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CBC – 11,000 scientists sign declaration of climate emergency
A collection of 11,000 scientists from 153 countries has signed a declaration of climate emergency published in the journal BioScience.
The group put forth six “critical and interrelated steps” to reduce the effects of climate change.
York University conservation biologist Sheila Colla is one of the scientists who signed the declaration.
USING “CLIMATE CHANGE” TO ENSLAVE US – BEHIND THE DEEP STATE
video – 16 minutes 37 seconds
Alex Newman explains how globalist Deep State functionaries are fomenting hysteria over “climate change” and “global warming” to steal liberty and money from humanity. Among other issues, Alex discusses the science, the agenda, and the deadly consequences of allowing this fraud to continue.
Revealed: FBI Anti-Trump Spy Stefan Halper Was Feeding Smears to Teammates in Fake News Liberal Media
A new report by Margot Cleveland at The Federalist reveals FBI spy and informant Stefan Halper was the source for several media attacks on President Trump after the election.
Halper was spying on the Trump campaign and administration, being paid by the FBI and leaking hit pieces to damage Trump to the liberal media including the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal.
Halper openly advocated for Hillary Clinton in 2016 while spying on the Trump campaign.
Stefan Halper also pitched himself for a senior position inside the Trump administration to continue his spying on the president.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/revealed-fbi-anti-trump-spy-stefan-halper-was-feeding-smears-to-teammates-in-fake-news-liberal-media/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=daily
Baghdadi’s death complicates Turkey’s plan in Idlib
The US raid targeting the Islamic State’s leader undermined Turkey’s plans to let the status quo prevail in Idlib as the Syrian Constitutional Committee concludes its work.
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/11/turkey-syria-baghdadis-death-complicates-ankara-idlib-plans.html
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The filthy Turk’s dogs grabbed Afrin, Idlib, and Manbij, but they’ll have a hard time holding traditional Kurdish territories. Poorly disciplined madmen, the dregs of al-Q and ISIS. Inbred Turkmen loonies.
He calls all Kurds “PKK”, subhuman “terrorists” that must be ‘neutralized’, their ‘bones crushed to dust’. Conflating the SDF with the PKK has been picked up recently in the West. Even in the Oval Office. That’s slander. Disgraceful.
Now we’re parroting talking points: creating a “safe zone” for the mass transfer of population. Wait a second – isn’t this a blatant war crime?
Where’s the UN?
Oh.
They’re not “Palestinians or “Rohingya”.
One thing’s certain: there’s no more sure recipe for instigating terrorism than attempted ethnic cleansing of Syrian Kurds. These are not the soyboys of Western Europe that the Turk openly despises.
Besides, within Turkey itself the Kurd population is over 20%. You can imagine what THAT portends…
DEVELOPING: President Trump Offers Mexico Military Assistance to Clean Out Cartel Armies After 9 Americans including 6 Children Slaughtered in Gun Battle
At least nine Americans including 6 children were killed in an apparent cartel ambush attack Monday in Mexico.
The cartel ambush was so severe that one of the cars EXPLODED!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/developing-president-trump-offers-mexico-military-assistance-to-clean-out-cartel-armies-after-9-americans-including-6-children-slaughtered-in-gun-battle/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=daily
@Sunniva_Rose Follow Follow @Sunniva_Rose
People chanting in Baalbek tonight that they won’t go home and that the voice of the revolution won’t die. Most of the protesters were women. #LebanonProtests
https://twitter.com/Sunniva_Rose/status/1191796040871153670
Lot’s more on her feed: https://twitter.com/Sunniva_Rose
[Baalbek: important because that’s where Hezbollah was born.]
(Richard: It is well worth the read she has tied things together and they show Trump playing our internal and external enemies like a fiddle. He is combining economic warfare with military warfare to get our enemies doing what he wants.
Remember fight your fight not your enemies fight, make them to react to you not you reacting to them. The person/nation/group reacting is the person/nation/group that is losing.
Trump is a master at getting people to do what he wants them to do.)
Al-Baghdadi and Trump’s Syrian Chessboard
The Al-Baghdadi assassination and related events demonstrate that Trump is not flying blind in Syria.
