SATANISTS to Volunteer in Florida Schools Following Signing of New Law That Allows Religious Personnel to be Employed in Public Schools
Public schools in Florida might soon be swarmed with members of the Satanic Temple as Gov. Ron DeSantis has put the call out for more school counselors following the signing of a state law allowing religious chaplains into public schools amid staffing shortages.
House Bill 931, which came into effect this July, permits outside organizations to provide “additional counseling and support to students.” DeSantis has made it clear that the law is intended as a means to legally reintroduce Christian values into public education.
However, the bill has left the implementation of chaplaincy programs to individual school districts and only requires schools to list a volunteer’s religion “if any.”
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The Satanic Temple sees this as an opportunity to challenge the unconstitutional favoritism toward Christianity. Satanic Temple co-founder and spokesperson Lucien Greaves argued that if Christian chaplains are granted access to students, then so should their members, to maintain the separation of church and state.
“You have theocrats pushing further and further, signing unconstitutional bills into law, and they realize there’s no consequence,” Greaves said. “They’re giving everybody the impression that these types of things are legal, this is just the environment we’re living in. And in that way, they’re really numbing people to when these things actually do take effect, or when they are upheld by a corrupt judge who’s just playing partisan politics.”
Greaves assured that there are no plans to introduce studies of the dark arts or Satanic rituals into classrooms. Instead, the Satanic Temple views Satan as a symbol of rebellion and resistance to authoritarianism, and Satanic Temple volunteers will allegedly use their platforms to expose clear violations of the constitutionally protected separation of church and state.
As of now, no Florida school districts have announced their participation in the chaplain program since schools are currently on summer recess. However, Greaves claimed that members of the Satanic Temple are prepared to volunteer once districts start signing up.
DeSantis declares Satanic Temple members will not be permitted to serve as school chaplains
The Satanic Temple is recognized as a religious organization by the United States and has long endorsed religious pluralism and equal rights. Some of its high-profile campaigns include the controversial After School Satan clubs and the proposed installation of a seven-foot-tall bronze statue of the occult deity Baphomet at the Oklahoma State Capitol building in Oklahoma City.
During the bill’s signing back in April, DeSantis made it clear that the new law would not extend to permitting Satanic Temple members to serve as school chaplains.
“Some have said that if you do a school chaplain program that, somehow, you’re going to have Satanists running around in all our schools. We’re not playing those games in Florida. You don’t have to worry about that,” he said at the time.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) quickly issued a scathing rebuttal, stressing the inherent contradictions in the bill’s premise.
“It was advanced with promises that public school chaplain positions would be open to everyone and that chaplains would provide spiritual counsel to students who wanted it, but would not proselytize or coerce students into religious activities,” the FFRF said. “When Florida school districts consider this new law, they now know that those promises were false.”
“If chaplains are not expected to push their religion onto students, why would DeSantis and others be so concerned about barring chaplains from disfavored minority religions?” continued the FFRF. “The assurance that the law will not favor Christian chaplains has been a bald-faced lie from the start.”
“When [DeSantis] stood at the podium and told people they were going to put chaplains in schools, but Satanists wouldn’t be allowed to, he was straight up lying to the school districts and opening them up to a liability that he’s not going to cover,” said Greaves. “There was nothing written in the law that would exclude us. He can’t just declare something like that by fiat and expect it to be treated as law, and if he doesn’t understand that, which likely he really doesn’t, he obviously has no place being a governor.”
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German Youth are Rejecting ‘National Shame’
I taught humanities to hundreds of students at two international schools in Germany over a period of several years. My primary subject was history and each time it came to covering World War II, British kids were excited; American kids were broadly well-informed; and the German kids dreaded it. Their heads dropped at the very mention of the unit. I vividly remember Laura, an 8th grader, say, “We’re the bad guys and everyone hates us. We did nothing—our parents weren’t even born.” That is quite a weight to carry before a single class had been taught.
