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Black Analyst: MSNBC Race Baiters Are Engaging In “Satanism”

Analyst Jason Whitlock slammed leftist race baiters at MSNBC, arguing that they are promoting “satanism” by forcing a false reality on the world.
Appearing with Mark Levin, Whitlock targeted Joy Reid and her recent guests for equating practically everything with white nationalism.
“I don’t want to diminish racism, I don’t want to diminish anti-Semitism, those are real issues and real problems,” Whitlock clarified.
He continued, “But what we’re really seeing here from Joy Reid, from Michael Eric Dyson, from Jonathan Capehart, this is satanism.”
“This is satanic,” Whitlock urged, adding “When there is an attack on truth, it’s an attack on God. It’s an attack on Jesus.”
“The truth is what sets us free. The truth is what Jesus, God, faith, are about,” the analyst explained.
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As noted multiple times recently, Reid and her guests have <a href="https://summit.news/2021/11/05/video-msnbc-race-baiters-continue-to-attack-virginias-first-black-lt-gov-as-white-supremacist/">relentlessly attacked</a> Winsome Sears, Virginia’s first black Lt. Governor, declaring her to be a “ventriloquist” for white supremacists.
Reid <a href="https://summit.news/2021/11/11/video-race-baiter-msnbc-host-and-guest-say-rittenhouses-trial-is-white-privilege-on-steroids/">has also suggested</a> that Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial in Kenosha, Wisconsin is biased and represents “white privilege on steroids,” and is proof of “why critical race theory exists” and is necessary in America.
The MSNBC host and her guests on a daily basis defend the teaching of CRT in classrooms, while simultaneously claiming it doesn’t exist, and have even <a href="https://summit.news/2021/11/12/video-msnbc-race-baiters-defend-school-porn-books/">lumped in parents who are campaigning against pornography</a> literature in schools with white supremacists.
Reid is the mouthpiece of this false narrative, but academia is rife with CRT enthusiasts who <a href="https://summit.news/2021/11/12/stanford-and-u-cal-professors-declare-that-conservatives-who-vote-for-black-candidates-are-still-racist/">believe that everything is an example of white supremacy</a>, even when conservatives vote for black candidates.
Another MSNBC race baiter, Tiffany Cross, spent the weekend claiming that the trucking industry is made up of ‘racist’ white men.
In a segment on supply chain problems, Cross declared “most of these truck drivers are people of color. And they talked about hearing some of the racism over the CB. This is again, an industry populated by a lot of white men over the age of 55. This group of people overwhelmingly voted for Trump.” 
She continued, “Some people have talked about, you know, aggressive truck drivers, cutting them off or not being helpful. So obviously, the more populated is with people of color, I think you’ll see less of that.”
Cross’ guest, Pamela Day, owner and president of the Crosscountry Truck Driving School, was brought on solely to make the claim that the trucking industry is racist.
“I think just what you’re doing, getting myself as a black female out there and letting people know, I drove for almost eight years. And yes, ran into lots of racism,” she claimed.
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MSNBC continues to relentlessly pump out more race bating, more segregationism, more division, more… satanism?
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US Mountain Biking Champion’s Career and Life Ruined by Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine

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A three-time Enduro National title winner and professional mountain biker has had his life and career ruined by Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine.
Kyle Warner, 29, recently spoke out about how his health was destroyed by the covid jabs, leaving him with pericarditis, <a data-id="https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/postural-tachycardia-syndrome/" data-type="URL" href="https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/postural-tachycardia-syndrome/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Postural tachycardia syndrome (PoTS)</a> and reactive arthritis.
Due to this, Warner’s career is now over.
In an Instagram post, Warner wrote: “Thanks to everyone that has been supportive and understanding of me speaking out on this issue. Many of you know me as a pretty reasonable and caring guy and I never intended to be a part of this whole conversation.
“However after my experience this summer, and listening to literally thousands of similar stories I feel like I need to stand up for the people who either cannot or don’t have access to the same platform.”
Warner emphasised that his injuries are not political. He said that they are personal because they are real and have ruined his life.
“I want the best for the world and for humanity and it breaks my heart to see people suffering in any way,” he said.
“This past week in D.C. shook my view of the world drastically, and it made me realise how much we as average human beings need to come together and advocate for one another.”
He urged his followers to listen to his story and other people’s experiences “before judging or labelling.” He said that he is just an average dude “who cares about others and wants the government to acknowledge and support what’s actually happening.”
