The New Culture Forum’s Christmas show is a special mash up bringing up together your favourite panellists from both NCF Newspeak and NCF Deprogrammed. With a tip of the hat to Talk TV’s “Plank of the Week”, we look back at the year to decide on:
CANADA: Trans-Identified Male Found Guilty Of Murdering His Wife And Two Children, Media Reports Him As Being A “Woman”
A trans-identified male in Quebec, Canada, has been found guilty of murdering his wife and two children in a grisly triple homicide that took place at a Brossard condominium in 2022. Mohamad Al Ballouz, 38, began identifying as a woman after being arrested and now calls himself “Levana.”
As previously reported by Reduxx, Al Ballouz was first arrested in September of 2022 after firefighters responded to an alarm originating from his 12th floor condo unit. Inside, they found a bonfire had been lit in the bedroom, where Al Ballouz was found lying on his bed beside the corpse of his wife, Synthia Bussières. Their two children were also on the bed, seemingly lifeless. First responders immediately noted that Bussières’ body had a number of stab wounds.
All four were rushed to the hospital, but Bussières and her children were declared dead shortly after. Al Ballouz had reportedly consumed windshield wiper liquid in an apparent suicide attempt, but he was placed under arrest after being treated for his self-imposed illness.
Al Ballouz was initially assigned some of the best defense lawyers in Quebec, but fired all of them due to disagreements. He represented himself in court, and delivered his closing arguments at the Longueuil courthouse in Québec last week. In his statement, he alleged that Bussières had tried to kill him after murdering their children, and that she had rearranged items in their home and stabbed herself to make it look like he had attacked her.
However, according to the prosecution, Al Ballouz stabbed Bussières repeatedly before suffocating the two boys with a pillow. Expert witness Maria Fiorello, a crime scene expert with 20 years of experience, testified that traces of Al Ballouz’s blood were found in many parts of the family’s condominium.
The accused killer’s blood was identified on the walls of the children’s bedroom, inside the shower, on the handle of the front door, on the handle of a mop, and on a box of garbage bags.
“The mop was still wet, so it appears it was used to clean up blood,” Fiorello said. She further explained that in her expert opinion, the location of Al Ballouz’s blood stains indicated he had been attempting to clean up the crime scene. Not only was the mop bloody, but the accused’s blood was on the washing machine, and he had changed his clothes.
While the exact motive of the crime remains unclear despite the trial, Bussières’ mother recently came forward to reveal that her daughter appeared increasingly troubled in the two years leading up to the murder.
“She had been with this man for 12 years, but in the last two years, she had changed. I didn’t recognize her anymore,” Sylvie Guertin told Les 2 Rives in September of 2023. She also said that she had seen Bussières in the weeks before her death, and had observed that her daughter looked frail.
“In August [of 2022], I saw that something was wrong, but I didn’t say anything. I didn’t want to look like the mother who gets involved in something that doesn’t concern her,” Guertin said. “I thought she had lost weight.”
On Monday, the jury rejected Al Ballouz’ version of the events, finding him guilty of the second-degree murder of his wife, and the first-degree murders of their two sons. He is now facing life in prison without parole for at least 25 years.
Throughout the hearings, Al Ballouz attended court wearing a blond wig and makeup. There is currently no indication that Al Ballouz was experiencing a change in his self-perceived “gender identity” prior to the trial, suggesting his claim of being transgender followed his arrest.
The court “respected” Al Ballouz’ newfound identity. According to CBC, the prosecution had to “warn” the jury that several witnesses would refer to Al Ballouz as a man to preempt any concerns about “disrespect.”
Canadian media outlets covering the trial have similarly referred to Al Ballouz as a “woman” or by using feminine pronouns. Global News opted to only refer to Al Ballouz by his feminine “chosen name,” declining to use his birth name throughout their coverage. Once sentenced, Al Ballouz will be entitled to request housing in accordance with his gender identity under Canadian law.
Largely due to the efforts of the governing Liberal Party under Justin Trudeau, the category of “gender identity” was made a protected characteristic after it was added to the Canadian Human Rights Act via a controversial piece of legislation known as Bill C-16. The amendments granted men access to single-sex female spaces like washrooms, changing rooms, prisons, and rape shelters on the basis of their identity.
