UK: Transgender Pedophile Referred To As A “Woman” In Court Complains About His “Distress” Over Being Sent To A Men’s Prison

A trans-identified pedophile has complained in court about the “distress” he has experienced by being held in a male prison after previously being turned loose following a child pornography conviction.

Reduxx reported in August 2023 how Dominic Carter, now going by “Sophie,” was convicted on three counts of making indecent images of children after being arrested in April of 2021. Despite two images on his phone coming under the classification of Category A, reserved for the most serious type of child sexual abuse content, Carter was spared an immediate prison sentence. He was instead handed 18 months, suspended on the condition of good behavior and compliance with release conditions.

During the trial, his attorney attempted to argue that he had a history of child abuse and alcoholism, in order to mitigate. It was only at the sentencing hearing when Carter revealed he identified as transgender, with the court immediately swapping to referring to him as “she/her” and “Miss.”

In serving his suspended sentence in the community, Carter had to adhere to various restrictions and conditions, including completing 60 hours of rehabilitation sessions, 120 hours of unpaid work, and registering as a sex offender. He is also subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for five years.

However, after conviction, Carter allegedly ended up living a “chaotic” lifestyle, including being made homeless. He was no longer staying at his registered address, and according to prosecutors, even faked being kidnapped to the police. He told police that he was being held hostage for £140, with police speaking to him throughout the day until they arrested him.

Since his conviction, he has appeared in court four times total, with prosecutor Hannah Douglas telling Southampton Crown Court that his breaches, including failing to comply with notification requirements, were “deliberate.” He pled guilty to three offenses in total, which also included failure to attend probation appointments.

Carter has been held in remand at HMP Winchester, a Category B male prison, which the defense told the court created “additional difficulties” for him. The “male environment” of the prison was creating “some distress and concern.” He couldn’t turn up to his probation appointments, the defense argued, because he had been kicked out of his parent’s house, and was “assaulted” while living on the streets. 

“That particular chaotic lifestyle made them disengage with probation,” said defense lead Eve Shelley. “This defendant has been remanded in custody since the first of April this year and has used the time in custody in a positive way. They are now no longer using illicit drugs. This defendant has expressed to me an understating that upon receiving a sentence of immediate custody… that it is an opportunity to use that time positively,” she added.

As a result, Judge Nicholas Rownland gave Carter six months in prison, saying he had “no choice” but to finally remand him to custody.

“I appreciate that your lifestyle is chaotic. That last thing I want to do is to have to send you to prison for these offences,” Judge Rowland concluded. “I have given full credit for your plea. I have much hope that now this slate is wiped clean that there won’t be another one in the future. You need to sort this out otherwise you will go to prison for longer and longer periods.”

After the initial 2023 prosecution, Standing for Women Hampshire told Reduxx they were concerned about the fact the court referred to him with female pronouns, something that also occurred in the most recent prosecution, leading to him likely being recorded on the crime statistics as a woman. 

“Once again we see the thing that never happens, a male sex offender claiming a female identity to mitigate his punishment. It’s beyond comprehension that the courts are falling for this nonsense,” the representative told Reduxx.

“We have serious concerns about how this man will be recorded, both in crime statistics and especially on the sex offender register. For the media to show such deference to the desires of a pedophile that they use his adopted name and she/her pronouns throughout their report is insulting and hugely disrespectful towards women and his very real victims,” she added.

https://reduxx.info/uk-transgender-pedophile-referred-to-as-a-woman-in-court-complains-about-his-distress-over-being-sent-to-a-mens-prison/

In the ‘Redo’ of the Canceled Romanian Presidential Election, Right-Winger Simion Wins the First Round of Voting: EXIT POLLS

Simion inherited much of the Georgescu vote as the name for the right wing.

It’s the Globalists’ biggest nightmare.

After all, the EU-liberal establishment forced Romania to cancel the first round of the presidential election that took place last November, proceeding to arrest and indict frontrunner Calin Georgescu, and finally banning him from running in today’s ‘redo’.

The last thing the European ‘powers that be’ were expecting was that another right-winger, George Simion, would sweep the race and come out on top – but that’s exactly what’s happening.

Reuters reported:

“Romanian hard-right candidate George Simion was ahead in a presidential election first round, followed by centrist candidate Crin Antonescu, an exit poll showed on Sunday.