The worst of Warner’s symptoms emerged after his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine, which caused him to develop numerous serious chronic illnesses from which he continues to suffer.
In an interview with <a data-id="https://youtu.be/H7inaTiDKaU" data-type="URL" href="https://youtu.be/H7inaTiDKaU" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Dr John Campbell</a> earlier this year, Warner explained how he felt immediately after his second jab.
“As soon as they injected it, I had a weird metallic saline taste in my mouth. I asked the guy, ‘Is that normal?’ and he said no, they don’t hear of that much,” Warner revealed.
“The fact that the clinician doesn’t recognise that a metallic taste in the mouth could be a sign of an inadvertent intravascular administration concerns me because what happens is if the vaccine goes into your muscle, then it stays in your muscle, and it’s going to take half an hour to be systemically absorbed at all, or much longer than that.”
He explained that if a vaccine’s contents get dispensed into a blood vessel, a metallic taste comes on almost immediately. The fact that this happened to Warner made him believe that the Pfizer jab was dispensed into his veins.
He said: “Basically, you’re having the inflammatory reaction in your heart and in your joints instead of in your arm.”
Soon after this, Warner developed strange reactions in his heart, including an accelerated heart rate. Warner observed this because tracking his heart rate is part of how he keeps fit for mountain biking.
Sadly, the only reason Warner got the vaccine is because he wants to continue travelling internationally. Had there not been a mandate in place, he would not have taken the jab at all.
Recently, Warner travelled to Washington, D.C., to participate in a conference about Covid injection adverse effects, which are being systematically ignored by government officials.
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The four F’s of trauma response and the four Roy kids of Succession

Pay attention to who says <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR6e69ohL-Q">“uh-huh” on Succession</a>. Those are the weightiest two syllables in the entire show.
That might sound a bit silly, but “uh-huh” functions as a kind of stealth reflection of Succession’s power dynamics. Logan Roy (Brian Cox) says those two syllables all the time as a way to fill space in conversations where literally anything more loquacious might go, and Cox’s very specific cadence in how he says “uh-huh” ripples throughout the rest of the cast. The more loyal a character is to Logan Roy, the more likely they are to say “uh-huh” in that specific cadence as a conversation stopgap.
<a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/22691830/succession-season-3-hbo-review-roy-logan-kendall-shiv-roman">Succession’s third season</a> has been particularly illustrative in terms of how the show deploys “uh-huh.” The more Kendall (Jeremy Strong) has fallen out of his father’s orbit, the less he’s said “uh-huh.” And the more Shiv (Sarah Snook), Roman (Kieran Culkin), and Gerri (J. Smith-Cameron) vie for Logan’s attention, the more they say “uh-huh.” The more someone has Logan on their mind, the more they speak like him.
“Uh-huh” is also notable as a way to give a response without actually saying anything. Taken as a unit, “uh-huh” can mean “sure” or “okay” or “yes,” but it doesn’t carry much weight beyond that. It allows someone to speak without speaking, to smooth over what might be difficult but necessary to say. The more the Roy family doesn’t talk about its demons — many of them propagated by Logan — the more it falls back on “uh-huh.”
Logan Roy exerts a gravitational pull on all of the characters in Succession. I’ve argued <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/9/24/20870750/succession-hbo-review-season-2-recap">in the past</a> that this pull is rooted in the show’s portrayal of abusive family dynamics, with Logan as the baddest dad of them all. And in season three, the show is finding <a href="https://www.vox.com/22715408/succession-season-3-episode-2-recap-review-mass-in-time-of-war-doughnuts-kendall">new, more potent territory to explore</a> within those abusive dynamics. The result can be as simple as a character saying “uh-huh,” or it can be as fascinating and as savvy as the way “Retired Janitors of Idaho,” the fifth episode of season three, portrays extremely common responses to abuse.
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<figcaption>Logan’s outbursts are always something the characters of Succession will have to deal with.</figcaption>
<cite>HBO</cite></figure>
You have surely heard of the “fight or flight” instinct. The idea is that humans are the same as any other animal and will either lash out or take off if we find ourselves in a situation where we feel threatened. For people who struggle with PTSD, these fight or flight instincts can sometimes become essentially hard-coded as responses to the world at large, triggered by seemingly mundane events. (A famous example: the war veteran who curls into a defensive crouch when they hear fireworks.)
