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http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2020/06/the-los-angeles-pogrom-that-no-jewish.html
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/06/god-dead-leftist-rioters-vandalize-churches-and-daniel-greenfield
https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/316956/local-business-owners-struggle-with-aftermath-rioting/
Many businesses will never reopen. The rest will struggle for years to overcome the enormous loss. Many will die slow deaths. But maybe our sacrifice was necessary so the world can “hear” the calls for social justice
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/featured/1866014/shuls-vandalized-los-angeles-jewish-community-attacked-by-violent-thugs-in-protests-videos.html
https://jewishjournal.com/news/california/316692/local-organization-sets-fund-looted-jewish-owned-stores/
https://jewishjournal.com/los_angeles/316561/los-angeles-synagogue-vandalized-with-free-palestine-f-israel-graffiti/
https://jewishjournal.com/news/california/316969/jewish-federation-los-angeles-calls-for-immediate-action-from-law-and-government-officials/
THE ENDGAME AGENDA (WITH FIONA MARIE FLANAGAN)
video – 71 mins
Everything regarding destruction of the family comes from instructions handed down to world governments from the UN to destroy the family and Christianity – as per AGENDA 21/30. The outworking of the global agenda is perfectly clear.
Watch the following and construct the pieces of the jigsaw you have been unable to bring together thus far i.e. feminism, LGBT, gender fluidity, Covid-19, vaccines, riots, lack of policing, destruction of marriage, quickie divorces, open borders, destruction of the Sabbath Day, closing of churches, Bible-rejection from Westminster to nursery schools to churches, global warming, destruction of farming industry, mask-wearing, abortion, social distancing, confusion of the people, manipulation of the masses…
WATCH…LISTEN…UNDERSTAND…STAND…COMMUNISM ON A WORLDWIDE SCALE IS BEING ENACTED RIGHT NOW.
If you refuse to believe it – you will fail to stand against it – ESPECIALLY THE CHURCH, WHICH HAS COVERED ITS EARS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ct4j6rfc90
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https://www.rt.com/usa/491012-denver-police-ban-tear-gas/
At Least 11 Police Officers Killed in Roadside Blast in Northeastern Afghanistan – Reports (sputniknews, Jun 6, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/asia/202006061079534786-at-least-11-police-officers-killed-in-roadside-blast-in-northeastern-afghanistan—reports/
“At least 11 police officers, including their commander, were killed in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Badakhshan, the TOLOnews broadcaster reported on Saturday, citing the provincial police spokesman, Sanaullah Rohani.
According to the broadcaster, the incident took place late on Friday in the province’s Khash district.
Earlier in the day, a source in the Badakhshan police headquarters told Sputnik that 13 police officers and the local police commander, Mazari Khashi, were killed as a result of a mine explosion in the Khash district’s Chashma Safidar area. The blast took place during clashes with the Taliban militants that attacked local checkpoints last night. According to the source, the fighting is still ongoing and the Taliban also suffered losses.
Violence in Afghanistan between government forces and the Taliban movement renewed after a three-day ceasefire timed to the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which was underway from 24-26 May, expired.”
https://americanmind.org/post/the-enemy-of-the-people/
Don’t believe your lying eyes.
“If they thought the news networks were going to cover what happened they were kidding themselves, I said to myself. No more today than yesterday…the blackout was total.” It was either providence or something in the air that led me to start reading Michel Houellebecq’s Submission (2015) for the first time last week. Barely had I cracked the spine before George Floyd, a black man accused of using counterfeit money, died on video in a struggle with the Minnesota police. Looting and riots have ensued; the National Guard has been called in. St. Paul, much like the Paris of Submission’s not-so-distant future, is on fire. Houellebecq is a darling in conservative circles because of his merciless honesty about European cultural conflict as he sees it. Submission imagines a France in which Muslims, already a noteworthy and largely unassimilated voting bloc, become politically dominant. The professoriate, of which Houellebecq’s protagonist is a member, remains largely silent. The multiculturalist piety of the chattering classes has rendered them incapable of defending the society to which they owe their survival and existence. Of course the demography of Europe, especially after the immigration crises of the 2010s, is radically different from that of America. Moreover, as an observer of the events in Minnesota I can only wait with horror and sorrow for more information to emerge. But as an observer of the American press I am astounded to note that—despite the differences in history and context between his country and mine—Houellebecq got it exactly right. A central theme of Submission is the studied silence of every major media outlet in the face of escalating Islamist violence and nativist aggression. As buildings burn and shots ring out across Paris, CNN and YouTube go conspicuously dark. Early on, a young scholar with conservative leanings explains why: there’s an election coming up, and the populist National Front is facing down a new Muslim party. The journalists “‘are genuinely scared that the National Front will win the election. And every image of urban violence, that’s a few more votes for the Front.’” Desperate to maintain an illusion of racial harmony and liberal globalism, the ruling classes of Houellebecq’s France peer desperately into their screens with ever-more strained smiles and insist that there’s nothing to see here. Even the CRS, the special police force, “pretends there’s absolutely nothing going on.” This, uh, sounds familiar. On May 28, a reporter for MSNBC stood in Minneapolis outside a building engulfed in flames to declare that this was “mostly a protest.” When the Mayor of Minneapolis was asked by a reporter what his plan was, he answered “with regard to…?” and gave a blank stare. President Trump, clearly livid, tweeted that consequences would ensue for looting. He was censored by Twitter for “glorifying violence.” The true genius of a dystopian fiction is to show the world at just one degree of remove from what’s actually going on. The leaders of our imagined utopia—that post-war fantasy in which secular humanism creates a world without borders or ideological struggle—are furiously begging every one of us not to believe our lying eyes. These buffoons are indeed the “enemies of the people”—the one thing they do not want is for Americans of any color or political persuasion to come genuinely to grips with the facts on the ground, to recognize the complete failure of progressivism, and to get to work building something new.
Iraqi refugee murdered his wife in Germany – Now it comes out that he had already murdered his other wife in the Netherlands
In the early morning of Shrove Monday a 42-man, of Iraqi origin, is said to have killed his wife (30 years old) in Dortmund.
When his wife was discovered by the police in an apartment in downtown Dortmund, the officers soon assumed that she had been killed. The husband was arrested on the spot. Now terrifying further information about the suspected perpetrator’s past became known.
