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An interesting read on tech tyranny:
http://www.unz.com/article/the-rise-of-tech-totalitarianism/
In the home, the child know who the real authority is.
in Islam, it is Muhammad.
In Socialism, the Most Outraged Victim.
In Communism, the Dear Leader.
Weponizing:
Truth
Hate
Love.
In the video below, they are perplexed as to how Stalin’s secretary would allow Stalin to kill his wife and still retain his loyalty, (as musselmas allow their husbands to be killed and remain loyal to Muhammad).
The fact is, the macho, violent father is controlled by Muhammad, and so is replaceable. One dies, move on to service just another.
The fact is, the Feminist, passive-aggressive mother is controlled by The State, and so is replaceable. One dies move on to service just another.
https://youtu.be/Fq5Q6YfJtC0
“Comedy gold inside Pelosi’s office…”
by Kane – November 19, 2019
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/comedy-gold-as-climate-freaks-take-over-pelosis-office-declare-occupation-and-hunger-strike/
“Climate Activists Begin Hunger Strike in Nancy Pelosi’s Office” News2Share – November 18, 2019
Here’s a toast to the ocean.
To the ocean! Cheers 🙂
“… Cheers… Come to my office and you will always find Ghiradelli Chocolate.”
– Nancy Pelosi
German Police Arrest Syrian in Berlin Over Suspected Bomb Plot – Prosecutors (sputniknews, Nov 19, 2019)
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201911191077349437-german-police-arrest-syrian-in-berlin-over-suspected-bomb-plot—prosecutors/
“BERLIN (Sputnik) – A radicalized Syrian was arrested in Berlin on Tuesday on suspicion of plotting a terror attack in Germany that would have involved explosives, the city’s prosecution said.
The suspect was detained in his Berlin home during a raid, conducted as part of a probe into his plans to “commit a serious act of violence against the state,” the press release read.
The 37-year-old was found to have been active since last spring in a chat in the Telegram messenger app closely linked to the Islamic State terror group (banned in Russia).
The group exchanged instructions on how to build weapons and explosive devices, including plastic explosives, magnet bombs, AK-47 assault rifles and sub-machine guns.
“The purpose of the chat was apparently to prepare terrorist attacks,” the Berlin prosecutor’s office said.
The federal prosecutor’s office said in a separate statement that the search of the suspect’s apartment aimed to confirm suspicions about the man, whom it described as a radical Islamist.
It said he had been procuring elements and chemicals needed to build a bomb since January this year.
“This was to be set off at an unknown time in an unknown location in Germany to kill and injure as many people as possible,” the statement read.
The suspect bought acetone in August and hydrogen peroxide in September. These, the federal prosecution said, were components of the highly volatile TATP explosive.”
Iranian President Rouhani Slams US’ Sanctions on Iran as Violation of International Norms (sputniknews, Nov 19, 2019)
https://sputniknews.com/world/201911191077348087-iranian-president-rouhani-slams-us-sanctions-on-iran-as-violation-of-international-norms/
“Washington’s sanctions against Iran are a mistake and a violation of international norms, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday after the United States announced its plans to terminate the sanction waiver for the Fordow nuclear facility.
“Sanctions are a big political and economical mistake of the US, as this is a measure taken in violation of international laws,” Rouhani said when the new Australian ambassador was submitting credentials, as quoted on the official presidential website.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday that the US would terminate its sanction waiver effective December 15, calling on Iran to immediately cease its uranium enrichment activities, launched as part of the fourth stage of reducing its nuclear obligations…”
Erdogan Says if US Stance on F-35s Doesn’t Change, Turkey Will Have to Look for Defence Alternatives (sputniknews, Nov 19, 2019)
https://sputniknews.com/world/201911191077347179-erdogan-says-if-us-stance-on-f-35s-doesnt-change-turkey-will-have-to-look-for-defence-alternatives/
“Earlier, Donald Trump announced that bilateral national security teams would start working on a solution to Ankara’s purchase of S-400 systems from Russia and the impact that the Russian air defence systems could have on the US-made F-35 jets.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that he told Donald Trump that if the US stance on the F-35 jets persists, Turkey will have to seek other alternatives for its defence needs.
“We told Trump that we would not take a step back on the S-400. We agreed to resolve the issue. I once again explained how we approached the purchase of the S-400, and he acknowledges our innocence. I once again spoke about the injustice of the F-35 problem. We are not clients, but partners, we have already paid $1.4 billion. If we don’t agree, then we will start looking for alternatives in the medium term,” Erdogan said.
The United States has repeatedly objected to Ankara’s purchase of the S-400s, saying that the weapons system is incompatible with NATO security standards and might compromise the operations of the new fifth-generation F-35 fighter jets. Washington called upon Turkey to cancel the deal with Russia and instead acquire Patriot missile defense systems from the United States…”
Three Iranian Security Personnel Killed During Protest Over Gasoline Price Spike – Reports (sputniknews, Nov 19, 2019)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201911191077348034-three-iranian-security-personnel-killed-during-protest-over-gasoline-price-spike—reports/
“Three members of the Iranian security forces were killed during the unrest in Tehran, which is part of massive protests against the recent increase in gasoline prices across the country, Iran’s ISNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
Among those killed was one member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, while the other two were members of the Basij militia, which was also deployed to the city to ensure security in the wake of the protests.
On Monday, government spokesman Ali Rabiei said that several law enforcement officers were killed during the recent rallies in Iran.
Last week, the Iranian government announced an increase in gasoline prices, which sparked the mass protests.
The Iranian authorities said that they had arrested about 1,000 people for rioting and acts of vandalism over the past several days, and media reports indicate that the total number of protesters has exceeded 87,000.”