A separate exit poll put Simion in first place and centrist candidates Antonescu and Nicusor Dan neck and neck in second.”

Simion (right) inherited much of the vote first given to Georgescu (left).

Simion, leader of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians, had come in fourth place in the annulled vote, but he inherited Georgescu’s votes and surged to first place.

He is now projected to win the first round of Romania’s presidential election, with more than 30 percent of the vote.

Politico reported:

“It was not immediately clear which candidate would place second, with establishment figurehead Crin Antonescu and centrist Bucharest Mayor Nicușor Dan battling to face Simion in the runoff. Former Prime Minister Victor Ponta is set to finish in fourth place, the exit polls say.

The exit poll projections are not official results, which are expected to start coming in from Romania’s election authority in the next few hours. The exit polls also do not reflect votes cast by the Romanian diaspora abroad.”

Romanians took to the streets ‘en masse’ to protest the cancelled elections, and have voted again on the right.

“The election results are being closely watched in Brussels and Washington, as Romania has become the latest battleground between the hard right and political establishment. Simion has unapologetically badged himself as a supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ movement.”

[…] Simion hoped to harness the election support Georgescu built last year by saying he’ll have a job for him, even possibly as prime minister.”

In the ‘Redo’ of the Canceled Romanian Presidential Election, Right-Winger Simion Wins the First Round of Voting: EXIT POLLS | The Gateway Pundit | by Paul Serran

German States Look to Ban AfD Members from Serving as Police or Civil Servants

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German police officers may face expulsion if they are found to be members of the populist AfD party after a spy agency classified the party as being “right-wing extremist”.

Leaders in the states of Hesse and Bavaria have announced that they will examine whether to ban civil servants, including members of the police, for being members of the anti-mass migration Alternative für Deutschland party, the Bild newspaper reports.

It comes after the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) intelligence agency on Friday officially classified the party as being a “right-wing extremist” organisation over its stance against the open borders agenda of the Berlin establishment and against mass migration from Muslim nations, which it found was “not compatible with the free democratic basic order” of Germany.

The move will allow the state to step up its surveillance of the AfD, including the use of informants and wiretapping of party communications. The government was already spying on the party after the BfV previously branded it as “suspected” extremists.

The upgrade in classification has been taken as justification by establishment politicians to go after AfD members who serve as government employees.

Hesse Interior Minister Roman Poseck, of the supposedly centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), said: “We will examine the extent to which the classification by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has an impact on AfD members and officials in the public service. Our employees in the police and administration must guarantee that they will support our free, democratic basic order at all times.”

Poseck said he would push for a nationwide ban on AfD members serving as police officers or civil servants at the meeting of state interior ministers next month in Bremerhaven.

This has been backed by the Minister-President of Bavaria and head of the Christian Social Union (CSU) party Markus Söder, who said: “We also have to examine what consequences this classification must have for the activities of AfD members in the public service.”

Others have called for the government to withdraw public financing for the AfD, which all parties with over half a per cent of support in Germany are entitled to. Currently, the AfD is the most popular party in the country, with around 26 per cent.

The chairman of the CDU state parliamentary group in Lower Saxony said: “The Conference of Interior Ministers should now carefully examine a request to withdraw party financing. I find it unbearable to finance right-wing extremist and anti-constitutional propaganda from tax revenue.”

There have also been suggestions that initiatives to ban the AfD outright should be undertaken in the wake of the BfV’s ruling, with Social Democrat Thuringia Interior Minister Georg Maier saying that a “prohibition procedure is the logical consequence of this decision.” A ban would require the approval of either the Bundestag or Bundesrat legislative bodies or the Federal Constitutional Court.

AfD co-leader Alice Weidel said that “anti-democratic interior ministers want to harass police officers with AfD membership under the pretext” of the BfV’s ruling, adding: “This is an attack on the rule of law and internal security. We stand in front of our police officers and will not abandon them!”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/05/04/german-states-look-to-ban-afd-members-from-serving-as-police-or-civil-servants

British actor and writers pile on to support the trans crowd—and JK Rowling’s not having it

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By Andrea Widburg

Over 400 British actors and actresses signed an open letter attacking the UK Supreme Court’s very narrow ruling holding that the Equality Act 2010 could not be stretched to understand the word “woman” to mean “transwoman.” JK Rowling has pushed back hard in a long tweet that’s worth reading in full.

