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Female Inmates in Minnesota Say Trans-Identified Male Transfers Make Them Feel “Scared” And “Unsafe”

Female inmates at the women’s prison in Shakopee, Minnesota have come forward to report disturbing behavior from the trans-identified males housed at their facility. Former inmate Rebeca Warmbo alerted Reduxx to the situation and has been communicating with women inside Shakopee, who reveal the male transfers are making them feel “unsafe” and “scared” for their lives.

“I have been able to speak to numerous women inside the prison and there is a significant increase in fear and anxiety. They have told me about being harassed, intimidated, and even sexually harassed,” Warmbo told Reduxx in an exclusive interview. 

Disturbingly, Warmbo also revealed that rumors have been circulating regarding the male inmates striking up “deals” with some female inmates to impregnate them in order to sue the state for financial compensation.

Former inmate Rebeca Warmbo is advocating for the women incarcerated at MCF-Shakopee.

“There is talk of some women in the prison agreeing to have sex with these men to get pregnant and sue the DOC and the state,” Warmbo says. “This has caused a climate of terror inside the prison, as they are forced to shower in an open area without locked doors and they can hear them talk about sexual things they want to do to the women.”

One inmate whom Warmbo has been in touch with sent a handwritten letter expressing that the men in the prison have caused her to be “scared, uncomfortable, and unsafe.” She also says the presence of the males in close quarters have been triggering her PTSD.

“I feel like there are some here not for the right reasons. They are having sex in bathrooms, [we are] finding cum in bottles, and people are touching themselves under the table,” the note reads. “I really wish legislation would take this [seriously] and change this.”

A handwritten letter from a female inmate provided to Reduxx.

As Reduxx reported last month, a total of five male convicts have been transferred to a Minnesota’s women-only prison following the adoption of a gender identity policy by the Department of Corrections in January of 2023. Two of the men who are now being held at MCF-Shakopee are sexual predators serving sentences related to the abuse of children.

The prison policy was altered following a June 2022 lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Corrections which ultimately resulted in the implementation of measures permitting male convicts to be housed in the female estate.

The discrimination claim was filed by the trans activist non-profit organization Gender Justice on behalf of Craig ‘Christina’ Lusk, who was serving a five-year sentence for the possession of methamphetamine at the Moose Lake correctional facility for men. In order to aid their legal fight to have violent men placed into the women’s prison, Gender Justice was granted nearly $500,000 in taxpayer funds from the administration of Governor Tim Walz.

Lusk was arrested on two drug-related felonies, but was ultimately only convicted on one after striking a plea deal. He pleaded guilty to first degree possession of a controlled substance, and was sentenced to 98 months in prison. Lusk had also had a previous felony conviction for first-degree robbery. The defendant fact sheet lists Lusk’s gender as “male,” though he had changed his legal name the year prior.

“I was uneasy when Lusk lived on my wing because [he] still had [his] male anatomy, was built like a line backer, had a horrible temper, and would verbalize that [he] ‘still had a working unit,’” one woman, known as Janice, told Reduxx. “Thankfully [he] was discharged this past year.”

“I definitely have my concerns and opinions about the male inmates being admitted into our facility, but like most inmates there is a fear of speaking up or voicing those concerns because of potential retaliation, or because people will think you are being discriminatory or judgemental,” said Janice.

Craig ‘Christina’ Lusk. Source: Facebook

Upon his release, Lusk was awarded a $495,000 payout.

But Lusk’s ex-wife came forward last year to tell The Daily Mail that she believed he was a “scammer” and a “big fat liar.”

The two were married in 2005, but Lusk’s wife filed for divorce in 2008 due to his heavy drinking and violent behavior.

“He would tell his family that if he was a woman, and had boobs, then they had to put him in a female prison,” said Lusk’s ex-wife, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

“He said that he was going to make sure he made money out of the whole ordeal, he said ‘I’m going to become a woman and complain to make sure they give me money and move me,’” she added. “When we were married he wasn’t doing anything like that, or even after we were divorced. I think he’s a big fat liar.”

Janice currently shares a unit with Elijah Thomas Berryman, 26, who was first arrested in April 2022 and accused of sexually abusing a minor multiple times. He pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in March of this year, and according to the Minnesota DOC website, is currently serving his 25-year sentence at the women’s prison.

According to Janice, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, Berryman has been “ranting and raving,” talking to himself in both a masculine and feminine voice.

“[Berryman] definitely has some mental health issues. I live kitty corner from him and he is extremely loud when he is talking to himself in his room at all hours of the day and night,” Janice said. “He talks like he is talking to someone and on one occasion when he was ranting and raving in his room, he was saying ‘You’re the one who got us locked up,’ and on another he was saying he was going to ‘fuck their ass,’ which is extremely disturbing and triggering for me.”

“I definitely live more on edge or hyper alert because many of us have been sexually assaulted by men in our past and now we are being housed together,” she added, while emphasizing that Berryman “still has male anatomy.”

“In our hallway is where our shower is located, I can not lock the door when I am taking a shower, which had never really given me anxiety until I had a male inmate living on my hallway.”

Another male inmate currently detained in MCF-Shakopee is Sean Windingland, 35, who is serving a 36-year sentence for child sexual abuse. Windingland sexually assaulted two 6-year-old relatives and posted videos of the abuse and grooming on pornography and pro-pedophile websites.

One woman who shares a unit with Windingland expressed her disgust with seeing him “happy” to be incarcerated with women.

“I personally do not like to see the grin on Sean Windingland’s face every day. He is in my unit and laughs and smiles all the time. Because he is here, he is safe and he has female companionship,” a female inmate said. In order to protect her identity, the pseudonym Amber is being used for the inmate.

