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Anglo-Boer War Concentration Camps. Bladey horrific. They speak of the British propaganda campaigns, the British Press...The Daily Mail as usual obliges. All the way back then. Making the Boers less of individuals and more of a collectively despised group.
Nothing has changed! "100 Years ago the British Government was involved in a MASSIVE #propaganda ploy." "Propaganda was rife & under NO circumstances were they going to tell the British Public what they were doing." Displayed the camps as "refugee camps"
Just part of the new style of warfare. They made out the Boer people to be tremendously primitive. The propaganda machine was powerful, aided by moving film. MORE Theatre. #Ukraine
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Well taken care of, on the floor, dying of fever! Well taken care! Nursing infants torn from their mothers! Comforted in cages by todders trying to quiet their crying! No food, no water, no beds, no blankets no mothers, no milk, no diapers. Just like #SummerCamp! #Barron sld go!
@RealDonaldTrump #AsylumSeekers come legally to our #PortsOfEntry under our own immigration laws and treaties. The only one who broke our laws is you! UN Treaty Series 1948 Article II Section (e) defines the separation of #MigrantChildren as #Genocide and #CrimesAgainstHumanity.
When #AsylumSeekers present they are assured by our treaties of #DueProcess a hearing before a judge. If we decide not to grant asylum, we have to deport them. We are not allowed to imprison them, dismantle their bodies w/#ForcedMassHysterectomies & steal their children forever.
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China is nibbling at its neighbors territories Bite by bite.
In Nepal, a report warned that the country was losing border territories to China’s construction projects, which was changing the course of rivers.
@kakar_harsha @TheSatishDua @Tiny_Dhillon
Chinese have suddenly discovered that Tajikistan’s Pamir Mountains historically “belong to China" & so does the Mt Everest, world’s tallest peak on the Nepal-Tibet border
@CChristineFair @kakar_harsha @TheSatishDua @Tiny_Dhillon @SinghPramod2784
The PLA tried similar tactics in Himalayan plateau of Doklam in 2017 resulting in 10-week-long troop standoff on the plateau with India @kakar_harsha @TheSatishDua @Tiny_Dhillon @majorgauravarya @Vedmalik1 @gurmeetkanwal @palsinnervoice @orfonline
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#China #Xinjiang #Uighurs #ConcentrationCamps #UighurGenocide

In China a huge gulag system for Uyghurs has emerged in recent years and the world knows next to nothing about it.
According to a study, China has had more than 380 detention camps built for members of Muslim minorities in western Xinjiang province since 2017. At least 14 facilities are still under construction,
according to a study by the Australian think tank "Australian Strategic Policy Institute" (ASPI). The findings contradict Beijing's statements that the mass internment campaign in the region is being cut back.
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Update dear friends: I’m so overwhelmed now, please forgive me if I could not express myself properly. Today, September 04, 2020, I got a message from my mom that after 2 years and 3 months of arbitrary detention, the Chinese government just released my cousin, Mahire Yakub
I had a video chat with Mahire. She looks pale and weak. She lost weight. But she’s overwhelmed and emotional that this day has come. I told her that because a lot of people have helped her and the world is watching what is happening to #Uyghur people, that is why she was able
return to home. I told her the senators from Australia, Sweden, the EU and many wonderful people are standing behind her.
Although she has been released, she is not fully free. She is still not allowed to contact her parents and her sister. I will keep speaking up for her
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#Uyghurs vs #Palestinians

There is no competition in getting persecuted. As a Palestinian genocide denier said that Uyghur situation is trillion times better than the Palestinians, I tried to list here the differences and similarities, correct me if I'm wrong.1/19
In 1948, the state of Israel was created claiming that Jewish people had historical link to this land.

In 1949, the communist China occupied DEMOCRATIC republic of East Turkistan, to the land of which Chinese have no historical ties at all.2/19
Millions of Palestinians lost their homes and became refugees since then.

Millions of Uyghurs escaped to other parts of central Asia and more were killed in the early period of occupation labelled as anti-revolutionary and anti-communist. 3/19
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Me too. And I'm similarly puzzled.

