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					<description><![CDATA[“Satoshi Nakamoto,” the entity behind Bitcoin’s launch in January 2009, is now at least the 11th richest person in the world. Satoshi owns around 1.1 million Bitcoins that hit a record $111,000 price in May. Satoshi ranks somewhere between No. 10 rich man Sergey Brin, with $143 billion, and No. 11 Michael Dell, with his $123 billion. ]]></description>
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	&#8220;S</span>atoshi Nakamoto,” the entity behind Bitcoin’s launch in January 2009, is now at least the 11th richest person in the world. <a href="https://www.arabictrader.com/en/news/cryptocurrencies/184475/bitcoin-fluctuations-ignite-a-race-for-wealth-between-satoshi-nakamoto-and-the-worlds-billionaires" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.arabictrader.com/en/news/cryptocurrencies/184475/bitcoin-fluctuations-ignite-a-race-for-wealth-between-satoshi-nakamoto-and-the-worlds-billionaires" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Satoshi owns around 1.1 million Bitcoins</a> that hit a record $111,000 price in May. Satoshi ranks somewhere between No. 10 rich man Sergey Brin, with $143 billion, and No. 11 Michael Dell, with his $123 billion. To surpass the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, with $340 billion, Bitcoin would have to more than triple in price and go to $360,000. Unless it is an unknown introvert living in his mother’s basement, Satoshi’s persona has been attributed to Peter Todd, Len Sassaman or just maybe a small team at the NSA.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Optimism for Optimus</h2>



<p>The race for releasing general-purpose robots for sale is on. Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk announced that his Optimus robot “has the potential to be more significant than [Tesla’s] vehicle business over time.” In December 2023, the 5-foot-8, 125-pound <a href="https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/tesla-robot-will-now-cook-and-clean-too-optimus-seen-doing-daily-chores-at-home-135085323.html" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/tesla-robot-will-now-cook-and-clean-too-optimus-seen-doing-daily-chores-at-home-135085323.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Optimus 2.0 was shown to do perform complex tasks</a> such as dancing and poaching an egg and was reported to be able to carry objects up to 45 pounds. Musk said he is planning a limited production of Optimus robots to be used first at Tesla facilities in 2025 and other companies in 2026. The robots price is estimated to be at around $30,000. The projected first tasks for Optimus are those that are “dangerous, repetitive and boring.” Tesla’s competitor in the field of humanoid robots is Boston Dynamics, funded by DARPA. Its Atlas robot is estimated to be sold for $150,000.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">What after Iran?</h2>



<p>Fall of Iran will not mean the end of wars in the Middle East. According to General Wesley Clark US military had plans for Iranian regime change as early as September 2001. “We’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” said Gen. <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/06/28/iran-israel-ceasefire-us-middle-east-stability/84356762007/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/06/28/iran-israel-ceasefire-us-middle-east-stability/84356762007/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Clark about being alerted to the plan</a>. While it took 24 years to completely destroy Syria, Iran regime tippling is well underway. There are signals of plans for continuation of the region’s destabilization. When the Iran regime falls due to US, Israeli and likely Afghani efforts there are other countries that have been moved up on the regime change list. They are Qatar, Pakistan with its nuclear arsenal and Turkey with region’s largest military.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Coincidence of Drones</h2>



<p>Operation Spiderweb and Israeli drone attacks on Iran had some striking similarities in never before seen, surprise military drone warfare operations, suggesting Israel involvement in the <a href="https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-us-company-to-co-produce-hundreds-of-thousands-of-drones-in-2025-zelensky-announces-06-2025/" data-type="link" data-id="https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-us-company-to-co-produce-hundreds-of-thousands-of-drones-in-2025-zelensky-announces-06-2025/">Ukraine Russian war.</a> The June 1, 2025 Operation Spiderweb utilized quadrocopter drones with explosives that were smuggled in 40 foot containers to the vicinity of Russian long range air force bases. Five bases, some as far as Mongolian border, were targeted and Ukrainians destroyed around 20 Russian airplanes. As many as 117 first-person view drones were used using AI to overcome time delay from such long distances. While president Zelenskyy stated that the preparation took 18 months, only 12 days later, in the night of June 13, Israel’s Mossad launched assassination operations. The drones and quadrocopters launched inside Iran killed estimated 10 Iran senior military commanders and 16 Iranian nuclear scientists as they slept in their homes.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Habemus Papam</h2>



