by Giulio Meotti

“Transgender women are women. Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people”.We only lacked the United Nations to join the crowd and take a stand against J.K. Rowling, the “Harry Potter” author accused of “transphobia” for a series of tweets and then an essay in which she claimed that sexual difference is real.

Four writers represented by Rowling’s literary agency, the Blair Partnership, have resigned after accusing the agency of refusing to issue “a public statement of support for transgender rights”. It comes after the attacks on Rowling by the actors made famous by “Harry Potter” – from Daniel Radcliffe to Emma Watson up to Rupert Grint – and the people at Warner and Universal, who came out against the writer.

A host of Hachette employees, the publishing house that will take care of publishing “The Ickabog”, the latest work by Rowling, put up a protest against the writer’s statements, claiming to be willing to abandon the project if they find it necessary.

Hachette employees are not new to this type of protest. A few months ago they clashed with the board of directors of the publishing house for the publication of Woody Allen’s memoirs and the project was eventually abandoned. The price for sacrificing Rowland was certainly too high, it is something like £ 795 million.

But what becomes of a much less famous but excellent writer who speaks out against gender theory? In the Wall Street Journal, Abigail Shrier told readers what is happening to her book, “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters”, an essay against gender theory. Its publisher, Regnery, received a response from Amazon that it would not be authorized to post a paid ad for the book. Amazon’s stated reason for blocking the ad – a simple cover image – was this: “It contains elements that challenge sexual orientation.”

A few days before that, a chorus of economists and former Fed chiefs and the usual digital herd on Twitter were all trying to destroy the director of one of America’s leading academic publications, Harald Uhlig of the University of Chicago, the best-known German economist in the United States, after he dared to criticize Black Lives Matter. The posts sparked a quick backlash, including criticism from several colleagues in Chicago and a petition calling on him to step down as editor of the Journal of Political Economy, one of the five industry magazines in America, which has now put him on leave. Then, as often happens in these lynchings, other journalists, like gravediggers, started doing digital archeology in the old Uhlig posts.

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Janet L. Yellen also campaigned against Uhlig. Speaking to Die Welt, Uhlig said: “The professors of economics should take a position from their ivory tower on specific topics [only].” The New York Times reported that she said in an email on Wednesday that “the tweets and blog posts by Harald Uhlig are extremely troubling” and that “it would be appropriate for the University of Chicago, which is the publisher of the Journal of Political Economy, to review Uhlig’s performance and suitability to continue as editor.”

Uhlig said he received many emails from colleagues who expressed solidarity with him, but who don’t dare to do so publicly. Some even wrote to him under a pseudonym. It is easy to understand why nowadays.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago said it had broken off relations with Uhlig. Paul Krugman of the New York Times also took position against Uhlig: “Another privileged white man who evidently can’t control his urge to belittle the concerns of those less fortunate”.

These are the type of idiotic and empty statements that media love.

Journalist Andrew Sullivan, who has just had a column in the New York Magazine on vandalismcensored following the killing of George Floyd, tweeted in defense of Uhlig.

Another economist, John Cochrane, formerly his colleague in Chicago and today at Stanford, has also joined Uhlig: “Why do I write? Sure, I’m just as afraid of the Red Guards of our twitter mob as the rest of you, and reluctant to offer contrary opinions. The Krugmans, Wolfers, and other assorted Jacobins are waiting for me to write or tweet one sentence that can be taken out of context and demand my head. I doubt the upper levels of administration at Stanford have any more spine in defense of conservative and libertarian speech than do those of Chicago. But we must speak for free speech before it’s too late”.

Judging by the amount of heads that are rolling in the “diversity” guillotine basket, perhaps it is already too late. Today it is the gender craze, tomorrow will be imaginary racism, everyday these failed censors find someone to burn at the stake to consolidate their power, careers and ideology. These idiots have taken over media, universities and publishing houses. We have no alternative but to fight them.

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An interesting question raised by Izabella Kaminska in an interesting Financial Times piece.

The last time chief executive Mark Zuckerberg put profits ahead of principles he was accused of facilitating Russian intervention in US elections. Bowing to boycotters — many of which are multinationals or, as in the case of Unilever, domiciled abroad — could qualify as a form of political intervention or silencing. 

