[FoxNews] UN investigator Reem Alsalem warned that 'freedom of speech and thought, including on the issues of sex, gender, and gender identity' are under attack. Someone should tell the FBI and DOJ
Former President Donald Trump promised to sign a nationwide ban on sex change surgeries for children, and said girls are 'getting badly burned' by men competing in women's sports
From shootings to riots, Antifa and feminist experts warn that radical transgender activists are growing increasingly violent and extreme, with some using the term "Trantifa" to describe the phenomenon.
While Antifa is the far-left "anti-fascist" militant movement often associated with black clothing, face-masks and violent protest, the new term "Trantifa" has been "coined on social media to highlight the strong transgender presence within the anarchist outfit," according to The Daily Mail, which used the definition of "far-left transgender activists willing to intimidate, harass and even use violence to advance their radical new ideas about gender."
UN investigator Reem Alsalem, who has served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls since August 2021, is one of multiple experts on the topic who sounded the alarm about extreme transgender activism to the U.K. outlet.
"There is an increasing trend that I have been observing," she said. Alsalem pointed to attacks on activist Riley Gaines, who has spoken out against biological men being allowed to compete in women’s sports. Alsalem describe how Gaines was "ambushed and hit" by "screaming trans activists" in San Francisco after trying to give a speech out about this cause.
Eli Bremer, Gaines' agent, gave a statement to Fox News Digital at the time of the incident, saying, "Instead of a thoughtful discussion tonight at SFSU, Riley was violently accosted, shouted at, physically assaulted, and barricaded in a room by protestors. It is stunning that in America in 2023, it is acceptable for biological male students to violently assault a woman for standing up for women’s rights."
Alsalem warned that public officials across the Western world must "ensure that the freedom of speech and thought, including on the issues of sex, gender, and gender identity be protected and upheld."
Townhall senior writer Julio Rosas, who testified at a House hearing on left-wing violence in May in part because of his reporting on several riots involving Antifa, is another figure with expertise on the subject.
"Trans activists gravitate towards these very far-left groups, because they share their anarcho-communist type ideology," Rosas told The Daily Mail. "They view the US as systemically racist, that it's subjugated queer people, and that states passing laws against child mutilations is part of a trans genocide. And they're fighting back."
While there have been many recent instances of violent rhetoric and action, the most high profile and deadly example of transgender violence was trans-identified mass shooter Audrey Hale's murderous rampage at a Christian elementary school in Nashville in late March.
In response to the shooting, the Trans Resistance Network said Hale "had no other effective way to be seen than to lash out by taking the life of others" and blamed "a virtual avalanche of anti-trans legislation, and public callouts by Right Wing personalities and political figures for nothing less than the genocidal eradication of trans people from society."
When the Trans Radical Activist Network tried to go forward with a "Trans Day of Vengeance" in the wake of the shooting, Twitter said the tweets advertising the event violated their rules for inciting violence and the protest was ultimately canceled.
A top Wyoming Democrat shared a Facebook post suggesting Antifa and gun violence is needed to protect transgender people less than a week after the Nashville school shooting. The meme showed a person wearing a transgender flag outfit and holding an assault rifle with the caption, "Auntie Fa says protect trans folks against fascists [and] bigots."
"They've got themselves completely worked up, they honestly think there's a genocide going on against them," Women's Liberation Front
...WoLF is a trans-exclusionary radical feminist (2nd Wave) group of about 1,000 people across the United States that’s been active since the Obama presidency trying to protect women against transgender inroads through lawsuits against Title IX directives and redefinitions. They are the original TERFs that so infuriate the trans activist community. Interestingly, they have in recent years found themselves working closely with conservative organizations to roll back the legal definition of female to encompass only strict biology...
founder Leirre Keith
...radical feminist, radical environmentalist who is therefore an anti-vegetarian locavore — one of those steely-eyed radicals who skip straight over modest personal lifestyle changes into Causes, the kind who seriously anger former comrades by following the logic aaaaallll the way to the end. Who knew vegans could be so vicious? (Anyone who realized Hitler was one, but anyway)...
told The Daily Mail. "If you really think you're under that kind of threat, then you can justify anything."
