German Evangelical Church bans White children from workshop on being ‘courageous and strong’ at national congress

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The German Evangelical Church (EKD) is being accused of racism after banning White children from attending a workshop on being “courageous and strong” during its Church Congress in Hanover on Wednesday. The Church is now being questioned about its commitment to anti-racist and universalist principles.

The “Become Courage and Strong” workshop was only open to Black, indigenous and children of color. However, while ethnic Germans and ethnic Europeans are indigenous to Germany and Europe, the designation did not apply to them, only indigenous people from other continents.

“This offer is aimed exclusively at Black, Indigenous and children of color,” reads the program website.

The Church’s official program featured the seminar as a “protected space where children can sing or beatbox.” The church program for the day states children who attend will “develop strengths and strategies for dealing with experiences of racism.”

The Church is not only being racist towards White children with its program, but the logic of its program is that White people cannot experience racism, a complete contradiction of the universalist principles taught in the Bible.

At the congress, former Chancellor Angela Merkel also delivered a speech about climate and migration on Wednesday.

Workshop on ‘Critical Whiteness’

It did not end there. In fact, there was a workshop on “Critical Whiteness” where only White people were allowed to attend, namely White adults “who are not affected by racism.”

However, there is also a workshop that immigrants are not allowed to participate in called “Critical Whiteness.” There, white adults “who are not affected by racism” are supposed to critically examine their perceived privileges. This also implies that White people are not affected by racism and the only group that needs to address the issue of racism.

What is clear from the reporting of Remix News and others is that racism against White people is alive and well, even from their own government.

In France, White politicians have been forced to resign out of anti-White hatred.

Remix News itself was even suspended from TikTok for showcasing a video that shows extreme anti-White racism, including labeling White people pigs.

The Church features a huge number of workshops on racism, climate change, and workshops “against the right.” There is an “interactive exhibition on anti-Muslim racism” as well as 24 other workshops and events on racism. Another 34 on climate change are featured and 13 in the “fight against the right.”

Meanwhile, Islamic groups continue to slaughter Christians in the Middle East in large numbers, including the ongoing massacre of Christians in Syria, which the European Parliament published a statement on, along with top politicians across the continent. However, what is going on in Syria is just one element of a long and ongoing story of ethnic and religious cleansing in the Middle East, which has seen its share of Christians plummet over the last two centuries, often through violent displacement. Much of this violence is also directed at Christians in Europe, including Church arson attacks and desecration.

However, the Church’s narrative about oppressed Muslims and other minority groups would be shattered by addressing these widespread and highly disturbing developments. Those who write about such subjects even face their books being banned, despite the liberal principles promoted by the West.

However, the evangelical church refuses to address the persecution of Christians with any kind of workshop or event. Often, Muslims and other religious groups and governments are responsible for this persecution, and as Remix News has reported in recent years, there are now a record number of Christians being persecuted.

The German Evangelical Church (EKD) is being accused of racism after banning White children from attending a workshop on being “courageous and strong” during its Church Congress in Hanover on Wednesday. The Church is now being questioned about its commitment to anti-racist and universalist principles.

The “Become Courage and Strong” workshop was only open to Black, indigenous and children of color. However, while ethnic Germans and ethnic Europeans are indigenous to Germany and Europe, the designation did not apply to them, only indigenous people from other continents.

“This offer is aimed exclusively at Black, Indigenous and children of color,” reads the program website.

The Church’s official program featured the seminar as a “protected space where children can sing or beatbox.” The church program for the day states children who attend will “develop strengths and strategies for dealing with experiences of racism.”

The Church is not only being racist towards White children with its program, but the logic of its program is that White people cannot experience racism, a complete contradiction of the universalist principles taught in the Bible.

At the congress, former Chancellor Angela Merkel also delivered a speech about climate and migration on Wednesday.

The racist and anti-White workshop programs come at a time when the Evangelical Church in Germany is losing record numbers of members. In 2023, the Church lost nearly 600,000 people.

The Catholic Church is far from better, with the Church growing more political by the year. Recently, a German priest fired an altar boy and called him a “Nazi” for associating with the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.

https://rmx.news/article/german-evangelical-church-bans-white-children-from-workshop-on-being-courageous-and-strong-at-national-congress/

Great Britain downgraded to mediocre Britain

By J.B. Shurk

There is a story picking up steam in the United Kingdom right now about an elite commando from the Royal Marines being detained as a suspected terrorist.  Was he a mole working for a foreign adversary?  No.  Was he using his position to undermine national security?  Absolutely not.  

