SMALL ERROR: I make up these posts to auto publish in advance. There are a few little details I have to do for each one. Sometimes I forget when I run out and none appears till I notice or someone tells me, and I make more, and very rarely, like today, I make a mistake in one of the details.
This was set to autopublish on the 21st, which it did, and I didn’t notice. So it didn’t appear where it should in the timeline till I fixed its publish time and date.
Sorry for any confusion.
Eeyore.
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Finland Repatriates Daesh Mothers With Children From Syria to Prevent Radicalisation (sputniknews, Dec 21, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/europe/202012211081523060-finland-repatriates-daesh-mothers-with-children-from-syria-to-prevent-radicalisation/
“Despite concerns that the returnees may pose a security threat to Finland, the Foreign Ministry emphasised that the decision to evacuate former Daesh women and their children was based on data from the National Bureau of Investigation and the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service.
Finland has evacuated six Finnish children and two mothers from the al-Hol displacement camp in northeast Syria, the newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet reported.
This marks the first time that Finland has repatriated so-called Daesh* mothers, as other Finns fleeing from the camp in northeastern Syria have made their way back to Finland on their own. The Foreign Ministry had previously fetched only two orphaned children. The current operation was conducted together with German authorities, which also repatriated German children and mothers from al-Hol.
Finland’s Foreign Ministry explained that this is in the best interests of the children. The longer the children remain in the camps, without proper protection and education, the more difficult it will be to counter radical extremism, the ministry said.
“It is not possible to repatriate only the children. In all actions, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration,” the ministry said in a statement, noting that the basic rights of the children interned in the al-Hol camps can be safeguarded “only by repatriating them to Finland”.
Foreign Ministry special representative Jussi Tanner said it was important to return the displaced children to Finland sooner rather than later. According to him, in another scenario, they will return five to fifteen years from now.
“Finnish citizens will in any event have the possibility of returning to Finland. Coming back to Finland would in any event happen when they’re able to leave the camp,” he said during a press conference, reiterating the authorities’ legal obligation to bring children home from the camp as Finland couldn’t guarantee that their basic rights were being met in the camp.
Tarja Mankkinen of the Interior Ministry’s anti-radicalisation unit, said officials would investigate if there is reason to suspect complicity in crimes by the returnees.
While National Coalition Party Chairman Petteri Orpo suggested that the returnees posed a security threat to Finland, the Foreign Ministry said it was unaware of such information, emphasising that the assessment was based on data from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Supo).
Around 15 Finnish children and five mothers are still interned at the camp in northeast Syria, according to the Finnish authorities, down from some 30 children and about a dozen mothers.
Last week, Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto of the Green Party survived a confidence vote over his actions in sidelining a civil servant who voiced disagreement over repatriating Finnish children from the camp.
Last year, Prime Minister Sanna Marin said it was up to ministry officials to determine whether Finland would extend help to mothers interned at al-Hol.
* Daesh (ISIS/ISIL/”Islamic State”) is a terrorist organisation banned in Russia and others”
Ontario runs PCR tests at fraudulent levels – “40 cycles” – confirmed by Ontario Public Health
Damn right it’s fraudulent. Perfect example of the politicization of testing. Line up every politician and bureaucrat and give them a dose of their own vaccine, then a kick in the arse into jail for perpetrating this fraud.
Why is there no discussion about the inventor of the PCR test, Karry Mullis, saying the technology was meant as a research tool and should NEVER be used to diagnose any disease in humans?
I recently had surgery for a detached retina. I was asked if I had a COVID test and if not I might need one. I simply said “No thank you.”
A doctor does not tell a mechanic how to fix a car, a mechanic does not tell a doctor how to fix a person, so why are he lame brain politicians deciding what is best for healthcare. Politicians leave the front line heroes alone.
Power play.
Go Poland Go!
https://polandin.com/51388314/justice-minister-announces-online-freedom-of-speech-bill
Zero Hedge – Data Analyst – Joe Biden appears to outperform in counties using Dominion Voting machines
CDC issues new guidelines & launches probe into thousands negatively affected following COVID-19 vaccine.
Companies scramble to win essential designation for workers as profits hang in the balance
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Iran Says Nuclear Deal Not Up for Renegotiation and Asks US, Others to Return to Obligations (sputniknews, Dec 21, 2020)
https://sputniknews.com/world/202012211081527206-iran-says-nuclear-deal-not-up-for-renegotiation-will-live-again-if-us-others-return-to-obligations/
“The US unilaterally scrapped its commitment to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal in May 2018 amid lobbying by Israel. Iran began gradually reducing its commitments to the agreement a year later, accusing the JCPOA’s European signatories of failing to come up with a way to shield the Islamic Republic from US sanctions.
The Iran nuclear deal is not up for renegotiation, and Tehran is prepared to fully return to its terms and to scale back its nuclear activities if other parties are willing to fulfil their commitments, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh has indicated.
“Certainly, the JCPOA is a framework. We have negotiated it once and reached a framework that cannot be renegotiated and we are committed to it,” Khatibzadeh said in an interview with Hamshahri, a major Iranian national newspaper.
The US, the spokesman said, “outrageously violated” UN Security Council Resolution 2231 to endorse the JCPOA by unilaterally withdrawing from the treaty, “both by refraining from implementing its own commitments and preventing other signatories from fulfilling theirs.”
Other parties to the treaty, “especially” the UK, France, and Germany, also violated their commitments to the agreement by failing to shield Tehran from US sanctions pressure, Khatibzadeh added.
“If the day comes [when other parties begin fulfilling their commitments] we will rewind the steps we have taken to reduce our commitments within the framework of the JCPOA, which are reversible,” the spokesman emphasised.
Commenting on the Biden team’s repeated hints about rejoining the agreement, Khatibzadeh suggested that moves in this direction are an admission of the wrongheadedness of US policy.
“The US policy of ‘maximum pressure’ was a major setback for the United States. Whoever is in the White House has no choice but to correct this path,” he said. Accusing the “Trump regime” of having a “morbid obsession with Iran and the goal of confronting Iran,” Khatibzadeh said this policy has reached a state of “maximum defeat.”…”
Germany: Iran deal opportunity “must not be wasted” says Maas
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said “we are standing at a crossroads” concerning the Iran nuclear deal amid indications that the US might be returning to the agreement under its new president. The comments were made in Berlin on Monday, following a video conference with the remaining signatories of the Iran nuclear deal.