In Germany, students do not interact with WWII so much as they are subjected to it. It is compulsory for all high school students in Bavaria to visit a concentration camp as part of their studies and common practice in several other states for 9th graders. The intention is to bring children face-to-face with the horrors of Germany’s Nazi past so that it cannot be repeated. The Germans call it a “culture of remembrance.” But this culture of remembrance goes beyond pedagogy. It is an integral part of German national identity that German leaders from the Baby Boomer generation have long forced upon German children. In 2019, during her first visit to Auschwitz, Angela Merkel stated, “I feel a deep shame,” before continuing, “To be aware of this responsibility is a fixed part of our national identity.” But it is a psychologically dubious goal to force a sense of shame onto every generation of German 9th graders—15-year-olds. I recently visited Grafeneck, site of the Nazi T4 forced euthanasia programme, where at least 10,564 people with disabilities were exterminated. It is a moving experience. Much like what Merkel would have felt, I was overcome with impotent anger at what these people had suffered. Like Merkel, I am an adult, so I can better process these emotions. 15-year-olds cannot. The day I visited, a group of school students had been recently through the memorial. They had left notes of compassion at the site for people to read. The problem—and it is the same everywhere kids are forced to visit these sites—is that the kids’ thoughts are reduced to awkward stock phrases that their teachers have drummed into them in class: ”We feel horrible for what happened to you,” ”never forget,” ”rest in Peace.” Some were signed “best wishes,” like an awkward letter to a little-known relation.
When children are told that personal shame for the most heinous crimes of the Nazis is an integral part of their identity, it is natural that those children will wish to shed that identity or rebel against it. Until recently, Germans have chosen to disassociate from it. A national bout of soul searching arose in 2001, when then CDU General Secretary Laurenz Meyer said, “I’m proud to be German” in an interview. Jürgen Trittin, a Green Party politician and then minister for the environment, responded by saying that Meyer “had the mentality of a skinhead.” In 2004, when Horst Köhler gave his inaugural speech as German president, he said “I love Germany,” a statement that “sent a hush through the packed Reichstag chamber.” Even today, when Germany plays in major soccer championships, flying the German flag cannot be allowed without media and political dissection and requisite acknowledgements of shame. Essentially, German national identity is, at best, complicated; public expressions of pride in it are best avoided in respectable company, and the only clear and accepted emotion is shame.
For generations of German children, this caustic burden has been placed on their shoulders at a young age and the unfairness of it grows apparent to them when they compare their concentration camp visits to that of their peers with migration backgrounds. In 2009, I visited Dachau with my father. As we approached the architecturally stunning visitor’s centre, there were groups of students milling about. The German kids looked stunned and sat silently or tried to cheer one another up with small talk whispered as though in church. Many students of North African origin may well have been coming from a soccer game. They horsed about and even had time to mock my father’s beard. The demeanour of both groups could not have been more starkly different. This isn’t lost on German teens, who are increasingly feeling that they are getting the short end of the stick in the multiculturalism they have inherited from their parents and grandparents. As they grow older, they see that this double standard is leveraged for political purposes.
When Olaf Scholz took power at the head of a leftwing SPD/Greens/FDP coalition in 2021, his government prioritised expanding Germany’s culture of remembrance from focusing exclusively on the Holocaust to including Germany’s other historical sins. In May 2024, Claudia Roth, minister for culture and Green party member, introduced an expanded vision in a 43-page document. In this vision, the Holocaust would hold equal footing with German colonialism, the history of immigrant journeys to Germany, GDR history, and Germany’s “culture of democracy.” Rather than alleviating the burden of historical guilt, which Germans feel more acutely than any other nation, the government set about increasing it four-fold. And just as German children for generations have been confronted with memorials to the Holocaust, Roth has called for eye-watering sums of money to build new museums and memorials for her oppressive vision. An Exhibition Centre in Halle for the “life stories of the East Germans” would cost more than €200 million. A further €19.5 million would be spent on a “House of Democracy” in Frankfurt. Most controversial, however, was Roth’s collaboration with the “Initiative of Black People in Germany” (ISD), a non-profit organisation that provided feedback on her proposal. ISD, founded by radical leftist Bafta Sarbo, is a black rights group that has received €1.5 million in funding from the government, even though Sarbo has previously caused controversy by liking a tweet calling for the shooting of a Bild journalist, and for saying in an interview that, “as long as Capitalism prevails, there will be racism.”
Roth cynically attempted to tie hard-left political narratives—social justice, post-colonial discourse, and migrant politics—to Germany’s ‘national shame,’ the Holocaust. Rather than convince the public of the merits of her political positions, she attempted to subjugate every German by force of guilt. Thankfully, her plan was universally lambasted and quickly disappeared from public discussion.
