Month: November 2024

Mainstream Britain might finally be waking up to the fact that it elected a totalitarian government that increasingly seems to behave like the Chinese Communist Party.

Children as young as nine are currently being investigated by the police for non-crime hate incidents. According to the Daily Mail:

“A nine-year-old child is among the youngsters being probed by police over hate incidents… Officers recorded incidents against the child, who called a fellow primary school pupil a ‘retard’, and against two schoolgirls who said another student smelled ‘like fish’. The youngsters were among multiple cases of children being recorded as having committed non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs), The Times discovered through freedom of information requests to police forces.”

“Non-crime hate” is not exactly new. In 2014, the police introduced the Hate Crime Operational Guidelines, which have since been updated. According to the guidelines, any non-crime incident that is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice based on a person’s race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or transgender identity must be recorded, even if there is no evidence of the hate element:

“For recording purposes, the perception of the victim, or any other person… is the defining factor in determining whether an incident is a hate incident… The victim does not have to justify or provide evidence of their belief, and police officers or staff should not directly challenge this perception. Evidence of the hostility is not required for an incident or crime to be recorded as a hate crime or hate incident.”

Since 2014, British police have reportedly recorded more than 250,000 non-crime hate incidents in England and Wales. The non-crime incidents, logged in a system, can even show up, when employers ask for a copy of a prospective employee’s criminal record.

In late June, a 12-year-old Jewish boy had counter-terrorism police come to interrogate him at his home for saying there “are only two genders'”and for saying that Hamas should be “exterminated.” ‘

His mother said the counter terror officers “raised concerns over the fact that her son, who is Jewish, harboured extremist views on account of his response when asked if there were any groups that shouldn’t exist… her son responded that ‘Hamas (the Gaza-based terror group) should be wiped out’.” He was also accused of “unhealthy interest in weapons” for owning a toy crossbow.

Mainstream Britain’s better-late-than-never acknowledgement of the tragic demise of sanity and liberty in the UK is recent, and has especially grown since Daily Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson was visited by police earlier this November, informing her that she was accused of a “non-crime hate incident.” A tweet she had posted more than a year ago, the police told her, was “stirring up racial hatred.” She asked who accused her and why, but the police told her she could not be told what her offending tweet was, nor the “victim’s” name. She is now under investigation for spreading material allegedly “likely or intended to cause racial hatred”.

“This is not what people fought and died for in the war,” Pearson wrote in the Telegraph about her ordeal, which she described as proof of Britain’s two-tier justice system.

There are lots of things that people did not fight and die for in the war but that the mainstream British media has ignored for decades: Mass migration from the Muslim world; rampant violence and terrorism; Muslim grooming gangs, raping, torturing, sometimes killing, hundreds of thousands of British children and young women while the police covered up their crimes.

One survivor, Ella Hill, wrote back in 2018:

“As a Rotherham grooming gang survivor, I want people to know about the religious extremism which inspired my abusers. Grooming gangs are not like paedophile rings; instead, they operate almost exactly like terrorist networks, with all the same strategies. As a teenager, I was taken to various houses and flats above takeaways in the north of England, to be beaten, tortured and raped over 100 times. I was called a ‘white slag’ and ‘white c***”‘as they beat me.”

“They made it clear that because I was a non-Muslim, and not a virgin, and because I didn’t dress ‘modestly’, that they believed I deserved to be ‘punished’. They said I had to ‘obey’ or be beaten.”

Hundreds of people were handed prison sentences for up to several years, for social media posts about the brutal murder of three little girls in Southport this summer. They were jailed for criticizing mass migration and Islamization, but the government said they were stirring up racial hatred. Now, it turns out that the murderer of the three girls, who still has not gone on trial, was in fact an Islamist terrorist, a fact that Starmer’s government covered up and lied about.

Will the British mainstream media fight to see that the many — who were jailed for speaking their minds about these murders on social media — are now freed?

Tommy Robinson was severely punished by British authorities for speaking out against and making documentaries about the grooming gang scandals. A few weeks ago, he was imprisoned, again, for refusing to be silenced, and moved to one of Britain’s most notorious prisons, which houses some of the most murderous Islamist terrorists. Nobody in mainstream British media seems the least bit concerned about his safety.

Meanwhile, actual crimes in the UK continue to soar. “According to the latest figures, the number of knife-related offences in England and Wales rose to 49,489 in 2023, up from 46,153 in 2022” along with a 20% increase in robberies involving knives. Police do not even bother to properly investigate crimes, such as burglaries –between 2015 and 2021, “police failed to solve one million” of them — whereas Allison Pearson’s lone non-crime tweet is being investigated by three of Britain’s biggest police forces.

