Washington Post: French President Emmanuel Macron is right: It’s time to make life a living hell for anti-vaxxers.

Washington Post: French President Emmanuel Macron is right: It’s time to make life a living hell for anti-vaxxers. 華盛頓郵報：法國總統伊曼紐爾·馬克龍是對的：現在是時候讓反疫苗者的生活變成人間地獄了.

Macron has set a fine example for other world leaders to follow in refusing to kowtow before ignorance or honor selfishness. By James McAuley Jan 12 2022

French President Emmanuel Macron has a long history of being blunt to the point of withering. His latest comments on those who choose not to get vaccinated are stirring up controversy — but Global Opinions contributing columnist James McAuley argues that he is “totally right.”

“The unvaccinated, I really want to piss them off. … That’s the strategy,” Macron said last week.

Macron faces a presidential election in April, and his opponents have been quick to condemn him. But McAuley contends that Macron’s “strategy” is working. In France, QR codes proving vaccination, recent recovery from covid or a recent negative test are needed to enter restaurants, cafes, cinemas and other public spaces, and the French parliament recently passed a bill for a vaccine pass, making vaccines a requirement to access public life.

The result? So far, 90 percent of French people 12 years old or older have received at least two doses of the vaccine. The day after Macron’s comments, 66,000 people received first vaccinations against the coronavirus, the country’s highest figure in months.

Will this help Macron in April’s election? We’ll soon find out.

AFTER THE FORCE COMES THE MONEY — READY RECKONER FOR WHAT HAPPENS NEXT IN KAZAKHSTAN

AFTER THE FORCE COMES THE MONEY — READY RECKONER FOR WHAT HAPPENS NEXT IN KAZAKHSTAN by John Helmer, Moscow

AFTER THE FORCE COMES THE MONEY — READY RECKONER FOR WHAT HAPPENS NEXT IN KAZAKHSTAN

The three kinds of power which decide the fate of governments are force, fraud and subversion; that’s to say, arms, money, propaganda.

For the time being – and that time is going to be slower and longer than you think — Russian policy has won in Kazakhstan with force, just as it had already fought the US and China to a draw in Kazakhstan with fraud. Russian force has replaced Kazakh fraud in the nick of time, but the swiftness and logistics of the deployment of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) peacekeepers indicate advance planning and preparation. That doesn’t mean conspiracy.

Stanislav Zas, the former Belarus general and now CSTO Secretary General, reported on Monday: “we spent two days on the organisational procedures. Simultaneously, we were deploying the Collective Peacekeeping Forces. Yesterday [January 9], we fully completed this deployment. Over four days, Russian Aerospace Forces planes made over 108 flights. We have deployed contingents of the Collective Peacekeeping Forces in the cities of Nur-Sultan [Astana], Almaty, and Almaty Region. We have established command posts in the Military Institute of Free Troops in Almaty.”

At the same session of the CSTO’s collective security council, the Kazakh President, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, acknowledeged it had been President Vladimir Putin’s “quick solution of the issue of sending a CSTO peacemaking contingent to Kazakhstan” which saved his government. “When the fighters learned that three cargo planes had arrived in the country’s capital [Astana, Nur-Sultan], they gave up on their plan to seize the President’s residence. This enabled us to send more forces to Almaty and recapture the city from the hands of the terrorists. To date, in accordance with the Collective Security Council’s decision, the CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces of 2,030 troops and 250 pieces of equipment have been deployed [at] protecting and ensuring the security of airports, military depots and other strategic facilities.”

Kazakhstan is Russia’s “bullet proof vest”, comments an engaged Kazakh source. “You don’t have to be a genius to figure out that after the Taliban took over in Afghanistan last August, plans and preparations for changes in the regional balance of security threat and of counter-force should occur. So they did. Everything that has happened – tragic as it is for the Kazakhs, and sobering for everybody – has taken a long period of time to develop. It is also illogical to say that the decisions taken inside Kazakhstan – for example, the fuel price increase which triggered the protests at the start of the month – were taken overnight.”

As for subversion in Kazakhstan, the Japanese mouth organ in London, the Financial Times, and the rest of the Anglo-American media, claim they are winning the war for hearts and minds, and that Russian intervention is a sign of desperation, weakness, and vulnerability. This is wishful propaganda: because arms and money always defeat propaganda, the war of words has been lost where it counts – inside Kazakhstan.