<p>On May 8, 2025, Robert Francis Prevost, a cardinal with US and Peruvian passports, was elected pope and took the name Pope Leo XIV. The election took place on the fourth vote of the conclave to elect the pope after the death of Jorge Bergoglio. Pope Leo XIV is the first pope from North America, the first pope from the Order of Saint Augustine and the second one to speak English as a native. <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/post/2025-is-new-pope-cardinal-robert-francis-prevost-1st-american-chicago-elected-catholic-church-leader/16358670/">Prevost was born south of Chicago</a> in 1955, and he is the first baby boomer pope. He has a bachelor of science degree in mathematics, a Master of Divinity and a Doctorate of Canon Law. Since the 1980s, he lived and served in Peru when and in 2014, Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of Chiclayo. In 2023, Prevost was created a cardinal-deacon, and in February 2025, Francis promoted Prevost to be cardinal-bishop.bishop.</p>
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		<title>Off Island Perspective Winter 2025</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[As Bitcoin price has reached $100,000 Senator Cynthia Lummis has proposed a Bitcoin reserve act for the US federal government. The plan entails the US government to annually acquire 200,000 Bitcoins to total 1 million and hold those for at least 20 years as a strategic reserve. States of Texas, Pennsylvania and Ohio have filed similar proposals. ]]></description>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Upcoming Bitcoin Reserves?</h2>



<p>As Bitcoin price has reached $100,000 Senator Cynthia Lummis has proposed a <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/12/21/governments-and-banks-once-mocked-bitcoin-now-they-want-in-on-it" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/12/21/governments-and-banks-once-mocked-bitcoin-now-they-want-in-on-it" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bitcoin reserve act for the US federal government.</a> The plan entails the US government to annually acquire 200,000 Bitcoins to total 1 million and hold those for at least 20 years as a strategic reserve. States of Texas, Pennsylvania and Ohio have filed similar proposals. The US government holds already 250,000 Bitcoins confiscated from Silk Road and other convicted offenders. With the US debt surpassing $ 33 trillion and possible collapse of the dollar President Trump supports the idea.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Gold and Bitcoin Mining</h2>



<p>El Salvador parliament has voted to again allow mining of its gold deposits valued at around $3 trillion. The country’s gold belt spans its north and borders several Honduran departments: Intibucá, Lempira and La Paz suggesting some gold deposits there. El Salvador was the only country in the world that banned all forms of metal mining in 2017 and has also become the first state, in 2021, to accept <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20e3l3xllwo" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20e3l3xllwo" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bitcoin as legal tender</a>. El Salvador government purchases one Bitcoin daily, and mines hundreds of Bitcoins a year, steadily adding to its Bitcoin reserves estimated to be at around 5,750 Bitcoin, or $600 million.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Syria Collapse</h2>