The autopsy of the woman’s body already revealed in February that the “30-year-old Iraqi woman died due to massive violence against her neck. At the scene of the crime, the husband, in response to a question from investigators, said his wife had tried to take his children away. Since then, however, the 42-year-old has remained silent on the case, reports the newspaper “WAZ”.
The couple had married in Iraq in 2011 and had given birth to four children there. In 2017 the family moved to Stolberg near Aachen. They lived in Germany with a temporary residence permit until the end.The 42-year-old had already become violent towards his wife in the past. She and her children first fled to a women’s shelter. They then moved into the apartment on the street Viktoriastraße in Dortmund. According to “WAZ”, the 30-year-old voluntarily hosted her husband again only a few weeks before the crime.
In the meantime, it has become known that the Iraqi has apparently already committed another murder. The mother of four was his second wife. He is said to have killed his first wife in the Netherlands. There he was even in prison before he married the second wife.
Since his arrest, the man is now in custody. He is represented by a lawyer. There is no date set for the trial yet.
https://medforth.blog/2020/06/06/iraqi-refugee-murdered-his-wife-in-germany-now-it-comes-out-that-he-had-already-murdered-his-other-wife-in-the-netherlands/
ISIS stole ‘obscene amount of antiquities’ to fund vile recruitment of boys for battle (express, Jun 6, 2020)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1292181/isis-loot-ancient-treasure-obscene-amount-antiquities-syria-iraq
“ISIS looted an “obscene amount of antiquities” in a bid to fund its vile multi-million-pound scheme to recruit teenage boys and men to fight for its extreme beliefs.
The Iraqi born ISIS combatant called Abdul Nasser Qardash, also known as The Destroyer, also revealed in a jail interview the terror group also plundered oil reserves to fund its actions in the Middle East. The fundamentalist was arrested in May and now languishes in an Iraqi prison. He told Center for Global Policy’s nonresident fellow Dr Husham al-Hashimi: “We had an obscene abundance of antiquities.
“We tried to transfer the relics to Europe to sell them.
“This is especially true for Syrian relics.”
At the time of ISIS’s reign of terror in Iraq and Syria, it destroyed Christian churches, Shia mosques, and other historic buildings.
The organisation tried to tunnel down below shrines to find more treasure to sell on the black market to fund its campaigns.
Members of the terror group uncovered an ancient Assyrian palace under the ruins of Mosul.
It is now feared that they looted and sold off the treasures.
The Assyrian artifacts sat for millennia untouched until ISIS bored tunnels below the tomb of the prophet Jonah.
Archaeologists have now spent months exploring the tunnels dug by Isis under the tomb.
The tunnels were found to lead to a military palace founded by King Sennacherib in the 7th century BC.
Peter Miglus, the archaeologist who has led work at the site, said the gold apparently kept in the palace by Sennacherib and his heirs suggested that there used to be a lot more.
It is thought that ISIS had taken the majority of the treasure.
The archaeologist said: “We can presume many very valuable objects must now be on the black market.
Qardash, 53, is awaiting trial.
Since the Syrian conflict broke out, a significant number of Western citizens travelled to the war zone to join ISIS and many of those recruited were teenagers.
ISIS-associated children are now considered as child soldiers by the UN and deemed to have been exploited by the organisation.”
‘China is picking off countries!’ Warning of Beijing’s plot as Australia ‘dumped on’ (express, Jun 6, 2020)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1292128/China-news-iain-duncan-smith-beijing-news
“FORMER Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith lashed out at China yesterday problems as he urged countries to take on the threat of the “abusive” Communist state.
He urged the world’s leading nations to come together to resolve China’s issues as he catalogued their consistent lack of transparency in the coronavirus outbreak. Sir Iain also labelled HSBC’s support for China’s national security law as a “grave error” and said, if he were a customer, he would close any accounts with the bank. Beijing has also come under fire over recent weeks after they proposed a new security law which would make it a crime to undermine Chinese authority in Hong Kong.
Speaking to Radio 4’s Today programme, Sir Iain said: “The problem at the moment is China is treated by individual countries and looked at in different ways, each individual country gets picked off by China.
“Australia called for an independent review of the COVID-19 outbreak and China has dumped on them very hard.
“It’s attacked their politicians, their sanctions. It happens to anybody who even bothers to criticise.
“We thought coming together to deal with this as a group to say, ‘China abuses human rights issues, issues around territorial problems which they ignore the UN’s findings on’.
“They also have problems with Taiwan, they’ve brought in this new law in Hong Kong cracking down there.
“There’s a whole series of areas where we need to come together and recognise while China is a great nation, it’s posing a threat to the natural order and we need to come together to resolve that.”
His blistering remarks come as the Tory MP and Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws were announced as the UK leaders of the new Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC).
Sir Iain also hit out at HSBC for supporting China’s new security law.
“In my personal opinion, I think it is a grave error by HSBC, getting involved in what is essentially a very difficult problem.”
He warned that the new law could remove the right to protest, giving police new powers to arrest those demonstrating on the mainland and the former British territory of Hong Kong.
Asked if he would advise people to shut their HSBC accounts, he added: “It is up to individuals but, personally, if I was there I would.
“I honestly think that the issue of freedom is more important than any business’ worry about a particular individual profit and loss at the bottom line.
“I think the truth is, a world that does not recognise human rights, freedom and the rule of a law is a world that will imprison even those businesses which want to do business with China.”
The new legislation, passed by China’s parliament last week, would see a clampdown on criticism on the Communist Party of China and the setting up of security agencies in Hong Kong for the first time.
The UK announced last week it would offer UK visas to the three million British National Overseas (BNO) passport holders in the former British territory, with a pathway to future citizenship, if Beijing enforced the planned changes.”
Black Lives Matters protesters are pepper-sprayed after chanting ‘f**k the police’ in clash with officers at Sydney’s Central station as others surround cop shops in Brisbane and Melbourne (dailymail, Jun 6, 2020)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8394229/Black-Lives-Matters-protesters-clash-police-shouting-f-k-cops.html
“Screams of ‘f**k the police’ rang out as Black Lives Matter protesters and authorities clashed after thousands took to the streets across Australia on Saturday.
Dramatic scenes at Sydney’s Central Station saw police using pepper spray on protesters, leaving some screaming in pain and laying on the ground after tensions boiled over following a day of rallies.
What started as a peaceful protest ended in chaos at the train station, as swelling crowds were trapped in the station and began taunting police officers.
