As many as 100 “British” babies may have been born to ISIS brides in Syria during the recent jihad. The babies are awaiting repatriation to the UK with their mothers, who have British citizenship.
In other news, the center-right candidate supported by the Lega and Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini won yesterday’s regional election in Sardinia.
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Are Teachers Trained How to Break Your Child’s Will?
Our American children are being conditioned to blindly accept a planned global economy. That means American ideals as patriotism and love of country must be deleted from what is taught to our children. Traditional education and the definition of family must go. Competition and rugged individualism must be erased from their personalities. But how will the globalists stop parents from teaching American ideals to their children? Students will be challenged everyday at school. Psychological and conditioning techniques are being used in the classroom to instill a more docile, compliant global citizen that reflects team efforts, group goals, and empathy. A global citizen controls their emotions and a compliant global citizen doesn’t ask questions and does what they’re told. Parents are now “engaged” in their child’s education. They are going along, to get along.
Data in the new Census will be collected on every citizen. Every aspect of your life is recorded. (Data will NOT have to be collected door to door anymore, because the data will be collected electronically with the merging of all U.S. departments into one Census. An algorithm will be devised to compare inputs (cost) and outputs (wages) that will tally your human capital, worth to the economy.) This data will be evidence based and used by your government to be sure EVERYONE is in compliance in education, health, and work. (Source: HR 4174) Children will be molded from birth in the Womb To Workplace mold that the all knowing and all seeing government knows best. As the aging baby boomers die, a new set of values and beliefs will take their place. Compliance, obedience, and acceptance are the goals of social and emotional learning, SEL, and the techniques to determine “talent or abilities” are being scored in every school…
Key to this data mining reveals core personality traits and motivations that drive behavior. Personality traits are the target for change and the experimental research into eugenics in our American schools. (See Part 3 below.)
So, parents are told children need to have resilience and grit. They must control their emotions and fit into the group. Data will be collected on every child in which the teacher designs a personality profile. Universal screening under social and emotional learning leaves no child unscathed. (The target is UNIVERSAL for ALL students.) Every emotion and action (behavior) a child makes is reported. A personality profile is made with checks and remarks made about the decisions of “intervention” as needed beyond the universal conditioning for everyone. Re-cycling a child into more interventions would be needed if a child resists change in Tier 2 or Tier 3 interventions. This creates the uniform perfect specimen for the global workforce who thinks and acts in harmony.
Teachers are trained in fidelity by special education leaders. The definition is frightening:
“Delivering an intervention with fidelity means delivering it EXACTLY the way it was designed, and in the way it was IMPLEMENTED during research studies that have validated its effectiveness. Important components of fidelity include: content, dosage/schedule, and group size.
If a child is reluctant to the interventions, they are recycled and a second intervention is delivered with “greater intensity.”
[Comment: Highly recommended reading. Note that kids are getting physically ill over this traumatic communist indoctrination.]
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Chicago: Mayoral Race Tightening Up for the Front-Runners
CHICAGO (CBS) —Only one day left for Chicago voters to cast their ballots in the mayor’s race — and a new poll suggests it couldn’t be tighter at the top.
CBS 2 political reporter Derrick Blakley breaks down the last full day of campaigning.
[Voting is on Feb. 26, 2019.]
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Court Blasts University That Expelled Student After His Ex Doctored Evidence
Determining a student’s future based on ‘wildly incomplete factual records’.
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Dakota Access Pipeline Developer Punches Back at Greenpeace’s “Peaceful Advocacy” With Lawsuit
The developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline is now suing Greenpeace and other activists in state court for blocking their pipeline so violently, and for so long. And it’s about time.
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Demand Congress Stop Funding This Manufactured Hoax
“We’ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.” — Tim Wirth, former member of Congress, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs.
At the Fifth Congress in Moscow, ‘The Program,’ was drafted and agreed upon by the International Communist dictators. It was agreed that an environmental “crisis” would be gradually developed to siphon off the money from capitalism and reduce countries to socialism and eventually under communism. I refer readers back to this column and the book by Gus Hall, head of the Communist Party USA for decades: Ecology, Can We Survive Under Capitalism? published in 1972.
Joe Biden is a dirty traitor. More than a decade ago when he was announced as running mate for criminal impostor president, Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama, I tried to warn people in columns and on radio about Biden. I wrote about a speech he gave on June 29, 1992: On The Threshold of the New World Order: The Wilsonian Vision and American Foreign Policy in the 1990’s and Beyond.”
Democrats Against Agenda 21 (link) have provided a very good breakdown of Biden’s speech which includes manufacturing a global environmental crisis. That organization also recognized the connection between Common Core and Agenda 21…
“At the Earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro, June 3-14, 1992, the Secretariat for World Order distributed a nonpublic document titled, “The Initiative for Eco-92 Earth’s Charter.” It reads, in part, under policies that must be implemented as follows:
“The Security Council of the U.N. will inform all nations that outmoded notions of national sovereignty will be discarded and that the Security Council has complete legal, military and economic jurisdiction in any region of the world … The Security Council of the U.N. will take possession of all natural resources, including the watersheds and great forests, to be used and preserved for the good of the Major Nations of the Security Council.”
