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       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: guest55
       Date: April 8, 2022, 10:18 pm
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       "We need to build up our capacities very quickly" - Moldova's
       Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita
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       > Moldova's Prime Minister Natalita Gavrilita spoke with DW
       ahead of a donor conference and said that besides the parties to
       the conflict, Moldova is the country most affected by the war.
       "About 15% of our trade was with Ukraine and Russia and Belarus.
       The Odesa port was a very important logistics port," the prime
       minister said. These come on top of other issues also seen in
       other European countries such as rising energy costs and high
       inflation which has "already reached 18% in Moldova." Gavrilita
       said that more than 400,000 people have already fled Ukraine
       into Moldova, of which 100,000 have decided to stay. "At a
       stable population of around 2.7 million, this represents more
       than 3% of our population, almost 4%," she said, adding that
       most of the refugees were vulnerable people in need of aid.
       Moldova is also dealing with a separatist region along the
       border with Ukraine — Transnistria — where Russian troops have
       been stationed. Gavrilita said Moldova is "concerned" about
       their presence, but added that they have not seen "any specific
       plans or movements" that indicate those forces would engage in
       the war in Ukraine.
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPJ6Lqrxh_s
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       > How many refugees are in Moldova?
       > Since the beginning of the aggression, Moldova has welcomed a
       high number of refugees fleeing the Russian bombs. With one
       hundred thousand refugees from Ukraine currently in Moldova, it
       is the country with the most refugees per capita, while also
       having to manage twice as many refugees transiting through its
       territory.
       --- End Quote ---
       Moldova is not even mentioned on this list for crying out loud!:
  HTML https://www.statista.com/statistics/740233/major-syrian-refugee-hosting-countries-worldwide/
       #Post#: 12682--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: April 10, 2022, 2:17 am
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       When refugees are "white":
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/anxious-refugees-polish-cities-reject-184521439.html
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       > WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Anxious about the wellbeing of their
       Ukrainian refugees, city mayors across Poland are refusing the
       government’s instructions to sound air raid alarm sirens Sunday
       as part of memorial observances for Poland's 2010 presidential
       plane crash.
       --- End Quote ---
       When refugees are "non-white":
  HTML https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/greece-deploys-sound-cannons-to-shock-and-block-migrants-40635
       #Post#: 12824--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: April 14, 2022, 11:40 pm
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  HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/german-pilots-turn-hobby-life-194132489.html
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       > Laumann, 35, is among a group of amateur German pilots who
       formed Ukraine Air Rescue, a humanitarian initiative using their
       planes. Five of them regularly fly between the German city of
       Mainz near Frankfurt and Rzeszow in Poland.
       >
       > "We have already carried out 20 flights and we transported
       around 20 people," Silke Hammer, a spokesperson for the group,
       said in an interview. "Today, we are taking a stroke patient to
       Cologne."
       > ...
       > At Rzeszow airport, the pilots take on Ukrainian refugees with
       special needs to an airport near the German city of Bonn to
       receive further support.
       >
       > "These are passengers who can't be easily transported overland
       because they have serious health problems. Some of them are
       probably children," Laumann said.
       --- End Quote ---
       Refugees arriving across the Mediterranean since 2015 also
       included many with serious health problems who shouldn't have
       had to travel by land (let alone by sea in overcrowded
       dinghies). Where were you and your small planes back then?
       #Post#: 12907--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: guest55
       Date: April 19, 2022, 5:15 pm
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       So, the U.S. could easily have accepted refugees from Haiti and
       South America also. It's amazing at what "speeds" Westerners are
       willing to work for the right skin tone:
       US speeds entry for Ukrainian refugees as more reach Mexico
       border | DW News
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       > The Mexican city of Tijuana has become a staging point for
       Ukrainian refugees looking to make it to the United States,
       motivated by the promise of President Biden to give asylum to
       100.000 refugees from Ukraine.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0WILvnn_Uk
       #Post#: 12941--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: April 20, 2022, 10:41 pm
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  HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/advocates-call-out-double-standard-for-black-and-brown-migrants-vs-ukrainian-refugees-211549303.html
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       > With more than 4.9 million Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russia’s
       invasion of their country, the Biden administration announced in
       late March it will accept 100,000 people who are escaping that
       conflict into the U.S.
       >
       > While pro-immigration activists usually welcome such an
       announcement, some are criticizing what they see as a double
       standard being applied at the southern border that favors
       Ukrainian refugees over Black and brown migrants who have
       already been waiting. In March, over 3,000 Ukrainian refugees
       were processed at the U.S.-Mexico border, while refugees from
       other countries have been waiting months — and in some cases
       years — for their asylum cases to be heard.