EU PANIC: Germany demands migration overhaul as bloc is underperforming – major warning (express, Nov 19, 2019)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1206284/EU-news-Germany-Horst-Seehofer-migration-European-Court-of-Auditors-latest-update
“GERMANY has called for a “new beginning” for the European Union’s migration policy in a bid to cut illegal entries into the bloc’s free-travel zone.
Horst Seehofer, the country’s federal interior minister, insisted Brussels must undergo fundamental reforms to its asylum and migration policy. “Migration policy is the central domestic issue of the European Union,” he said. “We need a new beginning for migration policy in Europe.”
Mr Seehofer said those seeking to claim asylum in the EU should be able to be rejected at the bloc’s external borders.
The so-called Dublin Regulation, which establishes what EU member state is responsible for asylum applications, needs overhauling, the German added.
He said: “Obviously inadmissible or unfounded applications should be rejected immediately at the external border, in which case no entry into the EU is allowed.”
And the Dublin Regulation should be replaced by “establishing firm responsibilities for the examination of requests for protection”.
The German’s warnings comes in the wake of a European Court of Auditors report that warns the bloc must do more to tackle illegal migration.
The audit, which focused on the implantation of EU asylum policies in Greece and Italy, found targets had not been met.
Brussels set an initial target of relocating 160,000 migrants, but eventually agreed to relocate 98,256 individuals. However, only 34,705 were actually ever relocated.
Only 34,705 – 21,999 were from Greece and 12,706 from Italy ere found new homes across EU countries.
Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic have all refused to fulfil their obligations to accept asylum seekers.
The audit blames the inability of Greek and Italian authorities to identify migrations who could be considered eligible for relocation.
It was also found that an EU-funded refugee camp on the Greek island of Samos built to house 640 people is currently home to 3,745.
Auditors said: “Seventy-eight unaccompanied minors were in tents or abandoned derelict houses outside the hot spot, in unofficial extensions to the facility.
“Nine unaccompanied girls were sleeping on the floor in a 10 metre sq container next to the police office, with no bathroom or shower.”
Leo Brincat, the European Court of Auditors chief responsible for the report, said: “EU migration management in Greece and Italy was relevant, but has not reached its full potential.
“It’s time to step up action to address disparities between objectives and results.”
He added: “While some high-level conclusions might be known to larger public, or at least do not come as a surprise – such as low rates of returns, long processing times, and low number of relocated migrants – our audit provides insights, data, findings and conclusions that have not been made public before and thus can add extra value to decision-makers and policy-evaluators.
“The hotspot approach was part of a package of immediate measures established by the Council to counter the crisis unfolding in 2015.
“Another part of this package was a temporary and exceptional relocation mechanism for applicants in clear need of international protection from Greece or Italy to other countries in the EU, in order to relieve the burden on these two frontline member states.””
From last month, don’t know if posted here before:
U.N. ‘Refugee Resettlement’ flights from Africa begin landing in Germany
https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/10/u-n-refugee-resettlement-flights-from-africa-begin-landing-in-germany/
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Ethiopia organized on Tuesday its first international charter flight carrying 154 Somali refugees to be resettled in Germany.
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An additional 220 refugees will depart for Germany on a second IOM-chartered flight in mid-November.
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Last year, after submitting an information request to the Federal Government, Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) MP Leif-Erik Holm found that nearly 30 percent of ‘asylum seekers’ had arrived in Germany via plane, Junge Freiheit reports.
With the UN’s ‘Refugee Resettlement’ flights now officially shuttling directly from Africa into Germany, that 30 percent figure is likely to expand considerably.
With link to this video:
https://twitter.com/IOMEthiopia/status/1184121677669486592
Yes I think we saw it. But worth repeating C.
Happened yesterday:
Sweden: Man attacked with machete in Stockholm
https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/11/sweden-man-attacked-with-machete-in-stockholm/
Passers-by have found a man lying on the ground bleeding with injuries to various parts of his body, allegedly from a machete attack, in Vasastaden, Sweden shortly after 7 am on Monday morning.
The victim, a famous convicted murder who recently left prison, was transported to a nearby hospital where his injuries were treated. According to the information provided by the medical service to the police, the man is not in life-threatening condition, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
According to SVT, the victim was previously convicted of murdering a young mother with whom he had previously had a relationship with.
“We are trying to create a picture of what has happened, it is only an hour old,” said Eva Nilsson, press spokesperson for the police.
The machete used to carry out the attack was reportedly left at the crime scene. Police have since cordoned off the crime scene and are currently talking to witnesses. Surveillance cameras nearby are also being checked, Nilsson told reporters.
A brief interview with the victim is also said to have occurred before he was taken to the hospital in the ambulance. Additional interrogations are planned.
So far, little is known about the attacker who’s only been described as a male who left the scene of the crime in a car.
Investigations are ongoing.
Human trafficker whose gang brought ‘more than 100 migrants’ into Britain last year for up to £8,500 each is jailed for four years in Spain (dailymail, Nov 19, 2019)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7701413/Trafficker-gang-brought-100-migrants-Britain-jailed-four-years-Spain.html
“The leader of a human trafficking gang which charged desperate migrants up to £8,500 each to smuggle them into the UK in the backs of refrigerated lorries has been jailed for four years in Spain.
Iraqi-born Shwana Rafiq put the lives of entire families at risk by hiding them in trailers heading for Britain where temperatures never got above 40F (4C).
The 36-year-old was sentenced after he admitted playing a lead role in an international criminal gang which organised a ‘large number’ of operations involving the smuggling of Kurds.
Spanish police believe Shwana’s gang were responsible for smuggling more than 100 people into the UK between 2017 and 2018, earning up to £850,000.
Unsuspecting lorry drivers were targeted by having their trailer locks broken in ferry ports or motorway rest areas so the migrants could be hidden inside.