“In the late Dixie Lee Ray’s book, Environmental Overkill — Whatever Happened to Common Sense, one gets a full accounting of what really went on with Al Gore and his loony friends at the Rio Summit. On page 10 of her book, it states:
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Financial Strategist “Shocked” By Degeneration of San Francisco
Société Générale financial strategist Albert Edwards says he was “shocked” by his recent visit to San Francisco, during which he was appalled to witness the “sheer quantities of men….off their heads on drugs (and drink) and putting both themselves and other road users at risk.”
“I have been a regular visitor to San Francisco for 30 years and maybe it is because I only visit once every couple of years that I notice the change,” wrote Edwards.
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Matthew Whitaker is Owed an Apology by the Fake News Media on Both Sides
Former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker is owed an apology by an awful lot of people in the media, both on the left and the right.
Whitaker was instantly mocked and dismissed in many quarters after he stated at a recent press conference that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation was almost completed and that he was looking forward to receiving his final report soon.
Fake News outlets who spent the last two years building up the Mueller hype were caught by surprise by Whitaker’s announcement. In recent months they had been selling the narrative that Mueller is not only far from being finished, but that he has a whole new bunch of indictments waiting to be unsealed, supposedly targeting people such as Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner.
Within minutes of the press conference ending, the uproar began as it became clear that many journalists covering the Mueller team simply refused to believe what Whitaker said.
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The liberal billionaire who allegedly backed a misinformation campaign during the midterm elections played a significant role in funding a group responsible for creating a controversial fake news project.
Reid Hoffman greatly increased his financial contributions to artificial intelligence research group OpenAI, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. The group recently developed software allowing people with the know-how to craft so-called “deepfake” news articles, The Guardian reported.
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The ‘Fake News’ Knife Cuts Both Ways
Attorneys for Nicholas Sandmann, a student at Covington Catholic High School, filed a $250 million lawsuit against the Washington Post for defamation.
According to the suit, “In a span of three (3) days in January of this year commencing on January 19, the Post engaged in a modern-day form of McCarthyism by competing with CNN and NBC, among others, to claim leadership of a mainstream and social media mob of bullies which attacked, vilified, and threatened Nicholas Sandmann, an innocent secondary school child.” …
Whether for ratings or for politics, the pursuit of the facts is secondary to delusionally maintaining their preferred narrative. It’s disgusting. Fake news is real and we are right to call it out.
The Federalist, Daily Caller and Epoch Times (among others) have curated lists of fake news and fake hate crimes in the Trump-era. These lists should remind us all to not reflexively believe “mainstream” news, particularly on a story that clearly has an anti-conservative bias.
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The Latest Images of Ultima Thule Are in, And They Are the Sharpest Yet!
On December 31st, 2018, the New Horizons probe conducted the first flyby in history of a Kuiper Belt Object (KBO). Roughly half an hour later, the mission controllers were treated to the first clear images of Ultima Thule (aka. 2014 MU69). Over the course of the next two months, the first high-resolution images of the object were released, as well as some rather interesting findings regarding the KBOs shape.
Just recently, NASA released more new images of Ultima Thule, and they are the clearest and most detailed to date!
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Watch: UCLA Students Support Concentration Camps for Trump Supporters
Kaitlin Bennett went undercover at UCLA as Jenna Talia to ask students to sign a petition to throw conservatives into involuntary re-education camps.
Not only were the students she approached ecstatic to sign it, but one member of UCLA’s student government encouraged her to change the language to “diversity” and “sensitivity training” to hide their real intentions so the administration would approve it.
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Jesuit Order to Honor Priest Caught in Serial Plagiarism
The Jesuits of Canada are bestowing their annual “Magis” award this spring on Father Thomas Rosica, a priest and Vatican spokesman recently found to have engaged in serial plagiarism over the past 25 years
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Manoj George Charged in Stabbing Incident at Delta’s Immaculate Conception Elementary School
MANOJ George, 49, of Delta is facing two counts of aggravated assault and two counts of assault with a weapon in Wednesday’s stabbing incident at North Delta’s Immaculate Conception elementary school.
On February 20, an off-duty Delta Police officer, Acting Sergeant John Jasmins, witnessed an altercation between a man and a woman shortly after 3 p.m. at the school and intervened. During this process both he and a female victim, who police say he was in a relationship with, received serious stab wounds.
Police began to receive 9-1-1 calls at 3:03 p.m., and by 3:04 p.m. the first on-duty police officer arrived on scene. The suspect in the altercation was identified and taken into custody by 3:06 p.m.
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Stabbed BC Cop Who Tackled Knife-Wielding Man Called a Hero by Police Chief
He said Jasmins intervened in a domestic dispute by tackling a man who is also accused of stabbing his wife just as children were being released from school on Wednesday.
“John’s thought was this was an immediate circumstance that needed action and as a result he jumped in and did a barrel tackle of this gentleman while he was in the process of using the knife,” Dubord said. …
Dubord said 49-year-old Manoj George, whose marriage was dissolving, has been charged with two counts each of aggravated assault and assault with a weapon.
“Police knew of the circumstance but certainly had never seen any violence that had occurred,” Dubord said.