The British justice system is highly dysfunctional, with victims of rape and sexual assault waiting up to more than five years for their cases to be heard in court. According to the Criminal Bar Association, “the backlog of criminal cases is on track to reach 80,000 by March 2025.” One rape survivor, Emmy Hemmins, waited five years and 11 months for her case to go to trial. It was postponed eight times, and in the meantime she was further traumatized by the extreme wait and suffered from anxiety attacks. The court found her rapist not guilty.

Scotland Yard also spent 15 months investigating Maya Forstater, the executive director of Sex Matters, which campaigns for clarity about sex in law and policy, after a complaint that a post she made about a transgender doctor was a “malicious communication.” She, too, was not told what tweet she was being investigated for or who had made the complaint until she agreed to turn up to an interview with police officers.

While middle-aged ladies and pensioners were handed speedy prison sentences for the lone social media post which they that they had gone on to delete and for which they had apologized, TikToker Fiona Ryan, celebrated October 7, compared Ashkenazi Jews to Nazis, made jokes about the Holocaust, claimed Jewish doctors carried out sex change procedures on children, and, according to the Court, “supported Hamas online”, was merely handed a suspended prison sentence of 20 She avoided jail altogether.

In the UK, evidently, supporters of terrorists do not need to fear any consequences for their actions.

Pro-Hamas, terror-supporting mobs in London continue to enjoy the protection of the police, while those who oppose them, and want to comment on their activities, are subjected to police violence, and arrested. Niyak Ghorbani, an Iranian podcaster, was kicked by police simply for filming a pro-Hamas protest. Ghorbani has probably been arrested more times for exposing terrorism in the UK than he was for protesting the Islamic regime while he still lived in Iran.

While Islam appears to have a special, protected status in the UK — Islamic preachers and worshipers are free to broadcast their prayers for everyone to hear — Christian street preachers in the UK, including pensioners, have for years been arrested for preaching the gospel in public.

Most recently, the police informed a man, a street preacher, that saying “God bless you” is a crime, if it causes “distress” to someone, who has a different belief – such as Muslims.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21122/nine-year-olds-investigated-by-police

A public conference on Islamism in schools, scheduled to take place at a Brussels bookstore, has been cancelled after organisers received threats apparently from young Muslims.

In the Brussels municipality of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, the authors of the book Allah n’a rien à faire dans ma classe (Allah has nothing to do in my class), Jean-Pierre Martin and Laurence D’Hondt, were scheduled to present their work at the local Fnac book and technology store outlet on November 16.

The two journalists’ book covered the increasing pressure on teachers by Islamists, which the pair said made it difficult for educators to teach biology and history — in particular, the Holocaust — as well as discuss the radicalisation of their pupils.

On several occasions during the week leading up to the event, the store’s employees were the victims of verbal threats and on November 15, Fnac decided to cancel it, based on an internal security analysis.

Martin made the announcement on social media.

“The conference scheduled for this afternoon at the Fnac in Woluwé is cancelled. We understand that the Fnac is remarkable in its support for the authors and our book. ‘Youths’ threatened the staff. Thank you for your understanding,” he wrote on X.

Asked for further explanation, Martin stated: “Over the past three days, groups of ‘youths’ have repeatedly intimidated the staff, citing the ‘ban on mentioning the name of Allah’. They have demanded that the conference and book signing be cancelled and that the book be withdrawn.”

On Facebook he wrote: “Who is to blame? The Kingdom of Belgium is suffering from deep-seated ills: Deafness and blindness.

“For those who have not read our book, you should know that it is benevolent towards Allah and the other gods. It is benevolent towards those who have faith.

“Above all, our book is a plea for freedom of conscience, for freedom, for the future of your children and the love their teachers give them.

“Those who want to censor this book, and unfortunately will never read it, hate us and are trying to frighten us.”

D’Hondt also reacted to the cancellation.

“There are serious threats against anyone who wants to defend freedom of expression,” she said.

The publisher and the store announced on social networks that they had cancelled the event, without giving further details.

“The decision to cancel the event was taken solely by Fnac and was not taken on the orders of the police,” police chief Michaël Jonniaux told the daily La Libre Belgique.

Olivier Maingain, mayor of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert city, had asked the police to send several plain-clothes officers to the scene.

He said young people had wanted to provoke incidents at the store and feared they still would misbehave despite the event being cancelled.