Shwana’s modus operandi echoed some of the deadly tactics used by the people smugglers blamed for the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a refrigerated truck in Essex last month.
He was jailed after striking a pre-trial plea bargain deal with prosecutors at a court in Teruel east of Madrid.
State prosecutors had initially been seeking a 14-year prison term for Spanish expat Shwana on charges of money laundering and people trafficking before he received a reduced sentence as part of a guilty plea.
His Spanish wife Esperanza Martinez, who was facing a prison sentence of up to 12 years before she admitted to being his accomplice, was handed a two-year jail term for human trafficking which will be suspended as she is a first-time offender.
Five other people linked to the people smuggling organisation were given prison sentences ranging from six months to a year set to be suspended at a later date because they all have clean records in Spain.
They included a 39-year-old Iranian with a British passport identified as Rabeen Mohamad who was extradited to Spain from Switzerland to face trial. He was also convicted of a crime of human trafficking.
The police operation which resulted in the court convictions, outlined in a 30-page sentencing document released Tuesday in the wake of the plea agreements, was sparked by the discovery of six Iraqis in the back of a lorry in France in 2017.
The Iraqis, who were discovered in a UK-bound refrigerated lorry at a service station in near Teruel, central Spain, were members of the same family. Four were children.
They alerted the unsuspecting lorry driver to their plight by screaming for help hours after being hidden in the trailer by Shwana when he broke into it and then locked it back up with them inside.
The following month eight Turkish and Iraqi migrants including four children were discovered in almost identical circumstances in a second UK-bound lorry near the same spot.
Spanish police said after father-of-three Rafiq’s arrest in January 2018 they believed the human trafficking gang he led had smuggled more than 100 people into Britain over the previous 12 months…”
Prince Andrew made ‘racist’ comment about Arabs, ex-home secretary says (telegraph, Nov 19, 2019)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2019/11/19/politician-breaks-ranks-label-prince-andrew-complete-disgrace/
“She told Mr Dale that she regrettably did not challenge him, and added: “I am not going to tell you exactly what he said but it involved a comment about camels. It is as worse as you could imagine.””
Pope Francis Warns: ‘Fundamentalism Is a Plague’ (breitbart, Nov 19, 2019)
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019/11/19/pope-francis-warns-fundamentalism-is-a-plague/
“Pope Francis blasted religious fundamentalism Monday, telling an Argentinian interreligious dialogue group that fundamentalism is a “plague.”
“Beware of the fundamentalist groups: everyone has his own. In Argentina too there is a little fundamentalist corner,” the pope told his hearers. “And let us try, with fraternity, to go forward. Fundamentalism is a scourge and all religions have some kind of fundamentalist first cousin there, which forms a group.”
The pope took pains to show that it is not just Muslim extremists who practice violent fanaticism, citing historical instances of Christian fanaticism and religiously motivated violence, such as the Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre and a scene of forced conversion from the Chanson de Roland.
“It is important to demonstrate that we believers are a factor of peace for human societies, and that we will thus respond to those who unjustly accuse religions of fomenting hatred and being the cause of violence,” he said.
In his address, the pope repeated his 2016 assertion that all religions are equally prone to violence and that Islam and Christianity are much the same in this regard…”
France: Far-Left Extremist on Terror Watch List Who Spied on Police Arrested (breitbart, Nov 19, 2019)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/11/19/france-far-left-extremist-terror-watch-list-who-spied-police-arrested/
“Police have arrested a 21-year-old far-left extremist at the first anniversary of the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) movement on Saturday. The extremist has been accused of spying on police officers…”
Underage PolyU protesters to be treated ‘in a very humanitarian way’, says Hong Kong’s Carrie Lam
The students trapped at the University are going to be arrested, we shall have and see if this crushes the protests or if they start up next weekend.
Hong Kong protesters make daring campus breakout with ropes and motorbikes
“Not uncommon” for PLA to undertake voluntary activities in Hong Kong, says Carrie Lam
Sweden PM Claims No Link Between Rising Gang Crime and Mass Migration (breitbart, Nov 19, 2019)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/11/19/sweden-pm-claims-no-link-between-rising-gang-crime-mass-migration/
“Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has claimed that there is no link between the high number of migrants the country has taken in recent years and the rising problem of gang violence.
The Swedish prime minister made his comments on Sunday on Swedish television, stating that the problem with rising gang violence was very real and different from the past and that the government “may not have seen it coming”, Nyheter Idag reports.
When asked by the host of the Agenda programme Anders Holmberg about links between mass migration and gang violence, Löfven was dismissive of any connection, blaming poverty and unemployment rates instead.
“The segregation is because there is too low employment and too high unemployment in these areas. But that would have been the same regardless of who had lived there. If you put people born in Sweden under the same conditions, you get the same result,” the Swedish leader said.
Löfven went even further, claiming that without the migration crisis of 2015, the country would still be facing the same problem: “Because of the economic gaps, the social injustices would have been the same.”
Several prior reports conflict with Löfven’s statements, including a report from September by newspaper Expressen that claimed the majority of suspects in shooting cases in the multicultural city of Malmö were from migrant backgrounds.
Another study, conducted by public broadcaster SVT, revealed last year that the majority of sex attackers were also from migrant backgrounds. As many as eight in ten assault rapes — in which the victim did not know their attacker — were committed by migrants.
Unemployment figures are also vastly higher for migrant-background individuals in Sweden than they are for native-born Swedes. A report released last year said that the unemployment rate for migrant-background individuals was as high as 19.9 per cent, compared to just 3.6 for natives.
Last month, Statistics Sweden’s integration database for health insurance and labour market studies (LISA) said that up to 90 per cent of asylum seekers who came to the country during the 2015 migrant crisis and had permanent residency were unemployed.”