But beyond “fight” and “flight,” two other major responses to triggering events exist: <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/addiction-and-recovery/202008/understanding-fight-flight-freeze-and-the-fawn-response">freeze and fawn</a>. Freeze is hopefully self-explanatory — someone encounters a perceived threat, and instead of fighting back or running away, they simply freeze up, as if hoping they won’t be noticed. Fawn is harder to immediately understand, but once you learn that it typically emerges as a response to childhood trauma, usually abuse, it makes more sense. The “fawn” response manifests in an attempt by someone who feels threatened to placate the threat in question; this response often arises in situations with abusive parents.
“Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn” are sometimes called the four F’s of trauma or stress responses. What’s fascinating about this breakdown in Succession terms is that there are also four Roy siblings, and each one of them corresponds to a different F almost exactly. You can trace the siblings’ individual F responses across the run of the show, but they’re especially visible in “Retired Janitors of Idaho.”
Succession is fond of using wide shots to focus on a couple of characters exchanging dialogue in the foreground, while other characters are doing something else in the background.
For instance, here’s a blurry Roman Roy, hanging out in the background of a scene that is focused on something else:
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<figcaption>Roman is in the extreme background by the window. (Also, in the episode, Shiv crosses from talking to Roman in order to talk to her dad, which draws your eye to Roman’s position subtly.)</figcaption>
<cite>HBO</cite></figure>
Why is Roman there? Well, when Logan yells at Shiv, who just closed a deal to keep Waystar-Royco in the Roy family’s clutches but had to go over the head of her ill and incapacitated father to do so, we can see Roman do this:
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<figcaption>Roman freezes up as Logan dresses down Shiv. Note that earlier, he was looking at the action, and now he’s looking down and away.</figcaption>
<cite>HBO</cite></figure>
Then there’s Roman. Again, he’s out of focus in the background, so it might be easy to miss, but you can see him freezing up, looking anywhere but at the action, hoping not to draw any attention to himself, even though he’s standing some distance from his father and sister. And if you go looking for Roman freezing up, deer in the headlights, when somebody else is bearing the brunt of Logan’s ire, you’ll find plenty of other examples throughout the run of the show — including in this very episode:
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<figcaption>Roman cringes after his dad has an outburst about an imaginary dead cat. (Trust me; it makes sense in the moment.) This scene is played more for comedy than the other scene discussed here, but Roman’s reaction is similar.</figcaption>
<cite>HBO</cite></figure>
There he is, in the foreground, looking like he’s trying to be as inconspicuous as possible, after one of Logan’s outbursts.
The more you notice Roman freezing up in the face of his father’s temper, the more you’ll start to notice his siblings exemplifying the other F’s. The eldest Roy sibling Connor (Alan Ruck) is not a character we know very well, but that might be because he’s always got some reason or another (a presidential campaign, a Broadway show, etc.) to just not be around, as if he’s in flight. Even when he advocates for himself to become the head of Waystar’s European cable division — a role he then lands because Logan mostly wants him out of the way — that “promotion” acts as an example of Connor leaving the scene.
Kendall, meanwhile, takes and takes and takes his father’s abuse, but eventually, he gets frustrated and fights back, as he’s been doing all season. He’s the most ineffectual of his siblings in this episode, but there are still a few moments where his “fight” impulse engages: when he enters the family’s suite and tries to bully them into holding everything together, for example, or when he gets onstage to read the names of the victims of the cruise line scandal that’s plaguing the company. Kendall likes to make himself the biggest, easiest target — a fairly classic “fight” response that can also be attuned to protecting younger siblings.
That leaves Shiv, who spends all of “Retired Janitors of Idaho” working her own angles but also trying to reassure her dad that he’s just the best. She’s fawning, in other words. The outburst that provokes Roman’s out-of-focus background freeze-up is directed at Shiv, when she’s trying to tell Logan that her successful negotiations count as a win for him. (He refuses to let his children have a win, ever.) When he blows up at her, she immediately tries to play everything off as no big deal. She’s trying to deflect conflict, to placate his ego, to stay alive.
But Shiv is stuck in her father’s orbit all the same. Even as she tries to chart her own course within it, well ... it’s his orbit. After all, look at what Shiv says earlier in the episode, when she is talking to her semi-estranged brother Kendall:
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<figcaption>Shiv also says “uh-huh” in a later scene, while talking to her dad. In that scene, you hear her say it over a shot of her dad.</figcaption>
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No one person always relies on one of the four F’s to the exclusion of all others. You might fight back in one scenario and freeze up in another. Roman, for instance, tends to freeze up when Logan gets angry and fawn over him much of the rest of the time.
