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UN Global Compact: What Happens Next?
by Judith Bergman
June 28, 2019 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14391/un-global-compact-next
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In December, world leaders of 165 countries adopted an ostensibly non-binding agreement that propagates a radical idea: that migration — for any reason — is something that needs to be promoted, enabled and protected[1].
The agreement is named the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM), and now comes its implementation. The UN has not wasted any time in setting this “non-binding” Compact in motion. Already at the Marrakesh Conference in December, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres launched the Migration Network (Network)[2], a new addition to the UN bureaucracy, and seemingly intended to “ensure effective and coherent system?wide support to the implementation of the Global Compact”. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) will serve as the coordinator and secretariat of all constituent parts of the Network in implementing the Global Compact.
The UN, in other words, has set its enormous bureaucratic infrastructure into full motion to see to it that the Compact will have maximum impact across the globe.
IOM director-general Antonio Vitorino has already sent a warning to critics of the UN migration agenda. “If we want to succeed in having a more humane and better world, we should resist the temptation of negative narratives that some want to spread about migration,” Vitorino said recently.
His spokesman, Leonard Doyle, recently threatened that unless integrating migrants is taken seriously, terrorism will supposedly occur:
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14391/un-global-compact-next
Ilhan Omar’s District 5 Minnesota city council has voted unanimously to stop reciting the Pledge of Allegiance
“In order to create a more welcoming environment to a diverse community, we are going to forgo saying the Pledge of Allegiance before every meeting,” said Council Member Tim Brausen. “In order to create a more welcoming environment” we are going to destroy ourselves.
an Omar
about 12 months ago
Proud to be endorsed by St. Louis Park City Council Member Anne Mavity, and Executive Director of St. Stephen’s Human Services and Metropolitan Council Member Gail Dorfman!
“In just a few years, Ilhan Omar has proven herself to be an effective, eloquent and powerful voice for an unapologetic progressive agenda. St. Louis Park as a city is committed to racial equity in all we do. It doesn’t mean just supporting the perspectives of our diverse residents, it means ensuring that these voices have a seat at the table. Ilhan’s history as a refugee, as a religious minority, as a woman of color, will help elevate the stories and voices of so many residents of CD5, and across the country, who do not see themselves represented in our current Congress. This is a critical opportunity for the voters of CD5.” -Anne Mavity
https://gellerreport.com/2019/06/omars-district-ban.html/
The left wants to destroy the US and actions like this are going to tear us apart, so far apart it will take massive violence to bring us back together.
France: Police attempt to dislodge eco protesters blocking Paris bridge
A climate protest turned violent as police used pepper spray and physical force to disperse demonstrators who blocked traffic by sitting on the Pont de Sully bridge in Paris on Friday.
Footage shows police officers spraying protesters with pepper spray apparently only a few dozen centimetres from their faces. Police are then seen dragging and pushing demonstrators along the ground, while the latter are chanting “slow down police, we are doing this for your kids.”
Protesters, whose numbers were reportedly estimated between 90 and 200, also tied banners that read “Let’s rebel for the living” and “Tell the truth” onto the bridge.
The action was initiated by the civil disobedience movement Extinction Rebellion, which originated in Britain.
US Special Forces Testing Lasers to ID Targets Based on a ‘Cardiac Signature’ (sputniknews, Jun 28, 2019)
https://sputniknews.com/us/201906281076090015-us-special-forces-testing-lasers-to-id-targets-based-on-a-cardiac-signature/
“US Special Forces are now testing a prototype system that can identify targets by their unique cardiac signatures using a laser beam.
MIT Technology Review reported Thursday on the Pentagon’s laser vibrometry program, which uses a laser to track the heartbeat of its target based on how the surface of the skin moves as a result of blood flow.
The device, dubbed “Jetson,” builds on tech from two different fields: on the one hand, existent technology that remotely records a patient’s pulse, and on the other, a device used to monitor vibrations in structures such as wind turbines from a long distance away. The result is a gimbal-mounted device that doesn’t need physical contact, or even a sight view of your skin, in order to identify your unique heartbeat.
Heartbeats, MIT notes, are even more unique than gaits or faces, both of which can be modified. A heartbeat, however, cannot. As a result, heartbeats are becoming the last word in biometric identification. The Canada-based tech company Nymi has begun using a wrist-worn pulse sensor as an alternative to fingerprint identification, MIT noted.
