Girl weeps as she recalls seeing naked cross-dresser’s penis in women’s changing room at California YMCA – and says woke staff scolded her for complaining

A Californian teenager sobbed before the city council as she told of her trauma at seeing ‘a naked man’ she says was a transgender woman inside the women’s changing rooms at her local YMCA.

Rebecca Philips, 17, addressed the meeting in Santee, a city suburb of San Diego, on Wednesday night to demand reform to the existing policy after encountering the unidentified individual.

She told the council how, two weeks ago, she was getting changed after swimming at the Santee YMCA when she saw a transgender woman naked in the changing rooms.

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NHL Backtracks After DeSantis Alleges Discrimination in Minority-Only Hockey Event

The National Hockey League (NHL) has reacted to allegations of discrimination from the office of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by backtracking on some of the eligibility criteria for a job fair that was meant to be restricted to select minority groups.

A spokesperson for the NHL told The Epoch Times that the event—the Pathway to Hockey Summit—is now open to anyone 18 years of age or older and that the original wording for a LinkedIn announcement for the event was “not accurate.”

The NHL’s post on LinkedIn—which has since been deleted—said that the event was limited to a narrow range of job-seekers from a list of “underrepresented communities.”

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The EU Must Designate Iran’s IRGC as a Foreign Terrorist Organization

On January 16 the European Parliament will debate adding the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) to the European Union’s terrorist list. Proscribing the IRGC as a terror organization by the European countries represents a robust political stance, serving multiple purposes: protecting human rights in Iran, preventing further terror attacks in Europe, and punishing the Revolutionary Guards for arming Russia and participation in war in Ukraine.

The IRGC is the premier and the largest terrorist organization in the world, created on May 5, 1979, by order of Ayatollah Rohullah Khomeini, the founding father of the Islamic Revolution. It was formed primarily for two specific goals: defending the regime and exporting the Islamic revolution to neighboring countries through terrorism. Over time, the IRGC, aided by its proxies, carried out dozens of terror attacks around the world against American and Israeli targets and took effective control of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen.

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When Woke Sensitivity on ‘Islamophobia’ Surpasses That of Muslims

Mohammed Nagged by Transvestite Boyfriend

At one Minnesota university, administrators fired a professor for showing a painting of Mohammed that many Muslims are fine with.

In the past two decades, the world has seen various controversies over visual depictions of the prophet of Islam. They include the 2005 “cartoon crisis” in Denmark, where caricatures of Mohammad led to death threats and widespread violent protests, or the Charlie Hebdo affair in France, where similar cartoons published by the magazine in 2012 were followed by terrorist attacks that left twelve dead.

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Is the Deep State Coming After Joe Biden?

The leak from various federal law enforcement actors now, as Biden begins his second term, suggests there is real internal turmoil over at the Democratic National Committee.

The second half of Joe Biden’s presidential term has officially gotten off to an ignominious start.

Earlier in the week, CBS News first broke the story that Biden had been storing classified documents, taken from his previous stint as vice president to Barack Obama, at the Chinese-funded Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement “think tank.” Those classified documents were first identified by Biden’s personal attorneys, CBS reported, on Nov. 2—a full six days before the midterm elections. Richard Sauber, Biden’s special counsel, claimed that the White House counsel’s office quickly notified the National Archives, which seized the documents posthaste.

This would not surprise me.

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Urgently needed: An internet archive system for the pro-freedom right

Gaslighting over the banning of gas stoves underscores the need to keep facts inconvenient to the fascist far-left from disappearing down the memory hole.

You know the drill by now: Bloomberg News had a story on January 9: “US Safety Agency to Consider Ban on Gas Stoves Amid Health Fears,” based on one study.  The resulting backlash was swift and sure, but instead of admitting their mistake of banning first and asking questions later, national socialist media sources went for the propaganda options of denial and ridicule, because that’s always conducive to discourse in a free society that values liberty and limited government.

 

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How identity politics fuels anti-Semitism

A damning report about the National Union of Students shows that Jew hatred is festering in ‘progressive’ circles.

Published earlier this week, an independent report into anti-Semitism at the National Union of Students (NUS) makes for dispiriting reading. Written by barrister Rebecca Tuck, the report depicts an NUS that views anti-Semitism as a second-order problem, the scale of which is exaggerated by Jewish students. Too many NUS leaders seem to believe that anti-Semitism is far less important than other forms of discrimination.

