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-Great Cultural Revolution
Michael Yon: ‘Our Government' Funds ‘Weaponized Migration' Aimed at America, Europe
Forty minute interview can be listened to at the link. He also discusses the recent elections in the Netherlands.
[Breitbart] Michael Yon, a photojournalist specializing in war and a retired U.S. Army Special Forces veteran, said on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily that the U.S. government is complicit in driving “weaponized migration” amounting to an “invasion” of the United States.

Yon recalled Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) Alejandro Mayorkas’s visit to Panama and the Darién Province in April 2022. The U.S. government, he added, is “extremely well aware” of the flow of migrants to the U.S. through the Darién Gap.

“I took two Congressman down [to Panama],” Yon stated. “We took Tom Tiffany from Wisconsin and we took Congressman Burgess Owens from Utah. Those guys are brave. They went deep in the jungle. We went way out there with the Indians, they saw exactly what’s happening.”

Yon shared some of his observations and reporting of Mayorkas’s trip to Panama. He said Mayorkas and his security detail “came within like 15 feet of me on the ground” after landing in Blackhawk helicopters.

Yon said Mayorkas and his entourage visited a migrant camp in the Darién Province partially run by Senafront, a Panamanian police force operating as a sort of border patrol.

“They went into this one camp near Meteti in Darién Province,” he stated. “I had the drone right over them. I know Senafront down there — Senafront is like the Panamanian sort of army, border patrol, border police — they’re very professional. They run these camps with the U.N. and some others.”

Yon said he had been told of the U.S. government’s plan to assist the Panamanian government to increase the size of its migrant camps.

He stated, “I had already been told by Senafront and the U.N. and some other people that the United States — Mayorkas — is coming down to increase the size of the camps — two of the camps — to double the size, which they did. I was droning. I droned when he was there. I droned this other camp. I’ve got all the drone footage, perfect HD.”

Yon said he had captured drone footage of two migrant camps in Panama in April 2022 and recently and that both camps had more than doubled in size across that timeframe.

He remarked, “The United States did this. Our Department of Homeland Security did it with our money. Our Department of Homeland Security is openly — they’re not hiding it — it’s in your face. … It’s right there.”

“They’re breaking new ground as soon as [Mayorkas] left and increasing the size of the camps,” he continued. “It’s unbelievable. They’re well aware. It’s our government that’s doing it.”

Yon emphasized the U.N.’s role in coordinating “weaponized migration” via the International Organization for Migration (OIM), its subsidiary agency. He noted the U.S. government’s status as the primary state funder of the U.N.

“Who is funding [the U.N.]?” Yon asked. “Who is facilitating them? The United States. … This is a facilitated invasion of the United States and of Europe.”

Last week, Panama reported a 450-percent increase in migration through the Darién Gap when comparing this year’s January-February period with 2022’s, including a 3000-percent increase in Chinese nationals.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  FAIR Analysis: 5.5 Million Illegal Aliens Have Crossed our Borders Since Biden Took Office--How is Secretary Mayorkas Still Employed?

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fair-analysis-5-5-million-illegal-aliens-have-crossed-our-borders-since-biden-took-officehow-is-secretary-mayorkas-still-employed-301658734.html
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/25/2023 12:26 Comments || Top||


Europe
Chaos in France as police fire tear gas at protesters and baton-charge crowds in Paris where '800,000' marched against pension reforms - and Bordeaux town hall goes up in flames amid riots
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] How much of the crowd are Black Bloc anarcho-communist syndicalists hiding among the true believers?
  • Five thousands police officers were on the streets of Paris today for protests

  • A record number marched through Paris with over 1 million protesting nationally

Related: French protestors stack piles of rubbish-filled bin bags into makeshift barricades against riot cops as demonstrations over pensions rage across the country
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Example of socialism as it matures.
People answer to the gov. Not the gov answers to the people. Coming to the USA if we don't rid oursleves of this LSD/DC Swamp coup next election.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/25/2023 8:41 Comments || Top||

#2  "Chaos in France". Jeez, when did this start? 'Bout 1830 or so? Riots in the spring is a fine old french tradition.
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/25/2023 9:47 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Yeah. This is just the French being the French. If immigrants are in on the action, then it's fair to say they've assimilated successfully.
Posted by: Secret Master || 03/25/2023 11:04 Comments || Top||

#4  At least (some) of the French middle class will protest. Here in the US people keep taking abuse and loss of liberty with out a peep.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 03/25/2023 11:34 Comments || Top||

#5  And then they will taint you a second time.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/25/2023 12:35 Comments || Top||

#6  What kind of lifespan will these protests have?