Unilever is a British-Dutch company. Its headquarters is in the UK.

Its participation in the Facebook boycott, which is leveraged at censoring conservatives and, in particular, President Trump, is indeed a fairly blatant case of election interference, conspiring to prevent a political candidate and his supporters, from having a forum.

And not just any forum, but the largest forum around.

What is particularly damning is that Unilever’s boycott statement specifically mentioned the election.

Through this framework, we are actively engaging with all digital platforms to make meaningful change and impact trust and transparency. We have made substantial progress, and we acknowledge the efforts of our partners, but there is much more to be done, especially in the areas of divisiveness and hate speech during this polarized election period in the U.S

This is all Newspeak for censoring conservatives. And it specifically mentions the election period. 

Other foreign companies, including Adidas, Puma, Honda, and Volkswagen, the Nazi era German company, have also joined the attack on our political system.

Companies like Adidas, Puma, Coca Cola, Levi’s and many more have responded in the call out to Facebook to better police hateful, misleading and/or discriminatory comments.

Honda too is one of these companies. “For the month of July, American Honda is withholding its advertising on Facebook and Instagram. We choose to stand with people united against hate and racism. This is in alignment with our company’s values, which are grounded in human respect,” the Japanese car maker has said.

This is foreign election interference and much more serious than Democrat/media fantasies about Russia.

Foreign companies are working to suppress an American political candidate and party by boycotting a dominant social media platform.

President Trump has the ability to respond to this and should do so by imposing sanctions on the foreign companies interfering in our political system and on their products.

Those could also include sanctions against foreign CEOs such as Honda’s Takahiro Hochigo and Unilever’s Alan Jope for interfering in American elections.

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Electricity in an area of Berlin was cut off on Tuesday after far-left Antifa militants allegedly vandalised street lights by tearing out cables before members of the group set fires and vandalised property.

The rioters tore out cables from street lights in the Riga Strasse area of Berlin, a neighbourhood known for links to far-left Antifa extremism due to the street being the location of the notorious Riga 94 squat. The sabotage is said to have led to power outages from Liebigstrasse to Zellestrasse.After cutting power, the alleged Antifa extremists lit a fire in the area and built barricades. They were spotted shortly after midnight covering the facade of a local building with paint. Around 20 or so masked extremists, wearing black bloc-like apparel, were seen but ran when police arrived on the scene, Bild reports.

Around 1:10 am on Tuesday, witnesses said rioters started more fires and more residential buildings were covered in paint. Firefighters, accompanied by police, were able to put out the fires and restore order to the area by around 3:30 am.

According to Berlin police, four vehicles were “badly damaged”, and there were multiple cases of vandalism to local buildings. They added that the rioting had a political motive.

Bild reports that more far-left rioting is expected this coming weekend to coincide with the anniversary of the Liebigstrasse 34 squat. A Berlin court ruled that the occupants must leave the building, described by squatters as the “anarcho-queer-feminist house project Liebig 34”, earlier this month.

The riot is just the latest in the area which has been an Antifa stronghold in the city for decades. The German security agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), recently warned that far-left violence was increasing and had the potential to become deadly.

A recent BfV report stated: “Even the step of deliberately killing a political opponent no longer seems completely unthinkable.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/07/01/antifa-extremists-allegedly-cut-power-street-lights-berlin-prior-rioting/

In an unbearably brazen manner, a man on the Berlin suburban train attacks a woman. Pushes her out of the train. The man from Gambia reacts to hints that she will call the police and makes it clear that he has nothing to fear from the police, as can be seen on a video that is circulating on the net – and according to users is sometimes also quickly censored there. Only one man in the rather empty suburban train tries to interfere verbally and help the attacked woman. One scene shows another man hurriedly getting off – as if he did not hear the woman’s cries for help at all.

