Reader’s Links. December 21, 2019

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Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.

About Eeyore

Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

65 Replies to “Reader’s Links. December 21, 2019”

  4. Why a wave of ‘neglected’ anti-Asian assaults is causing alarm in France
    https://www.thelocal.fr/20191221/why-a-wave-of-neglected-anti-asian-assaults-is-causing-alarm-in-france

    “Campaigners in France have sought to raise awareness of an under-reported wave of racially-targeted violence against French people of Asian origin, fuelled by racist stereotypes and mistaken beliefs about ‘rich’ tourists.

    Ming was getting off the bus in the Paris suburbs when a masked man attempted to rip her handbag from her. When she resisted, the attacker threw her to the ground and beat her unconscious.

    The ordeal left her with two fractures and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. She could not work for three weeks.

    Ming, who gave a pseudonym because she continues to fear for her safety, lost her bag, containing a few dozen euros and her ID cards in the attack inthe southeastern Paris suburb of Val-de-Marne.

    But it is the sense of helplessness and anger that the 41-year-old says she has struggled to get over.

    “Why me? I didn’t have any money on me, no jewellery, nothing. Why such violence?” she said.

    It was the death of tailor Zhang Chaolin in northern Paris in 2016 that first brought to light assaults on members of the Asian community.

    The 49-year-old father-of-two was on his way to a restaurant in a Paris suburb when he was violently mugged by two teenagers, who came away with just a phone charger and some sweets. They were jailed in 2018.

    That attack, which followed a string of robberies targeting Chinese tourists and small-business owners in France’s gritty high-rise suburbs, sparked mass protests against what demonstrators called a rise in anti-Asian racism in poorer French communities.

    “We realised that there was a problem with the death of Chaolin but not its scale,” said Sun-Lay Tan, spokesman of Security for Everyone, a community group based in Val-de-Marne.

    Because France bans statistics on ethnicity, there is no official data on these assaults, but campaigners said they have begun to see a pattern.

    The victim, often a woman or an elderly person, is spotted in the street, followed into a deserted area and attacked.

    “The victims are targeted because they are Asian,” said Tan.

    He said he has “no doubt” that the attacks are rooted in racism.”

  5. Backdoor Army: No EU ‘Military’ Yet, But Armed ‘Civilian Troops’ in ‘European Uniform’
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/12/21/secret-army-no-eu-military-just-civilian-troops-wearing-european-uniform-carrying-weapons/

    “The European Union (EU) may be expediting its plans for a centralised army with a massive expansion of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), according to the agency’s chief.

    “We don’t have a military army, but we will have, let’s say, civilian troops wearing a European uniform. And for certain functions carrying weapons,” said Frontex executive director Fabrice Leggeri slyly, in an interview with POLITICO in Brussels.

    These “civilian troops”, who “will be able to deploy to an EU member-state and exercise executive powers such as carrying out border controls”, according to POLITICO, are to be expanded from a modest 750 officials to a 10,000-strong corps — greater than the active manpower of Belgium’s land force.

    While it is claimed that this new force will not be able to take control of national borders or use their weapons without the authorisation of the relevant EU member-state, the bloc has rewritten its rules to suit its purposes on the hoof before, such as when it pushed through Eurozone bailouts during the Greek crisis, or when it introduced compulsory migrant redistribution quotas over the objections of governments in Central Europe which, unlike Germany and its allies, opposed opening their borders during the 2015-16 influx from the start.

    Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán, whose government instituted a policy of no-tolerance for illegal immigration and rapidly rolled out physical border barriers in response to the migrant crisis in 2015, has already said that he believes the EU is seeking to expand Frontex in order “to take away from us the keys to the gate”.

    “Because they were unable to persuade Hungary to let migrants in, the plan now is that they will take border protection rights away from us,” he told ,

    “They want no less than to send their mercenaries from Brussels to replace our Hungarians who are defending the border, and working as police and soldiers, whose homeland is important.

    “Let us not be under any illusion… they will allow in migrants,” he warned.

    Earlier in 2019, Orbán’s foreign minister Péter Szijjártó accused Frontex even in its current state of acting as “a travel agency” for illegal migrants in an echo of then-Vice Chancellor of Austria Heinz Christian-Strache’s assessment of the agency in 2018 as “anything but a border guard” — and, in fact, a “people-trafficking organisation””

  6. MEMRI: March 2014 Audio Reportedly Features Phone Call Between Turkish Airlines Executive, Erdogan Advisor About Turkish Arms Shipments To Nigeria: ‘Are They Going To Kill Muslims Or Are They Going To Kill Christians? We Are In Sin Right Now’

    …the Nigerian government was investigating claims that the Turkish government is sending weapons to Nigeria-based terrorist organization Boko Haram, which pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS) in March 2015.…

    “Are They Going To Kill Muslims Or Are They Going To Kill Christians?”

    The news reports referred to an audio recording uploaded to YouTube in March 2014, apparently featuring a phone call between Mustafa Varank, who is now Turkey’s minister of industry and technology and was at that time advisor to then Prime Minister and now President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Mehmet Karakas, who has been revenue and expenditure accounting director at Turkish Airlines since June 2009…

    An audio recording uploaded to YouTube in March 2014 reportedly featured a phone conversation between Mustafa Varank, above, and Mehmet Karakas.

    In the recording, the voice attributed to Varank referred to a “Mr. Hakan.” Hakan Fidan has been the director of Turkey’s national intelligence organization, the Milli Istihbarat Teskilat (MIT), since 2010, leaving this position for about four weeks during February-March 2015 before returning to it after. It not clear to whom Varank referred in the recording.[3] The voice attributed to Karakas said: “I am transporting dozens of materials, they are going to Nigeria right now, okay? [I do not know:] Are they going to kill Muslims or are they going to kill Christians? We are in sin right now, so you know.”

    • Turkish Airlines Confirms And Denies Arms Shipments To Nigeria; Opposition MP Asks For Answers; Erdogan Distances Himself From Mustafa Varank

    • Nigeria Customs Service Intercepts Shipments Of Military Equipment, Including Rifles And Trucks, From Turkey To Nigeria Throughout 2017

    https://www.memri.org/reports/march-2014-audio-reportedly-features-phone-call-between-turkish-airlines-executive-erdo?an

  7. A Canadian Christian Evangelist who grew up in XinJiang province/region of China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang and has returned to China to evangelize has said that even though this video is produced by the Chinese government, it is accurate in its depiction of the Uyghurs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghurs , their ties to Turkmenistan (their languages are closely related), and their Jihad activities.

    I consider the source reliable, but, please, take the video for what it is.

    Tonight, I got a lot more info on this documentary from a secondary source, whom I regard to be most accurate. But, please, make your own mind up! Does this behaviour fit with patterns we have seen worldwide – or does it appear as empty propaganda…or, does it fall somewhere in between.

    Note: my two sources are not friendly to the Chinese government. Yet, from first hand knowledge, they regard this documentary as mostly accurate.