But police showed little emotion as they stood shoulder to shoulder while the crowd, who shouted ‘take a knee’ and ‘no racist police, no justice, no peace’.
In Sydney, one protester was seen following a police officer and demanding he show ‘solidarity’ with the marches, which are demanding the end to racial inequality.
South Brisbane police station was swarmed by angry marchers who chanted ‘I can’t breathe’, the same words African American George Floyd said before he was killed while in police custody.
Protesters were seen just inches away from the faces of officers some with megaphones and others armed with signs reading ‘f**k the police’.
In Sydney, protesters unleashed on authorities after the Black Lives Matter protest was ruled legal just minutes before it was due to start after being banned the night before.
The protesters were eventually pushed to Central Station by police who then appeared to fire pepper spray into the faces of the crowd.
Several young ralliers were knocked to the ground before having their eyes washed after the violent altercation.
‘F**k you you f***kg pigs. Go die, every last one of you,’ one angry protester is heard shouting at NSW officers.
The march started at Sydney’s Town Hall, ending at a park near the large train station, where protesters refused to disperse and ended up trapped inside.
An arrests was made at Central Station as the evening began and activists converged – leaving some protesters struggling to breathe as the crowd swelled.
Protesters began chanting at police while they ushered them towards the station, shouting ‘Justice today for David Dungay’.
Mr Dungay died in a Sydney jail in 2015 and told officers who were pinning him down ‘I can’t breathe’ 12 times before his death.
Despite the violent scenes of crowds being pepper-sprayed, NSW Police insisted the protests had ‘remained peaceful’.
Operation Commander in Sydney, Assistant Commissioner Mick Willing, said officers across the state reported minimal problems.
‘I have spoken with commanders who have said they are pleased that all their protests were essentially peaceful,’ Assistant Commissioner Willing said.
‘Initially, we had a tough job in Sydney as the police operation was already underway when the Supreme Court decision was overturned, but we rapidly changed plans to ensure the event would run smoothly.
‘There were some concerns raised by officers on the ground around physical distancing, and while some people were spoken to, no formal police action was required.’
An estimated 30,000 people gathered outside Town Hall on Saturday afternoon despite the Supreme Court banning the protest on Friday in a last ditch attempt to enforce social distancing restrictions.
Organisers won a last-minute court appeal on Saturday to allow the march to go ahead.
It came after two people were arrested before the event at around 2.30pm and one man waving an ‘All Lives Matter’ sign was led away by police.
One shocking video taken in Brisbane showed a man aggressively approaching a police car in the street.
Despite other protesters trying to pull him off, he pushed the car up the street before jumping on its roof – as police desperately tried to reverse it away.
Crowds gathered as the man sat and then stood on the car before being told to get down, and was escorted away by police, according to the Courier Mail.
It is understood the man was not arrested.
The crowds were really well behaved,’ a spokesman for Queensland Police said.
Protesters are calling for an end to Aboriginal deaths in custody and in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.
NSW’s highest court had banned the Sydney protest because it breaches COVID-19 restrictions.
At least 432 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have died in police custody in Australia since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody report in 1991.
One man was booed after he raised an ‘All Lives Matter’ placard as a counter-protest. He had his sign ripped from his hand and was handcuffed and led away by officers.
‘Get those animals off those horses!’ another man screamed at police outside Sydney’s Town Hall.
A small child who attended the protest was seen carrying a sign which read: ‘I didn’t choose to be black, I just got lucky’.
One woman told Daily Mail Australia the problems with racial inequality in the US were similar to ones experienced in Australia…….”
Man in his 20s is shot dead in Hackney back garden as police hunt gunman who fled scene after 11.30pm attack (dailymail, Jun 6, 2020)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8394175/Man-20s-shot-dead-Hackney-garden-police-hunt-gunman.html
“A man in his 20s has been killed following an incident on Friday night, in which neighbours heard a series of gunshots.
Metropolitan Police say they were called to Brackenfield Close at about 11.30pm on Friday following reports of shots being fired.
Police and London Ambulance Service paramedics found the victim suffering gunshot injuries.
Despite the efforts of medics and officers, the man was pronounced dead at the scene…”
Fake Police Arrested, Allegedly Filming Video to Frame Real Cops as Racist (breitbart, Jun 6, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/06/fake-police-arrested-paris-filming-video-frame-real-cops-racists/
“Police in Paris have arrested three men accused of impersonating officers in a video that attempted to portray real police as racists in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests.
The arrests were made on Sunday, but details about the incident remained unclear. Early reports suggest that the three men dressed as officers and a director and cameraman filmed a video in which the fake police arrest a black African man in front of a supermarket for theft while the real thief, a white man, is purposely let go.
According to investigators, the uniforms used were real and were connected to a Paris police officer who is thought to have loaned them to the actors.
Loïc Walder, delegate of the UNSA Police union in charge of the 3rd district, reacted negatively to the video, saying: “Some malicious people try to use this drama to bring the French national police into disrepute. It is really important to be extra vigilant about content we view online.”
He stated that France was not the same as the United States, and added: “The national police exercise their profession with professionalism, seriousness, and discernment. The rare abuses are systematically punished.”
Later in the week, the fact-checking website Check News, which is operated by the left-wing newspaper Liberation, spoke with the director of the film. He claimed it was meant to be a tribute to George Floyd, whose death had sparked protests and riots in Minneapolis and later across the United States.
“The goal is to send a message of peace,” the 22-year-old claimed. He insisted that the original idea was to show a man stealing inexpensive goods and showing a similar scenario to George Floyd’s death, with a police officer on the thief’s neck.
He went on to note that an extra had proposed that they change the film to show a black man arrested falsely for the crime of a white man during the filming. He states that no scenes were actually filmed due to the police intervention and subsequent arrests of the actors.
“When the police arrived, they didn’t want to know anything, and they didn’t let us explain. One of the extras also expressed himself poorly: when a police officer asked him to explain what the video was, he replied that it was a racist video,” one of the actors said.
“We wanted to explain that it was a tribute to George Floyd, but they didn’t want to hear us,” he added.
Just days after the arrests, Paris erupted into riots following a protest over George Floyd and the French case of Adama Traoré, a black man who died in police custody in 2016.”
Pro-Migration ‘Doctors Without Borders’ Attacked by Islamist Gunmen (breitbart, Jun 6, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/06/pro-migration-doctors-without-borders-attacked-islamist-gunmen/
“Global healthcare charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Friday it has suspended medical support in northern Mozambique following an attack by Islamist militants last week.