November 5, 2019
Caroline Glick
U.S. President Donald Trump’s many critics insist he has no idea what he is doing in Syria. The assassination of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi over the weekend by US Special Forces showed this criticism is misplaced. Trump has a very good idea of what he is doing in Syria, not only regarding ISIS, but regarding the diverse competing actors on the ground.
Regarding ISIS, the obvious lesson of the Baghdadi raid is that Trump’s critics’ claim that his withdrawal of US forces from Syria’s border with Turkey meant that he was going to allow ISIS to regenerate was utterly baseless.
Trump fundamentally changed the US’s counter-terror fighting doctrine, particularly as it relates to psychological warfare against jihadists.
The raid did more than that. Baghdadi’s assassination, and Trump’s discussion of the mass murderer’s death showed that Trump has not merely maintained faith with the fight against ISIS and its allied jihadist groups. He has fundamentally changed the US’s counter-terror fighting doctrine, particularly as it relates to psychological warfare against jihadists.
Following the September 11 attacks, the Bush administration initiated a public diplomacy campaign in the Arab-Islamic world. Rather than attack and undermine the jihadist doctrine that insists that it is the religious duty of Muslims to fight with the aim of conquering the non-Muslim world and to establish a global Islamic empire or caliphate, the Bush strategy was to ignore the jihad in the hopes of appeasing its adherents. The basic line of the Bush administration’s public diplomacy campaign was to embrace the mantra that Islam is peace, and assert that the US loves Islam because the US seeks peace.
Along these lines, in 2005, then secretary of state Condoleezza Rice prohibited the State Department, FBI and US intelligence agencies from using “controversial” terms like “radical Islam,” “jihad” and “radical Islam” in official documents.
https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/11/al-baghdadi-and-trumps-syrian-chessboard-caroline-glick
Caroline’s flipped several times on this.
She does it for strategic reasons; that doesn’t mean she really believes it.
Once she sees a cause she’s been fighting for is lost, she reverses her argument to align with the new facts on the ground. She has all the perfect arguments – pro and con – in her pocket from the outset.
Only Trump Can Get Us Out of China
It’s time to undo a Cold War mistake.
November 5, 2019
Daniel Greenfield
America’s relationship with the People’s Republic of China is a bygone relic of a Cold War strategy to play the two great Communist superpowers, the USSR and the PRC, against each other.
The USSR has been gone for a long time, but our strategy hasn’t changed much since the era when Nixon used tensions between China and Russia as the basis for his diplomatic strategy. It was a clever gambit, even if the price for our relationship with China was betraying Taiwan. Republicans had once built their case against Truman and the Democrats around their betrayal of China’s Nationalists.
The down payment on Nixon’s China strategy was making Truman’s betrayal into his own.
Nixon’s China strategy may have been amoral and unprincipled, but it was a proactive plan. The same thing couldn’t be said 30 years later when the PRC put down democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, and the Bush administration shrugged, and the PRC’s most-favored-nation status endured.
By then, the United States no longer needed China to balance out a collapsing Soviet Union. Instead, long before the NBA’s complicity in Hong Kong, American business had become dependent on China.
https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/10/only-trump-can-get-us-out-china-daniel-greenfield
Terrorist Cell Linked to ISIS Leaders Uncovered in Tunisia (aawsat, Nov 5, 2019)
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1977431/terrorist-cell-linked-isis-leaders-uncovered-tunisia
“Tunisian National Guard units uncovered a four-member terrorist cell that has pledged allegiance to ISIS. They said defendants were in contact with elements who joined extremist organizations in hotbeds outside Tunisia.
Security probes have shown that one of Nabeul city’s residents downloaded posts and videos on his account on social media to glorify ISIS.
The defendant also contacted terrorist elements in Tunisia and made virtual contacts with a number of Tunisian extremists abroad, who were found to have joined militant groups.
While pursuing movements of extremist groups, counterterrorism teams stepped up their investigations until confirming there were three other elements who belong to the same cell, adopt the same ideas and communicate with the same ISIS leaders.
