Western Empires proclaimed so call Freedom Democracy Human Rights and Rules of Law! Really? The New Yorkers: The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe 西方帝國宣布所謂的自由民主人權和法治！ 真的嗎？ 紐約人雜誌: 使移民遠離歐洲的秘密監獄.
Tired of migrants arriving from Africa, the E.U. has created a shadow immigration system that captures them before they reach its shores, and sends them to brutal Libyan detention centers run by militias. By Ian Urbina 厭倦了來自非洲的移民，歐盟 建立了一個影子移民系統，在他們到達海岸之前將他們抓獲，並將他們送到由民兵管理的殘酷的利比亞拘留中心。
In May, Ian Urbina and a three-person team travelled to Libya, to investigate the country’s brutal migrant detention centers, including a collection of makeshift warehouses in Tripoli known as Al Mabani, where thousands of people have been held in deeply inhumane conditions. In a shocking new piece of reporting, published in partnership with the Outlaw Ocean Project, Urbina documents the horrors endured by these detainees, and the extent of European culpability in this cruel, deeply cynical, and largely unknown system.
Abuses identified at the roughly fifteen such prisons in the country include “detainees tortured with electric shocks, children raped by guards, families extorted for ransom, men and women sold into forced labor.” Urbina adds that “migrants in Al Mabani were beaten for whispering to one another, speaking in their native tongues, or laughing.”
The European Union has equipped and trained the Libyan Coast Guard, “a quasi-military organization linked to militias in the country, to patrol the Mediterranean, sabotaging humanitarian rescue operations and capturing migrants. The migrants are then detained indefinitely in a network of profit-making prisons run by the militias.”
“If the E.U. did not finance the Libyan Coast Guard and its assets, there would be no interception, and there would be no referral to these horrific detention centers,” a member of the European Parliament explains to Urbina. Libya’s former Minister of Justice is even more blunt: the plan by the E.U. was to “create a hellhole in Libya, with the idea of deterring people from heading to Europe.”
This story of systematic abuses is also the story of Aliou Candé, a twenty-eight-year-old migrant who left his family’s failing farm in Guinea-Bissau and ventured across North Africa, only to end up in Al Mabani. And it’s the story of Urbina’s own terrifying experience in Libya, where he and his colleagues were taken captive for six days and interrogated by men who claimed to be members of the country’s intelligence service. As Urbina writes, “The experience—deeply frightening but mercifully short—offered a glimpse into the world of indefinite detention in Libya.”
Victims of California’s “$950 or less 100% discount” robbers go free laws, SF jewelry store got robbed $250,000 and other spent $30,000/month on security services
Honduras election front runner Xiomara Castro pledge to break ties with Taiwan Province, established ties with Beijing. NED and English Tsai are working behind the scene just like the riots at Solomon Islands. 洪都拉斯選舉領跑者休馬拉·卡斯特羅承諾與台灣省斷交，與北京建立關係。 就像所羅門群島的騷亂一樣, 美國民主基金會和台灣省政府在幕後操作.
2019 Solomon Island established diplomatic relation with Beijing, ended the relationship with Taiwan Province. It was a coupe attempt by NED and English Tsai to remove him from power. 2019年所羅門島與北京建交，結束與台灣省的關係。 這是美國民主基金會和蔡英文試圖將總理除去.
KRON4 TV Station was in Oakland Chinatown interview victims of California’s “$950 or less 100% discount” robbery, they got robbed themselves, retired Oakland Japanese-American Police Officer was security guard got shot pronounced dead.
In view of what is happening in California, Honololu Hawaii is producing these brochures for distribution, luckily Hawaii does not have a $950 100% discount law in place 鑑於加利福尼亞正在發生的事情，夏威夷檀香山正在製作這些小冊子以供分發，幸運的是夏威夷沒有製定 950 美元以下100% 折扣的法律.
Joint Article by Chinese and Russian Ambassadors to the United States by H.E. Mr. Qin Gang & H.E. Mr. Anatoly Antonov
Russian & Chinese Ambassadors: Respecting People’s Democratic Rights The upcoming American-led online Summit for Democracy will stoke ideological confrontation. Faced with an array of global challenges, countries urgently need to strengthen coordination and cooperation for common progress.
The United States will be hosting the online Summit for Democracy on December 9-10, 2021, empowering itself to define who is to attend the event and who is not, who is a “democratic country” and who is not eligible for such status. An evident product of its Cold-War mentality, this will stoke up ideological confrontation and a rift in the world, creating new “dividing lines.” This trend contradicts the development of the modern world. It is impossible to prevent the shaping of a global polycentric architecture but could strain the objective process. China and Russia firmly reject this move.
Peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom are common values of humanity. Democracy is not a prerogative of a certain country or a group of countries, but a universal right of all peoples. It can be realized in multiple ways, and no model can fit all countries. Whether a country’s path works depends on whether it meets the country’s realities, follows the trend of the times, and brings about economic development, social stability and progress, and better lives for the people. Ultimately, it relies on the support of the people and will be proven by its contribution to human progress.