Had our politicians any sense of history or integrity, they'd be calling out the actual #ConcentrationCamps rather than posturing over the equivalent of Siemens during WWII...
theguardian.com/commentisfree/… Image
From February 2020:
aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs…

And some signs (some of) the brands are changing behaviour, from 3 days ago:
reuters.com/article/us-glo…
Also "interconnected malware tools are elements of much larger mobile #AdvancedPersistentThreat campaigns originating in China, primarily targeting the #Uyghur ethnic minority. Activity of these surveillance campaigns has been observed as far back as 2013"
blog.lookout.com/multiyear-surv… Image
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Worth using google translate to watch the #propagandalive as @Erkanomia is in #Moscow to cover the #Kremlin #Military parade #HappeningNow. Some ++good #OSINT & #IMINT in his #live & candid coverage. 😎
For example, while the #Moscow #Elite typically use a black #SUV with license plate ending in 88 (sometimes 888 for family of senior officials & oligarchs who must #Drive themselves), here we see the first of the latest #cars with new #licenseplatedata.

Close-up I made from the #Finland team's #photography showing @mod_russia's Army #celebrity #swag bags for the Diamond Jubilee #celebration of the #Soviet #WWII win... ignoring 1939-1941 🙄

The Hon Minister Mr Singh, #IndianArmedForces, is a special guest at #VictoryDayParade.
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Uyghurs overseas and in the region have been deeply concerned about their loved ones health in the #ConcentrationCamps, and this turned into horror since after #coronarvirus spread through #Uyghur region. China shuts down movie theaters but not camps. THINk!
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Fücking Democrats are eating our own just like fücking 2016 and we're gonna get four more years of the worst monster to ever set foot in the white house because WHAT? Someone SAID something another person doesn't like?

JESUS FÜCKING CHRIST, GET OVER YOURSELVES.
I swear to all that's holy, if we end up with another four years of horror bc y'all shred each other to pieces over perceived imperfections and grade school spats, I will fucking LOSE IT.

There are ACTUAL PEOPLES' LIVES AT STAKE HERE.

Real people will REALLY DIE if trump wins.
Not just Kurdish allies, but them, too.

Not just airliner passengers as collateral damage, but them, too.

Not just children in #concentrationcamps, but them, too.

Not just victims of hate crimes, but them, too.

Not just those who lose health insurance, but them, too.
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Maybe there's a billionaire not running for President who could create some ads showing the devastation Trump is causing. Separate ads could feature:
- A farmer bankrupted by #TrumpTariffs
- A family devastated by #StochasticTerrorism
- A child whose family lost #FoodStamps (1/5)
- A senior whose #SocialSecurity disability benefits have been cut
- A #Kentucky coal miner whose mine shut down
- A parent who lost his job after his company used the #GOPTaxScam to buy back stock
- A #MinimumWage worker falling deeper into debt despite working 2-3 jobs (2/5)
- Residents in one of the communities like Key West, FL being devastated by #ClimateChange
- A family hit with a medical emergency who have to resort to #GoFundMe for to pay bills
- A synagogue targeted by the #AntiSemitism Trump has unleashed (3/5)
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(Thread) A Million People Are Jailed at China's Gulags. I Managed to Escape. Here's What Really Goes on Inside.

Twenty prisoners live in one small room. They are handcuffed, their heads shaved, every move is monitored by ceiling cameras.

haaretz.com/world-news/.pr…
A bucket in the corner of the room is their toilet...Torture – metal nails, fingernails pulled out, electric shocks – takes place in the “black room.” Punishment is a constant. The prisoners are forced to take pills and get injections. It’s for disease prevention,
the staff tell them, but in reality they are the human subjects of medical experiments. Many of the inmates suffer from cognitive decline. Some of the men become sterile. Women are routinely raped.

#SaveUyghur #ConcentrationCamps #NeverAgain #China #Xinjiang #Uighur
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This brave #Uyghur #Muslim girl, still resides in #Xinjiang aka #EastTurkestan is indicating that four of her relatives are in #China's #ConcentrationCamps. She obviously wants the world to know regardless of what might happen to her, PLEASE SHARE for her sake.