But it’s not uncommon for anyone to lean on one of these responses more frequently, and the more we look at the four Roy siblings, the more it seems like the show has tied each of them to a very specific F response to trauma.
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<figcaption>I just think this is a very beautiful shot. Look at the light!</figcaption>
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Succession tends to pepper its episodes with more wide shots than you’d typically see on even the most prestigious TV dramas. Wide shots take time to set up, which means they can be expensive, and it’s rare for a series to use them for much more than establishing where everyone is in physical proximity to each other.
As such, most TV shows find ways to use other shots that are more actor-friendly, such as close-ups and mid-shots. To point to the example above, Kieran Culkin is one of the stars of Succession and a terrific actor, yet you can only just make out his emotional reactions in the background of those scenes. A close-up would make those reactions more prominent, more immediate. So why the wide shot?
Succession loves to pull back the camera whenever it can. It tends to alternate between wide shots and close-ups. (This is not to say that mid-shots are nonexistent on the show, but even in a medium shot, it crams as many actors into the frame as it can.) And its use of wide shots is crucial to its storytelling about abuse.
Abuse within a family never just involves any one relationship, even if it is only occurring between two family members. The emotional ramifications, the secrets, and the guilt spread outward to everybody else in the family and often others who are in close proximity to the family. So when Succession uses wide shots as it does in “Retired Janitors of Idaho,” it’s finding a way to show that toxicity spreading outward from its source.
Similar wide shots are scattered throughout the show’s run, and usually, when there’s an abusive moment, it’s captured either in a wide shot or in a close-up that immediately cuts to a wide shot, so we can see everyone’s reactions in one go. Many other TV series would cut between the actors individually, so we could see, say, Roman tense up, and Shiv offer a sly smile, and Greg look away. Succession gives us all of those reactions at once because the show’s point is that these moments aren’t discrete events, experienced in isolation. They’re events that disperse through families.
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Watching Succession often brings to mind <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ce8VtddN9k">1939’s The Rules of the Game</a>, the classic French film by director Jean Renoir. That movie, one of the most influential ever made, dissects the intricate relationships that unwind among a group of upper-class socialites and the servants who work at the country house they’ve all gathered at. World War II is on the horizon, and none of the house’s inhabitants are all that well prepared for the coming devastation. (Though the film was made before France fell to the Nazis in 1940, The Rules of the Game seems eerily prophetic about what’s to come.)
Renoir also uses a lot of wide shots. He pulls the camera back from his actors, moving it to follow them as they enter and exit the frame. The wide shots almost resemble a stage play, but because Renoir moves his camera so often, you never think of the action as being restricted to a stage. This technique is simply the best fit for the story: All of these characters are trapped together in a world that’s going to hell, and The Rules of the Game is not about what happens to any one of them, but what happens to all of them collectively.
You can hopefully see why I find The Rules of the Game to be a useful comparison point for Succession. I think it’s also worth noting that while I find myself tracing the way that Succession’s filmmaking techniques chart its storytelling around abuse, the wide shots in both Succession and The Rules of the Game are telling stories simultaneously about wealth inequality, class disparity, and unsustainable systems within our society.
After all, Succession’s wide shots often capture the random other people who end up trapped in a room with the Roys, forced to watch them play out their elaborate psychodramas. And most of the time, those other people are nowhere near as rich as the Roys, because who possibly could be? Their reactions to what the Roys say and do serve to deepen our understanding of the family’s many dysfunctions.
But I think the most important effect of those wide shots is to convey the contagious toxicity of abuse, the way that one action will propagate others. Succession has dropped hints here and there that Logan’s childhood was terribly abusive (there’s a shot of his back in season one, and it’s covered in scars), and it has shown Logan hit both his grandchild (in a season one episode) and Roman (in a season two episode). And what sets the show apart isn’t the act of abuse itself, but the look at how this family reacts or doesn’t. Abuse is never one thing, and Succession understands that.
Every action in an ecosystem as self-contained as a family, or a major corporation’s C-suite, will ripple outward. Even positive actions will send waves sloshing back and forth. Whether those waves are as weighty as a legacy of abuse or as relatively simple as the phrase “uh-huh,” they can easily keep going until everything is flooded and there’s no easy way to clean up the mess.