Jetson, however, can work as far away as 200 yards and even sees through regular clothing, although it fails with the thickest winter coats, which obscure the subtle surface movements caused by your heartbeat. It requires about 30 seconds of continuous contact, and the target cannot be moving.
“I don’t want to say you could do it from space,” Steward Remaly, of the Pentagon’s Combatting Terrorism Technical Support Office, told Technology Review, “but longer ranges should be possible.”
Another major challenge, as with all biometric identification, is building up a big enough database to cross-reference people on. There are clearly a lot of kinks to be worked out, but when it’s all figured out, Jetson could potentially be used for everything from security purposes to positively identifying targets on battlefields via drone to tracking medical patients’ heart patterns nonintrusively.”
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“I’m Not Sure I’m A Democrat Anymore,” Democrats Move Too Far Left
The Tears of a Clown
Cortez Visits A Concentration Camp
Commie apologizes for being commie.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7190283/De-Blasio-apologizes-shouting-Communist-Che-Guevaras-favorite-slogan-Miami-rally.html
Twitter will now hide — but not remove — harmful tweets from public figures
https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/27/18761132/twitter-donald-trump-rules-violation-tweet-hide-remove-political-figures
French Consulates in Morocco Issued 2,000 Schengen Visas Per Day in 2018 (moroccoworldnews, Jun 28, 2019)
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2019/06/276981/french-consulates-in-morocco-issued-2000-schengen-visas-per-day-in-2018/
“The Consul General of France in Rabat, Florence Causse-Tissier, has said that the French consulate in Morocco issued 315,000 Schengen visas in 2018.
On June 27 in Rabat, Causse-Tissier added that French consulates in Morocco issued about 2,000 Schengen visas per day during the peak period in 2018.
Quoted by Maghreb Arab Press (MAP), The French diplomat added that Schengen visa applicants reached 400,000 in 2018 with. The rejection rate for Schengen visas was close to the world average of 16 %.
The diplomat added that the French General Consulate in Rabat processed 79,000 Schengen visa applications in 2018.
The diplomat also gave advice to applicants regarding appointments.
She invited applicants to make appointments directly through the computer system.
She said that the consulate provides applicants who travel frequently with a “circulation visa.”
She also emphasized the importance of the new appointment system that “allowed a better flow of Schengen visa issuance.”
Causse-Tissier made her statement during a visit to the Teleperformance Company Center (TLS) in Rabat.
She explained that the company is part of the outsourcing of Schengen visas to ensure a better reception for applicants.
General manager of TLS Morocco, Bassem Missaoui, stated that the company has nine centers in Morocco, including two in Rabat. One of the centers in Rabat is deals with the Schengen Zone, while the other is dedicated to UK applications.
“The TLS centers have some 300 employees all over Morocco and are spread over different cities,” he said. Marrakech, Casablanca, Fez, Oujda, Nador, and Tangier have their own centers.
Missaoui said that the absenteeism rate among Schengen visa applicants has been decreased by more than 70%, owing to the new system of appointments set up in December.
“On average, 750 applicants per day are registered at the Schengen Center in Rabat, with 80% of the requests for France.”
Earlier in June, French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said that Moroccans are among the travelers that receive the most visas from France.
Le Drian made his statement during his visit to Rabat, where he met with several senior officials including his counterpart Nasser Bourita.
The minister said that more than 400,000 Moroccans received Schengen visas to France from French consulates across Morocco in 2018.“The number makes Morocco the country that receives the second “most visas from France, after China.”
The number, however, contradicts figures from the French Ministry of Interior. The ministry states that Moroccans only received 334,016 Schengen visas in 2018, making the North African country to receive the third most Schengen visas from France, after China and Russia.”
Two Moroccans Face Rape Charges in Spain (moroccoworldnews, Jun 28, 2019)
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2019/06/276949/moroccans-rape-charges-spain/
“Spanish police have arrested three suspects, including two Moroccans, allegedly involved in the rape of a 17-year old girl on Monday in Bilbao, Spain.
The Moroccan suspects are aged 18 and 20, according to Spanish news outlet El Espanol.
Quoting security sources, the news outlet reported that the two Moroccans were arrested moments after the assault.
On Tuesday, June 25, the police arrested a 35-year old suspect, whose nationality has not been disclosed.