Last month, the Supreme Court concluded that, when Parliament passed the Equality Act 2010, it used the word “woman” in its biological sense. It’s important to note that the Court did not say that there is no such thing as a “trans” person trapped in the “wrongly sexed” body, nor did it say that Parliament was forever barred from bowing to perverse sexual delusions in a new or updated Equality Act. It said only that, as written, “woman” referred to biological women.

The narrow upshot of this narrow ruling was that a Scottish law about “Gender Representation on Public Boards” couldn’t be read to mean that so-called “trans women” got to shoehorn themselves into the act. And of course, the broader upshot was that, as to anything affected by the Equality Act 2010, “woman” means what it has always meant: A person whose genetic makeup means she belongs to a class of people biologically capable of naturally gestating a baby.

While it’s possible that Parliament will, in fact, update the Equality Act to redefine “woman” to include mentally ill people and sexual perverts, that may not be a popular move with the British people. For now, woman probably does mean woman in the UK, and that’s got the film crowd really, really upset.

To that end, around 400 people in the UK’s film community got together and published an open letter (which followed on the heels of an open letter in the UK’s writers’ community) to protest the Supreme Court’s dastardly decision interpreting a word according to the meaning it’s had since humankind mastered language.

You can read the letter here, but you already know what it says. “Lived reality and threatens the safety”…”exposes trans people to embarrassment and harassment”…”negative consequences for all women”…”harm that trans and gender nonconforming people face”…blah, blah, blah.

There are apparently some well-known names on the letter, but the only one I recognized was Eddie Redmayne (who played someone “trans” in a movie). According to the Daily Mail, Paapa Essiedu, who will play Severus Snape in a new Harry Potter series, signed on, but everyone else was unknown to me.

Speaking of Essiedu, one thing that stands out for someone who grew up watching Masterpiece Theater is how British entertainers’ names have changed. While the credits on a British product used to have names that had been common in the UK for centuries (sturdy English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish names), an inordinate number of names on this list have manifestly African, Indian, and Middle Eastern origins.

There are a couple of things to understand about the “we love ‘trans’ people” pile-on. First, the entertainment industry is disproportionately populated with non-heterosexuals. In other words, while most people know very few homosexuals and have never met someone claiming to be “trans,” the entertainment types really do believe that half or more of the world is “on the spectrum.” Listen to Cynthia Nixon, herself a lesbian.

This is not normal for most of us, but it’s normal for them.

Second, unlike most jobs where productivity means creating something, in the entertainment industry, the metric of success is popularity. This is a world where “being in with the In Crowd” is the only thing that ultimately matters. Therefore, they are lemmings who are virtually incapable of independent thought.

JK Rowling is different. She’s a leftist, but she supports Israel, and she believes in biological reality. (I long ago suspected she was committed to Truth.) For that reason, Rowling took up the fight of defending women against so-called “trans women.”

For her principled rejection of misogynistic delusion, Rowling has been completely reviled, subject to violent threats, and seen those whom she made famous turn on her. The execrable Emma Watson (whose “resting b**ch face” is a window into her soul, and who is all in on Hamas) used her staggeringly pretentious, limousine-leftist Instagram page to deliver a singularly nasty message to JK Rowling:

Rowling, however, is unimpressed by this posturing. Instead, in response to all the open letters and hysteria from Britain’s leftist intelligentsia and wannabes, she delivered a point-by-point refutation of the whole “trans” lie as it affects culture and women. Her tweet opens with her calling the letters’ signatories “insane” and bullies, and closes by asking whether they’ll ever feel shame for the true harm they’re causing to actual women and children:

(I’ve embedded Rowling’s entire tweet at the end of this post.)

JK Rowling is one of the most popular writers in Western history. Her principled attack on the lemmings in the entertainment industry, many of whom she made famous, will last long after their infantile screams of “lived experience” and “fascism” have faded away.

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JK Rowlings full tweet

In light of recent open letters from academia and the arts criticising the UK’s Supreme Court ruling on sex-based rights, it’s possibly worth remembering that nobody sane believes, or has ever believed, that humans can change sex, or that binary sex isn’t a material fact. These letters do nothing but remind us of what we know only too well: that pretending to believe these things has become an elitist badge of virtue.

I often wonder whether the signatories of such letters have to quieten their consciences before publicly boosting a movement intent on removing women’s and girls’ rights, which bullies gay people who admit openly they don’t want opposite sex partners, and campaigns for the continued sterilisation of vulnerable and troubled kids. Do they feel any qualms at all while chanting the foundational lie of their religion: Trans Women are Women, Trans Men are Men?