Tunisian security sources stressed that counterterrorism teams have arrested the four defendants and opened a judicial case against them for glorifying and inciting extremism and for belonging to a militant organization.
In this context, the country’s Interior Ministry announced last week’s arresting five other operatives within the so-called ‘solo wolves’ that adopt radical ideas.
In its security reports, it said four of them had committed a series of thefts in the so-called “logging,” in order to raise funds and equipment necessary for terrorist elements to continue carrying out operations in the country’s western mountains.
It also pointed to seizing videos with extensive information on the manufacture of explosives and conventional mines, as well as photographs of terrorist attacks in Tunisia in recent years.
These include carrying out a terrorist attack on a tourist hotel in Sousse (central-eastern Tunisia) and a suicide attack in 2018 by Tunisian Mona Qibla on Habib Bourguiba Avenue and targeting foreign tourists in the National Museum of Bardo (west of Tunis).
The same security sources pointed out that the terrorist elements were planning to carry out attacks targeting political and media figures and government installations as part of their response to the success of the Tunisian security and military establishment in arresting ISIS leaders.”
Abused in Saudi, Bangladesh worker begs to go home
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20191105-abused-in-saudi-bangladesh-worker-begs-to-go-home/
“Bangladesh yesterday called for a migrant domestic worker to be repatriated from Saudi Arabia following a tearful video which went viral, alleging sexual abuse at the hands of her Saudi employers…”
Iraqi forces shoot dead 13 protesters in renewed crackdown on unrest
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20191105-iraqi-forces-shoot-dead-13-protesters-in-renewed-crackdown-on-unrest/
“Iraqi security forces shot dead at least 13 protesters in the past 24 hours, dispensing with weeks of relative restraint in favour of trying to stamp out demonstrations against political parties that control the government.
After eight people were killed during the day on Monday, security forces shot dead at least five others overnight or early on Tuesday, including one killed with live fire toward a funeral procession held for another who died hours earlier, security and medical sources told Reuters.
More than 260 Iraqis have been killed in demonstrations since the start of October against a government they see as corrupt and beholden to foreign interests, above all Iran…”
They closed the internet off and on today.
Israelis were worried – cut off from their Kurdish friends.
UAE bolsters regional intervention by establishing one of the Middle East’s largest arms company
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2019/11/5/uae-launches-one-of-middle-easts-largest-defence-companies
“The UAE on Tuesday announced the creation of a new giant military conglomerate, merging 25 government-owned and private entities into a single defence company.
EDGE was inaugurated at a ceremony by Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, with Faisal Al-Bannai selected as chief executive and managing director.
“Established with a core mandate to disrupt an antiquated military industry generally stifled by red tape, EDGE is set to bring products to market faster and at more cost-effective price points,” Bannai said in a statement, according to The National.
“Technology is changing the rules of modern warfare to the extent that boots on the ground are not always necessary to fight and win,” he added.
“Battles can now be fought in the digital space and through everyday means.”
The newly formed defence giant will invest in artificial intelligence, together with research and development.
Read more: Is this Google-sanctioned Emirati company poaching Israeli intelligence officers?
The firm says that its core businesses will also include missiles and weapons, cyber defence, and electronic warfare.
An estimated 12,000 people will be employed by the mammoth new defence venture.
EDGE said that Bannai was hired due to his “proven track record in leveraging emerging technologies at home and abroad”.
Bannai is the founder of UAE cybersecurity company DarkMatter. The controversial firm has been accused of hacking Arab activists, media professionals and thinkers.
In July, Firefox’s browser maker Mozilla blocked websites certified by DarkMatter, saying they found “credible evidence” that the company had been involved in hacking operations.
A month later in August, Google blocked websites certified by DarkMatter from its Chrome and Android browsers without giving a reason.
The company has also been accused of recruiting CIA and US government officials to ride on their top-level intelligence expertise.
Last month, a report by The New York Times said that more than 8,200 former Israeli army personnel had left the intelligence company NSO to join DarkMatter”
France says troops kill a leading jihadist in the Sahel
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-sahel/france-says-troops-kill-a-leading-jihadist-in-the-sahel-idUSKBN1XF2NX
“French troops killed one of the Sahel region’s leading jihadists on Oct. 9, France’s defense minister said on Tuesday.