Gunmen descended on the town of Macomia in the early hours of May 28th, causing thousands of inhabitants to flee as security forces withdrew.
The insurgents set fire to homes, schools and government buildings and destroyed a health centre where MSF had been operating.
The charity said in a statement that its “teams have been forced to suspend medical support in Macomia” after the attack.
MSF had 27 staff working in Macomia — their only deployment in the gas-rich Cabo Delgado province, which has been grappling with an escalating jihadist insurgency since 2017.
“They hid in the bush for nearly two days terrified to come out,” said head of mission Caroline Gaudron Rose, adding that the escapees had all been rescued.
“Our ability to reach those in need is jeopardised by this increase in violence.”
Attacks by a shadowy Islamist group known as Al-Shabaab — which has no link to the group of the same name operating in Somalia and Kenya — have killed more than 1,100 people over the last two years.
The jihadists have grown bolder in recent weeks, stepping up attacks as part of a campaign for an Islamist caliphate in Cabo Delgado.
More than 211,000 people have fled their homes in the province, according to the UN, and there is growing concern among energy companies in the region.
MSF said there were still thousands of displaced people hiding in the bush following the attack.
“Without shelter, clean water and access to medical care, they are extremely vulnerable,” said Gaudron Rose.”
“IAMtv LIVE: Let’s Talk America Marathon – Mike O’Fallon and Cheryl Chumley 6/4/2020” IAMtv – Streamed live on June 4, 2020
ITALY – Sicily launches inquiry into fire in ‘migrant boats graveyard’
Prosecutors in Sicily have launched an arson investigation into a fire on Friday night on the island of Lampedusa that destroyed the “migrant boats graveyard”, a key symbol of the migration crisis.
Hundreds of dilapidated boats left behind over the years by migrants arriving in Italy from north Africa went up in flames, causing panic for several hours among islanders in what investigators believe was a politically motivated attack.
The fire, which destroyed hundreds of boats abandoned near the port, is the second act of vandalism of pro-migrant symbols on Lampedusa in a week. On 3 June, the Gateway to Europe (Porta d’Europa) monument, designed by artist Mimmo Paladino in 2008 as a memorial to migrants who died making the crossing, was wrapped by vandals in plastic bags.
“We shall enlist all possible resources to shed light on these episodes of intolerance that have placed the hospitable people of Lampedusa in an unflattering light,” said Salvatore Vella, the prosecutor in Agrigento who is investigating the attacks. He expressed concerns about the effect on tourism, a major part of the island’s economy. “Lampedusa must not become the site of urban guerrilla war.”
At the height of the migrant crisis in 2015, more than 21,000 asylum seekers landed in Lampedusa, the southernmost point of Italy. Arrivals have since fallen by more than 80% but hundreds of migrants still find their way to the island, with 600 disembarking last week.
In recent years, some Lampedusa residents have accused Italy’s leaders of abandoning the island and placing the management of the migration crisis on their shoulders.
“There’s a precise strategy to create a climate of tension and intolerance towards a very trying situation for our island,” said Totò Martello, the mayor of Lampedusa, referring to the island’s fragile economy and the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on tourism.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/06/sicily-launches-inquiry-into-fire-in-migrant-boats-graveyard
Germany: Thousands join anti-racism protest outside Hamburg’s US consulate
BERLIN JUNE 06 2020
HAMBURG
Lithuania: Hundreds gather for Black Lives Matter rally in Vilnius
Antifa-Intifada makes America’s Kristallnacht happen every day. Where is Antima (anti-Marxist) or Anticom (anti-Communist)?
Btw, the attempt to denounce all disliked persons as “fascists” is as old as fascism itself. https://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/efasc
Sky News – UK government urges people not to protest due to COVID-19
Black Lives Matter Protests: Huge Crowds in London Despite Government Condemnation
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ‘sad that WH and its inhabitants have to be walled off’
By Ben Bowles June 5, 2020
Hmm. You mean to say there’s a fence around the White House? I guess I just never noticed. I’ll be sure to look next time I’m in D.C., though, now that Mayor Muriel Bowser has made it a public issue that the “People’s House” is off-limits to the hoi polloi. Take a look.
It’s not clear whether she is referring to the barricades that were put up again last week after protesters attempted to storm the White House. Is she means the wrought-iron fencing that has encloses the grounds, someone ought to tell her that’s been there since Ulysses S. Grant was president.
In her curious commentary, Bowser asserts that “we should want the White House to be opened up for people to be able to access it from all sides.” I would submit that “no, we shouldn’t.” Removing the White House fence, if that is what she is advocating on behalf of, makes as little sense as abolishing the Secret Service.
Ditto for the barricades, which are erected periodically when added security is deemed necessary or to divert traffic on specific occasions. This has been the case since the middle of the twentieth century. Has Bowser, who at least works in the District, never noticed it?
https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/06/05/d-c-mayor-muriel-bowser-sad-that-whand-its-inhabitants-have-to-be-walled-off/
Richard: She also doesn’t want Guard Troops to protect the national monuments and historic sites in DC.
Prof. Dr. Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, in Welt am Sonntag on 10 December 1989 https://pure.mpg.de/pubman/faces/ViewItemOverviewPage.jsp?itemId=item_2633982
Chances of a multi-ethnic society from the perspective of an ethologist
Proponents of the multicultural society more or less base their considerations on the assumption that phenomena such as fear of foreigners and rejection of foreigners are caused by education. If children were brought up in the spirit of internationalism, there would be nothing to stand in the way of a peaceful multicultural society. Is this assumption justified? Based on the current state of our knowledge of evolutionary events and our behaviour, can we expect that a multicultural society of the kind outlined above will contribute to harmonising interpersonal coexistence? And if not, what are the alternatives?
All living beings that exist today are descendants of ancestors who, through their actions as well as their physical and physiological equipment, promoted the survival and spread of their genes. Those variants that did not succeed are not part of their ancestral line. They became extinct. Whatever organisms undertake is measured by their ability to pass on their heritage – one speaks of suitability. Organisms are by no means only passive objects of selection. They are, as Karl Popper put it, seekers of a better world. Life is fundamentally exploratory. Organisms promote their survival primarily by producing their own offspring, but also by promoting relatives, which contain a certain percentage of the genes that characterize an individual. In the quest for survival, organisms compete for limited resources, with members of their own species being particularly fierce competitors because of the same demands. In order to occupy resources, many land mammals secure territories which they demarcate and defend individually or as a group. Sociable mammals are linked to members of the group. The higher mammals are equipped with innate behavioral programs for both competition and cooperative-friendly interactions.