Heard anymore about the gilets jaunes lately?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/25/2023 12:43 Comments || Top||

#7  https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/macron-makes-80000-watch-disappear-in-middle-of-live-interview/
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/25/2023 12:58 Comments || Top||

#8  I was thinking about the Yellow Vests as well. Hmmmm, funny how covid (or the gov'ts' response thereto) seemed to slow things down....perfect timing.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/25/2023 13:16 Comments || Top||

#9  The French and the South Koreans do know how to throw a good party.
Posted by: Mullah Richard OTR || 03/25/2023 16:25 Comments || Top||

#10  When do they break out the guiotene?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/25/2023 19:32 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
China rolls over $2 billion loan to Pakistan
[The Nation (Pak)] China has rolled over its safe deposit of $2 billion with Pakistain on the existing terms as Islamabad’s foreign exchange reserves escaped further decline.

In a major development to secure a staff-level agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), China has rolled over $2 billion, sources within the finance ministry said.

For the revival of the stalled loan programme with the IMF, Pakistain had to confirm external financing with the fund.

Beijing has rolled over the safe deposit with Pakistain for a year.

Last week, sources within the finance ministry said Pakistain was seeking to get $2 billion each from China and Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
, while meetings were underway to get $1 billion from the United Arab Emirates.

Earlier, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar assured that details of the staff-level agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) would be made public.

Speaking at the Senate Committee of the Whole, the minister said once the staff agreement is signed, it will be put on the website of the Finance Ministry and nothing will be concealed.

Posted by: Fred || 03/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  As they come in the president's office and start measuring for new carpet and drapes...
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/25/2023 9:42 Comments || Top||


Angry Imran 'to move courts' against police raid on Mar-a-Lago his residence
[The Nation (Pak)] Visibly angry Paki­stan Tehrik-e-In­saf Chairman Im­ran Khan Sunday vowed Dire Revenge on ’perpetrators who invaded’ his Zaman Park res­idence saying that cases would be filed against the Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

chief minis­ter, IGP, Lahore CCPO and other po­lice officers involved in the attack.

Addressing party workers and sup­porters through a video link from his residence in Zaman Park, he said that police raided his residence where Bushra Bibi was all alone in violation of the court orders. "I have decid­ed to move the courts and file a contempt petition. We will also file references against Mohsin Naqvi and Punjab IG for killing Zile Shah", he said, adding that the law of the jungle prevailed in the country and only the ju­diciary could save it from plung­ing into a deep mess.

The PTI chief said that the po­lice had trampled the sancti­ty of ’chador and chaar diwari’ and he would file a case against them. "Yesterday, Zaman Park was robbed mysteriously, even the locks of my house were broken, I ask Paks what crime I have committed. What is it happening? Paks have known me for the last 50 years; I have never committed any vio­lation the law, but 99 cases have been registered against me in­cluding treason and terrorism. Those people are implicating me in such cases who are crim­inals themselves. Nawaz Shar­if’s thefts have been published in international institutions, newspapers and books. If you don’t believe it, google it", he told his supporters.

"I want to ask everyone, po­lice, army officers, the judges of this country and the people [about] the respect of chaddor and char dewari in Islam." He said he wanted to address the matter last night but could not. "It was good that I didn’t be­cause I was angry. And a per­son should not talk when he is angry."