 
 
source <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/22777228/succession-episode-5-season-3-recap-review-retired-janitors-of-idaho-logan-abuse">https://www.vox.com/culture/22777228/succession-episode-5-season-3-recap-review-retired-janitors-of-idaho-logan-abuse</a>

vox The four F’s of trauma response and the four Roy kids of Succession

Pay attention to who says “uh-huh” on Succession . Those are the weightiest two syllables in the entire show. That might sound a bit silly,...

Why Belarus is using migrants as a political weapon

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Belarus has sent thousands of desperate migrants to its border with Poland in a bid to antagonize the European Union over sanctions imposed last year, in the wake of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=26199&LangID=E">brutal crackdown</a> on political opponents and protesters.
The influx of migrants, which EU officials say Lukashenko has deliberately provoked as a “<a href="https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1458486145520652291?s=20">hybrid attack</a>” on the EU, comes at a difficult moment for the EU as the bloc struggles with internal tensions of its own, but has so far resulted in an increasingly unified EU response.
New sanctions, which could target Belarusian airlines and officials responsible for encouraging the influx of people into the country, are set to be imposed on Monday, <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/belarus-sanctions-migration-crisis-borrell/">according to EU officials</a>, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/eu-and-us-accuse-belarus-of-hybrid-attack-at-borders/a-59778555">said last week</a>, “It is important that Lukashenko understands that [the regime’s] behavior comes with a price.”
However, it’s unclear whether they will deter Belarus, which is not an EU member and is sometimes referred to as “<a href="https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2021/05/25/why-belarus-is-called-europes-last-dictatorship">Europe’s last dictatorship</a>,” from adding fuel to the existing crisis along the Belarus-Poland border.
The migrants — <a href="https://apnews.com/article/immigration-business-belarus-poland-middle-east-e3debda6f6f8cbc9ba6b59fa8aa322d8">between 3,000 to 4,000 people according to Polish authorities</a>, primarily from conflict-torn regions of the Middle East like Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Afghanistan — have come to Belarus after the government relaxed visa rules in August, providing a safer, easier route to the EU border.
People trying to leave places like <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/13/world/middleeast/belarus-migrants-iraq-kurds.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share">Sulaimaniya</a>, in Iraqi Kurdistan, have received Belarusian visas, bought a ticket on one of the many flights run by the state-operated airline, and headed to Minsk, Belarus’s capital, where some have been housed in government-run hotels, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/13/world/middleeast/belarus-migrants-iraq-kurds.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share">according to the New York Times</a>.
But far from providing humanitarian aid and a safe haven for migrants, the Lukashenko regime is pushing them toward the borders of Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania in an attempt to put pressure on the EU to lift sanctions on the nation.
Belarus has also taken direct action to make things harder for its EU neighbors: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/13/world/middleeast/belarus-migrants-iraq-kurds.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share">The New York Times</a> reports that Belarusian security forces have provided migrants with instructions on crossing the borders and tools like wire cutters and axes to break down border fences.
On Saturday, Belarusian journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1459446568982044674?s=20">Tadeusz Giczan</a> tweeted that Belarusian forces were attempting to destroy fencing at the Polish border and using lasers and flashing lights to temporarily blind and confuse Polish soldiers stationed there in an attempt to help migrants get across the border.
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Last night Belarusian soldiers tried to destroy a Polish border fence near Czeremcha (115km south of Kuznica). Some of them were blinding Polish soldiers with stroboscopes and lasers while the others were ripping out fence posts and tearing down concertina wire using a vehicle. <a href="https://t.co/qy4nBMKEGP">pic.twitter.com/qy4nBMKEGP</a>
— Tadeusz Giczan (@TadeuszGiczan) <a href="https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1459446568982044674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 13, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Despite Belarusian efforts to force migrants into neighboring EU countries, however, the vast majority of those currently at the border are stuck there, with little protection from the elements. As <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/belarus-eu-poland-migrants-refugees-border/620700/">winter sets in</a>, migrants are sleeping in tents, often with inadequate clothing and supplies, and EU countries are thus far refusing them entry. Already, <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/young-syrian-latest-migrant-to-die-along-polish-belarus-border/6312439.html">at least nine people</a> have died; some estimates are <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/belarus-eu-poland-migrants-refugees-border/620700/">even higher</a>, and conditions could still worsen as winter sets in.
Despite the severity of the humanitarian crisis unfolding at Belarus’s borders, Lukashenko’s aims appear to be primarily political. The strongman president desperately wants to bring the EU to the negotiating table over sanctions imposed after he was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/world/europe/eu-belarus-election.html">fraudulently reelected</a> last year and force the bloc to again recognize him as the country’s legitimate leader.