In fact, just the opposite is true.  Worried that woke D-I-E policies are creating an “unrecognizable, weak, and compromised version of the corps” by lowering performance standards for women in combat, the unidentified commando circulated a letter and petition among his peers asking for military chiefs to ditch politically correct initiatives and return the Marines to the standards of excellence critical for mission success.  A thousand of his fellow commandos reportedly backed the petition, and the commando now in hot water (the suspected “terrorist”) asserts that the “vast majority” of the Royal Marines feel the same way.

Instead of listening to its warriors, the Ministry of Defense (or “Defence” — remember that British spelling proves that we’re two countries separated by a common language) first tried to blame the petition on “Russian bots” (how original!).  Then it conducted a “full-on witch hunt,” threatening Marines with imprisonment until the letter’s author came forward.  Once he did so, the commando was flown to London, interrogated for hours, and treated as a serious security threat.  

Interrogators informed him that his concerns would “distress” female recruits, that he should be “concerned” about his career, and that he “should comply” for his own sake and that of his family.  After returning to his duties, counter-terrorism officers later detained the commando in Scotland, allegedly because of his “extreme far-Right politics.”  That certainly smells like a government-orchestrated character assassination to me!

This incident stinks to high heaven and serves as another stark warning that the U.K. is descending into utter madness.  When elite warriors express grave concerns about their country’s military readiness, competent leaders remedy problems before they turn into catastrophes.  They do not undermine those elite warriors by smearing their reputations and treating them as terrorists.  That is a catastrophe in itself.  

As the unnamed commando says, there is a “very important reason” that combat units have “high standards”: to keep them “from being killed in dangerous situations when we go to war.”  When physical fitness and other performance standards are lowered for political reasons, warriors die and national security disintegrates.  Wokeism, political correctness, and obsessions over D-I-E special treatment endanger the lives of both soldiers and the civilians they protect.

Only in the West does this nonsense take root.  Our most likely enemies on future battlefields are not sabotaging their fighting forces by weakening standards and protecting the feelings of less lethal social groups.  Russia is not indoctrinating its military with “trans” ideology.  China is not watering down its special operations forces with unqualified but politically desirable recruits.  They mean to produce exceptional warriors.  And when exceptional warriors engage in combat with D-I-E pretenders, politically correct militaries lose fast.

Perhaps the U.K. wants to lose.  I know this: It is a shell of its former self.  The home of the Magna Carta is no longer a home for liberty or political rights.  Every day, local constables harass citizens for posting unapproved opinions on social media.  The British Establishment ignores the crimes of Islamic migrants but wastes no time in policing the online discussions of native Brits who point out that mass immigration is destroying their country.  Rapists, drug-dealers, and murderers with foreign names and the right skin color seem to be part of a protected class.  Their victims are not so fortunate.

Can a country that replaces its native population with foreigners and rejects its historic culture still be considered a country?  I have my doubts.  If I move enough strangers into my home, pretty soon it’s not my home; it belongs to them.  Eventually it is I who will be told to leave.  And unlike the British Establishment that bends over backwards to welcome foreigners, once foreigners become the majority, the native British minority will not likely be treated so kindly.

Following a trend that has accelerated this century, “Muhammad” officially became the U.K.’s most popular baby name two years ago.  Perhaps that is why King Charles III chose to celebrate Easter by praising Islam.  As “Supreme Governor” of the Church of England and “Defender of the Faith,” the king’s Resurrection Sunday message seemed terribly odd.  Equally odd was his decision to ignore Palm Sunday and celebrate a Sikh holiday instead.  Do you suppose that King Charles III expects native Christians to soon be severely outnumbered in their own country?

That raises the question: how long can the House of Windsor expect to reign once the whole country is named “Muhammad”?  Surely those who have slowly conquered the United Kingdom will prefer to anoint a more appropriate king than the heir apparent, Prince William.  Just as Prince Harry serves as little more than a designer handbag for Meghan Markle, the remaining members of the British royal family are a fading corporate brand, barely distinguishable from Budweiser, the “King of Beers.”  