Comparative cultural studies have shown that we humans are also equipped with innate adaptations in the areas of perception, motor skills, drive and learning that determine our behaviour. In this context, inborn means that the neuron populations underlying these behavioural achievements interconnect in a growth process with each other and with the sensory organs, the musculature and other end organs to form functional organ systems, based on the developmental instructions laid down in the genetic material. How a nervous system wires itself in this way has already been researched in principle down to the neuronal level.
In particular, our social behaviour is influenced to a greater extent by phylogenetic adaptations, more so than was previously thought. For example, infants already show affiliative-friendly and agonally rejecting reactions to their fellow human beings. From the sixth month onwards, it can be observed that infants show a mixture of reactions of affection and visibly fear-motivated turning away from strangers. In the typical case, the infant reacts to eye contact with strangers with a smile, then shyly nestles up against the mother, makes friendly eye contact again and thus oscillates back and forth between the two reaction patterns in clear ambivalence. They often overlap each other. If the stranger comes closer despite these slight signs of fear, the behaviour changes to fear. The child nestles up against the mother, protests and actively resists closer contact with the stranger. If the stranger remains at a distance, the fear is reduced through familiarity.
We were able to prove this xenophobia in all the cultures we examined. It is demonstrably not based on bad experiences with strangers. Even babies who have not had any bad experiences with strangers show xenophobia. Human fear of others is an anthropological constant. All over the world, infants react to the hypothesis: “Strangers are potentially dangerous.” It seems to have a longstanding tribal history. The infant acts according to this pattern of adaptation, among other things because it secures the bond with the mother against outside disturbances. For the child, this protection is vital for survival, as it requires care for many years.
The fear-inducing effect of certain characteristics of the fellow human being is strongly weakened or even cancelled out by personal acquaintance, so that between people who know each other well and especially between the mother and her child, the friendly-affiliative behavioural tendencies predominate. With the degree of acquaintance the behaviour is shifted on a sliding scale towards trust. Man’s fear of his fellow human beings led to the fact that for the longest time in history we humans lived in relatively closed small associations in which everyone knew everyone else and thus a relationship of familiarity prevailed. Strangers were regarded with a certain mistrust.
Here lies a root to the in- and out-group behaviour. One encounters the confidants in a friendly, aggression-inhibited manner. At first, distrust of strangers predominates, and if one has declared them to be the enemy through indoctrination, then even our innate inhibitions to kill are often eliminated. In groups, people often set themselves apart from others by contrast. Group membership was emphasized by clothing, customs and other cultural markers. Culture thus became the pacemaker of evolution by initiating new paths of development through demarcation. Erik Erikson therefore spoke very aptly of “cultural pseudo-speciation”. It paves the way for biological subspeciation. We owe to this process the diversity of cultures and races, but also, as Christian Vogel put it, the “double moral” of ethnocentrism and nepotism, which dictates that one should behave differently towards relatives than towards strangers. Can we overcome them?
I am convinced that we can find new ways of living together between ethnic groups. However, the multi-ethnic society does not seem to me to be the right way to do this. I believe that peaceful coexistence of peoples with territorial roots in their home areas is possible in the long term if intergovernmental contracts ensure resource distribution and territorial integrity for each of the peoples. The nation states of Europe are well on the way to achieving such pacification. If the fear of being dominated by another ethnic group is dispelled, our cooperative arrangements will gain the upper hand, and we will meet the other with friendly affection, with their otherness being perceived as stimulating, interesting, lovable and no longer as threatening to our own identity. However, some of our nation states still face the problem of how to solve the problem of living together with autochthonous minorities. Basques and South Tyroleans are such minorities. In order to bring about lasting peace, they would have to be granted full autonomy, because no people will accept foreign rule in the long term. The developments in the former Soviet Union are a good example of this. Even if democratic elections are possible, a minority can never vote out a majority of other peoples. So here, even the traditional democratic majority vote cements foreign rule. A federal government, modelled on the Swiss example, could defuse the problem. Everyone must be master in his own house and be able to cultivate his own land as he sees fit, while respecting his neighbours.
An autochthonous population faces completely different problems when immigrants move in. If they are genetically and culturally close relatives, immigrants tend to integrate quickly, i.e. they adopt the language and culture of the people who welcomed them. This is what the history of internal migration in Europe teaches us. Poles and Huguenots very quickly became Germans in Germany. If, on the other hand, the immigrants come from a different cultural area, and if their biological and anthropological composition also differs from that of the population of the country of immigration, then it is very likely that the host people and the host people will separate from each other, as can be observed between the French and the North African Muslims. If reproduction rates differ, the host population can also grow rapidly, which can initiate a genetic displacement process. The fact that this is not only theoretically possible, but has happened repeatedly, is demonstrated by the emerging displacement of the indigenous population of Fiji by the immigrant Indians.
Basically, every immigration means that the person who permits it cedes land to the immigrants. If a state has large reserves of uninhabited land, it may cede some of those reserves without serious harm. The immigrant then becomes the owner of this land, which he or she manages sovereignly, and a friendly coexistence can develop. If, on the other hand, a minority of another culture builds up in an already densely populated area, then even with the best intentions of all parties involved, the conflicts are preordained. One has to expect that archaic patterns of territorial defence against the immigrants will be activated and that these in turn will respond with demarcation. Each group will endeavour to defend its own interests. Without this ethnocentric, nepotistic attitude, none of us would be in this world. Reactions of this kind are not the result of radical right-wing demagoguery. These are old archaic patterns of behaviour that fulfilled their function and perhaps still do, because those who accept their own genetic repression will not have a say in future generations. We can certainly act consciously against the behavioural programmes that are innate to us. But then we have to reckon with the fact that we may also be saying goodbye to evolution.