While the Canadian government claimed the bill had been assessed for its impact on women prior to approval, it has refused to release any details of the assessment’s findings. In 2020, a copy of the assessment was given to journalist Anna Slatz via an Access To Information Request but was 96% redacted.
Since Bill C-16 was enacted in 2017, a number of violent and sexually depraved male inmates have been transferred to women’s prisons across Canada.
As previously reported by Reduxx, one egregious example includes a trans-identified male who raped an infant before being transferred to a women’s prison.
Tara Desousa, also known as Adam Laboucan, sexually assaulted a three-month-old baby boy in Quesnel, British Columbia in 1997. The infant was so brutally injured by the attack that he had to be flown to Vancouver, 410 miles away, to undergo reconstructive surgery. After declaring a transgender status, Desousa was transferred to the Fraser Valley Institution for Women, where he is one of multiple trans-identified males with a history of sexual violence at the facility. Desousa is designated a “dangerous offender” and is considered such a risk to public safety that he is serving an indeterminate prison sentence.
Following Magdeburg:Knife jihad in downtown Saarbrücken – perpetrator shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ – Saarbrücken Christmas market is secured
This Friday evening ( December 20, 2024), the police command and situation centre received a report at around 06:30 pm about an altercation between a large group of people in the area of Berliner Promenade / Rabbiner-Rülf-Platz, in which a knife was also used. One of the opponents is said to have shouted ‘Alluah Akbar’. Emergency services immediately called in from the city centre were only able to find the injured party, who was reluctant to give any information. The police are asking for help from the public.
According to the current state of the investigation, there was initially a verbal argument between the victim and the previously unknown suspect. In the course of the argument, the later victim grabbed a chair and held it over him in a threatening manner. His opponent then pulled out a knife and stabbed the victim. The victim suffered a superficial cut to his hand. The unknown man then fled in the direction of the lower Berliner Promenade. He is said to have held up a knife and shouted ‘Alluah Akbar’. The police were immediately called to the scene and searched the area extensively. Further reports of the suspect or other possible persons in connection with the offence in the area of Berliner Promenade, Bahnhofstraße near PizzaHut and Wilhelm-Heinrich-Brücke did not lead to the arrest of the suspect, who is described as follows:
Personal description:
- male
- 160-170 cm
- scarf over face
- slim build
- probably of Arabic origin
- dark green jacket – parka
- largely dressed in dark colours
Further investigations will have to determine whether the above-mentioned visual reports are one and the same person or other persons connected with the offence.
Due to the possible exclamation of the unknown person, additional forces were deployed in the city centre of Saarbrücken directly in the areas of the Christmas market, Europagalerie as well as additional support forces of the federal police in the area of the main railway station as a precautionary measure.
The police are asking possible witnesses who can provide information on the course of events, in particular on the exclamation in question, to contact them by calling 0681/962-2133 or any other police station.
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Germany: Muslim migrant vehicular jihad mass murderer at Christmas market may have had explosives in car
11 dead in apparent terror attack in Magdeburg, Germany
At least 11 people were killed while 60 others suffered injuries when two cars drove into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, the media reported on Friday.
Police forces intervened on the scene and the market was closed, the reports said, citing eyewitnesses. It was further stated one driver has been apprehended by security forces.
The details and possible motives of the attack are currently under investigation.
https://breakingthenews.net/Article/11-dead-in-apparent-terror-attack-in-German-city/63270332
From Festive Cheer to Hamas Gear: Scandal at German Christmas Market
Not content with frequent planned attacks on Yuletide Christmas markets, it seems that Islamists are now infiltrating them. Along the usual seasonal fare, a festive gathering in Darmstadt, Hesse, organized by the Evangelical Michaelsgemeinde, offered a wide range of pro-Hamas and antisemitic products to its attendees.
Backed by a From the River to the Sea poster, activists sold a variety of radical-chic tat. This included:
- Keychains emblazoned with the Hamas logo
- Cloth bags featuring a map of Israel inscribed with the word Palestine
- Gingerbread hearts displaying political messages
- Items applying the Holocaust-inspired slogan ‘Never Again’ to the Israel-Hamas war sparked by the October 7th Islamist pogrom.