I have no idea. All I know for sure is that it’s a complete waste of time telling a gender activist that their favourite slogan is self-contradictory nonsense, because the lie is the whole point. They’re not repeating it because it’s true – they know full well it’s not true – but because they believe they can make it true, sort of, if they force everyone else to agree. The foundational lie functions as both catechism and crucifix: the set form of words that obviates the tedious necessity of coming up with your own explanation of why you’re one of the Godly, and an exorcist’s weapon which will defeat demonic facts and reason, and promote the advance of righteous pseudoscience and sophistry.

Some argue that signatories of these sorts of letters are motivated by fear: fear for their careers, of course, but also fear of their co-religionists, who include angry, narcissistic men who threaten and sometimes enact violence on non-believers; back-stabbing colleagues ever ready to report wrongthink; the online shamers and doxxers and rape threateners, and, of course, the influential zealots in the upper echelons of liberal professions (though we can quibble whether they’re actually liberal at all, given the draconian authoritarianism that seems to have engulfed so many). Gender ideology could give medieval Catholicism a run for its money when it comes to punishing heretics, so isn’t it common sense to keep your head down and recite your Hail Mulvaneys?

But before we start feeling too sorry for any cowed and fearful TWAWites who’re TERFy on the sly, let’s not forget what a high proportion of them have willingly snatched up pitchforks and torches to join the inquisitional purges. Call me lacking in proper womanly sympathy, but I find the harm they’ve enabled and in some cases directly championed or funded – the hounding and shaming of vulnerable women, the forced loss of livelihoods, the unregulated medical experiment on minors – tends to dry up my tears at source.

History is littered with the debris of irrational and harmful belief systems that once seemed unassailable. As Orwell said, ‘Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.’ Gender ideology may have embedded itself deeply into our institutions, where it’s been imposed, top-down, on the supposedly unenlightened, but it is not invulnerable.

Court losses are starting to stack up. The condescension, overreach, entitlement and aggression of gender activists is eroding public support daily. Women are fighting back and winning significant victories. Sporting bodies have miraculously awoken from their slumber and remembered that males tend to be larger, stronger and faster than females. Parts of the medical establishment are questioning cutting healthy breasts off teenaged girls is really the best way to fix their mental health problems.

One seemingly harmless little white lie – Trans Women are Women, Trans Men are Men – uttered in most cases without any real thought at all, and a few short years later, people who think of themselves as supremely virtuous are typing ‘yes, rapists’ pronouns are absolutely the hill I’ll die on,’ rubbing shoulders with those who call for women to be hanged and decapitated for wanting all-female rape crisis centres, and furiously denying clear and mounting evidence of the greatest medical scandal in a century.

I wonder if they ever ask themselves how they got here, and I wonder whether any of them will ever feel shame.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/british_actor_and_writers_pile_on_to_support_the_trans_crowd_and_jk_rowling_s_not_having_it.html

‘My Voice, My Choice’, or a Subterfuge to Circumvent National Legislation

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On April 24, 2025, a European citizens’ initiative concluded its collection of signatures. Under the name ‘My Voice, My Choice’, this group of European women is asking the EU institutions to fund “abortion tourism”, enabling women to undergo abortions in countries that are more permissive than their own. As a law professor, I reject this way of using European institutions to circumvent national law.  The European Union is based on the Treaties which provide that certain areas remain within the exclusive jurisdiction of the member states; since the EU remains an organization composed of sovereign states. Our personal freedoms as citizens, added together, make up the freedom of our countries to adopt the laws they feel are right. And the founders of Europe were careful to distinguish between what falls within the remit of the Union and what remains within the sovereignty of each nation 

As a former European Commissioner for Health, I’m well placed to know that health is precisely a matter for the Member States: indeed, the Union has always been keen to respect the profoundly sensitive ethical dimension associated with health issues. To stealthily delegate such delicate matters to EU institutions would be to leave room for an abuse of power: we should be vigilant against administrative machines that rob us of our freedom to think and act! In the case of ‘My Voice My Choice’, the Commission could not accede to this request without seriously infringing on the freedoms of EU citizens. Already, by registering an initiative that encourages it to “do everything in its power” to exceed its competences, the Commission has infringed on the subsidiarity principle. You can’t play with the fundamental principles of European law without setting a precedent with far-reaching consequences. But the disloyalty lies above all in the subterfuge proposed to the Commission: to set up a mechanism enabling citizens to circumvent their national legislation by obtaining in another country what is illegal in their own, and to financially support this “solidarity effort”. The ruse is clever and skillfully presented: with no concrete proposal for a financing mechanism, the Commission has been able to register this initiative without rejecting it on the grounds of illegality.

