Amazon Quietly Pulls Book On Transgenderism As Crackdown On ‘Hate Speech’ Continues

Amazon pulled a second book critical of transgender identity theory from its online store this week as it moves to silence one side of the debate over LGBT issues.

The online retailer has removed Maria Keffler’s “Desist, Detrans, & Detox: Getting Your Child Out of the Gender Cult.” The newly released book had sold less than 100 copies across three platforms and had garnered less than a dozen Amazon reviews before it was pulled, according to Partners for Ethical Care (PEC). PEC noted that Amazon gave “no contact, no warning, no reason” before pulling the book.

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Syrian refugee ISIS-supporter murdered gay man and injured another for committing ‘grave sin’ of holding hands

A Syrian refugee in Germany who stabbed one man to death and seriously injured his partner because he saw them holding hands has gone on trial today.

The man, identified only as 21-year-old Abdullah AHH due to German privacy laws, is charged with one count of murder for fatally stabbing tourist Thomas L, 55, to death on the streets of Dresden in October last year.

He is also facing one count of attempted murder for attacking Thomas’s partner Oliver L, 53, with a different knife but failing to kill him.

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Iran’s State Media Says Jews Are the Problem — Not Israel

Iranian cartoon

Iran’s Al Alam TV again showed that its problem isn’t with Israel — but with all Jews.

An article railing against the UAE cooperation with Israel was illustrated with a photo of a bearded Jew in front of a menorah in Dubai. A caption read: “A dangerous and suspicious scheme revealed by the normal Gulf relations path”.

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Denmark strips Syrian refugees of residency permits and says it is safe to go home

Denmark has become the first European nation to revoke the residency permits of Syrian refugees, insisting that some parts of the war-torn country are safe to return to.

At least 189 Syrians have had applications for renewal of temporary residency status denied since last summer, a move the Danish authorities said was justified because of a report that found the security situation in some parts of Syria had “improved significantly”.

About 500 people originally from Damascus and surrounding areas were being re-evaluated.

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State actors are looking to join political parties to ‘exert influence,’ chair of security committee warns

State actors are looking to join political parties to ‘exert influence,’ chair of security committee warns

Foreign governments are looking to meddle in Canada’s democratic institutions and the government’s foreign interference warning system should alert Canadians to state actors’ “traditional” election tricks, says the chair of one of Canada’s national security committees.

Liberal MP David McGuinty, who has headed the secretive National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians since its inception, said the internal panel set up in 2019 to sound the alarm on election interference — the “critical election incident public protocol panel” — should have its mandate expanded to include old-school espionage techniques.

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Afghans face pivotal moment as US prepares to ‘close the book’

 

“We need to close the book on a 20-year war,” is how a US official put it when he broke the news on Tuesday that the last US troops would be out of Afghanistan by 11 September.

Two decades on, what does this “book” say about the country that some 10,000 US-led Nato forces will soon leave behind?

It’s a dramatically different country than the shattered land and pariah state of the Taliban toppled in the US-led invasion of 2001 after the 9/11 attacks.

But this withdrawal window is decisive. It could accelerate a push towards peace, or a descent into violence that shreds the more open society which has been taking root – however slowly and unevenly – over the past two decades.

Afghanistan has been in a state of fratricidal warfare since the Taliban entered the scene, this will increase in intensity about two minutes after the troops leave.

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On Iran, Biden Administration Ready to Undo Former Administration’s Work, whether It is Good for the World or Not?

“…Why on earth would the administration tell the Iranian leaders before negotiations that it is ready to lift sanctions while it has not yet received anything in return from the mullahs? The Iranian regime, of course, immediately scented weakness and desperation and began increasing its demands. The Biden administration then offered $1 billion to the mullahs in exchange for the regime freezing its production of 20% uranium enrichment. No, Iran wants more. Its leaders demanded $30 billion for one month of freeze.”