Campaigners also distributed flyers accusing the Jewish state of genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza.
According to Hesse’s antisemitism commissioner Uwe Becker of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the event was being misused to spread hatred of Jews:
Unbelievable, completely unacceptable and absolutely scandalous how a platform was infamously provided for Hamas propaganda and Holocaust relativization in Darmstadt.
The Jewish Community of Darmstadt organisation, backed by several allies, responded with a formal criminal complaint against the Michaelsgemeinde (Michael’s Community) parish and the “Darmstadt4Palestine” group.
The parish is affiliated to the larger Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau, which described the Christmas market as “scandalous”:
The desire to stand up for people in need—including in Gaza—is fundamentally legitimate. However, a general anti-Israel and delegitimizing choice of words and the sale of objects with symbols that are connected to the terrorist organization Hamas and the questioning of Israel’s right to exist are unacceptable to us.
Perhaps the only positive news about this particular event is that it wasn’t the target of an Islamist attack.
From Festive Cheer to Hamas Gear: Scandal at German Christmas Market ━ The European Conservative
‘Only the AfD can save Germany’, says Elon Musk
American tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has publicly backed the hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
In a reaction on X to a video by Naomi Seibt, a German political activist, Musk posted on December 20: “Only the AfD can save Germany.”
AfD co-leader Alice Weidel said she was pleased about his support and claimed the Left was destroying the country.
Seibt, a right-wing activist sometimes nicknamed “the anti-Greta” due to her opposition to climate activist Greta Thunberg, had uploaded a video on X. In it she claimed the Christian Democratic (CDU) politician Friedrich Merz had been declared presumptive future chancellor of Germany by many, disregarding the AfD.
She went on to point out that Merz was open to collaborating with the Greens, meaning, she said, Germany would largely continue its economic struggles.
Seibt added that Merz had slammed Libertarian Argentinian President Javier Milei and Musk himself over what Merz had called their free-market approach.
AfD MP Alice Weidel said in reaction to Musk’s comment: “Yes! You are perfectly right, Elon Musk!”
“Please also have a look into my interview on President Trump, how socialist Merkel ruined our country, how the Soviet European Union destroys the country’s economic backbone and malfunctioning Germany!,” she said.
Following that, the AfD party’s official page on X posted: “Clear words from Elon Musk.”
The party used the tech billionaire’s apparent endorsement to appeal for more members. “If you also want to save Germany, then join in and fill out the membership application right away!”
Others were less enthusiastic about the hard-right party.
Thorsten Alsleben, head of the The Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft lobby organisation, financed by employers, posted on X: “The AfD is on Putin’s leash.”
“They want to leave the EU, which would massively damage Germany as an export country (€200 billion in economic damage for Germany per year). Maybe you should find out what the AfD is planning.”
Julian Röpcke, a military analyst and senior editor with the newspaper Bild, claimed on X on December 20 that Musk’s post was a form of “interference in the German election campaign by a tech billionaire who uses algorithms to decide what is heard”.
“If the federal government and the democratic opposition do not respond with penalties, there will be no help for our eroding democracy.”
“Last but not least, Musk is not only spreading his own opinion but also election advertising for the AfD of this well-known AfD-affiliated activist [Seibt],” he said.
“This alone is forbidden to social networks under EU law by means of an algorithm push. He simply ignores it.”
Orbán offers political asylum to Polish opposition MP ‘persecuted by rainbow government’
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government has offered political asylum to Polish opposition Conservative (PiS) MP Marcin Romanowski. The PM said that he would offer such sanctuary to all Polish opposition members who felt themselves unjustly persecuted by Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s centre-left government.
Orban’s decision was disclosed to the media by Romanowski’s attorney Bartosz Lewandowski. He has been representing Romanowski in a case which has seen his client accused of embezzling state funds and participating in an “organised crime group”.
“The Hungarian government has accepted Marcin Romanowski’s asylum request as a result of actions taken by the Polish government and its prosecutors which were endangering his rights and freedoms”, Lewandowski wrote on platform X on December 19.
He added that “this is the first case of a Polish politician being granted international protection in another country since Poland regained independence in 1989.”