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Govt won’t be affected says Di Maio, Salvini says 6-0 over PD
(ANSA) — Cagliari, February 25 — Centre-right candidate Christian Solinas won Sunday’s regional elections in Sardinia after the second-placed candidate conceded defeat after the results of about half of the ballot sections came in on Monday. Solinas had over 47% of the vote after the count at 930 of the 1,840 sections, followed by centre-left candidate Massimo Zedda with about 33%, 14% behind, who conceded and wished Solinas well. Francesco Desogus of the 5-Star Movement (M5S) was third with around 11%. This compared with 33% for the M5S at last year’s general election.
The turnout for Sunday’s vote was 53.75%, up slightly with respect to the regional elections on the island in 2014.
Premier Giuseppe Conte and Deputy Premier Luigi Di Maio both said Monday that the outcome of Sunday’s regional elections in Sardinia will not affect central government. Di Maio’s 5-Star Movement (M5S) looks set to come a distant third while Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s League is set to help a centre-right alliance win the vote on the island. The League and M5S were rivals until they teamed up to form a coalition government after last year’s general election.
Salvini’s party continues to run with its traditional centre-right allies in local and regional elections. The M5S, which also fared badly in recent regional elections in Abruzzo, continues to run alone.
“We must not emphasize the role of regional elections,” Conte said on the fringes of the EU-Arab League summit in Sharm El Sheikh.
“They are important for Sardinia and they give some electoral food for thought but I do not think consequences for the national government can derive from it”. Labour and Industry Minister Di Maio echoed those sentiments, but said the party needed a shake-up in the light of recent poor performances.
“Nothing changes for the government,” he said.
“I don’t see any problems. “Obviously we don’t have the official figures but we are positive because, for the first time, we are going to have regional councillors in Sardinia”.
But he stressed “we will go ahead with reorganisation and between today and tomorrow there will be important news for the Movement.
“The reorganisation will help us cover more ground and respond to citizens’ needs.
“It won’t be a lightning process, it will be an important process that will help the Movement get stronger”.
Di Maio said among the ingredients would be weighing alliances with local civic lists, ending the movement’s tradition of never teaming up with other forces.
League leader Salvini also said that “the result changes nothing at the level of the national government”.
He added “from the general election to today if there is one sure thing it is that out of six electoral consultations, the League wins 6-0 against the Democratic Party (PD). “Also in Sardinia, after Friuli, Molise, Trento, Bolzano and Abruzzo, the citizens have chosen to let the League govern. “And like in Abruzzo, in Sardinia too it is the first time we have run in the regional elections.” The Sardinian election result is showing a renewed bipolar system between the two centre-right and centre-left blocs, Lazio Governor and Democratic Party (PD) leadership favourite Nicola Zingaretti said.
“The Sardinia result maps out a bipolar system that sees a clash between the centre right and the centre left (again),” said Zingaretti.
“Just a few months ago everyone was convinced that the bipolar system was between the League and the M5S”.
He said the “centre left people” has not disappeared and with the right candidates would return to the fold after the PD scored 18%, its worst ever, at the general election a year ago.
Brothers of Italy (FdI) leader Giorgia Meloni said “after this new collapse of the 5-Star Movement it seems to me that the end of the government is getting closer”.
“We are very satisfied at the umpteenth victory of the centre right and in particular the growth of FdI and the League, the only parties to go forward”.
At a party level, not counting alliances with civic lists, the PD came top with almost 15% of the vote followed by the League with about 12%.
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Corbyn’s UK Labour Backs Second Brexit Referendum
Almost three years of confusion over where exactly Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party stands on Britain leaving the European Union may be answered Monday evening as Jeremy Corbyn is reportedly to make a second referendum official party policy.
A statement released Monday afternoon claimed party leader Jeremy Corbyn will announce a change in policy, fully backing a second referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU for the first time.
The Labour leader, who has been a long time opponent of the European Union but has lost a number of MPs in the past week over his Brexit stance is expected to say: “The prime minister is recklessly running down the clock, in an attempt to force MPs to choose between her botched deal and a disastrous no-deal We cannot and will not accept… one way or another, we will do everything in our power to prevent no deal”.
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Exclusive: Marine Le Pen Talks About the Upcoming European Parliament Election and More
I traveled to Paris to interview Marine Le Pen, President of the Rassemblement National in France’s parliament, the Assembly National.
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Finland: Muhammad Rashidi Asks: Why Do Some Foreigners Rape?
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Rape happens a lot around the world but to differing degrees. The reasons behind rapes vary. In general, most rapes that occur in Europe are due to mental problems, but where foreigners are concerned, there the reasons are different. They have many different reasons. The first reason is uncivilized behavior, the second is the lack of sex, and the third is religion, especially the Islamic religion, because it forbids sexual relations before marriage. The just mentioned reasons are found in Islamic countries.