“Yet, he had sex with his own daughters, sold the video on a predator’s website, and is looking at a lot of years here. It makes me sick that he is here. He is happy and how is this fair? His actions here clearly show he is a predator himself. Women with half a brain and a gut can tell that he is no good,” Amber added. “We have women who are butch but you don’t see them shipping them to men’s prisons. Why is it the other way around?”

Last month, a woman formerly employed at the Minnesota Department of Corrections came forward to tell Minnesota’s Alpha News that she had resigned from her post in protest of the new policy allowing men who claim a transgender status to be transferred into the female prison estate. Alicia Beckmann, who worked as a GED instructor at MCF-Shakopee, said the policy which prioritizes “gender identity” over biological sex creates an “unsafe” environment.

“You bring in biological males who are violent, who would be housed at a custody level four facility. I just believe we’re re-victimizing some of these women, re-traumatizing them. They are incarcerated, however, they all have a past and a lot of their past includes physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. I think allowing men to live amongst these women is traumatizing and it’s also unsafe for staff,” she added.

The new transgender inmate policy, which was revised in April last year and came into effect at the beginning of April 2024, established an Agency Gender Identity Committee in order to identify and make placement recommendations for “incarcerated people who are transgender” or “gender diverse”.

The document cites as an authority the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), a lobbying group that Reduxx has repeatedly connected with sex offenders and sexologists sympathetic to pedophiles. Former WPATH president Eli Coleman has for many years been in a leadership role at the University of Minnesota’s Sexual and Gender Health department.

Interestingly, Lusk, the inmate whose lawsuit spurred the change in policy, underwent a chest augmentation procedure at the University of Minnesota in 2017. Similarly, the organization which represented his claim, Gender Justice, has worked closely with University of Minnesota students.

Last July, the University of Minnesota’s Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health presented Governor Tim Walz with a Distinguished Sexual and Gender Health Champion Award for his “outstanding efforts in protecting gender-affirming health care.”

In May, a report titled “2024 Status of Women and Girls in Minnesota” declared that the policy allowing violent male convicts into Shakopee was a “policy win” for women.

The research was compiled as a cooperative effort between the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota and the Center on Women, Gender, and Public Policy of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.

https://reduxx.info/exclusive-female-inmates-in-minnesota-say-trans-identified-male-transfers-make-them-feel-scared-and-unsafe/

Delicious: Dutch are eating more meat despite government veggie push

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The Dutch public has increased their meat consumption despite a government attempt to impose a top-down “protein shift” towards no-meat meals.

New research by the Netherlands Meat Country trade association has found that there was a slight increase in meat-eating over the last two years, with consumption rising from 94 per cent in 2022 to 95 per cent in 2024.

Meanwhile, 69 per cent of Dutch people believed the Netherlands should keep the meat sector strong for the future. This number had increased from 61 per cent in 2022 and 67 per cent in 2021.

The trade body sent the results of the 2,500-person survey to the Dutch parliament on October 15.

The increased support for meat consumption came despite intense campaigning from the previous government aimed at making Dutch people transition towards a more plant-based diet.

According to the survey, fewer and fewer people are making meat purchases when taking into consideration sustainability or the environment, with price instead being the main factor determining their purchasing decisions.

The figures aligned with a Central Bureau of Statistics report earlier this year, revealing only 5 per cent of Dutch people did not eat meat.

A larger share, 22 per cent, however, had a meat or fish-free main meal at least three days a week, the statistics office found.

“The vast majority of the Dutch population still eats meat, showing that meat continues to play a central role in many people’s diets,” the trade body said.

Respondents also tended to overestimate the prevalence of vegetarianism, pescatarianism, and veganism.

People responding to the survey estimated that 74 per cent of Dutch people did not eat meat. The actual number was only 5 per cent.

The survey found 3 per cent of Dutch people were vegetarian, meaning they did not eat meat but did eat other animal products.

One per cent were pescatarians, who consumed seafood but not meat from land animals.

Meanwhile, 0.6 per cent identified as vegan and abstained from the use of all animal products.

However, many of these three groups also indicated they were not very strict in their diets, saying they occasionally ate meat and fish.

Vegetarians tended more often to be women, in urban areas and with higher education. Politically they were more likely to be left-leaning.

People who did say they ate meat have also taken to doing so more frequently, with the average number of meat-eating days per week for the Dutch increasing from 4.8 days in 2022 to 4.9 days in 2024. At the same time, respondents reported slightly reducing their portion sizes.

Most respondents said they ate meat simply because they enjoyed it. The second most common reason given was to ensure a varied intake of nutrients for a healthy lifestyle.

Almost half of the Dutch population believed meat contained artificial hormones and antibiotics. One in four believed meat contained vaccines.

But Europe, and the Netherlands, both have strict regulations on these points, and meat for consumption in the Netherlands was free from all of these substances. This made for a contrast with the US, where hormones were allowed in meat production.

Over half of Dutch respondents thought meat was better if sourced from animals kept in good conditions.

Local meat was preferred by 35 per cent, while 26 per cent said sustainability was important to them.

The survey also found there was growing public resistance to regulatory interventions in personal food choices, such as the previous government’s attempt to encourage a “protein shift” to non-meat-based diets.

Most respondents indicated it was not up to the government to encourage particular diets based on political or social reasons.

Most people said the meat industry did not get enough recognition and appreciation, while 74 per cent said the media was not objective when reporting on the industry.

Delicious: Dutch are eating more meat despite government veggie push (brusselssignal.eu)

The DISTURBING TRUTH About Kemi Badenoch’s Career. A Tory Leadership Special

Kemi Badenoch is the front runner and favourite choice amongst Tory party members to become the next leader of the Conservative Party. But is she really as right wing as people believe? On this week’s #NCFDeprogrammed, hosts Harrison Pitt and Connor Tomlinson are joined by writer and journalist Georgia Gilholy, contributor to Conservative Home, The Critic, The Spectator etc.