With no traditional culture, religion, or shared history binding its people, the U.K. is simply a wildly successful central bank that masquerades as a country.  If only it had warriors who might save the nation.  Alas, British authorities relegated them to a terrorist watchlist.

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

‘The Fightback Has Begun’: Historic Results As Nigel Farage’s Reform Sweeps England Election Early Results

Reform UK has gained a new Member of Parliament by just six votes, won its first mayor, and picked up more councillors than all other parties combined in early results in a historic night.

Nigel Farage celebrated a “huge night for Reform” where his party showed all signs of having “cut deep” into the votes of both the governing Labour Party and official opposition the Conservatives, who he said Reform was now supplanting. Crucially, the party won major contests against both UK legacy political parties, underlining Farage’s claim that Reform is not merely a force on the right but something above the old dividing lines drawing support from both the old sides.

The most visible result nationally will be Reform having won a new Member of Parliament, with Sarah Pochin taking the Runcorn and Helbsy race in a byelection (special election) that was called after its incumbent, Labour politician Mike Amesbury, was filmed repeatedly punching a constituent after drinking six pints of beer. The race was astonishingly close, with Labour demanding a recount in hope of overturning the first result, but eventually losing out by just six votes.

This victory for Farage’s Pochin is remarkable not just for how tight a race it was — the BBC says it is the closest byelection result in modern British history — but also for what an enormous Labour majority was destroyed by Reform to get the win. It is one of the safest seats ever overturned in a byelection, with Labour’s result collapsing from a commanding 53 per cent in the last national elections, allowing Reform to swing form 18 to 38 per cent, grabbing it by a whisker.

Conservative party-allied newspaper The Daily Telegraph notes that if the Runcorn swing was replicated nationwide in a general election, Nigel Farage would be Prime Minister with one of the largest majorities in the history of British politics, even greater than the heights of Margaret Thatcher or Tony Blair. Of course, Runcorn and Helsby is not Britain and by-election swings are not generally mappable onto national elections, but it is still an amusing and illuminating way to illustrate the severity of the kicking Labour got here overnight.

Another stunning victory for Nigel Farage’s Reform UK overnight was winning the Greater Lincolnshire mayoralty, the first time this post has been selected by direct election. The victory was by a “huge margin”, regional newspaper the Linconshire Echo states, with Reform taking a towering lead at 42 per cent compared to 26 per cent for the legacy Conservatives — who are very much on their home ground here — and a paltry 12 per cent for the party of national government, Labour.

Farage’s new Lincolnshire mayor, Dame Andrea Jenkyns — a defector to the Reform cause from the Conservatives, where she was an acolyte of Boris Johnson — was strident in her election victory address, praising Mr Farage and promising change. She said: “the fightback to save the heart and soul of our great country has now begun. Now that Reform is in a place of power, we can help start rebuilding Britain. Inch by inch, Reform will reset Britain to its glorious past. We will tackle illegal migration”.

One day, she said, Nigel Farage will “make a magnificent Prime Minister”.

Farage, for his own part, spoke of the damage these results were causing to the two-party system that has dominated British politics since the end of the First World War. “I think we’ve supplanted the Conservative Party now as the main opposition party in government”, he told the BBC, noting Reform has “bitten quite hard” into Labour, taking their voters.

He acknowledged there had been “one or two near misses in the mayoral contests” but nevertheless told The Telegraph: “it’s been a big night for us, we’ve dug very deep into the Labour vote and in other parts of England, we’ve dug deep into the Conservative vote. And we are now — after tonight there is no question — in most of the country we’re the main opposition party to this government”.

Indeed, while Reform did lose three other mayoral contests — with one still to declare at the time of publication — they were all close-runs with Reform coming out of nowhere to lose each to Labour by just a few hundred votes. As if that wasn’t bad enough for the Labour leadership in London — knowing the trend line in polling for months has shown Reform moving steadily upward and Labour down — even their own candidates didn’t have a kind word to say.

Mayor Ros Jones, who has been the mayor of Doncaster for years and held on against Reform by just 698 votes this time had no praise for the Prime Minister when she said the close result there showed it was time for the government to start listening to the people. She told Laura Kuenssberg: “I think the results here tonight will demonstrate that they need to be listening to the man, woman and businesses on the street and actually deliver for the people with the people.”