Ali Maychou was the No. 2 in command of Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), an umbrella group for al Qaeda-linked insurgents in West Africa’s Sahara.
Violence by Islamist militants has proliferated in the sparsely-populated Sahel in recent years, with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State using central and Northern Mali as a launch pad for attacks across the largely desert region.”
The Halle shooter published a manifesto, some details:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kmdm/this-german-city-has-declared-a-nazi-emergency
Muslims operating slave markets on Instagram, Google Play, Apple apps
By Pamela Geller – on November 4, 2019
While we are censored, scrubbed, banned and blocked. Respect it, islamophobes.
https://gellerreport.com/2019/11/muslims-slave-trade-google-instagram.html/
‘Turkey’s fight against FETO matter of survival, honor’
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/politics/-turkeys-fight-against-feto-matter-of-survival-honor/1636462
“Turkey should continue its fight against Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) until the terrorists pay price for their betrayal, the head of an opposition party said on Tuesday.
“The fight against FETO is a matter of survival and honor,” Devlet Bahceli said in a statement.
”There is no difference between Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), PKK/YPG and Daesh terrorist organizations,” Bahceli said.
“Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, whose death is meaningful in terms of timing, and Fethullah Gulen, the “treacherous” leader of Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) who is under guard in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, are in the same category with PKK terror group’s baby killer ringleader Abdullah Ocalan,” he added.
FETO and its U.S.-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup attempt on July 15, 2016, which left 251 people martyred and nearly 2,200 injured.
Ankara also accuses FETO of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary.
In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK has been responsible for the deaths of 40,000 people, including women, children, and infants. The YPG/PYD is the Syrian offshoot of the PKK.
The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the European Union.”
The YPG/PYD is the Syrian offshoot of the PKK.
Repeat it often enough, we’ll be saying it.
That’ll mean it’s true.
Right?
‘YPG/PKK terrorists target civilians in N.Syria’
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/ypg-pkk-terrorists-target-civilians-in-nsyria/1636269
“YPG/PKK terrorists attacked civilians in northern Syria, Turkish National Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
“No one was killed or wounded in the attack staged at 12.15 p.m. (GMT1015) with a bomb-laden vehicle in Tal Abyad city center,” said the ministry on Twitter.
The terrorist who conducted the attack was caught alive, it added.
“Our fight against terrorists will continue unabated,” said the ministry.
Turkey on Oct. 9 launched Operation Peace Spring to eliminate YPG/PKK terrorists from northern Syria in order to secure Turkey’s borders, aid in the safe return of Syrian refugees, and ensure Syria’s territorial integrity.
Ankara and Washington reached a deal on Oct. 17 to pause the operation for 120 hours to allow the withdrawal of YPG/PKK terrorists from the planned safe zone.
On Oct. 22, Turkey reached an agreement with Russia on a 10-point deal to force the terrorist YPG/PKK to withdraw from a planned terror-free zone.
In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK — listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S., and the European Union — has been responsible for the deaths of 40,000 people, including women, children and infants. The YPG/PKK is the Syrian offshoot of the PKK.”
Man gets 14 mts for beating, trying to rape woman
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2019/11/05/man-gets-14-mts-for-beating-trying-to-rape-woman_d45ed4aa-0a9f-403c-bef4-949fb81cc7cc.html
“A 28-year-old Moroccan man got 14 months in jail Tuesday for beating and trying to rape a 26-year-old Moroccan woman at Bologna train station in November 2017.”