Investigations into the circumstances of the alleged rape case and the alleged involvement of the Moroccan suspects are still ongoing.
El Espanol said that the police are still looking for a fourth suspect.
The news outlet added that the Bilbao City Council has strongly condemned the assault against the teenager, expressing its “deepest indignation.”
Spanish law stipulates that the perpetrators of sexual assault face sentences of imprisonment from one to five years.
The offender, however; might receive a sentence ranging between six to twelve years in prison if the sexual assault consists of “vaginal, anal or oral penetration, or inserting body parts or objects into either of the former two orifices,” according to the Spanish Criminal Code, Article 179.”
Six Irregular Migrants Die on Southern Moroccan Coast (moroccoworldnews, Jun 28, 2019)
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2019/06/276944/iirregular-migrants-southern-moroccan-coast/
“Six Moroccan migrants died in an attempt to cross Morocco’s southern coast in Sidi Ifni to the Canary Islands on Thursday, June 27.
Moroccan television channel Al Oula reported that several others were rescued after their boat sank.
The list of deceased migrants includes one woman and her baby.
The state television channel added that one of the rescued migrants remains in a critical condition.
This most recent attempt to cross the Mediterranean, which ended in tragedy, is not the first of its kind. In the first months of 2019, hundreds of boats have already been rescued or lost in an attempt to reach Europe.
Faced with the increasing pressure of irregular migration, Moroccan law enforcement have thwarted more than 30,000 irregular migration attempts in 2019.
The number represents half of the irregular migration attempts aborted in 2018 (88,761 foiled attempts in 2018).
Spokesperson of the Moroccan government Mustapha El Khalfi said in May that Morocco’s strategy in handling the issue is based on a “humanitarian approach.”
He noted that the Royal Navy has intensified its rescue operations of irregular migrants, and, at the same time, “Morocco is implementing the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration adopted last December [2018] in Marrakech.””
Turkey: Security forces nab 7 top Daesh terrorists (aa, Jun 28, 2019)
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkey/turkey-security-forces-nab-7-top-daesh-terrorists/1518249
“Seven top members of the terrorist group Daesh were arrested in southeastern Turkey on Friday, according to security officials in the Sanliurfa province.
The terrorists, believed to have been in the terror group for some time, were arrested at various addresses in the Sanliurfa city center in an operation to head off possible attacks, said a statement by the Sanliurfa Security Directorate.
More than 300 people have been killed in Daesh-claimed attacks in Turkey, where the terrorist group has targeted civilians in suicide bombings, rocket, and gun attacks.
Turkish security forces have been involved in a long-running campaign to thwart the Daesh threat.”
Greece does not consult Turkish minority: Party chief (aa, Jun 28, 2019)
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/greece-does-not-consult-turkish-minority-party-chief/1518520
“Athens does not consult with the ethnic Turkish minority in its northeast on the group’s own affairs, a Greek political party garnering overwhelming support from the minority said on Friday.
Greece’s Western Thrace region is home to around 150,000 Muslim Turks. The Friendship, Equality and Peace (FEP) party received overwhelming support in two provinces of Western Thrace in last month’s European Parliament elections.
The government did not accept the FEP’s offer to act as interlocutor with the group, party chief Cigdem Asafoglu, told Anadolu Agency.
“I hope those who govern this country will see the truth from now on and acknowledge the FEP party’s role,” Asafoglu stressed.
She criticized the Greek government’s recent decision to restrict the autonomy of the muftis– Muslim religious clerics– in Western Thrace.
Muftis in Western Thrace have the jurisdiction to decide on family and inheritance matters of local Muslims.
Asafoglu said they were not consulted regarding the decree, which concerns the Turkish minority directly.
“If we were consulted, maybe we could have met at a common ground,” she stressed.
Asafoglu said the FEP party could act as a mediator for dialogue between Athens and the Turkish minority.
‘FEP is not a threat to Greece’
The FEP party was subject to harsh criticisms after its success in the recent European Parliament elections.
Asafoglu said her party was not a threat to Greece and that the Turkish minority was instead a source of richness for the country.
“They tell us ‘if you are a Turk, go to Turkey’ and I respond to them each time with the same answer: No, I will not, because this place belongs to me as much as it belongs to you,” Asafoglu stressed.
She said members of the group wanted to stay in Greece as equal citizens with equal rights.