UN warns of mounting humanitarian crisis in Africa’s Sahel (abcnews, Nov 19, 2019)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/warns-mounting-humanitarian-crisis-africas-sahel-67130513
“Ousmane Sawadogo, his wives and children recently fled their village in northern Burkina Faso because of growing extremist violence. After walking 200 kilometers (124 miles) to the regional city of Kaya, they now forage for wild leaves to survive.
“What we need now is food. Everything else can wait,” Sawadogo told the United Nations World Food Program. “Once we get food then we will worry about clothes.”
The U.N. on Tuesday said a humanitarian crisis is growing in West Africa’s arid Sahel region where insecurity linked to growing extremist attacks has forced more than 860,000 people in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to flee their homes.
Nearly half a million people have been displaced this year in Burkina Faso alone as the landlocked country becomes the new hunting ground for extremists linked to the Islamic State group and al-Qaida.
Burkina Faso saw more attacks in the first half of this year than it did in all of 2018.
“A dramatic human crisis is unfolding in Burkina Faso that has disrupted the lives of millions,” the WFP’s executive director, David Beasley, said in a statement. “A third of the country is now a conflict zone.”
WFP teams are seeing malnutrition levels “pushed well past emergency thresholds,” he said. “This means young children and new mothers are on the brink. If the world is serious about saving lives, the time to act is now.”
Farmers have been forced to abandon their fields. As communities take in displaced people, already stretched resources are further depleted.
“You are looking at a situation that is developing into something really severe, I would even say dire,” WFP regional spokesman George Fominyen told The Associated Press. “We don’t know how long this situation will go on. That’s why we are raising this alarm.”
WFP is assisting more than 2.6 million people in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. It said $150 million is urgently needed in a region where some 20 million people live in conflict-affected areas.
“The main trigger here is conflict,” Fominyen said. “Then you are talking about it happening in a place that in itself already has a lot of problems” such as drought, poverty, weak government, unemployment and lack of social services.
Extremists exploit those troubles while wary communities turn on each other amid allegations of supporting the jihadists. The violence limits humanitarian access to people in need and the poverty contributes to the violence, Fominyen said.
The response to the crisis cannot just be about security, he warned. It also must address the root causes and offer viable alternatives to joining extremist groups.”
Italian prosecutors investigate ex-minister Salvini (abcnews, Nov 19, 2019)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/italian-prosecutors-investigate-minister-salvini-67130429
“Prosecutors in Sicily are investigating former Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini for not allowing a humanitarian rescue ship to enter Italian waters this summer.
The news agency ANSA said Salvini was being investigated for abduction and dereliction of duty for the 20-day stand-off with a ship carrying 164 migrants operated by Spanish group Proactive Open Arms.
Salvini, the leader of the right-wing League, has avoided trial for similar instances in the past when he was minister, because parliament refused to lift his immunity.
He lost his ministerial role in August when his failed attempt at a power grab toppled the government.
Prosecutors have two weeks to decide whether to proceed with the case.
Salvini was dismissive of the investigation, calling it a waste of taxpayer money and judicial officials’ time.”
Bosnian police arrest 3 people after migrant dies in fight (abcnews, Nov 19, 2019)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/bosnian-police-arrest-people-migrant-dies-fight-67130161
“Police in Bosnia have arrested three people after a migrant died of injuries he has suffered in a fight with other migrants.
Police in the capital Sarajevo said on Tuesday the suspects are three men from Pakistan, including a minor. The fight erupted on Saturday near the Usivak camp in Sarajevo.
Thousands of migrants have been stranded in Bosnia while looking for ways to move toward Western Europe. The Balkan country has been struggling with the influx while still coping with the consequences of a devastating war in the 1990s.
Most migrants in Bosnia have been flocking to a northwestern region that borders European Union member Croatia. Authorities have announced plans to open two additional migrant camps in Sarajevo and the central town of Tuzla.”
Taliban free US, Australian hostage for 3 Taliban figures (abcnews, Nov 19, 2019)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/taliban-officials-taliban-qatar-prisoner-swap-67123794
“The Taliban freed an American and an Australian held hostage since 2016 on Tuesday, in exchange for three top Taliban figures who were released by the Kabul government and flown out of Afghanistan the previous day.
The hostages — American Kevin King and Australian Timothy Weeks — were released in southern Zabul province, ending more than three years of captivity since they were abducted outside the American University in Kabul, where both work as teachers.
Kings’ family issued a statement later Tuesday saying he was now safe with U.S. officials in Afghanistan and getting the medical care he needs ahead of his return home to be reunited with his family. It was not clear if Weeks was also with Australian officials.
The two were released in Zabul’s Naw Bahar district, a region largely under Taliban control, according to a Taliban official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to talk to the media. King and Weeks were handed over to U.S. forces and transported from the area in a U.S. helicopter…”
Russia repatriates 32 children of IS members from Iraq (abcnews, Nov 19, 2019)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/russia-repatriates-32-children-members-iraq-67125531
“Russia says it has repatriated another 32 children of members of the Islamic State group from Iraq.
Russia’s state TV on Tuesday showed footage of the children arriving at Zhukovsky airport outside Moscow. It said the children aged between one and nine will undergo extensive medical check-ups before relatives take them home.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said the children had been held in asylum centers in Iraq or in prisons with their mothers.
Their arrival represents the fourth group of Russian children to be repatriated from Iraq. The Foreign Ministry said a total of 122 children have been brought home.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that over 4,000 Russian citizens and some 5,000 citizens of other ex-Soviet nations have joined the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.”
Turkey issues warrants for 133 officers over coup links (abcnews, Nov 19, 2019)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/turkey-issues-warrants-133-officers-coup-links-67124378
“Turkey’s state-run news agency says prosecutors have issued warrants for the detention of 133 military officers over suspected links to the U.S.-based Muslim cleric who is blamed by Ankara for a failed coup attempt in 2016.
