12/19/2017
building the surveillance world
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AUGUST 26TH, 2018 Resettled where? In detention camps, perhaps? And if not a million, then how many? Half a million? Two million? The state-run Global Times then defended the detention camps that do not exist by claiming that Xinjiang had narrowly escaped a descent into mass violence and chaos.
“It is because of the Party’s leadership, a powerful China, and the courage of local officials that Xinjiang has been pulled back from the verge of massive turmoil. It has avoided the fate of becoming ‘China’s Syria’ or ‘China’s Libya’.” That is not a denial of the policy; it’s a justification of it.
You can’t have it both ways: China is detaining and ‘reprogramming’ Muslims in Xinjiang (we don’t say ‘brainwashing’ any more) on a very large scale. It is doing so because it fears that the sporadic terrorist attacks that have hit cities in Xingjiang and even China proper may escalate as Islamic State, defeated in Syria and Iraq, seeks to build support in other regions of the Muslim world.
Religion is not the root cause of Uighur unhappiness with Chinese rule; it is the deliberate effort to submerge their identity by settling millions of Han Chinese (the ethnic group who make up more than 90 percent of China’s population) in the province that was once known as ‘Chinese Turkestan’.
Xinjiang wasn’t even Chinese until the 1870s, when the Qing dynasty finally nailed down Chinese control over a crossroads region (part of the old Silk Road) that had been ruled by more than a dozen different mini-empires in the previous millennium….Only one-fifth of Xinjiang’s population was Han Chinese in 1950; today almost half is. https://cyprus-mail.com/2018/08/26/china-and-the-uighurs/
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"I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions; I will be satisfied if the
federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the
world that I love are revealed even for an instant.”
At the NSA office in Hawaii where Edward Snowden was working he copied the last set of documents he intended to disclose. He then advised his NSA supervisor that he needed to be away from work for "a couple of weeks" in order to receive treatment for epilepsy, a condition he learned he suffers from after a series of seizures last year.
As he packed his bags he told his girlfriend that he had to be away for a few weeks, though he said he was vague about the reason--"That is not an uncommon occurrence for someone who has spent the last decade working in the intelligence world."
On May 20 he boarded a flight to Hong Kong where he has remained ever since. He chose the city because "they have a spirited commitment to free speech and the right of political dissent", and because he believed that it was one of the few places in the world that both could and would resist the dictates of the US government. In the three weeks since he arrived he has been ensconced in a hotel room--"I've left the room maybe a total of three times during my entire stay," he said. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance
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One ring (love of/monopoly of money) to rule them all…
Translation: One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them,
One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
-forged by Lord Sauron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Ring
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