Central Europe is the voice of calm in this sea of political extortion:
The leaders of three Central European countries on Tuesday expressed their solidarity with Poland in an ongoing migration crisis on its eastern border with Belarus, and urged the European Union to increase its support for the protection of the bloc's external borders.
At a news briefing in Hungary's capital of Budapest following talks between the prime ministers of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said the situation on his country's eastern border went beyond migration.
It’s a “new political crisis” in which people are being used by human smugglers and mafias in cooperation with the authoritarian government of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to exert pressure on the EU, Morawiecki said.
"Human beings are used as objects, as tools, which is horrible. In the hands of the Lukashenko regime, they are merely tools,” Morawiecki said.
Tuesday's summit of the Visegrad Four grouping of Central European countries came as thousands of migrants, mostly from countries in the Middle East, have traveled to Belarus in recent months and attempted to cross into the EU through neighboring Poland, a member of the 27-member bloc.
Poland has reinforced its border with riot police and troops and plans to build a steel barrier, measures supported by many in the EU. It has also used water cannon and tear gas to deter migrants attempting to breach the border, drawing criticism from some human rights groups and others who argue the migrants shouldn't be pushed back into Belarus and should be allowed to submit asylum claims.
The EU has argued that Lukashenko is using the migrants to destabilize the bloc in retaliation for sanctions it imposed on his government. Belarus denies engineering the crisis.
By empowering China, we let the tragedy that is North Korea continue:
At this stage, despite the appalling economic situation, it is simply inconceivable that Kim would consider pausing or diminishing his nuclear programme. Not unreasonably, the regime – looking at the fate of people like Saddam and Gaddafi – views nukes as their sole means of survival. Besides, the testing of nuclear weapons is pretty much the only thing the regime has done ‘well’. The country’s nukes are frequently touted in propaganda as symbolic of Kim’s power and ingenuity. In this sense, they are the bedrock of his authority. If Kim is presented with a choice between feeding his people, and keeping his nukes, he will choose the nukes. Could we tolerate the consequences of this?
We could always punish China.
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The Christian rights organization International Christian Concern (ICC) has identified Nigeria, the Taliban and Kim Jong Un as the worst Christian persecutors of the year.
According to a 150-page report naming 24 of the world’s worst oppressors of Christian minorities, the three groups and individuals each received the top spot in their respective categories.
I'll leave this here:
There’s less reason to question reports that North Korea is embarked on an anti-Christian jihad, publicly executing those who would put other gods before His Withering Majesty. We’ve heard recent reports of hundreds (if not thousands) of public executions in North Korea, we’ve seen smuggled video of at least one such execution, and there is plenty of evidence that North Korea imprisons, tortures, and executes people for believing in or propogating Christianity.
Kyle Rittenhouse, who was acquitted on charges stemming from killing two men and wounding another during the unrest that followed the shooting of a Black man by a white police officer, says in a new interview that he’s “not a racist person” and supports the Black Lives Matter movement.
“This case has nothing to do with race. It never had anything to do with race. It had to do with the right to self-defense,” the 18-year-old tells Fox News host Tucker Carlson in an interview set to air Monday night. Rittenhouse is white, as were the men he shot.
The American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) has launched a new initiative to increase the number of medical professionals who provide Abortion Pill Reversal (APR) treatment, which consists of administering the hormone progesterone to counteract the effects of mifepristone (the abortion pill), a progesterone blocker. To that end, the organization has launched a new page on its website and produced a new video, both of which answer common questions about APR from a medical provider’s perspective.
Not everyone can be an unabashed pervert and still make it in the Liberal Party:
Embattled Toronto MP Kevin Vuong, who was ditched by the Liberals days before the federal election after failing to disclose a withdrawn sexual-assault charge, has apologized to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Vuong also apologized to his supporters “for embarrassing them,” as well as his former Liberal colleagues.
In his first interview since the Sept. 20 election, Vuong said he was “naive” and “too eager” to become an MP, and regrets the decision not to tell the party about the charge while being vetted as a candidate.
Despite being disavowed as the Liberal candidate in Spadina-Fort York days before the vote, he was elected to Parliament nonetheless and is set to take his seat as an Independent MP next week.
You have to be high up there, Kevin. Climb that ladder.
Three years after 16 members of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team were killed in a crash on a Saskatchewan highway, the man responsible is publicly apologizing and lobbying to stay in Canada. As a permanent resident, Jaskirat Singh Sidhu faces deportation to India when his prison sentence is complete.
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