By Andrea Widburg

H.L. Mencken famously said that “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” The Biden-era version of this statement is that “Wokeness is the theory that the self-styled elite know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” Joe Biden is mostly hurting ordinary Americans by destroying jobs and increasing race hatred. But he’s managed to sign one executive order that will ruin life for many of his supporters, and that’s the one about so-called “transgender” athletes. This one’s going to ream the middle- and upper-middle classes who voted for him.

One of the very first executive orders Biden signed is one on “preventing and combating discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation.” As I discuss this, keep in mind that the so-called “transgender” crowd – that is, people with severe body dysmorphia who think their actual sex is the opposite of their biological sex – are an infinitely small percentage of the total American population, despite their preeminence on the Democrat side of politics. As written, the order mandates that mentally ill boys and men who think they’re women must be allowed onto girls and women’s sports teams – as well as getting into their locker rooms.

Let me immediately acknowledge that this is going to be hard on athletic girls and women who are conservatives. I am deeply sorry for them.

But think about this: American colleges and universities are a Democrat rite of passage. While normal people are learning to cringe when looking at these leftist nursery schools and loony bins for adults, in Democrat houses, academia is the holy grail.

Starting when they’re two, these kids are groomed for college. That’s what their entire childhood is about. And for many of these Democrat families, college is not affordable. Poorer kids get scholarships, grants, and discounts; richer kids have the wherewithal to pay for it. But for the leftist middle class, the alternatives to draining the family bank account are burdensome loans or . . . athletic scholarships.

I know a lot of talented young female athletes who got into college on these athletic scholarships, only one of whom came from a conservative family. The rest are leftists whose daughters play sports and get liberal arts, or climate studies, social justice degrees. These young women are going to find that they’re getting edged out of athletic scholarships in favor of young men who run and swim faster, jump higher, and kick further than the girls do. Even lousy boys beat good women at sports. Bye-bye, scholarships.

And given the competition for places in college and the expense, I’m willing to bet that enterprising young men and their families might discover the virtues of gender fluidity when it comes to scholarships. The great thing about modern gender fluidity is that you don’t need to have surgery and you don’t even need to give up women. You can just claim to be a lesbian.

And in that regard, I will tell you a true story. A woman I know met up with her father after her mother died. To her surprise, her father was kitted out in women’s clothes. He announced that he was transgender and would soon be having the surgery. She saw her father a year later and was surprised to see that he was back in men’s clothes and clearly hadn’t been sliced, diced, and doused with hormones. He explained that he had realized that he wasn’t just a woman in a man’s body. He was a lesbian in a man’s body – and had better success with women when he looked like a man.

He is not unique. It’s not uncommon for people to announce that they are transgender while continuing with the opposite sex partners they had before their gender epiphanies.

I’ll say what I always on this subject. I’m deeply sorry for people suffering from body dysmorphia and will always treat them with respect (provided that they return the respect). However, a society that buys into people’s delusions is a society in trouble. In this case, that trouble will strongly affect the very same political classes who support this retreat from reality. In other words, leftists are about to see their daughters and their bank accounts get hit good and hard by their wokeness.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/bidens_order_about_transgender_athletes_is_a_great_thing.html

Yesterday there were riots at the Blažuju migrant camp near Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina, around 2,000 migrants were involved, the trigger: abusive words about the Prophet Mohammed.

Several migrants and refugees were arrested after the mass brawl between two groups at the reception centre in Blažuj near Sarajevo. Their conflict soon turned into a mass brawl and attacks on the police, who intervened. Two police officers and an employee of the International Organisation for Migration, which manages the camp, were injured. It was one of the biggest incidents since Bosnia and Herzegovina suffered a migrant crisis. The migrant who caused the incident is awaiting deportation from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

https://politikstube.com/nahe-sarajevo-bosnien-tumulte-im-migrantenlager-blazuju/

French President Emmanuel Macron received on Monday the signatories of the charter of the French Council of Muslim Cults, (CFCM), which he hopes will be instrumental in his offensive against Islamic separatism, but 

But French author and philosopher Eric Zemmour, who is Jewish and well-known for his position against mass immigration, warns that despite whatever their leaders might have signed, Muslims will continue to do whatever they please.

“The charter that the state is signing with the Muslims is absolutely useless. They will still do what they want,” Zemmour said on CNews television’s evening political talk show.

The charter is also supposed to be instrumental in creating a national council of imams in the country,

“With this charter, which looks very good… there are undeniable advances, I don’t want to deny. But as we are under the law of 1905, we will absolutely not be able to impose this charter on Muslims,” Zemmour said.

By the law of 1905, Zemmour was referring to the milestone law passed on Dec. 9, 1905 on the separation of churches and the state, which among others ended government funding of religious groups and nationalized all religious buildings. 