Martin and D’Hondt’s book was seen as a warning about what was happening in classrooms and was presented as a “cry for alarm”.

The authors have collected testimonies from teachers revealing their fear in the face of Islamist ideology present in their classes.

“Teachers testify to the questioning of the teaching of subjects and values, such as equal rights between men and women, respect for individual freedom, freedom of conscience and religion …”, Martin said about the book.

According to the writers, teaching has become a dangerous profession and schools are no longer a sanctuary. Islamists, they wrote, consider classrooms to promote the school of disbelief, because that is where freedom of conscience is taught.

Teachers are not equipped to deal with the situation, the authors claimed.

The cancellation of the presentation of the book provoked much reaction on social media. Liberal budget minister Alexia Bertrand said it was” a new blow to our freedoms and freedom of expression”.

“We must never tolerate this. We will never tolerate it. I expect all political leaders to join me in strongly condemning these actions.”

Centre-right MEP Assita Kanko said it was “shocking” and called it “Islamic fascism at its finest”.

“This proves once again that it is impossible to talk about topics related to Islamic radicalisation in our schools,” she said.

“I hope the authors will want to present their book in the European Parliament. I am ready to welcome them and reserve a safe space for them so that people who are interested can attend and share views. This is a conversion we need to have.

“I refuse to accept the destruction of free thinking. Freedom of expression must be protected at all times. Also at school,” Kanko concluded.

Belgian Socialist politician and lawyer Julien Uyttendaele described the affair as: “Yet another warning signal. Politicians can no longer turn a blind eye.”

https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/11/brussels-book-event-on-rise-of-islamism-in-schools-cancelled-after-threats

As the Cass Review released earlier this year noted, “social transitioning” — the practice of changing the given names, pronouns, and clothing of gender-confused youth to assist them in “presenting” as the opposite sex — is dangerous “because it may have significant effects on the child or young person in terms of their psychological functioning and longer-term outcomes.”

“Social transitioning” has become standard practice in many Western countries over the past few years, and that is why so many in academia have attempted to ignore the Cass Review’s findings entirely.  

Despite this comprehensive evidence, the U.K.’s Sheffield College is doubling down – and going further. Sheffield was the first college visited by the Labour Government education secretary Bridget Phillipson in July. According to the Daily Mail, the college is planning a “trial implementing a ‘gender affirmation fund,’ which will allow [so-called] trans and non-binary students to apply for financial support to buy ‘clothes and make-up.’” The phrase “gender affirmation” is trans-speak for “affirming” one’s desired gender in contradiction to one’s sex.  

Critics are condemning the move in harsh terms. “It is extremely concerning that Sheffield College leaders believe it’s acceptable to create a ‘gender affirming’ fund for students,” Lucy Marsh of the Family Education Trust told the Mail. “Most students will be under 18, so they are effectively socially transitioning children, which we know from the Cass Review is ‘not a neutral act.’ Instead of giving gender-questioning children and young adults money to present as the opposite sex, the college should be offering them counselling.”  

She added, “Further Education colleges are meant to provide fact-based education for their students, not indoctrinate them with contested gender ideology which can lead to a pathway of cross-sex hormone [drugs] and surgery which causes irreversible harm to their bodies.”  

Sheffield is set to provide thousands of pounds for so-called “gender affirming” grants, and there are other colleges doing the same. The University of Kent currently offers grants of up to £100 that contribute to “gender-affirming products” and even undefined “minor cosmetic procedures.” The University College London, the Mail reported, set aside close to £5,000 for gender-confused students to purchase “clothing, beauty products, or travel for medical or therapy appointments.” In short, educational institutions are literally funding cross-dressing. 

Angela Foulkes, chief executive and principal at Sheffield, stated that the new pilot project was intended to reflect that the college has “a diverse student community” and that they “are committed to inclusivity.” Foulkes detailed the plan in a statement:  

Funding has been allocated with the intention of running a pilot project to support our students. We anticipate that it will start by September 2025. The funds will enable disadvantaged [so-called] transgender and non-binary students access to financial assistance to buy gender affirming clothing and make-up with the aim of enhancing their wellbeing whilst promoting an inclusive and supportive college environment. We anticipate supporting a small number of students who would be referred by our pastoral support team on a case-by-case basis. 

These plans completely ignore the conclusions of the Cass Review, which observed that “social transitioning” “is not a neutral act, and better information is needed about outcomes.” Cass stressed that “transitioning” socially can profoundly alter the developmental trajectory of minors, and that it is likely a life-altering decision once embarked on. Many educators, however, appear disinterested in waiting for evidence on outcomes and more interested in kowtowing to transgender activists in the name of “inclusivity.” 

