German transport minister Alexander Dobrindt has announced that Volkswagen's scheme for evading exhaust emissions tests in the United States extends to cars in Europe. We have been informed that also in Europe, vehicles with 1.6 and 2.0 litre diesel engines are affected by the manipulations that are being talked about," Dobrindt told reporters, adding it was unclear how many vehicles in Europe were affected.   "It is clear that the Federal Office for Motor Traffic will not exclusively concentrate on the VW models in question but that it will also carry out random tests on vehicles made by other carmakers," he said, according to Reuters. ... In the Grand Scheme who stands to gain on this little 'US Discovery', apart from lawyers, obviously? And they've all known that the figures were fixed for a long time, but why release this now?  Clearly the Brussels Troika will by imposing heavy fines. Then non German car manufacturers. A few private owners perhaps in class actions. Then big bad Uncle Sam, that's who, and will benefit most of all.  The US will benefit by fining German corporate importers, it will benefit by selling more home produced cars whatever they run on. The world's policeman will also benefit by exerting more force over the EU which they are so desperate to excert more and more control over anyway .. coincidence? Clearly not.  The CIA/FBI and other 'Govt Agencies' of the US seem to want to extend their power, control and hegemony further and further away from home soil these days whether that be illegal wars, Middle East sovereign confiscations and puppet Govts put in place, World Athletics 'drugs cheats', Fifa, Banks etc etc.  Then of course there is the bogus 'Climate Change' hoax they are relentlessly pushing.  It all fits into place if people care to join the dots.

We should test all cars....

We should test all cars. Given that VW has been doing this for such a long time, that the car companies all monitor each other very closely, and that the performance of these cars is so close across producers, I can't believe that this is limited to just BWM and VW.  The Germans and Austrians stuck chemicals in their wine, therefore why not frig their car software as well?... Katastrophe for German car companies - probably not just VW.  And likely serious damage to the whole German economy, which is based to a remarkable extent on their car industry.  And let's hope, Katastrophe to the current ruling parties in Germany, who are also responsible for the massive influx of illegal immigrants into that country. These people are not "refugees", by international and EU law, they are immigrants. Some of them may achieve asylum status and become refugees but likely many or most will be declared illegal immigrants and will have to be deported....This comes hard on the heels of the Austro-German wine scandal which occurred only thirty years ago - the mere blink of an eye in reputational terms - in which German and Austrian wine producers and bottlers were caught red-handed and subsequently found guilty of adulterating their wines with toxic di-ethylene glycol (anti freeze to you and me) in order to improve the quality. (I kid you not.)  In what then blew up into a global scandal, several prison sentences were awarded in both Germany and Austria, and at least one suicide followed.  Which gives rise to two thoughts on the subject.  Firstly, how many prison sentences can we expect in this day and age for the VW deception, and secondly, why do Germans still find it so hard to learn lessons from their past?

A 'united Europe"

Germany has in fact "extensive" experience with "gasing people" ...

Audi research chief Ulrich Hackenberg, Porsche research chief Wolfgang Hatz, and VW US chief executive Michael Horn are to be dismissed by the VW board tomorrow, ITV is reporting a senior source saying.  VW has declined to comment.  Michael Horn was the VW executive who said earlier this week that the company had "totally screwed up". German newspaper Bild earlier reported that Mr Hackenberg and Mr Hatz would be dismissed by the board. The turmoil at VW could be an even bigger danger to Germany than the chaos in Greece, Reuters reports.  "All of a sudden, Volkswagen has become a bigger downside risk for the German economy than the Greek debt crisis," ING chief economist Carsten Brzeski told Reuters. "If Volkswagen's sales were to plunge in North America in the coming months, this would not only have an impact on the company, but on the German economy as a whole.”  Analysts warned that Germany's dependency on the automobile sector could become a threat to an economy that's already seeing a slowdown in GDP growth. "Should automobile sales go down, this could also hit suppliers and with them the whole economy," industry expert Martin Gornig from the Berlin-based DIW think tank told Reuters. In 2014, roughly 775,000 people worked in the German automobile sector. This is nearly 2pc of the whole workforce.  In addition, automobiles and car parts are Germany's most successful export - the sector sold goods worth more than €200bn to customers abroad in 2014, accounting for nearly a fifth of total German exports. "That's why this scandal is not a trifle. The German economy has been hit at its core," said Michael Huether, head of Germany's IW economic institute...There are questions over whether the testing authorities commissioned by motor manufacturers are truly independent. Do the results found in test conditions truly reflect real life situations on the road?"...Predictably, here's the start of how we're all getting f*cked over at some point. The answer is: no, the tests are designed to be a laboratory benchmark that allow comparative performance to be judged. They are not and were never intended to act as a reliable guide to what comes out of the tailpipe of an arbitrarily chosen car under any conditions. The manufacturers know this, and tellingly, so do the governments involved, because that is how the testing systems were originally specified. Certainly VW have done something extremely wrong here because they explicitly cheated the test, but other manufacturers, assuming they only designed to the test as opposed to cheating it, have done nothing wrong.