“Seventy percent of the Muslims say in the polls that they do not even know the CFCM and that it is not for the CFCM or the French State to tell them that it is theirs. religion, we start from zero.”, Zemmour said. According to him, France is moving “towards the worst of systems”, with on the one hand “the charter which will not be respected”, and on the other which is “secularism but without assimilation”. The columnist finally considers that the “Castex government does not dare to assume or impose the ban on the veil for little girls in public space”.

The charter contains ten articles. The sixth, probably the most anticipated, is devoted to “the rejection of all forms of interference and the instrumentalization of Islam for political ends”. Places of worship must therefore not be used to disseminate “nationalist speeches defending foreign regimes and supporting foreign policies hostile to France”.

Zemmour is one of the most popular conservative commentators in France and has been active in stance against continued migration, saying that, “Immigration changes the makeup of a people. It is a crime against the European peoples, it will end in bloodshed.”

Zemmour: France’s new Muslim charter ‘doesn’t mean anything’

On February 4, a court in Antwerp, Belgium, announces a verdict in a trial of three conspirators on suspicion of terrorism with Assadollah Assadi, a senior diplomat at the Iranian embassy in Vienna.

On July 1, 2018, Asadi was arrested and charged with giving an Iranian / Belgian couple 500 grams of TATP high explosive and a detonator from Antwerp. He handed the bomb to Amir Saadouni, 40, and his wife, Nasimeh Naami, 36, at the Pizza Hut restaurant in Place d’Armes, Luxembourg. Both are from Iran.

Asadi instructed them to detonate a bomb at a major rally of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which was attended by tens of thousands of people in Bilpunt near Paris. Another conspirator, Mehrdad Arefani, was posted as a lookout for the rally. The event was addressed by key politicians and government officials, including former Speaker of the United States House Newt Gingrich, former British Cabinet Minister Teresa Villas, and former Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

“The plan for the attack was devised under the guidance of Iran, not a matter of Asadi’s personal initiative,” said Jaak Raes, head of VSSE at the State Security Service of Belgium. If the bombing project was successful, it could have killed hundreds of men, women and children in European soil.

https://newyorknewstimes.com/irans-mullah-faces-european-justice/85883/

The most important lesson to be drawn from the Corona crisis appears that it has become a great risk to be a retirement home resident. If one is assigned to such an institution, one invariably gives up basic human rights. At first it was “only” the restrictions on freedom of movement and contact with loved ones that the elderly had to endure, but now it is the Corona vaccination, which one can hardly avoid in these custodial institutions.

There have been increasing reports of deaths in old people’s homes following the mass vaccinations of residents. Some 23 cases were recently reported from Norway. Nursing home residents accounted for nearly half of the dead in Sweden at one point. In Germany, a series of deaths in a nursing home in the Miesbach district in Upper Bavaria has been noted.

As the Miesbach district office reported, 41 residents in a senior citizens facility had tested positive for the Coronavirus. As in Norway, 34 of these had previously received a vaccine from BioNTech/Pfizer. Seven of the vaccinated residents died, and among the non-vaccinated there was only one fatality. Before the vaccination campaign, there were only five corona fatalities in the old people’s homes in the Miesbach district from March to December.

“Due to the short time between vaccination and outbreak, it can be assumed that the vaccinated had already been infected at the time of vaccination,” the official statement read. In addition, the district office pointed out that “full vaccination protection” only occurs after the second vaccination.

Does the vaccine promote the onset of the disease? It is more obvious, however, that the vaccination in the presence of Corona viruses in the subject’s body promotes the outbreak and subsequent fatal course of Covid-19.

And before this suspicion is completely dispelled, it borders on gross negligence to continue to carry out mass vaccinations in old people’s homes. However, political interests stand in the way of such an investigation, so there will likely be many more victims before anything in this direction is done.

The Moderna and Pfizer trials have explicitly acknowledged that their untested gene therapy technology has no impact on viral infection or transmission whatsoever and merely conveys to the recipient the capacity to produce an S1 spike protein endogenously by the introduction of a synthetic mRNA sequence. It should be underscored that the term “vaccine” means a specially prepared antigen which, upon administration to a person, will result in immunity.

The German anti-vaccine journalist Boris Reitschuster, pointed out on his website that there has been no evidence that either the BioNTech vaccine or the Moderna helped people over 74 years of age.

Vaccination, according to politicians and the media, is currently the most important strategy in dealing with the Coronavirus. But there are three sober facts to be considered: Firstly, according to the German government itself, it is not yet known whether a vaccination protects against the transmission of the virus at all. Secondly, it does not protect against an illness itself, but against a severe infection. And thirdly, that these severe, life-threatening infections are very rare in younger to middle-aged people. However, this is not the case with the elderly and especially the very old, for whom SARS-CoV-2 can pose a fatal risk in many cases. The logical conclusion: especially the elderly must be vaccinated. And that is exactly what the vaccination recommendations are based on.

But in the 74-page “Epidemiological Bulletin 2/2021” of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) from January 14 on page 27, it states: “The age-stratified analysis also showed comparably high effectiveness estimates, which, however, with decreasing age groups or case numbers, in some cases showed wide confidence intervals or were no longer statistically significant. In the highest age group (≥ 75 years), therefore, a statement about the effectiveness of the vaccination is fraught with high uncertainty.”