Despite his more recent grievances, though, Lukashenko’s threats to open his country’s border go back even further, <a href="https://carnegiemoscow.org/experts/1192">Artyom Shraibman</a>, a political analyst based in Minsk and a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Moscow Center, told Vox this month.
“He actually threatened to do this for many years, long before the political crisis of 2020,” Shraibman said via WhatsApp. “Every time the EU criticized him, every time the West criticized him, he reiterated the same chain of argument — ‘You don’t appreciate me, that I am defending you from the illegal migrants, I am defending you from the drug trafficking, I’m guarding your eastern border, and you’re not grateful.’”
But Lukashenko didn’t make good on his threats until 2021, after the <a href="https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/eastern-partnership/belarus/">EU sanctioned</a> Lukashenko, his son and national security adviser Viktor, and 179 other individuals and entities, due to Belarus’s fraudulent presidential election and subsequent crackdown on pro-democracy protesters last year.
Though he remains in office, last year’s election saw Lukashenko’s 25-year grip on power begin to erode, when Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the current Belarusian opposition leader who was a political newcomer at the time, mounted a serious — <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/8/10/21357805/belarus-election-tikhanovskaya-lukashenko-protest-minsk">and probably successful</a> — campaign to oust him. Tikhanovskaya, who only entered the race after her husband, Sergei, was arrested by the regime, managed to unite the Belarusian opposition behind a platform of democratic change and routing corruption and wealth inequality.
Evidence suggests Tikhanovskaya’s strategy may have worked; some exit polls from the August 2020 election suggest she won as much as <a href="https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/1292595429440454662">80 percent of the vote</a>. Lukashenko, however, declared victory, cracked down on protests erupting throughout the country, and forced <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/lithuania-to-belarus-rather-watch-hell-freeze-over-than-deliver-tsikhanouskaya/a-56787250">Tikhanovskaya</a> into exile in Lithuania while jailing other opposition leaders.
The brutality of Lukashenko’s reaction, plus the glaring falsehood of his latest “victory,” prompted the EU to take coercive action against his regime, applying increasingly restrictive measures starting in October of last year.
Belarus’s pariah status escalated even further this spring, after a Ryanair flight was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/23/world/europe/ryanair-belarus.html">forced down by a Belarusian fighter jet</a> so that the regime could arrest two passengers: dissident journalist Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/world/europe/belarus-roman-protasevich-friend-detained.html">Sofia Sapega</a>, who were detained by the regime. In response, <a href="https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2021/06/21/belarus-fourth-package-of-eu-sanctions-over-enduring-repression-and-the-forced-landing-of-a-ryanair-flight/">the EU banned Belarusian air carriers</a> from EU airports and airspace.
With few tools at his disposal, and few friends except for <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/world/europe/lukashenko-putin-belarus-russia.html">a reluctant Russia</a>, Lukashenko finally made good on his threat to open Belarus to the flow of migrants hoping to make a new life in the EU.
The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/world/asia/migration-eu-poland-belarus.html?referringSource=articleShare">New York Times’s Max Fisher</a> points out that the flow of refugees from border countries isn’t exactly a novel problem for the bloc, and it is one that the EU has created by incentivizing places like Libya, Turkey, and Sudan to keep migrants from its borders, despite the financial and human rights costs.
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/world/asia/migration-eu-poland-belarus.html?referringSource=articleShare">As Fisher puts it</a>, “Belarus, in other words, is joining a practice that the European Union has long institutionalized: cutting deals with border countries to keep refugees and migrants away from the EU border.”
Still, Shraibman says, Belarus’s latest pressure tactics likely won’t get Lukashenko what he wants: Belarus, having forced the issue by essentially inviting migrants into the country, leading them to the EU border, and then refusing them asylum when they can’t gain entry, is now facing even more sanctions.
“The EU will probably not cave, because the pressure, it’s not that significant,” Shraibman said. ‘It’s not like the million refugees that came to the EU in 2015, it’s just thousands of people. It’s digestible for the EU; it’s not something that will make them change their position.”
Shraibman told Vox it’s unlikely that Belarus’s provocation will result in concessions from the EU. Lukashenko, however, couldn’t have picked a better issue to put pressure on the bloc. Poland, where the border crisis has been most acute, is already on the outs with EU leadership over <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/poland-eu-law/2021/10/21/80ed84da-31b8-11ec-8036-7db255bff176_story.html">democracy issues</a>, and immigration has long proved a particularly thorny issue for the bloc.