‘Our initiative does not aim to harmonize or interfere with the laws and regulations of the Member States but rather falls within the EU’s competence to support’, add the signatories of this initiative. Supporting what, and who? European citizens who wish to derogate from the laws legitimately established by their respective national representations? How could this be anything other than interference with Member States’ legislation? It would be unacceptable for the European Union to circumvent, undermine and thwart national political choices in this way. The Commission cannot contradict head-on the legitimate choices of each Member State in the highly sensitive area of protecting unborn human life.

While abortion falls within the exclusive remit of the Member States, the legal protection of the dignity, right to life, and integrity of every human being from conception falls within the EU’s remit. To be consistent in the exercise of its competences, the EU should put an end to European funding of activities that involve the destruction of human embryos, particularly in the fields of research, development aid and public health. This was the demand of 1.9 million European citizens united in 2014 by the One of Us citizens’ initiative. This initiative remains unrivalled, with a budget five times smaller than the ‘My Voice My Choice’ initiative. The Commission did not follow up… At a time when it is being presented with a diametrically opposed and manifestly illegal initiative, it would be a good idea for it to remember this request—and the choices made by all European citizens in defining its competences.

More than 50 leading personalities, including the chairmen of the NGOs who are members of One of Us all across Europe, politicians, and doctors who work day by day to support women dealing with difficulties in maternity, have signed our petition for life and freedom, opposing an initiative that is diametrically opposed to the EU Treaties. 

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/my-voice-my-choice-or-a-subterfuge-to-circumvent-national-legislation/

Women are Fighting Back Against Mass Immigration With New “Women’s Safety Initiative” Group

Mass immigration is the biggest threat women face today. Journalist Anna McGovern joins us to tell us about the Women’s Safety Initiative, of which she is Deputy Director. The WSI was set up to support victims and empower women to speak out about the daily abuse and harassment that they suffer. Support the WSI via Go Fund Me: https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-womens… Visit the WSI website: https://womensafety.uk/

France: Left-wing MP Ismaël Boudjekada arrested for glorifying terrorism

Ismaël Boudjekada, an opposition politician in Grand-Charmont (Doubs), who is on the Union citoyenne de gauche et écologistes (Left Citizens’ Union and Environmentalists) list, was arrested by border police at Basel-Mulhouse international airport at around 10am this morning, Europe 1 reports.

The councillor, who was taken into police custody for glorifying terrorism, will be presented to the national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office later today.
Boudjekada, a vehement supporter of the Palestinian movement, had already been sentenced to a fine of 20,000 euros and three years of ineligibility in 2024 for glorifying terrorism after calling Hamas a “resistance movement” two days after the attacks in Israel on October 7, 2023.
He had relapsed when, in October 2024, he hailed Yahya Sinouar, the Hamas leader considered to be the architect of the October 7 attacks, as a ‘hero’ shortly after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. These statements led to several manhunt warrants.

That same month, he posted a message on X aimed directly at the Minister of the Interior: “Whether the coward Bruno Retailleau likes it or not, there are many of us […] who do not condemn October 7 and stick by it. So build jails fast, because we risk many of us being fed, housed and pampered at the princess’s expense.”

Doubs : l’élu de gauche Ismaël Boudjekada interpellé pour apologie du terrorisme – Valeurs actuelles

NETHERLANDS: Trans-Identified Male Inmate in Women’s Prison Brutally Assaults Female Employee

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A trans-identified male incarcerated in a women’s prison in the Netherlands set fire to his cell before brutally beating a female prison guard. The victim has been described as having sustained “serious” injuries and has been hospitalized. The incident, which took place at Ter Peel prison for women, was first reported by De Telegraaf, and the outlet confirmed the assault with the Dutch Prison and Probation Service (DJI).

“A fire broke out in the cell of a detainee in the Ter Peel penitentiary institution this morning,” a spokeswoman told the newspaper. “After the fire and while rendering aid, an employee was suddenly attacked by this violent inmate and seriously injured.”