As always, the kids pay the price. 

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/uk-college-slammed-for-saying-it-will-buy-clothing-make-up-for-transgender-students/?utm_source=most_recent&utm_campaign=usa

Some areas of Berlin are not safe for ‘openly gay’ and Jewish people, a local police chief has admitted.

Barbara Slowik, head of the police force in the German capital, said: ‘There are areas, and we need to be honest here, where I would advise people who wear a kippah or are openly gay or lesbian to be more careful.’

‘Unfortunately, there are certain neighborhoods where the majority of people live are of Arab descent, who also have sympathies for terrorist groups,’ she told local outlet Berliner Zeitung.

She added that ‘open anti-Semitism’ was shown against ‘people of Jewish faith and origin’ in those neighbourhoods. 

Slowik said that Berlin police have initiated more than 6,200 investigations since October 7, 2023, although most cases relate to hate messages online or graffiti. 

About 1,300 investigations are concerning violent incidents, although Slowik clarifies that the majority of these were directed against police officers at gatherings like protests against Israel.

‘[The number of] violent crimes against Jewish people is fortunately low, although every crime is undoubtedly one too many. I can understand that fear and concern remain,’ Slowik said.

The police chief’s comments come a week after a Jewish youth football team had to be put under police protection after it was attacked by a pro-Palestinian mob armed with sticks and knives in Berlin. 

Players from Makkabi Berlin’s youth team have said they were ‘hunted down’ by Arab youths after a game against their local rivals. The team is made up of teenagers aged between 13 and 16.

The game was played in Neukoelln, a neighbourhood in Berlin known for its large Arab and Turkish population.

A father of one of the players wrote on X that his son was deeply shaken when he was spat at during the game and was harassed by adults and children who followed the team off the pitch.

He also posted a screenshot by one of the players, who said that they were chased by ‘Arab youths’ who shouted ‘Free Palestine‘ and ‘F***ing Jews’ and threatened the players with knives and sticks.

The president of Makkabi Germany, Alon Meyer, told the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper that other witnesses have voiced threats, with some chasing others with knives. The opposition club said they would identify and throw out the people involved.

The police unit responsible for investigating politically motivated crime, the Staatsschutz, has begun an investigation into the incident. 

Makkabi Berlin was set up in the 1970s by Holocaust survivors and was the German capital’s first Jewish sports club after the Second World War.

Earlier this month, a fan of Makkabi Berlin wearing the club’s scarf – which has the club’s logo including the Star of David on it – was taken to hospital after a man in a café asked him whether he was Jewish and punched him in the face. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14098937/Berlin-not-safe-openly-gay-people-Jews-police-says.html

By Olivia Murray

Time for the British people to brush up on Karl Marx and communist history.

From Will Hutton at The Guardian comes a new editorial in which he identifies a problem, i.e. greedy farmers who “have hoarded land for too long”, before he announces the solution to break-up the control that these little menaces have over their own property, so they will no longer “be enabled to own it in perpetuity”… which is more government and taxation of course.

Naturally, the farmers and landowners aren’t sold on this Labour Party idea but as Hutton reports, this new progressive inheritance tax will really only affect about 500 individuals, and it’s quite a compromising tax after all, so all the fuss is just ungrateful grumbling. Here’s what Hutton writes, in his own words:

Half a million people die every year. Under the reforms to inheritance tax relief on agricultural land proposed in the budget, about 500 individuals who inherit land worth more than £2m (£3m if they were married to the deceased) will join the rest of society and have inheritance tax levied on their bequest – albeit at half the rate, with an enlarged exemption and 10 years to pay it, concessions not made to the rest of us. How fortunate and privileged are they?

What a generous government that fines people just for owning land but then gives them ten years to pay off the debt! Here’s what else Hutton has to say about the scheme:

The hoarding of land that has gone on since the bung was introduced by Margaret Thatcher in 1984, which has so steadily driven up land prices and farmers’ rents, will at last be checked as some of the larger estates are obliged to sell parcels of land to pay inheritance tax, as they did before 1984 without the world falling in, rather than be enabled to own it in perpetuity.