“The newly elected US President (Joe Biden) has made it clear that he is prepared to return the US to the JCPOA if Iran resumes its commitments. Therefore we stand at a crossroads today,” Maas said.
“The next few weeks and months will determine whether the deal can be rescued or not,” he added.
Maas stressed that the continued existence of the deal is testament to the “huge effort by the Europeans and by the other participants in the JCPOA in the past few years.”
“The opportunity that is offered now, this last window of opportunity, must not be wasted. We made that very clear today to Iran in particular,” he stressed.
Maas also commented on reports of a COVID-19 mutation in the UK amid a recent spike in infections. “We still do not have conclusive information with which to make a final assessment, but we must be careful,” he stated.
“We have, like many others European states, taken immediate measures over the weekend to prevent the uncontrolled introduction of this mutated virus” he added in reference to the closure of borders to travellers from the UK.
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SOT, Heiko Maas, German Foreign Minister (German): “Since the US withdrew in March 2018, the agreement has been in a downward spiral, and there is no avoiding that, and it is sustained by a strategy of maximum pressure of the current US foreign administration on the one hand, but it is also especially fed by serious violations of the deal by Iran on the other hand.”
SOT, Heiko Maas, German Foreign Minister (German): “The fact that we still have an agreement which can today be used as a basis for discussions is the result of a huge effort by the Europeans and by the other participants in the JCPOA in the past few years. It is now time to look ahead. The newly elected US President (Joe Biden) has made it clear that he is prepared to return the US to the JCPOA if Iran resumes its commitments. Therefore we stand at a crossroads today. The next few weeks and months will determine whether the deal can be rescued or not.”
SOT, Heiko Maas, German Foreign Minister (German): “In order fora reconciliation to become possible under Biden, there must be no more of the technical manoeuvres that we have frequently observed in recent times. They would achieve nothing but a further undermining of the deal. The opportunity that is offered now, this last window of opportunity, must not be wasted. We made that very clear today to Iran in particular.”
SOT, Heiko Maas, German Foreign Minister (German): “Ultimately, we saw over the weekend that the British government had announced a substantially changed risk assessment, which of course will also have consequences for us, especially if air traffic continues. We still do not have conclusive information with which to make a final assessment, but we must be careful. And what we have done is to take the first steps in this direction. We have, like many others European states, taken immediate measures over the weekend to prevent the uncontrolled introduction of this mutated virus.”
I post from ZH in this instance only because it gives comprehensive market info.
This is how you play this fiddle. Word comes out of a “mutant” strain of Covid-19. Market goes hysterical. This empowers lockdown mania–Christmas is cancelled and beyond. Companies without sufficient liquid assets WILL NOT survive this next round.
I don’t give a shit if a mutant strain exists, or not. It’s the same as getting into the weeds with someone over Covid-19 vaccine safety. The bug doesn’t merit a special vaccine in the first place, so don’t yammer on about its safety, as I don’t appreciate new scaremongering over attack of the mutant.
What is this a ’50’s sci-fi?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/futures-crater-mutant-virus-panic-energy-tumbles-uk-quarantine
I think the puppet master works particularly well:
https://youtu.be/alkUUHC-t_Y
Tier Four until EASTER: ‘Professor Lockdown’ Neil Ferguson warns draconian measures may be needed for months (dailymail, Dec 21, 2020)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9074765/Professor-Lockdown-Neil-Ferguson-warns-Tier-Four-needed-Easter.html
Russian scientist ‘working on Covid-19 vaccine’ falls to his death from 14th floor window ‘in his underwear after being stabbed’ in latest mysterious violent death linked to coronavirus (dailymail, Dec 21, 2020)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9074747/Russian-scientist-falls-death-window-stabbed-latest-mysterious-death.html
Social media blitz to warn migrants against UK voyage (telegraph, Dec 21, 2020)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/21/social-media-blitz-warn-migrants-against-uk-voyage/
“Channel migrants are to be warned to remain where they are in Home Office social media posts “geo-targeted” at them in France….”
Pakistan warns India against ‘false flag’ attacks in Kashmir (abcnews, Dec 21, 2020)
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pakistan-warns-india-false-flag-attacks-kashmir-74837842
“Pakistan’s military was on high alert in Kashmir on Monday as its prime minister warned India against carrying out any “false flag” operations in the disputed region after a U.N. vehicle in the Pakistan-held part came under attack.
Pakistan blamed Friday’s attack on India, implying it was aimed at embarrassing Islamabad and harming relations with the international community. India has denied the allegations. The two U.N. observers in the vehicle escaped unharmed.
“I am making absolutely clear to the (international) community that if India was to be reckless enough to conduct a false flag operation against Pakistan, it would confront a strong national Pakistani resolve & be given a befitting response at all levels of the threat. Make no mistake,” Prime Minister Imran Khan tweeted Sunday.
Pakistan says the attack on the U.N. vehicle was deliberate, as such vehicles are clearly marked and “recognizable even from long distances.”
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said it had “credible information that India was planning to stage a ‘false flag’ attack to divert attention from its domestic difficulties, and create justification for another misadventure against Pakistan.”
“If that were to happen, Pakistan will exercise its right to self-defense,” it said in a letter to the U.N.
The U.N. confirmed Friday’s incident and said it was being investigated…”
https://www.americasfrontlinedoctors.com/americas-frontline-doctors-urge-opposition-to-experimental-vaccine-mandates-prescribe-caution-more-transparency/
America’s Frontline Doctors Urge Opposition to Experimental Vaccine Mandates, Prescribe Caution, More Transparency
December 15, 2020 |
America’s Frontline Doctors Urge Opposition to Experimental Vaccine Mandates, Prescribe Caution, More Transparency
Results of Investigation Show More Study is Needed, Experimental Mandates Unethical
Atlanta, GA – America’s Frontline Doctors (AFLDS) joined host organization Alveda King Ministries to caution policy makers and Americans about the risks of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine. AFLDS member-physicians presented their findings in a position paper following a lengthy investigation into the data and methods employed by federal health regulators at the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The preliminary findings indicate that greater transparency from federal researchers and additional study are needed before average Americans are asked to embark on the largest medical experimentation program in US history. AFLDS and its hosts expressed concerns regarding prioritization by the federal government based on race in light of historical injustices carried out against black Americans and other ethnic minorities during previous public health crises. Both sides have agreed to a framework of five topline statements which ought to guide COVID-19 vaccine development and implementation going forward:
This document represents the preliminary findings of an investigation conducted by the member-physicians at America’s Frontline Doctors. More research into the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness, including questions about pathogenic priming resulting in sudden severe cytokine storm and possible fertility side effects in women of childbearing age, is necessary.