<p>The US and its proxies have managed to create another failed state in the Middle East. After US military and CIA covert operations costing $ trillions Iraq Afghanistan, Libya, Sudan and now Syria have become another quagmire unsafe for ancient Christians, women and peaceful life in general. Since 2011 CIA coup replace the demonized president <a href="https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-12-10/the-factions-that-overthrew-assad-in-syria-who-they-are-and-why-they-are-a-difficult-fit.html" data-type="link" data-id="https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-12-10/the-factions-that-overthrew-assad-in-syria-who-they-are-and-why-they-are-a-difficult-fit.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Bashar al-Assad with a terrorist head of Hay’at Tahrir</a> al-Sham [HTS] Muhammad Al-Jawlani who still holds a $10 million FBI bounty on his head. According to US embassy in Syria statement from 2017 “the core of HTS is Nusra, a designated terrorist organization. (…) HTS is a merger and any group that merges into it becomes part of al-Qa’ida,” incidentally an organization that US government claims killed 3000 Americans in 9/11 attacks. Since December Syria has been partitioned into four parts fighting, or preparing to fight each other: US and Israeli backed Kurds in the East, Turkey’s international terrorists in the North, American Jihadis in the south, and Israeli invading the south West.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Rumania’s Back in Dictature</h2>



<p>Rumania Supreme Court has annulled the November 7, 2024 presidential elections in which Calin Georgescu, an independent candidate, won a relative majority of the vote. The court also cancelled the runoff round of the elections scheduled for December 8 and declared that elections would be dome sometime in the spring of 2025. Georgescu is inconvenient to both Globalist and US Military complex as he opposes Russian –Ukrainian war, he wants to outlaw LGBTQ propaganda in Romania, increase role of Christianity in public life and presents two largest Romanian political parties as corrupt globalist tools. <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/calin-georgescu-the-ex-soil-scientist-who-rose-to-prominence-on-tiktok-and-is-on-course-to-be-romanias-next-president-13267482" data-type="link" data-id="https://news.sky.com/story/calin-georgescu-the-ex-soil-scientist-who-rose-to-prominence-on-tiktok-and-is-on-course-to-be-romanias-next-president-13267482">Georgescu became an uncontrollable factor </a>in advancement of globalist agenda in Europe, especially as US is building its largest military, 10,000 soldier base in Europe on Rumanian coast.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">COVID according to Congress</h2>



<p>Almost five years after the break out of the COVID 19 coronavirus US Congress has concluded its investigation into the matter. The 520 page report states that the SARS-CoV virus most likely was released from <a href="https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/ecohealth-daszak-grilled-by-subcommittee/">BSL-4 Wuhan Chinese laboratory</a>. Just so happens the named in the report laboratory that was conducting military gain of function research was funded by US taxpayers. US National Institute of Health has paid $3.7 million to the Wuhan lab that originated the worldwide COVID health operation. Return on investment is impressive as economic toll of the handling COVID operation in the US is estimated have been $14 Trillion.</p>
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		<title>Ukraine &#038; Russia Trapped</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2022 19:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><img width="800" height="533" src="https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/photo-editorial-Carlo-Maria-Vigano-Ukraine-Russia-trapped.jpg" class="attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/photo-editorial-Carlo-Maria-Vigano-Ukraine-Russia-trapped.jpg 800w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/photo-editorial-Carlo-Maria-Vigano-Ukraine-Russia-trapped-300x200.jpg 300w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/photo-editorial-Carlo-Maria-Vigano-Ukraine-Russia-trapped-768x512.jpg 768w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/photo-editorial-Carlo-Maria-Vigano-Ukraine-Russia-trapped-128x86.jpg 128w, https://payamag.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/photo-editorial-Carlo-Maria-Vigano-Ukraine-Russia-trapped-600x400.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /></p>If we look at what is happening in Ukraine, without being misled by the gross falsifications of the mainstream media, we realize that respect for each other’s rights has been completely ignored.]]></description>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">By Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò</h2>



<p><strong>The Media Narrative</strong></p>



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	I</span>f we look at what is happening in<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/technology/ukraine-war-misinfo.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Ukraine</a>, without being misled by the gross falsifications of the mainstream media, we realize that respect for each other’s rights has been completely ignored; indeed, we have the impression that the Biden Administration, NATO and the European Union deliberately want to maintain a situation of obvious imbalance, precisely to make impossible any attempt at a peaceful resolution of the Ukrainian crisis, provoking the Russian Federation to trigger a conflict. Herein lies the seriousness of the problem. This is the trap set for both Russia and Ukraine, using both of them to enable the globalist elite to carry out its criminal plan.</p>