200 Russian mercenaries sent to Libya over last 6 weeks, NYT
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/politics/2019/11/05/200-russian-mercenaries-sent-to-libya-over-last-6-weeks-nyt_c4e0de63-ad4e-4112-9cd1-ff64338ca4ec.html
“The Kremlin is accelerating the Libyan crisis on behalf of militia leader Khalifa Haftar as part of a broad Russian campaign to reassert its influence across the Middle East and Africa, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
Over the last six weeks, an estimated 200 Russian mercenaries, including expert snipers, have been sent to Libya, the report said. The Russian snipers belong to the Wagner group, the Kremlin-linked private company of Yevgheni Prigozhin, ‘Putin’s chef’ who has been incriminated in the US for interfering in the presidential election and sanctioned for the war in eastern Ukraine. The lack of an exit wound seen by medics treating casualties in Libya is a signature of the ammunition used by the same Russian mercenaries in eastern Ukraine, the NYT reported.”
So the nyslimes says it, others quote the slimes.
That means it’s true.
Right?
Florida county board rejects library’s New York Times subscription as ‘fake news’
3 MIN READ
(Reuters) – A Florida county board rejected a library’s request for a digital subscription to the New York Times, with one commissioner citing President Donald Trump’s claim the newspaper’s reporting was “fake news” as justifying the decision.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-florida-new-york-times/florida-county-board-rejects-librarys-new-york-times-subscription-as-fake-news-idUSKBN1XF22R?utm_source=reddit.com
France to announce quotas for economic immigration, media
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/politics/2019/11/05/france-to-announce-quotas-for-economic-immigration-media_c01fe4e8-78e3-45a7-b1b7-bc998db722ac.html
“The French government is expected to announce on Wednesday new rules to help economic immigration, according to cabinet sources quoted by local media on Tuesday. The measures will enable sectors that are going through a downturn to hire foreigners, according to the report.
The decree will set an annual number of people allowed to enter France in order to be employed in sectors lacking manpower without employers having to prove anymore that they are unable to hire French residents.
Premier Edouard Philippe on Monday night outlined to a number of ministers the guidelines of the new immigration measures, that need to be based on ”development policies”, according to the sources. Together with rules to ”adapt in real time to the needs of our companies” by facilitating economic immigration, rules to grant visas will be improved with the institution of a commission, reports said. The commission will have to improve relations between consulates and prefectures. In an interview a month ago, Philippe spoke about ”quotas” for economic migrants, assuring that it is not a ”taboo concept” for the French government: ”it is possible to discuss our needs on foreign manpower”.”
Twitter will not let me see these tweets, so I know they must be important/influential:
https://twitter.com/AmyMek/status/1190482222714949632
https://twitter.com/BasedPoland/status/1191000869787066369
https://twitter.com/VarelaPete/status/1191365423633072128
https://twitter.com/creepingsharia/status/1191058325355614208
Lately, I have been able to see only 1-in-10 or so tweets that I click on…sad, so sad.
Rural/northern Canada is about to be swamped by uncontrolled migrant re-location:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=immigration+northern+pilot+canada
Why are these people getting benefits that Canadian citizens are denied?
German man fighting for Kurds killed in Syria
https://www.dw.com/en/german-man-fighting-for-kurds-killed-in-syria/a-51120623
“Konstantin G. fought the “Islamic State” side-by-side with the Kurdish YPG, who were the local allies of US forces on the ground. He was killed in October, reportedly by a Turkish air attack. DW spoke with his parents…”
Austria: Muslim mob savagely beats woman at funeral of honor killing victims for not wearing hijab
NOV 3, 2019 12:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER24 COMMENTS
“Go away, you whore, you dare to show up here without a headscarf.”
“Then a man spat in my face. Nearly 20 Turks came and attacked us. They also hit my car.”
What are the chances that these good folks will become loyal, productive members of Austrian society?
“Because she wore no headscarf: wife beaten and hospitalized,” translated from “Weil sie kein Kopftuch trug: Frau ins Spital geprügelt,” oe24, November 2, 2019 (thanks to Searchlight Germany):
Scandal at the memorial service for the murder victims of Kottingbrunn: Guest Canan K. (37) was brutally attacked because she wore no headscarf.
After the killings of Tugba A. (29) and her children Tuana (23 months) and Selman (11 months), relatives attended a funeral in Bad Vöslau. There it came to a scandal.