I have often seen individuals answer: “Well, so what? What’s so special about us Europeans or us Germans?” Nature certainly has no interest in the preservation of any population, but there is a legitimate self-interest that is expressed in the provision for our own descendants. If individuals wish to leave evolution by renouncing reproduction, that is their right. They are not, however, entitled to give away reproductive opportunities to other members of their population, and certainly not politicians have the right to prescribe a multicultural society. In so doing, they are violating the mandate given to them to look after the interests of their people. If they want to help, they must do so in other ways, for example by using their best efforts to ensure that conditions in the immigrants’ countries of origin improve politically and economically. After all, it is also irresponsible to pretend that immigrants can be guaranteed a secure economic existence here in the long term, as if there would never again be economic depression. No one can give such a guarantee of prosperity.
There is one more point to be made in this context. Europe is already an overpopulated continent, and the Federal Republic of Germany is one of the most densely populated countries. We deplore the dying of forests, the poisoning of the environment, the contamination of groundwater and the concreting over of the landscape. And in this precarious situation, should the Federal Republic of Germany open itself up as a country of immigration? Without exports we could not feed our population today. A responsible government also takes precautions for times of crisis. The uncontrolled population growth in the Third World will lead to catastrophic conditions in the foreseeable future. If we do not want to be dragged into the maelstrom of increasing impoverishment, then Europe must close itself off to a certain extent. Only if the European community of nations maintains itself in this way will it be able to continue to live according to its humanitarian ideals and thus help others.
(Translator did not differentiate between “host people and the guest people”.)
(Richard: Here is a very good stream of concise thoughts about what is going on, this is by a retired Naval Intel analysts and professional Naval Officer. She knows what she is talking about and has some thoughts about possible future actions I hadn’t occurred to me.)
Riots: In the real world, Trump administration measures seem to be paying off
By J.E. Dyer June 6, 2020
This will be a collection of thoughts rather than a more comprehensive analysis, because I don’t have time tonight to do more. But it’s worth pausing to note that in much of the country, the rampant destruction and mayhem in the big cities seem to have subsided somewhat over the last couple of days.
They’re by no means gone at this point. But the constantly breaking, shifting news about arson, looting, vandalism, businesses gutted, cars on fire, bystanders being beaten, police being attacked, even killed – the barrage of noise about it has slacked off.
City leaders in places like Minneapolis and Washington, D.C. are celebrating that it’s settled down to lawful protests now. The mayor of D.C., Muriel Bowser, wants federal police and D.C. National Guard troops off the streets, claiming that they aren’t needed.
In Atlanta, National Guard soldiers danced the Macarena with protesters – while others looked on with riot shields in place, to be sure, but apparently not feeling a need to watch their sixes.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/06/06/riots-in-the-real-world-trump-administration-measures-seem-to-be-paying-off/
India’s Investigative Agency Arrests Terror Funding Conspirator in Navy Espionage Racket (sputniknews, Jul 6, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/india/202006061079538228-indias-investigative-agency-arrests-terror-funding-conspirator-in-navy-espionage-racket/
“Authorities uncovered a major espionage ring in November in which Pakistani spies recruited agents in India’s defence establishment to collect classified information regarding submarines, warships and data on the location of naval commands.
India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested Abdul Rehman Sheikh from Mumbai, for his alleged involvement in a spy scandal in 2019, known as the Visakhapatanam Espionage Case, in which Indian navy personnel were bribed by Pakistani nationals to provide crucial intelligence.
According to an officer of the investigating agency, Sheikh was also involved in terror funding. His wife Shaista Qaiser has already been arrested in connection with the case.
“During search at the house of Sheikh, a number of digital devices and incriminating documents have been seized. Further investigation is underway,” an NIA official said.
According to the official, 15 people have been arrested nationwide, including 11 naval officers.
Pakistan’s intelligence agency allegedly used Facebook and online dating sites to “honey trap” junior naval officers, while money was offered to higher ranking officers to disclose crucial and sensitive information related to Indian ship and submarine movements.”
Protesters Throw Molotov Cocktails at U.S. Embassy in Mexico City
A group of approximately 100 protesters threw Molotov cocktails at the U.S. Embassy compound in Mexico. The group appeared to be in support of Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests taking place in various cities in the United States.
Since noon on Friday, a group of approximately 100 protesters gathered in downtown Mexico City near Paseo Reforma, near the U.S. Embassy to take part in a BLM protest. According to El Sol De Mexico, the protesters were members of Antifa and were wearing all black. The protests quickly turned into acts of vandalism. The level of violence increased and eventually escalated into throwing Molotov cocktails at the U.S. Embassy compound.
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2020/06/05/protesters-throw-molotov-cocktails-at-u-s-embassy-in-mexico-city/
PICS: Clashes Erupt at BLM London Protest, Mounted Police Unhorsed (breitbart, Jun 6, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/06/pics-clashes-erupt-at-blm-london-protest-mounted-police-knocked-from-saddle/
“Black Lives Matter protests in London have descended into serious violence on Whitehall, with flares and missiles thrown at police, mounted police charging, and at least one officer unhorsed.
Protesters, who were asked not to attend the illegal gatherings by both the Health Secretary and the Home Secretary due to the risk of spreading the Chinese coronavirus, initially contented themselves with merely vandalising the statues of Sir Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln.
As the thousands-strong demonstration moved to Whitehall, adjacent to the gates to the Prime Minister’s official residence on Downing Street and home to the Cenotaph and many important government buildings, however, the situation became more tense, with activists hurling missiles at officers amid driving rain.
Mounted police officers attempted to regain control of the area by staging a charge in which at least one officer was unhorsed, with dramatic footage showing his mount bolting riderless down the street.
The fallen officer’s condition is unknown, but pictures from the scene show them on the ground seemingly unconscious, with eyes glazed.
Riot police appeared to make some progress in driving back activists after this, but the situation remains tense, with the police horses unnerved by individuals who hurled flares towards them….”
Cenotaph Vandalised with ‘BLM’ Graffiti on D-Day Anniversary Amid Violent Protests (breitbart, Jun 6, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/06/cenotaph-vandalised-blm-graffiti-d-day-anniversary/
Abraham Lincoln Statue Vandalised and Scaled in London BLM Protests (breitbart, Jun 6, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/06/06/blm-protesters-vandalise-scale-abraham-lincoln-statue-london/
Clashes, tear gas in Beirut as protests turn to riots (abcnews, Jun 6, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/lebanese-demonstrators-gather-reboot-mass-protests-71106982
“Lebanese riot police fired tear gas at protesters in central Beirut on Saturday, after a planned anti-government demonstration quickly degenerated into rioting and stone-throwing confrontations between opposing camps.