<p>It should not surprise us that pluralism and freedom of speech, so praised in countries that claim to be democratic, are daily disavowed by censorship and intolerance towards opinions not aligned with the official narrative. Manipulations of this kind have become the norm during the so-called pandemic.</p>



<p>T<strong>he Biden’s’ conflict of interest in Ukraine</strong></p>



<p>Another issue that we tend not to analyze in depth is that related to Burisma, an oil and gas company operating on the Ukrainian market since 2002. Recall that “during the American presidency of Barack Obama (from 2009 to 2017) his right hand man with a “delegation” to handle international politics was Joe Biden, and it is since then that the “protection’ offered by the Democrat US leader was given to Ukrainian nationalists, a line that created the irreconcilable disagreement between <a href="https://news.am/eng/news/698671.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Kiev and Moscow</a>.</p>



<p><strong>The Ukrainian war in the plans of the NWO</strong></p>



<p>The censorship being imposed against Russian broadcasters is clearly aimed at preventing the official narrative from being disproven by the facts. It is evident that the Ukrainian people, beyond the issues that diplomacy can resolve, are victims of the same global coup d’état being carried out by supranational powers that intend, not peace between nations, but rather the establishment of the tyranny of the New World Order. Just a few days ago, Ukrainian parliamentarian <a href="https://www.thenational.scot/news/19956727.will-defend-ukraine-long-needed-says-ukrainian-mp-kira-rudik/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Kira Rudik</a> told Fox News, while holding a kalashnikov: “We know that we are not only fighting for Ukraine, but also for the New World Order.” </p>



<p><strong>Ukraine is the latest victim of accomplished executioners</strong></p>



<p>The Russian-Ukrainian crisis did not suddenly erupt a month ago. It has been prepared and fomented for a long time, certainly <a href="https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/conflict-ukraine" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">beginning with the 2014</a> white coup that was desired by the American deep state in an anti-Russian key. This is demonstrated, among other incontestable facts, by the training of the Azov Battalion by the CIA “to kill Russians”, with the CIA forcing the revocation of the amendment banning aid to the battalion made by Congress in 2015.</p>



<p>An<strong> appeal to the Third Rome</strong></p>



<p>For Russia too, this conflict is a trap. This is because it would fulfill the dream of the American deep state to definitively oust Russia from the European context in its commercial and cultural relations, pushing it into the arms of China, perhaps with the hope that the dictatorship in Beijing can persuade the Russians to accept the system of social credit and other aspects of the Great Reset that thus far Russia has been able to avoid, at least in part.</p>



<p>The world crisis with which the dissolution of traditional society is being prepared has also involved the Catholic Church, whose Hierarchy is held hostage by apostates who are courtiers of power. There was a time in which Popes and Prelates confronted Kings without concern for human respect, because they knew they spoke with the voice of Jesus Christ, the King of kings. The Rome of the Caesars and Popes is now deserted and silent, just as for centuries the Second Rome of Constantinople has also been silent.</p>



<p><strong>Final Considerations</strong></p>



<p>May Holy Lent lead all Christians to ask pardon from the Divine Majesty for the sins of those who trample His Holy Law. May penance and fasting move the Lord God to mercy.</p>
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		<title>Off Island Perspective &#8211; February &#038; March 2019</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2019 22:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With the advent of 3D printing, getting a house built quickly and on the cheap is increasingly possible. ICON, a 3D printer manufacturer, built a 350-square-foot home in 48 hours at a cost of $10,000 with a printer running at only quarter speed. Once the printer is fully functional an 800-square-foot home could be built for less than $4,000.]]></description>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading" style="text-align:left">US Printing Better Homes</h3>