#CloseTheCamps
Clip 2: There are more "witness testimonials" coming right out of #Xinjiang aka #EastTurkestan. They don’t saying anything but it's written all over their faces, clearly sending a message to the outside world that all is not good.

#SaveUyghur #CloseTheCamps
Clip 3: Another witness testimonial of a wife longing for her husband who is detained in #China’s #ConcentrationCamps.

#SaveUyghur #CloseTheCamps
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As a Jew who has been using the term "concentration camps" to describe the US' immigration detention facilities for more than a year, imma go ahead & shut this down real quick. 👇🏻

Hey, @cjvalues, לך תזדיין

sun-sentinel.com/opinion/commen…
The article legit uses GEO Group's talking points almost word 4 word to argue that #NeverAgainAction is anti-semitic. Yes, GEO, the co whose facilities have provided critical support w/out which *rump wouldn't have been able to carry out its heinous atrocities against immigrants.
2 propagate the hate-filled rhetoric & dehumanization that's helped fuel the conditions that HISTORIANS have compared 2 #ConcentrationCamps during the rise of Nazi Germany is 2 spit on the graves of the 6m Jews killed during the Shoah

@cjvalues, לך תזדיין u don't speak 4 Am.✡️
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PLEASE SHARE, A MAN’S LIFE HANGS IN THE BALANCE.

‘Ablikim Yusuf’ a #Uyghur from Hotan prefecture of #Xinjiang aka #EastTurkestan. Currently he is being held by Qatar authorities at Doha airport and he is to be deported to #China where he’ll likely face a severe punishment.
Abulikemu Yusufu, who was deported from Bosnia to China, is now at Doha Hamas International Airport, waiting for the flight to China. His life will be in grave danger if he’s forcedly returned to China. Please help stop his repatriation!
We urge the United Nations, European Union, and other governments, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and other non-government organizations to take urgent action to save ‘Abulikemu YUSUFU’ and save him from deportation to #China.

uighurtimes.com/index.php/urge…
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@USATODAY @jomareewade @ACLU .@ACLU has filed a motion asking Judge Sabraw for clarification on WHEN EXACTLY CBP is allowed to separate children from their parents, cuz right now, they're doing it for crazy stuff.

911 children separated since June 2018.

185 of them under 5yrs old.
aclu.org/press-releases…
@USATODAY @jomareewade @ACLU In this update on the Ms L vs ICE case, the govt is CONTINUING to separate children from their parents for spurious, nonsensical reasons. Decades old DUIs, traffic tickets, misdemeanor shoplifting offenses, minor drug and fraud charges.
@USATODAY @jomareewade @ACLU @ifindkarma @DemocracyStorm @axidentaliberal @B52Malmet @TrinityResists @TrisResists @porpentina2017 @moved2italy @DanaScottlo Of the 185 children under age 5 that were separated from their parents by CBP, 13 were UNDER ONE YEAR OLD.

Infants. Tiny babies.

They were likewise separated for ridiculous reasons that would never be tolerated in American courts, for American children.

#SOSAmerica2019
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☀️KEEP EDUCATED

🚨Tomorrow (WEDNESDAY, JULY 24)

🚨Subcommittee Hearing

🚨Oversight of the Unaccompanied Children Program:

🚨Ensuring the Safety of Children in HHS Care

☀️9AM EST in Washington, DC.

❗️WATCH IT LIVE AT THE LINK❗️
appropriations.house.gov/events/hearing…

#CloseTheCamps
@ifindkarma @DemocracyStorm @porpentina2017 @TheSWPrincess @CaptainResists @Norberta36 @Rosa_DeLauro @ProudResister @_si_se_puede @TheLoyalO New information I've gleaned so far from this hearing on ORR comes from Chair of the Subcommittee, @Rosa_DeLauro, who's visited Homestead several times. She says they have only FIVE certified teachers. FOUR physicians. ZERO psychiatrists.