However, leveraging German guilt for cash is a growing industry. Successive Polish governments have demanded wartime reparations in the region of €1.3 trillion from Germany. In 2021, Germany apologised to Namibia for its colonial past and offered a €1.2 billion reparations package. This was challenged in the Namibian court system to stall it so that more money could be extracted, with Al Jazeera pointing out that, as of 2024, Israel had received €82 billion in reparations from Germany with an extra €1.44 billion paid annually in upkeep to Holocaust survivors. Therein lies the issue with Roth’s updated “culture of remembrance.” If all historical grievances are to be given equal footing with the Holocaust, Germany won’t be long going broke. More importantly, young Germans who feel disconnected from the self-flagellation of their elders are tired of being emotionally abused and forced to cough up cash for the crimes of their ancestors.
They have more pressing matters to address, like navigating life in a multicultural nation—something their parents and grandparents never had to do. In 2015, Angela Merkel opened up Germany’s borders to a record 2.14 million immigrants, and defiantly stated, “Wir schaffen das” (we can do it). It was a great line, but since then Germany has become less and less safe. Crime statistics released by the German Department for Justice show that, in 2023, although Germany has a migrant population of only 18.4%, migrants committed 41% of all crime. Strikingly, migrants are responsible for 43.1% of murder, 74.5% of robbery including murder, 46% of aggravated rape, 41.1% of sexual harassment, and 48.6% of public brawls. These figures do not include criminal acts by Germans with an immigrant background. German youth are growing up in a Germany that is unimaginably different from their parents’ and grandparents’ experience. They do not feel safe, and yet their elders brutally enforce the old rules of ‘grin and bear it’ out of a sense of ever expanding ‘national shame.’ It has reached a breaking point.
In April of 2024, a large study found that 22% of German 14–29-year-olds would vote for the AfD in a general election. The numbers had doubled compared to when the same study was taken two years previously. Rather than engage in a bout of soul-searching to understand why young Germans are increasingly attracted to the AfD, the response was predictable. Establishment German politicians brutally clamped down on this dissenting generation with the full authority invested in them as custodians and official dispensers of ‘national shame.’
Since January, all parties have supported mass public demonstrations against the AfD and there have been increased efforts to ban the party entirely. After the April study revealed that the mainstream parties were losing the youth vote, they seized on an opportunity to scare the kids straight. In May, a group of upper-middle class youths were caught on camera in a 14-second video singing a viral meme song “Deutschland den Deutschen, Ausländer raus” (Germany for the Germans, foreigners out). The song, sung to the tune of Gigi D’Agostino’s L’amour Toujours, has become a taboo song in recent months, the meekest of pushbacks among young Germans otherwise unable to express their concerns about their daily reality. The youths in the video sang it with the cheeky smiles of kids giggling in the back of church knowing they are risking their parent’s ire. But the political and media blowback was devastating. Germany’s biggest daily newspaper, Bild, led the charge, branding the video a “Nazi scandal” and following up with several articles that hounded those involved, all of whom were later dismissed from their various jobs and studies. What was clearly a group of edgy drunken youths was portrayed as a hardcore Nazi cell at the very heart of German upper society, with several national news outlets, including Welt, firmly laying down the ‘national shame card’ by linking the lyrics of the song to speeches given by Hitler during his extermination of the German Jews. Following universal condemnation from the political establishment, SPD politician and Bundestag president Bärbel Bas called for “perhaps the maximum” legal penalty for the youths, of between 3 and 5 years in prison.
The media and political backlash to the Sylt “Nazis” couldn’t have been more different from the reaction when actual antisemitic extremist Islamists took to the streets to celebrate Hamas’ October 7th attack on Israel. In the days after the attack, Muslim youths in Berlin’s Neukölln district clashed with police and rioted in the streets. Güner Balci, an integration officer for the area, said that ‘large swathes’ of Muslim youth support Hamas and Hezbollah and are members of local Islamist groups. A month before the Sylt incident, approximately 1,000 Islamists called for the establishment of a German caliphate on the streets of Hamburg. Both stories—stories of real and present danger to German democracy and stability—quickly disappeared from headlines without leaving any mark on the collective public consciousness. The message from the media and the political class was clear: German youths face different expectations and punishments because of their history, and those expectations will be savagely enforced.
The cracking of the establishment whip in Sylt had little effect. In the June European elections, the AfD scored 16% of the 16-24 year old vote, a return second only to the CDU/CSU. When state broadcaster Tagesschau polled voters on their chief election priorities, leading concerns were crime, fears about the influence of Islam, too much migration, and a loss of German identity. They would of course have known all of this ahead of time had they just taken a break from flogging the kids to actually listen to them. Unfortunately, it seems the lesson will be hard learned.
