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India responds to China’s provocation | India-China border tensions
Azerbaijan and Armenia reject talks as Karabakh conflict zone spreads | World News
Low hanging fruit get targeted in South Africa.
It’s the corrupt ANC Elites way to fight “Corruption”, while pulling the Wool over the eyes and ears of the uneducated Masses, that make their Voter Base.
Tenderpreneurs must pay back the millions.
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Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: President Aliev Says Azerbaijan Will Restore its ‘Territorial Integrity’ (sputniknews, Sep 30, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/world/202009301080621805-azerbaijan-to-restore-its-territorial-integrity-president-aliev-says/
“The clashes between Baku and Yerevan have been escalating since Sunday, as both sides accuse each other of aggression, and share numerous pieces of footage of the opponent’s destroyed military vehicles.
Azerbaijan will restore its territorial integrity, President Ilham Aliyev stated on Wednesday, adding that the country had hoped to reach the result via negotiations, but they were useless. He also said that Baku will stop its offensive if the Armenian military leaves “occupied territories”, stressing that it is the one and only condition.
“Armenia must abandon the occupation policy. However, the Armenian prime minister sets conditions for us, he set seven conditions. I said not so long ago that we reject these conditions. We have only one – the Armenian Armed Forces, of course, must immediately leave our lands”, he said during a meeting with wounded servicemen.
Aliev said he had warned that Azerbaijan will use military means to resolve the issue if the negotiations are fruitless, stressing that the country must restore its integrity, as Nagorno-Karabakh is historically Azerbaijani territory.
The conflict started over the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh – an unrecognised republic in the Transcaucasus between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which proclaimed independence from what was then Soviet Azerbaijan in 1991. It led to a major military standoff in the region, which was suspended in 1994, as Yerevan and Baku agreed to start peace talks mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group.”
Live Updates: Armenia’s Ministry of Defence Publishes Photo of ‘Downed’ Su-25 (sputniknews, Sep 30, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/world/202009301080616986-live-updates-two-azerbaijani-drones-downed-in-nagorno-karabakh-overnight/
Azerbaijan Shares Video of ‘Armenian Military Equipment’ Being ‘Destroyed’ (sputniknews, Sep 30, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/world/202009301080619262-azerbaijan-shares-video-of-armenian-military-equipment-being-destroyed/
“Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defence published another video allegedly showing Baku’s forces destroying Armenian military equipment amid the clashes between the two countries in Nagorno-Karabakh. The footage depicts a tank and several other military vehicles destroyed in the strikes, with huge clouds of smoke rising from the sites…”
Macron Calls Turkey’s ‘Warlike’ Statements on Nagorno-Karabakh Escalation ‘Dangerous’ (sputniknews, Sep 30, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/world/202009301080618065-macron-calls-turkeys-statements-on-nagorno-karabakh-escalation-dangerous/
“Ankara previously stated that it would support Baku both in negotiations and in combat, also warning that any attack against Azerbaijani territories is an attack against Turkey itself.
French President Emmanuel Macron has slammed the Turkish statements on the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh as dangerous, “warlike” rhetoric.
“I have noted Turkey’s political declarations [in favour of Azerbaijan], which I think are inconsiderate and dangerous”, he stressed.
“I will talk with President Putin today, and, I believe, with President Trump tomorrow raising this issue to exchange opinions and suggest a way out of the crisis”, the French president stated during a press conference in Riga.
In the meantime, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has stated that Ankara will do “what is necessary” if Azerbaijan asks it for military support.
“If president Macron is not concerned by the [situation] with Azerbaijani territories, then his solidarity with Armenia means he is backing [their] occupation”, Cavusoglu said.
Ankara and Baku
The Turkish foreign minister reiterated his stance, as on Tuesday he also said that Ankara was ready to support Azerbaijan during the escalation.
“We want the issue (of Nagorno-Karabakh – ed.) to be cardinally resolved. We have made a lot of efforts to do this, but everything was in vain. We have always been beside Azerbaijan – both on the battlefield and at the negotiating table. We will continue this solidarity”, Cavusoglu said.
He also claimed that Armenia had occupied Azerbaijani territories and that it is unacceptable to equate the two countries.
Clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan started on Sunday, with both sides accusing each other of aggression along the line of control and declaring mobilisation (partial by Baku, and a full mobilisation by Yerevan). Azerbaijani forces launched a “counter-offensive”, claiming that Armenian forces had attacked them first, which Yerevan denied, also noting that Baku had attacked Armenian forces and cities.
Nagorno-Karabakh, or Artsakh, an Armenian-majority autonomy, proclaimed independence from what was then Soviet Azerbaijan in 1991.
It led to a major military clash that lasted until 1994 when the sides agreed to start peace talks mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group. Karabakh remained an unrecognised state and ties between Baku and Yerevan have remained tense due to the frozen conflict.”
India’s Top Muslim Body Fears Two More Historic Mosques Will Be Demolished ‘Soon’ (sputnikenws, Sep 30, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/india/202009301080620006-indias-top-muslim-body-fears-two-more-historic-mosques-will-be-demolished-soon/
Timeline of Babri Mosque Demolition Case as Indian Court Acquits All Accused (sputniknews, Sep 30, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/india/202009301080618105-timeline-of-babri-mosque-demolition-case-as-indian-court-acquits-all-accused/
Eyewitnesses Report Casualties in Explosion in Khost City in Afghanistan (sputniknews, Sep 30, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/asia/202009301080622264-eyewitnesses-report-casualties-in-explosion-in-khost-city-in-afghanistan/
“An explosion rocked Mujahid Square in the city of Khost in the east of Afghanistan on Wednesday, with witnesses reporting casualties…”
So the place lives (so to speak) up to its name! Nice.
