STRAWS IN THE WIND: Visas for sale / Kyoto hot air convention / Europe, China and the US-Japan alliance / Edge of the abyss*

Visas for saleGermany, and the Green wing of Gerhard Schroeder’s coalition, are being wracked by a severe political crisis – one which has gone lovingly unreported, or under-reported, by our media. The people in charge of issuing passports, visas, and having a major influence on German immigration affairs, and shaping its philosophy, have been caught out issuing hundreds of thousands of visas, since 1999, to virtually anyone who applied. Few questions asked, apparently. Thus, in 2001 alone, the …

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