For now 1300--was 2300--children.
@ifindkarma @DemocracyStorm @porpentina2017 @TheSWPrincess @CaptainResists @Norberta36 @Rosa_DeLauro @ProudResister @_si_se_puede @TheLoyalO .@rosadelauro asks the extremely important question: there were children in Homestead for 45, 50, 60 days who had family in the States, but were languishing, and then, suddenly, in a two week period, 1000+ children were released. Why not before?

miamiherald.com/news/local/imm…
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Why at 4:30a am I in a Lyft to BWI airport, fleeing the Baltimore humidity on #July4 for the greater heat of El Paso?

Full statement is attached. Basically, #CitizenPresence is the reason. Making sure moral outrages of the camps are before our consciousness. Follow my day here.
If they make a movie Davening [praying] in Airports I'll be in line. White privilege: no one looks at me. Today is #July4& also #RoshChodesh, the start of a new month.

I say Hallel, the collection of Psalms celebrating special days. "You freed my bonds." "I called from depths."
And a specially long psalm to end the prayers of the day, mentioning the blessing of food. "Bread satisfies people's hearts." Wine, oil and bread. The basics migrants look for. What our cruel government denies them in the camps.

New month, new possibilities for change, Exoduses.
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1. If the Fascist Party is using private contractors to run the @realDonaldTrump @SenateGOP #ConcentrationCamps & child abuse centers, I think a class action against the companies providing the services naming all directors managers & employees seeking class action receiverships
2. negligent and intentional tort damages might be just the ticket. Make being connected to @Trump's concentration camps a civilians' guaranteed trip to Chapter 7 Bankruptcy. We need the names of the entities. Then we need plaintiff firms in the states where the companies are
3. operating. Then teams of lawyers can save the kids and destroy these evil monsters preying on poor children's' misery for blood money. The goal is to to destroy every one connected to it. Every banker. Teach these monsters the meaning of "Biblical" and "laid waste."
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I sued @UMich to unseal the papers of John Tanton, the racist architect of the modern anti-immigrant movement.

We can't wait until 2035 to understand how our immigration policy is informed by white nationalists.

Today, the Court ruled in our favor:

hmalegal.com/uploads/3/7/9/…
The groups he created are the ones most directly responsible for the humanitarian catastrophe that is our immigration system. Tanton donated his papers to U of M, but sealed half of them until 2035. I sued to unseal them.

hmalegal.com/blawg/tantonfo…
The #TantonPapers shine a light on the conceptual underpinnings of the policies that rip families apart, jail children, and create a permanent underclass. The lower court dismissed my claim, saying the papers were not public records and hence immune from disclosure.

I appealed.
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In response to @AOC’s #idiotic assertion that #US operated #detention facilities are #concentrationcamps, @Liz_Wheller posted a comment that @PPFA abortion businesses are the #concentration #camps we have to worry about.
@EmmaBella212 took exception to her observation. I replied, observing that #blastocysts, #embryos, and #fetuses are #human #beings.
@EricBrown1982 takes exception to my assertion that #science defines the offspring of #human #parents as #human and/or my assertion that #science confirms that the #blastocyst, the #embryo, and the #fetus are all #living #beings.
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The w h e w heard 'round the world #ConcentrationCamps
Where were you when Chris Hayes got owned online
Really there's only one goal worth having on this forsaken website and it's to not be today's main character

Chris may have managed to do just that
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I did my dissertation on #ConcentrationCamps, so I have a few thoughts about @AOC's use of the term to describe the build up of camps on the US southern border. For those in a hurry, here's the take-home message: By any reasonable definition, these are concentration camps
Why are they called concentration camps? well, to state the obvious, it's because large numbers of people are "concentrated" in camps. A better question is, why don't we just call them prisons? We don't say "prisons" because prisons are a part of the formal legal system.
Follow me on this: The immigrants detained in concentration camps are intended to be OUTSIDE the formal legal system. Once removed from the #CriminalJusticeSystem the state is largely free to do whatever it wants. As Hannah Arendt might say, "everything is possible."
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