In June, German youths were again reminded that they are required to shoulder the negatives of life in multicultural Germany without ever complaining, when a 20-year-old woman was sentenced to prison for insulting a member of the largely migrant group who gang-raped a 15-year-old girl in Hamburg in 2020. The case caused international outcry when nine of the ten defendants received suspended sentences. Psychiatrist Nahlah Saimeh, who reportedly appeared as an expert witness in the case, stated in a 2023 interview with Spiegel that the gang rape could be a means for the rapists to vent their frustration at the social and cultural isolation they felt as immigrants. To add insult to already unforgivable injury, in addition to the 20-year-old girl who will now serve prison time for insulting one of the gang members, Hamburg police are also investigating 140 other threats made against the rapists. Absurdly, dozens of German youths could spend time in prison for insulting migrant rapists who themselves walked free following their heinous crimes. No wonder the kids are turning to the AfD.
Germany has finally arrived in the era of multicultural realism. Young Germans, frightened and uncertain about the future, are demanding that their elders—who only ever lived with abstract ideals of multiculturalism—listen to their very real concerns. Those elders, in turn, are arguing with one another about whether to continue to beat those youths into silence with the old rod of national shame or whether to add four more rods for a more robust beating. Meanwhile, the AfD prospers.
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Ontario Judge Rules in Favor of Woman Who Refused Covid Nasal Swab Test
BRAMPTON, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — An Ontario court has ruled in favor of a woman who was charged and convicted for refusing to submit to a COVID nasal swab test upon returning home to Canada in 2022.
In a June 26 ruling, Ontario Court Justice Paul Monahan decided in favor of Canadian woman Meththa Fernando, who was charged in 2022 for refusing a COVID nasal swab test when returning to Canada from abroad and subsequently found guilty. Monahan concluded that in Fernando’s case, requiring her to submit to such an invasive test was unlawful and ordered her conviction be overturned.
“I do decide that the nasal swab test, which the screening officer in this case required or demanded Ms. Fernando submit to, was an unlawful requirement or demand,” wrote Monahan in his ruling.
“Ms. Fernando’s refusal to comply with the requirement or demand was lawful on her part,” he continued. “Because the requirement or demand made of her by the screening officer was not lawful, Ms. Fernando should not have been found guilty by the Justice of the Peace.”
Fernando began her legal journey in 2022 when she refused a nasal swab at Pearson International Airport in Toronto, Ontario. Upon her return home to nearby Mississauga, a screening officer from the Canadian Public Health Agency randomly selected her to undergo the nasal test.
However, Fernando, who told the officer she was already vaccinated against COVID, refused the test. She was charged and later convicted of failing to comply with an order under Section 58 of the Quarantine Act and fined a total of $6,255.
Canada’s Quarantine Act was used by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to enact severe draconian COVID travel rules on all returning travelers to the country.
Fernando chose to take her case to an appeal court following conviction, arguing that the Quarantine Act did not “authorize a screening officer to use a screening test which involved the entry into the traveller’s body of an instrument or other foreign body.”
During the hearing, Monahan admitted that this argument had “merit” since Section 14 of the Quarantine Act states, “Any qualified person authorized by the Minister may, to determine whether a traveller has a communicable disease or symptoms of one, use any screening technology authorized by the Minister that does not involve the entry into the traveller’s body of any instrument or other foreign body.”
As LifeSiteNews previously reported there have been several instances of injuries after receiving the swabs, including leaking brain fluid due to the test puncturing the brain tissue.
“The prosecution raised the point that perhaps the insertion into the nasal cavity did not involve the entry into the body,” Monahan stated. “I disagree. The insertion of a nasal swab into the nasal cavity is most definitely an insertion into the body.”
“I am reversing the Justice of the Peace’s decision and entering a finding of not guilty,” he concluded. “Those are my reasons.”
Besides potential brain tissue damage, COVID-19 nasal tests have been flagged for seriously questionable accuracy rates. One study authored by British and American scientists last year found that PCR nasal swab testing has only around 63 percent sensitivity.
Several other studies, as well as federal guidelines, have identified major accuracy issues with PCR tests and other means of testing for coronavirus. The most common PCR testing protocol for COVID-19 also has come under fire in December, when a coalition of scientists called for the retraction of the original article detailing the method, due to a lack of a properly peer-reviewed report.
Pro-freedom lawyer Daniel Freiheit celebrated the decision, telling LifeSiteNews, “This ruling is a stark reminder that many laws may have been broken during COVID. I think this was caused by a collective fear of the unknown and a kind of mass panic.”