German police prevent mass migrant brawl as migrants bring ethnic tensions with them from back home

The Trier police headquarters reported that a large contingent of officers had to prevent a planned confrontation “in the area of ​​Trier-Nord” on Monday evening. Shortly after receiving a tip, a patrol found a group of up to 15 cars in the exhibition grounds parking lot, but they moved away when they saw the police car, reports Junge Freiheit.

The police reportedly managed to stop one of the group’s cars and confiscated “several cutting and stabbing weapons, from knives to an iron bar.” Investigations have been launched against the Syrian-born passengers in the vehicle; they have also been banned from staying in the city of Trier.

The responsible police director then declared a special operation and intensified the search for the other potential participants in the planned mass brawl. The Trier police were supported by the criminal investigation department, the surrounding police stations, and the federal police.

According to the police, the reason for the planned mass brawl could have been an argument the day before in which a Syrian “got into a fight” with a group of Lebanese. One Syrian hit on the head with an object by a Lebanese man had to be treated as an outpatient in a hospital. 

The reason behind the argument was presumably triggered by “hostility due to the current Middle East conflict,” according to the police statement. 

Reports from earlier this month indicated large numbers of fleeing the Israeli conflict with Hezbollah into Syria, including both Syrians and Lebanese. One poster on X called the scenes of Lebanese fleeing to Syria “unbelievable” and a complete “role reversal.”

UNHCR also reported back on Oct. 8 that over 250,000 had fled the violence in Lebanon and taken refuge in Syria, saying that 70 percent were Syrians who had previously fled their own country due to the civil war there to seek refuge in Lebanon.

During this time, Lebanon shut down border crossings to block Syrians fleeing to safety and also prevented aid from getting to them. Prior to this, tensions had already been high between the two peoples due to the Syrian occupation of Lebanon from 1976 until 2005, leaving a legacy of human rights abuses against the Lebanese people. Syria did not even recognize Lebanon as an independent state until 2008.

Now, as migrants have fled violence and abuse in both countries, these people have brought their clashes to the cities of Europe. 

https://rmx.news/article/german-police-prevent-mass-migrant-brawl-as-migrants-bring-ethnic-tensions-with-them-from-back-home/

Be Careful What You Think: In Britain, It Might Be a Crime

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t seems oddly mediaeval to convict a man for his prayers.  

But the British courts have defied all reasonable expectations of modern democracy by convicting a man for doing just that on the streets of Bournemouth. 

Adam Smith-Connor is a military veteran who served his country in the reserves in Afghanistan. As part of his medical training, he participated in 30 abortions in 2003—actions he now deeply regrets. Adam converted to Christianity in later life, and is now deeply committed to prayer on the issue. In November 2022, he stopped to pray for a few minutes, in silence, near an abortion facility, remembering a time he had paid for an ex-girlfriend to abort his own child. 

Adam was confronted by officers and grilled as to “the nature” of his prayers. Despite no passerby claiming to have been harmed by Adam’s presence, the content of his silent thoughts was enough to trigger a penalty, leading to two years of criminal proceedings, and three days of trial. The short exchange with the police was caught on film and is worth recounting: 

Police: “We just wanted to come over and say hello, but also just to inquire as to your activities for today.” 

Adam: “Well, I’m praying.” 

Police: “In terms of that, can I ask what is the nature of your prayer today?” 

“What is the nature of your prayer today?” Words I never thought I would hear a police officer say on the streets of Britain. 

Despite being on the brink of bankruptcy, Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole Council—the local authority responsible for the prosecution—poured huge resources into making an example of Adam. In a highly unusual and disproportionate move for a Magistrates’ Court, they hired a King’s Counsel, racking up legal fees of over £110,000 for an offence with a maximum penalty of £1,000.

Meanwhile, the BBC report that the same Council must cut at least 10% of its budget for local services, and is begging the government for money to avoid shutting down special needs services for children. The priorities of these authorities are truly chilling. Worse, they tried to demand £93,000 in costs from Adam following his conviction – a man of humble means with two children to support.

The judge sized this down to £9,000, to be paid in instalments of £250 every month.  

This might have been the most expensive silent prayer of all time. 

In the ruling, the judge laid significant emphasis on the fact that Adam said his head may have been “slightly bowed” and his hands were “clasped”. As it happens, Adam, an ex-serviceman, almost always stands with an “at ease” posture with hands clasped across his middle. Yet this stance was enough for the judge to determine that members of the public would have known that he was praying – and that would amount to breaching a “buffer zone” around the abortion facility, which prohibits “expressions of approval or disapproval of abortion”, including through prayer. How anybody would have known Adam was praying about abortion specifically is a mystery. In fact, nobody knew at all—it was the abortion facility staff, rather than a member of the public—who notified the police about Adam’s presence. 

That a judgment from the law courts of England seriously assessed a man’s “slightly bowed head” and “clasped hands” when determining criminal liability is utterly farcical. Moreover, the focus on posture prevented the court from getting to the root of the matter: If we truly have the right to freedom of thought, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion, can silent prayer in a public place ever be a crime? Or are we now meant to accept that we have those rights, but not in public places and certainly not with bowed heads?  

Adam’s conviction is horrific for him and for his family. His criminal record, his finances and his professional reputation are all impacted by the content of his silent thoughts and prayers. But even more broadly, Adam’s conviction is horrific for the UK, and represents a dark stain on our nation.  

We know legal restrictions on Christian beliefs exist in other countries around the world in order to protect the dominant religion, for example, through blasphemy, apostasy, and anti-conversion laws. But in recent years the West has adopted its own secular versions of these laws, protecting the dominant secular ideologies of our day. This process has moved so quickly that head tilting and hand clasping have become part of the legal argumentation. And with the legislative proposals of the new government, the process shows no signs of abating.  