Therefore, a basic criterion of democracy should be about the people, i.e. whether the people have the right to govern their country, whether their needs are met, and whether they have a sense of fulfillment and happiness. If the people are only awakened when casting their votes and sent back to hibernation when the voting is over, if they are served with sweet-sounding slogans in campaigns but have no say after the election, if they are wooed during canvassing but left out in the cold after that, this is not a genuine democracy.
What China has is an extensive, whole-process socialist democracy. It reflects the people’s will, suits the country’s realities, and enjoys strong support from the people. In China, the people have the right to elections, and they can get deeply involved in national governance, exercising their power through the People’s Congresses at the national and other levels. China has eight non-Communist parties participating in governance, as well as a unique system and corresponding institutions of political consultation. On matters concerning people’s keen interests, there are broad-based and sufficient consultations and discussions before any decision is made. Policies and measures can only be introduced when there is a consensus that they are what the people want and will serve the people’s needs. It has been proved that the whole-process democracy works in China, and works very well. China calls for building a community with a shared future for mankind. As residents of the same global village, we should handle international affairs through consultation.
Russia is a democratic federative law-governed state with a republican form of government. Democracy is the fundamental principle of its political system. The democratic institutions were further strengthened by the amendments to the Constitution adopted through a referendum in 2020. In Russia, the development of democracy is closely connected to culture and traditions. Traditions of its parliamentarianism go back over a hundred years. Russia’s political system is evolving steadily and needs a stable and calm environment that guarantees the rights and interests of its people.
Democracy is not just about domestic governance; it should also be reflected in international relations. A truly democratic government will support democracy in international relations. It will not foster hegemony and division abroad while building democracy and unity at home. The path to prosperity of nations goes through respectful cooperation with each other, despite some differences in views on particular issues.
The sovereignty, security, and development interests of a country should not be violated. Interfering in other countries’ internal affairs—under the pretext of fighting corruption, promoting democratic values, or protecting human rights—hindering their development, wielding the big stick of sanctions, and even infringing on their sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity go against the UN Charter and other basic norms of international law and are obviously anti-democratic.
No country has the right to judge the world’s vast and varied political landscape by a single yardstick, and having other countries copy one’s political system through color revolution, regime change and even use of force go against international law, and are obviously anti-democratic.
International affairs should be handled in accordance with the principles of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, and decided in the spirit of true multilateralism. There should be a more inclusive global governance, not something like “might makes right.” Seeking supremacy and putting oneself always first are acts of hegemonism and unilateralism, and are obviously anti-democratic.
Common security and development are a prevailing aspiration of the international community. Using ideology to bring down other countries, and promote a geo-strategy for absolute security will lead to division and confrontation, and are obviously anti-democratic.
There is only one international system in the world, i.e. the international system with the United Nations at its core. There is only one international order, i.e. the one underpinned by international law. And there is only one set of rules, i.e. the basic norms governing international relations based on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter. Flaunting the “rules-based international order” without referencing the UN and international law and attempting to replace international rules with the dictums of certain blocs falls into the category of revisionism and is obviously anti-democratic.
There has seen no shortage of wars and turmoil worldwide to prove that spreading “democracy,” its political system, and values against other countries’ will severely undermine regional and international peace, security, and stability. Bombings of Yugoslavia, military intervention in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, and “democratic transformation” do nothing but harm. Countries should focus on running their own affairs well, not condescendingly criticizing others. There is no need to worry about democracy in Russia and China. Certain foreign governments better think about themselves and what is going on in their homes. Is it freedom when various rallies in their countries are dispersed with rubber bullets and tear gas? It does not look very much like freedom.
Faced with an array of global challenges, countries urgently need to strengthen coordination and cooperation for common progress. Especially today when the international community needs to improve cooperation between all countries to counter the pandemic of COVID-19, foster economic development, and neutralize cross-border threats.
China and Russia call on countries: to stop using “value-based diplomacy” to provoke division and confrontation; to practice mutual respect and win-win cooperation in international relations, and to work for harmonious coexistence between countries with different social systems, ideologies, histories, cultures, and development levels.
Professor Kiji Noh in San Francisco: These are the 8 minority parties in China. Notice that they all have representation at the national legislative body, the National People’s Congress, unlike, for example, the US, which rarely has minority parties represented in Congress, except for a token independent or libertarian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_China
Professor John V Walsh, MD in San Francisco: I liked these two paragraphs:
“Peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom are common values of humanity. Democracy is not a prerogative of a certain country or a group of countries, but a universal right of all peoples. It can be realized in multiple ways, and no model can fit all countries. Whether a country’s path works depends on whether it meets the country’s realities, follows the trend of the times, and brings about economic development, social stability and progress, and better lives for the people. Ultimately, it relies on the support of the people and will be proven by its contribution to human progress.
“Therefore, a basic criterion of democracy should be about the people, i.e. whether the people have the right to govern their country, whether their needs are met, and whether they have a sense of fulfillment and happiness. If the people are only awakened when casting their votes and sent back to hibernation when the voting is over, if they are served with sweet-sounding slogans in campaigns but have no say after the election, if they are wooed during canvassing but left out in the cold after that, this is not a genuine democracy.”