Nevertheless, it is still early days in these counts and the vast majority of the over 1,600 council seats contested yesterday won’t be declared until late into this afternoon and evening. Even so at the time of going to press Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has won more council seats than all other parties put together and has handily outperformed even the most flattering polling taken in the lead-up to election day.

On average, at this time, Reform’s vote in council seats is trending towards 40 per cent.

Sir John Curtice, the psephologist and perhaps the closest thing the United Kingdom has to an academic who is a household name — being a staple of election-time news coverage as he is — said “Reform’s performance is quite remarkable” and that Farage had proved that polling hadn’t been an illusion. He said: “The big question we were asking ourselves was: are Reform posing a major challenge to the traditional dominance of British politics by Conservatives and Labour? Is that challenge really there? And I think we now know that the answer to that question is yes.”

While the Conservatives have had a brutal night so far, their position very much under threat by Farage, they have been able to at least take consolation in the British public having delivered a shattering verdict on the Labour party, and its leader-Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. The party has said Labour MPs will now be considering his leadership in the light of this “damning verdict… which has led to Labour losing a safe seat”.

The United Kingdom has several layers of government. Local authorities and councils are led by councillors which are elected on a rolling basis, so unlike the national parliament there is always a body of experienced delegates to keep things working. Of the 18,725 councillors across the whole country, 1,641 were up for election on Thursday. In theory, councillors set local taxation rates and spending priorities for local services, which include bin collection, schools, and fixing roads.

In reality, over time central government has introduced so many mandatory services that councils are required to provide — and centralised what they can do in terms of council tax — the actual power of councils is very limited. This is becoming a major problem in many areas as the mandatory requirements for what councils must provide has soared while the money they have to spend has not, even falling per capita in many areas, leaving some councils bankrupt or on the verge of bankruptcy.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/05/02/the-fightback-has-begun-farage-sweeps-england-elections

UK: Poll predicts Reform sweeping three mayoral races in huge night for Nigel Farage

Hull Guildhall, David Wright,CC-BY-SA-2.0

A set of mayoral voting intention polls have forecast Reform UK to snatch three mayoral election races in a major boost to Nigel Farage.

Farage, who already predicted a good set of results in Greater Lincolnshire and Hull & East Yorkshire, looks poised to win both contests.

However, in a surprise twist, Arron Banks could also soon emerge victorious in a knife-edge contest in the West of England.

The ex-Leave.EU donor, who is a close ally of Farage, opened up a one-point lead over the Greens, research conducted by Find Out Now has revealed.

In a hammer blow to Sir Keir Starmer, Labour could lose all four contests – with former Tory MP Paul Bristow being handed a nine per cent advantage over Reform UK in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough.

https://www.gbnews.com/politics/local-elections-news-nigel-farage-keir-starmer-kemi-badenoch-runcorn-byelection

“We Need Sex Screening” : Women’s Sports Watchdog Calls for Mandatory Sex Screening After Male Student Conceals Sex to Join Girls’ Softball Teams

Reduxx has learned that a trans-identified male high school student has been quietly participating in girls sports, earning accolades intended for young female athletes. Charlie Rothenberger, who now goes by “Marissa,” was transitioned by his parents at an extremely early age and is now drawing ire from his female teammates as more are becoming aware that he is biologically male.

Rothenberger is a 17-year-old student at Champlin Park High School in Champlin, Minnesota. He currently plays as a starting pitcher for his girl’s high school fastpitch team, where he has been credited with helping the school dominate softball competitions. Earlier this month, the first game of the new softball season kicked off against the Minnesota State Champions, Rogers High School. Rothenberger, who stands 6′ tall, was able to easily lead Champlin to victory against the defending champions with a “shut out” via 14 strikeouts and a double base hit of his own.

In an interview last year when he was a sophomore, one of the coaches said that Rothenberger had been doing a “phenomenal job,” with the pitcher himself suggesting his biological advantage was merely him “mixing different speeds” of the ball and “keeping [the other team] off-balanced.”

Another softball account on X dedicated to “highlighting the next generation of softball players” praised a “really hard hit to the outfield” by Rothenberger.

Rothenberger has also played for Midwest Speed Softball, an elite-level softball club team that travels around the country for competitions. On his player profile, he brags about having attained an All State Award last season due to his pitching.