There is no denying this decision is disheartening and disorienting. And we know it will be an uphill battle ahead. But we cannot—and we will not—stop fighting for the fundamental freedoms that have been hard-won over many centuries. No matter how long it takes and no matter what obstacles we have to overcome.  

If you’d like to join us, visit www.adf.uk/support-adam/.  

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/be-careful-what-you-think-in-britain-it-might-be-a-crime/

Pope Francis said he will consider ‘openness’ to ‘transgender people’ when naming new US bishops: report

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 Two people who participated in Pope Francis’ private meeting with New Ways Ministry on Saturday have attested that the Pope committed to consider “openness to transgender people” as a criteria for appointing new U.S. bishops.

According to Deacon Raymond Dever, who was cited in The Times, Francis was impacted by the closed-door meeting he had with LGBT activists.

The Times reported Dever – who was one of the 11 guests of Francis in the meeting – as saying that “Francis mentioned that situations experienced by [so-called] transgender people will be more on his mind.”

Dever added that “He [Francis] said that when he appoints new bishops in the US he will consider their openness to transgender[-identified] people as a criteria.”

The Times cited another member of the meeting who attested hearing the quoted comment from Francis.

LifeSiteNews contacted New Ways Ministry – the LGBT group that sponsored the meeting – asking if they could confirm the remarks attributed to Pope Francis, but did not receive an answer.

Held on Saturday, the meeting between Francis and the New Ways Ministry group lasted nearly 90 minutes.

The guests “urged” Francis “to move past the Church’s negative approach” to so-called “gender-diverse people, and to encourage Church leaders to listen more attentively” to what they called “the lives and faith of LGBTQ+ people.”

According to Reuters – whose Vatican correspondent has close links with NWM – Francis faced “calls to overturn the Catholic Church’s ban” on so-called “gender-affirming care,” namely, calls to overturn the Church’s prohibition of “sex-change” surgery.

Dever was one of five people in the meeting who shared a personal testimony with Francis. A retired married deacon, Dever is father of a “transgender” male who attempted suicide after “transitioning.”

Delivering his testimony to Francis, Dever stated about his son (now living as a “woman”) that “with our unconditional love and support, [he] eventually came out and transitioned fully, socially, legally, and medically, a process that took almost 10 years – if [he] hadn’t done that, [he] probably wouldn’t be alive today.”

However, transgender drugs have been linked to bone density loss, suicide risk, and other major medical problems and can leave individuals permanently infertile. Transgender surgeries aim to remove healthy organs, including genitals, thus leaving individuals infertile and mutilated.

Dever claimed that gender-confused people “are being excluded from the life of the church in too many dioceses and parishes – they are denied the sacraments, they are not allowed to attend Catholic schools.”

Instead, Dever and his wife urged the Church “to talk about, to learn, and to discern the truth about these issues.”

Catholic teaching rejects transgender ideology, affirms the reality of the two sexes, and condemns bodily mutilation, such as “gender transition” procedures, as “against the moral law.”

The Church also teaches, in accordance with Sacred Scripture and the constant Tradition of the Church, that homosexual activity is mortally sinful and a “sin that cries to heaven” and that the homosexual inclination is “objectively disordered.”

Another individual who testified at the meeting was “Michael Sennett,” a “transgender man” involved in church work “for many years,” who told Francis that he appreciated having had “sex-change” surgery.

There are a number of U.S. episcopal sees which could become vacant in the coming years as bishops reach the age of 75, at which point they submit their retirement to Francis who makes a decision on whether to accept it.

A number of prelates already seen as very much in line with Francis’ thinking, and open to LGBT issues, are already in key sees. Indeed, just two days before the NWM meeting Francis met with three of the U.S. bishops who conform to this description.

Cardinals Joseph Tobin, Blase Cupich, and Robert McElroy were all received in private audience, with Tobin telling journalists the next day that he had personally requested it.

He said briefly that they discussed the Church, synodality, and “discernment,” stating that they are topics that the three cardinals talk about amongst themselves.

Notably, D.C. Cardinal Wilton Gregory was not present, stating later that “I didn’t get the invitation.”

NWM was co-founded by Sister Jeannine Gramick, the heterodox pro-LGBT nun whose official Vatican censure remains in place, though she has received signal favor from Francis in recent years.

Gramick was personally censured by the Vatican in 1999, and in 2010 the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) further declared that New Ways Ministry “has no approval or recognition from the Catholic Church” to speak on the LGBT issue.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-francis-said-he-will-consider-openness-to-transgender-people-when-naming-new-us-bishops-report/?utm_source=featured-news&utm_campaign=catholic

The Orwellian Noble Peace Prize – Why we shouldn’t waste our time on the Nobel committee’s Newspeak

Last week nominations for the Noble Peace Prize were announced, and the nominees were typical of the Prize’s history. A perusal of past winners reveals that the majority of prizes are for good intention, moralizing internationalism and its institutions, short-lived peace treaties, feckless disarmament, and any choice that gratifies global anti-Americanism.

And let’s not forget terrorists and their enablers included in this year’s nominees: the United Nations’ Palestinian refugee agency, the International Court of Justice, and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. All three reflect the Prize’s long history of promulgating globalism and the “rules-based international order” that has serially failed to deter aggression.

The Wall Street Journal’s profile of this year’s nominees is a must read. Take the International Court of Justice, which took up South Africa’s specious charge of “genocide” against Israel, a despicable lie, given that South Africa seems unconcerned that Hamas’ founding charter explicitly calls for the genocide of Israel’s Jews. Worse, the ICJ “ruled that Israel ‘must immediately halt its military offensive’ in Rafah and other areas ‘which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.’”