Rape in Islamic countries are greater than they are elsewhere, but the women do not complain to police authorities because they know that they will not be defended. 80% of women in Islamic countries are raped, and even if they aren’t raped before marriage, they’ll be raped in marriage because the majority are forced into marriage. According to (Islamic) religion, men are allowed to have sex with women without their consent. Islam’s prophet Mohammad supports this. He has a well-known saying: “You can have sex with a woman, even if she’s near death, otherwise she’ll go to hell”. …
In my opinion, they should be taught Finnish culture. They should be lectured on right and wrong, and their religion shouldn’t be funded. In many cities, there are mosques which receive funding. I’m bothered by the fact that, we work, and our tax money is used to fund mosques because there the is a koran being taught which might result in the spreading of islamism and some of them joining ISIS. Generally, imams are unemployed. …
In other words, Islamist extremists are not wanted in Finland, the Finnish people do not need Islamic extremism, not now nor into the future. Immigrants/lions coming into the country have to be taught to respect Finnish culture and laws. If the lesson isn’t learned, then they should be deported back to their own culture.
I hope that this will continue to be the case. I’ve wanted to write about Islamist extremism twice already, but the Itä-Häme (paper) wouldn’t print my article. Still when they re so few of them the paper refuses to publish about it, what happens in 20 years time when there are much more of them. Then you won’t be able to say anything at all. That’s a dangerous change. Soon we won’t be able to speak about anything that we want to speak about.
I hope that you won’t generalize about all foreigners or Muslims. The issues about Islam are solely about Islamic extremists who want to follow all of the koran’s dictates.
Foreigner
Muhammad T.Rashidi
A small businessman from Heinola
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Historic Shift: Populism Now as Big as Social Democracy in Europe
There are obvious reasons for the Social Democrats’ bitter attack on so-called right-wing populism and migration criticism in the run-up to the EU elections this spring.
According to social-liberal think tank Timbro’s new populist index, more than one in four voters in Europe are now voting for populist parties — which is the same number of people who vote for social democratic parties.
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Hungarian Government: “Brussels Doesn’t Keep Its Promises”
In contrast to the promise they made one and a half years ago, the European Commission still hasn’t given any money for Hungary’s border protection, while it continues to generously support “Soros NGO’s”, Hungarian government spokesman Istvan Hollik told at a press conference.
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ISIS Bride’s Bangladeshi Father Agrees With Stripping UK Citizenship
The Bangladeshi father of ISIS bride Shamima Begum has said the British government was right to strip her citizenship, and that it is her own fault she stuck in Syria.
60-year-old Ahmed Ali migrated to the United Kingdom with Begum’s mother, who is also Bangladeshi, in the 1970s, but now splits his time between Britain and his native country, where he keeps a second wife.
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Italy: INPS Recognises ‘Jolie Gene’ Mastectomy
Opens door to benefits for women who have preventative surgery
(ANSA) — Rome, February 25 — Social-security and pensions agency INPS has issued new guidelines for its own medical commissions in which the so-called BRCA1 and BRCA2 ‘faulty genes’ are recognised. Movie star Angelina Jolie had a preventative double mastectomy and had her ovaries removed to avoid developing breast and ovarian cancer because she has a faulty copy of the BRCA1 gene. INPS’s decision opens the door for women who have preventative mastectomies to have access to a series of benefits.
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Italy: More Jobs But Fewer Hours Worked Last Year Says Govt Report
1 in 4 workers overqualified, number seeking jobs abroad up
(ANSA) — Rome, February 25 — The number of people in work in Italy surpassed the pre-crisis level by 125,000 last year, although the number of work hours was actually 1.8 million less than in 2008, according to a government report released on Monday. The report, prepared by the labour ministry and several government agencies, said that this is because Italy has experienced a recovery of “low labour intensity” with more people in jobs but working fewer hours. It said that, in 2017, almost one in four people, 5.7 million, were overqualified for their jobs. It added that the number of people emigrating from Italy for work went from 40,000 in 2008 to nearly 115,000 in 2017. The report said the proportion of foreigners among the total of people in work in Italy went from 7.1% in 2008 to 10.6% in 2018. It linked this to the increase of less-qualified work on the labour market, saying they often went to migrants more willing to accept jobs that are unpleasant or less specialized.
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Italy Election: Centre-Right Set to Win in Sardinia — Risking Trouble for Coalition
A CENTRE-RIGHT senator looks set to win a regional vote in Italy which could spark trouble for Rome’s ruling coalition ahead of European Parliament elections in May.
Christian Solinas, of the anti-immigration party League, is projected to win by almost half after 20 percent of the votes were counted. Scoring 48 percent, he came in ahead of the centre-left at 34 percent and Five Star on just 11 percent in Sunday’s election on the island of Sardinia — a result which could have repercussions for the ruling coalition between League and Five Star. It comes as polls show the League is set to enjoy significant gains in the upcoming EU elections, with one political consultant even going as far as to say Five Star could “blow up altogether” if it fails to get at least 20 per cent of vote in the May polls.
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UK: Business Losing Patience With Anti-Brexiteers as EU Pushes Exit Delay
Businesses are losing patience with the ongoing uncertainty surrounding whether Britain will have a clean Brexit, Brexit-in-name-only, or no Brexit at all, as British europhiles and Brussels eurocrats push Theresa May to delay exit day.
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UK: Govt Plans to End Short Prison Sentences Could ‘Unleash Crime Wave’
UK government plans to do away with short prison sentences could result in tens of thousands of convicts on Britain’s streets, “unleashing a crime wave” on citizens, a think tank report has warned.