Anadolu Agency said Tuesday that 101 of the suspects were detained in simultaneous raids in 45 provinces for alleged links to Fethullah Gulen’s network.
Police were searching for 32 other suspects.
The agency says 82 of the suspects targeted by the warrants are officers currently serving in the military. They include three colonels, five majors and five lieutenants.
Some 77,000 people have been arrested and around 130,000 others, including military personnel, have been dismissed from state jobs in a government crackdown on Gulen’s network since the coup.
Gulen denies involvement.”
Hong Kong university campus torn apart by deadly street battles
Hong Kong protesters make daring campus breakout with ropes and motorbikes
With a large number of the hard corp protesters getting away the protests might continue next weekend.
Hong Kong High Court rules ban on face masks unconstitutional
Hong Kong Polytechnic University police siege: Fiery clashes amid standoff
Police surround last holdouts at Hong Kong university
HONG KONG (AP) — About 100 anti-government protesters remained holed up at a Hong Kong university Tuesday, their choices dwindling along with their food supplies as they braced for the endgame in a police siege of the campus that entered its third day.
Full Coverage: Hong Kong
Police were waiting them out after 10 days of some of the most intense protests the city has seen in more than five months of often-violent unrest gripping the semi-autonomous Chinese city. Over the past day, more than 1,000 people were arrested and hundreds of injured treated at hospitals, authorities said.
The government has stood firm, rejecting most of the protesters’ demands, even as they shut down major roads and trains during rush hour every day last week, turned several university campuses into fortresses and blocked a major road tunnel, which remained shut Tuesday.
https://apnews.com/a709b8e3599d4696aaa53f3d2023dcb6
Hong Kong university protesters defy surrender warnings
Hong Kong (AFP) – Dozens of exhausted pro-democracy protesters occupying a Hong Kong university defied warnings to surrender Tuesday on the third day of a stand-off with police, as China sent fresh signals that its patience with nearly six months of unrest was running out.
Fearing arrest or being shot at by police, a dwindling number of protesters remained huddled inside Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) as night fell.
The siege at PolyU began Sunday with many hundreds of protesters occupying the campus as part of a broader campaign of massive disruption across Hong Kong that began last week.
The ensuing confrontation turned into the most intense and prolonged of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy crisis, which has seen millions take to the streets since June to voice anger at China’s erosion of the territory’s freedoms.
During the siege protesters had repelled police surges with a barrage of Molotov cocktails, arrows and bricks. Police in response threatened to use live rounds.
Some protesters escaped overnight on Monday by shinning down ropes from a footbridge to a road, where they were whisked away on motorbikes.
https://news.yahoo.com/hong-kong-siege-third-day-china-sounds-warnings-031850303.html
Desperate Hong Kong protesters explore sewers in campus escape bid
Arms covered in cling film and torches in hand as they drop into the sewers, clusters of pro-democracy protesters still inside a Hong Kong campus are plotting increasingly ingenious — and desperate — ways to escape a police siege.
Among the detritus of a scorched and graffiti-sprayed concourse at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, several plastic covers — some with torches placed above them — betray extraordinary underground escape plans.
Protesters have removed metal manholes, some making exploratory forays into the fetid tunnels, following rumours of successful exfiltrations from a campus ringed for three days by baton-wielding police determined to arrest them.
Pockets of protesters, some with thick bandages wrapped around their knees in anticipation of a long crawl to freedom, knot the holes discussing an unlikely — and highly dangerous — breakout.
https://news.yahoo.com/desperate-hong-kong-protesters-explore-sewers-campus-escape-115415181.html
Noel Ignatiev, the man who coined the phrase “white privilege”, passed away on Nov 9. The Ney Yorker published what amounts to a hagiography:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/noel-ignatievs-long-fight-against-whiteness
But Ignatiev was not a typical graduate student, and his book, “How the Irish Became White,” was not meant to stay within the academy. A fifty-four-year-old Marxist radical, Ignatiev had come to the academy after two decades of work in steel mills and factories.
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Ignatiev wasn’t merely describing these dynamics; he wanted to change them. If whiteness could be created, it could also be destroyed.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal, the activist and death-row inmate, provided an enthusiastic back-cover blurb. Today, many of the ideas Ignatiev proposed or refined—about the nature of whiteness, and about the racial dynamics that unfold among immigrant workers—are taken for granted in classrooms; they influence films, literature, and art. But Ignatiev found it hard to accept the academic rewards that came with his book’s success. Committed to radicalism, he spent much of his time in academia doing what he had done on the factory floor: publishing leaflets and zines about the possibilities of revolutionary change.
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“In the struggle for socialism,” Ignatiev wrote, white workers “have more to lose than their chains; they have also to ‘lose’ their white-skin privileges, the perquisites that separate them from the rest of the working class, that act as the material base for the split in the ranks of labor.”
Etc
Sargon of Akkad has a video on this:
Mayor Pete’s Gay Holocaust Memorial Adventure
Illegal Alien Crime and Democrat Lies: Four Stories the Liberal Media Won’t Cover This Week
CBC – How hate speech is being fought online
The quest to root out hate speech online has led tech companies to develop formulas to locate it and stop it from spreading. CBC’s Thomas Daigle looks at how the technology works and the challenges companies face.
Yacht Fires Are Most Expensive, Single Event In Fort Lauderdale’s History
FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) – A raging fire destroyed two luxury yachts early Saturday morning at a marina in Fort Lauderdale.
As of Monday afternoon, it does not appear that a crime was committed.
“We’ve met with many officials out here over the weekend and people on surrounding boats as well as video footage from closed-circuit television in the area,” said Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Steve Gollan.
“At this point we’ve come to the conclusion there’s nothing suspicious with this fire,” he said
Investigators from Fort Lauderdale as well as Alcohol, Tobacco and firearms spent the day looking into the fire, searching for indicators as to how it began.