He called former president Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari
...former president of Pakistain, husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in...
as "Mr. Ten percent" and said that the for­mer army chief had imposed him [Zardari] and his son on the country by committing treason. Talking about his Sat­urday’s appearance in Islam­abad court, the PTI chairman said: "Their plan was to kill me in the judicial complex or arrest me and take me to Ba­lochistan so that I could not issue an election ticket to any member of my party." Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight...
said that the party work­ers feared that malicious peo­ple would put him in jail and kill him. "It took me five hours to reach the court; I knew that if I did not reach Islamabad, the arrest warrant would be issued".

Accusing the caretaker Punjab government of taking Dire Revenge, he said that it was doing every­thing except holding the elec­tions. He said that after that the police started an operation at his house, only Bushra Bibi and some employees were in the house. "They broke the door of my house and shamelessly loot­ed what they found."

Imran Khan said that cases will be filed against the police­men who entered Zaman Park. The PTI chairman PTI also se­verely criticised the senior vice president of Moslem League (N) and said that Maryam Nawaz was spreading chaos in the country.

Imran Khan severely criticised the Caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi and said, "Who­ever accepts Asif Ali Zardari as his father or accepts him as his son, what can you expect of him? The same Asif Ali Zardari was incarcerated
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
by Nawaz Sharif
...served two three non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
on the charge of theft and corruption".

Posted by: Fred || 03/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  "Imran didn't kill himself"!
...... too soon?
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/25/2023 9:40 Comments || Top||

#2  I thought Mr. Ten Percent was Joe, the big guy, Biden.

Posted by: AlanC || 03/25/2023 16:42 Comments || Top||


Pakistani Parliament's Ruling Sought Over ex-PM Khan's Party
[TOLONEWS] Pakistain's Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Wednesday sought a parliament ruling to empower authorities to tackle former Prime Minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree...
's party's alleged involvement in violence.

The ruling was asked for in a joint session of parliament convened over the instability caused by the crisis over Khan.

Sanaullah told the house nearly 68 security personnel were maimed in festivities and 16 arrested Khan aides will be tried on terrorism charges.

The festivities erupted after Khan's supporters prevented police and paramilitary forces from arresting him in a case in which he is accused of unlawfully selling state gifts during his tenure as premier from 2018-2022. He denies any wrongdoing.

The minister requested the house give "guidance" to the government about the violence stoked by Khan's supporters, who he said included "miscreants, gangs, and terrorists".

"It is required that the security forces should be given authority and other measures to deal with this issue," he said, adding that Khan's agenda is "chaos and anarchy."

The government has alleged that Khan's supporters had gunnies among them and ministers have called for proscribing Khan's Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
(PTI) party.

Khan has rejected the allegation, saying that the government wanted his party out of politics.

The former premier has demanded snap elections since he was ousted in a parliamentary vote of confidence in April last year. Khan's successor Shehbaz Sharif has said that a general election will be held as scheduled later this year.

Posted by: Fred || 03/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria, Saudi Arabia to restore ties after decade of estrangement
[NPASYRIA] Syria and Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
have agreed to reopen their embassies after cutting diplomatic ties more than a decade ago, media outlets reported on Thursday.

Saudi Arabian state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
aired a report on Thursday, quoting an anonymous official in the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, acknowledging the talks between Damascus and Riyadh.

The two governments were "preparing to reopen embassies after Eid al-Fitr", a Moslem holiday in the second half of April, a regional source aligned with Damascus told Rooters.

The decision was the result of talks in Saudi Arabia with a senior Syrian intelligence official, according to one of the regional sources and a diplomat in the Gulf.

Citing an official of the Saudi Foreign Ministry, the Saudi state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
al-Ekhbariyah later confirmed that talks were ongoing with the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates to resume consular services.

However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
Syrian state media yet to comment on the issue.

This came after a Chinese-mediated talks in Beijing saw Saudi Arabia and Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
agree to reopen embassies in each others’ nations after years of tensions.

The United States, an ally of Saudi Arabia, has opposed moves by regional countries to normalize ties with the Syrian government, citing his government’s brutality during the conflict and the need to see progress towards a political solution.

Posted by: Fred || 03/25/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1  thank goodness
Posted by: Chris || 03/25/2023 19:31 Comments || Top||



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