       >
       > “That is very different than the treatment that has been
       received by largely Black and brown refugees over the last two
       years, while the border has been closed to all asylum seekers
       due to a law known as Title 42, which is billed as a public
       health measure needed to keep the U.S. public safe from rising
       levels of COVID in the world, but really functions to keep out
       asylum seekers that are Black and brown,” Nicole Ramos, director
       of the Border Rights Project at the legal services organization
       Al Otro Lado, told Yahoo News.
       > ...
       > Ramos said refugees from Haiti and other countries fall
       squarely within the protections provided by U.S. asylum law but
       are being denied the opportunity to access the legal process.
       Those who have already waited months for their cases to be
       processed are often just as desperately in need of humanitarian
       assistance as refugees from Ukraine.
       >
       > Francel Celestin is a Haitian immigrant who is waiting, along
       with his wife and three children, for their asylum case to be
       processed in Tijuana, Mexico.
       > ...
       > Like many Haitian migrants, he isn't sure what to make of
       priority potentially being granted to Ukrainian refugees.
       >
       > “For me, I feel small. I feel small because we come from the
       Caribbean, and they come from Europe. They left because of a war
       in their country, but it is their war. But we also left because
       of a war — because in our country, children cannot walk alone,
       and we cannot live a decent life for our children,” Celestin
       said.
       --- End Quote ---
       If Ukrainian refugees themselves had any conscience, they would
       refuse to accept processing until all refugees who have been
       waiting longer than themselves have been processed first. But
       they don't, because they don't.
       #Post#: 13105--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: April 27, 2022, 3:32 am
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  HTML https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/04/21/680752/Germany-Afghan-refugees-Taliban-Ukraine-Russia-displacement-
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       > Germany expels Afghan refugees to accommodate Ukrainians
       > ...
       > US-based Foreign Policy magazine recounted the story of
       helpless Afghan families which arrived in Germany as refugees
       fleeing the Taliban rule but were quite recently expelled by the
       German government to make room for incoming Ukrainian refugees.
       > ...
       > “The evictions purposefully weren’t publicized. Some people
       had lived in their homes for years and were ripped out of their
       social structures, including children who were moved to
       locations far from their respective schools,” said Tareq Alaows,
       a board member of the Berlin Refugee Council, a collaboration of
       different organizations helping to improve conditions for
       refugees in the German capital and making sure their rights are
       adhered to.
       > ...
       > According to the report, the eviction decision was made by
       Berlin’s Senate Department for Integration, Labor, and Social
       Services. The department argues that the move is “based on
       operationally necessary and difficult considerations” and that
       there is no alternative because Ukrainians, including many women
       with children, needed a roof over their heads and a bed.
       --- End Quote ---
       So if new refugees from Afghanistan arrive, will Germany by the
       same reasoning expel the current Ukrainian refugees because
       these new Afghan refugees would need a roof over their heads and
       a bed? We all know the answer.
  HTML https://fargowells.com/afghan-refugees-evicted-to-make-room-for-ukrainians-media/
       --- Quote ---
       > According to surveys, Germans favor admitting Ukrainian
       refugees over Afghans and others. A poll taken last year found
       that 60% of respondents didn’t want their government to take in
       any more refugees. Even as then-Chancellor Angela Merkel
       announced plans to welcome tens of thousands of Afghans, Armin
       Laschet, the leader of Merkel’s CDU party, told voters that 2015
       “must not be repeated,” referring to Merkel’s decision to
       welcome around a million Middle Eastern and African migrants.
       >
       > However, 91% of Germans in March supported taking in refugees
       from Ukraine. This, combined with Poland and Hungary – normally
       staunch opponents of immigration – taking in hundreds of
       thousands of displaced Ukrainians, has prompted liberal pundits
       and activists to accuse European nations of applying “double
       standards” to refugees, depending on their country of origin.
       --- End Quote ---
       Even if we assume all 40% who wanted the government to take more
       refugees are among the 91% supporting taking in refugees from
       Ukraine, that still leaves 51% of outright ethnonepotist
       Germans. This is why no leftist should support democracy.
       #Post#: 13164--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: April 30, 2022, 3:50 am
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       It doesn't matter if you are the richest person in the world;
       ethnonepotists will still give you free stuff:
  HTML https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/texas-rancher-offers-elon-musk-100-acres-of-free-land-for-new-twitter-hq/
       #Post#: 13165--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: rp
       Date: April 30, 2022, 4:06 am
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       "texas rancher"
       As if enslaving cows wasn't enough, now Musk gets to set up
       shop. Also, any guesses as to how the rancher was eventually
       able to get his hands on such a large amount of land in the
       first place?