The other two nominees–– United Nations’ Palestinian refugee agency, and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres––are just as morally idiotic, and obviously hostile to Israel and indifferent to the Israeli people. Employees of the UNRWA joined in Hamas’ butchery, and Secretary General Guterres claimed that Hamas’ violence, rape, and murder did “‘not come in a vacuum,’ but instead was grown from a ‘long-standing conflict, with a 56-year long occupation and no political end in sight.’”

The moral equivalence between the victims and murderers, like the lie “occupation,” makes a mockery of the UN’s claims to serve justice and peace. As the Journal concludes, “These aren’t peace makers. They’re apologists for war makers.”

Fortunately, the Peace Prize was awarded to Japan’s Nihon Hidankyo, an organization comprising atomic-bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki who lobby to rid the world of nuclear weapons. This choice expresses the Nobel Committee’s preference for good intentions and impossible disarmament dreams, but it’s much more respectable and less morally offensive than celebrating enablers of terrorist murderers

But the Nobel Peace Prize has before legitimized not just the enablers, but the terrorists themselves. In 1994, Yasser Arafat, head of the terrorist Palestinian Liberation Organization, shared the prize with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin “for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East.” The fruit of that collaboration between the terrorist and two leaders of a liberal democratic state was the doomed Oslo Accord signed in 1993.

Typical of the Prize’s premature celebrations of “peace,” terrorist attacks against Israelis were about the same as the pre-Oslo toll, and continued escalating. In 2000, Arafat turned down a “peace package” offering most of what Arafat said the Palestinians wanted, and instead began the Second Intifada that murdered 1000 Israelis.

This rewarding of “diplomatic engagement” is an important component of the Nobel Prize’s foreign policy preferences for the globalist “rules-based international order,” and its distrust of a realist foreign policy that acknowledges the primacy of national interests and, humanity’s lust for power and dominance, no matter how many prize-winning pacts and treaties have serially failed to resolve conflicts. There are, of course, some Prizes that acknowledge success–– such as the 1998 prize to John Hume and David Trimble “for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland,” efforts that produced a peace that still holds today. But most of such Prizes have failed like the Oslo Accord.

Consider the history of Peace Prizes after World War I. In 1919, Woodrow Wilson won the Prize “for his role as founder of the League of Nations.” The next year Léon Bourgeois, a leftist French government official who served in numerous offices, “for his longstanding contribution to the cause of peace and justice and his prominent role in the establishment of the League of Nations.” In 1922, Fridtjof Nansen, a Norwegian explorer and statesman, won “for his leading role in the repatriation of prisoners of war, in international relief work and as the League of Nations’ High Commissioner for refugees.”

Also in the Twenties, two much celebrated multination treaties were negotiated in order to normalize Germany and put the Great War behind Europe.  Both the Locarno Treaties in 1925, and the Kellogg-Briand Pact in 1929 were awarded Prizes for their principal architects. The delusional idealism of both pacts is obvious in the terms of the Kellogg-Briand agreement. The contracting parties “condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce it, as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another,” and “agree that the settlement or solution of all disputes or conflicts . . . shall never be sought except by pacific means.”

These awards for good intentions were repudiated in the following years, when three members of the League of Nations, and signatories of the Locarno Treaties and the Kellogg-Briand pact––Japan, Italy, and Germany––violated the terms of the agreements, and simply walked away from the League. All that was needed to ignite World War II was yet another act of feckless and delusional “diplomatic engagement,” the infamous Munich agreement in 1938.

Yet despite those fruitless Prizes, “diplomatic engagement” and negotiations still are favorites when selecting winners. Another notable example of failed “diplomatic engagement” that ended badly are the Prizes give to Henry Kissinger and North Vietnam’s Le Duc Tho for negotiating a cease-fire in 1973. Le Duc Thos declined the award, no doubt knowing the cease-fire was merely a tactical feint in the North’s plan to continue the war, which ended in the U.S.’s shameful abandonment of South Vietnam in 1975.

Not just diplomacy, but the multinational institutions and their functionaries are favorite beneficiaries. Thus, this year’s nomination of the UNRWA is part of a long tradition of the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee awarding the Prize to the UN and its Secretary General, along with UN agencies that are frequent winners. In 2001, the Prize went to the UN and its Secretary General Kodi Annan, “for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world.” Notice again how aspirations rather than concrete achievements are rewarded.

Other favorites are NGO’s like the International Atomic Energy Agency and other organizations focused on controlling or eliminating certain kinds of armaments such as landmines and chemical weapons. But such ambitious projects are like Jonathan Swifts’ laws: “Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” These organizations can lobby and hector national governments, but like the UN itself, have no power of enforcement.

Other prizes for the UN have been awarded for its agencies that frequently fail and make conflicts worse. In 1988 the UN’s Peacekeeping Forces won the Prize “for preventing armed clashes and creating conditions for negotiations.” How did that worked out in southern Lebanon, where the peacekeeping forces were deployed in 1978, becoming a launching pad both for terrorist incursions, and Hezbollah’s continuous barrages of missiles into Israel? About as well as the subsequent UN Security Council’s Resolution 1701 in 2006 forbidding such attacks ––a tacit admission that the earlier deployment of peacekeepers was a failure. Again, the Prize more frequently rewards aspirations and posturing rather than results.

Finally, another blot on the Prize’s reputation is that it’s often awarded to anti-American individuals and organizations in Europe, and to oikophobic progressives rather than conservatives in America. Take this notorious example: in 1990, a year before the Soviet Union finally collapsed from its chronic economic failures, and Ronald Reagan’s realist policies and military build-up the Soviets couldn’t afford to match, the Noble Peace prize went to USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev, “for the leading role he played in the radical changes in East-West relations.” In fact, his only “role” was accepting the inevitable fate resulting from Ronald Reagan’s realist policies, the actual “leading role.”