A few thousand demonstrators had gathered in Martyrs’ Square hoping to reboot nationwide protests that began late last year amid an unprecedented economic and financial crisis. But tensions and divisions over the goals of the demonstration quickly became apparent as groups of young men faced off, with the army standing between them.
Scattered groups of protesters arrived in the capital’s downtown area, many of them without masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus, in response to calls for a centralized protest to press for demands.
Lebanese rose up against their political leaders in nationwide mass protests on Oct. 17 amid a spiraling economic crisis, blaming them for decades of corruption and mismanagement. The protests, which further deepened the slump, eventually lost some momentum and later were put on hold after the outbreak of the pandemic.
It was the biggest protest since the government gradually began easing a lockdown aimed at curbing the virus last month. Saturday’s protest was called for by grassroots organizations and civil society groups as well as several political parties, including some groups who have introduced for the first time demands for the Shiite militant group Hezbollah to disarm.
The participation of political groups and anti-Hezbollah slogans upset some activists and protesters who say the focus should remain on addressing the country’s economic crisis and calling for early elections.
”We are demanding an independent judiciary system, accountability and early parliament elections,” said Firas Abou Hatoum, an activist. “These demands are the demands of the 17th of October revolution and we are still demanding it, apart from the calls to disarm Hezbollah’s weapon.”
Some of the banners held by protesters read “Lebanese Lives Matter,” a play on words from the “Black Lives Matter” slogan that has been used in some U.S. protests.
Hundreds of Lebanese soldiers and riot police were deployed on major roads in the capital and its suburbs ahead of the protest. They later stood between supporters of Hezbollah and its allied Shiite Amal movement on one side and protesters on the other, some of whom shouted insults aimed at the Hezbollah leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
The pro-Hezbollah side, some carrying yellow Hezbollah flags, chanted “Shia, Shia, Shia!”
Near the parliament building, a group of young men hurled rocks over cement barriers erected to seal off the area. Young men vandalized several storefronts, including a luxury French designer furniture company, and a nearby hotel. They pulled out a designer couch after smashing the storefront window and breaking into the shop, and used it to block a road. Police responded with heavy tear gas.
The unprecedented economic crisis, nationwide protests and pandemic pose the biggest threat to stability since the end of the country’s civil war in 1990, and there are fears of a new slide into violence.
In recent weeks, the Lebanese pound, pegged to the dollar for more than two decades, has lost 60% of its value against the dollar and prices of basic goods soared. Unemployment has risen to 35% and an estimated 45% of the country’s population is now below the poverty line.
The government of Prime Minister Hassan Diab is negotiating a financial package with the International Monetary Fund that it hopes will secure billions of dollars to shore up the sinking economy.”
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Killing Free Speech in Switzerland
by Judith Bergman
June 6, 2020 at 5:00 am
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) recently published its sixth monitoring report on Switzerland.
ECRI is the human rights monitoring body of the Council of Europe — not to be confused with the European Union. The Council of Europe calls itself the “continent’s leading human rights organization.”
ECRI was founded in 1994 by the heads of state of the Council of Europe with the mandate, among other things, to “review member States’ legislation, policies and other measures to combat racism, xenophobia, antisemitism and intolerance, and their effectiveness”.
The organization is composed of “members designated by their governments… on the basis of their in-depth knowledge in the field of combating intolerance”. They should have … expertise in dealing with racism… and intolerance. ECRI’s members are nominated in their personal capacity and act as independent members”.
ECRI’s monitoring of Switzerland, since its first report about the country was published in 1998, is an illustrative example of the organization’s persistent efforts — and considerable success — over the past two decades in limiting free speech in Europe.
Already in its first report, in 1998, ECRI, despite admitting that “a decrease in manifestations of racism and intolerance has been noted over the last 2-3 years” and that “overt manifestations of [racial prejudice and xenophobia] are rather rare,” told the Swiss media to promote specific narratives:
A scrawler makes a German known, who is widely unknown in Germany. https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/statue-of-st-louis-vandalized-with-graffiti/article_c7aac1ae-107b-5e7f-84da-a90da3d94409.html
“Be the light”, what did the artist mean by that? You have to be grateful nowadays if it doesn’t say ACAP or the like. Only the red paint could be an indication of the political background. Too much irradiation from infrared heat lamp?
Speaking of red waves, today there is only “red radio” in Merkelland. The left dominates all state media. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotfunk
It used to have a clearly identifiable political orientation. Convervative worldviews (“Schwarzfunk”) has long been extinct. https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2019-09/The_audience_of_public_service_news_FINAL.pdf
Merkelland can only dream of platforms Fox News or Breitbart. Even the private broadcasters are all in line with government propaganda.
Whoever expects “serious and balanced reporting” must read Swiss newspapers (NZZ, Weltwoche) or watch Austrian channels (ServusTV, Oe24).
Otherwise he is lost in the “Valley of the Clueless”, just like in the former GDR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal_der_Ahnungslosen
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Italy Expels Tunisian Tied to Berlin Christmas Market Attack
https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/2320436/italy-expels-tunisian-tied-berlin-christmas-market-attack
“Italy’s interior ministry said on Saturday it had expelled a Tunisian national linked to the man who carried out a deadly 2016 attack on a Berlin Christmas market.
Montassar Yaakoubi, described by the ministry as “an associate of the Tunisian terrorist Anis Amri,” was flown to Tunisia on a special flight, the ministry said in a statement, without specifying when.
It was Italy’s first such expulsion of a foreign national on state security grounds since such repatriations were suspended due to the coronavirus emergency, AFP quoted it as saying.
Yaakoubi hosted Amri in Italy before the latter’s move to Germany in 2015, the ministry said.
On December 19, 2016, Amri — a rejected asylum seeker from Tunisia and known radical militant — hijacked a truck, ploughing into a crowded Christmas market in central Berlin and killing 12 people.
Amri, 24, managed to flee Germany after the attack but was shot in Milan by police four days later.
In the past five years, Italy has expelled 482 foreign nationals on security grounds, including 21 in 2020.”
Libya’s Council of Sheikhs and Elders blesses GNA victories, calls for purging rest of territory
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200606-libyas-council-of-sheikhs-and-elders-blesses-gna-victories-calls-for-purging-rest-of-territory/
“On Friday, the Supreme Council of Libyan Sheikhs and Elders in the city of Zintan (170 kilometres southwest of Tripoli) blessed the victories of the forces of the Government of National Accord (GNA) against Haftar’s militias, and the liberation of the entire western region.