“We are not going anywhere, we are in Western Thrace, we are in Greece, but we are Turks and we are trying to contribute to the Greek democracy,” Asafoglu added.
She said after the 2019 EP elections, the FEP proved that its success in the previous 2014 EP elections was not a coincidence and showed Greece and Europe that the Turks of Western Thrace would not prefer another party over the FEP, if it participates in elections.
Asafoglu said during the night of the EP elections, the map of Greece — showing the provinces won by each party — was in three colors.
One was the color of the ruling Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), another one was the main opposition New Democracy (ND) party and the third one was the color of the FEP, she said.
The party got a plurality of support in Rhodopi and Xanthi, two provinces in the Western Thrace region with a sizeable Turkish minority, thus making the party win the first place at both Rhodopi and Xanthi prefectures.”
Italian foreign fighter arrested, brought back from Syria (ansa, Jun 28, 2019)
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2019/06/28/italian-foreign-fighter-arrested-brought-back-from-syria_28c4d5b3-6b15-45c6-bf84-19e01be3e8c0.html
” An Italian foreign fighter was brought back to Italy on Thursday after being arrested in Syria, sources said Friday.
Samir Bougana, a 25-year-old with Moroccan roots, allegedly first fought with militias close to Al Qaeda and then with ISIS.
An arrest warrant was out for Bougana for the crime of association for terrorism after Brescia prosecutors opened an investigation into him in 2015. He is thought to have reached the war zone in 2013 from Germany.
His return came about thanks to cooperation between the Italian authorities and the FBI, who made contact with the Kurdish-Syrian forces that Bougana surrendered to in August 2018. Bougana was born in Gavardo, near Brescia, and lived in Italy until he was 16 before moving to Germany with his family. Photo: a file image of combat in Syria.”
Turkey: no progress in fighting corruption,Council of Europe (ansamed, Jun 28, 2019)
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/turkey/2019/06/28/turkey-no-progress-in-fighting-corruptioncouncil-of-europe_b4bdfd47-1cee-4cbd-b578-e241657c4582.html
“Turkey over the past few years has not made progress in adequately regulating party funding and to act on structural changes that have weakened the independence of the judiciary from the executive and political power, according to the latest evaluation made by GRECO, the anti-corruption body of the Council of Europe.
The recommendations to ensure the transparency of party funding were made in April 2010, said GRECO, adding that today, after seven reports, no measure has been fully implemented and that work hasn’t even started on some.
GRECO also considers ”globally unsatisfying” the measures implemented to prevent corruption of MPs and magistrates. Out of the 22 recommendations issued in March 2016, only two were entirely completed.”
Migrants: Italy-Slovenia mixed patrols as of Monday (ansamed, Jun 28, 2019)
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/italy/2019/06/28/migrants-italy-slovenia-mixed-patrols-as-of-monday_b805f17a-e076-4f32-b7a5-4b33318e29ba.html
“Starting on July 1, joint patrols will be conducted by the Italian border police and their Slovenian counterparts along the shared strip on the border between the Trieste and Gorizia provinces on the Italian side and Koper and Nova Gorica on the Slovenian one.
The border police personnel that will be used from the two countries have already undergone operative training during which the technical methods to be used were shared, in light of the laws in the two countries.
The Memorandum of Understanding signed in recent days between the immigration and borders chiefs of the two countries – the interior ministry said – ”is based on positive experience from similar forms of cross-border cooperation already started by the Department for Public Security and with the police of other bordering countries such as Austria, Switzerland, and France”.
The agreement, the Italian interior ministry added, ”will make it possible to step up activities against irregular migration along the ‘Balkan route’, which for some time has been seeing a resumption of migration flows that – through Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia – arrive in Friuli Venezia Giulia.””
Malmö residents feel more affected by crime than anywhere else in Sweden (thelocal, Jun 28, 2019)
https://www.thelocal.se/20190628/people-in-malmo-most-affected-by-crime-in-sweden
“People living in Malmö are more affected by crime than those of any other area in Sweden, according to a new survey from the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention.
People living in the city were slightly more likely than those living elsewhere in Sweden to report being victims of a crime.
They were also more likely to describe themselves as feeling “unsafe”, or “very unsafe”, in answer to nine out of 13 questions asked by the latest issue of the Swedish Crime Survey, from years 2017-18.