Priti Patel is still considering sending asylum seekers to ‘island outposts’ despite being slammed for ‘ludicrous’ plan to ship migrants 4,000 miles to remote UK territory in South Atlantic where Napoleon was imprisoned (dailymail, Sep 30, 2020)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8787455/Priti-Patel-looked-sending-asylum-seekers-tiny-volcanic-islands.html
“Priti Patel faced ridicule today after it emerged she considered sending asylum seekers trying to enter Britain 4,000 miles to a remote Atlantic outcrop for processing.
Under an extraordinary scheme that was later ditched, the Home Office considered using Ascension Island, a British overseas territory surrounded by water for at least 800 miles in all directions.
Ms Patel abandoned the plan after instructing her officials to drill down into the practicalities of such a project, according to the Financial Times.
But officials said that she is still keen on ‘offshoring’ people attempting to reach the UK if a suitable site can be found…”
Blade-wielding youth attacks rival in train station platform knife fight in full view of terrified commuters (dailymail, Sep 30, 2020)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8788795/Blade-wielding-youth-attacks-rival-train-station-platform-knife-fight.html
“Horrifying footage has revealed the moment a knife-wielding youth was seen attacking his rival in broad daylight on a train station platform.
Paramedics were called to the scene and an 18-year-old man was taken to hospital.
The knife-wielding thug is seen chasing after another man at Stratford Station in east London…”
‘Outraged’ W.H.O. to Investigate Itself over Charges of Worker Sexual Assault, Abuse (breitbart, Sep 30, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/30/outraged-w-h-o-to-investigate-itself-over-charges-of-worker-sexual-assault-abuse/
“An “outraged” World Health Organization (W.H.O.) announced Wednesday it is to launch a vigorous investigation into its own field staff. This follows repeated accusations of sexual exploitation and abuse in Ebola response teams operating remotely in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)…”
Fight Back: Greek Orthodox Church Petitions U.N. over Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia (breitbart, Sep 30, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2020/09/30/fight-back-greek-orthodox-church-petitions-u-n-over-istanbuls-hagia-sophia/
“The Greek Orthodox Church of the United States petitioned the United Nations on Tuesday to force Turkey into protecting Orthodox Christianity’s cultural heritage following the Turkish government’s unilateral decision to convert Istanbul’s landmark former cathedral Hagia Sophia into a mosque…”
Gothenburg Police Concerned Over Growing Drug Trade Ethnic Gang Violence (breitbart, Sep 30, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/09/30/gothenburg-police-concerned-over-growing-drug-trade-ethnic-gang-violence/
“An intelligence report from the Gothenburg police has revealed deep concern over growing violence between ethnic gangs in the city as they battle over the city’s illegal drug trade.
The report claims gangs of Syrian migrants along with Afghani and Somali migrants have repeatedly clashed over drug sales in the centre of the city and that police fear the violence could escalate if the members are able to procure firearms.
“There are regular large violent clashes in central Gothenburg between young Afghans and especially young Syrians, but also Somalis where they fight for good drug sales. There have been several stabbings in connection with these brawls and police have on various occasions found street fighting weapons,” the report states.
According to a report by Nyheter Idag, the police are greatly concerned about an escalation of violence with the intelligence report stating, “There is also concern about what happens if individuals in these groups have access to firearms and how this may affect the already violent clashes between them.”
Just weeks ago, Gothenburg saw criminal gangs set up roadblocks in the city and keep local residents under curfew in what was described as a display of power by Gothenburg Police Chief Erik Nord.
Sweden’s problem with migrant clan gangs has been the subject of great debate in recent weeks as Prime minister Stefan Lofven only recently admitted to a connection between immigration and gang crime.
Police in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby have claimed that migrant-background gangs have started recruiting new members as young as six-years-old and have announced measures to tackle the issue of gang socialisation at an early age.
Acting local police manager Therese Rosengren said socialisation occurs at an early age saying, “If you see that big brothers, or other young people, are selling drugs at the playground or being asked to handle guns for older criminals then it’s very easy to choose that path when you get a little older yourself.”
“By older, I mean the age of 15. We see that the perpetrators of these serious crimes are getting younger, so we need to focus on the younger ages,” she added.
While drugs are a major source of income for clan gangs, so too is welfare fraud according to prosecutor Björn Rosenlöf.
According to Rosenlöf, as much as 50 per cent of the compansation paid by the Swedish welfare system could be linked to fraud and said the widespread fraud threatened the Swedish welfare system itself.
“It is very bad, of course, that there are some 40 clans who choose to remain outside society and engage in organised violent and drug crime,” he wrote.
“For the national economy, however, it is even worse that far more clans are dealing with organised economic crime on a large scale, a crime that threatens the very foundations of our welfare,” he added.”
UN atomic watchdog inspects disputed Iranian nuclear site (abcnews, Sep 30, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/atomic-watchdog-inspects-disputed-iranian-nuclear-site-73337704
“The United Nations’ atomic watchdog agency said Wednesday its inspectors have been able to visit the second of two disputed sites where Iran is suspected of having stored or used undeclared nuclear material in the past.
Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in late August secured an agreement with Iran to inspect the two sites in the country, thought to date from the early 2000s.
One site was inspected shortly afterward and the Vienna-based IAEA said the second site was visited this week by inspectors who took environmental samples.