The main narratives undulating media headlines dismiss both the West’s role in devastating the MENA region, as well as acknowledging the fact that the “refugee crisis” is emanating primarily from within NATO’s borders, not from beyond them. The refugees are pawns, intentionally moved across the game board to illicit a predictable reaction from their hopelessly unskilled opponents – the public. While the social engineers are engaged in a game of three-dimensional chess, the Western public appears to be infantilely eating their checkers.  Considering this unfortunate reality, whatever justifications the West is able to predicate upon the refugee crisis will have to be confronted again by Syria and its allies alone – with the Western public hopelessly defenseless against a conspiracy they have been made accomplices of.  Social Engineering vs. the Inevitable Rot of Empire

A refugee crisis was inevitable, regardless of the timing and magnitude of any given deluge that may have been created or manipulated by the West. Destroying the planet in pursuit of empire, pillaging nations and hauling away the wealth of the world, inevitably leads to endless streams of victims following their stolen wealth back to the thieves’ den. As an empire expands and the list of its victims expands with it, the number of those an empire is able to fully assimilate versus those who will inevitable overwhelm it eventually tips the balance against the empire’s favor.

Such was the fate of the Roman Empire, which over the course of its decline, had its institutions overwhelmed by peoples it had conquered faster than it could assimilate them.

For the West, it has chosen confrontation rather than cooperation. It has closed economic ties with Russia, alienated China, and wages ceaseless war across the MENA region and Central Asia. It pursues a now exposed campaign of divide and conquer across Southeast Asia augmented with terrorism and political subversion all while neglecting every virtue that ever made it a respected global power to begin with. How much of the most recent refugee crisis is social engineering versus simply the inevitable rot of empire is difficult to tell – though the fact that social engineers would be tempted to use a vast number of refugees created by their own foreign policy indicates that their ploy in and of itself is indicative of immense, irreversible geopolitical rot.

 

There was nothing “spontaneous” about the “Arab Spring.” It was organized years in advance by a corporate-government collaboration involving the US State Department, IT giants, a myriad of corporate-financier funded NGOs, and mainstream media players.

Through the US State Department’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and US State Department’s Movements.org, agitators were literally flown on several occasions to both New York and Washington D.C. as well as other locations around the globe to receive training, equipment and funding before returning to their home countries and attempting to overthrow their respective governments....It is clear that the political cover – the Arab Spring – and the premeditated support of terrorist groups including Al Qaeda brought in afterward, were planned years before the Arab Spring actually unfolded in 2011. The goal was admittedly the overthrow of governments obstructing Washington and Wall Street’s hegemonic ambitions and part of a much wider agenda of isolating, encircling, and containing Russia and China...NATO is directly responsible for the refugee crisis. In fact, in Turkey, NATO is directly engineering it, while in Libya NATO is responsible for destroying any semblance of stable governance since 2011.   In reality, they did not appear out of a puff of smoke. They appeared in Turkey, a NATO member since the 1950’s and one of America’s closest regional allies. Turkey is currently hosting the US military, including special forces and the CIA who have, together with Turkish military and intelligence agencies, been conducting a proxy war on neighboring Syria since 2011.  Turkey has suspiciously maintained a very enthusiastic “open door” policy for refugees, spending inexplicable sums of money and political capital in accommodating them. The Brookings Institution – one of the chief policy think tanks helping engineer the proxy war with Syria – reported in its July 2015 “Order out of Chaos” article, “What Turkey’s open-door policy means for Syrian refugees,” that:  Turkey is now the world’s largest recipient of refugees. Since October 2013, the number of Syrian refugees has increased more than threefold and now numbers almost two million registered refugees.

I'm pretty sure people in the EU would agree to take genuine refugees, but as it is, Europe is being raided by hordes of economic migrants along with various terrorists, gangsters and thugs, because no one bothers to be checking who those hundreds of thousands and  millions of predominantly young, fit, angry men, flooding Europe are. While there are millions on the way pushing and kicking their way into the EU, the politicians are, like hypnotized rabbits in the middle of the road - instead of running - staring into the lights of fast approaching truck. There are "speculations" that there might be a few ISIS terrorists who sneaked in in disguise along with the "refugees". DISGUISE?!!! Why would they need to use a disguise, do they have ISIS (or other radical group) sign burned on their forehead? All they need to do is put away their machine gun and machete (for a while. You can be certain they will get it back soon. Very soon). As it is, there are already several thousands (if not many more) of those people nesting in Europe. There is a very dark cloud hanging over the Europeans and the thought that we will be begging Russia for military help very soon, is not that far fetched....Merkel should be immediately arrested and tried for endangering the lives of millions of Europeans... There are only two ways this will turn out:

1. Merkel and her EU sidekicks will be successful in forcing tens of millions (or more: yes, that is certainly what it will be) pf Muslims down the throats of every EU country against the will of a big majority of Europeans right across the continent - and they will succeed in their objective of destroying a sense of national identity across all EU countries, thereby clearing the way for their top priority objective: a single European state, under German control.

2. The flooding of Europe with vast millions of Muslims, to act as Germany and the EU's Trojan horse to destroy national identity across Europe, will cause so much fury and resentment among Europeans that there will be a rebellion against the German dictatorship over Europe: nationalist leaders will take power in several EU countries like France - and the EU will collapse.