“From watching college pitchers and trying to emulate them, to now striving to become one,” he writes. “I am passionate in doing what it takes to be the best I can be.”

In July of 2024, Rothenberger was named Player of the Month by the Heart of America Elite Fastpitch League. In his biography on the site, he lists one of his goals as playing “Division 1 softball in college.” 

While Rothenberger has participated in girls sports from an early age and has never publicly stated he identifies as transgender, Reduxx has obtained documents showing that his mother, Heather Rothenberger, applied to the Hennepin County District Court to alter his birth certificate shortly after his 9th birthday.

The petition was approved, and Rothenberger was issued a new birth certificate showing that he was born “female” and altering his name from “Charlie Dean” to “Marissa.” Minnesota is one of many states where altered birth certificates do not need to signify that the original document was altered.

But while Rothenberger has managed to conceal his sex throughout most of his school history, his teammates and competitors have recently become aware. One anonymous female softball player from Minnesota, who played on the same team as Rothenberger in 2023, spoke to Reduxx under the condition of anonymity.

The girl noted that it took years before she realized Rothenberger was a boy, believing at first he was simply just an “awkward” girl.

“We were never really that close because I never had anything in common with him. I never thought he was a boy, but after finding out he was a boy and then looking back on a lot of things I wouldn’t have looked at before, [it] definitely shows he is a boy, and I felt dumb for missing the clues,” she told Reduxx. The player said she initially discovered his true identity in July of 2024 during the 2023/24 season when “no one was really talking about it,” but added that by November of that year, “lots of people from the softball community found out the truth and were openly talking about it.”

According to the player, Rothenberger regularly used the female bathrooms, even rooming with other girls when the team travelled across the country, while none of the girls he shared facilities or bedrooms with was aware that he is male. “Looking back now, it disgusts me and is just scary,” she said.

The player described Rothenberger’s athletic performance compared to the other girls as being “completely unreal,” saying he is able to do “so much more” than girls who train with the exact same coaches. “He is able to be relied on as a pitcher, and took opportunities away from girls who deserved them most,” she said.

She told Reduxx that she felt “upset” and “uncomfortable” that males are being allowed to play on the same team as women, especially being told that “as a girl I just have to learn to accept that men can take advantage of you even if they just want to identify as a female.”

The girl adds that she is frustrated and hurt by the whole ordeal.

“Many players and I work so hard to achieve something through this sport and we find it unfair that our spot can be stolen from us,” she continued. “This shouldn’t be allowed and boys can stay in boys sports and leave us girls alone. I shouldn’t have to learn this lesson that girls don’t matter or that we need to just be silent while we lose out so a boy feels okay.”

The revelations have drawn concern from the Independent Council On Women’s Sport (ICONS), which is now raising the alarm about a concerning phenomenon involving a new wave of male athletes who were socially and medically transitioned as young boys. As some of them may have had their birth records falsified at an extremely early age, there may be no public record of their true sex, making it possible for them to participate in women’s sports virtually undetected and beyond the reach of many of the current policies intended to protect women’s sports.

Rothenberger is just one example of many trans-identified males who have managed to slip under the radar in women’s sports after transitioning at a young age, with legal records of their true identity often hidden away.

In 2023, Reduxx learned that Tate Drageset, a 17-year-old volleyball player from California, was set to become the first known male recipient of a women’s Division 1 (D1) athletic scholarship after having falsified his identity from the age of 6. Prior to the Reduxx exposé, no record existed that Drageset was biologically male. Following our report, Drageset’s mother e-mailed Reduxx and stated that the University of Washington had informed them that they would “no longer honor their verbal commitment” to him.

Speaking to Reduxx, Kim Jones of ICONS said it was “frustrating” to hear people argue that “so long as women and girls don’t know they are being replaced by a boy or competing against a boy or undressing next to a boy, then it’s ok, the girls shouldn’t care.” Jones compared tolerance for the deception to those who “hand-wave away voyeurism or sexual assault” when a victim is drunk, asleep, or unaware.

“It makes these young girls learn early in life that it is acceptable for them to be abused and taken advantage of by boys so long as everyone looks the other way and it’s hidden to a certain level of satisfaction,” Jones said. “These girls need to know they are important enough to be treated fairly in public while they play sports, as well as in private and that protection is incumbent upon leadership in sports and in schools to ensure.”