“Through the tapes and through the interviews we can see different areas of origin and can see how the fire started and grew but we don’t have it pinpointed down to the exact occurrence that took place,” Gollan said.
https://miami.cbslocal.com/2019/11/18/fire-destroys-2-yachts-worth-24-million-in-fort-lauderdale/
the gateway pundit – BOOM! NUNES JUST CAUGHT VINDMAN — He Won’t Answer on Ties to Whistleblower – SCHIFF JUMPS IN! (VIDEO)
Nunes asked Vindman about the officials he spoke with and who he leaked the contents of President Trump’s phone call with President Zelensky in Ukraine.
Vindman told the committee his contact was in the intelligence committee… widely believed to be Eric Ciaramella in the CIA.
Schiff jumped in as Nunes got Vindman close to identifying the whistleblower’s agency.
Vindman corrects Devin Nunes: ‘It’s Lt. Col. Vindman, please’
Jordan presses Vindman on unnamed official he spoke to after Ukraine call
Jim Jordan Ruins Vindman – Gets Him to Admit He Broke Chain of Command – Leaked Call to Intel hacks
GOP Rep. Stefanik grills Vindman over Biden and Burisma
Lebanon: Scuffles break out as protesters block parliament building
Scuffles broke out between demonstrators and police in central Beirut on Tuesday as hundreds of people blocked roads to the Parliament preventing lawmakers from entering the building.
Protesters were filmed confronting police. The parliament’s session was reportedly postponed as only a few lawmakers managed to enter.
Over the last few weeks, protesters in Lebanon have been taking to the streets to voice their discontent with deteriorating living conditions and austerity measures.
Beirut protesters attack MP’s convoy, bodyguards open fire in the air
Scuffles broke out in central Beirut on Tuesday as thousands of anti-government protesters tried to prevent lawmakers from reaching Parliament, outraged that a session was planned even though Lebanon is still without a Cabinet.
When one legislator headed toward the building and could not reach it and turned back, his bodyguards opened fire in the air to clear the way. No one was hurt in the incident.
Stasi Among Us? German Newspaper Probes Its Owner Over His Former Job as Spy (sputniknews, Nov 19, 2019)
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201911191077351784-german-newspaper-owner-investigation/
“Holger Friedrich, who bought the Berliner Zeitung in September, has insisted that he was “not active” in his spy role, allegedly taking every opportunity to avoid working for the Stasi.
The German newspaper Berliner Zeitung has launched a probe into its new owner Holger Friedrich who once served as an informant for the Stasi, the East German secret police.
“We will collect the facts, we want to see the files, both of the victims and the perpetrators,” Berliner Zeitung’s editors, Jochen Arntz and Elmar Jehn, pointed out in a joint editorial.
Friedrich admitted to acting as a Stasi informant, and pledged his “full support and cooperation” with the investigation.
At the same time, the 53-year-old underscored that he did not work for the Stasi “proactively” and that he tried to take every chance to refrain from doing so.
“The documents should show that I was in an emergency situation, I agreed to ‘make good’ under duress. I withdrew from this predicament at the first opportunity and cut off my cooperation with the Stasi,” Friedrich argued, referring to his being released from his Stasi duties in August 1989, three months before the Berlin Wall fell.
His remarks came after rival German newspaper Welt am Sonntag published documents revealing that Friedrich was employed by the Stasi under the codename “Peter Bernstein” in 1987 to inform on soldiers he worked alongside during his military service.
There were more than 90,000 regular workers and 174,000 informal ones, or IMs, in the Stasi at the time. The IMs were tasked with spying on friends, family and work colleagues and reporting information to their designated handlers.
Friedrich and his wife bought the Berliner Zeitung, the only East German daily to preserve its clout after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in September 2019. The ailing newspaper was jointly bought by the UK media group Mecom and a US company in 2005, but four years later it was sold on again to a Cologne-based publisher.”
Biden is at it again: Today’s anachronism is ‘gateway drug’
By Howard Portnoy November 19, 2019
I’ve begun to wonder whether Joe Biden’s fondness for conjuring up images of record players, haberdashers, and other antiquities in his campaign speeches is not so much his being out of step with the times as it is wishful thinking. Maybe Biden is the living incarnation of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s unforgettable character Miniver Cheevy, whose all-consuming regret was being “born too late.” Whereas as Cheevy “loved the days of old/When swords were bright and steeds were prancing,” Biden seems to long for the 1960s and 1970s — a time that he actually lived through.
That would certainly explain his latest blast from the past. It came during a town hall in Las Vegas this weekend where the topic was the nationwide legalization of marijuana. For a change, Biden broke with his far-left competitors for the Democratic nomination for president by suggesting that the question of decriminalizing marijuana possession should be left up to the states. The former vice president also broke with 62% of Americans, who believe the drug should be legalized, but far be it from me to criticize the man for having the courage of his convictions.
But it was the reason Biden gave for his reluctance that is the central point of this post. That is, he believes there has still “not nearly been enough evidence” to determine whether marijuana is “a gateway drug.”
https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/11/19/gramps-biden-is-at-it-again-todays-anachronism-is-gateway-drug/
Turkish Radio & Television – TRT – Migrant Crisis: Refugees caught in the middle of domestic political battles
The European Union has described Bosnian refugee camps a humanitarian disaster, but regional bloc is accused of turning a blind eye to the situation on the Croatian border. Semir Sejfovic takes a look at how domestic political disputes and a lack of coordination is affecting refugees.
Turkish Radio & Television – TRT – Athens: The City With No Mosques
Athens is known as the birthplace of democracy, but Muslims both in and around the city say they don’t have religious freedom.