Progressive Americans, on the other hand, who endorse and promote globalism’s erosion of national sovereignty, and the anti-national “global community” delusions, are welcome. Hence, it’s no surprise that Jimmy Carter, the most ineffective foreign policy president in U.S. history, in 2002 won the Peace Prize “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.”

Again, it’s not about concrete achievements, but paying homage to the globalist “international rules-based order.” In fact, Carter was a defeatist and apologist for the U.S. He set the tone in his first Inaugural Address, when he confessed the nation’s “recent mistakes,” counseled Americans not to “dwell on remembered glory,” and reminded citizens that “even our great nation has its recognized limits,” and can only “simply do our best.” Such defeatist rhetoric no doubt pleased the Europeans and the Soviets with a de facto rejection of American exceptionalism. Naïve promotion of human rights and disarmament, not defending our Constitution and national security and sovereignty, was Carter’s mission.

Finally, one can’t end an exposure of the Nobel Peace Prize’s function as a press agent for the shibboleths of globalism and the “international community,” without mentioning the Prize bestowed on Barack Obama in 2009 after only a few months in office, “for his decades [?] of untiring efforts to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.”

Once again, campaign rhetoric rather than achievement sufficed to “earn” this prestigious honor. In 2007 Obama had published an article in Foreign Affairs that comprised a panegyric to “diplomatic engagement” that the U.S. allegedly had neglected for decades. He called the war in Iraq a “morass” from which American forces should be withdraw before the dreaded “escalation” would hastens a looming disaster. In 2011 Obama did just that, only to send our force back a few years later when ISIS threatened to conquer Iraq.

Also music to globalist ears, Obama promised “to reinvigorate American diplomacy” and “to rebuild the alliances, partnerships, and institutions necessary to confront common threats and enhance common security.” These statements reflected the Democrats’ campaign smear that George W. Bush had compromised alliances and ignored diplomacy, a claim that is empirically false. And Obama denigrated American exceptionalism, reducing it to a nationalist amour propre. Finally, he pledged to use American wealth and power to help other countries “not in the spirit of a patron but in the spirit of a partner––a partner mindful of his own imperfections.”

When it comes to our security and interests, and our unalienable rights and freedoms, the Nobel Peace Prize has no interest in acknowledging the benefits America has given the world. But it is quick to reward those, including Americans, who criticize our actions and threaten our security and interests. We shouldn’t waste our time on this Orwellian Newspeak.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-orwellian-noble-peace-prize/

SHE’S DONE! Kamala Harris Completely Cracks Under Pressure, Starts Screaming About Trump in Sit Down Interview with Bret Baier (VIDEO)

Kamala Harris interview with Bret Baier

Kamala is done!

Kamala Harris sat down for a one-on-one interview with Fox News host Bret Baier.

This is the first non-softball interview of her life and she totally cracked under pressure.

A completely unhinged Kamala Harris began screaming about democracy!

“[Trump] talked about locking people up because they disagree with him! This is a democracy!” Kamala Harris shouted. “And in a democracy the president of the United States in the United States of America should be willing to be able to handle criticism without saying he would lock people up for doing it!”

The look on Bret Baier’s face said it all.

WATCH:

Kamala Harris refused to take responsibility for the death of Jocelyn Nungaray as a video of her grieving mother is played in front of her face, continues to attack President Trump.

Finally!

Kamala Harris was finally confronted about her deadly open borders policies.

WATCH:

Kamala Harris’s interview with Bret Baier ended her campaign.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/shes-done-kamala-harris-completely-cracks-under-pressure/

Award-Winning Trans-Identified Male Author From Taiwan Sues Critics Who Say He’s Not A “Lesbian”

An award-winning transgender Taiwanese author has filed multiple lawsuits against lesbians and women’s rights advocates after they refused to validate his identity as a “woman” and “lesbian.” Li Kotomi (りことみ) has repeatedly targeted individuals who refer to him as a man with legal harassment and has been demanding substantial financial compensation from the defendants.

Prior to relocating to Japan, Li has used several aliases, including Li Qinfeng (李琴峰) and Xu Feng (絮風). Li’s birth name is Huang Chen-Yang (黃晨揚), a male name which means morning and raising. In Taiwan, Li’s current name is Huang Chin-Wei (黃琴薇), a female name which means string instrument and a scented herb.

A well-known author within the Japanese and Taiwanese literary scene, Li presents himself as a female author and a lesbian, despite having been born male. Additionally, he frequently incorporates themes of relationships, both platonic and romantic, between women within his work. In 2021, he received a prestigious literary award known as the Akutagawa Prize for his novel “Island Where the Red Spider Lilies Bloom” (彼岸花が咲く島). The prize for rising talent, established in 1935, is highly sought-after and carries with it a cash reward of ¥1,000,000 ($6,400 USD).

Huang Chin-Wei, or Li Qinfeng, also known as Li Kotomi, in 2019. Photo credit: Business Today

The award-winning novel focuses heavily on interactions between young female protagonists, and follows 17 year-old Umi, who finds herself stranded on an island with a small, matriarchal society run by a group of female priests known as the Noro. The Noro speak and teach Umi a “woman’s language” (女語), and Umi uses it to communicate with another girl of the same age named Yona. The two then develop a deep relationship.

Li’s critics have called attention to the lesbian and feminist themes within his work in order to highlight the fact that he has deceived the public about his biological sex. The observation that he is a man posing as a lesbian, which has been repeated by multiple individuals over the past three years, is the basis on which Li has vexatiously filed defamation lawsuits, in collaboration with Taiwan’s most influential trans lobby group, the Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights, or TAPCPR (伴侶盟).

