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China Drilling 32,800-Foot Hole into Earth’s Crust

China is reportedly drilling a hole measuring 32,800 feet deep into the Earth’s crust in the Xinjiang region.

The drilling began Tuesday and is part of a “research project” in the oil-rich area, the New York Post reported Thursday, citing state media.

“The venture is being led by state scientists as a means to further China’s deep Earth exploration venture launched by President Xi Jinping in 2021, the Xinhua News Agency reported,” the outlet said, adding the work was happening in the Tarim Basin.

Britannica describes the Tarim Basin as a “vast depression drained by the Tarim River in the Uyghur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang,” noting it covers approximately 350,000 square miles.

The area is “enclosed by the Tien Shan (mountains) to the north, the Pamirs to the west, the Kunlun Mountains to the south, and the Altun Mountains to the east,” the site said, adding it is an extremely dry area.

Meanwhile, Chinese Academy of Engineering scientist Sun Jinsheng said drillers will go down in more than 10 layers of rock during the project.

“The drilling is expected to take about 457 days and is being led by the China National Petroleum Corp, which will use the project to test underground drilling machines and gather data on the Earth’s interior,” the Post article said.

China does not have a positive record when it comes to the Xinjiang region.

In March, the U.S. State Department released its 2022 human rights report on the country.

Men with Machine Guns Open Fire in Gun-Controlled Chicago

Video from Wednesday night shows men, at least two of whom were armed with machine guns, opening fire on innocents in gun-controlled Chicago.

CWB Chicago reported that the incident occurred in “the 4200 block of South Wells.”

Responding officers found four gunshot victims on the ground, one of which was a deceased 14-year-old boy named Pierre Johnson. The other wounded individuals were 19, 19, and 21-years old.

When police arrived to investigate, a 16-year-old boy with a handgun opened fire on them. The boy was subsequently arrested and charged with “six counts of attempted murder of peace officers.”

The 16-year-old was also charged with allegedly firing at a vehicle in which officers were sitting and for possessing a gun while under the age of 21.

42 people were shot Friday into Sunday morning in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.

Nearly 240 people have been killed in Chicago thus far in 2023.

Indian officials search for answers after train crash kills at least 288

Authorities were scrambling on Sunday to understand the cause of a three-train collision in India that killed at least 288 people, claiming that “no one responsible” will be spared.

The country’s deadliest rail accident in more than 20 years left a blood-stained wreckage, with compartments smashed and some carriages flung far from the tracks.

Debris was piled high at the site of the Friday night crash near Balasore, in the eastern state of Odisha.

“I saw bloodied scenes, mangled bodies and one man with a severed arm being desperately helped by his injured son,” researcher Anubhav Das, 27, told AFP after surviving the crash.

There was confusion about the exact sequence of events, but reports cited railway officials as saying that a signalling error had sent the Coromandal Express running south from Kolkata to Chennai onto a side track.

It slammed into a freight train and the wreckage derailed an express running north from India’s tech hub Bengaluru to Kolkata that was also passing the site.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the crash site and injured passengers being treated in hospital and said “no one responsible” would be spared.

Turkey to Send Commando Battalion to Kosovo Amid Violent Unrest

The Turkish defense ministry announced Saturday it will be sending a commando battalion to northern Kosovo in response to a NATO request for troops to help quell violent unrest.

The request came from NATO’s Joint Force Command Naples, the ministry said in a press statement posted on its official Twitter account, and the battalion will join the alliance´s peacekeeping mission in the region, known as KFOR, as a reserve unit.

A defense ministry official said around 500 Turkish troops would be going to Kosovo. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with ministry regulations.

NATO announced on Tuesday that it would be sending 700 troops to bolster the force in the area. KFOR currently consists of almost 3,800 troops, including some 350 from Turkey.

Violent clashes with ethnic Serbs on Monday left 30 international soldiers – 11 Italians and 19 Hungarians – wounded, including fractures and burns from improvised explosive incendiary devices.

The clashes grew out of a confrontation that unfolded earlier after ethnic Albanian officials elected in votes overwhelmingly boycotted by Serbs entered municipal buildings to take office and were blocked by Serbs.

London’s Khan Says City Needs ‘More Migrants’
Demands Local Power to Import More Foreigners

Far-left Mayor of London Sadiq Khan declared that London needs “more migrants” and that the government should give cities the power to set their own immigration policies.

“I have no hesitation at all saying that we need more migrants in London, ” Kahn told Channel 4, going on to claim that there were social and cultural benefits to the city through mass migration.

Khan went on to claim that there are shortages of labour and skill within the British capital, particularly in areas such as the healthcare system, social care, tech, and hospitality.

Interestingly, while the Conservative government has overseen record waves of migration following Brexit, the hospitality sector has been one of the few sectors to have its labour supply actually restricted, which has resulted in native hospitality workers seeing their wages grow at a significantly faster pace than the national average.

In his interview with Channel 4, the far-left mayor went on to suggest that the government give local authorities, such as himself, the power to determine their own immigration policies.
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Khan said that there the “pipeline” of training Londoners for jobs would be insufficient in covering the needed supply of workers, which he claimed could only be filled by foreign labour, despite it presumably being easier to recruit workers from different parts of the UK rather than from abroad.

Hong Kong-Born Canadian MP Targeted by CCP

Hong Kong-born Chinese Canadian Member of Parliament (MP) Jenny Kwan Wai-ching recently confirmed to the media that she was briefed by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) that she had become a “target” of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), presumably due to her criticism of the CCP.

In an interview with Canadian media, The Globe and Mail, a few days ago, Jenny Kwan revealed that CSIS had briefed her earlier, saying that she had been targeted by the CCP as early as 2019 because she spoke out for the human rights situation in Hong Kong and Xinjiang. But for security reasons, she could not reveal further how she was on the CCP’s radar.

Kwan participated in the “June 4 Democracy Walk” commemorative event held in Vancouver last Saturday, May 27, marched with about 200 people to the gate of the CCP Consulate in Vancouver, and delivered a speech at the scene. She said that having been targeted by the CCP as a member of parliament, she could imagine how difficult it would be for ordinary people. “For ordinary Canadians who have family or relatives in Hong Kong and mainland China, their fear is real. The danger is real.”

In an interview with Taiwan’s Central News Agency (CNA), Kwan said that she would not be intimidated by the CCP and would not be silenced in any way. “I support Hong Kong people and the Uyghurs in fighting for basic human rights. I, and other MPs, voted in the parliament to support the motion to condemn the CCP’s treatment of the Uyghurs as genocide. We want to tell the government that foreign interference of any kind will never be tolerated.”