We are recommending caution for patients and policy makers. Additional transparency and more research are needed before we ask average Americans to embark on the largest medical experimentation program and contact-tracing model in US history.
We ask our public health agencies to avoid prioritization based on race. A doctor should be allowed to use his or her own judgment in consultation with the patient. Opt-out policies, including no mandates from any private or public sources, must be continued with the experimental vaccine, just as they have with previous fully licensed inoculations. Furthermore, the CDC’s tiers of prioritization place seniors not residing in long-term-care facilities last in line for immunization, even though the data tell us that nearly 80% percent of US deaths have occurred among those 70 and older.
This cautionary approach must void any vaccination mandates at the local, state and federal levels, whether public or private. Mandates must be void as a matter of public policy. Coercion to take an experimental biological agent cannot ever be justified on scientific grounds.
Commercial pressures also potentially pose a threat to privacy and other civil liberties, and policy makers should proceed with caution. Ordinary Americans should not be compelled to sign up for a “vaccine passport” or similar mandate just to travel on an airplane or see a concert with friends. The potential for third-party abuse of private health information, as well as our freedom of movement and association, remains too high.
Simone Gold, MD, JD, and Founder of America’s Frontline Doctors, said: “The accelerated rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine is an admirable example of public-private cooperation in the interest of public health. Impressive logistical features aside, the vaccination program itself should be approached with caution. Vaccination mandates at the state, local, and private level are incompatible with civil liberties and subject millions of Americans to an experimental drug.
“For this reason and more, America’s Frontline Doctors is asking regulators to open up the process to additional public comment and transparency before millions more doses are manufactured and administered. We are not anti-vaccination; in fact, every member-physician contributing to this position paper has been immunized. However, we cannot expect ordinary Americans to sacrifice their constitutionally protected rights and, possibly, their health for an experimental vaccine that has not demonstrated its safety and effectiveness using the same rigorous scientific standards we demand of other drugs.
“We are therefore counseling caution among patients and their prescribing physicians and calling on the federal government to take these safety concerns seriously before administering the largest vaccination program in our country’s history.”
A copy of the AFLDS position paper is available here.
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Download their position paper. Very good for 1 stop shop for info on Covid and how vaccines work, especially every vaccine for coronvirus over the decades. Let me know if the info in this paper is proven wrong by someone.
The key supporting effort appears to be underway on Trump’s operational timeline – Liberty Unyielding
J.E. Dyer
19-24 minutes
The key supporting effort appears to be underway on Trump’s operational timeline
A big indicator appeared on Saturday, in a guise that may be a bit esoteric: a report that defense officials are pushing a proposal to split U.S. Cyber Command off from the National Security Agency, where the two have operated under a dual-hatted commander, the Director of NSA, since 2009.
Events are moving too fast to get bogged down in a lot of detail on the threads running through them. What’s important to understand is that this development is a connection between (a) the early days of Spygate, (b) the massive SolarWinds “hack,” (c) the major personnel moves at the Pentagon right after the November election, and – almost certainly – (d) the widespread indicators of electronic vote-tampering in the election itself.
Those who’ve been following along with the analysis of Trump’s post-election operation recognize the headline reference to the “key supporting effort,” from my 4 December article outlining it. The key supporting effort is an adjunct to Trump’s main effort to, in effect, cure the 2020 vote and restore law and order to America.
https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/12/21/the-key-supporting-effort-appears-to-be-underway-on-trumps-operational-timeline/
Download their position paper. Very good for 1 stop shop for info on Covid and how vaccines work, especially every vaccine for coronvirus over the decades. Let me know if the info in this paper is proven wrong by someone.
Black Lives Matter group invades ‘Candy Cane Lane’ — streets decorated with Christmas lights to benefit children with cancer — with protest march
by Dave Urbanski – December 21, 2020
https://www.theblaze.com/news/blm-group-invades-candy-cane
Candy Cane Lane
http://candycanelanewi.com/about.php
TPR- Day 204- MERRY CHRISTMAS CANDY CANE LN
Important Announcement! Major Channel Update
Trump: ‘Very close’ to successful election challenge; Congress to vote on $900B stimulus pkg | NTD
This is aimed at Congress as much as at the Supreme Court, the Court can deny the suit but the members of Congress are watching and may decide on their own.
Gravitas: Christmas season arrives in Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom put up beautiful Hannuka tweets for 8 nights! Elegant white candles on green background. Best wishes in Hebrew, Arabic, and English.
Xi Jinping is making sure that China doesn’t see the rise of another Jack Ma
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China Becomes Belligerent, Australia Fights Back
China wants to bring Huawei back to life. Spy over Guam island. On World’s Bank’s money
CHRISTMAS IS CANCELLED
SMIC ban breaks China’s back and kills any chances of a comeback
Gravitas: Bolsonaro sceptic on Vaccine side-effects
Gravitas: Christmas is cancelled in the United Kingdom
Gravitas: Decoding Japan’s $51.7 billion defence budget
Kazuko said they really miss Shinzo Abe, but Mr. Suga is following his blueprint. Japan’s definitely decoupling from China, though it’s a painful process. (Doing a much better job of it than India, she says.)
The Manchurian Prez was responsible for getting that despicable leftist squish, Moon Jae-in, elected President in South Korea. A duplicitous appeaser, just awful.
They see our election as a done deal. Grim reality they’ve got to accommodate. Like India and Israel.
I keep praying that it’s not a done deal but part of me is afraid that it is, Flynn said that our allies are giving Trump evidence of vote fraud and foreign interference in the election so we may have a chance to convince Congress to act. If they do Trump will be President but I’m not sure who the Senate will pick for VP.