Tuck’s report is damning. ‘For at least the last decade’, she argues, ‘Jewish students have not felt welcome or included in NUS spaces or elected roles’. Indeed, many Jewish students feel that the NUS treats them as pariahs. In numerous instances, leading NUS members have consciously downplayed the significance of instances of anti-Jewish hate.

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El Chapo’s daughter-in-law calls the shots for Sinaloa drug clan

Mexico’s new cartel queen comes from trafficking royalty. Not only is she the daughter-in-law of perhaps the most infamous drug lord of recent years, her father was a high-ranking Sinaloa enforcer until he was tortured and murdered.

Adriana Meza Torres, believed to be in her early 30s, is said to have established herself as a queenpin of Los Chapitos, a faction of the deadly Sinaloa cartel. Her husband, Ovidio Guzmán López, a son of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, was captured in a gunfight this month that claimed the lives of 29 people, ten of them Mexican troops.

Meza Torres is flaunting her newfound power, calling herself “boss’s wife” on social media and demonstrating her wealth in a series of flashy posts and videos on sites such as TikTok. Her apparent elevation to the role has been long in the making.

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The Ministry of Truth: the global strategy of information control, Part 1

KNOWLEDGE is power, explained Michel Foucault, and the powerful are unwilling to share it. Consider the allegedly lurid activities of President Joe Biden’s son, lurking on his misplaced laptop. Consider the multitude of VIPs who visited underage sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s island (the trial of accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell was not televised, and the clients for whom she trafficked victims has remained secret). Consider use of the Emergency Act to quash the Canadian truckers’ protest, and the redacted documents provided to the official inquiry on this extraordinary decision.  We, the ordinary people, are only an edited version of truth. 

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Federal employment growth is now out of hand

Rate of jobs growth more than three times greater than in private sector

We often talk about Canada’s poor productivity and low per capita income growth. What we don’t discuss is productivity in the public sector. The goal of governments may be to make our lives better but is a bigger public service really giving us a higher standard of living?

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The Political Class Hates Social Cohesion

… Crucially: Whereas our political classes routinely invoke economic rationale to make their desire for continuous migration seem neutral and necessary, they simply ignore the evidence that it reduces social trust. We cannot but conclude that, to them, social trust is not a good to be preserved. Indeed, economic determinism is often used to obscure social agendas and pretend non-economic goods like social trust are imprecise or ‘fuzzy’ categories.

The above social-scientific findings correspond to what the Amazon-owned Whole Foods company found when investigating the factors that lead to an increase of worker unionisation (unionisation being a useful proxy for social trust in this context).

After a leak of internal documents, it was revealed that low ethnic diversity was a predictor for higher unionisation: “stores at higher risk of unionizing have lower diversity.”

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China set for historic demographic turn, accelerated by COVID traumas

HONG KONG, Jan 13 (Reuters) – Living under China’s stringent COVID-19 restrictions for the past three years had caused Zhang Qi enough stress and uncertainty to consider not having babies in the country.

When China abruptly dismantled its “zero COVID” regime last month to let the virus spread freely, the balance tilted to a definite “No”, the Shanghai-based e-commerce executive said.

Stories about mothers and babies not being able to see doctors as medical facilities were overwhelmed by COVID infections were the final straw for Zhang.

China Has 10 Years Left, Says Geopolitical Analyst Peter Zaihan

A longer more wide ranging interview that also includes discussion of China

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Conrad Black: Jordan Peterson is only the beginning — professional organizations come for us all

Last week in this space, I inveighed against the College of Psychologists of Ontario’s assault upon the constitutionally guaranteed civil rights of my eminent friend and probably Canada’s greatest contemporary public intellectual, Dr. Jordan Peterson. Continuing in the same theme, I’ve been looking at this creeping and under-publicized phenomenon of professional and craft organizations stifling and regimenting their members, in particular the struggle that has been conducted for the last six years between the supporters of the Statement of Principles, the so-called SOP, and its resisters in the Law Society of Ontario, (the Bar of Ontario), generally known as StopSOP. No one would seriously dispute that these professions and all learned or skilled associations of specialists do require some level of group regulation to oversee admission and standards, and that, in principle, it is better to come from associations led by people elevated by and answerable to those pursuing the relevant occupations, rather than indulging the current ravening public sector ambition to impose its fiat on all of society like an attacking swarm of Sheridan battle tanks.

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