<p>With the advent of 3D printing, getting a house built quickly and on the cheap is increasingly possible. ICON, a 3D printer manufacturer, built a 350-square-foot home in 48 hours at a cost of $10,000 with a printer running at only quarter speed. Once the printer is fully functional an 800-square-foot home could be built for less than $4,000. While housing for the poor has always been an economic and social challenge, the new technology offers an alternative to the high maintenance wood frame home with plastic siding and an asphalt shingle roof that has dominated the US homebuilding industry since the 1940s.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading" style="text-align:left">France’s Gilets Jaunes</h3>



<p style="text-align:left">The “yellow vests” have caused more disturbances in Paris than any protests since the 1848 revolution. The movement was sparked by a 33 US cent carbon fuel tax added onto $6 per gallon diesel price that was alleged to finance France’s fight against climate change. The French, financially desperate, inundated by migrants, and chilled by an extra cold winter, had had enough. The protesters demolished the majority of country’s 3,200 speed cameras and asked the population to withdraw as much money as possible from banks. The “Rodney King” type of police brutality against the French protesters went largely unreported by the European controlled media.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Sudan On The Way Down</h3>



<p>General Wesley Clark announced that he was told by a Pentagon insider in October 2001 that “we [US government] are going to take out seven countries in five years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan &amp; Iran.” While it’s taken over 17 years and the order has been shuffled around a bit, Sudan has finally gotten its turn. In December 2018 protests against risingbread prices turned into demands for the ouster of Sudan’s dictator Omar al-Bashir who has held power for 30years.Forty people have been killed. Sudan ceded its southern territory, containing rich oil fields, to an independent South Sudan in 2011 leaving the country with limited resources. After Sudan, just Lebanon and Iran remain on the list. </p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading" style="text-align:left">Britain’s Almost Exit</h3>



<p style="text-align:left">It took Czechoslovakia six months to dissolve in 1992. Yet curiously it is taking Britain, an independent country with its own currency, three years to leave the European Union. On June 23rd, 2016 a referendum about Brexit, the term coined to describe Britain’s Exit from the European Union, passed with 51.9% of votes for withdrawal.  While Norway, Switzerland and Iceland are doing just fine without the European Union, many agents of influence raise panic that life on the isles will come to a standstill. The UK is scheduled to leave the EU on March 29, 2019.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Belgium’s Deadly Trend</h3>



<p>2,309 people were euthanized in Belgiumin 2017.Since the legalization of euthanasia in 2002, the practice is trending upward at a rate of 14% per year, now surpassing the number of deaths in car accidents. Euthanasia by injection with life-ending barbiturates  is not limited to cancer suffering adults and the very old. Handicapped children aged nine with a braintumor, aged 11 with cystic fibrosis and aged 17with muscular dystrophy were recently euthanatized. The children asked to be put to death in writing, and a child psychologist conducted psychological evaluations. The mercy killings took place with parental consent. In Belgium sometime organs are harvested after euthanasia leaving yet more room for abuse. A member of the Federal Commission for Euthanasia Control and Evaluation resigned after being accused of euthanizing a patient suffering from dementia. While it appears that native Belgians are finding it increasingly deadly to live in Belgium, immigrants continue to flock to the country and now represent 25% of the population.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading" style="text-align:left">India’s No Tourist Island</h3>