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-big-thaw-how-russia-could-dominate-a-warming-world?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Look at what greeted me when I turned on Firefox today. What utter BS. Has there ever been an age when virtually all the issues of the day are entirely made of hoaxes and lies? The way they state these “facts” about climate change, oblivious to the actual fact that there hasn’t been any since the 20th century. The way they scream “crisis!!!” and say we will see the greatest migration of humans in all of history. It’s all lies. So was the Russia hoax. So is gluten intolerance. So is systemic racism. So is the pandemic. So is Black Lives Matter. So is rape culture in the universities. So is pay inequity between men and women. So is the patriarchy. So is widespread gender dysphoria. I’m so sick of it. There are, believe it or not, a few real problems on earth but you never hear about those anymore for all the absolute deluge of sheer BS…!
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ravitas: 2020 just got worse
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Why the World’s Doing a Double-Take on China’s No-New-Infections Claim | RealClearInvestigations
By Richard Bernstein, RealClearInvestigationsMarch 25, 2020
9-12 minutes
China’s announcement this month of nearly a week of no new infections in Wuhan, the hard-hit city where the coronavirus pandemic originated, was both hope-inspiring — and hard to believe.
Medical professionals said the draconian set of policies imposed by the Chinese government – including widespread testing, isolation of all infected people and anyone they came in contact with – are proven methods for limiting contagion. Other countries, South Korea and Taiwan, for example, have followed similar courses, and they have also reported steep declines in new infections, though neither says it has achieved no new local infections, as China claims.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/03/25/doing_a_double-take_on_chinas_no-new-infection_claim_122944.html?mc_cid=8b0692f010&mc_eid=c4a952ab77
A 2020 Booklist
by Diana West – December 12, 2020
https://dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/4118/A-2020-Booklist.aspx
“The Invisible Rainbow” by Arthur Firstenberg
https://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/
ARTHUR FIRSTENBERG – THE EVIDENCE MOUNTS
May 6, 2020
https://www.5gexposed.com/2020/05/06/arthur-firstenberg-the-evidence-mounts/
5G in the UK: everything you need to know
by John McCann – October 13, 2020
https://www.techradar.com/news/5g-uk
“Johnson imposes tougher Covid-19 rules for England over Christmas as more contagious strain spreads”
News Wires – December 19, 2020
Excerpt:
London and southeast England – about a third of the English population – are currently in the highest level of a three-tier system of rules and will now be placed in a new Tier 4 level.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20201219-johnson-imposes-tougher-covid-19-rules-for-england-over-christmas-as-more-contagious-strain-spreads
5G UK Coverage map
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=10t8f9g5OIekEKeh_Qa-9wHUDn1VIpuGI&ll=53.89961599494456%2C-2.3803278000000283&z=6
Arthur Firstenberg – “The Invisible Rainbow” – The Hidden Dangers of Wireless & Cell Phone Radiation
Streets of Vancouver – July 19, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyfa454Akm0
The Invisible Rainbow – Arthur Firstenberg & Ashley James – #445
Learn True Health Podcast with Ashley James – October 4, 2020
Beijing ‘Substantially Involved’ in US 2020 Election, China Analyst Says
By Isabel van Brugen
December 21, 2020 Updated: December 21, 2020
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Beijing was “substantially involved” in the U.S. 2020 elections on multiple levels, according to China analyst Gordon Chang, who has described the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) infiltration of American “elite” circles as an “espionage emergency.”
“I think China clearly interfered,” Chang, the author of “The Coming Collapse of China,” told NTD’s Focus News.
Chang, who has spent decades studying China and writing about the threat of the CCP, explained how leading up to the Nov. 3 presidential election, the trend of Chinese propaganda was that former Vice President Joe Biden should receive the Democratic Party nomination over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). State propaganda later favored Biden over President Donald Trump, Chang said.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/beijing-substantially-involved-in-us-2020-election-china-analyst_3626810.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2020-12-21-3
Beijing ‘Substantially Involved’ in US 2020 Election, China Analyst Says
By Isabel van Brugen
December 21, 2020 Updated: December 21, 2020
biggersmaller Print
Beijing was “substantially involved” in the U.S. 2020 elections on multiple levels, according to China analyst Gordon Chang, who has described the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) infiltration of American “elite” circles as an “espionage emergency.”
“I think China clearly interfered,” Chang, the author of “The Coming Collapse of China,” told NTD’s Focus News.
Chang, who has spent decades studying China and writing about the threat of the CCP, explained how leading up to the Nov. 3 presidential election, the trend of Chinese propaganda was that former Vice President Joe Biden should receive the Democratic Party nomination over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). State propaganda later favored Biden over President Donald Trump, Chang said.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/beijing-substantially-involved-in-us-2020-election-china-analyst_3626810.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2020-12-21-3
Sen. Ted Cruz: Anyone ‘Involved in Voter Fraud’ Should Be Prosecuted, Jailed
By Jack Phillips
December 21, 2020 Updated: December 21, 2020
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told voters in Georgia that anyone who is involved in voter fraud should be jailed and prosecuted.
“We are fighting together to defend the nation we love,” the Texas senator said in a rally in Savannah on Saturday. “Let me tell what we also need to do. It is time to end voter fraud. It is time to expose voter fraud. It is time to take anyone who was involved in voter fraud and prosecute them and put them in jail.”
He added, “Our democracy matters. Our Constitution matters. Our Bill of Rights matters. America matters. And the state of Georgia will rise to defend the United States of America.”
Cruz was in Georgia to rally support for Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, who are vying for two Senate seats against Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/sen-ted-cruz-anyone-involved-in-voter-fraud-should-be-prosecuted-jailed_3627527.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2020-12-21-3
Medical Ethics ‘Expert’ Says Unvaccinated Persons Should Be Denied Healthcare for COVID-19 – Big League Politics
Published 1 day ago on Dec 20, 2020 By Shane Trejo
4-5 minutes
A prominent German medical ethicist is recommending for individuals who refuse the COVID-19 vaccine to be denied access to basic healthcare.
Human geneticist Wolfram Henn, who serves on Germany’s Ethics Council, made the remark during a recent interview with the Bild newspaper.
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“Whoever wants to refuse the vaccination outright, he should, please also always carry a document with the inscription: ‘I don’t want to be vaccinated!’” said Henn. “I want to leave the protection against the disease to others! I want, if I get sick, to leave my intensive care bed and ventilator to others.”
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/medical-ethics-expert-says-unvaccinated-persons-should-be-denied-healthcare-for-covid-19/
A prominent German medical ethicist…
…should probably STFU.