       #Post#: 13251--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: May 9, 2022, 12:36 am
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/syrians-desperate-aid-hit-hard-060601740.html
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       > BEIRUT (AP) — Umm Khaled hardly leaves the tent where she
       lives in northwest Syria, and she says she doesn’t pay attention
       to the news. But she knows one reason why it is getting harder
       and harder to feed herself and her children: Ukraine.
       > ...
       > The biggest provider, the U.N. World Food Program, began this
       week to cut the size of the monthly rations it gives to 1.35
       million people in the territory.
       >
       > The Ukraine crisis has also created a whole new group of
       refugees. European nations and the U.S. have rushed to help more
       than 5.5 million Ukrainians who have fled to neighboring
       countries, as well as more than 7 million displaced within
       Ukraine’s borders.
       > ...
       > Meanwhile, UNICEF said funding for humanitarian operations in
       Syria is dwindling fast, saying it has received less than half
       of its funding requirements for this year.
       > ...
       > Umm Khaled is among those who rely on food aid. With her aid
       rations reduced, she has gone deeper in debt to feed her family.
       > ...
       > Her family lives on two meals a day -- a small breakfast and a
       main meal late in the afternoon that serves as lunch and dinner.
       Her only income is from picking olives for a few weeks a year,
       making 20 Turkish liras ($1.35) a day.
       >
       > “We used to get enough rice, bulgur, lentils and others. Now
       they keep reducing them,” she said by telephone from the camp.
       > ...
       > In many of its operations around the world, WFP is reducing
       the size of the rations it provides, she said. Starting this
       month in northwest Syria, the provisions will go down to 1,177
       calories a day, from 1,340.
       > ...
       > “Syria is on the verge of becoming yet another forgotten
       crisis,” Assistant U.N. Secretary-General for Humanitarian
       Affairs Joyce Msuya warned in late April.
       >
       > In northwest Syria, “a staggering 4.1 million people” need
       humanitarian aid, Msuya said — not just food, but also
       medicines, blankets, school supplies and shelter. She said
       almost a million people in the territory, mainly women and
       children, live in tents, “half of which are beyond their normal
       lifespan.”
       > ...
       > Umm Khaled said she has no choice but to endure her
       deteriorating living conditions.
       >
       > “They keep reducing our food basket,” she said. “May God
       protect us if they cut it completely.”
       --- End Quote ---
       If it were simply a matter of more refugees leading to food
       having to be shared more thinly, we would hear stories about
       hungry Ukrainian refugees also. We don't, because it isn't. What
       is really going on is that some refugees are not getting enough
       food in order to ensure others get plenty. It is not hard to
       guess which.
       #Post#: 13395--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: May 16, 2022, 9:33 pm
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/europe-accused-double-standard-ukrainian-004320833.html
       --- Quote ---
       > UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The quick acceptance of Ukrainians
       fleeing Russia's aggression puts a spotlight on Europe's “double
       standard” for migrants, standing against its nonwelcome for
       people fleeing violence in Africa, the Mideast and elsewhere,
       the head of the world's largest humanitarian network said
       Monday.
       > ...
       > “We hoped that the Ukrainian crisis would have been a turning
       point in the European migration policies,” Rocca said. “But
       unfortunately, this was not the case.”
       >
       > He said the 27-member European Union still has different
       approaches to migration at its eastern border from Ukraine and
       its southern border on the Mediterranean.
       > ...
       > Since Russia invaded on Feb. 24, more than 6 million people
       have fled Ukraine, with Poland absorbing more than 3.3 million
       and over 900,000 going to Romania, 605,000 to Hungary, 463,000
       to Moldova and 421,000 to Slovakia, according to the U.N.
       refugee agency.
       >
       > By contrast, Rocca said, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers
       trying to get to Europe are still dying, facing abuse and
       struggling to access essential services.
       >
       > Over 48,000 migrants have died or disappeared since 2014 while
       traveling at sea, and the deadliest route is that taken by
       migrants across the central Mediterranean to Europe, with at
       least 19,000 such deaths, he said.
       >
       > Those who arrive, mainly in Italy, Greece and Spain, are often
       put in camps and face long waits for their asylum claims to be
       heard.
       >
       > “In Europe there is a big heart and soul, because the
       community in Europe were able to open their arms, receiving
       millions in a few days of Ukrainians,” Rocca said. “So, they lie
       about the threat that is coming from the Mediterranean Sea, when
       it comes about a few thousands of people.”
       > ...
       > “There is a double standard,” Rocca said. “This is evident. It
       is in our eyes, and we cannot deny it when it comes about
       seeking protection.”
       --- End Quote ---
       For example, would they have done the following to a boat full
       of Ukrainians?
  HTML https://news.sky.com/story/uk-and-french-services-left-rescue-of-more-than-30-drowning-migrants-in-channel-to-each-other-report-claims-12658965
       Oops, Ukrainians don't even have to travel by boat in the first
       place.....
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