During the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/10/world/europe/poland-belarus-border-europe.html">2015 refugee crisis,</a> Poland was one of <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/politics-nationalism-and-religion-explain-why-poland-doesnt-want-refugees/">the most strident</a> critics of the EU’s migration policy; Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of the ruling Law and Justice Party, falsely claimed in 2015 that Syrian refugees were diseased and they would use Polish churches as “toilets,” <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/belarus-eu-poland-migrants-refugees-border/620700/">as Anne Applebaum writes</a> for the Atlantic.
Since then, the nation has drifted further from common EU policies and more toward the kind of <a href="https://apnews.com/article/europe-violence-rome-italy-european-union-8e12110f05850dd2493402bb478e2781">right-wing</a>, <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/street-brawls-nazi-salutes-greece-grapples-with-far-right-resurgence/">nationalist</a> policies that have been creeping into the forefront of <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hungary-will-not-leave-eu-wants-reform-it-pm-orban-says-2021-11-14/">European politics</a> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37274201">over the past decade</a>.
The rift between Poland and the EU has lately intensified over a disciplinary process in the former’s court system, which the EU charged had been used by the Polish government to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/world/europe/poland-judges-tuleya.html">pressure judges</a> and bring them under political control. In October, the EU levied a <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-top-court-orders-poland-pay-1-million-euros-day-rule-law-row-2021-10-27/">1 million euro per day</a> fine against Poland for <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/world/europe/poland-judges-tuleya.html">violating EU rules</a>, and Poland has also enacted increasingly harsh restrictions against <a href="https://apnews.com/article/europe-poland-warsaw-european-union-c3beebf507430268b757d908e6fce0d6">LGBTQ citizens</a> and <a href="https://rsf.org/en/poland">the media</a>, distancing itself from the more progressive values the EU embraces.
But if one of Lukashenko’s goals in addition to obtaining sanctions relief was to further fracture the EU, as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/10/world/europe/poland-belarus-border-europe.html">European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson</a> claimed this past summer when the crisis started, it hasn’t worked.
“Poland, which is facing a serious crisis, should enjoy solidarity and unity of the whole European Union,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/10/world/europe/poland-belarus-border-europe.html">Charles Michel,</a> president of the European Council, said on Wednesday during a visit to the Polish capital of Warsaw, emphasizing that the EU intends to deal with Lukashenko’s aggression and the problems it poses for the EU separately from the EU’s internal struggles with member countries.
<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/belarus-eu-poland-migrants-refugees-border/620700/">As Applebaum points out</a>, however, Poland has been somewhat less quick to align itself with the EU. While the country is now relying on EU sanctions and <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/polish-police-say-group-50-migrants-broke-through-belarus-border-2021-11-14/">calling upon NATO</a> to deal with the issue of migrants on its border, Poland previously rebuffed assistance from Frontex, the EU border police, and declined to address the flow of migrants over the summer by accepting help from the European Asylum Support Office.
Now, Poland and the EU both are facing a genuine humanitarian disaster at the Belarus-Poland border, where thousands of people are stuck in limbo between two nations that won’t accept them, ill-equipped to survive a harsh winter, and unable to return to their own countries. <a href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/11/13/in-minsk-migrants-have-become-part-of-daily-life-and-a-business-opportunity-for-some-a75540">Thousands more</a>, who have been exploited by Lukashenko’s government into buying travel packages to Minsk so he can use them as leverage against the EU, wait in the capital or near the border with Poland, according to the <a href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/11/13/in-minsk-migrants-have-become-part-of-daily-life-and-a-business-opportunity-for-some-a75540">Moscow Times</a>.
Several nations, including Iraq and Turkey, <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/commissioners/2019-2024/johansson/blog/timetodelivermigrationeu-no19-eu-shows-collective-resolve-winning-against-lukashenko-aggression_en">have limited or canceled their flights to Belarus</a> in order to stem the flow of people into the country, as has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/14/world/middleeast/belarus-mideast-air-route.html">Dubai</a>; however, there are still thousands of people who desperately need aid waiting at the border or stuck in Minsk.
On Monday, the EU — with the support of the US, <a href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0315">which has also sanctioned the Lukashenko regime</a> — is set to impose further sanctions against Belarus, the opposite of Lukashenko’s goal. However, if Lukashenko continues or escalates his tactics, Michel has floated the possibility of “<a href="https://apnews.com/article/immigration-business-belarus-poland-middle-east-e3debda6f6f8cbc9ba6b59fa8aa322d8">physical infrastructure</a>” like barriers, to keep migrants out.