“In times like that, it’s utmost to rely on first principles: basic freedoms that I had always been taught would act as checks and balances: freedom to speak, freedom to associate, freedom to deny novel medical treatment, right to retain counsel,” he continued.
He explained that the ruling will give Canadians a sense of vindication since many knew the tests were invasive and unjust but complied out of fear.
“Many people knew it was wrong and unlawful at the time but had no choice except to comply,” he said.
“It was either that or face detainment at the border, harassment, fines, threats of more fines, threats of quarantine, etc,” Freiheit explained. “Submitting to this unlawful treatment was the easiest way out, especially for people coming into the country with medical conditions, tired children or frustrated travel partners.”
This ruling is not the first time actions taken by the Trudeau government during COVID were found to be unlawful.
In January, the Trudeau government’s use of the Emergencies Act to end the Freedom Convoy protest against COVID mandates was ruled to have violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms by Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley.
According to the January ruling, the EA is meant to be reserved as a last resort if all other means fail. In Mosley’s judgement, this threshold was not met and thus, the Trudeau government violated the rights of Canadians.
Shortly after the ruling, Trudeau announced that the government was appealing to the Federal Court of Appeal, a court where he has appointed 10 of the 15 judges.
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Smugglers Stealing License Plates Off Government Vehicles Near Border
Smugglers are stealing license plates from official vehicles in South Texas and mounting them on cars and trucks used to smuggle humans and drugs into the U.S., according to reports.
Authorities in Sabinal, a city near the southern border in Uvalde County, are noticing an uptick in license plate theft likely tied to organized crime.
The Sabinal Police Department provided a collection of recent incident reports to NewsNation correspondent Ali Bradley.
#EXCLUSIVE Sabinal PD in Uvalde County says human/drug smugglers are swiping license plates from vehicles that belong to city officials and local residents and putting them on their vehicles in order to get past law enforcement—The criminals are targeting generic vehicles like… pic.twitter.com/lbRaKqiFkw
— Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV) July 11, 2024
“Sabinal PD in Uvalde County says human/drug smugglers are swiping license plates from vehicles that belong to city officials and local residents and putting them on their vehicles in order to get past law enforcement,” Bradley reported on Thursday.
“The criminals are targeting generic vehicles like white trucks and SUVs which are often city/government vehicles.”
At least three such thefts were recorded in June while another was reported on Monday.
Sabinal Police Chief Jesus “Chuy” Reyes told Bradley that Border Patrol recently busted a smuggling operation involving a vehicle bearing locally-stolen plates.
Chaos unfolds constantly along the U.S.-Mexico border, as Infowars regularly reports.
Newly Empowered French Leftist Coalition to Introduce 90% Income Tax Rate
France’s left-wing electoral coalition, the New Popular Front, is set to introduce a massive tax increase following its victory in the country’s legislative elections. The left-wing bloc wants to impose a 90 percent tax rate on all French men and women who have an annual income of over 400,000 euros ($430,000).
The NFP first proposed this massive tax hike in late June, when Eric Coquerel of the far-left La France Insoumise party – the largest party in the NFP and one of the most radical – who represents the first constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis admitted during a television interview that the coalition would raise the top marginal income tax rate to 90 percent on the wealthiest members of French society.
La France Insoumise has previously tried to pass a similar proposal back in 2019 which would apply to all taxable income over 411,683 euros annually ($445,000). Currently, the income tax rate in France tops out at 45 percent on income over $177,106 euros annually ($192,000).
It should also be noted that the last time French politicians tried to introduce a top income tax rateanywhere close to what La France Insoumise and the NFP are proposing was during the administration of left-wing former President Francois Hollande – current President Emmanuel Macron’s predecessor. Hollande’s proposal was for a 75 percent rate on all income above one million euros ($1.1 million).
France’s top constitutional court – the Constitutional Council – threw out the proposal, forcing Hollande to transform the proposal into a temporary levy paid by corporations on all salaries above one million euros.
NFP requires Macron’s support to pass 90% tax hike – which it is unlikely to receive
The NFP came out of France’s recently concluded legislative election as the largest group in the National Assembly. However, despite its commanding presence with its 180 seats, it does not have the necessary 289 seats to form a majority.
Macron’s liberal and centrist Ensemble coalition came in second with 159 seats – thanks in no small part to an anti-conservative alliance Macron formed with the NFP – and the major conservative and anti-illegal immigration National Rally party and its allies came in third with 142 seats despite winning the most votes.
