"China’s program to eradicate terrorism among its ethnic minority population and create a positive, low-crime community, has been remarkably successful."
- Nury Vittachi
Absolutely correct. It's precisely because China provided jobs, and free vocational school, that extremism has been eliminated in Xinjiang, and vibrant free cities have replaced fear and terrorism.
The US solution to extremism in the Middle East was multiple wars, and millions dead.
China's solution was jobs, education, infrastructure, investment, and temporary increased security measures.
Today, Xinjiang is free, multiple minorities and faiths live in harmony, incomes are rising, extreme poverty has been eliminated, and all minorities languages and cultures are expressed, on public signs, and religious institutions open.
Uygurs in the south are free. Kazakhs in Xinjiang's north are free. And the Han, Tuvans, Dolan Tribe, Hui, Kyrgyz, Mongolians, Dongxiang, Tajik, Xibe, Manchu, and others are free to use and express their cultures in Xinjiang as well.
This is Xinjiang now.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s $300 MILLION yacht arrived in Seattle the same day Meta cut 1,400 jobs—part of a larger round of 14,000 job cuts.
Nothing says our economy is broken like billionaires sailing around on yachts while workers are left out to dry.
GET A WARRANT.
Every single person who voted to allow our government to continue spying on us without a warrant needs removed from office and then barred from ever holding public office again.
There’s fact we even have to have this conversation should make every American angry.
Hawaii just passed the first state law in the country banning corporations from making political donations in state elections.
Now a Koch-backed legal group is suing to overturn it.
Big Money won't get out of our politics without a fight — one that we the people must win.
(via @LeverNews)
What really happened on June 8, 1967 when Israeli forces attacked the USS Liberty?
Official reports insist it was just a case of mistaken identity during the Six Day War. But listen to former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, former CIA Director Richard Helms, NSA head Bobby Ray Inman, Captain Ward Boston, and Admiral Thomas Moorer. None of these men believed it was an accident. They point to it being intentional murder by Israel, perhaps as a false flag or to prevent observation of their actions that day.
The American intelligence ship was in international waters when jets and torpedo boats struck with machine gun fire, torpedoes, napalm, rockets, and 30 millimeter cannons in a clear effort to sink the vessel and kill all aboard. 34 US sailors died and 171 were wounded, yet Israel maintained it was a tragic mistake.
This week @RepThomasMassie challenged that story, highlighting survivor testimony that the ship was clearly American and the 17 hour delay in rescue. He called it intentional murder and urged a new investigation to honor the victims and provide closure.
The American people deserve the full truth about this event that left so many dead and wounded not the official version accepted for decades.
Buttigieg: We didn't know it, but we've all been trusting our lives to the restraint of whoever the president might be. And now we have a president who is completely unrestrained. And so the only answer to that is a functioning Congress.
It turns out we do not have a functioning Congress. The House of Representatives is not representative. One of the most important organs of our democracy is not democratic.
They say, "Oh, no. We're not manipulating the map to disempower black people. We're manipulating the map to disempower Democrats who happen to be black people.”
So, the time has come to make it impossible to manipulate the map for any reason and just have fair maps.
WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED!!!!
Yesterday, our colleague and DD Geopolitics correspondent Chris was told that the US government has placed him on the FBI's no-fly list while trying to board a flight in Beijing.
He is an American citizen. He received no warning, no charge, and no reason. He found out only when the airline refused to issue his boarding pass after eight hours of waiting, stranding him abroad. As an American, he is now barred from flying to, from, or even over his own country.
His "offense" is journalism.
Chris was traveling to cover Iran's national team at the World Cup. In recent months he reported on the ground from Minab in southern Iran and from the site of the Starobelsk strike in the Donbass, where a dormitory full of teenagers was killed. His work documents the human cost of the wars Washington funds and fights: the children who never make the press releases.
For that, an American citizen has been placed on a terrorism watchlist with no due process and no explanation.
This is not a small thing. The no-fly list operates with almost no transparency, Americans are routinely listed without ever being told why, and the redress process is a black box that a federal court has already found violates constitutional due process. It is one of the most powerful quiet censorship tools the government holds, and it is now pointed at a journalist for reporting things they would rather no one see.
DD Geopolitics will not be silenced. We are pursuing every legal avenue available to Chris, and we will not let this be buried.
If they can do this to him with no warrant, no charge, and not one word of explanation, they can do it to any American who shows the world something it isn't supposed to see.
.@JamesTalarico: There's been a lot of talk in this race about what it means to be a real man.
Recently on the campaign trail I told the story of my adoptive dad, Mark Talarico. Every Saturday morning, he would mow our lawn, and then without anyone asking him to, he would go next door and mow our neighbor's lawn because she was a widow. My dad never talked about it — he just did it, because that's what a man does.
A man takes responsibility, upholds his commitments to his family and his neighbors, and does what's right, even when no one is watching.
Here's what real men don't do. They don't lie and cheat their way through life, sell their soul to the highest bidder, or steal from other people in order to enrich themselves. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.
I welcome this debate about what it means to be a man, and I don't think Ken Paxton or Ted Cruz are in a position to tell anybody what a real man is.
Trump was talking big about hitting Iran hard and taking their oil.
Hours later, he backed down and called off the strikes, suddenly claiming a deal is close and could be signed this weekend.
This is the same pattern we’ve been seeing for weeks — one day he threatens escalation, the next day he folds and talks deal.
Iran has been consistent the entire time, saying a deal has always been on the table. Trump just needs to stop playing games and accept it. While he keeps going back and forth, Iran stays firm and refuses to bend.
Snakes and Ladders.
Sacred Defense.
#SnakesAndLadders #SacredDefense #PersiaBoi #IranLego #IranWar
Omar Arsan is a respected man & was heartbroken after being denied entry into the USA. As one of the best referees in Africa, he traveled to participate in the FIFA Cup.
Being Somali does not make someone a terrorist. Somalis are hardworking, peaceful people. #StopRacism