Civitas’s report published Monday predicts that the government’s proposal to abandon custodial sentences of fewer than six months for certain crimes in favour of community service orders and curfews would mean approximately 34,000 criminals would be let loose, 30,000 of whom would be repeat offenders.
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UK: Top Corbyn Ally Blames Anti-Semitic Facebook Groups for Labour Scandals
The leader of the ‘Momentum’ party-within-a-party group which supports Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader has acknowledged the “major problem” of anti-Semitism in Labour, citing the sudden surge in party membership under Mr Corbyn as a factor in the emergence of the scandal.
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Up to 100 ‘British’ Children Born to Islamic State Brides in Syria
There are as many as 100 children born to Islamic State brides in Syria who can claim British citizenship, according to sources speaking to The Telegraph.
The newspaper also reports that 150 women and girls left the UK to left to join the terrorist death cult in Syria, with almost all marrying jihadist fighters and giving birth.
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Huawei, Hikvision, And the Surveillance State
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An industry research firm IHS Markit showed that China has 176 million surveillance cameras in public and private sectors (including airports, train stations, and streets), while only about 50 million cameras are installed in the United States. It is estimated that the number of cameras installed in China will increase to 626 million in three years. …
There are many Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) in the field of cyber hackers. According to the Radiant Report, the APT1 is actually the Unit 61398 under China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) General Staff Department’s (GSD) 3rd Department. It targets a whole variety of sectors, including many fields related to daily life, such as information technology, public administration, energy, transportation, legal services media, advertising and entertainment, navigation, financial services, food, healthcare, education, etc. It was estimated that the APT1 has systematically stolen hundreds of terabytes of data from at least 141 organizations. Also, there are many other APTs from China that target many other countries or industries.
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Specter of Communism: Chapter Eighteen: The Chinese Communist Party’s Global Ambitions (Part I)
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In his book The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower, Michael Pillsbury wrote that China has a long-term strategy to subvert the U.S.-led world economic and political order and to replace it with communism by 2049, the one-hundredth anniversary of the Communist Party’s rise to power in China. Pillsbury notes that in the TV series Silent Contest, produced by the National Defense University of China, the ambition to compete with the United States is laid out clearly: The CCP’s process of realizing its “great cause” of dominating the world “will inevitably run into constant wear-and-tear and struggle with the U.S. hegemonic system.” “It is a centennial contest, not to be shifted by the human will.” …
In 2017, a book called Silent Invasion: China’s Influence in Australia, by author Clive Hamilton was rejected three times by Australian publishers due to fear of Chinese repercussions. Finally, following much consideration, the third publisher agreed to publish it. The censorship elicited widespread concern among Australians about China’s influence in their country.
Many more wonder why China has directed so much effort to Australia. What is the military strategic value of the CCP infiltrating Australia and exerting control there?
In December 2017, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) stated in its report Sharp Power: Rising Authoritarian Influence that the Chinese Communist Party is influencing and changing Australian politics and academia by means of bribery and infiltration for the main purpose of weakening the U.S.-Australia alliance. …
John Henderson, a New Zealand professor, and Benjamin Reilly, a professor in Australia, said that the CCP’s long-term goal in the South Pacific area is to take the place of America as the superpower there. The CCP has invested immense amounts of money in Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia to assist these island nations in constructing infrastructure. It has promoted local tourism, and made e-business platforms available. It is outstripping American activity in the area. Ben Bohane, an Australian author, warned that America is losing influence over the Pacific Ocean to China. …
In order to drive a wedge between Europe and United States, the CCP adopted a strategy of dividing and conquering the European countries by adapting to local conditions to gradually penetrate and develop influence in Europe. In recent years, the differences between Europe and the United States on many major issues have become increasingly apparent. The CCP’s activities have had a hand in this.
After the 2008 financial crisis, the CCP exploited the fact that weaker European economies were in urgent need of foreign investment. The CCP injected large sums of money into these countries in exchange for compromises on issues such as international law and human rights. The CCP used this method to create and expand the cracks between European countries, and reaped the benefits. Countries targeted by the CCP include Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Hungary. …
fter the collapse of the Soviet Union, the CCP began to target Latin America. Under the banner of “South to South cooperation,” it started engaging in an all-of-society infiltration of the region, penetrating into areas like economy, trade, military, diplomacy, culture, and the like. The governments of many Latin American countries, like Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, and Bolivia, were already hostile toward America, and the CCP made full use of this when it extended its tentacles across the ocean, further aggravating the tensions these nations had with America and heightening their anti-American stance. …
Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist, said on several occasions that the United States is headed for military conflict with China. “We’re going to war in the South China Sea in five to ten years,” he said in March 2016. “There’s no doubt about that.”
Lawrence Sellin, former American colonel and military commentator, believes that “China is now attempting to extend its international influence beyond the South China Sea by linking to a similar framework for dominance in the northern Indian Ocean. If permitted to complete the link, China could be in an unassailable position to exert authority over roughly one-half of the global GDP.”