Hate Hoax? Migrant Beaten by ‘Fascists’ Was Actually Attacked by Other Migrants (breitbart, Nov 19, 2019)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/11/19/migrant-said-beaten-fascists-was-attacked-roma/
“A Nigerian migrant who was said to have been beaten up by “fascists” was actually assaulted by Roma from eastern Europe, according to police sources.
The victim of the assault claimed two individuals assaulted him in a Florence, Italy underpass, punching him in the mouth and the side of his head, newspaper Il Giornale reports.
“There were two people around 40 years old who gave me dirty looks while staring at me. I asked them why they were watching me, and they beat me. I bled. I was very afraid. I fell to the ground, and they ran away,” the 28-year-old Nigerian migrant male told Italian media.
The Nigerian works as a peddler of goods, selling small items such as lighters on the street near the underpass, and came to Italy by boat in 2014. He has a permanent residency permit according to reports.
Immediately after news of the attack was published, claims began to circulate online that the perpetrators were “fascists”. One user cited in the Il Giornale report claimed: “Two infamous fascists have beaten up that very nice [man] who always stops down there.”
The social media response led to hundreds of supportive messages for the Nigerian and many in the neighbourhood offering support to the man.
Police, however, have contradicted the claims, saying that the attackers were two Roma men from eastern Europe, possibly Romania, and there was no fascist motive at all.
Criminality among the Roma community has been a significant issue in Italy for years, with illegal Roma squatter camps placed across the country. Former Italian interior minister and leader of the League Matteo Salvini had promised to clear out the estimated 148 illegal camps within five years.
Salvini is also known for his remarks toward Roma, including a statement made on the International Day of Roma, Sinti, and Caminanti last year in which he said: “If many of them worked more and stole less, if many of them sent their children to school instead of teaching them to steal, then it really would be something to celebrate”. Mr Salvini has been persistently criticised for his stance on Roma Gypsies, but regardless his party continues to poll strongly in Italy, frequently in first place.”
Ep. 1114 The Democrats’ Impeachment Fiasco Implodes. The Dan Bongino Show11/19/2019.
Nancy Pelosi, meet our Constitution
GOPUSA StaffCheryl Chumley, Washington Times Posted On 11:55 am November 19, 2019
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, reacting to ongoing impeachment proceedings in the House, issued a remarkably egregious demand, not just once but twice, that went like this: Mr. President, you need to prove your innocence.
This, from one of the leading voices in politics supposedly tasked by oath to support, uphold and defend the Constitution and America’s freedoms.
Can you say Fifth Amendment?
Can you say due process?
How about presumption of innocence — or innocent until proven guilty?
True, this impeachment inquiry is not being held in a court of law. Different scenario, different standards. But shouldn’t the same spirit of America justice guide and prevail, just the same? Yes. Indeed. Indubitably.
Not in Pelosi’s world, though.
“If the president has something that is exculpatory — Mr. President, that means you have anything that shows your innocence — then he should make that known and that’s part of the inquiry,” Pelosi said, as The Week noted. “And so far, we haven’t seen that. But we welcome it.”
Pelosi then went on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday and told host Margaret Brennan that if Trump had “information that is exculpatory — that means ex, taking away, culpable, blame — then we look forward to seeing it.”
http://www.gopusa.com/?p=79708?omhide=true
BOOM! NUNES JUST CAUGHT VINDMAN — He Won’t Answer on Ties to Whistleblower – SCHIFF JUMPS IN! (VIDEO)
Jim Hoft by Jim Hoft November 19, 2019 302 Comments
On Tuesday NSC leaker Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and Jennifer Williams testified in front of the Adam Schiff Show Trial.
They made it through their basement star chamber auditions and were ready to go live in front of the American public.
During questioning Rep. Devin Nunes CAUGHT VINDMAN holding back information to the committee
Nunes asked Vindman about the officials he spoke with and who he leaked the contents of President Trump’s phone call with President Zelensky in Ukraine.
Vindman told the committee his contact was in the intelligence committee… widely believed to be Eric Ciaramella in the CIA.
Schiff jumped in as Nunes got Vindman close to identifying the whistleblower’s agency.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/boom-nunes-just-caught-vindman-he-wont-answer-on-ties-to-whistleblower-schiff-jumps-in-video/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=daily
REVEALED: During Ranger School Lt. Col. Vindman’s Peers Said He Was “Lazy and a Chow Thief” – They Wanted Him Out
On Tuesday NSC leaker Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and Jennifer Williams testified in front of the Adam Schiff Show Trial.
They made it through their basement star chamber auditions and were ready to go live in front of the American public on Tuesday morning.
During his testimony Lt. Col. Vindman testified that he did not know the leaker but refused to answer questions on the leaker after saying he did not know who the leaker was. Vindman said he went around his chain of command and did not go through his boss Tim Morrisson. Vindman insisted he was in charge of Ukraine policy but then said he wasn’t.
It was not a good day for anti-Trumper Lt. Col. Vindman.
His boss Tim Morrison earlier testified that he did not trust Vindman and that he suspected Vindman was a leaker. (He was!)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/revealed-during-ranger-school-lt-col-vindmans-peers-said-he-was-lazy-and-a-chow-thief-they-wanted-him-out/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=daily
Observatory Releases Report on Christian Persecution in Europe (breitbart, Nov 19, 2019)
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019/11/19/observatory-releases-report-on-christian-persecution-in-europe/
“ROME — The Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe has published its annual 2019 report, chronicling the rising level of Christian persecution throughout Europe in the previous year.
In its report, the observatory documented “a rise in the number of churches, Christian symbols, and cemeteries across Europe being vandalized, desecrated, and burned, compared to previous years,” and yet these acts of anti-Christian violence constitute just the tip of the iceberg.