The prison guard was reportedly taken away from the scene via ambulance, and prison officials confirmed that her “teeth were knocked out of her mouth.”

The Dutch Prison and Probation Service refused to provide additional information about the trans-identified male inmate, and told the press: “We do not make any statements about individual prisoners. In the prison system, placement is in principle based on the gender stated in the passport. If there is reason to do so, this can be deviated from. This is always done on a customized basis, and is adjusted when necessary.”

A formal report has been lodged, with both law enforcement and prison officials investigating the circumstances leading up to the violent attack. Meanwhile, the trans-identified male has been transferred to another prison which, while unnamed, is said to have facilities that are more appropriate for aggressive inmates. Because the prisoner has not been identified, it is unclear whether the criminal has been relocated to another women’s prison or transferred into a men’s prison.

Authorities in the Netherlands have been secretive about the transfer of trans-identified male convicts into women’s prisons, often protecting their identities.

Last month Reduxx became aware that a sadistic pedophile who was discovered to be hoarding over 8 million child sexual abuse files had declared a transgender status. The man, whose name was not released to the public, had gathered a collection of sickening abuse images so expansive and heinous that investigators stopped cataloguing the files at about the 2 million mark – less than halfway through the total.

According to prosecutors, Jan had gained a notoriety amongst the pedophile community for sharing his extensive collection with others  online, which led to him receiving “prestige” from fellow predators. He also had a “manual” in his possession instructing men on how to have “safe and harmless sex” with a child.

“I have seen a lot of child pornography in my profession, but this is the most disgusting child and animal pornography that exists,” the prosecutor said during the trial.

Press declined to name the man, who Reduxx has referred to as ‘Jan.’ During the hearing on February 20, the court heard that Jan “is in transition and wants to be addressed as a woman.”

Following his conviction, the disturbed predator was transferred to one of three prisons for women in the nation: Ter Peel in Limburg, Nieuwersluis (Utrecht) and Zwolle. ‘Jan’ was sent to Zwolle, the only mixed-sex facility out of the three.

Once again, a spokesperson for the Dutch Prison and Probation Service (DJI) stated that the authoritative body will “never comment on the situation of individual prisoners.” Representative Charlotte Hees told the press: “Placement in the prison system takes place on the basis of the gender stated in the passport,” Hees explained. “Deviation is possible if there is reason to do so, for example for the safety of detainees. This is always custom work and is determined on the basis of a careful assessment and adjusted when necessary.”

In 2023, news reports surfaced which described how a Chilean national convicted of committing a brutal murder was placed in a women’s prison even in advance of his final hearings. “Daniela D” had stabbed a man 214 times, targeting his eyes, ears, and genitals.

Daniela D. had been residing illegally in the Netherlands since February 2022, where he was involved in the sex industry. The court heard that he came from a broken home and that he had been “bullied” as a youth by peers who did not accept his gender identity.

Despite having not undergone any form of genital surgery, Daniela was detained in Ter Peel women’s prison.

https://reduxx.info/netherlands-trans-identified-male-inmate-in-womens-prison-brutally-assaults-female-employee/

China and Qatar bought America’s woke and antisemitic universities

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An executive order from Donald Trump requires transparency into foreign funding in American academic institutions to stop Chinese and Islamic influence. But for liberals and woke people, it is Trump who threatens the independence of American universities.

How much money are we talking about?

The Free Press reveals it.

According to a report from the Network Contagion Research Institute, shared exclusively with the Free Press, foreign donors have given U.S. universities the same amount in the last four years as they had in the previous 40. The study shows an explosion in foreign funding for American schools between 2021 and 2024, with $29 billion during that period.

Qatar and China are among the main sources of funding.

That $29 billion is more than double the total for the previous four years and represents half of the estimated $57.97 billion in all foreign funding since 1986, when the U.S. government began tracking it.

“The floodgates have opened during the Biden era,” said Joel Finkelstein, founder of the Network Contagion Research Institute. “This is not just a financial issue, it’s a national security crisis. Hostile powers are gaining influence on American campuses on an industrial scale.”

Beijing and Doha saw a huge opportunity during Black Lives Matter riots and the rise of the woke.

Qatar has been the largest source of foreign donations to U.S. universities since research began in 1986, with $6.3 billion coming from the Gulf country. Qatari donations have increased significantly over the past four years. Nearly a third of Qatar’s donations, more than $2 billion, were given between 2021 and 2024.