The video starts with a scene in which the man has built up aggressively in front of the woman kneeling on the floor next to a dog. The aggressor screams and yells, but the words are not audible. Among other things he yells several times in a scornful tone of voice: “Call the police”. The woman tries to avoid him. Once she holds her arm in front of her face to protect herself. She also asks the other inmates for help, more and more desperate. Not to be seen on the video: The 22-year-old is said to have kicked the woman, who may have come to the aid of another mentally retarded victim whom the man also attacked, in the stomach. Here is the video:

In fact, there is also a man who unsuccessfully and only verbally tries to calm the aggressive foul-mouth – but this does not stop the attacker from continuing to yell. At the next stop, the man pushes his victim onto the platform, goes after her and starts a scuffle. As he leaves her, he stands on the platform, still scolding, while the woman continues to ask for help: “Can you please help me, please. I’m being beaten up, please.” The attacker walks unhindered up the stairs and away.

Interesting is the way of coverage. The incident is reported in the major media, but one decisive aspect is largely either completely ignored or at best mentioned in passing: the obvious origin of the attacker, who only speaks broken German. Sometimes even the arms of the man are pixelated – which can only have one logical reason – one should not see the skin colour. (Screenshot below)

As much as on the one hand origin and skin colour should generally not matter – in this case they do and are of public interest. For in view of the current “Black Lives matter” movement, the incident almost inevitably raises the question of whether the fact that the attacker was a colored person played a role in the fact that only one passer-by intervened in an appeasing manner and the others ignored the cries for help.

Likewise, the question would have to be asked why the man apparently considered himself untouchable by the police and whether this has a connection with the fact that today, officials must have massive fear of accusations of racism and discrimination and, according to insiders, are often downright afraid to take action against people with a migration background and, above all, with a different skin colour. After the new Berlin anti-discrimination laws, they are even under general suspicion.

Imagine for a moment what the media echo would have looked like in a reversed constellation: if a white man had attacked a colored woman so brutally and no one had come to her aid. Would this also have been presented as an individual case in which the origin of the victim and the perpetrator as well as fundamental conflicts in our society mattered in no way? Or as evidence of racism and xenophobia, which would then have been the subject of much discussion?

The police have now identified the suspect. He is from Gambia. He was released immediately.

https://www.reitschuster.de/post/brutale-attacke-auf-frau-in-s-bahn-falsches-opfer?fbclid=IwAR3mdtpUep6N6gWOG_c1UK1IsNJra-mkwtWC8yc6fJAdj9mFxJlbCc0nnnc

It’s a case that leaves you speechless: In December 2017, four men raped a schoolgirl at a party in Hanover and videotaped it. The victim Samantha B. was only 15 years old at the time. Two of the four accused were sentenced in Hanover today: Ivan M. will be imprisoned for two years and five months, Feyzel S. for two years and three months.Samantha and her alleged torturers celebrated together at a party. There the then 15-year-old had sexual relations with several men. However, during the night so much alcohol is said to have flowed that the schoolgirl was completely defenceless and dazed.Four men then raped the then 15-year-old jointly. “The four men are said to have taken advantage of the victim’s inability to resist and sexually abused her”, court spokesman Koray Freudenberg said in an interview with RTL television.The four perpetrators recorded the gang rape on film. According to the court, this video was a decisive factor in the conviction of the men. The footage proves that Samantha B. was completely disoriented by the alcohol and had no chance to defend herself against the sexual abuse.

“The video shows my client being raped by four men in a row. They patted her in the face and she did not react,” said lawyer Björn Nordmann.

Only two of the four suspected men were convicted today in Hanover. Muhammed A, who is now 19 years old, lives in Austria and was sentenced there last year to a suspended sentence of six months.

Mostafa E. is still a resident of Lebanon and therefore could not appear in court today. According to the court spokesman, he visited his sick mother there. Since there are no flights from Lebanon to Germany at the moment, he could not appear at the court hearing. He will probably have to stand trial in July in another court case. The schoolgirl became pregnant by one of the men. She moved with her child into a mother-child facility. At the court in Hanover, the meanwhile 18-year-old appeared as a joint plaintiff. “I can only hope that the relationship between my client and her daughter will be as good as possible in the future and that the little one will have the best possible future ahead of her,” said her lawyer in an interview with the television station RTL.

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This man has killed a Cat (most likely a pet) only to cook it in broad daylight; Is this our reality from now on?