Commenting the decision, Balazs Orban, a key aide to the Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán, wrote on platform X that Romanowski had been arrested in Poland in the summer despite of him being covered by Council of Europe immunity, even though he was later freed by the courts.
Romanowski, a former deputy justice minister in the last PiS government, had his Polish parliamentary immunity removed by Tusk’s parliamentary majority. He disappeared as a Polish court decided on December 9 that he should be detained for three months to stop the opposition MP perverting the course of justice.
Following his disappearance the prosecutors obtained an international warrant for his arrest from a Polish court on December 18.
Romanowski, interviewed by Polish independent television wPolsce24 on December 19, said that he claimed political asylum so that he could speak publicly about both his own plight and the situation in Poland.
In his asylum application he claimed that the prosecution service in Poland had been illegally seized by the current government and that courts were under pressure to pursue political opponents of the present government.
“Representatives of opposition parties cannot be guaranteed a fair trial in current circumstances”, Romanowski said adding that, “I want to stand before independent prosecutors and judiciary to respond to the charges levelled against me.”
He further claimed that some of the evidence used against him had been fabricated in order to claim that he had acted without authorisation with regard to his decisions on the allocation of public funds.
Reacting to Hungary’s decision to grant Romanowski asylum, Polish foreign minister Radosław Sikorski called it an “action that is hostile towards Poland and to the values of the EU” and said Poland would soon be announcing what further action it planned to take.
However, Wiesław Szczepański, deputy interior minister, told commercial television news channel TVN24 that Poland would seek assistance from the European Commission and that the result was likely to be legal action against Hungary in the ECJ. This could lead to Hungary being heavily fined for “rule of law violations” for its refusal to hand over Romanowski to the Polish authorities.
Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán, interviewed by news portal mandiner.hu on December 19 said that Polish-Hungarian relations are “at a low ebb” since “Polish patriots have been replaced by a rainbow coalition which regards us Hungarian patriots as enemies.”
He slammed the Tusk government for violating the rule of law.
“Polish liberals have invented a new concept for the rule of law which is based on using it to destroy political opponents,” he said.
When asked whether Hungary would be willing to receive Polish political refugees Orbán confirmed.
“We will offer shelter to all who are facing political persecution in their own country”, he said.
Trans-Identified Male Killer Removed From Women’s Prison After Sexual Interactions With Female Inmate, Sues To Be Moved Back
A trans-identified male convicted of murdering his own parents is attempting to be get back into a women’s prison after being transferred out due to his sexual behavior with the female inmates. Amber FayeFox Kim, 35, whose birth name is Bryan, is suing the state’s Department of Corrections, claiming that being housed in a male prison is “cruel and unusual punishment.”
On June 21, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) transferred Kim out of the Washington Correctional Center for Women (WCCW) and to the Monroe Correctional Facility, a men’s prison. Kim had been detained at the WCCW for three and a half years, but was moved due to “safety concerns” after he reportedly had been observed having prohibited sexual interactions with a female inmate at WCCW.
According to The National Review, a prison guard witnessed Kim and his 25-year-old cellmate, Sincer-A Marie Nerton, “actively having sex” on the floor of the cell. The guard, who chose to remain anonymous when speaking with the outlet, filed a report in March detailing a firsthand account.
“Kim’s hands were on Nerton’s buttox [sic] in a spread open position while Kim’s erect penis was penetrating Nerton’s vagina,” the report read. “This is against MSU rules and policy. WAC-504-Engaging in a sex act with another person within the facility that is not otherwise included in these rules, except in an approved extended family visit.”
Now, the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington has announced their legal support for Kim in a bid to have him transferred back into a women’s prison while arguing that incarceration at a men’s detention center places him “at imminent risk of harm.” A press release issued by the ACLU on December 17 argues that the placement of Kim in Monroe, a prison for men, is “unconstitutional” and an example of transphobia.
“Ms. Kim has lived at the WCCW since 2021,” reads the ACLU statement issued by Attorney Adrien Leavitt, which refers to Kim with feminine pronouns. “On March 14, 2024, Ms. Kim and her cellmate, a cisgender woman, were caught having consensual sexual contact and were each found guilty of a 504 infraction for violating rules around sexual contact.”