For the time being, Kazakh and Russian sources believe, there is “likely to be a positive result for the CSTO; a likely positive result for the Kremlin. But the result has also demonstrated the durability of the existing power structure in Kazakhstan. This means that the hopes of the first wave of protesters for a wholesale turnover of the government, and for a fundamental improvement in governance and living standards at the expense of the oligarchs, may have failed. It’s too soon to say.”

What happens next, the sources believe, will depend on how Russian money, and Chinese money, are deployed after the CSTO force is withdrawn Large new credit lines from Moscow and Beijing are likely to be announced; their investment targets and their terms will indicate whether the ownership of Kazakhstan’s valuable assets in uranium, metals, fertilizers, oil, gas, grain and other agricultural commodities will change significantly. Force is protected by secrecy; money less so.

“We can’t be sure how the [Russian] military moves were anticipated, then decided,” adds the Kazakh source. Russian sources in Moscow confirm this. The sources agree that the decision-making process now underway in Moscow and Beijing to move fresh capital into Kazakhstan cannot remain comparably secret. The sources also agree that one thing is certain – the fresh capital won’t be coming from the US or Europe.
For aid to understanding how the Russian intelligence and security services are considering the immediate Kazakh situation, here is a translation from the Moscow internet daily publication Vzglyad (“Viewpoint”). It appeared on Monday.

Video: Any Similarities Between Hong Kong & Kazakhstan? Yes, another failed US regime change color revolution

Video: Any Similarities Between Hong Kong & Kazakhstan? Yes, another failed US regime change color revolution 香港和哈薩克斯坦有什麼相似之處嗎？ 有, 又一次失敗的美國政權更迭顏色革命

A Stable Central Asia is vital to Russia and China, but not US wants and it is why there are so many surprises in those nations. 穩定的中亞對俄羅斯和中國至關重要，但不是美國想要的，這就是為什麼美國給這些國家如此多的驚無喜

Another failed US regime change color revolution

Video: Any Similarities Between Hong Kong & Kazakhstan? Yes, another failed US regime change color revolution 香港和哈薩克斯坦有什麼相似之處嗎？ 有, 又一次失敗的美國政權更迭顏色革命

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A Stable Central Asia is vital to Russia and China, but not US wants and it is why there are so many surprises in those nations. 穩定的中亞對俄羅斯和中國至關重要，但不是美國想要的，這就是為什麼美國給這些國家如此多的驚無喜

Two pics, same person: China Train driver Han Junjia’s snapshots with his trains

Two pics, same person: China Train driver Han Junjia’s snapshots with his trains capture the transformation of Chinese trains in just 26 years. 兩張圖，同一個人：中國火車司機韓俊佳與火車的合影，記錄了中國火車在短短26年裡的蛻變.

Video: Decoding rumors on Xinjiang: Americans lie production line behind the “fabricated” crime scene

Video: Decoding rumors on Xinjiang: Americans lie production line behind the “fabricated” crime scene 破譯新疆謠言：美國人在“捏造”的犯罪現場背後躺著生產線

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On the last day of 2021, Tesla announced opening a showroom in Urumqi, the capital of China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, a week after U.S. President Joe Biden signed the Uygur Forced Labor Prevention Act.

Unsurprisingly, the move put the electric carmaker under fire from American politicians and Western-controlled media. The newly approved act labeled operational activities in Xinjiang as forced labor against ethnic Uygurs and other Muslims, thus barring any imports from the area.

Instead of cutting business connections with Xinjiang-related enterprises, Tesla chose the region as the next destination for its business expansion plan. In the view of some analysts, the move is a slap in the face of the American government and its politicians.

Western politicians have associated Xinjiang with human rights abuse and genocide for a long time. But, among numerous attempts, few are tenable.

Where do all these rumors come from?

The earliest can be traced back to a so-called UN work report released in August 2018 during a meeting on human rights, of which Western media cited and claimed that “as many as 1.1 million people in Xinjiang were detained at the re-education camps.”

However, the descriptions were inaccurate. As written in the original minutes of the meeting, the United Nations Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) mentioned the matter by quoting sources. It acknowledged receiving the relevant report but did not make any conclusion. As the UN later clarified, the report cannot represent the stance of the UN.