Family executed
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/11/austria-muslim-mob-savagely-beats-woman-at-funeral-of-honor-killing-victims-for-not-wearing-hijab
How France plans to toughen the rules on immigration
https://www.thelocal.fr/20191105/how-france-plans-to-toughen-rules-on-immigration
“The French Prime Minister is set to unveil a raft of measures as part of the government’s new policy on immigration. Here’s a look at what’s on the table – including quotas for economic migrants and restrictions on access to healthcare.
Prime Minister Edouard Philippe presented the “immigration plan” to a group of MPs from the ruling party La Republique en Marche (LREM) on Monday evening and on Wednesday will present them to ministers in the government.
It comes after President Emmanuel Macron had signalled a tougher line on immigration in the second half of his mandate, arguing the government must stop voters drifting to the far-right.
“France cannot host everyone if it wants to host people well,” he said. France received a record 122,743 asylum requests last year, up 22 percent from the year before.
Among the measures Philippe was to announce on Tuesday was a toughening up of the rules around how asylum seekers and migrants can access healthcare in France.
Philippe told MPs on Monday he intends to fight against “fraud and abuse” when it comes to asylum seekers accessing France’s health system.
Asylum seekers in France can access vital healthcare via France’s Aide medicale d’Etat (AME). According to AFP some 318,000 benefit from the system each year.
But Macron himself has said he wants to end cases where foreigners arrive in France on a three month tourist visa but stay in the country and can access healthcare via AME.
According to press reports in France on Tuesday in future only undocumented migrants who have been in France for three months will get access to AME and it will become harder for asylum seekers to access care for non-urgent medical conditions.
The government also intends to toughen checks on those migrants who claim benefits, with suggestions that some asylum seekers have been able to claim two types on state benefits.
The government will also impose a three month “waiting period” (delai de carence) before asylum seekers can access the basic PUMa (protection universelle maladie) health cover, which is for accessible to anyone who resides in France.
Currently asylum seekers can apply to access the PUMa system as soon as they have lodged their application.
But the measures drawn up by the government don’t just revolve around making France a harder place to be for asylum-seekers.
The government wants certain sectors, which are most in need of workers, to be able to recruit migrant workers. The PM has already said that the idea of quotas for economic migrants in certain industries should no longer be taboo.
“The idea is to have quantified targets, or quotas,” the Labour Minister Muriel Pénicaud told BFMTV on Tuesday morning.
“This is about France hiring based on its needs. It’s a new approach, similar to what is done in Canada or Australia,” Penicaud told BFM television.
The list of sectors in which companies will be able to recruit migrant workers, will be updated each year in order to keep pace with the ever-changing needs of employers in different regions of France.
Currently employers have to justify why a French citizen cannot be hired in a complex administrative process, which resulted in around 33,000 economic migrants being granted visas last year.
Construction, hotels and restaurants, and some retailing sectors have long complained of a shortage of people willing to take what is often low-paying work.
Information technology and engineering industries, by contrast, say France does not produce enough qualified candidates.
Penicaud did not say how many foreign workers would be granted visas, nor if an applicant’s nationality would be taken into account, a proposal aired by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe last month.
France also intends to put more resources into reducing the time it takes for asylum applications to be processed.
The government passed a law in 2018 aiming to being the average time down from one year to six months, but according to Le Monde newspaper it has failed to have any impact.
The French government also intends to push for greater European cooperation to secure the EU’s borders.
Macron has noted France had seen a sharp increase in the numbers of people asking for asylum since the 2017 presidential election and said much tighter European cooperation was needed.
“There is not enough cooperation in Europe and we need to look at this migratory phenomenon and take decisions,” he said.
The French president, whose first term expires in 2022, is keenly aware that his biggest political rival remains Marine Le Pen and her far-right National Rally party which has built its popularity on a strong anti-immigration stance.
“In order to be able to welcome everyone properly, we should not be too attractive a country,” said Macron.”