The lack of a majority in the National Assembly means the NFP will have to reach out – most likely to Macron, smaller parties and independents not aligned with National Rally – to get its 90 percent marginal income tax rate proposal passed.
Furthermore, before the NFP can even table its income tax hike proposal, the National Assembly still needs to figure out if it can form a stable majority that can govern for the next five years, and the first step is for Macron to appoint a prime minister who will be tasked with forming a government that can survive a vote of no confidence.
“The president must appoint as prime minister someone from the New Popular Front to implement the NFP’s program, the whole program and nothing but the program,” said Manuel Bompard, coordinator of La France Insoumise and deputy for Bouches-du-Rhone’s fourth constituency. “We are preparing to govern, to apply the program which is ours.”
Other NFP domestic proposals include lowering the retirement age from 64 to 60, committing at least 150 billion euros ($162 billion) in spending on public services over the next three years and raising the minimum wage by 14 percent and forever linking salaries to inflation, increasing government investment on the so-called green transition and imposing price controls on essential goods and services such as food, fuel and utilities like electricity and heat.
On foreign affairs, the NFP is calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the recognition of the State of Palestine, a halt to Russia’s “war of aggression” in Ukraine, more military aid spending for Kyiv and “unfailing” defense for the “sovereignty and freedom” of the Ukrainian people.
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Satellite Images Show Expansion of Alleged Chinese Spy Bases in Cuba
Satellite images suggest that the growth of Cuba’s electronic spy stations may be linked to China, including new construction at a previously unknown site located 70 miles from the United States’ naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
The study from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington-based think tank, follows reporting from 2023 that said China and Cuba were negotiating closer defense and intelligence ties, along with establishing a new joint military training facility on the island and an eavesdropping facility.
According to U.S. officials who didn’t disclose their locations, Cuba and China were already jointly operating eavesdropping stations on the island. It is also unknown which of those are included in the sites covered by the CSIS report.
Former officials and analysts are worried about the stations because China could be using Cuba’s geographical proximity to the southeastern U.S. to spy on sensitive electronic communications from American military bases, space-launch facilities and military and commercial shipping sites.
Leland Lazarus, an expert on China-Latin America relations at Florida International University, warned that the Chinese facilities on the island could also strengthen China’s “use of telecommunications networks to spy on U.S. citizens.”
The White House and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) declined to comment on the matter.
After reviewing a year’s worth of satellite imagery, the authors of the CSIS report revealed that Cuba has noticeably upgraded and expanded its electronic spying facilities in recent years and targeted four sites at Bejucal, Calabazar, El Salao and Wajay.
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Some of the sites described by CSIS, such as the one at Bejucal, have already been identified as listening posts. However, satellite imagery offers new information about their capabilities, growth over the years and possible links with China.
Chinese spy facilities have “evolving mission set”
Matthew Funaiole, a senior fellow at CSIS and the report’s chief author, explained that these are active locations “with an evolving mission set.”
The report suggested that two of the sites near Havana, Bejucal and Calabazar, have large dish antennas that seem to be designed to monitor and communicate with satellites. The report added that while Cuba lacks satellites, the antennas would be useful for China, which has a substantial space program.
According to the report, the newest dish antenna was installed at Bejucal in January. Additionally, the antenna and other infrastructure upgrades were discovered at the sites within the last decade.
The most recent of the four sites, which is still under construction and was not previously known publicly, is at El Salao, located outside the city of Santiago de Cuba in the eastern part of the country and is near Guantanamo.
Construction at El Salao started in 2021, and the site seems to be designed to hold a large formation of antennas known as a circularly disposed antenna array. These antennas can be used to find and intercept electronic signals, according to the report.
Funaiole said that, when complete, the site could potentially monitor communications and other electronic signals coming from the Guantanamo base. Both the U.S. and Russia have stopped using this sort of antenna array and replaced it with newer technologies, but China has been building them at some militarized outposts in the South China Sea.
China has played a more significant role on the island in recent years. According to a 2023 White House statement, China conducted an upgrade of its intelligence collection facilities in Cuba in 2019.
Meanwhile, Chinese officials claim that the U.S. has a global network of military bases and listening posts.
In a statement, Liu Pengyu, a spokesman for China’s embassy in Washington, wrote that America is “the leading power in terms of eavesdropping” and that it does not spare its allies. Pengyu also claimed that the U.S. constantly exaggerates China’s “establishment of spy bases or conducting surveillance activities in Cuba.”
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