“We have seen Christian-run businesses financially ruined, street preachers arrested, Christians forced to choose between their moral values and their professions, Christian student groups and speakers silenced on campuses, asylum claims of Christian refugees arbitrarily denied, and parental rights trampled on by overreaching governmental interference,” said Ellen Fantini, the observatory’s executive director. “Fundamental rights are rendered meaningless if they cannot be freely exercised by all Europeans.”
Moreover, the report states, across Europe, “Christians have been fired, sued, and even arrested for exercising their freedom of expression or conscience.”
Yet these violations of basic human rights have been accompanied by more series acts of aggression as well, acts that seem incongruous with Europe’s self-understanding as a modern, tolerant continent.
“As we have noted in the past, Christians in Europe are not simply experiencing social discrimination, prejudice, or restrictions on freedom. Christians, including clergy, have been attacked or killed for their faith. As in previous years we have continued to see threats and attacks against Christian converts from Islam,” the report notes.
The 64-page report offers summary descriptions of more than 325 cases of intolerance and discrimination against Christians in Europe for the year 2018, in an ongoing attempt to raise awareness among all people of good will that the phenomenon ought to be taken seriously and is in need of a common response.
One such example comes from the United Kingdom where a convert to Christianity was denied an asylum claim for daring to contrast Islam and Christianity in a way unfavorable to Islam.
The man, an Iranian, said in his application for asylum that he had converted to Christianity after discovering it was a “peaceful religion in contrast to Islam.”
The rejection letter from the Home Office cited passages from the Christian Bible with violent imagery to make the case that the claimant’s depiction of Christianity was “false.”
“These examples are inconsistent with your claim that you converted to Christianity after discovering it is a ‘peaceful religion’ as opposed to Islam, which contained violence and rage,” the letter stated, although the Home Office later backed away from this position.
Earlier this year, the report notes, the French Interior Ministry announced the official annual crime statistics for 2018, which included 1063 “anti-Christian acts,” showing that in the ten-year period from 2008 to 2018, there was an increase of some 250 percent in attacks on Christian sites.
The Vienna-based Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe says its aim is to “contribute to a Europe where Christians may fully exercise their fundamental rights to freedom of religion, conscience, expression, and association, without fear of reprisals, censorship, threats, or violence.””
It’s about time SOMEBODY brought it up!
The others gone dhimmi already?
Baghdadi Death Unlikely to Impact Daesh Ability to Rebuild – Pentagon Inspector General (sputniknews, Nov 19, 2019)
https://sputniknews.com/world/201911191077352376-baghdadi-death-unlikely-to-impact-daesh-ability-to-rebuild—pentagon-inspector-general/
“The death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi will have little impact on the Daesh* terrorist group’s ability to rebuild, a Pentagon watchdog agency revealed on Tuesday.
“The DIA [Defense Intelligence Agency] also reported that the death of ISIS [IS] leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi… would likely have little effect on ISIS’s ability to reconstitute,” the report, issued by the Operation Inherent Resolve Lead Inspector General’s office, said.
The report added that, according to the DIA, Daesh* “postured to withstand” the death of Baghdadi and probably will maintain continuity of operations.
On 26 October, Baghdadi was killed in a US military raid near the Syrian town of Idlib. The Islamic State said its new leader is Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi – a nom de guerre that appears to depict him as a member of the Quraysh tribe and descendant of the Islamic prophet Mohammed.
The terror leader’s immediate likely successor, Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, was killed in a US airstrike, according to US officials.
*Daesh (also known as IS/ISIS/ISIL/Islamic State) is a terrorist group banned in Russia”
School Teacher Says
A teacher in Tennessee has taken flack for saying on social media that liberals should kill anyone that supports President Donald Trump.
Elementary school physical education teacher David Mosley from Byrns Darden Elementary School in Clarksville, Tennessee, is reported as having said that a girl who punched a man wearing a Donald Trump costume on Halloween should have shot the man instead of punching him.
The teacher’s obscene, violent suggestion was first reported by the Leaf Chronicle in Clarksville.Anti-Trumpers Should ‘Shoot’ Trump Supporters
https://godfatherpolitics.com/school-teacher-says-anti-trumpers-should-shoot-trump-supporters/
Revolution and Global Shakeup
Who our enemies were — and who they are today.
November 19, 2019
Michael Ledeen
The end of the Cold War brought about a global shakeup. The Soviet Empire ceased to exist, and the United States was widely proclaimed to be the most powerful nation on earth. Not only was the U.S.A. the strongest military power, but any other nation would inevitably fail to mount a successful challenge to America’s domination of the world’s geopolitical marketplace.
That was twenty or thirty years ago, and we all knew that big changes were pending. China was emerging from its shell and developing into the number two economy, and threatening to impose its will on much of the global economy. We have seen some of the results in the trade wars between the United States and China, and still others in the developing Russian military strength, extending into the penetration of Western defensive systems and flights into Western air space.
The Cold War essentially divided the world into two military spheres, and we no longer know how the divisions will shape up. Will the Chinese dominate the Pacific Ocean? Will the North Koreans extend their nuclear reach into the North American landmass? Will the Chinese economy continue to expand, or will it shrink? Will Russia find a way to expand its hegemony over Ukraine, or grant a measure of peace to the denizens of that land?
https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/11/revolution-michael-ledeen
Michelle Malkin on the Fate of DACA
OT/ Richard
A comment I found puzzling, distressing:
https://vladtepesblog.com/2019/11/17/muslims-and-leftists-jump-the-fence-in-norway-after-protestor-lights-up-a-koran/#comment-510985
Is “cuck” short for “cuckold”
– CIA? -what’s he saying?
– Conspiracy-theory-ville?
What’s Going on With the Paris Climate Agreement?
Joe Biden: Ban 9mm pistols just like we ban bazookas and machine guns
Climate Change Hysteria in Ireland