Those will now be analyzed by labs that are part of the IAEA’s network, including its own facility in Seibersdorf, Austria.
No results have been announced…”
About the Turk who stabbed two to death in Groningen, the Netherlands:
Groningen cinema stabber sometimes thought he was in Fortnite
https://nltimes.nl/2020/09/29/groningen-cinema-stabber-sometimes-thought-fortnite
Ergun S., a Rotterdam man accused of stabbing a couple to death in a cinema in Groningen last year, appeared in the court in Groningen on Tuesday. He spoke about his mental illness and the delusions he had around the time of the stabbing, including that he was in the game Fortnite, and that he had to protect his daughter from supernatural beings who wanted to abduct her to the North Pole, AD reports.
Ergun S. has schizophrenia and was on medication for the illness, but did not always take it. The expectation is that experts from the Pieter Baan Center will conclude that he was in a psychosis, and therefore not accountable, during the attack in the Pathe cinema last year. Partly because of his mental health issues and drug habit, his relationship with his girlfriend deteriorated. Fearing for their safety, she left, taking their daughter with her.
The man described his mental illness to the court, saying that he went from euphoric to depressed and back. Sometimes he thought that he was in the game Fortnite, he said. “Although I never played that came.” He sometimes thought that he was driving a tram in Rotterdam and that “the tram is my friend”, he said. “Crazy to say maybe,” he said in court, though the judge assured him that “nothing is crazy here”.
By the time S. went to Groningen to look for his daughter, his family was very concerned about him, was revealed in court. The man had lost 30 pounds and was not looking good. Mental health service GGZ was planning to admit him for mandatory treatment, according to the newspaper.
He went to Groningen to look for his daughter, he said. He thought he was in telepathic contact with her, that he could help the world, and that world leaders couldn’t wait to talk to him, he said. “But those thoughts became more and more fearful. I thought I was being followed,” S. said. He had visions of elite troops putting his daughter in danger, and supernatural beings abducting her to the North Pole, he said.
When S. was arrested, he had wrapped himself in foil “for protection”. That was supposed to be his superhero suit, he said, complete with batteries to recharge it. “And I bought laughing gas cartridges to be able to move myself very quickly.”
The 34-year-old an was arrested at the end of October 2019, one day after he stabbed Gina and Marnus, 55 and 56 years old, from Slochteren to death in the Pathe cinema in Groningen. The couple had worked there for years as cleaners.
S. sneaked into the theater after another cleaner left a door open. He was looking for a place to sleep and hid in a closet, he said. When Gina opened it, he attacked her. Marinus came to help, but he too was killed.
EU Commission democracy report critical of Poland, Hungary (abcnews, Sep 30, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/eu-commission-issues-report-critical-poland-hungary-73337154
“Democratic standards are facing “important challenges” in some European Union countries, particularly in Hungary and Poland, where the judicial systems are under threat, the EU’s executive commission said Wednesday in its first report on adherence to the rule of law.
The European Commission depicted a bleak situation in the two countries. Its wide-ranging audit found that prosecution of high-level corruption in Hungary “remains very limited,” and deemed Poland deficient in the four main areas reviewed by the commission: national justice systems, anti-corruption frameworks, media freedom and checks and balances.
“It is relevant to have an overview of these issues, and see the links between them. Not least because deficiencies often merge into an undrinkable cocktail, even if the individual ingredients seem to be fine,” EU Values Commissioner Vera Jourova told journalists.
The report, published a day before the leaders of the EU’s 27 nations meet in Brussels for a two-day summit, could have repercussions for ongoing discussions on the bloc’s long-term budget.
Hungary immediately dismissed the report as irrelevant and biased, saying it can’t serve as a basis for future discussions.
“The Commission’s Rule of Law Report is not only fallacious, but absurd,” the Hungarian government said in a statement. “The concept and methodology of the Commission’s Rule of Law Report are unfit for purpose, its sources are unbalanced and its content is unfounded.”
While EU leaders have agreed in principle on a 1.8 trillion-euro economic recovery package for the 2021-2027 budget period, they have yet to find common ground on a distribution mechanism because many countries insist the money should be linked to respecting the EU’s rule of law standards.
Poland and Hungary, which believe they are being unfairly targeted, are opposed to the idea. The EU has accused the two countries of violating rule-of-law standards for several years and the bloc is pursuing sanction procedures against them.
“The rule of law and our shared values are the foundation of our societies,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday. “They are part of our common identity as Europeans. The rule of law protects people from the rule of the powerful. While we have very high rule of law standards in the EU, we also have various challenges.”
The report also called out Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia and Spain for threats against journalists in those countries. Threats, attacks and smear campaigns against journalists were also reported in Hungary.
Concerns in Bulgaria over judicial independence and tackling corruption cases properly were also raised in the report.
The sticking points in Poland are the right-wing government’s moves to take control of the justice system, especially the judiciary. The report says “the double role where the minister of justice is also the prosecutor general has raised particular concerns, as it increases the vulnerability to political influence.”
In Hungary, a number of government-sponsored laws targeting media freedoms, minority rights, the electoral system and academic and religious freedoms drew the commission’s notice. The EU report criticized a perceived “consistent lack of determined action to start criminal investigations and prosecute corruption cases involving high-level officials or their immediate circle.”
In an interview last week with Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine, Jourova said the report highlighted an “alarming” picture, and she accused Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban of “building a sick democracy.”
The story triggered Orban’s anger. In a letter to von der Leyen on Monday, he wrote that Jourova’s statements humiliated Hungary and asked for her resignation. EU officials have since offered overwhelming support to Jourova.
