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Chinese criminal organizations operating in the Greater Mekong Region have launched a new business in a big way during the covid: online investment scams based on the slave labor of hundreds of thousands of human "bots." Read more HERE.
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"When people's religious freedom is taken away, political freedom soon follows."
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On January 31, Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson highlighted concerns about forced organ harvesting perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party on religious citizens, calling the regime one of the "most repressive in the world" for its human rights abuses.
"Tibetan Buddhists and Falun Gong practitioners are being placed in forced labour camps and have their organs harvested by the Chinese Communist Party," Johnson said during a speech at the International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington. Read more HERE. JŠ
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Updated 19.2.2024: I spoke to the President of the EP, Roberta Metsola - No energy crisis! In fact, the prime minister's lie and speculation on the stock market - the government should relocate to the prison in Pankrác
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Dr. Damjan Prelovšek - art historian and expert on modern architecture, specialized in the work of architect Jože Plečnik, Ambassador of Slovenia to the Czech Republic 1998-2002, member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, writer and photographer.
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I wanted to encourage an objective investigation so that fraudsters are not covered up and innocent people are not destroyed. The editors contacted Ahmed Bahaddou and asked about his activities at the Czech embassy in Rabat together with Viktor Lorenc, specifically whether he was a middleman in suspicious applications for Schengen visas. Bahaddou denied this: "I did not broker any visas. I accompany the Czech embassy on certain occasions. I was present at the creation of some contracts between companies and accompanied the official visit of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš to Morocco on 4 December 2018. I worked first with Ambassador Fronkova, then with Viktor."
Of course, he didn't fly in the Prime Minister's special so as not to be too conspicuous. It was A. Bahaddou who took care of him in Morocco. And as he himself states, he arranged cars and drivers for him and other top representatives of Czech companies, invited them to dinners and paid for everything in Morocco out of his own pocket. Of course, he couldn't do this forever and he couldn't pay for everything. So he had to get some kind of counterpart.
However, Bahaddou later stated that he was the initiator of the idea of this air connection and he arranged it. This would also explain his presence on the first flight. A. Bahaddou's statement in French to Air Arabia on the audio recording:
But somehow the strange visa activities don't fit in with all this
If someone is arranging business for Czech companies, arranging air connections, arranging meetings for the Prime Minister with wealthy Moroccan businessmen, then surely he or she is receiving appropriate financial remuneration for these activities. At most, he could recommend some local VIPs such as politicians, businessmen and partners of Czech companies for Schengen visas, who would deserve, for example, priority acceptance of visa applications, waiver of the application fee, a visa for multiple entries, as they often travel to the Czech Republic and elsewhere. These exemptions are duly allowed by the Schengen regulations, they are in order, normal and, on the contrary, for some people they are an expression of quality diplomacy, respect for the partner and can be described as part of economic diplomacy. Such correct exceptions are common practice in all Schengen Member States. Not, however, visas for suspicious persons who then travel elsewhere and for other purposes.
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It is a pity that the article on Seznam.cz: Murder in Slopney was only short time on the front page? It was not mentioned in court that the victim was alleged to have modified weapons for the Slovak mafia, specifically adding silencers, also for Czech policemen?! I wonder who is interested in keeping the innocent in prison? Slovak Maroš Straňák and Czech David Šimon, with sentences of 24.5 and 20.5 years respectively, have been in prison for 11 years. Czech TV had two teams on the scene (supposedly important, editors told me) - no mention in the evening's CT Events ?! I wonder who has the power to arrange or order it!
The investigation into the murder of Miroslav Sedlář in 2011, also greatly complicated the actions of the descendants of the murdered man. First they reported that he fell down the stairs, then they cleaned up the house and the footprints... It cannot be ruled out that he modified the weapon used to murder journalist Ján Kuciak and his girlfriend for the Slovak mafia. The judge of the KS Zlín, Radomír Koudela, first acquitted the convicts in 2013, and in 2014 he gave them exceptional sentences. Milan Rakaš - the prosecution's crown witness - appeared in 2014 and claimed that Straňák had confessed to the murder to him while in custody... Jakub Řezníček - originally a suspect, then a witness - claimed that on the day of Sedlář's murder he had sat in the car with Šimon and Straňák and that he had sat there wearing a balaclava and gloves. It was there that police dogs identified his scent traces. The convicts refused his testimony, as did the fourth passenger. Pavel Kucik, the lead investigator of the murder, told reporters that Reznicek's statement was purposeful. But he never told the court. Tomáš Botek - told reporters that he did not meet Šimon and Straňák until about a month after the murder in Slopný - in October. His words are consistent with the telecommunications data.
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Photos from Winter Wonderland Prague - Letňany. JŠ
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The slow departure of winter and the onset of warmer spring days heralds the traditional Mardi Gras revelry bidding farewell to the cold with exuberant merriment. The so-called Fashank is celebrated between the Lenten season of Christmas and Easter and this year falls between 7 January (after Three Kings) and 13 February. But carnival fun varies from place to place, in some places lasting just one day, in others for weeks. Organisers also often coordinate so that spectators can see multiple parades in one year and enjoy the fun. It is also an opportunity to visit neighbours near and far and learn about their culture.
The Old Bohemian Carnival in Hlinsko was inscribed on the UNESCO Intangible Heritage List in 2010. It is held in the open-air museum of the Vroubenek on Veselý Hill and nearby villages. After the ceremonial permission to go round, the procession of masks goes from building to building and plays and dances for the owners of the houses to bring them luck, abundance, good harvest and fertility. Merry songs are played, but if someone has died in the building, they are replaced by tunes of mourning to honour the deceased. The hosts then treat the musicians with typical sweets such as doughnuts and alcohol to warm them up. Refreshments are also offered to visitors who come with the procession. The masks like to play pranks on them - they paint black lines of soot on their faces, throw the boys into the white snow and take the pretty girls for a spin. You'll find a chimney sweep, a chimney sweep, a Turk, a grasshopper, a laufro and straw scarecrows. Then in the afternoon, during the closing ceremony, they recite the carnival testament, enumerating the sins of the grasshopper mask. She is then slaughtered and the procession ends with the frolicsome dance of the masks - a symbol of the removal of all evil and the arrival of a new pure time.
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I have followed the case for years, often as the only journalist - see links below. More in the article from which I quote:
"I've been going to psychiatry, taking medication for months. Physically I feel good, mentally it will never be good again. I can't get a good night's sleep. I thought sleep would improve, but it hasn't. It's always in my head and I can't erase it."
The judge of the Prague Court of Justice, Jiří Lněnička, would have deserved 20 years for his sentence, including the obligation to pay damages with his panel! He has received much more for his criminal convictions in the past, if not life imprisonment for the lives destroyed - see links below! During the trial of American Gilbert McCray, I called him a criminal in the courtroom at the end of the hearing. He left quickly. I met him once in Prague, wanted to approach him, he disappeared like a little boy...
Strangely enough, the public broadcaster ČT was silent on the evening's Události, as well as on another shocking case at the Zlín CC on the same day (I'll write tomorrow - two young men have been in prison for 11 years for a murder they demonstrably did not commit!). CT even had two teams in Zlín, but again no output in CT Events, just as the whole mainstream is silent so far).
Where is the Czech justice system and the public media heading? Who has the power to silence them and who has an interest in not informing the general public? You will find out tomorrow. JŠ
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