Will this also apply to the estates of Charles III and his progeny? No, no it won’t, at least according to a Daily Mail item published earlier this month. For context, Charles III is the world’s largest landowner, and the “royal family” combined owns “more than 6,600,000,000 acres of land around the world” which amounts to “1/6 of the surface of the planet.” Oh, and if you’re wondering why Charles and his descendants get a pass on inheritance tax, despite owning the most land out of any person or institution in the world with properties that are “cash cow[s]” and “money-maker[s]”, they cut a deal with the government back in 1993, because as “conservative” then-Prime Minister John Major stated at the time, “the monarchy being salami-sliced away by capital taxation through generations” is something that “few people” in England “would welcome.” But it’s okay to “salami-slice” away the wealth of the little guy, right?

Yeah, this isn’t about a wealth distribution from most privileged to least privileged, it’s about wealth distribution from the middle class to the uber-wealthy, using “the sores of discontent” (recall Saul Alinsky’s strategy) of angry, useful idiots as the vehicle.

As you might remember, one of the most revealing themes of The Communist Manifesto, the communist revolution can only “be effected … by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property,” which is why Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, Che Guevara, and Fidel Castro all came for private property, and particularly farmers—farmers feed people, and controlling the food supply means controlling the population.

Hutton says this “hoarding” of land has gone on for too long, but you know what’s actually gone on for “too long” though? Repackaging the neverending war against farmers, and the general public failing to notice that it’s the same old communistic song and dance. Do the British people supporting these politicians and policies realize what comes next? Apparently not enough.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/11/the_guardian_greedy_farmers_hoard_land_but_government_has_a_new_tax_to_solve_that_problem.html

It is a shocking example of failed integration: an avowed supporter of the Iranian mullah regime and speaker at the now closed Blue Mosque in Hamburg worked as a teacher at a vocational college in Wuppertal ( North Rhine-Westphalia). A year ago, he even became a civil servant.

Now he has been suspended from his job!
WDR had followed Ali Fakih on camera for over four years – until he broke off contact this year. The teacher of economics and Islamic religion fled to Germany with his parents from Lebanon 18 years ago.
In Germany, Fakih made it to the civil service as a teacher at the vocational college in Wuppertal-Barmen. He was held in high esteem by the pupils and in the staff room and seemed like a prime example of successful integration, but he told the German broadcaster WDR about the Hamas massacre at the Nova Festival of October 7, 2023 on camera: ‘I have to be honest, I wasn’t surprised. They were celebrating next to a prison of 2.2 million people (meaning the Gaza Strip, the ed.). I would be ashamed to celebrate next to a prison.’

It gradually emerged that Fakih was a regular guest at the ‘Blue Mosque’ in Hamburg, where he also gave speeches. In the footage, he calls it his ‘favourite place in Germany’.

The association, which runs the ‘Blue Mosque’, was banned in July by Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (54, SPD) for spreading anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli hate speech.
Teacher Fakih openly admitted to worshipping the Iranian religious leader Ali Khamenei (85). He gave lectures in a backyard mosque and allowed himself to be filmed as a co-organiser of pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Düsseldorf at which Israel’s right to exist was called into question.
The district government relieved Ali Fakih of his official duties immediately after the report was broadcast. Disciplinary proceedings will be initiated and he will remain suspended until the matter has been clarified.

AND: ‘The Düsseldorf district government strongly condemns the statements and behaviour portrayed in the film and expressly distances itself from them. They violate the values of our free and democratic basic order and blatantly violate the duties of a civil servant.’

https://www.bild.de/politik/inland/er-verehrt-irans-terror-fuehrer-islamist-wurde-als-lehrer-verbeamtet-673709d54df82f5150639ac1

A girls volleyball team in California has dropped out of the state playoffs after learning that their upcoming opponents had a male playing on their team. Stone Ridge Christian School announced the “heartbreaking” end to their season in a letter to parents sent out yesterday.

Stone Ridge Christian School had advanced to the California Interscholastic Federation State Girls Volleyball Championship regional semifinals after coming out victorious against North Hills Christian School on November 14. But what should have been a celebratory moment ahead of a critical game was quickly soured after the coaches at Stone Ridge became aware that their student athletes would be matched to play against a team with a biological male.

The match, which was scheduled for tonight, had been against San Francisco Waldorf, a school that has previously come under controversy for allowing trans-identified male players to compete with the girls.

“As many of you know, our girls won on Wednesday and advanced to the state playoffs. Unfortunately, we were just informed that our opponent, San Francisco Waldorf, has a male athlete playing for their team,” the letter sent out to parents by Stone Ridge Christian reads.

“At SRC, we believe God’s Word is authoritative and infallible. It is Truth. And as Genesis makes clear, God wonderfully and immutably created each person as male or female. We do not believe sex is changeable and we do not intend to participate in events that send a different message.”