“As I grew up in communist Czechoslovakia, I know how it feels to live in country without the rule of law,” Jourova said. “The European Union was created also as an antidote to those authoritarian tendencies. And the European Commission has a strong role to play here.”
The commission also looked into government measures that have limited freedom during the coronavirus pandemic and noted that “reactions to the crisis showed overall strong resilience of the national systems.”
The commission will next debate the report with the European Parliament and EU nations.”
Spain rebuffs Turkey’s ‘unilateral’ gas search, backs Cyprus (abcnews, Sep 30, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/spain-rebuffs-turkeys-unilateral-gas-search-backs-cyprus-73337579
“Spain’s foreign minister on Wednesday said her country rejects Turkey’s unilateral search for energy reserves in the eastern Mediterranean, adding that such actions hinder a negotiated way out of a territorial dispute that has ratcheted up regional tensions…”
Twitter temporarily suspends Hungarian government’s account (abcnews, Sep 30, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/twitter-temporarily-suspends-hungarian-governments-account-73337028
“The Hungarian government says its official Twitter account was temporarily suspended and then restored without explanation.
Government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said Wednesday in a Facebook post that “we have taken the necessary steps and are awaiting an official explanation from Twitter” regarding the status of the government’s @abouthungary account.
While the account was suspended, the following notice appeared on its feed: “Twitter suspends accounts which violate the Twitter rules.”…”
139 refugees head to Germany from Greece for resettlement (abcnews, Sep 30, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/139-refugees-head-germany-greece-resettlement-73334373
“Greek authorities say 139 vulnerable asylum-seekers who had been living in overcrowded Greek island camps have left for Germany, as part of efforts to ease overcrowding and move refugees to other European countries.
The group that flew out of Greece on Wednesday consisted of children suffering serious health problems and their immediate families, as well as 53 unaccompanied minors, the migration ministry said.
The unaccompanied minors are part of a program for 1,600 children up to age 18 who are in Greece without their parents or guardians to be resettled in other European countries…”
Channel migrant-smuggling ring cracked in 4-nation operation (abcnews, Sep 30, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/channel-migrant-smuggling-ring-cracked-nation-operation-73337272
“A multinational police operation this week led to the arrest of a dozen suspected smugglers who take migrants across the English Channel to the U.K. in small boats under dangerous conditions, officials said Wednesday.
The major, four-nation operation also resulted in the seizure of a dozen vehicles and 10 boats used to ferry the migrants across, the European Union’s judicial cooperation agency, Eurojust, said.
The illegal migration by sea toward Britain is a massive business, with smugglers charging some 3,000 euros ($3,500) a person for the trip in often overloaded boats in tough weather conditions.
The Press Association news agency reported the number of migrants who arrived in Britain in September alone to at least 1,880 – roughly the same number believed to have crossed the Channel in the whole of 2019.
Migrants have long used northern France as a launching point to reach Britain, stowed away in trucks or on ferries. Many now appear to have turned to small boats supplied by smugglers during the coronavirus pandemic because virus restrictions have reduced traffic between France and Britain.
In this week’s operation, 7 suspects were arrested in France, 3 in Britain and 2 in the Netherlands.”
Tunisians fleeing economy, not COVID, cause tension in Italy (abcnews, Sep 30, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/tunisians-fleeing-economy-covid-tension-italy-73332866
“Once it was just the jobless young men who set off from Tunisia’s rocky northern beaches for Sicily, usually defying their parents in hopes of a better future.
Now Tunisian families, even those with work or seemingly good prospects, are following that path across 130 kilometers (80 miles) of open water — nearly 10,000 since the beginning of the year and far more than have left in recent memory. The stretch of Mediterranean can be dangerous, the chance of getting asylum in Europe is near zero, and a long quarantine in a ferry anchored offshore will be followed by expulsion if they’re caught.
But many who leave from the Bizerte coastline think the potential reward far outweighs the risk. Those with relatives in Europe are the ones with the new cars and kitchen upgrades.
“My son is a month and a half old, and if I get a chance to emigrate immediately, I will go to make a better life,” said Tarek Aloui, a 27-year-old who has tried 10 times to reach Italy since 2014. He has succeeded only once, last March at the height of the coronavirus lockdown, and was expelled almost immediately back home, where he was jailed for six months. He is undeterred.
“All Tunisian men, women and even children want to leave this way,” he added.
Their arrivals have strained the ability of Italy’s southern regions to take them in amid the coronavirus pandemic, given Italy’s quarantine requirements for anyone arriving from outside the EU.
When a huge fishing boat of 450 Tunisians pulled into port in the Sicilian island of Lampedusa on Aug. 30, some residents took to the docks to protest, shouting at them to go back. Italy’s former interior minister, the anti-migrant League leader Matteo Salvini, criticized the government for letting them in and noted wryly that most will never be granted asylum because they are fleeing the non-existent “famous Tunisian war.”
To keep new migrants safely isolated, the Italian government has commissioned five ferries for newcomers to complete 14 days of quarantine, with 2,238 currently on board the ships. But there are also centers on land for others, and the interior ministry has lamented that Tunisians, more than others, tend to try to flee welcome centers and evade quarantine requirements. Their escapes have sparked protests by local residents fearful of new infections after Italy’s brutal coronavirus outbreak, especially since arriving migrants have been linked to several dozen recent clusters.
Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese has traveled to Tunis twice since July to negotiate with the new government on the need to stem the flow, including with offers of assistance from Italy to better patrol the coasts. She blamed the increase in Tunisian arrivals on the country’s socio-economic problems that have been exacerbated by COVID-19, and has offered Italian assistance to address them.
She told a parliamentary committee last week that since Aug. 1, Italy had resumed repatriating Tunisians who don’t qualify for asylum, after reaching an accord with the Tunisian government to accept two flights a week with 40 Tunisians apiece. She said the number of weekly flights would increase starting in October. Tunisian migrants fleeing their country’s worsening economic situation aren’t generally considered eligible for asylum.
While Tunisians have been by far the biggest group of migrants in 2020, the 23,517 migrants in Italy this year are a fraction of the nearly 120,000 people rescued at sea and brought to Italy in 2017, or the more than 181,000 who arrived in the peak year, 2016. This year’s arrivals, however, are more than the numbers seen in the previous two years.
More striking is the proportion of migrants who are Tunisian — 9,284 or 42% this year, compared with 23% last year and 22% in 2018. The year before that, Tunisians only accounted for 5% of arrivals, with Nigerians topping the list.
Romdhane Ben Amor, spokesman for the Tunisian Economic and Social Rights Forum, said this level of emigration hasn’t been seen since the Arab Spring uprising of 2011 started in Tunisia.
“It’s no longer restricted to those who drop out of school, the unemployed and the uneducated,” he said.
He said between 150 and 200 families have left Tunisia on boats, avoiding the north African country’s coast guard despite ramped-up surveillance paid for by Italy and other European Union countries.
“We can see them on the surveillance camera in the port,” said Mohammed Taweb, a fisherman in Bizerte. He said small groups come to steal boat engines in preparation for their departures, but only from pleasure craft — not from the fishing boats he and others need to make a living. He said he understands why they go, and believes it’s up to Tunisia’s government to solve the problem.
The parents of Ghofrane Hlel fear it’s too late for their son, who left last September at the age of 20 and was lost at sea. His mother, Kalthoum Fraj, has resigned herself to his fate, but not to the uncertainty.
“I accept everything that happened to him, and I do not hold anyone responsible,” she said. “I want him dead or alive, and I will accept either one.””
Rep Nunes reacts to report Clinton allegedly approved plan tying Trump to Russia
DAILY MAIL – Twitter suspends Hungarian government’s account ‘without warning’: PM spokesman warns ‘The new world has finally arrived.. tech giants are silencing those with different opinions’
Nationalist PM Viktor Orban’s official cabinet Twitter account was shutdown
After several hours it was restored, Budapest said, with no explanation offered
It comes after Twitter waded into political rows involving Donald Trump
Orban’s spokesman said it was part of a Silicon Valley crackdown on opinion
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8789291/Twitter-suspends-Hungarian-governments-account-without-warning.html
Turkey is set to meet the Russian blade
China gives Apple and Tesla a reward for their loyalty
#87 China’s Growing Influence in America
Trump DOMINATED The Debate Leaving Biden Looking WEAK Most Of The Time, CNN LOSES IT, Blames Trump
Chris Wallace and Joe Biden treated Trump like he was a guy off the street, and not the President of the United States. In their minds Trump is occupying the house that Obama took down. The coup happened in 2008 when BHO, who was not constitutional eligible stepped into the WH and nobody from either party stopped him.
Checkmate https://twitter.com/M2Madness/status/1311132315163258888
“Trump is the Target of ‘Color Revolution’ Coup”
The New American Video – September 29, 2020
Experts: Trump Is Target of “Color Revolution”
by Alex Newman – September 25, 2020
https://thenewamerican.com/experts-trump-is-target-of-color-revolution/
Alex Newman mentioned this website and article:
EXCLUSIVE — The Curious Case of George Kent: State Department’s Belarus “Color Revolution” Expert And “Never Trump” Impeachment Witness
Dr. Darren J. Beattie – August 16, 2020
https://www.revolver.news/2020/08/george-kent-never-trump-state-department/
#MalkinLive: Color Revolutions, SCOTUS fight & more w/Darren J. Beattie
Michelle Malkin – September 22, 2020
MACRON : UN QUINQUENNAT À MUSELER LA LIBERTÉ DE LA PRESSE
WION Dispatch: 7 civilians killed in rocket attack at Baghdad airport | Iraq
Father of Paris Charlie Hebdo Attacker Claims To Be ‘Proud’ Of His Actions (breitbart, Sep 30, 2020)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/09/30/father-of-paris-charlie-hebdo-attacker-claims-to-be-proud-of-his-actions/
“The father of the Pakistan migrant arrested for stabbing two people outside of the former offices of satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo, claims to be “proud” of his son’s actions
The father of Ali Hassan, also known as Zaheer Hassan Mahmoud, was interviewed in his native Pakistan by local media and claimed his son had done a “good job” in regard to the terrorist attack last week.
According to a report from La Provence, Arshad Mahmoud said the residents of the small Pakistani town in which he lives congratulated him and his son for protecting ” the honour of the Prophet.”
“I am asking the Pakistani government to bring my son home. He served Islam and we are a Muslim country,” the alleged father of the Islamist attacker said.
He went on to state his son “has a lion’s heart” and said that his son was a devout Muslim who prayed regularly and was a follower of Muhammad Ilyas Qadri, a Sunni scholar who founded and leads the Dawat-e-Islami organisation.
Initially identified as 18-year-old Ali Hassan who had come to France claiming to be an unaccompanied minor, the perpetrator of the attack was later revealed to be a 25-year-old named Zaheer Hassan Mahmoud…”
AFP – Ashura in Iraq: faith and fury in the time of coronavirus
For millennia, Iraqis have turned to religion as they grieve their dead.