On the issue of boys like Rothenberger, whose documents were falsified at a young age to conceal their birth sex, Jones says the problem is bound to get worse.

“We are seeing the first drips through the faucet of young boys who were subjected to gender ideology from a really young age and there are thousands more of these boys out there now who are even younger and will impact girl’s sports for the next decade in increasing numbers,” she says.

Jones notes that current policies being drafted with the intention of protecting female athletes fail to address this growing problem.

“Policy makers need to think beyond men like Lia Thomas. Looking at birth certificates and enrollment history is not enough. We need sex screening so that girls and women aren’t left with an even more difficult situation in ten years. Sex is not private information and can be screened through already universally required pre-participation physicals, which include medical history, or a simple cheek swab.”

https://reduxx.info/we-need-sex-screening-womens-sports-watchdog-calls-for-mandatory-sex-screening-after-male-student-uses-fake-birth-certificate-to-join-girls-softball-teams/

Woke Canada: Lessons for Britain. Eric Kaufmann on Why Canadians Elected Woke Mark Carney

Three months ago, Canada’s Conservative Party seemed unassailable. With a 25 point lead in the poll, nothing could prevent them from securing a landslide, possibly a supermajority, in Parliament. Or so it seemed. What went wrong? Why has Canada voted to continue living under the Liberal Party’s regime? To discuss all this and more, hosts Harrison Pitt and Connor Tomlinson are joined by Prof. Eric Kaufmann, Professor of Politics at the University of Buckingham and Director of the Centre for Heterodox Social Science. He teaches the world’s first course on the politics and ideology of woke.

Ivorian migrant jailed for rape of young French woman stranded after a night out

An Ivorian migrant has been jailed for five years for the rape of a 23-year-old French woman.

The Lorient Criminal Court sentenced Vassindou Junior Méïté on Monday to a custodial sentence after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a young woman who found herself stranded after a night out in the French town back in September 2023.

On Sept. 17, having lost access to her home, the victim accepted an invitation to spend the night in a shared apartment in Lorient. There, Méïté — who was present in the apartment — raped her despite her repeated refusals. According to the court’s findings, the woman was held down and strangled during the attack.

While her screams were reportedly heard by others in nearby rooms and apartments, no one intervened.

After the assault, the victim managed to lock herself in the bathroom and contact friends, who then helped her by calling the police.

At trial, Méïté denied any violence, claiming that the sexual encounter was consensual and attempting to explain away the victim’s injuries as the result of “somewhat rough” but voluntary behavior.

He claimed the allegations were false and accused the victim of crocodile tears as she appeared in court visibly upset and accompanied by her mother.

“I never saw her not cry. No, her tears are not feigned,” her lawyer said in response to the defendant’s remarks.

The attack has reportedly had a long-lasting psychological impact on the victim, who has difficulty sleeping and now has an overreliance on alcohol.

Méïté’s version of events was contradicted by medical reports, which documented visible signs of strangulation, bruises, and finger marks, consistent with forceful assault.

This conviction was not Méïté’s first encounter with the justice system. At the time of the Lorient rape, he was already under judicial supervision for another rape allegation. In that earlier case, prosecutors chose to reclassify the charge as sexual assault, reportedly to spare the victim, in a fragile psychological state, from the trauma of testifying in an assize court, which would have required a much larger trial by jury.

Méïté ultimately faced no trial in that case due to a dismissal of proceedings.

The court in Lorient sentenced him to five years in prison, accompanied by a 10-year ban from French territory upon his release.

Beyond the courtroom, the case has triggered debate over the media’s portrayal of such crimes. Breizh-Info noted how several media outlets referred to Méïté only as a “Briochin,” a resident of Saint-Brieuc, omitting his Ivorian nationality until the final paragraphs — if mentioned at all.

This is evidenced in a report by Le Télégramme, which led with the line: “A 21-year-old man from Brioche was sentenced on Monday, April 28, by the court of Lorient, to 5 years in prison for the rape of a woman from Lorient in September 2023.”

https://rmx.news/article/ivorian-migrant-jailed-for-rape-of-young-french-woman-stranded-after-a-night-out/

Labour Descends Into Civil War As Britons Vote in Local Elections

Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street to attend Prime Ministers Question Time in the Houses of Parliament on January 8, 2025. 
Photo: Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street, Number 10 via Wikimedia Commons

Voters head to the polls today for local elections which are seen as a perfect opportunity for Nigel Farage’s Reform UK to show its worth as a rising political force.