The letter was first shared to X by women’s rights advocate Beth Bourne.

“As many of you know, our girls won on Wednesday and advanced to the state playoffs. Unfortunately, we were just informed that our opponent, San Francisco Waldorf, has a male athlete playing for their team,” the letter sent out to parents by Stone Ridge Christian reads.

“At SRC, we believe God’s Word is authoritative and infallible. It is Truth. And as Genesis makes clear, God wonderfully and immutably created each person as male or female. We do not believe sex is changeable and we do not intend to participate in events that send a different message.”

The letter was first shared to X by women’s rights advocate Beth Bourne.

San Francisco Waldorf will now automatically advance to the Northern California regional championship final.

Waldorf’s male player has been identified by Reduxx as Henry Hanlon, a senior who also plays for the San Francisco Waldorf girls varsity basketball team.

As previously reported by Reduxx in January, Hanlon’s participation in girls basketball prompted Averroes High School to forfeit a match against Waldorf. While Averroes declined to confirm Hanlon’s presence is what prompted the forfeiture, Averroes is an Islamic school, and sources close to the matter speculated that the hesitancy to compete against Waldorf was due to religious objections regarding the Muslim girls risking physical contact with the male player.

Reduxx has reviewed past game footage featuring Hanlon, which confirms he displays an obvious physical advantage over his female teammates.

Speaking to Reduxx, Julie Lane of Women Are Real condemned Waldorf for allowing Hanlon to continue playing in girls sports.

“It is absolutely unfair for girls to have to compete against boys in their own sports category. Categories exist for a reason, including, in some sports, weight, age, and para-ability. Everybody – sports leagues, schools, parents, coaches – agreed with this common sense approach until very recently,” Lane says.

Lane’s group, Women Are Real, has been documenting Waldorf’s refusal to remove Hanlon from the girls team and has attended several games to confirm that he has a significant physical advantage over his female competitors.

In January, one member of Women Are Real reported that she was assaulted by Waldorf administrator Craig Appel while being prevented from peacefully attending a Waldorf game in support of the female students.

“Our members have been attending, as witnesses, these high school and college games where males have infiltrated. We heard girls on the opposing team last year discussing how the boy was using the girls bathroom the year prior. They had buddied up when they went to the bathroom together, just in case he did it again. And, we noted that the team with the boy avoided using the bathroom before their game, likely in ‘solidarity’ with their teammate. These girls have all been gaslit, and avoided a normal thing … going to the bathroom before a game … because one boy was allowed in.”

While disappointed that young female athletes are being forced to bear the brunt of the Waldorf’s decision to allow a boy to play on the girls team, Lane applauds the schools that have forfeited against Waldorf for taking a stance.

“For the opposing teams that are standing against this travesty, it is incredibly brave to stand up and say no … It is sad and traumatizing to work all your life at a skill, build a strong team, make it to the playoffs, and suddenly end your season and budding career due to one confused boy,” Lane continues.

“The adults in the room are to blame. Everyone has to stand up and say no to this dangerous and foolish idea that the feelings of a boy who is confused take precedence over the safety and dignity and opportunity of so many girls. It affects everyone and is a life-changing trauma to lose your hard earned chance to play and succeed, and even lose college scholarship opportunities. Women and society fought for female sports and spaces, and it’s up to everyone to bring them back. Male athletes can play on male teams. It’s that simple. And, no one gets everything they want all the time.”

https://reduxx.info/california-christian-school-drops-out-of-championship-semifinals-match-against-team-with-trans-identified-male-player/

Keir Starmer says he would defend his Labour government’s farmer-thumping budget “all day long,” despite one industry leader warning that anger within the community is “like I’ve never experienced before.”

As many as 20,000 UK farmers will descend on Parliament tomorrow to protest a Labour tax hike which threatens to endanger already-struggling family farms and, of course, national food security.

Make your voices heard on Tuesday. 👊🏽 pic.twitter.com/XUSHZ17P7t

— Farmers Weekly (@FarmersWeekly) November 17, 2024

Some are also reportedly planning a coordinated “sewage strike,” which would force other industries to suddenly find new avenues for disposing of millions of tonnes of sewage, placing immense pressure on the government. Farmers use approximately 3.6 million tonnes of sewage sludge on agricultural land.

More than a hundred farmers already protested the Welsh Labour Party conference over the weekend, warning that what they have dubbed the “tractor tax” will mean the end of many family farms. The levy will see farms worth more than £1 million (€1.19 million) having to pay an effective inheritance tax rate of 20%, where they currently pay nothing.