This year, a pandemic and the killings of hundreds of young protestors have lent greater sorrow to the Shiite mourning ceremonies of Ashura held in late August.
Every year, thousands of Shiite Muslims mark Ashura with a pilgrimage to Imam Hussein’s resting place inside a glittering shrine in the holy city of Karbala.
This year, Ashura mourners have combined their religious rites with demands for justice, their eyes flashing with pain as they lift framed portraits of slain friends and relatives.
Iraqis are also mourning more than 8,000 loved ones who have lost their lives to Covid-19, among nearly 300,000 confirmed cases in the country.
Ashura 2020 in Karbala – the reality
Who’s Funding Shady Ballot Harvesting Schemes?
Last week, while on a business trip in Wisconsin, I learned about an insane ballot harvesting scheme that appears to be tied to a deep-pocketed liberal advocacy group subsidized by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Google, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and eBay former chairman Pierre Omidyar’s Democracy Fund.
Conservative talk radio host and grassroots activist Vicki McKenna blew the whistle after hearing ads played during her daily show on 1310 WIBA.
“Last week on my radio program, we played Biden campaign ads,” she told me. “They were all about something called ‘Democracy in the Park.’ It was an advertisement about how Madison, Wisconsin, would have 200 parks hosting ballot harvesting events.” The ads were punctuated by a disclosure that they were “paid for by Joe Biden for President.”
On Saturday, Sept. 26, as advertised by the Biden campaign, Madison poll workers turned out across the city to register voters and collect absentee ballots, even though in-person absentee ballot collection is not supposed to start until two weeks before Election Day, according to Wisconsin state election law. Several of McKenna’s listeners showed up to photograph the city government workers’ activities promoted by the Biden for President campaign. The poll workers stuffed ballots into “red zipper bags with no security whatsoever. The poll workers witnessed people’s (blank) ballots, just like you would if you did an in-person absentee ballot, threw them in the red zipper bags, and we don’t know what’s become of these ballots since,” McKenna told me.
http://www.theconservativeinsider.com/whos-funding-shady-ballot-harvesting-schemes/?roi=echo3-62723877547-56446888-507978d6e23c2bdc2a7e4e6d29bdcb4d
Ted Cruz Grills James Comey during Judiciary Committee Hearing
Graham Questions James Comey at Hearing on Oversight of the Crossfire Hurricane Investigation
Sen Dick Durbin Pushes Scam That Trump Is A Putin Puppet
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.... just wondering ... Dem legs ? ... accidental or intentional ...Intentional.Cruz has sharp guys working for him, like Omri Ceren.
Plug in pretty legs, secure viewer attention.
Josh Hawley absolutely DESTROYS former FBI Director, James Comey
Feds open civil rights investigation into teenager who was shot 13 times by police
Nearly three years later …
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Federal authorities have launched a civil rights investigation into the death of a teenager shot more than a dozen times by police.
The shooting death of 17-year-old John Albers in Overland Park, Kansas, sparked national outcry in January 2018 and triggered accusations of excessive use of force.
Police were dispatched to Albers’ home on Jan. 20, 2018, to perform a wellness check after they were alerted that he was threatening to hurt himself. The situation quickly escalated when the two officers arrived at the home.
One of the responding officers approached the home’s garage door after it opened. That’s when a minivan began backing out, allegedly toward one of the officers. The officer drew his firearm and ordered the vehicle to stop. The driver inside initially complied.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/civil-rights-investigation-teenager-police
Congratulations from HE Dr. Muhammad bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa to WHO DG Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Greeting from HE Dr. Muhammad bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa, Secretary General of the Muslim World League.
He congratulates WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as the winner of this year’s Bridge Maker Award 2020.
World Heath Organization – WHO Director-General’s acceptance speech at the Bridge Maker 2020 Award – 22 September 2020
Your Excellency Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway,
Your Excellency Bent Høie, Minister of Health and Care Services of Norway,
Your Excellency Mr Aamir Sheikh, President of the 14 August Committee Norway,
Your Excellency Mr Sven Mollekleiv, acting Chairman of the Bridge Maker Award jury,
Distinguished Members of the Norwegian parliament and representatives of the diplomatic corps in Norway,
Excellencies, distinguished guests, dear colleagues and friends,
I am deeply honoured to accept the 2020 Bridge Maker Award, and together with my colleagues Mike Ryan, my Executive Director, and Maria Van Kerkhove, the technical lead, I am proud to accept this award on behalf of our colleagues, and also on behalf of all who are fighting on the frontline.
I thank the 14 August Committee of Norway and the jury members for this acknowledgement.
I thank Her Excellency Prime Minister Solberg for her government’s steadfast support for WHO and the global effort to fight the pandemic.
The Bridge Maker Award symbolizes the power of partnership, and the strength of solidarity.
I would like to accept this award on behalf of the health workers and care givers in countries around the world, and also my colleagues at WHO, who have been on the frontlines of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In just nine months, this pandemic has changed our world in so many ways.
In particular, it has reinforced the importance of building effective and equitable national health systems.
I would like to acknowledge Prime Minister Solberg, Minister Høie and the Norwegian government for making public health a political and social priority in your country.
A strong health system, rooted in primary health care, is the foundation for achieving universal health coverage. It provides the full range of services, from prevention and health promotion to treatment, rehabilitation, palliative care and emergency response.
The backbone of every health system is well-trained and properly equipped health workers.