The press release continued: “In its filing, the ACLU of Washington argues that the transfer violates Article I, Section 14 of the Washington Constitution, which prohibits cruel punishment … Transfer to a men’s prison exposes Ms. Kim to an imminent danger of violence, sexual assault, and harassment.”
An affidavit filed December 17 by the ACLU on Kim’s behalf contains testimony from the convicted killer. “I read the encyclopedia off and on for years. When I reached the letter ‘T,’ I found a word for the secret of me, ‘transsexual.’ I was in middle school,” Kim states.
“Throughout middle and high school, I went by the name ‘Kim.’ Although my friends and peers thought they were just calling me ‘Kim’ because it was my last name, I loved being called a female name and it helped me emotionally as I struggled with gender dysphoria,” he continues.
When Kim was incarcerated at the age of 18, he claims that he became “the target of constant bullying due to being effeminate” and other inmates perceiving him as being homosexual.
“I survived two attempted sexual assaults at Walla Walla. Each time, I was able to physically defend myself and ward off the attacks. I know that, had I not fought back, I would have been raped. I feel that I was targeted for these attempted sexual assaults because of my effeminate appearance.”
While incarcerated among the male prison population, Kim alleges that he “was heckled, cat-called, hit-on, objectified, sexualized, and stalked by men,” and that he received “a nearly constant stream of notes from other inmates” propositioning him for “anonymous sex in the showers.”
Kim says that he “became involved in a coalition supporting transgender prisoners” which assisted him in legally changing his name from Bryan to Amber Fayefox, adding, “My name change was used as a template for other incarcerated transgender people who wanted to change their names.”
Bizarrely, Kim adds his rationale for choosing the feminine name ‘Amber,’ saying, “I chose the name Amber because it is one of few precious stones that was once part of a living being; it preserves the past within it and yet is electrically alive. I was also draw to the name Amber because, in Greek mythology, the name Amber is equivalent to the name of the Greek goddess Electra… The name Amber reflects my true identity.”
The convicted murderer also claims that his 2021 transfer to the female prison estate was “a massive improvement” because he could “truly live and be seen as a woman.”
While held at WCCW, Kim began receiving electrolysis for facial hair removal on the taxpayer’s dime, and was placed on a waitlist for genital surgery. Kim claims he received genital surgery “shortly after” he was transferred back to a men’s prison after having engaged in sexual interactions with a female inmate at WCCW.
After Kim was transferred out of women’s prison WCCW at the end of June, The Huffington Post reported sympathetically on the case while referring to Kim with feminine pronouns and condemning the “transphobic rationale” that had seen Kim placed in a male correctional facility for fifteen years.
According to the outlet, Kim requested to see documentation authorizing his transfer during the relocation process. When his requests were denied, he refused to continue walking. As a result, guards were left no other option than to restrain and forcibly relocate Kim, where he was also placed in solitary confinement as a disciplinary action for refusing the transfer.
Immediately following Kim’s transfer to Monroe, he began a hunger strike in protest. After 17 days, he discontinued the hunger strike because, according to Kim, he was told he would be denied state-funded genital surgeries if he did not comply.
In November 2023, The Huffington Post had also portrayed Kim in a compassionate light in an article on trans-identifying male inmates – despite the fact that Kim has previously been described by a psychiatrist as suffering from antisocial personality disorder and having “no conscience.” In a 2022 psychiatrist report, Kim is quoted as saying that he was “no good at being a boy but not allowed to be a girl” during his childhood. Kim claimed that his parents had made multiple threats to kill him leading up to the murder, and that they had refused to let him move out.
“Kim fatally stabbed her father and killed her mother when she returned home,” read the Huffington Post article. “Kim, 18 at the time, was sentenced to die in prison. Her plans of coming out now seemed impossible.”
In 2008, at the age of 19, Kim was found guilty of aggravated first-degree murder in the stabbing death of his father, Richard Kim, and the bludgeoning and strangulation of his mother, Terri Kim reported The Spokesman-Review. The Kims were killed by their son at their home in Mount Spokane on December 5, 2006.