Reform MP Rupert Lowe fumed that the levy will “force thousands of farming families to sell the farm to pay the inheritance tax bill,” adding that while a farm—because of its land—might be worth millions,

It’s worth NOTHING until it’s sold. So when the farm is passed down, and this huge tax bill arrives, what is the family supposed to do? They don’t have hundreds of thousands of pounds sitting in the bank…

Farming is not a lucrative career. It does not make much money. The land is valuable, but the returns are not.

Despite all this, Labour’s Steve Reed, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, insists that the tax is both “fair” and “proportionate,” adding that farmers should simply “check the facts.”

The cabinet minister cannot have been much pleased to find that Labour’s own Baroness Mallalieu, who is also president of the Countryside Alliance, has criticised the fact that “there was no impact assessment done,” and that the changes “smell of incompetence.”

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/starmer-unmoved-by-massive-farmer-outrage/

French farmers have taken to blockading Paris over a trade deal between South American Mercosur countries and the European Union.

Agricultural workers in the country have warned that the deal threatens to undermine local workers by flooding European markets with foreign produce.

According to a report by Le Parisien, numerous road blocks on November 18 had been set up by farmers the previous night, with one union describing 85 separate demonstrations as being held across the country.

🇨🇵 TOUS AVEC LES AGRICULTEURS !!! pic.twitter.com/99xGke09xY

— Pascal Laurent (@Pascal_Laurent_) November 17, 2024

🚜❌ BLOCAGES EN COURS DANS LE VAR !

Les agriculteurs du Var sont mobilisés à bloquer un rond-point au Cannet des Maures.#RevoltePaysanne pic.twitter.com/PWY9BqqAD8

— Résistance Paysanne (@ResistPaysans) November 18, 2024

Agriculteurs en colère, hier soir devant la préfecture à Vesoul, où ils jettent dans la cour les panneaux des communes. #Vesoul #agriculteurs #AgriculteursEnColere #paysans #RevoltePaysanne pic.twitter.com/StenVokZIR

— DIRECT.NEWS (@_Direct_News) November 18, 2024

One of the worst affected routes was the N118 to the southwest of the capital, with authorities describing dense traffic even after that demonstration was ended.

More disruptions are expected later on the evening of November 18.

Farmers taking part in the demos have defended their actions, saying their choice was either to protest or lose their livelihoods.

Brussels must do more to help farmers make a living or face more tractor protests, the head of a major farmers’ association warned. https://t.co/y7VWEhlk8n

— Brussels Signal (@brusselssignal) May 27, 2024

“I don’t earn a living, I have to have two jobs and most of the time I get into debt,” one farmer told the French media.

“We don’t make a living from our work even though we work 365 days a year, we are the forgotten ones of the Republic.

“For many, it’s either mobilization or the rope,” he added.

Numerous French politicians have echoed the sentiment, with there being broad consensus across both the Left and Right that the EU deal should not go through.

Such views appear to be being ignored in Brussels, with it looking likely that Eurocrats will bypass French opposition to the deal via a qualified majority vote at the European Council.

“A few years ago, it would have been unthinkable that such an agreement could be made against the opinion of the historic founding member that is France of the European Union,” one French mayor said regarding the situation.

“The voice of France is not credible, I regret it.”

French President Emmanuel Macron is now attempting to kill the deal via bilateral channels in South America, meeting with Argentina’s Javier Milei on November 17 ahead of the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro over November 18-19.

“I told the Argentine president very sincerely and very clearly that France would not sign the Mercosur treaty as it stands,” Macron said after meeting with Milei in Argentina.

He added that Milei had similar sentiments, with the French President claiming that the Argentine was also “not satisfied” with the current deal.

Angry farmers stormed Paris’s annual agricultural fair during President Emmanuel Macron’s visit on February 24 as crowds raised their middle fingers, chanted, and whistled for the president’s resignation. https://t.co/TlDNo4cBMF

— Brussels Signal (@brusselssignal) February 26, 2024

Farmers blockade Paris over ‘unthinkable’ EU-Mercosur deal

by Giulio Meotti

In 1984, Soviet dissident Gunnars Astra was sentenced to twelve years in prison in the USSR for possessing a copy of George Orwell’s “1984” and for secretly translating it. In our 2024, it is difficult to grasp the paradoxes of a new 1984. A clear mind and intellectual courage are needed.

We long for the days when the expression “politically correct police” was just an ironic quip by Philip Roth, not a literal description of what is happening in the West.