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The Militarization of Xi Jinping’s China
“Be ready for battle.” That’s how the South China Morning Post, the Hong Kong newspaper that increasingly reflects the Communist Party line, summarized Xi Jinping’s first order this year to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Xi, in his own words, which were broadcasted nationwide, demanded this: “prepare for a comprehensive military struggle from a new starting point.” …
The Chinese — leaders and others — certainly have the world’s worst case of irredentism as they seek to “recover” areas they have in fact never ruled, but they do not necessarily envision military conquest as the means of acquiring vast “lost territories.” They believe they can intimidate and coerce and then take without force. …
Moreover, in the 1930s the media publicized the idea that Japan was being surrounded by hostile powers that wished to prevent its rise. Eri Hotta in Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy writes that the Japanese “talked themselves into believing that they were victims of circumstances rather than aggressors.” That is exactly what the Chinese are doing at this moment.
“If we ask, ‘Did they want war?’ the answer is yes; and if we ask ‘Did they want to avoid war?’ the answer is still yes,” noted Maruyama Masao, a leading postwar political scientist, as recounted by Hotta. “Though wanting war, they tried to avoid it; though wanting to avoid it, they deliberately chose the path that led to it.”
Unfortunately, this tragic pattern is evident today in a Beijing where Chinese, wearing stars on their shoulders, look as if they want to repeat one of the worst mistakes of the last century.
Gordon G. Chang is the author of The Coming Collapse of China and a Gatestone Institute Distinguished Senior Fellow.
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George Pell: Cardinal Found Guilty of Sexual Offences in Australia
Cardinal George Pell has been found guilty of sexual offences in Australia, making him the highest-ranking Catholic figure to receive such a conviction.
Pell abused two choir boys in the rooms of a Melbourne cathedral in 1996, a jury found. He had pleaded not guilty.
The verdict was handed down in December, but it could not be reported until now due to legal reasons.
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EU Migration Scandal: African Union to Tear Up EU Plans to Process Migrants in Africa
AFRICAN nations are planning to shoot down the European Union’s latest proposals for curbing migration, it has emerged from a leaked report.
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EU to Change Illegal Migration to ‘Humanitarian Visas’
The European Commission will present a new bill in favor of a ‘Humanitarian Visa’ allowing migrants to legally enter the EU to apply for asylum, erasing more lines between migrants and refugees.
Approximately 90 per cent of all so called ‘refugees’ arrive in the EU illegally according to the European Parliament. With this proposal EU states claim to want to put an end to trafficking.
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More Cross-Channel Migrants Arrive in UK
Two more small boats containing migrants trying to reach the UK have been intercepted off the Kent coast.
The Home Office said 15 men were taken by Border Force staff to Dover, where 11 of them, all identifying as Iranian, were passed to immigration officials.
The other four were arrested on suspicion of facilitating illegal entry into the UK.
Their arrival follows the discovery on Sunday of a family of seven in Kingsdown, on the Kent coast.
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UK: Labour Councils Sack Immigration Control Officers After Pressure From Open Borders Left
Labour councils have been removing embedded immigration officers amidst pressure from open borders campaigners, who say officials are putting illegal migrants off accessing taxpayer-funded welfare.
Lewisham is one of a number of local authorities to make the move, reports The Guardian, with Labour mayor Damien Egan having vowed to turn the south-east London borough into one of sanctuary for illegal immigrants.
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Again: Transgender Athletes Dominate at Connecticut Girls’ Track State Meet
Last year I wrote about the problems caused by allowing male student-athletes who “identify” as females to compete on the girls’ team in Connecticut. Well, the problems haven’t gone away. The same students causing controversy last year — Andraya Yearwood, a boy from Cromwell High School, and Terry Miller, a boy from Bloomfield High School — are still very much controversial this year.
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Amnesty International Leaders Offer to Resign Over Bullying Culture
Amnesty International’s seven-member senior leadership team has offered to resign, following a damning report that warned of a “toxic” working environment and widespread bullying. …
In a statement on Friday, he said he may not choose to accept all of their offers of resignation. A recent review into Amnesty International’s workplace culture warned of bullying, nepotism and an “us v them” dynamic that threatened the organisation’s credibility as a human rights champion.
The report, undertaken by the KonTerra Group and led by psychologists, was commissioned after the suicides of two staff members last year. …
The team includes Anna Neistat, senior director of research; Thomas Schultz-Jagow, senior director of campaigns and communications; Colm Ó Cuanachain, senior director of the office of the secretary general; Julie Verhaar, senior director of global fundraising and engagement; Minar Pimple, senior director of global operations; Richard Eastmond, senior director of people and services; and Tawanda Mutasah, senior director of law and policy.
[See also: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/widespread-bullying-of-staff-identified-at-amnesty-international-1.3783992 ]
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Gay & Trans Sex Education to be Taught to 5 Year-Olds in UK (And Opting Out is Illegal)
The UK Conservative government is set to announce plans for the introduction of lessons on homosexuality and transgenderism for primary school students, despite an official petition against the move, signed by over 100,000, RT.com writes.
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Jackson Gay Rights Leader Accused of Burning Down Own Home
Jackson — When the home of Nikki Joly burned down in 2017, killing five pets, the FBI investigated it as a hate crime.
After all, the transgender man and gay rights activist had received threats after having a banner year in this conservative town.