The council announced in a statement on Friday that it: “Blesses and congratulates the Libyan people and army for the victories in the legendary battles they fought against the enemy, and the liberation of the entire western region.”
The statement considered that: “The vicious plans of the forces of evil represented by some Arab regimes supporting the return of dictatorship, tyranny and military rule, have been defeated.”
Purging entire country
The council stressed the need to end the presence of Haftar’s forces in the country and hold them accountable for the crimes they have committed, while reiterating its refusal to negotiate with the “war criminal” or recognise him as a partner in the peace process.
It also called for pursuing and bringing Haftar to justice.
The council demanded the concerned parities to develop a strategy for the post-aggression phase, focusing on rebuilding the army and crushing foreign agendas aiming at destabilising Libya.”
Greece: ‘We are ready for military confrontation with Turkey’
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200606-greece-we-are-ready-for-military-confrontation-with-turkey/
“Greek Defence Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos has confirmed that his country is ready for all eventualities, including military confrontation with Turkey if it continued to provoke Athens, news agencies reported on Friday.
In a television interview, Panagiotopoulos revealed that his ministry had noted increasing Turkish provocations.
“Turkey’s behaviour has been very aggressive in the recent period,” according to Panagiotopoulos, “I believe that the only way for Greece to deal with this behaviour, which has been generally aggressive, is on the one hand to exhaust all its diplomatic choices, and on the other hand to ensure an increase in the deterrence of our military.”
When asked if Greece was ready for a military confrontation with Turkey, Panagiotopoulos replied: “Exactly so”.
He added:
We are prepared for any scenarios. Among them is military intervention. We do not want to go there, but we want to make it clear that we will do whatever it takes to defend our sovereign rights to the fullest extent possible.
A couple of days ago, the Turkish government newspaper published a request for a Turkish state oil company to obtain a license to explore oil and gas in an area near the Greek islands.
Following this, on 3 June, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis sent a letter to the European Union, stating that this would lead to a Turkish-European crisis.
On Thursday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan affirmed in a press conference that Turkey would together with the Libyan government explore and develop oil and gas fields in the Mediterranean.”
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New Residency Law Threatens Moroccan Migrants’ Future in Quebec
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2020/06/305043/new-permanent-residency-requirements-anger-foreign-community-in-quebec/
“A new reform to the Quebec experience program, known as PEQ, has sparked outrage among Moroccan students and workers in Quebec, Canada, who were hoping to apply for permanent residency in the French-speaking province.
The restrictions could affect a large number of Moroccan students in Quebec who pay much higher rates for their university education than would be required in Morocco or much of Europe, hopeful for professional opportunities.
The PEQ is a program that allows immigrant students who earn their diploma in Quebec and temporary skilled workers to quickly obtain a permanent residency permit in the Canadian province.
However, on May 28, Quebec Immigration Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette introduced new rules for immigrants to apply to the program, including more work experience, Canada’s Global News reported.
Under the new rules, temporary foreign workers in Quebec must accumulate 36 months of full-time work experience during the 48 months preceding their application to be eligible for permanent residency. Immigrant workers needed only one year of full-time work experience prior to the changes.
As for foreign students who obtained a diploma from a Quebec university, they must acquire 12 or 24 months of full-time work experience before becoming eligible for the PEQ.
“Moroccan students can no longer get the permanent residency easily in Quebec,” a Moroccan graduate of Quebec’s University Laval, who asked to speak on the condition of anonymity, told Morocco World News, adding that many who have already enrolled or even graduated “will probably have to go back home.”
Jolin-Barrette also announced boosted requirements in French language ability. In addition to demonstrating their own fluency, applicants who are applying with a spouse must prove their partner has the ability to hold a conversation in French—a level four in French knowledge on a scale of one to 12.
Le Quebec, c’est nous aussi
The announcements gave birth to “Le Quebec, c’est nous aussi,” “Quebec is us, too” in French. The movement brings together immigrants and Quebecois who fight for “an inclusive and dynamic Quebec,” according to a press release received by Morocco World News.
The movement demands a complete withdrawal of the PEQ reform, said the June 4 statement, a move which organizers argue “represents a major step backwards and heralds dark years for Quebec.”
“Le Quebec, c’est nous aussi” considers the new work experience requirements as a clear message that foreign talent is no longer welcome in Quebec and that international students are welcome to “pay their tuition fees [in Quebec], and then go work elsewhere,” since the required “work experience [is] longer than what the post-graduation permit allows for certain degrees.”
Another Moroccan student told MWN that the movement hopes Jolin-Barrette will hear their call and understand that “this is not the best way to thank [foreign students] for choosing Quebec and believing in the promises they heard from universities.”
She wants to prevent newcomers from investing in a career plan “that is no longer eligible to PEQ and immigration programs of Quebec” by garnering attention for the “urgent situation.”
The movement also denounced the exclusion of some categories of essential workers from eligibility for the PEQ.
“Quebec is telling thousands of essential workers: thank you for your help, too bad for the next ones,” the press release said.
“We have read the consultations briefs … which is why we can say with confidence that the Minister of Immigration … did not listen to us in developing this reform,” said Claire Launay, one of the movement’s instigators.
The activists considered the reform “a slap in the face to diversity and inclusion,” warning of the impact it would have on the Quebec province: “While the other Canadian provinces will continue to welcome students and workers ready to help in the wake of this pandemic, the Quebec economy will slow down at the same rate as the number of immigrants who will come here.”
The movement, organized through a group on Facebook, so far counts more than 1,400 members.
Moncef Derraji questions the government’s decision
The new changes did not only anger citizens but also raised questions from Parliament members.
Moroccan-Canadian MP Moncef Derraji questioned the government’s approach, especially as workers are still crucially needed in Quebec amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Is this how we are going to respond quickly to the shortage of labor? I want to remind you that [in] several countries where we used to recruit, there are no flights yet,” he said, quoted by Global News.
“How are we going to go on recruitment missions? How are we going to recruit these people in French-speaking areas, knowing that gatherings are prohibited in these countries?” Derraji continued.
Quebec is one of the main destinations in Canada for Moroccan migrants. According to recent statistics, the French-speaking province hosts more than three-quarters of all Moroccans living in Canada.”
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