The second-largest source of foreign funding is China. Chinese funding amounts to $5.6 billion and, like Qatar, Chinese donations have increased significantly over the past four years, with $2.3 billion from 2021 to 2024. China is the largest source of foreign donations to some of America’s most prestigious universities, including Harvard, Columbia and Stanford.

Harvard received the most funding from foreign donors ($3.2 billion), followed by Cornell and Carnegie Mellon (each receiving $2.8 billion). “If ignorance is an epidemic, Harvard is Wuhan.” The lapidary sentence was made by the great comedian Bill Maher, after the support of the students of the famous Boston university for Hamas and the refusal of the university’s leaders to condemn the pogrom of October 7.

$13 billion from Arab regimes to American universities. Being surprised by the explosion of anti-Semitism and Islamism in the classrooms is at the very least ridiculous.

The other surprise is the $120 million that China and Qatar have given to Julliard, the world-renowned performing arts conservatory. For a school that trains Broadway actors and pianists, that’s an absolute stunner. And it raises a fundamental question: Why Juilliard?

Funding universities is one of the most effective ways for foreign governments to shape Western discourse. According to the 2025 Global Soft Power Index, China just overtook the United Kingdom to take second place globally in measuring global influence in culture and heritage, arts, and entertainment.

If China can establish its influence in a major laboratory for future Hollywood stars, directors and playwrights, it can shape the industry well before the projects reach the script stage. By funding programs, faculty, and scholarships, China ensures that tomorrow’s most influential artists are nurtured in an ideological framework favorable to Beijing.

Prevention, as they say, is better than cure.

China is not the only foreign power to gain influence over Western culture. Qatar has also made significant progress. The emir has long understood that culture and power go hand in hand. His investments are deliberate instruments of influence. Let us recall the case of Edwy Plenel, the former editor-in-chief of Le Monde who founded the super news site Mediapart, a militant intellectual in favor of political Islam. His book, “For Muslims,” was distributed in Arabic by the Qatari Ministry of Culture. Paid for and distributed.

Ruth Wisse writes in the Wall Street Journal that Harvard has become an “Islamist outpost”.

So how can we not think of Anthony Blunt, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby, Guy Burgess and John Cairncross, the “Cambridge Five”, the network of English spies at the service of the Soviet Union? Kim Philby will die in exile in the Soviet Union, without ever regretting his betrayal: “I spent two years studying communism. It was only at the end of my stay at Cambridge that I made the final decision to dedicate my life to communism”.

Western universities, in the opposition between the democratic West and the totalitarian East, have always sided with the latter. Oxford and Cambridge were full of Moscow spies with long British coats, among the professors obviously, while in Paris the professors sympathized with the communists. And this well before 1968, when the universities became the breeding ground for Maoism (as they are today for Hamas).

The Englishman Anthony Glees has revealed the “grey area” of the German terrorist group Baader-Meinhof: “In 1977, the Federal Criminal Police Office of West Germany had a list of terrorists with the names of 4.7 million sympathizers, many of whom were university students”.

In France, Gallimard has just published “Stalin’s Conscience”, a great book of six hundred pages on Alexandre Kojève, the Russian philosopher who shaped the French intelligentsia, naturalized French in 1937, a cult professor of the philosophical and literary generation that dominated the post-war period: Raymond Aron, Georges Bataille, Raymond Queneau, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Eric Weil, Pierre Klossowski, André Breton, Jacques Lacan and others gathered in a small room at the Sorbonne every Monday at 5:30 PM to hear from Kojève, who was not only an agent of the Kremlin in Paris, but also an architect of the EU.

Kojève, grandson of Wassily Kandinsky, was also a high-ranking “homme d’influence” who chose the governance of the economy and the trade sector as his field of action. One of the fathers of the European Union, Kojève had entered the French Ministry of Finance in 1948, was secretary of the OECD (Organization for European Economic Cooperation), advisor to the French government in the creation of the ECSC, the first embryo of the EEC, and negotiator of world trade agreements such as the GATT (General Agreement for Tariffs and Trade). With his ideas and his dialectic methods he shaped the minds and strategies of the French high administration.