In the prior six months, he helped open the city’s first gay community center, organized the first gay festival and, after 18 years of failed attempts, helped lead a bruising battle for an ordinance that prohibits discrimination against gays.
For his efforts, a local paper named him the Citizen of the Year.
Authorities later determined the fire was intentionally set, but the person they arrested came as a shock to both supporters and opponents of the gay rights movement. It was the citizen of the year — Nikki Joly.
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Vatican Sex Abuse Summit Dodges Homosexuality Issue
The Vatican’s summit on clerical sex abuse ended Sunday without ever confronting the strong statistical links between homosexuality and priestly abuse, confirming warnings from a number of prelates.
Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich, one of the summit’s organizers and a defender of gay priests, denied any relationship between homosexuality and abuse, and dismissed claims that “homosexual people are more prone to abuse children than straight people.”
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Are Teachers Trained How to Break Your Child’s Will?
I would say yes they are. In my communist elementary school and later post-communist high school, I was a very problematic child, and one reason for that was that I could actually make a one hour math test in 10 minutes. Math came more naturally to me than to my math teachers so I would use different approaches to solving the math, unaware of what my school was really about:
3 math teachers in a span of maybe 12 years would fail me not because I could not do math: They failed me because I did not follow their “instructions on how to do the math”. Being 6 times faster than the rest of the class didn’t count. Our communist math wasn’t about math you see – it was about following procedures!
Funny thing is that at the university, I had a Math faculty dean of the Math and Physics faculty of the Charles University in Prague to teach us math: He was the first math teacher in my life with whom I could speak freely about math, and not about my failure to follow procedures. I thank God for him because in the end, he justified my feelings of being indoctrinated instead of taught math.
“There are as many as 100 children born to Islamic State brides in Syria who can claim British citizenship, according to sources speaking to The Telegraph.”
Surely the nationality of the child is determined by the identity of the father, assuming the mother knew who this was. I remember Paul Weston once described Jihadi concubines as “Allah’s little whelpers.” He has a point.
“I hope that you won’t generalize about all foreigners or Muslims. The issues about Islam are solely about Islamic extremists who want to follow all of the koran’s dictates.”
Unfortunately this idea of “not all muslims” paves the road to Hell. The general opinion should be that it’s in opposition of European culture (rooted in Antiquity and Christianity) and if a muslim wants to get in he or she better try really hard to convince anyone they don’t mean any harm and be prepared to be under surveillance by the police (like in Japan) and close scrutiny by their peers. One misstep (against the law) means instant deportation and prohibition of re-entry (again, like in Japan). Have it any other way and the problem at hand will never cease to exist.
By the end of the day if they feel unwelcomed chances are they will either go back home after earning some money or they are going to leave islam or at least not force their children into islam so that they aren’t unter as much scrutiny as the parents.
I remember when I was a child and roughly in third grade we first learned about the concept of religion (funny how we weren’t exposed to something relatively harmless until nine and now five-year-olds are shown porn in kindergarten…) and aside from two or three kids we were all baptized and we were pretty judging of those three who were essentially pagans (not in the modern sense of the word). Of course, children will jump at any occasion to feel that way, but bottom line is: we were a homogenous group and it was normal to make those stepping out of line to feel like it’s not ok to do that.
And btw it never had anything to do with ethnicity. We had one gypsy girl in class, she was baptized too (they are generally heavily religious, despite not really living by the Commandments), we never made fun of her for being dark skinned or anything. The only times we laughed at her was when she showed how exceptionally dumb she was at some subjects (like math). Which happened to other children too, those who weren’t good at sports, reading, or what have you.
I have worked enough alongside enough muslims to have learned to treat each one as a possible terrorist or at least an untrustrworthy person.
It is their duty then to prove that they can be trusted.
If they pass: great, they have my trust.
“ISIS Bride’s Bangladeshi Father Agrees With Stripping UK Citizenship” he has more common sense than all of Britain’s leaders and NGO’s together.
Not sure if the American readers know the Pippi Longstocking books and movies, but the parrot starring in one of died last Saturday in the Karlsruhe ZOO, he was 51 years old:
https://www.thelocal.se/20190225/pippi-longstocking-parrot-dies-after-reaching-biblical-age
Ah, yes…I remember her well: Pippilotta Viktualia Rullgardina Krusmynta Efraimsdotter Långstrump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippi_Longstocking
“Pippilotta Viktualia Rullgardina Krusmynta Efraimsdotter Långstrump”
Is she any relation to Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle- dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz- ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer- spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein- nurnburger-bratwustle-gernspurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut- gumberaber-shonedanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm?
PS: I’ve lived around them (i.e., those with a psittacine attitude) and if ever one of them has me for a pet, I’ll teach it to say, “I can talk! Can you fly?”
I think he and Pippi may be related – distant kin of another place and time.
I do hope someone decides to keep you as a pet… you’d be entertaining. Mostly.
In China the Communist Party has been organized as a non-hereditary (partially hereditary) meritocratic nobility. This is entirely based on 5,000 years of Chinese culture. The veneer of Marxism that they keep is for foreign consumption. Chinese art of war, among other, says “revive a corpse to save a soul.” They revive the corpse of Marxism so that they can lead social forces in Europe to do their bid.