Why Did So Many Doctors Become Nazis?
In the answer, and its consequences, a bioethicist finds moral lessons for today’s professional healer
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/history/articles/fernandes-doctors-who-became-nazis
The Plot to Steal America
Illegal Gold Mining Funding Armed Groups in Sahel: Interpol
https://www.thedefensepost.com/2020/12/21/illegal-mining-armed-groups-sahel/
“Several “suspected terrorists” were arrested and more than 40,000 sticks of dynamite and detonator cords for illegal gold mining — a new source of funding for armed groups in the Sahel — were seized in a joint operation with the UN, Interpol said on Monday.
Jointly coordinated by Interpol and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the seven-day Operation KAFO II targeted smuggling hotspots at airports, seaports, and land borders in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali, and Niger.
Officers also seized dozens of firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
The operation was aimed at disrupting the trafficking networks used to supply “terrorists” across West Africa and the Sahel, Interpol said.
“Trafficking in firearms is a lucrative business which, in turn, fuels and funds other types of serious crimes,” said Interpol Secretary General Jurgen Stock. “Operation KAFO II shows the need to connect the dots between crime cases involving firearms and terrorists across different countries.”
Interpol said another new trend highlighted by the operation was the large quantities of contraband gasoline seized in Niger and Mali.
“It is believed the fuel came from Nigeria, and was trafficked to both finance and supply Al-Qaeda and its affiliates.”
It added that illegal gold mining, in addition to being a source of funding for armed groups, was also being used as a recruitment ground.
Against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic, officers also seized large quantities of contraband hand sanitizer gel, gloves, and drugs.”
America’s Frontline Doctors
Position Paper On COVID-19
Experimental Vaccines
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. COVID-19: Policy Myths……………………………………………………………….1
II. COVID-19 Medical Myths: Low Infection Fatality Ratio (IFR)………………………7
III. COVID-19 Experimental Vaccines Trials…………………………………………….8
IV. COVID-19 Experimental Vaccines Controversies…………………………………..10
Brand New Technology
Failure of Previous Coronavirus Vaccines
No Animal Studies
Known Complications
Unknown Complications
Pharmaceutical Companies are Immune from Liability
An Experimental Vaccine is Not Safer than a Very Low IFR
No Proof the Vaccine Stops Transmission of the Virus
Unknown Mortality or Hospital Admission Benefit
The Vaccine Lasts Unknown Duration
The Data Has Not Been Independently Peer-Reviewed & Published
V. EXPERIMENTAL COVID-19 Vaccines………………………………………….….14
VI. COVID-19 Experimental Vaccines & Antibody- Enhancement…………………….15
VII. COVID-19 Experimental Vaccines & Other Known Problems…………………….18
VIII. COVID-19 Experimental Vaccines & Other Unknown or New Problems………..20
IX. Pharmaceutical Companies Conflict of Interests………………………………….…22
X. Experimental Vaccines & Legal Issues for Patients .…………………………………22
XI. COVID-19 Experimental Vaccines & Unusual Processes…..………………………24
XII. AFLDS Recommendations Regarding Experimental Covid-19 Vaccines……….…29
XIII. Call To Action………………………………………………………………………30
“At first glance, all three trials appear very large with considerably higher enrollment than
most Phase III trials, which typically range between 300 and 3,000 participants. Notably,
however, there are actually very few participants who received the vaccine AND developed
COVID-19. While this may (or may not) imply that the vaccine is effective, the much
bigger problem is that it tells us almost nothing about how exposure to COVID-19 affects
people who receive the vaccine. For example, in the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna trials,
only 8 and 11 vaccinated participants, respectively, developed COVID-19.
This is an alarmingly small number when taking into consideration the novelty of SARS-
CoV-2 and the possibility of the adverse effect known as pathogenic priming, which has
been seen repeatedly with prior coronavirus vaccines.
Pathogenic priming includes the deleterious effect of antibody-dependent enhancement
(ADE) whereby a vaccine or reinfection could result in a more severe or lethal disease,
should the person become infected with SARS-CoV-2 in the wild. This phenomenon has
been well-documented with prior vaccines. The most recent terrible headlines related to
this was a vaccine for Dengue f Persons who received the vaccine and then encountered the
virus in the wild suffered worse outcomes at an alarming rate. This is why the Dengue
vaccine (“Dengvaxia”) was only approved for very restricted use by the FDA—despite
years of active research and development. In the Philippines, the former head of the
Dengue department of the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) was indicted in
2019 by the Department of Justice for “reckless imprudence resulting [in] homicide,”
because they “facilitated, with undue haste,” Dengvaxia’s approval and its rollout among
Philippine schoolchildren.
The antibody-dependent enhancement effect in the COVID-19 Experimental Vaccines will
be further discussed in Section VI. But what is clear is that the Phase III trials from Pfizer,
Moderna and AstraZeneca provide little to no insight into ADE and Vaccine-Associated Hypersensitivity (VAH). Not only is the sample size of vaccinated participants who
developed COVID-19 very small, but, based on the information publicly available, it is
unknown which strains of SARS-CoV-2 afflicted the participants in the trials.
IV. COVID-19 Experimental Vaccines Controversies:
Scientists have the same concerns for the experimental vaccines as for all drugs. Is the
proposed treatment safe and is it effective.
Safety Concerns Regarding the Experimental COVID-19 Vaccines
1. Brand New Technology.
No vaccine based on messenger RNA has ever been approved for any disease, or even
entered final-stage trials until now, so there’s no peer-reviewed published human data to
compare how mRNA stacks up against older technologies. How well mRNA vaccines will
actually prevent COVID-19 remains unknown. This new technology is less stable than
older technologies, for example, requiring deep freezing temperatures up to negative 70
degrees Celsius for Pfizer’s vaccine. This differs from other vaccines that are typically kept
in ordinary refrigerators. Recently a vaccine candidate had to be halted because test
subjects has ‘false positive’ HIV test results – in other words, unexpected things must be
expected with brand new experimental technology.
2. Failure of Previous Coronavirus Vaccines.
Despite trying for decades, scientists have never been able to create a successful
coronavirus vaccine. Whenever they think they have, the experimental coronavirus vaccine
has failed and animals who got the experimental vaccine died.