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Waxed. Autocorrect screwed up the hairy chest visual of the joke.
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They're so far left they've lapped over into the really far right. Y'know - the dangerous right.
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And this isn't just something which happened 'grass roots'. This is organized and planned and expected. From Joe Biden's administration's celebration of the murders in Tennessee to the media repeating the 'Genocide' bullshit at every turn.
[AlArabiya] Saudi Arabia and the US expressed their disappointment in the resumption of violence in Sudan after a 24-hour ceasefire between the warring sides ended on Sunday.
It’s Sudan. War of all against all — or some against various others — is what they do — the Nigeria of the Horn, perhaps.
The ceasefire between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) went into effect at 6 a.m. on June 10 and ended on June 11. Soon after the ceasefire expired, clashes were reported again in the country. Read the rest at the link
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Well, after the ceasefire you have the startfire.
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There must be an Arabic word that means, Hudna is over sucker.
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[AAWSAT] The Iran-backed Houthi militias are planning military escalation on various fronts in Yemen as shown by their amassing of forces and attacks on government troops, most notably in Marib and Taiz.
The army said it has thwarted an attempt by the Houthis to infiltrate military positions in northwestern and western Taiz.
It also downed two Houthi drones in Marib.
The escalation is taking place amid international and United Nations efforts to kick off a comprehensive peace process in the war-torn country.
Military spokesman Abdo Majali told Asharq Al-Awsat that the army is ready to confront all Houthi infiltrations
The Houthis do not heed agreements or the truce in any way, shape or form, he added.
[AAWSAT] The Swedish government decided Monday to extradite a Turkish citizen resident in Sweden who had been convicted in 2013 of drug crime in Türkiye.
The move came as NATO-member Türkiye continued to hold up Sweden’s bid to join the military alliance.
The man, who had served his prison sentence and was living in Sweden legally, claimed the real reason for his extradition was that he was active in a pro-Kurdish political party and supported a group Ankara considers to be terrorists.
Sweden's Supreme Court said there were “no obstacles” to his extradition, and that the man was under investigation in Türkiye for posting online manipulated photos of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan which is punishable under Turkish laws.
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Freedom of Speech for the win! And no doubt Swedish life will be even more interesting as a result,
[AlArabiya] A Swedish appeals court on Monday said police had no legal grounds to block two gatherings where protesters had planned to burn the Quran earlier this year.
The burning of Islam’s holy book outside Turkey’s embassy in Stockholm in January sparked anger in the Muslim world, leading to weeks of protests, calls for a boycott of Swedish goods and further stalled Sweden’s NATO membership bid.
Following that incident, police refused to authorise two other requests, one by a private individual and one by an organization, to hold Quran burnings outside the Turkish and Iraqi embassies in Stockholm in February.
Eh? Being seen to win domestically doesn’t give the country extra rights internationally.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.IQ] Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... redoubled his call Monday for the international recognition of northern Cyprus, making the Mediterranean statelet his first port of call since his re-election.Erdogan met the north’s leader Ersin Tatar, whose rule is recognized only by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , two weeks after extending his two-decade rule until 2028.
"If there is to be a return to the negotiating table, the way to do this is through recognition" of the north, Erdogan declared.
Cyprus has been divided since 1974 when the Ottoman Turkish army invaded the northern third of the island in response to a coup that had sought to unite the entire island with Greece.
United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... peacekeepers patrol a buffer zone separating the self-proclaimed Ottoman Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) from the internationally recognized south.
Turkey’s calls for a "two-state solution" to the Cyprus issue have been rejected by Greek Cypriots who comprise a majority in the south. The Republic of Cyprus along with the international community favors a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation in line with a UN framework.
Although Erdogan comfortably won last month’s runoff, he lost to his secular rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu by 15 points in the northern Cyprus portion of the vote.
