Day: December 22, 2023

Poland: New globalist government begins purge of right wing media; EU elites praises new ‘bright era’

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REPUBLISHED, SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/12/poland-new-globalist-government-begins-purge-of-right-wing-media-eu-elites-praises-new-bright-era

A dark week in Poland: Globalist leftist leader Donald Tusk is Poland’s new prime minister, causing a swerve in Poland from right to left, to the delight of the European Union globalist elites. The government didn’t waste any time in implementing Communist-style rule. It swiftly fired directors of state television,  radio and government-run news agency in a purge of conservative influences, and boasted of “a bright era for Poland and its relationship with the EU.”

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, an ardent supporter of open-door immigration policies, commended Tusk’s  “commitment to ‘our European values.’” Expect the new leftist coalition government to implement big changes in Poland’s values, including lax immigration policies. Like every other globalist EU country,  Poland will descend into crime and chaos, with jihad attacks.

“Breaking: Standoff at Polish State TV After Purge of Conservatives,” by Thomas O’Reilly, European Conservative, December 20, 2023:

There is ongoing pandemonium at the headquarters of Poland’s state broadcaster TVP after high-ranking members of the conservative PiS party, including the country’s former prime minister Jarosław Kaczyński began a sit-down protest against a purge by the new Tusk government of PiS friendly executives.

The Polish media landscape was thrown into disarray Tuesday as senior members of TVP management were dismissed due to their conservative PiS ties, resulting in broadcasting being partially curtailed on the network’s news channels.

The firings came after the station earned a reputation as being sympathetic to PiS during the recent elections as Donald Tusk pledged to commence an institutional purge of right-wing elements in the Polish establishment now that they are in power….

“Tusk’s Reelection Delighting EU’s Globalist Elite,” by Zoltan Kottasz, European Conservative, December 20, 2023:

The leaders of the European Union’s institutions welcomed the return of Donald Tusk as Poland’s prime minister with visible glee and enthusiasm, signalling how a shift in Poland from a sovereigntist approach to a globalist one will make it easier for Brussels and Warsaw to cooperate.

Donald Tusk was elected as prime minister late on Monday, December 11th after winning a vote of confidence in parliament. His cabinet will get the nod of approval from parliament on Tuesday evening, and Tusk is to be sworn in by President Andrzej Duda on Wednesday.

Although conservative-nationalist party Law and Justice (PiS)—in power since 2015—won most of the seats in October’s elections, with 35.4% share of the votes, it failed to win a majority. This paved the way for three political alliances—comprising more than a dozen parties from the Left to the centre-right—to take charge and form a government.

President of the European Council Charles Michel welcomed the reelection of Tusk….

China applauds Australia’s rejection of US-led maritime naval mission against Iran-aligned Houthis

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In case anyone has been wondering where China stands on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, here is some illuminating information according to The Guardian:

Beijing has been a supporter of the Palestinians since the Mao era and long called for a two-state solution, but it is increasingly close to Israel, and is presenting itself as a neutral party that holds steadfast to a noninterference principle.

Beijing is also trying to build on its minimal but growing influence in the Middle East, where it has major economic interests, and also presenting itself as a leader of the global south, and furthering its anti-US agenda.

A week on from the 7 October attack by Hamas on Israel, in which 1,400 people, mostly civilians, were killed, China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, called for a global peace conference and accused Israel of going “beyond the scope of self defence” in its bombing of Gaza. On 16 October, Xi Jinping called for a ceasefire

China is acting in accord with expectations regarding the Red-Green axis. Let’s not forget the China-brokered Saudi-Iran rapprochement. And now China is applauding Australia for its rejection of a US call for the “broadest possible” maritime coalition to protect ships in the the Red Sea from attacks from the Iran-aligned Houthis. China’s reaction is a declaration of hostility to America and Israel.

While Australia has been condemned as “weak” and for “spitting in the face” of allies, the country did state that it will be “almost tripling” its “contribution to the Combined Maritime Force”:

Up to six extra Australian Defence Force officers will be deployed to the Combined Maritime Forces in Bahrain in early 2024 and another five personnel will be embedded in the CMF headquarters for Operation Manitou, which supports international maritime security efforts in the Middle East and East Africa.

The only Muslim country to join the coalition is Bahrain.

“China Applauds Australia’s Retreat from Red Sea International Naval Mission,” by Simon Kent, Breitbart, December 20, 2023:

The Chinese government was quick to cheer Australia’s rejection of a United States’ call to send a warship to help police vital Red Sea trade routes, gushing Wednesday that Canberra was finally stepping out of America’s “shadow.”

In an opinion piece published by China’s tame state-run media – the Global Times newspaper – author Jerry Grey celebrated the left-wing Labor government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reported refusal to send a warship to the Middle East, and Australia’s recent U.N. vote for a ceasefire in contrast to that of the U.S..

“(Australia) has finally stepped out of the US’ shadow to call for a ceasefire and could potentially act as a mediator in the conflict if needed. That opportunity will be lost if it has a military presence in the region. It is sensible for Australia to continue distancing itself from the US,” the paper said…

Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Wants to Save World and ‘Crush Zionism,’ Too

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That noxious Swedish brat Greta Thunberg, the well-known “climate activist” who has received far too much adoring attention, allowing her to think that she will singlehandedly save the world if only the world has the good sense to listen to her, has now turned twenty. She is not at all “sweet and twenty,” but as unpleasant as they come. She’s recently added another arrow to her quiver: it’s “Palestine” she pines for. It’s Hamas that has caught her fancy, it’s those terrible Israelis she feels a deep need to denounce. More on this charter member of Groupies for Gaza, who has been commenting on the climate conference just held in Dubai, can be found here: “Greta Thunberg slams COP28 climate deal and Israel, waves Palestinian flag,” by Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman, Jerusalem Post, December 17, 2023:

“The final outcome of #COP28 is not a ‘historic win,'” Thunberg tweeted. “It is yet another example of extremely vague and watered-down texts full of loopholes” that won’t solve the problem.