2020 is the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife. My friends, we must honour and protect all health workers, and ensure they have decent pay and dignified working conditions.
This pandemic has also highlighted the critical importance of community trust, and of having strong communications channels between health institutions and the general public.
Never in our lifetimes have the principles of partnership and collaboration; of compassion and kindness; and of equality and humility been so critical as they are in this moment.
Now, more than ever, the world needs to build bridges to peace, security and health.
I am inspired every day by how many countries around the world have come together to confront this common threat.
Such solidarity is at the heart of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator, that was launched by WHO, the European Commission, and other partners in April of this year.
This landmark collaboration is accelerating the development, production and equitable distribution of vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics for COVID-19.
Over 170 countries are engaged in the vaccine component of this initiative, including Norway.
Central to this effort is ensuring that the most vulnerable people in all countries are first in line to receive access to these tools.
I would like to thank the Norwegian government for its strong support and especially to Her Excellency Prime Minister Solberg for co-chairing the ACT-Accelerator Facilitation Council, along with President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa.
Thank you also for your vision and leadership in establishing and hosting the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, which is playing such a vital role in supporting the development of vaccines against COVID-19.
WHO’s partnership with CEPI and Gavi through the COVAX Facility will be vital for helping to bring the pandemic under control, save lives and accelerate the global recovery.
Thank you so much for your continued support to CEPI.
I am confident that your leadership, wisdom and determination will help generate the solutions and resources needed to make this initiative succeed.
Dear Friends, I would like to leave you with three key messages:
First, let’s use the opportunity provided by the COVID-19 pandemic to implement the measures needed to prepare for the inevitable next emergency;
Second, let’s commit to building the health systems needed to serve all people of the world, especially the most vulnerable;
And third, let’s keep building bridges to peace and development, reinforced by national unity and global solidarity.
Thank you again for this great honour.
Takk skal du ha.
https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-acceptance-speech-at-the-bridge-maker-2020-award—22-september-2020
Your Excellency Bent Hole…
Well, if you say so…
Pope Francis: We must find a vaccine against the coronavirus and inequalities
UNITED NATIONS – Bill Gates on a COVID-19 Vaccine: Equitable Access & the End to the Pandemic
Bill Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, delivers a video message at the high-level side event “Accelerating the end of the COVID-19 pandemic”.
This event hosted by The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Kingdom, South Africa, and the UN Secretary-General aims to build stronger political consensus for a coordinated global response to COVID-19 and champion the importance and urgency of equitable access to new tools, especially effective vaccines.
t also seeks to catalyze a step-change in support for the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A), the most promising solution for global equitable access to the tools needed to accelerate the end of the pandemic.
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The Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, is a groundbreaking global collaboration to accelerate development, production, and equitable access to COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines.
There is no time to waste in the fight against COVID-19.
No-one is safe until everyone is safe.
Launched at the end of April 2020, at an event co-hosted by the Director-General of the World Health Organization, the President of France, the President of the European Commission, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator brings together governments, scientists, businesses, civil society, and philanthropists and global health organizations (the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CEPI, FIND, Gavi, The Global Fund, Unitaid, Wellcome, the WHO, and the World Bank).
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Pfizer – Ask the Pfizer Expert – Why Do We Need a Vaccine for COVID-19?
UNITED NATIONS – 1 Millionth Death from the COVID-19 Pandemic – UN chief video message
António Guterres (UN Secretary-General) on the 1 Millionth Death from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Our world has reached an agonizing milestone: the loss of one million lives from the COVID-19 pandemic.
It’s a mind-numbing figure. Yet we must never lose sight of each and every individual life.
They were fathers and mothers, wives and husbands, brothers and sisters, friends and colleagues.
The pain has been multiplied by the savageness of this disease.
Risks of infection kept families from bedsides. And the process of mourning and celebrating a life was often made impossible.
How do you say goodbye without holding a hand, or extending a gentle kiss, a warm embrace, a final whispered “I love you”?
And still there is no end in sight to the spread of the virus, the loss of jobs, the disruption of education, the upheaval to our lives.
We can overcome this challenge.
But we must learn from the mistakes. Responsible leadership matters. Science matters. Cooperation matters — and misinformation kills.
As the relentless hunt for a vaccine continues — a vaccine that must be available and affordable to all —let’s do our part to save lives.
Keeping physical distance. Wearing a mask. Washing hands.
As we remember so many lives lost, let us never forget that our future rests on solidarity —as people united and as united nations.
Biden calls Antifa ‘an idea, not an organization’ in debate — and Trump blasts Biden’s gaslighting: ‘You’ve gotta be kidding’
Minimizing and denying Antifa’s threat to public safety — if not its very existence — has been a growing tactic of the left
In one of the more explosive exchanges during Tuesday night’s presidential debate, moderator Chris Wallace asked President Donald Trump if he was willing to condemn “white supremacists and right-wing militia” — despite the fact that Trump has done so numerous times throughout his first term in office.
“Gimme a name,” Trump told Wallace. “Who would you like me to condemn?”
Then a curious smile came over Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s face, and he jumped in and suggested Proud Boys, the controversial group whose members often stand up to left-wing violence in the streets.
But instead of ignoring Biden’s unrequested suggestion, Trump took it: “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by — but I’ll tell you what … somebody’s gotta do something about Antifa and the left, because this is not a right-wing problem, this is a left-wing problem.”
