led Xinjiang.
While Turkey refuses to send Uighurs directly back to China, campaigners say there are those willing to send them to third countries, like Tajikistan. From there, it is easier for China to secure their extradition.
So why would Turks be complicit in this? Money, comes the answer, and ensuring Chinese investment in Turkey continues….
interest in becoming a boy—no questions asked. From Amazon to I Am Jazz, everyone is telling them that transition is the path to happiness, and those who question this narrative are bigots. So they stare at their shoes and let the conversion therapy take its toll.
This is what censorship looks like in 21st-century America. It isn’t the government sending police to your home. It’s Silicon Valley oligopolists implementing blackouts and appeasing social-justice mobs, while sending disfavored ideas down memory holes. And the forces of censorship are winning….
Depressing stuff.
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A new book, Godlis Streets, is due out later this month:
Published by Reel Art Press, new book Godlis Streets is the first publication dedicated to the street photography of the celebrated imagemaker. Featuring a foreword by critic Luc Sante and an afterword by Blondie co-founder and guitarist Chris Stein, it focuses largely on his black and white imagery from the 70s and 80s.
The book explores how Godlis was heavily influenced by Brassai’s immersive reportage of 1930s Paris, alongside the work of other street photographers such as Arbus, Robert Frank, Gary Winogrand and Lee Friedlander.
The log jam in the Middle East – demonisation of the Zionist entity, together with backward autocratic Arab states – is slowly starting to shift. And we have – *whisper it* – Trump in no small part to thank for that.
orn as. It's biology. Facts.
As for the rest, she just confusing sex and gender again. There are only two sexes, but gender, well, you can say whatever you want, because it's all about cultural perceptions of gender stereotypes. So saying "it’s not true that there are only two gender boxes and that gender is fixed and immutable", isn't really saying anything of interest. It's not true that there are only big strong men who like driving fast cars and fighting, and women who dress in pink and spend their time knitting and cooking? Well, yes. I think we knew that.
g I knew more about it than anyone else seemed ridiculous”, she sighs. […]
In her view, the corporation is becoming cowardly. “The BBC has become … is the word ‘frightened’ too strong? I don’t think it is. There is a government that doesn’t seem to like the BBC very much, and the trans activists were a very dangerous bunch, so I stepped into the two hot topics of the time.”
Another interpretation would be that the world is changing and Murray wasn’t going to change with it. The fact that many young women are sympathetic to the trans-women-are-women cause is “bizarre”, in her view. “Who would want to choose to be an often unattractive middle-aged woman when they don’t have to be? We are treated appallingly a lot of the time. It all seems a bit odd to me.”
Well, yes, it is a bit odd. They've been persuaded though, these young women, that after gay rights, women's rights, civil rights, this is the next forward progressive step in our liberation….trans rights. But it isn't.
e think the ‘transgender’ or ‘gender identity’ movements are about accommodating people with a debilitating condition. But they are actually an industry that creates medical identities out of sex, while simultaneously mounting active campaigns to deconstruct sexual dimorphism within the law.
Transgenderism is a multi-billion dollar industry, disguised as a civil rights movement, or what the journalist Jennifer Bilek describes as “big business dressed up in civil rights clothes”. It constructs medical identities that harm children and steals funding and focus from women’s authentic civil rights…
She goes on to list three "exceedingly rich, white men with enormous cultural influence" who are "funding the transgender lobby and various transgender organisations: Jennifer Pritzker, Jon Stryker, and George Soros".
Citing George Soros as some kind of behind-the-scenes funder of nefarious schemes automatically raises – or should raise – alarm bells. You're not in good company. It's not a good look. But if that's what's happening then…that's what's happening. I was going to cast doubt on Jennifer Pritzker as well, but see that, yes, she was born James Pritzker, and is "the first and only openly transgender billionaire". Though I don't see what their being white has to do with anything, except as an easy term of disparagement in these BLM times.
Still….worth a read. There's more on how organisations like Stonewall UK, once their original aims of gay liberation had been achieved, bolted trans rights onto their campaigning and – as I noted last week – are now coining it in as self-styled "diversity champions", selling their snake-oil to government agencies, police forces, universities, and major companies.
In summary, the money invested by rich men, governments, technology, and pharmaceutical corporations effectively normalises transgenderism as a lifestyle choice. The micro-politics and the macro-politics of ‘identity’ interact to form one of the most misogynistic expressions of patriarchy in recent times under the guise of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
Here we are – New York, 1935. "Times Square — The Rialto, Seventh Avenue, Broadway south from W. 46th Street, N.Y. Times building, Paramount Theatre." America as we know and love it. Good to see you again.
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t the guard took the cover of blasphemy to save himself.
The manager was shifted to Lahore’s Services Hospital in a critical condition where he succumbed to his injuries on Thursday, the police said, adding that Nawaz has been arrested.
According to senior police officer Tariq Wilayat, Nawaz claimed that he opened fire at Hanif after he committed blasphemy.
This claim cannot be verified at this stage. Police are probing the matter from all the aspects including the statement of the deceased’s family that Nawaz killed him to settle a personal grudge against him, the officer said.
Hanif’s family said that Nawaz was fired a few months ago but he was subsequently reinstated. He nursed a grudge against Hanif over his sacking and both had a heated argument recently….
In a video posted on the social media, Nawaz can be heard saying he killed the bank manager because he had committed blasphemy.
Nawaz was seen being greeted by a crowd of supporters who also raised religious slogans and roamed in the city streets. Later, he surrendered himself before the police.
Leaders of some religious groups addressed the mob from the rooftop of the police station where he surrendered himself. Police officials were seen standing helplessly. No case was registered immediately.
Blasphemy is a hugely sensitive issue in Pakistan, with even unproven allegations often prompting mob violence. Anyone convicted or even just accused of insulting Islam risks a violent and bloody death at the hands of vigilantes.
Pakistan has extremely strict laws against defaming Islam, including the death penalty, and rights campaigners say they are often used to settle personal disputes in the Muslim-majority country.
In July, an American-Pakistani, who was facing blasphemy allegations, was shot dead in a courtroom by a teenager in Peshawar.
It would be a very brave judge indeed who sentenced the killer. Officials who defy the mob tend not to last very long.