It was six o’clock on Sunday morning, when Allison Pearson found herself on her doorstep, in her dressing gown and slippers, facing two police officers.

The Telegraph journalist was facing a “Kafkaesque” police investigation for having “fomented racial hatred” in a social media post last year. Pearson, an award-winning writer and excellent much-read columnist for the English newspaper, had two police officers arrive at her home to tell her that she was under investigation for a post on X (formerly Twitter).

When Pearson asked what she had said that deserved the police attention, the officer said he was not allowed to reveal it. The officer also refused to reveal the name of her accuser. “It’s not the accuser,” the officer said, looking down at his notes. “They are called victims.”

Maybe “Big Ben has fallen” and we didn’t realize it.

Three police officers assigned to investigate a journalist for a post on social media? Something is rotten in the country called England.

That’s all it takes in George Orwell’s country for the police to knock on your door.

Six months ago, Allison Pearson warned on TV about the “Islamisation of our country”.

The repression of the few who still dare to speak out about the ongoing disintegration reminds me of the treatment the cultural establishment reserved for anti-Soviet writers in the 1950s.

Reading Allison Pearson made me understand the point of all those courses on “Islamophobia” that the British police are subjecting themselves to. Last February it emerged that many of these thought control courses are run by Jihadists.

British police websites have just advertised “November is Islamophobia Awareness Month.”

British police have even decided to investigate a banner by Newcastle fans protesting the Saudi takeover of the club. It shows a man in Saudi attire brandishing a bloody sword and about to decapitate a magpie, while fans chant in the background: “We’ve got our club back.” The banner then lists the crimes that the Saudi regime is accused of by all human rights groups: terrorism, beheadings, violations of civil rights, murder, censorship and persecution.

“This is appalling,” said Boris Johnson. “How can Starmer’s Britain lecture other countries about free speech when an innocent journalist is knocked on the door for a tweet? Our police are forced to behave like a woke Securitate – and this must stop.” The Securitate was the secret police of Ceausescu’s Romania.

10 Downing Street had to intervene in the Pearson affair.

If it’s not an ideological regime, it’s very close. And the repression says they’re afraid of the truth. And that Musk wasn’t entirely wrong when he coined a nickname for Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer: “Two Tier Keir”.

England is the same country where the authorities (prime minister, judges, police, ministers) hid from the public for four months that a child killer was an Al Qaeda terrorist who manufactured chemical weapons.

This is the same country where Tony Blair’s spin doctor Alastair Campbell directed police to investigate Douglas Murray’s book, “The Strange Death of Europe”.

This is the same country where a protester carrying a “Hamas is terrorist” banner was arrested multiple times in London for holding up the anti-Islamic fundamentalist sign as pro-Palestinian Arab protesters walked past him.

This is the same country where a teacher had to change his house and name after showing pupils a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in a civics lesson.

Pearson risks a trial like Christoph Biró, editor-in-chief of the best-selling Austrian daily, the Kronen Zeitung, who wrote an article accusing “young Syrian men with a high level of testosterone, who carried out very aggressive sexual assaults” (even before the sexual assaults on New Year’s Eve in Cologne, Hamburg and other cities). The Graz prosecutor’s office has charged Biró with “incitement to hatred.”

Britain’s experiment in controlling “hate” has become both farcical and authoritarian.

In Spain, a priest who criticized Islam was investigated for “hate crimes.”

German Islam critic Michael Stürzenberger was sentenced to six months in prison for “incitement to hatred.” He criticized political Islam and its “atrocities.” Then an Islamist tried to kill him in a Mannheim square.

Dutch cartoonist Gregorius Nekschot spent a night in jail. The police confiscated his computer and summoned him to the prosecutors. Investigated for “incitement to hatred.” Because in his drawings he mocked Islam.

The late philosopher Roger Scruton was fired by a government committee before he died for saying that the word “Islamophobia” was invented by the Muslim Brotherhood.

Even the winner of the English Booker Prize, Shehan Karunatilaka, has censored himself on Islam. “I had written a story about a radicalized teenager for a collection I was preparing and my wife suggested I delete it. It only takes one person to be offended and suddenly you’re an Islamophobic writer.” And when he heard about the attack in New York against Rushdie, he had no doubts: “My wife said, ‘You have two small children, take that story out.’”

Love is hate. Winston Smith. Big Brother. 1984. Ministry of Truth. It all sounds very, far too, current.

“Take that story out,” the Western surrender party keeps telling us.

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