August 1939 describes the methods used by the Canadian government to blacklist and vest the property under the guise of enemy ownership. All Czechs were automatically considered Germans under this mandate. In spite of the fact that Jan Antonin Bata was not in occupied territory at any point during the war. Nor did he ever return to Czechoslovakia. And, the well known fact that J.A.Bata funded the Czechoslovak government in exile throughout the war makes you wonder what other reasons may have led to the blacklisting of J.A.Bata.
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Images of Czech police officers writing numbers on the hands of migrants are an
uncomfortable reminder of a different event and a different era.
But the Czech authorities appeared totally unaware of the unfortunate visual connotations with the Holocaust, when prisoners at Auschwitz were systematically tattooed with serial numbers. The Foreigners' Police said the priority in dealing with the 200 migrants at Breclav railway station, in the South Moravian region, was identifying them and trying to keep family members together. This, said a spokeswoman, was a difficult task when many had no documents and did not speak English; hence the numbers in felt-tip pen on their arms. But some are outraged.
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The Bata organization under Jan Bata’s leadership experienced rapid growth during the worldwide financial crisis and at a time of growing tensions in Europe during the 1930s. Bata’s plan was to transform his business from a local to a global manufacturing enterprise. To accomplish this task Bata needed a deeper understanding of the worldwide footwear market.
People who didn’t know Jan Bata thought that the world tour was some kind of publicity stunt. It was nothing of the sort. Bata was carefully laying the plans to expand the Bata organization. He was examining the state of the world footwear market, the competition, the supply of key raw materials and worldwide economic conditions.
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Prague Security Studies Institute (PSSI) / June 2015
Types of Media spreading Pro-Russian Propaganda, their Charakteristics and frequently used narratives.
By Ivana Smoleňová.
Both countries, with relatively small Russian minorities and only a handful of Russian-language media outlets, have been recently awakened by a new phenomenon – a pro-Kremlin propaganda campaign in the Czech and Slovak languages spread by media and websites that, despite strong rhetoric, claim no allegiance to the Kremlin.
The paper "Pro-Russian Disinformation Campaign in the Czech Republic and Slovakia: Types of Media Spreading Pro-Russian Propaganda, Their Characteristics and Frequently Used Narratives" provides a brief overview of the pro-Russian disinformation activities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, identifies frequently used narratives, and brings attention to the similarity of arguments and messages used by a pro-Russian media with no formal links to Russia, versus media that are founded and funded by the Russian Federation.
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Pro-Russian disinformation mainly focused on undermining West, says report author Ivana Smoleňová
J.Š.15.8.2015
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As many as two million people were killed or persecuted by the former communist authorities in Romania, an official report says.
The report was presented to parliament by Romanian President Traian Basescu. It was the first such official inquiry into Romania's communist-era crimes. Mr Basescu said the 1945-1989 communist regime was "illegitimate and criminal". He proposed a national memorial day and museum for the victims of communism, along with a new history textbook.
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A former Communist-era prison commander has been sentenced to 20 years in jail after
being convicted of crimes against humanity in the first such trial in Romania.
Alexandru Visinescu, 89, ran the notorious Ramnicu Sarat prison from 1956 to 1963, where inmates were allegedly tortured and starved. At least 12 people are said to have died as a result of the abuse. Mr Visinescu denied the charges, saying he was just following orders. Prosecutors had sought a 25-year sentence, arguing that Mr Visinescu oversaw an "extermination regime" at the Ramnicu Sarat prison camp in the east of the country. Nicknamed "the prison of silence" because detainees were held in solitary confinement, the facility housed intellectuals, dissidents, priests and others deemed enemies of the Communist Party.
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