The TAPCPR is campaigning for sex self-identification policies in the nation. Current laws stipulate that an individual must fulfill certain medical requirements in order to change the legal sex on one’s identification documents. If successful, the law would be altered to remove the necessity of obtaining reports from two psychiatrists showing a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, and a letter from a doctor to confirm that “sex reassignment” surgery has been completed.

At present, the concept of sex self-identification measures is immensely unpopular in Taiwan, and especially with women. In a recent survey of over 10,000 respondents where the majority were female, participants “strongly disagreed with support for transgender females.” The study’s authors commented in the abstract: “Given the majority of respondents were females, survey findings should be regarded with caution.”

In August of 2023, Li began accepting financial donations to contribute to his campaign of “slander lawsuits.” On social media he stated that funds raised would be used to file “civil lawsuits and criminal charges” in order to combat “misinformation.”

“It all started when I won the Akutagawa Prize in July 2021,” Li said in the 2023 blog post. “Since winning the award, I have been subjected to a great deal of slander. Personal attacks against me, discriminatory remarks, low-level insults and name-calling, as well as rumors and misinformation were spread mainly on social media.”

He continued that he had “already taken legal action against several detractors,” and that there were pending “criminal charges and civil lawsuits.” Li goes on to reveal that his targets have been both. male and female individuals from Japan and Taiwan, and then “most cases have not yet been decided, but some cases have already been decided.”

In February, Li explained that as a result of the legal action he pursued, one unnamed man, a Taiwanese national in his 40’s, had recently been sentenced to four months in prison for “spreading false rumors” and “insulting” him, and added that he had also been ordered to pay ¥700,000 ($4,700 USD) in compensation to Li.

He continued to claim that the criticisms made about him caused him to suffer from “physical and mental problems such as insomnia and dizziness.”

“I also suffered from the anxiety and fear that would come over me when I was alone. As I was being bombarded with abuse online, every time I heard the sounds of life upstairs or the creaking of the floor, I was terrified that someone was coming to kill me. That’s how much I felt the world’s hostility,” Li stated.

“There were times when I thought it would be easier to just kill myself and be released. After seeing a psychosomatic doctor and taking anti-anxiety medication, I was finally able to live and work normally again after a long period of time, but even now I still feel anxious when I have to give lectures, give talks, or perform work in public,” Li said, adding that he lives in “fear that attackers and detractors may be lurking in the audience.”

Court document for one of the slander lawsuits filed by Li Kotomi, which he shared to his blog in 2023.

Yet despite his self-professed anxiety surrounding “attackers,” the majority of critics who Li has filed litigation against have been lesbians and women’s rights advocates who contest his claim to lesbianism.

Li has filed defamation claims against at least nine individuals within the past two years for making comments and social media posts referring to him as a male. The majority of those targeted for litigation have been women, while three have been men who are critical of gender ideology. Reduxx has seen evidence of both settled and ongoing legal disputes, but in order to safeguard the privacy of those affected, has chosen to withhold their identities.

The total amount of financial compensation thus far ordered to be awarded to Li on the basis of defamation is known to be at least 865,000 Japanese yen ($5,800 USD), in addition to an undisclosed amount that he has received from supporters online by means of crowdfunding.

The most recent litigation has been ongoing since July 1 against a woman and Taiwanese national, identified to Reduxx by the pseudonym Shawl, from whom Li is seeking up to $70,300 USD in damages.

In September 2022, Shawl received a demand letter from Li’s lawyer by way of her personal email account informing her of criminal charges against her. For the crime of revealing Li’s biological sex without allegedly verifying the source of the information, she was charged for violation of personal information and defamation. However, the court ruled against the criminal charges, after which Li persisted in filing a civil accusation for damages and sexual harassment.

Taiwan’s defamation laws are more severe than in many Western countries, and according to the criminal code, a person who “disseminates a fact which will injure the reputation of another… commits the offense of slander”. The punishment for those found guilty of slander can involve “imprisonment for not more than one year, short-term imprisonment, or a fine of not more than fifteen thousand dollars.”

Among the social media posts cited by Li’s legal representative as “slander” include several which refer to him as a “man”. Litigation is ongoing and a ruling in her case is expected to be handed down by the Taiwan New Taipei District Court on October 31.

In March 2022, Shawl wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “Li Qinfeng writes lesbian literature as a woman. I noticed a few days ago that he was originally a man. He has been criticized by many people. He is clearly a man. Why can he dictate women’s affairs? Since he is a man, entering a girls’ high school would have been impossible, so how did he create a semi auto-biographical novel [with this theme]?”

Shawl’s comment refers to Li’s book Solo Dance ( 独り舞) which was promoted by its publisher as a semi-autobiographical novel that centers around a teenager who realizes she is a lesbian while attending a girls’ high school. However, Li did not attend a girls’ school, but rather a public high school in Taiwan, which he had previously identified as the Taichung Municipal High School (臺中市立臺中第一高級中等學校), and wrote under the pen name Xu Feng (絮風) –  a fact that has been exposed not only by his critics, but also by his own background in writing.

Li Kotomi in 2019. Photo credit: Chew People

In 2005, while in grade nine of high school, Li wrote his first novel, Are You Still Online (你還在線上嗎 – ISBN 9867280040). The story revolves around “a Capricorn boy who longs for love” and “lives in Changhua,” both of which are details that are identical to Li’s own personal life.

In the book’s introduction Li included his email address and online screen name, very1ghost, which internet sleuths were able to use to track his history of posting in the Taiwanese online forum PTT. Posts made by very1ghost match up exactly with Li’s educational background, and corroborate his former pen name of Xu Feng.