“We can see that there is a part of Malmö where a lot of people are exposed to crime and also feel concerned when they go out at night,” said Sofie Lifvin, who carried out the survey, told The Local.
In the district of Fosie, a full 65 percent of respondents said they would feel “unsafe” or “very unsafe” to be out alone late at night in their area, the highest proportion of any district in Sweden. For Rosengård, another district with a reputation for being troubled, the share was 60 percent.
Across Sweden as a whole, an average of 28 percent said they would feel “unsafe” or “very unsafe”. Regional differences were stark, from 33 percent in the southern police region to 18 percent in the more sparsely populated northern police region. Sweden is home to seven police regions: northern, central, Bergslagen, Stockholm, eastern, western, and southern.
However, despite the high fear of crime in the Fosie and Rosengård areas, people living there were no more likely than people living elsewhere in Malmö to report having been victims of a “crime against an individual”. This category includes assault, threat, sexual harassment, mugging, pickpocketing, fraud, harassment and online bullying.
Some 28.5 percent of people living in Fosie and 28.8 percent of people living in Rosengård said they had been victims of such crimes in the year leading up to the survey, less than in the prosperous suburbs of Oxie and Bunkeflostrand, but in line with the average for Malmö, which was 29 percent.
The highest reported incidence of such crimes was in Södra Innerstaden, which includes the popular restaurant and bar district of Möllevången, where a full 33.8 percent of people said they had been victims of crimes against the individual, the highest proportion of any district in Sweden, and well above the national average of 23.8 percent.
The worst district in Sweden for burglary was also in Malmö, with 30.4 percent of people in the district of Kirseberg saying they had been victims of “crimes against a household”, which includes burglary and car or cycle theft.”
Germany toughens citizenship laws for terrorists and polygamists (DW, Jun 28, 2019)
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-toughens-citizenship-laws-for-terrorists-and-polygamists/a-49386785
“The German parliament has revised the Nationality Act to make it tougher on those joining foreign terrorist groups, polygamists and naturalized citizens who committed fraud to gain citizenship.
The German parliament on Thursday passed three revisions to the Nationality Act governing citizenship laws.
1. Dual nationals who join terrorist organizations to lose citizenship
Germans with dual nationality who join foreign terrorist militias can lose their citizenship in the future.
The changes to the citizenship law apply only to adults who have a second nationality and will not be applied retroactively. Minors are unaffected.
The new rule states that those who join foreign terrorist groups “turned their back on Germany and its basic values and turned to another foreign power in the form of a terrorist militia.”
Read more: Revoking citizenship: How it works across the EU
The Nationality Act already includes a similar rule for dual nationals who join “the armed forces or a comparable armed unit” of another country without the permission of the German Defense Ministry.
The dual national must not necessarily participate in direct combat in a foreign terrorist organization to be stripped of citizenship.
While intended to strip the citizenship of those who join the “Islamic State,” the law is left vague as to what other terrorist organizations it applies to.
Under the bill, a terrorist militia is defined as “a paramilitary organized armed association that aims to violently abolish the structures of a foreign state in violation of international law and replace these structures with a new state or to build state-like structures.”
2. Polygamists prevented from obtaining German citizenship
Polygamy is against the law in Germany. The revisions to the Nationality Act will prevent those in polygamous marriages from being naturalized as German citizens.
The law intends to ensure that those naturalized “integrate into the German way of life.”
Migrant organizations and some legal scholars took issue with the term “integrate into the German way of life.” They are concerned that the wording is vague and amounts to promoting a “Leitkultur” (which translates to “leading” or “guiding culture”).
3. Naturalization can be revoked for a period of 10 years instead of five years if false or incomplete information is provided
According to police estimates, less than a third of asylum-seekers could submit a passport in 2015 during the refugee crisis. Numerous fake passports were also used. Some refugees have also pretended to be Syrians in order to have a better chance of staying in Germany.
Under the change to the law, those proven to have lied or committed fraud to become naturalized can have their citizenship revoked up to 10 years after naturalization. Previously, the deadline was five years.”
EU mechanism for trade with Iran ‘now operational’ (DW, Jun 28, 2019)
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-mechanism-for-trade-with-iran-now-operational/a-49407662
“The EU has created a mechanism that will allow European countries to trade with Iran despite US sanctions. The move is an attempt to show good will toward Iran and keep it in the 2015 nuclear deal…”
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