Communist War on Chile
ntifa Allowed to Run the Streets at Trump Rally
Video: “American Ambassador: Empowered Self Government Beats Leftist Authoritarianism” Infowars – November 5, 2019
https://www.infowars.com/watch/?video=5dc0be2b9aa64a00281fe601
Report: China Sending Han Chinese Men to Sleep with Wives of Uyghur Detainees
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/11/05/report-china-sending-han-chinese-men-sleep-wives-uyghur-detainees/
“A report by Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Thursday said that Han Chinese men have been assigned to monitor the homes of Uyghur Muslim women while their husbands are held in Chinese re-education camps.
These men, portrayed as “relatives” of the Uyghurs, “regularly” sleep in the same beds as the women they monitor.
RFA described this practice as an extension of a Chinese program instituted late in 2017 that requires households in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) to invite officials into their homes, answer intrusive questions, and endure “political indoctrination” from their “guests.” According to RFA:
The “Pair Up and Become Family” program is one of several repressive policies targeting Uyghurs in the region, which have also seen the build out of a vast network of camps, where authorities have held up to 1.5 million Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities accused of harboring “strong religious views” and “politically incorrect” ideas since April 2017.
RFA’s Uyghur Service recently spoke about the program with a ruling Communist Party cadre in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) prefecture’s Yengisar (Yingjisha) county, who said that 70 to 80 families in the township he oversees have Chinese, mostly male, “relatives” that stay for up to six days at each household—many of which have male family members in detention.
“The ‘relatives’ come to visit us here every two months … they stay with their paired relatives day and night,” he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“They help [the families] with their ideology, bringing new ideas. They talk to them about life, during which time they develop feelings for one another.”
The “sleeping together” business is supposedly necessitated by cold temperatures in the region, conditions which often oblige Xinjiang residents to sleep close together in the same room for warmth during the winter.
The Communist Party official who spoke to RFA insisted the people of Xinjiang are completely comfortable with these phony “relatives” living in their homes and are “very keen” to make them comfortable. He also claimed there has never been a single instance of a Chinese minder attempting to take advantage of a Uyghur woman.
“They help [Uyghur families] with their ideology, bringing new ideas. They talk to them about life, during which time they develop feelings for one another,” the Communist official said.
“Reports suggest that Uyghurs who protest hosting ‘relatives’ as part of the Pair Up and Become Family program, or refuse to take part in study sessions or other activities with the officials in their homes, are subject to additional restrictions or could face detention in the camp system,” RFA observed.
RFA quoted Human Rights Watch saying “there is no evidence to suggest that families can refuse” visits from Han Chinese overseers. The human rights organization denounced China’s policy as “deeply invasive forced assimilation.”
Part of RFA’s research for the report involved talking to village leaders who said the Chinese “relatives” sometimes bring food and drink forbidden to Muslims, such as alcohol and pork, and pressure the Uyghur families into eating them.
“We are not so insane as to tell them that we are Muslim, so we cannot eat the things they eat,” one of these village sources said.
Peter Irwin of the World Uyghur Congress told the UK Independent on Tuesday that China’s “Pair Up and Become Family” program represents “the complete destruction of the line between private and public life.”
“Having Chinese men or Chinese police officials basically staying in their homes is not a new thing, but it’s about keeping tabs on people as closely as possible,” Irwin said. “It’s a program to eliminate the identity of Uyghurs by ensuring that people cannot express themselves.”
“In any other country or any other place on Earth, we would think this is insane, but in China it just seems like par for the course in terms of what they’ve been doing in the past two or three years,” he said.
Human rights activist Dr. Habib Siddiqui wrote an extensive op-ed for Eurasia Review on Monday in which he called China’s forced assimilation policies “repugnant and dehumanizing.”
“This is the height of immoral crime not only against the families of those detained Uyghurs whose wives but now ‘pair up’ with a Han Chinese but also against all the established norms of civility and decency that we enjoy as human beings,” Siddiqui wrote.
“It is a slap to nearly 1.7 billion Muslims who consider such Han supremacist programs as sacrilegious, let alone being dehumanizing, shocking, shameful and highly offensive,” he added.
Siddiqui vented his exasperation at Muslim leaders who refuse to respond to that slap by denouncing Beijing, wondering how they would feel if their spouses were “forced to ‘pair up, sleep in the same bed, and become family’ with Han supremacists while they rot in concentration camps.””