Terrible timing then, so far as Keir Starmer is concerned, for former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair to blast the current government’s net zero agenda as “irrational” because voters are being asked—or, in many cases, forced—to make serious sacrifices despite making “minimal” differences to the planet.

A report from Blair’s institute was received furiously by Labour, with local officials saying they were “incredibly p****d off” about the impact it could have on the local elections. One party source also bashed the ex-PM’s “public tantrum” as “really unhelpful.” The story splashed on most national newspapers on Wednesday.

The row got worse after Environment Secretary Steve Reed praised Blair for making a “valid and important contribution,” adding that he agreed “with much of what he said.” And senior officials later refused to guarantee that Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband will keep his job.

Farage was, of course, delighted by the very public row, hailing on social media:

Even Tony Blair now says the push for net zero has become “irrational” and “hysterical.”

We are winning the argument!

The Reform leader believes net zero could be the new Brexit, “where parliament is so hopelessly out of touch with the country.”

The Tony Blair Institute report said that simply limiting fossil fuels was “doomed to fail” and pushed for a different approach.

By the time Blair U-turned, attempting to paint Starmer’s approach as “the right one,” the damage had already been done. The green agenda’s role in this week’s major blackouts across the Iberian Peninsula will also have helped to paint a picture of just how dangerous the road to net zero is.

Not that Blair is guilt-free on this front, nor that his institute’s report is not still wedded to the view that Europe must act to avoid a climate emergency. Perhaps, as Net Zero Watch’s Andrew Montford suggested, he is simply trying to “remain on the right side of history.”

A total of 1,641 council seats are up for grabs today in 23 local authorities in England. Polling stations will close at 10 p.m.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/labour-descends-into-civil-war-as-britons-vote-in-local-elections/

Pretty cheeky! Syrian IS member demands 144,000 euros for voluntary departure – bet that Germany will pay?

AI

What at first glance appears to be the next outrageous and scandalous demand from a troublemaker with an affinity for terrorism and even a proven IS supporter is actually just the logical consequence of the situation in Germany 10 years after Angela Merkel’s historic sabotage of an asylum system previously based on the rule of law and once functioning border protection: the convicted Merkel guest and Syrian Abdulhadi B. has been obliged to leave the country since 2018 – but he cannot be deported because of the ‘civil war in Syria’, which has been over for years. With a grin, B. is now turning the German state’s self-imposed restrictions and powerlessness against the state itself – and declares that he is prepared to leave Germany if he is paid 144,000 euros to do so. This caveman has got it; he is clever!

What seems brazen is in principle only logical: a state that allows itself to be made a fool of like the Federal Republic of Germany, whose Basic Law, which was once conceived for completely different cases and basic assumptions, now has to serve as the basis for abuse and adventurous impositions against all normal common sense, deserves nothing better. We cannot even be angry with the “refugee”; it is our own fault that we a) tolerate and support such beings here, b) continue to tolerate them, c) cannot get rid of them and d) do not at least send them to detention pending deportation. Our politics would have it no other way. The case of Abdulhadi B. is yet another symptom of the failure of German migration policy.

The fact that Abdulhadi B. is shamelessly exploiting Syria’s “ security situation” would not even be the problem; this probably applies to the majority of the approximately 1 million Syrians in Germany. The problem is rather that the anti-German policy of self-destruction continues in this country and is currently being cemented in the next government for another four years. The fact that a staunch supporter of a terrorist organisation can stay in Germany and even demand money to leave the country shows how dysfunctional the system is, but it is no longer surprising. The Germans have already paid huge sums of money to governments to take back their own citizens, who are flown out by the federal police in adventurous and life-threatening deportation flights at huge logistical expense – either in the form of special payments subject to secrecy (also in cash) or in the form of ‘development aid’.
The German fools who are financing this folly with their tax money are still playing along and keeping quiet. Meanwhile, the inability of politicians to even effectively control people like B., who of course have no right to be here, let alone deport them, is undermining trust in state institutions – not to mention security and social cohesion.

https://journalistenwatch.com/2025/05/01/clever-is-syrer-fordert-von-144-000-euro-fuer-freiwillige-ausreise-wetten-dass-deppen-deutschland-zahlt/

Woman shares transgender regret, says she cried after surgery at 14 years old

Young woman lying at hospital bed. KieferPix/Shutterstock

Alleged medical professionals pushed a 14-year-old girl to have a double mastectomy and present herself as a boy, according to a new documentary.