Biden shot back: “His own FBI director said the threat comes from white supremacists — Antifa’s an idea, not an organization.”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-blasts-biden-antifa-gaslighting?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200930Trending-AntifaBiden&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News
Slasher City: New Yorkers Go Under the Knife
A Black Lives Matter hero slashing a gay man created a conflict for Democrats.
Wed Sep 30, 2020 Daniel Greenfield
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Roland Pacheco made a homemade spear by taping a knife to a broomstick and rode his bicycle shirtless to Times Square. He slashed a teenage boy, who was sightseeing with his family, leaving, in the words of one eyewitness who tried to help, “a lot of blood, everywhere.”
Pacheo had previously beaten a man with a bag full of steel lug nuts and after two years that case was still pending. The Democrat authorities had thoughtfully not confined Pacheo, leaving him free to make his own spear and slash up the city’s biggest tourist attraction.
The previous day, two women had been slashed in front of the New York Public Library, a few blocks away. Like Times Square, the area around the library is both iconic and notorious. In the bad old Democrat days when junkies and muggers ruled the street, Bryant Park, the area behind the library, was known as Needle Park for its popularity with addicts shooting up heroin.
The brutal attacks in both locations a day apart show just how far down New York City has gone. Random slashings, once a fever dream of the mad days of a darker city, are back.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/09/slasher-city-new-yorkers-go-under-knife-daniel-greenfield/
Private Property: The Final Showdown
Once the police are gone, nothing can stop the mob.
Wed Sep 30, 2020 Phil Orenstein
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Private property is a human right in a free democratic society. To the authors of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, property is as sacred as Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. In fact, “property” was written in place of “pursuit of Happiness” in the first draft of the Declaration of Independence.
Our religious traditions hold private property rights sacrosanct. “Thou shall not steal” is one of the Ten Commandments which are the moral imperatives of our civilization. It’s widely understood that it’s not ok to take other people’s property. “Thou shall not covet” your neighbor’s property is commanded as well.
Why was property given such significance in our religious and constitutional traditions? In a free society where the individual is king, property is under the control of the individual, not the state. It’s the domain where the state cannot enter without a just cause or a search warrant.
The most important assets are one’s home or business to the vast majority of Americans. But to the progressives, there is no private property. It belongs to the state or the community and can be taken away at any time.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/09/private-property-final-showdown-phil-orenstein/
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Level 4 Emergency Issued Over China Bubonic Plague Outbreak; A Mom Sues Wuhan Over Daughter’s Death
This channel is highly unreliable.
It’s hard to tell whether they’re recycling flood pix, inflating scenes domestic protest, but this massive distortion of plague data is fear-porn.
Mongols eat RAW RAT. Their standards of personal hygiene are tolerant of FLEAS.
International Society for Infectious Diseases:
“A suspected case of bubonic plague in western Mongolia’s Khovd (or Hovd) province has been confirmed by lab test results, the country’s National Center for Zoonotic Diseases (NCZD) said on Sun 27 Sep 2020.
“The 25-year-old female patient from the province and 19 people in close contact with her are now under isolation at a local hospital, the NCZD said in a statement. The center said the woman was found to have eaten marmot [RAT] meat last week. While hunting marmots is illegal in Mongolia, many Mongolians regard the rodent as a delicacy and ignore the law.
“Since the beginning of 2020, the Asian country has reported 22 suspected cases, 6 of which were confirmed by laboratory tests. Three of the 6 patients have died. 17 out of all the 21 Mongolian provinces are now at risk of the bubonic plague, the NCZD said, urging the public to avoid eating marmot meat…..”
“Plague is endemic in Mongolia. Marmots such as the Tarvaga… are thought to be significant zoonotic reservoirs for _Y. pestis_ in Eastern Asia. The name marmot comes from French marmotte, from Latin _mures monti_ “mountain mouse”.
“While foodborne transmission of _Y. pestis_ has been described […], it is far more likely that the bubonic plague cases were acquired via the bites of infected fleas.…”
“Plague is caused by _Yersinia pestis_. Plague appears to be more prevalent this year (2020) in Mongolia. It is not clear that person-to-person spread has occurred.…”
https://promedmail.org/promed-post/?id=7820677
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There was a report of pneumonic plague (more serious) in Nov. 2019:
“A new pneumonic plague case has been confirmed in Ulanqab, northern China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, after a herdsman was diagnosed on Wed 27 Nov 2019. The city is over 500 km [about 311 mi] away from Xilingol League in the region, where the other three pneumonic plague cases were previously found.
The patient, who had visited a region where plague sources were identified, was being treated in isolation and was in a stable condition at the Siziwang Banner People’s Hospital in Ulanqab, according to the hospital on Thu 28 Nov 2019. Four people who had close contact with the patient have been isolated for medical observation as required. None of them have shown symptoms such as fever at present.”
https://promedmail.org/promed-post/?id=20191130.6814943
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Malkin: MN Rep Who Witnessed Omar Voter Fraud Went to Veritas After FBI Seemed Uninterested
FBI Director Christopher Wray recently testified to the Senate that he wasn’t aware of any major voter fraud existence other than a few local issues in the past.
Perhaps he missed a few recent examples in the last couple of weeks.
In fact, the Minneapolis Police Department is looking into the explosive voter fraud video that Project Veritas released that caught a campaign worker engaging in ballot harvesting ad exchanging ballots for cash.
A former Minneapolis political worker told Project Veritas that Ilhan Omar’s campaign deputy district director Ali Isse Gainey was coordinating ballot harvesting from elderly people as well as had paid women and young people for their ballots in the primary.
https://insidescooppolitics.com/archives/2739