During his closing remarks at the trial, Chief Deputy Criminal Prosecutor Jack Driscoll told the jury Bryan Kim killed his parents because they had been charging him $1,000 for rent and were prepared to evict him from their home. “His parents had given him a deadline. They needed to die so he could have what he felt he was entitled go,” Driscoll told the jury.
Expert witness Dr. William Grant, of Eastern State Hospital, testified that he believed Kim had “no conscience” and diagnosed him as displaying symptoms of antisocial personality disorder, as evidenced in part by the violent outbursts which he had been prescribed medication to control.
The public defender’s expert, Dr. Michael Arambula, of San Antonio, argued that the medication had aggravated his condition and as such was not entirely responsible for the murders of his parents. Arambula said Kim suffered from depression at an unusually early age and hadn’t been properly treated.
Both psychiatrists agreed, however, that Kim was mentally ill. After brutally killing his parents, Kim attempted to clean up the crime scene, and had earlier that same day stolen his father’s debit card. Before the murders, Kim withdrew $1,000 from his father’s account and went shopping.
During court proceedings, Kim’s sister Jessica testified that her brother suffered from bipolar disorder. She also knew him to be “fascinated with Zip ties” and remarked that he “slept with a knife under his pillow”.
Similarly, a former girlfriend, Marina Ritchey, told the court of the “violent images” Kim said would flood his mind whenever he thought of his parents. Tensions were high in the home and disputes broke out frequently over Bryan’s refusal to take his medication to treat his bipolar disorder. According to Sgt. Dave Reagan of the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office, there was also a “history of assault behavior” between Kim and his parents leading up to the murders.
Last October, the Washington Department of Corrections reached a settlement with the nonprofit organization Disability Rights Washington that updated the prison system’s policies in regards to trans-identifying inmates.
“Patients with gender dysphoria will also be promptly evaluated for gender-affirming surgeries and procedures by a community expert in gender-affirming care and patients will have access to gender-affirming mental health care,” reads a press release announcing the decision.
According to the updated prison policy, an inmate’s “gender expression / transition status or gender identity … will be maintained as confidential and will only be disclosed within the Department on a need-to-know basis.” DOC Secretary Cheryl Strange hailed the “landmark agreement” as “a step in the right direction.”
Kim is not the first trans-identified male inmate caught having sexual contact with a female inmate at WCCW in recent years.
As previously exclusively reported by Reduxx, another trans-identified male transfer at WCCW sexually assaulted a female inmate in 2022. The woman, who was identified under the pseudonym “Mary,” came forward to tell Reduxx that violent sex offender Christopher Williams sexually abused her after he was moved into her cell.
The situation took a turn for the worse after Mary was prescribed sleeping medication to help with her anxiety at night.
“I’m not sure how many times he touched me because of my [meds]. But one day I came back to my cell from a work shift and he had two strap-on dildos and asked me to use them on him. I refused. That night, I was woken up to him touching me.”
While Kim’s transfer to the male estate is a first for the state of Washington, it is not an isolated case nationally. At least one other male inmate who has claimed to be a woman has been transferred out of a women’s prison – though unlike Kim, the decision was made to protect him, rather than to safeguard women.
Raequan ‘Rae’ Rollins was previously held at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women (EMCF) in New Jersey. In 2019 he was sentenced to four years in prison for a violent robbery incident, and after spending five months in a male facility, Rollins changed his legal gender marker to ‘female’ and was subsequently transferred to the Edna Mahan women’s estate in October of that year.
While detained at EMCF, Rollins assaulted several prison officers and sexually harassed female guards and inmates. Rollins would ultimately provoke one of the most violent prison riots at EMCF’s history in January of 2021, during which he was beaten, and six women were severely battered by guards.
After filing a lawsuit that year, Rollins was transferred out of the women’s prison for his safety and temporarily placed in the male estate at the New Jersey State Prison, before being transferred again to Pennsylvania’s State Correctional Institution at Muncy, a facility for adult female offenders.
Martin Daubney: Every Syrian “Refugee” Must Go Home. Deportations, Islam & Cousin Marriage
On tonight’s #NCFDeprogrammed, hosts Harrison Pitt and Connor Tomlinson are joined by journalist and GB News presenter Martin Daubney.