3. No Independently Published Animal Studies.
Most other previous vaccines have performed and published results on animal studies prior
to giving to humans. This is critical because deadly effects are often not seen until this step.
Most scientists believe that human death is inevitable if there are no prior peer-reviewed
animal studies. It is believed this is why strong vaccine advocates Dr. Offut and Hotez have
not warmly endorsed the current speed of widely releasing the experimental vaccines.
4. Known Complications.
One of the known complications of vaccines is something called immune enhancement.
One type of immune enhancement is known as Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE).
This is a process where a virus leverages antibodies to aid infection. In short, the anti-
COVID antibodies, stimulated by a vaccine, amplify the infection rather than prevent its
damage. This paradoxical reaction has been seen repeatedly in other vaccines and animal
development trials especially with coronavirus vaccine trials.
Other known complications of vaccines include neurological diseases such as transverse
myelitis, Bells’ Palsy multiple sclerosis, and Guillain-Barre. For example, in 1976 the
government attempted a mass vaccination of the population with a newly created Swine Flu
vaccine. The vaccination program was aborted after about 450 people came down with
Guillain-Barre. The extremely limited COVID-19 vaccine data already has at least two transverse myelitis cases and four Bell’s Palsy cases that may be linked to vaccination..
5. Unknown Complications.
There are entire populations for whom we don’t know the data. For example, we have no
knowledge of the immune response in vaccinated individuals who later contract the
disease, and we also do not know the effects in vaccinated individuals with waning
immunity. We do not know the effects on the elderly. We do not know the effect on the
pregnant or soon to be pregnant. There is no actual data at all for an enormous percentage
of the population, probably more than half.
Just by the mere fact that these trials were launched within the past six months, we cannot
know of any long-term effects or interactions with other viruses such as influenza or the
seasonal cold, especially considering that two of the vaccines nearest to public distribution
take an entirely novel approach with mRNA.
The mechanism of action of the experimental mRNA vaccines includes a possible auto-
immune rejection of the placenta. In layman’s terms, the vaccine may permanently interfere
with a woman’s ability to maintain a pregnancy. The vaccine companies themselves
acknowledge the possibility of ill effects on a pregnancy on the vaccine bottle, which says
the following: “it is unknown whether COVID-19 mRNA VaccineBNT162b2 has an impact
on fertility. And women of childbearing age are advised to avoid pregnancy for at least two
months after their second dose.”
6. Pharmaceuticals are Immune from All Liability.
The same companies (and executives) that profit from this vaccine are immune from
liability. In 1986, Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA). It
provides immunity from liability to all vaccine manufacturing companies. With COVID-19
experimental vaccine, AstraZeneca goes even further in acknowledging that this is an
emergency situation and requested no liability from the EU. “This is a unique situation
where we as a company simply cannot take the risk if in … four years the vaccine is
showing side effects,” Ruud Dobber, a member of Astra’s senior executive team, told
Reuters.
7. An Experimental Vaccine Is Not Safer Than a Very Low IFR.
The IFR was always known to be very low for the young and healthy middle aged, and it
has now been shown to be extraordinarily low. We are getting better and better at treating
COVID-19: the death rate in terms of population continues to fall, hospital stays for
COVID-19 get shorter and hospital mortality from COVID-19 plummets.
Questions Regarding the Effectiveness of the COVID-19 Experimental Vaccines
1. No Proof the Vaccine Stops Transmission of the Virus.
The trial data on the vaccinations released so far has not addressed the issue of
transmission of the virus. That is, the efficacy data is primarily based on symptoms, not on
transmission. Could the vaccine create asymptomatic carriers that can unknowingly
transmit the virus? The scientists are very upfront about the fact that they don’t know if the vaccine even stops the spread of the virus! Dr. Corey who oversees the vaccine trials for the
NIH COVID-10 Prevention Network says: “the studies aren’t designed to assess
transmission. They don’t ask that question and there’s really no information on this at this
point in time.”
2. Unknown Mortality or Hospital Admission Benefit.
Currently the pharmaceutical companies believe that their first COVID-19 vaccines are
~95% effective. Pharmaceutical companies typically believe their vaccinations are more
effective than they actually are. For example, CDC data show that the influenza vaccine
was 38% effective in 2017-18, 20% in 2018-19, and 39% in 2019-20 even though its
efficacy was expected to be much higher when it was first introduced in 1938. Even if the
COVID-19 vaccine is really 95% effective in the real world, the survival rate of those
contracting the disease is already so much higher than that. If you are less than 70 years old
you have a 99.5% chance of survival, if you are less than 50 years old you have a 99.98%
chance of survival, and if you are less than 20 years old, you have a 99.997% chance of
survival.
Notably, the vaccine trials had too few positive cases to assess with statistical significance
any benefit in secondary outcomes such as decreased mortality or hospitalization. (ref:
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4037)
3. The Vaccine Lasts Unknown Duration.
We know very little about the longevity of the immunity acquired for COVID-19 from
natural infections or from the vaccines. Will the vaccination give long lasting immunity or
will another vaccination be needed next year? Recent studies have shown that the body’s
immune response to the virus, as measured in levels of antibodies and T-cells, tends to
wane over time. “We don’t know how long immunity lasts,” said Akiko Iwasaki, professor
of immunobiology at Yale University. We have no lasting immunity from influenza, for
example, because the virus is constantly mutating, we are required to get a new shot each
year. Pharmaceutical companies and researchers guess that the COVID-19 vaccine should
be annual, but with little scientific basis for this timeline.
V. COVID-19 Experimental Vaccines
Precise language is an important way to combat disinformation. There are no COVID-19
vaccines. The correct terminology is that there are experimental COVID-19 vaccines, also
known as investigational COVID-19 vaccines. Multiple types of vaccines are being tried;
here is an overview of the categories. The ones closest to mass distribution are the mRNA
vaccines.
One reason we must call this what it is, which is experimental, is because the American
public has been primed to receive this biological agent simply because the word
experimental has gone missing. Almost no normal person would volunteer to be the first to
receive an experimental drug unless they were very sick and there were no alternatives.
With COVID-19 the vast majority of people do not get very sick, and there are many alternative treatments. We must insist on using the correct language of experimental
vaccine.
The other reason we must call this what it is, experimental, is because having an
experimental status has important legal implications. These agents are being distributed
under an EUA (emergency use authorization) which determines how future harm to patients
will be compensated.