The climate problem is not to be “solved.” It is, rather, a situation that can be ameliorated. That is a different thing. It’s like the jihad being conducted by the Palestinians against Israel. That jihad cannot be “solved” as long as Islam exists, but nonetheless, a modus vivendi can be achieved with the Arabs if Israel remains overwhelmingly, and obviously, more powerful militarily than its enemies. That’s called deterrence, and it worked well during the Cold War.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg once again fused the Palestinian cause with the climate change movement as she participated in her weekly “Fridays for Future” protest outside parliament in Stockholm on December 15.

During the demonstration, she prominently displayed a Palestinian flag and held a “Free Palestine” sign – a photo of which she uploaded to her personal X account while bashing the Conference of the Parties (COP28) climate deal. She also proclaimed that the world will be “transitioning away from fossil fuels” to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

It’s mix-n’-match in Greta Thunberg’s overheated brain. She’s holding up the latest in vexillogical fashion — the flag of a future Palestinian state that, its supporters around the world fondly believe, will replace the Jewish state “from the river to the sea” with a twenty-third Arab one. At the same time, she continues to deplore the failure, as she sees it, of the meeting in Dubai of COP28.

Dr. Sultan al-Jaber was the president of COP28. He is the UAE’s environment minister, and he is also the CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC). Many were up in arms that someone so connected to the oil industry should have been the head of the conference, especially when they discovered that before the conference began he had said in an online event on Nov. 21 that “there is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5 [a rise in global temperature of 1.5 degrees].” Furthermore, he added, “it would be impossible to stop burning fossil fuels and sustain economic development, “unless you want to take the world back into caves.”

The Arab oil states were the spoilers at COP28. Just before COP28 began, the Arab oil states had held their own meeting in Doha, Qatar, where they passed a resolution essentially saying that “oil is here to stay.” And when they went to Dubai, they were determined to keep any language calling for an end to fossil fuels out of the final document. It was a battle royal, and in the end the Arabs decided to yield, just a little, so great was the clamor against them, by allowing “fossil fuels” to be mentioned, but making sure that the language about reducing their use was both vague and weak. In the Global Stocktake COP28, the parties agreed to “transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems in a just, orderly and equitable manner, accelerating action in this critical decade, so as to achieve net zero by 2050.” There’s plenty of room to maneuver in that call for a “transition…in a just, orderly, and equitable manner.” No binding commitments were made by individual countries to lower their carbon emissions by a set amount.

What Saudi Arabia think is a “just orderly, and equitable manner” of transition away from fossil fuels will be very different from what the U.K., or France, or India might think. The Saudis, Emiratis, and Kuwaitis will do everything they can to throw a spanner in the works, so determined are they to sell every last barrel of oil they have in the ground. No one wants to be left holding billions of barrels in a world that has completely “transitioned” to solar, wind, hydropower, and nuclear energy.

Speaker Johnson Dares Biden to Finally Do Something About the Border

STEPHEN GREEN | 1:30 PM ON DECEMBER 21, 2023
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As illegal aliens set record after record in busting our southern border, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said that "significant action" is required and that it "must start" with none other than Presidentish Joe Biden.

In a letter to the president seen by Axios, Johnson urged Biden to re-adopt border control policies first used by President Donald Trump when he created some semblance of sanity. 

"Statutory reforms designed to restore operational control at our southern border must be enacted, but the crisis at our southern border has deteriorated to such an extent that significant action can wait no longer. It must start now, and it must start with you," Johnson wrote.

Trump's border policies included at least three major changes. There was a travel ban on immigrants from terror-sponsoring countries like Libya, North Korea, and Venezuela. "Remain in Mexico" required asylum-seekers to do just that until they could show they qualified. And if all those failed, Trump tried to enforce a "zero tolerance" policy for illegals. 

Is Biden going to act on any of those after basing a big chunk of his presidential campaign and three years of his term in office tearing them down?

Not. Gonna. Happen. Johnson can write all the letters he wants but Biden won't take executive action.

The Republican-controlled House did pass statutory reforms two months ago in H.R. 2, but the bill has since withered in the Democrat-controlled Senate. GOP negotiators have tried to compromise, willing to give up parts of H.R. 2 in exchange for the military and financial aid the White House wants for Ukraine and Israel. But Biden — or whoever is in charge of the Oval Office — seems so steadfast in allowing the chaos to continue that he has basically told House Republicans to get stuffed.

So let me give you a minor spoiler: nothing is going to happen.

The Associated Press reported today that a border deal may be "closer than it seems," but what does that mean in reality?

The sunny view, courtesy of the AP, is that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) are ready to broker a deal just as soon as the Senate comes back into session on January 6 — and they do seem to share at least some common ground.

“We all know there’s a problem at the border,” Schumer said earlier this week. “Our goal is, as soon as we get back, to get something done.” And McConnell insisted that the talks "continue to make headway.”

OK, fine. Let's say Schumer and McConnell get their deal and it does contain provisions and money to get a handle on the border. They send the revised bill back to the House, and it passes. Let's also assume that Biden signs it into law.

Well... so what?

Whatever any compromise legislation might say, Biden and his impeachably negligent Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas will be in charge of putting those words into action.

Does anyone with more than three brain cells believe that Biden and Mayorkas will enforce it? They've spent the last three years ruthlessly not enforcing our existing border controls. Adding a few more will just give the White House a few more things to chuckle about.