IW Features (IWF) has an ongoing series called “Identity Crisis,” exploring the medical malpractice of the pro-transgender “healthcare” complex, which pushes gender-confused children to get permanently damaging surgeries and take irreversible drugs. Notably, it is a biological fact that no one can change his or her gender.

The drugs and surgeries have been linked to suicidalitybone density lossheart diseases, strokecancer, and numerous other medical problems. Puberty blockers also cause infertility, as would be expected from drugs intended to stop the normal development of the reproductive system.

The series recently profiled the horrifying story of Claire Abernathy, a self-described “tomboyish” girl who therapists and doctors pressured into having both breasts removed at the age of 14 – an eerily similar tale to that of fellow “detransitioner” Chloe Cole. “I feel wronged,” Claire says in the documentary.

Abernathy’s story tells a similar tale to that of other gender-confused teenagers who eventually saw the light and began to work to live comfortably in their own body despite gender dysphoria.

“Claire noted that she was first introduced to gender ideology online through Instagram and Tumblr, in addition to a sex education class in middle school where she was taught about the ‘genderbread person,’” the IWF summary states.

Helena Kerschner, another formerly gender-confused girl, previously told Michael Knowles that “Internet communities,” including on Tumblr, pushed her to identify as a boy. Furthermore, social scientists have compiled extensive data indicating that transgender identification is a “social contagion” and driven by peer pressure.

Abernathy said by 12 she considered herself fully a “boy.” She had been a victim of bullying and sexual abuse and was groomed online by an adult.

Her mom, Carrie Abernathy, said medical professionals did not address underlying mental health issues but rather said if she did not support “transitioning” then her daughter would likely commit suicide. Pro-transgender medical practitioners often use this baseless claim, and, in doing so, ignore that there are obviously mental health issues at play if someone will kill themselves if they cannot cross-dress or have mutilating surgery. (In fact, transgender surgeries are linked to higher rates of suicidality.)

Carrie said she “was not aware” that her daughter was “socially transitioning,” as her school hid it from her.

Claire noted that most individuals with “gender distress” end up desisting within a few years.

However, a “new therapist” “beat down” her parents. “They were told, ‘Your child has a medical condition that only has one treatment’,” Claire said.

“They were asked, ‘Would you have a dead daughter or a living transgender son’,” Claire recounts. Pro-transgender therapists regularly use this unscientific claim to coerce parents to chemically and surgically mutilate kids.

The alleged medical experts were eager to start Claire on drugs, as she shares how she started testosterone injections “a week after [her] 14th birthday” in late 2018.

She said she did not have any emotions when her voice began dropping and she began growing more body hair. Instead of stopping the injections, the medical professionals upped her dosage of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).

Soon after, in January 2018, Claire had a “15-minute” consultation to discuss removing her breasts. Carrie said the surgeon’s office provided little communication to her, as the mother.

On June 11, 2018, shortly after her eigth grade graduation, Claire had the surgery. Immediately after, she “cried” and was left “emotionally numb.”

The surgery caused further emotional and physical problems, including “open sores” and “open wounds” on her chest, as well as “numbness and pain” and “liquid coming out” where the “nipple grafts” were. She said the surgeon’s office ignored her concerns for month and then even dismissed her problems during a three-month follow-up appointment.

The surgery did not help her at all, as Claire said she simply went back to trying to identify with new gender “identities” before coming to realization she was, and always would be, a girl.

The documentary exposes the ongoing problem of gender ideology and its pervasive effects on America’s youth, according to the team behind the series.

“Claire and Carrie Abernathy’s story is becoming far too common,” editor-in-chief Kaylee McGhee White stated in a news release. “Impressionable and vulnerable children, and their parents who are desperate to help them, are being misled deliberately by medical professionals across the country.

“The affirmation-only approach being pushed by these professionals has cost families like the Abernathys greatly, and we’re proud to give them a platform from which to fight back,” White concluded.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/woman-shares-transgender-regret-says-she-cried-after-surgery-at-14-years-old/?utm_source=featured-news&utm_campaign=usa