Note the language the Pharmaceutical company uses in its December 10, 2020 Advisory
Report to the FDA. We must use the same language but not all Americans know or
understand the word “investigational.” ”
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Iran Rejects New UN Report over Nuclear Violations
https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/2695516/iran-rejects-new-un-report-over-nuclear-violations
“Iran’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi rejected in a letter the recent report by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on the Security Council Resolution 2231 that supports the nuclear deal reached with major powers.
Guterres urged Iran to address concerns raised about its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and return to “full implementation” of its 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPAO).
In the report, obtained by The Associated Press earlier in December, the UN chief expressed regret that the US administration withdrew from the agreement in 2018 and re-imposed sanctions against Tehran, and at Iran’s 2019 decision to violate limits in the deal including on centrifuges and enriching uranium.
However, in reaction to the report, Ravanchi said Iran’s reduction of its nuclear commitments was a result of the other parties’ violation of the deal.
He also said that INSTEX – the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges – must prove its efficiency after two years.
INSTEX was established by Europe two years ago as a mechanism to facilitate legitimate trade with Iran.
Ravanchi further called on Guterres and the UN Security Council to “explicitly” condemn the assassinations of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh and Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani.
Remarkably, Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium is more than 2.4 tonnes, 12 times the cap set by the deal.
Iran has been enriching uranium up to 4.5% purity, above the deal’s 3.67% limit though below the 20% it achieved before the deal.
Iran is enriching uranium in places where it is not allowed under the deal, such as at Fordow, a site dug into a mountain.
More recently it has started enriching with advanced centrifuges at its underground plant at Natanz, where the deal says it can use only first-generation IR-1 machines.”
Tunisia Militants Behead Shepherd Near Algeria Border
https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/2695631/tunisia-militants-behead-shepherd-near-algeria-border
“Radical militants kidnapped and beheaded a young shepherd in mountains in Tunisia near the border with Algeria on Sunday, security sources and residents said.
Troops found the body of Okba Dhouibi after he had been seized by militants, the sources said.
Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi said that act would not go unpunished.
Tunisian forces are carrying out operations in the Kasserine and Saloum mountain range to flush out Ajned Kilafha militants allied to ISIS.
Militans linked to Al Qaeda and ISIS groups have been sheltering for years in the desolate, hilly terrain along a stretch of the border with Algeria and sometimes clash with security forces there, but the threat is regarded as having been contained.”
Turkish court sentences former pro-Kurdish MP to 22 years in jail
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20201221-turkish-court-sentences-former-pro-kurdish-mp-to-22-years-in-jail/
“A Turkish court on Monday sentenced a former pro-Kurdish lawmaker who was stripped of her parliamentary status earlier this year to more than 22 years in jail on three separate terrorism charges, according to court documents seen by Reuters.
Leyla Guven of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), along with two other opposition lawmakers, lost her status in June after a conviction was finalised in a separate trial that ruled she was a member of a terrorist organisation.
Ankara’s Western allies and rights groups condemned that move, seen as part of a broader government crackdown in which thousands of HDP officials and members have been arrested and dozens of its mayors and lawmakers unseated in recent years.
In the latest sentencing on Monday, Guven was given 14 years and three months in jail on another charge of membership of a terrorist organisation, and an additional eight years for two separate charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda.
The opposition has accused President Tayyip Erdogan and his AK Party of seeking to quash dissent by jailing opposition members and critics since a 2016 failed coup. The government has said its actions are justified by threats facing the country…”
Turkey deports 2 Syrians over suspected Daesh ties
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20201221-turkey-deports-2-syrians-over-suspected-daesh-ties/
“Turkey deported two Syrian nationals suspected of links with the Daesh terror group, a security source said on Monday, reports Anadolu Agency.
Anti-terror police in the southwestern Denizli province conducted an operation against Daesh and arrested two Syrian nationals, said the source, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.
After they completed the necessary procedures at the police headquarters, the order of deportation was issued, the source added…”
67 Nepal migrant workers died in Qatar World Cup preparations
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20201221-67-nepal-migrant-workers-died-in-qatar-world-cup-preparations/
“Qatar faces new shocking figures as deaths of Nepalese migrant workers ahead of the 2022 World Cup are at their highest level for at least three years, Sportsmail revealed.
According to Sportsmail’s report, just two years before from the World Cup final, figures shows 67 Nepalese migrants died in Qatar between 16 July and 15 November.
Nepal’s Foreign Employment Promotion Board (FEPB) also revealed that 104 deaths were registered in the year from 16 July 2019 to 15 July 2020.
The current death tolls for this year put figures on track to reach 160 by mid-July 2021, as the human toll among the Gulf state’s second-largest migrant community has increased despite promises of reform in response to a global backlash over worker fatalities, the report says.
There are currently over 400,000 Nepalese citizens residing and working in the State of Qatar.”
90% of Syria families in Lebanon living in extreme poverty, says UN
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20201221-90-of-syria-families-in-lebanon-living-in-extreme-poverty-says-un/
“Nine of ten Syrian refugee families in Lebanon are living in extreme poverty, a United Nations (UN) report published on Friday said.
The report warned nearly 89 per cent will be struggling to fulfil their most basic needs by the end of the year, up from 55 per cent in 2019.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the World Food Programme and the Children’s Fund (Unicef) blamed Lebanon’s economic crisis, currency collapse, the coronavirus pandemic, and Beirut blast for the rapid downturn.
Mireille Girard, UNHCR Representative for Lebanon, was quoted as saying: “The consecutive crises have affected all communities in Lebanon – Lebanese, refugees, migrants, and other – and the most vulnerable are the hardest hit.”
“The situation of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has been deteriorating for years, but the finds of this year’s survey are a dramatic indication of how difficult it has become for them to make it through another day.”
Girard later warned Syrian refugee families in Lebanon could be “facing their hardest winter yet… braving the winter elements with very little to stay warm and safe.”
Lebanon plays host to an estimated 1.5 million Syrians, amounting to a quarter of the country’s entire population…”
Ex-Pakistani PM: Pakistan Supports Both Taliban, Al-Qaeda
https://www.khaama.com/former-pakistani-pm-taliban-still-tied-to-alqaeda-pakistan-facilitates-both-4545454/
“Veteran Pakistani politician and a former parliament member, Afrasiab Khattak, told 1TV news in an interview, that the Taliban are still being financed and trained by the Al-Qaeda militants.