Nearly 144,000 voters were registered in northern Cyprus, including Ottoman Turkish settlers and troops and Ottoman Turkish Cypriots who hold Ottoman Turkish citizenship.
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I am pleased to announce Abdul Aleem Khan as the President of Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party. Aamir Mehmood Kiyani as Secretary General. Awn Chaudhary as Additional Secretary General & Spokesperson of the Party as well as of the Patron-in-Chief. More announcements to follow Inshallah
— Jahangir Khan Tareen (@JahangirKTareen) June 12, 2023
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One problem is that a lot of Haredi don't have the skills to operate modern military equipment. There are positions they can fill but it reduces usefulness.
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They’re a groups accustomed to knowing more than anyone else, though. Once in the environment, it won’t sit well with them to be the stupid, ignorant ones. The hurdles will be physical and obeying orders instead of arguing.
[An Nahar] The head of Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc, MP Mohammed Raad, on Monday accused the rival camp of "using" ex-minister Jihad Azour to block the election of "the candidate of the resistance," in reference to Marada Movement the personal militia of Suleiman Franjieh, president of Lebanon at the outbreak of the civil war, currently Syrian toadies, but you never know when that could change... chief Suleiman Franjieh.
"The people of the resistance are being competed against by a group of Lebanese who are nominating and backing a person whom they don’t want to be elected as president. They are only using him to block the election of the candidate of the resistance," Raad said.
"National partnership is to fulfill the interests of all Lebanese without discrimination, selectivity or persecution of anyone, but others understand national partnership as the use of another group of Lebanese to achieve their partisan interests at the expense of all Lebanese," the MP added.
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[An Nahar] MP Walid al-Baarini of the largely-Sunni National Moderation bloc has said that the grouping of politicians will attend Wednesday’s presidential election session without voting for Suleiman Franjieh or Jihad Azour.
"Amid the current alignments, the bloc will only take part in the elections through a consensual candidate on whom most parliamentary blocs would agree," Baarini told the al-Anbaa news portal of the Progressive Socialist Party.
"The election of a president amid this rift and sharp divisions will not lead the country to the shore of safety," the MP warned.
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[An Nahar] Ex-president Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... on Monday criticized Hezbollah for launching "treason accusations and threats through newspapers."
"I did not let them down, neither in the July War, nor in keenness on the resistance nor in the confrontation against ISIS (Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group)," Aoun said in an interview with the journalist Sami Kleib, when asked whether a mending of ties between Hezbollah and the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... is possible.
"I have not said anything against them. Should my reward be treason accusations and threats through newspapers?" Aoun wondered.
Told that FPM chief Jebran Bassil has escalated his rhetoric in recent months, the ex-president said: "Jebran talks politics and we and (Hezbollah chief) Sayyed (Hassan) Nasrallah have repeatedly agreed that a political dispute does not negate the friendship."
"Is it reasonable to be accused of treason because we have merely rejected a supposed candidate?" the ex-president added.
Asked how the "problem" can be "overcome," Aoun said: "We did not start it and democracy stipulates the freedom of choice. The other party must make the first step towards the solution."
As for his recent meeting with Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... and whether Damacus is pressing for Suleiman Franjieh’s election, Aoun said: "I did not feel any pressure and we only discussed this issue in a swift manner."
"The Syrian president has told me more than once that they do not interfere in the presidency and do not want to interfere," the president added.
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The #HTS prevents a number of local organizations from distributing relief and medical supplies to residents of camps and villages in #Idlib Governorate, NW #Syria, that had previously held anti-HTS demonstrations.https://t.co/QJ3RqMi1Ia
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) June 12, 2023
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[FoxNews] UN investigator Reem Alsalem warned that 'freedom of speech and thought, including on the issues of sex, gender, and gender identity' are under attack.
[AAWSAT] The Iran-backed Houthi militias are planning military escalation on various fronts in Yemen as shown by their amassing of forces and attacks on government troops, most notably in Marib and Taiz. 
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