This “high uncertainty” is mainly due to the fact that not even five percent of the 40 000 participants in the study were older than 75 years. Curious, when one considers that the vaccine is especially recommended for this group.

There remains great fear in Europe of genetically modified maize. In contrast, a vaccination strategy that introduces artificially generated genes into the organism, is poorly researched, and carries the risk of serious side effects, is somehow acceptable.

Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) has meanwhile suggested that the reintroduction of border controls to neighboring countries could become a reality. “If countries decide to go completely different ways, which I don’t see at the moment, but could eventually happen, then you have to be ready to the extreme and say: Then we have to reintroduce border controls,” she said on Tuesday evening after the Consultations with the prime ministers of the federal states.

Meanwhile, the AfD criticized the extensions and tightening of the Corona measures. The chairman of the parliamentary group, Alexander Gauland, announced: “Continuous school closings, arbitrarily imposed mask requirements and home office regulations that cannot be implemented in practice bring no improvement to the protection of the particularly endangered elderly and nursing home residents, which has been neglected for months.” Politicians accused the grand coalition of having also failed in the vaccination organization.

Co-parliamentary group leader Alice Weidel spoke of a “vicious circle of ever new extensions and tightening of the ineffective lockdown”. In this way school and university students, children and families, workers, middle classes and businesses were the main victims of a failed policy.

Christian Lindner, chairman of the FDP, was also skeptical. In a statement he said: “We will be in the pandemic for almost a year. The lockdown, intended as a breakwater, has been in place since November. Who actually thinks that it will be lifted on February 14?” A step-by-step plan and clear alternative concepts are finally needed.

The Greens co-chair Annalena Baerbock emphasized on the one hand the need for further measures. At the same time, she criticized the lack of solutions for the children in view of the extended school closings. It is not clear how the students who cannot study from home could be reached, she told the broadcaster n-tv. She called on Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) to allow Corona rapid tests for citizens.

Left party leader Katja Kipping praised the commitment to home office as a result of the conference between the federal government and the states. However, it should have been clearer. On the other hand, the continued school closings exacerbated social problems. In addition, the federal government has so far not been able to provide children from socially disadvantaged families with devices for distance learning.

The steps to combat the pandemic decided on Tuesday include, in addition to continuing the school closings and extending the lockdown until mid-February, a stricter mask requirement. Private gatherings are limited to your own household and one other, external person.

https://freewestmedia.com/2021/01/21/seven-dead-after-corona-vaccination-in-german-old-peoples-home/

January 2020. One year ago.

It was the decisive month to stop the infection. But “for the whole month of January”, the Associated Press said that WHO officials have repeatedly complained that the Chinese authorities did not share material on the virus and the epidemic. But they did their complaining “in private”, in internal communications, while in public they praised the Chinese regime.

Not only AP. Taiwanese officials warned WHO as early as December 31 that they saw evidence that the SARS-Cov2 virus could be transmitted from human to human. But the UN agency, bowing to Beijing, ignored Taiwan. And in a note dated January 14, WHO explained: “The preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no evidence of human-to-human transmission”.

A year later, December 2020, WHO arrives in China to ascertain the origin of the pandemic. But, writes the New York Times, the UN agency has given the Chinese the reins of the investigation.

It was January, we said, and seated next to Chinese President Xi Jinping in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, the Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said: “We appreciate the seriousness with which China is dealing with this outbreak and the transparency it has shown”.

Seriousness and transparency? Did he mean censorship and lies?

By that time, China had reported more than 4,500 cases and over 70 people in other countries had fallen ill. Meanwhile, more than 5 million people had left or fled Wuhan, including the patient who is the first confirmed case of the virus in the US.

Tedros was a controversial choice. In Ethiopia he served as Health Minister (2005-12) and Foreign Minister (2012-16). In those years, China invested in Ethiopia and lent it billions of dollars. On February 20 at the Munich Security Conference, Tedros again paid tribute to Beijing, stating that “China has bought the world time.”

On January 23, the WHO emergency committee split over whether to declare Covid a health emergency. Tedros chose to wait. The virus had already spread to several countries and making such a statement would have let the world prepare better.

A week later he was forced by the evidence to declare an emergency. But by that time, confirmed Covid cases had increased tenfold. And all this time the WHO has been asking European countries to leave flights to and from China open.

Donald Trump was right about the WHO, calling it a “puppet of China”.

Not only that, but Taiwan, which has been very successful in stopping the epidemic, cannot speak about it in WHO meetings. China would be furious. The WHO would declare the coronavirus a pandemic only on 11 March. But at that point the official case count worldwide was 118,000 people in 114 countries. It was out of control.

The ongoing outbreak will offer many lessons on what to do to save more lives and do less economic damage during the next pandemic. But there is already a way to ensure that future pandemics are less deadly: abolish the World Health Organization.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/295274