He added Pakistan supports not only the Taliban but also Al-Qaeda in relations to gain their regional goals, adding that the Afghan conflict is “rooted outside the country,” 1TV news quoted Afrasiab…”
Afghan journalist Rahmatullah Nekzad killed near his home
https://www.dw.com/en/afghan-journalist-rahmatullah-nekzad-killed-near-his-home/a-56014510
“Rahmatullah Nekzad was shot dead by unknown assailants using a silenced pistol while walking to a nearby mosque. Nekzad had been head of the local Journalist’s Union.
The killing of prominent Afghan journalist Rahmatullah Nekzad draw strong condemnation in Afghanistan, with the country’s president Ashraf Ghani calling it a “terrorist attack.”
The reporter was killed while walking from his home to a nearby mosque on Monday. The shooters used a pistol equipped with a silencer to gun down Nekzad, a police spokesman told the AFP news agency.
Nekzad was head of the Ghazni Journalists’ Union who had he had worked on a freelance basis for the Associated Press news agency and the Al Jazeera broadcast network, according to the Afghan Journalists Safety Committee.
Arrested at various times by the United States, the Afghan government and Taliban insurgents, his peers said he prided himself in telling all sides of a story. He is survived by six children.
The Taliban denied involvement in the killing, calling it a cowardly attack. “We consider this killing a loss for the country,” said Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid. Currently, large swaths of Ghazni province remain under Taliban control.
However, the “Islamic State” militants have been linked to multiple attacks in recent months, including killings of journalists in Afghanistan…”
Top officials warn of potential civil war in France linked to mass immigration
https://rmx.news/article/article/top-officials-warn-of-potential-civil-war-in-france-linked-to-mass-immigration
“General Pierre de Villiers, who was chief of staff of the French Armed Forces before he resigned from the post at the beginning of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency, is the latest of a series of top officials in France who have warned against a looming civil war due to mass immigration.
In an interview with Le Parisien published on Dec. 5, General de Villiers said that he fears France “could fall slowly or very rapidly” into a “civil war” that could be ignited by “a spark like in 1789”. This time, however, problems are of a different nature. They are linked to the fact that France has become a country where “a teacher gets beheaded in front of a middle school and three persons are assassinated while praying in a church.”
According to de Villiers, it will take “three, four, or five generations” to solve France’s problems with its migrant population and “win back those 20-year-olds who hate France, and who are close to the local kingpins or the Salafist.”
France’s former chief of staff had already warned against the danger of a civil war in France during an interview on RTL radio in October.
“I don’t understand how we can put all French people on lockdown for eight weeks, and we can’t expel an imam who preaches against France all day long,” he said at the time. Talking about Islamic terrorism in France, De Villiers also said that he did not understand “why we do not regulate our immigration flows because each time — and we can observe this very well with these most recent terrorist attacks — they are foreigners who come to our country.”
Last year, President Emmanuel Macron himself alluded to the possibility of a civil war in France, which could be sparked by “confusions made between the issues of immigration, radicalization, communitarianism, and laicity.” Macron was reacting to a speech by the French philosopher and journalist Éric Zemmour at the “Convention of the Right.” In that speech, Zemmour had very harsh words against mass immigration and France being targeted by two totalitarian ideologies that have signaled a new kind of Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact: Islam and liberalism.
The French president was also reacting to several center-right opposition leaders referring to a “war of civilizations” on French territory and to radical Islam, or Islamism, acting like gangrene on French society.
In Macron’s eyes, France is sitting on a powder keg, and it looks like this would justify limiting freedom of expression in order to avoid an uncontrolled explosion. Macron’s reflexive urge to curb free speech appears to serve as implicit recognition that mass immigration and multiculturalism promoted by liberals will eventually lead, if not to civil war, then a least to a curb on freedoms enjoyed by Europeans.
French authorities now talk of the need for a “Republican Reconquista” in “districts lost by the Republic,” which are districts and cities inhabited by immigrants or their descendants. Many of these areas are no longer safe for women to walk in freely, with many of them facing verbal harassment and even assault for simply dressing a certain way.
In October 2018, when handing over his function as interior minister to Prime Minister Édouard Philippe after he had resigned because of deepening discrepancies with Emmanuel Macron, Gérard Collomb, a Socialist, talked of a ghettoization of migrant districts and warned: “Today we live side by side and, as I always say, I fear that tomorrow we will live face to face”.
In February of the same year, the then minister of the interior had told journalists from the Valeurs Actuelles conservative weekly how worried he was about the situation in France: “What I read every morning in police reports reflects a very pessimistic situation. Relations between people are very harsh, people don’t want to live together”.
“What is the share of responsibility of immigration?” the journalists then asked. “It’s enormous and this is why we wanted to change the law,” Collomb answered.
Reacting to the journalist’s remark that the bill he referred to was only about illegal immigration, while over 200,000 immigrants still come legally to France each year, Collomb assented: “This is true. We are acting step by step, but this remains a problem”. Some estimates put the total number of migrants entering France every year at 400,000, which Nicholas Bay, a deputy in Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party, has said is unsustainable.
The former French interior minister then went on to say that France does not need immigration anymore, that “communities in France fight against one another, and it’s becoming very violent.” He said that he fears a partition of the country or some sort of secession within parts of the country.
How much time is there left to stop that process? Valeurs Actuelles posed that question to Collomb in February 2018.
“It is hard to assess, but I would say that within five years the situation could become irreversible. Yes, we have five or six years left to avoid the worst,” he answered.
Macron’s predecessor in the Élysée, while presiding over the same kind of mass-immigration policies, also shared his fears of civil war while talking to journalists. His words come from a book published in 2016 with the title “A President Shouldn’t Say That”, and he has never denied them. In his talks with the two authors — journalists from left-wing, pro-immigration Le Monde — Hollande talked of “an accumulation of potential bombs linked to an immigration that is going on,” and to which most French people are opposed, as he acknowledged.
Hollande also talked of the ongoing “communitarization, segmentation, ethnicization” of France, and said, “I think there are too many arrivals of immigrants who should not be here.”
“How can we avoid a partition?” Hollande asked rhetorically. He then answered that “this is what is happening: a partition.””