The following year, 2006, while still in high school, Li won the 22nd Taiwan Literature Workshop Prize (第22屆全國巡迴文藝營創作獎), and in grade ten, he was referring to himself in Chinese on PTT using characters which are specific to boys (小弟). According to other posts, Li resided in a dormitory for men while attending the National Taiwan University (NTU).

In 2009, while he was attending NTU, a classmate of Li’s complained in the PTT forum about Li’s behavior towards others, remarking that he was “rude” and had begun “wear[ing] skirts recently.” That same year, Li, using his screenname very1ghost, posted in the PTT community about his fear of participating in Taiwan’s mandatory military conscription, which had just been reduced from two years of service to one year.

“Can anyone tell me how on earth gender equality is possible when all (biological) males are required to do one year of military service (or alternative service or four months of military training) but females are not?” reads the post.

“The military conscription system of the Republic of China has always been a lingering nightmare for me. I know I’m afraid of that kind of life,” Li continued. “By visiting feminist boards (and other gender issue boards) over the past year, I have a basic understanding of feminism… However, what I don’t understand is why the current Taiwanese society is so politically correct about gender equality, but completely ignores the conscription system, a system that is fundamentally gender-unequal?”

In addition to his online posting history while a high school and university student, Li has made public statements supportive of trans activism and in favor of “depathologizing gender identity disorder.”

“Transgender people who wish to transition have been thought to suffer from a mental illness called gender identity disorder. The idea was that it was an illness that required treatment (social gender transition, hormone therapy, surgery, etc),” Li wrote in February of this year.

“However, in recent years, the term ‘gender identity disorder’ has been abolished internationally, and instead it has been replaced by a ‘gender-related condition’ known as ‘gender incongruity/gender dysphoria’,” he added, referring to a shift in language first adopted by the US-based World Professional Association (WPATH). In depathologizing “gender identity disorder,” WPATH academics had consulted with anonymous members of a pedophilic castration fetish community.

Li also appears to hold the belief that males can identify as lesbians. In 2019, Li condemned Tokyo’s longest-running lesbian bar, Goldfinger, for their women-only night, which was being held only once per month.

n April of 2019, an American trans-identified male and university professor, Eric ‘Elin’ McCready, attempted to enter the venue on a women-only night and was denied access. In response, McCready took to social media to garner sympathy and portray himself as a victim of discrimination. His posts set off a flurry of criticism from online trans activists, with some calling for bar Goldfinger to be excluded from future Tokyo Pride events. Stonewall Japan Vice President Jessica Gordon even asked supporters to boycott the bar completely and authored a blog post slandering the venue’s owner and employees as “transphobic pieces of human trash.”

Joining in on the controversy, Li sent a message to the lesbian bar’s official account on X: “I heard that you have publicly announced the ‘exclusion of trans people,’” he wrote. “Even though Ochanomizu University has announced that it will accept trans women, why would Japan’s largest lesbian event declare that it will exclude trans women? This is an extremely malicious act that goes against the times and violates human dignity.”

But Li has advocated against women’s right to single-sex spaces on multiple occasions. As the criticism of the women-only event at Goldfinger began to escalate, Li, using his Taiwanese pen name Li Qinfeng, wrote an article for Tai Sounds which strongly denounced “transphobic hate speech in Japanese society”.

“Because of the existence of transgender people, we can no longer take the existence of ‘women’ as natural and biological, but must think about definitions: What is a woman? And all definitions essentially mean exclusion,” Li wrote. “The prejudice and exclusion of trans women by native women certainly falls into the category of cannibalism and does not contribute to the substantive improvement of women’s rights or gender equality.”

In addition to his relentless harassment of critics through defamation litigation, Li has made a disturbing comment sympathetic towards pedophilia. In August 2020, Li compared pedophilia to homosexuality, and stated that he didn’t “necessarily agree” that a sexual attraction to children did not constitute a sexuality.

“‘Pedophilia’ is trending for some reason… Some say that pedophilia is not a sexual orientation like LGB, but a pathology, and I don’t necessarily agree with that. I can’t agree. It’s always those in power who decide what’s sick and what is not, so we have no choice but to be cautious. Don’t forget that homosexuality was considered a disease 50 years ago.”

Taiwan’s government is now in the process of drafting an “Anti-Discrimination Act” (反歧視法). According to the current version of the legislation, based on reports of the hearings, “gender identity” is set to be included as a protected category. To date, Taiwan has permitted 7 known cases of sex self-identification, of the alteration of one’s legal sex without a surgical requirement.

In 2020, a man in Taipei was discovered to have secretly filmed more than 160 women and girls in “all gender” restrooms located across Taipei and New Taipei City. He had placed spycams in various universities and schools, and among his victims were girls as young as 13 and 14 years old.

https://reduxx.info/exclusive-award-winning-trans-identified-male-author-from-taiwan-sues-critics-who-say-hes-not-a-lesbian/

France: Muslim convert sentenced to ten months in prison for trying to slit her father’s throat because he prevented her from ‘wearing the veil’

A 23-year-old woman, previously unknown to the justice system, was sentenced to ten months in prison without parole by the criminal court in Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) on Wednesday October 16 for attacking her father with a knife in Rezé (Loire-Atlantique). Angelina accused him of preventing her from ‘wearing the veil’, even though she is now ‘Muslim’.

The young French woman is also convinced that she was ‘disowned’ by her family because she ‘hangs out with people of other ethnicities and skin colours’. She has a CAP (skilled labour certificate) and is now a self-employed entrepreneur in the ‘production of handmade candles’, which is why she now lives ‘on the street’. She even ‘slept in a mosque’, confirms the blonde young woman in the dock. www.leparisien.fr

Nantes : une convertie condamnée à dix mois de prison ferme pour avoir tenté d’égorger son père, qui l’empêchait de « porter le voile » – Fdesouche