But there is a big difference: during Kojève’s Cold War, neither Moscow nor Beijing had the means and the ability to finance our universities, they had to recruit sympathizers from among students and professors, while today from Doha to Beijing there is a river of money pouring into our universities and public administration. It will always be easier to pay them than to convince them.

The worm has always been in the fruit: the idea, enclosed in high culture, that the West deserves to be swept away.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/407708

In Pursuit of the Lost Right-Winger

Bruno Retailleau. Screengrab youtube

In a fortnight, elections will be held for the presidency of the right-wing Les Républicains (LR) party. The stakes are high. At a time when French politics resembles a field of ruins, the man who manages to take the reins of what was once the leading party of the French Right can dream of winning the next presidential election, taking advantage of the collapse of Macronism and the legal setbacks of the Rassemblement National (RN). However, the challenge is daunting: how to convince an electorate jaded by decades of political inefficiency and compromises with the establishment?

With two weeks to go before the vote, the party claims just over 115,000 members—a solid base for the elected president to enjoy a minimum of legitimacy. Two men—with different strengths and backgrounds—are vying for the position.

Bruno Retailleau has the prestige of having been the leader of Les Républicains senators. Now Minister of the Interior, he is working tirelessly to try to reverse the lax migration policy that has prevailed in France for decades and is not afraid to adopt positions previously held exclusively by the RN.

Laurent Wauquiez is a well-established local figure but has never really managed to break through at the national level. He has already served in several right-wing governments in the past, but has not left a lasting impression. As head of the Rhône-Alpes region, he enjoys considerable esteem, but this does not extend beyond the borders of his stronghold. His far-fetched proposal a few weeks ago to send OQTF (people with an obligation to leave French territory) to the island of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon was met with criticism and sarcasm, first and foremost from Retailleau. Internally, however, Wauquiez says he is very confident of his chances of success: he is playing the independence card because, unlike his rival, he is not part of a government alongside Macronists. 

According to the Odoxa polling institute, “in the opinion polls, the match is completely over, in favour of the interior minister.” Among party members, the balance is more complex to analyse. 

Bruno Retailleau is also the favourite of the moderate right-wing media, such as Valeurs Actuelles, which recently ran the headline “What if it were him?” and Le Figaro. But this popularity is deceptive: he has a personality that inspires real enthusiasm only among a handful of notables attached to the respectability of a party that is the heir to Gaullism but which for decades has been drifting gently from the right towards a soft and chewy centre with no real energy.

In 2007, Sarkozy succeeded in hijacking the national right-wing electorate with a firm speech to come to power. This electorate was then betrayed by the policy of opening up to the left.

Today, caution is the order of the day: Retailleau and Wauquiez are the symbolic heirs of Sarkozy. Even if times have changed and the state of the country has deteriorated, calling for ever more powerful remedies, their methods remain the same, and right-wing voters are now wary of superficial firmness. Neither is sending a clear signal about their willingness to finally break the cordon sanitaire that is preventing any political implementation of a common programme for the right—as is happening in Austria and Germany.

At the national level, the outlook is far from bright: the minister of the interior seems unable at this stage to qualify for the second round of the presidential election, as he would only garner 9.5% to 10% of the vote.

The minister’s bombastic statements and his attempts to flex his muscles on sensitive issues that we have reported on—state medical aid, the Franco-Algerian diplomatic conflict—have so far failed to produce any truly convincing results. By what miracle could he manage to expand the party’s base of 7 to 9% of die-hard supporters, who remain loyal from election to election, without ever convincing other French people that, in the current crisis, there is any point in trying to entrust him with power once again?

The reality of the presidential election to be held in spring 2027 is cruel: even if Retailleau’s and Wauquiez’s party manages to make a spectacular comeback, it seems totally illusory that it will qualify for the second round.

And yet, in politics, anything is possible, because the current configuration of French political life could hold many surprises. The RN is entering the race with the serious handicap of Marine Le Pen’s conviction. The road ahead is still long and fraught with obstacles. The appeal process launched by Le Pen must be completed and ruled in her favour: nothing is certain. And even under these conditions, the presidential campaign will have begun without her. As for Jordan Bardella, he has a certain appeal, but it is far from sufficient to hope to win the presidential election, which will be difficult and filled with challenges. In this battle, LR’s experience in government remains an asset among a significant portion of the electorate who, fed on media warnings about the risks to democracy, are hesitant to take the plunge and elect an RN president.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/analysis/in-pursuit-of-the-lost-right-winger/