Whatever happens, Shraibman says the current crisis has put paid to the possibility of direct talks between Belarus and the EU.
“I can ... imagine a situation where Lukashenko backs down, if he’s given some option to save face,” Shraibman told Vox, suggesting that could happen by sending migrants back to their home countries with the help of the UN. “But to imagine direct diplomatic negotiations between him and the EU, that is something that is not possible at the moment.”
 
 
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Women To Sue Qatar Over Invasive Airport Searches

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A group of women subjected to invasive gynaecological searches at Doha airport will sue Qatari authorities, seeking redress for an ordeal that sparked global condemnation, their lawyer told AFP Monday.
Women on 10 Qatar Airways flights from Doha, including 13 Australians, were subjected to the examinations late last year as authorities searched for the mother of a newborn found abandoned in an airport bathroom.
The incident caused outrage, and fuelled concerns about Qatar's treatment of women as the Gulf state prepares to receive thousands of foreign visitors for the 2022 football World Cup.
Damian Sturzaker, from Sydney-based firm Marque Lawyers, said seven affected passengers now plan legal action to "send a message to Qatari authorities that you can't treat women... in this manner".
"The group of women have suffered enormous distress on the evening concerned, now just over a year ago, and they continue to suffer distress and ill effects and trauma as a result of what occurred," he told AFP.
Sturzaker said the women were seeking a formal apology, compensation, and protection for future passengers transiting through the airport.
Qatar is an ultra-conservative Muslim monarchy, where sex and childbirth outside of marriage are punishable by jail.
Ahead of the World Cup, the country has struggled to reassure critics that its promises on women's rights, labour relations and democracy are credible.
Facing potentially devastating commercial and reputational damage after the incident, Qatar vowed to guarantee the future "safety and security" of passengers.
The country's prime minister also issued an apology, while an airport police officer who oversaw the searches was reportedly convicted.
But Sturzaker said the women had not been made aware of any improvements to airport procedures and their attempts to seek mediation had been unsuccessful.
They now wanted to highlight their case ahead of the FIFA tournament, to ensure other travellers were well-informed before visiting Qatar, he added.
"They should be aware that -- whilst there is a guise of a highly developed, highly modernised airport and national carrier -- these events have happened and there's nothing preventing them from happening again," he said.
Qatar's embassy in Canberra and Qatar Airways did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Sturzaker said the lawsuit would be filed in Australia against the Qatar Civil Aviation Authority, Hamad International Airport, Qatar Airways and the country's government within weeks.
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UK PM Boris Johnson Says UN Climate Deal Deal "Tinged With Disappointment"

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday hailed a global accord to speed up action against climate change as "truly historic" and "the beginning of the end for coal power".
But he said his "delight at this progress" at the UN COP26 summit in Glasgow was "tinged with disappointment" because of a failure to secure the agreement of all countries to phase out hydrocarbons.
Nearly 200 nations on Saturday signed a global deal to try to halt runaway global warming after two weeks of painful negotiations but fell short of what scientists say is needed to contain dangerous rises.
India and China weakened the final summit decision text in the final straight, insisting language was changed from "phase out" coal to "phase down", forcing Britain's COP26 president Alok Sharma to apologise and say the Asian giants needed to explain their decision.
"Those for whom climate change is already a matter of life and death, who can only stand by as their islands are submerged, their farmland turned to desert, their homes battered by storms, they demanded a high level of ambition from this summit," said Johnson.
"While many of us were willing to go there, that wasn't true of everybody," he added, without naming India and China. "Sadly that's the nature of diplomacy.
"We can lobby, we can cajole, we can encourage, but we cannot force sovereign nations to do what they do not wish to do.
"It's ultimately their decision to make and they must stand by it."
An upbeat Johnson elsewhere told a news conference the agreement had managed to "turn the dial down" to warming of "around two degrees" Celsius -- still failing to meet a 2015 Paris Agreement pledge to limit warming to 1.5-2.0C.
"But for all our disagreement, the world is undeniably heading in the right direction," he said, insisting the goal of 1.5C was "still alive".
Work was now needed to hold countries to account on their pledges, he added.
"COP26 has shown that we can do this, we can end our reliance on coal and fossil fuels. We can put the brakes on runaway climate change, and we can preserve our unique planet for generations to come," he said.
 
 
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