The report submitted by CERD’s American representative Gay McDougall was based on investigations from a group named China Human Rights Defenders that interviewed eight people.

Donation records showed that from 2012 to 2016, the group received $2.43 million funds from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a U.S. organization known as one of the offshoots of the CIA.

Apart from the work report, Adrian Zenz is another important figure. The German anthropologist has been an active critic of China’s ethnic policy in Xinjiang and Tibet and is believed to be one of the initiators of Washington’s investigations on forced labor in Xinjiang. He made several claims on the human rights situation in Xinjiang, but few are plausible.

Adrian Zenz’s Xinjiang ‘genocide’ claim a widely questioned fallacy: report

Zenz claimed that the Chinese government “forced contraception” and “forced sterilization” on Uygur women in Xinjiang in a research report. But population statistics showed opposite results since the Uygur population in Xinjiang grew from 10.17 million in 2010 to 12.72 million in 2018, with an increase of 25.04 percent, the highest growth rate among all ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, much higher than the 2-percent growth rate of its Han population.

The way Zenz made his conclusion is also puzzling. After seeing a form documenting the situation of IUD checking for women by a quarter in Xinjiang’s Payzawat Country, Zenz came up with a bold claim that the Chinese government is taking compulsory birth control measures on Uygur women because he thought the government makes too frequent inspections, regardless of the fact that the law stipulates that women have the right to be informed of freely choosing contraceptive methods.

People that report the truth

While scholars such as Zenz rose to fame by making untenable allegations, Westerners also stood up to reveal the truth about Xinjiang. Andre Vltcheck is one of them.

According to his website, the 57-year-old journalist called himself “a revolutionary and internationalist” and fought actively against “Western imperialism and the Western regime imposed on the world,” according to his website.

He covered dozens of war zones and conflicts from Iraq and Peru to Sri Lanka, Bosnia, Rwanda, Syria, and Timor Leste, as well as revolutions, rebellions, and terrible riots ignited by Western countries to reveal injustice and bring truth to the public.

During the month-long turbulence in Hong Kong, Vltcheck wrote an open letter to the young people there, calling them to stay alert to Western propaganda and avoid being manipulated by the Western press.

After investigating the Uygur issue in China’s Xinjiang, Vltcheck concluded that the West is creating fake news in an organized way in order to harm China.

“I was investigating Uygur issue in China, Syria, Turkey, Afghanistan, Indonesia and I arrived at the conclusion that USA and Western press created toxic fake news in order to harm China. And it is not only me. Serious investigators/reporters arrived at similar conclusions,” Vltcheck wrote on his Twitter.

He died two months later in Turkey. Local police recorded his case as a “suspicious death,” according to AP.

Vltcheck is not the only one who pointed out that the West uses its powerful propaganda to twist facts and turn black into white. Udo Ulfkotte, a German journalist with 25 years of experience, also revealed the lie production line in the Western media in his book, “Prosecutes Embedded in the Pay of the CIA: A Confession from the Profession.”
As written on the introduction page of Amazon, the book was suppressed for three years under the title “Journalists for Hire.”

According to him, intelligence agencies such as the CIA bribes journalists and thus influence public opinion. “The CIA holds the hand that holds the pen.”

Ulfkotte took himself as an example. In a video, he confessed that he had been told to lie and betray the public. He also acknowledged that his career in journalism started after being vetted by the German intelligence agency BND.

He discovered the nerve gas attack made by the West in the Middle East during his stay there, but his reports and photos were buried. Since then, he started to reveal the hidden truth.

As written on the Amazon page, police and prosecutors searched his home and offices six times over the next 10 years due to his politically incorrect reports on things the public should not know.

He died from a heart attack on January 13, 2017, a week before his 57th birthday. Many said his death was a murder, but there’s no proven evidence so far.

The two journalists revealed how Western countries produce lies and manipulate public opinion. When it comes to the case of Xinjiang, the approval of the Uygur Forced Labor Prevention Act is the latest attempt, but it won’t be the last one.

In a bid to dismiss rumors, the Chinese government has invited many groups from overseas to visit the region.

China rejects groundless claims on Xinjiang. It hopes the international community would cultivate a deeper understanding of the problems in Xinjiang, but China does not welcome organizations which visit Xinjiang with political purposes and attempt to harm China’s interests, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said.