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Europe will be diverse, or war! – Frans Timmermans
https://youtu.be/q94syUDDhxA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1108&v=69NhRXvPy2c
https://youtu.be/69NhRXvPy2c
That’s fine! We will do our utmost to oblige him. I am fitter now than I have been in months, even years.
I’m laying aside my collar for the duration. In the old days we Bishops went to war with clubs not swords in obedience to the Bible. A 7.56mm will do very nicely now thankyou.
We did not start this war and for years I did my Christian best to avoid armed struggle for our freedom and all that means. I hate war, especially over scum that are trying to impose their idiocy and perversion on all of us.
We have no choice now! As Kennedy stated “Those that do not listen leave only one alternative. That “alternative” is now all that is left.
Having now been forced to consider taking up arms in self-defence of my country I will be the last to put them down.
How do you like this? Pussi riot sang “Virgin, our lady, Put Putin away” – and received a prison sentence for blasphemy. (I don’t like them and I don’t support this action, although I’m not a Christian)
This is what the choir sings at St. Isaac’s Cathedral in St. Petersburg.
The final song of the Concert to the Defender of the Fatherland Day, which was held in St. Isaac’s Cathedral in St. Petersburg on February 23, 2019: The choir sang a “patriotic” song about the US atomic bombing
On a submarine with an atomic motor
Yes, with a dozen bombs under a hundred megatons
Crossed the Atlantic and the call of the gunner:
“Lead, I say, – Petrov, on the city of Washington!”
True la la, true la la,
I can do everything for three rubles!
Hello, new land
Adversary!
And on the airplane on top my friend Vovochka
(diminutively affectionate version of the name Vladimir)
Not with empty hatches came to visit
On a submarine and with an atomic motor
The crew sang a funny song.
True la la, true la la,
We can all for three rubles!
Burn burn the Land of the Enemy!
Sweetly nap in Norfolk lights on the shore,
Sleep tired toys, negros sleep quietly,
I’m sorry, America, good America,
But five hundred years ago you were discovered in vain.
True la la, true la la,
I can do everything for three rubles!
Burn earth in half
Adversary!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jHKNbP7CGc
https://www.spb.kp.ru/daily/26946/3998722/
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Very Christian, right? And no blasphemy!
They say that children and families of Putin’s officials live in the United States and Britain. They took them there so that they would not suffer in the adventure into which they were inflicting the inhabitants of Russia. I, of course, am against ice axes, but how to make their lives uncomfortable?
Finland: Muhammad Rashidi Asks: Why Do Some Foreigners Rape?
Easy peasy. BECAUSE THEY CAN.
Back in their own little rural Islamic pest holes, the recidivism rates can be unusually low, typically due to a lack the necessary apparatus which was used to offend in the first place. As in: BECAUSE THEY CAN’T.
Odd as it may sound, the West may yet have some things (mind you, not very many of them) to learn from these barbaric, quadruped-fornicating, wife beating, latently homosexual, inbred, semi-retarded throwbacks.
Easy peasy. BECAUSE THEY CAN.
I remember an epiphany I had whilst working in the domestic violence industry (before the plague of drugs, but lots of alcohol abuse). I would often wonder why the judicial system permitted abusive men to re-offend, beating women and children almost with impunity. IOW, those men (a few women, too) knew they could get by.
One fellow broke his wife’s nose by smashing her head into the steering while she was driving. When the case came up in front of the judge some while later, the perp was given six months in the local jail. He was flabbergasted that he got so little time. He thanked the judge and on being led out by the bailiff he yelled out to his wife: “see you soon!” And she knew what he meant, but it did give her time to move on w/o a forwarding address.
IOW, he did it because he could. We have lots of SJW Grievance Groups in this country, but we tolerate family crimes beyond belief.
“He thanked the judge and on being led out by the bailiff he yelled out to his wife: “see you soon!” And she knew what he meant, but it did give her time to move on w/o a forwarding address.”
This little birdie tells me that a certain someone may have helped with that “move on w/o a forwarding address” part of the process…
Be that as it may, I’ve always said that nothing beats a happy ending. In this specific case, both literally and figuratively. At a bare minimum, she probably ended up saving her own life (at least from that particular piece of “work” – As, sadly, far too many abused women lapse back into the familiar codependent behavior of victimhood).
It’s just one reason why, even as a man, I don’t much begrudge Lorena Bobbitt for taking that shortcut to Wienerville. For one thing, her live-in zygote dispenser was a real bottom feeder. For another, a judge did eventually convict her, if only for littering…
My only gripe is that she doesn’t take her entire show overseas for a whistle-stop lecture tour across the Muslim Middle East. I’d wager there’s quite a few prospective enrollees who would show keen interest over the extra credit home-study package.
In one swift, easy-to-remember lesson, dutiful wives are instructed how to shorten the rod handle of a stray husband’s tackle. The online video chapter even shows you how in a quick clip!
Just a few honor roll students landing A+ grades would be all it takes to see a big cutback (so to speak) in the irritating fascination Arab men have with polygamy or any of that “beat your wife lightly” codswallop.
Unfortunately—as I had to find out the hard way—it turns out that Ms. Bobbitt can be very rude. Why, just the other day, I tried to phone her up and she cut me off!