<p style="text-align:left">American missionary John Allen Chau, 26,was killed visiting North Sentinel Island, one of the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean. Local fishermen took Chau to the island and reported seeing him being shot by arrows and buried on the beach. The 50 to 400 Sentinelese that inhabit the island have a reputation for being unwelcoming to visitors. In 1867, a merchant passenger ship wrecked on the island reef and 106 passengers spent days fending off attacks from the Sentinelese. Other vessels have since gotten in trouble on the reefand, while their crews have typically been evacuated, the Sentinelese have been known to scavenge the wrecks for iron and supplies.</p>
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<p>The 1991 Gulf War has been the most chemical war in history. Approximately 250,000 US veterans suffer from the multiple debilitating symptoms, from chronic fatigue to terminal tumors. 25,000 have died prematurely and US government doesn’t know why. A likely culprit is the 290 tons of depleted US uranium munitions used in M1 tanks and A-10 aircraft that have contaminated air, water and soil across much of southern Iraq. From normal rates before the war Iraq now has rate of deformities in babies is 14 times higher than after Hiroshima nuclear bombing. The cocktail of fast acting “anthrax” vaccines not tested by FDA forcibly injected into American troops didn’t help. Saddam Hussain was given anthrax by US to counter Iran advantage in 1980s war against Iran..</p>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">Russia</h3>
<p style="text-align: left;">After US government has spent two years spinning a conspiracy theory that Russia was behind leaking Hillary Clinton emails that Russia has came with a conspiracy theory of its own. Dmitry Rogozin, head of Russia&#8217;s Roscosmos space agency, said that Russia is looking into flying a lunar probe to “verify whether they&#8217;ve been there [on the moon] or not.&#8221;57% of Russians believe NASA faked not only the six manned moon landings and take offs, but astronauts driving 37 kilometers on the moon surface in a lunar lover, escaping the Van Allen radiation belt, avoiding lunar meteor showers. To celebrate the feet Americans are accused of giving out fake “moon rocks” afterwards. All that took place within seven years after President Kennedy’s announced that Americans will go to the moon.</p>
<h3>Greece</h3>
<p>IsraAID, an Israeli organization funded by Israel’s Department of Foreign Affairs, American Jewish Committee and the B’nai B’rith International is making sure as many African and Middle East migrants make it to Europe as it is possible. Since 2016 IsraAID has been in Greece, Serbia, Croatia to help monitor and basically herd the refugees onto UNHCR coaches and camps and then onto European countries. Some Turkey based AID organizations have covered the $1,500 boat crossing fee the Turkish smugglers collect from migrants. Since 2009 54% refugees in Austria and 53% in Holland are approved for asylum while Israel approved 0.48%. In April Israel made, then suspended, a deal with UN for the 16,000 of its 40,000 stateless refugees to be resettled to Europe and Canada.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">Burma</h3>
<p style="text-align: left;">The Rohinga Hindus have been massacred by Rihinga… Muslims. While Burma has become a casus belli for the UN, Amnesty International has confirmed the killing by Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) of over a hundred Hindus near the town of Maungdaw and Kha Maung Seik. Many Hindu Rohingas that find themselves in refugee camps of 480,000 people in Bangladesh have been forced to convert to Islam. Rohinga are peoples who migrated from Bangladesh to Burma in XIX and XX centuries during the British rule.</p>
<h3>Syria</h3>
<p>For the past 17 years the American government insisted it was Al-Qaeda that conducted the 9/11 attacks and now it insists that Al-Qaeda should be protect in its Syrian controlled territory of Idlib. &#8220;Idlib provice is the largest al-Qaeda safe-have since 9/11, tied to directly to Ayman al Zawahiri,” said Brett McGurk, Special Presidential Envoy. Yet President Trump had urged Syria to refrain from “recklessly” attacking Idlib and reestablish control over its territory. Al-Qaeda has been terrorizing people of Idlib since 2011 and US government insists it’s important that it continue to do so. &#8220;Why is this happening? How are they getting there? They are not paratroopers,” said McGurk.</p>


<h3 class="wp-block-heading" style="text-align:left">New Zealand</h3>



<p>Passengers arriving in New Zealand are already digitally strip searched: they are required to forfeit the password to smart phones and laptops so that the officials check in on their suspicious conversations and files: personal photos, medical records, emails, text messages. Those visitors who refuse face prosecution, device confiscation and fines of $3,000. For now the officials cannot access the files kept on passengers cloud storage. The searches in 2017 were still voluntary, and the New Zealand customs officials conducted 537 such searches.</p>
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