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Biden’s Team of Racists and Anti-Semites: An Anti-American Coalition in the Heart of the White House

Formally introducing his cabinet to the public, Joe Biden proudly declared: “This is the first [time] in American history that the cabinet looks like America.” Looking at the actual appointments and not just the gender, skin color, and ethnic origins of the Biden team, it is a team that may look like America but doesn’t think like America. In fact, it is a team whose outlook is anti-American.

It is a mystery…

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GUNTER: Canada rides the Trudeau Wave of COVID ineptitude

GUNTER: Canada rides the Trudeau Wave of COVID ineptitude

OK, we can’t call COVID-19 the Wuhan virus. (Although the hypocritical guardians of wokeness don’t seem to have any trouble in labelling the mutations the U.K. variant, the Brazil variant and the South Africa variant.)

But, can we at least agree to call the current third surge of the pandemic that is ravaging Canada the Trudeau Wave?

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Kimberly Potter to be charged with second-degree manslaughter in Daunte Wright shooting

Kimberly Potter, the former Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright after mistakenly drawing her gun instead of her Taser, will be charged with second-degree manslaughter, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Washington County Attorney Peter Orput, who is prosecuting the fatal incident, said details of the charges will be released later, according to the Twin Cities Pioneer Press.

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Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff dies in prison

NEW YORK (AP) — Bernie Madoff, the financier who pleaded guilty to orchestrating a massive Ponzi scheme, died in a federal prison early Wednesday, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. He was 82.

Madoff died at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, apparently from natural causes, the person said. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity.

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‘Communist’ BLM Grifter Patrisse Cullors defends her $3MILLION property portfolio claims questions about it are a ‘tactic of terror to silence her’

‘Communist’ BLM founder Patrisse Cullors defends her $3MILLION property portfolio – including private jet hangar in garden – and claims she’s not been paid since 2019 and questions about it are a ‘tactic of terror to silence her’

Critics of a Black Lives Matter co-founder’s recent multi-million dollar property spending spree have been described as promoting ‘a tradition of terror by white supremacists’ for questioning the $3 million portfolio accumulated by the self-professed ‘trained Marxist’.

Patrisse Cullors, 37, raised eyebrows last week when it emerged that she had spent $1.4 million on a Los Angeles property – her fourth home, and her third in the city – in an overwhelmingly white neighborhood.

The New York Post reported Cullors had also bought two other LA homes in recent years, and paid $415,000 for a 3.2 acre property in Georgia.

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Pacheedaht First Nation chiefs in Canada tell anti-logging protesters to get off their lands

Two chiefs of a First Nation in western Canada have told anti-old growth logging protesters camped out on their traditional lands to pack up and go home.

Operating under the banner of the Rainforest Flying Squad, a group of predominantly non-Indigenous activists have been blocking logging roads across a swath of southern Vancouver Island and calling for an immediate halt to old-growth logging since last August.

But in a letter released Monday, the Pacheedaht hereditary chief Frank Queesto Jones and chief councillor Jeff Jones say the nation has grown worried about the “increasing polarization” over forestry activities and the anti-old growth logging movement.

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Judge refuses request to acquit Chauvin in Floyd’s death

Judge refuses request to acquit Chauvin in Floyd’s death

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The judge at Derek Chauvin’s murder trial Wednesday turned down a defense request to acquit the former officer in George Floyd’s death.

Judge Peter Cahill pressed on with the case after Chauvin attorney Eric Nelson argued that prosecutors had failed to prove that Chauvin killed Floyd. Requests for an acquittal are routinely made midway through a trial and are usually denied.

Nelson said the prosecution’s expert witnesses gave conflicting opinions about what caused Floyd’s death after the 46-year-old Black man was pinned under the white officer’s knee for what authorities say was 9 1/2 minutes last May.


Derek Chauvin trial: Use of force ‘justified’ says defence expert

A police officer was “justified” in pinning George Floyd to the ground before his death, says a use-of-force expert called by the defence team.

Barry Brodd told the trial in Minnesota that Derek Chauvin – who denies murder – acted with “objective reasonableness” during the arrest last May.

Video of Mr Chauvin kneeling on the neck of Mr Floyd led to worldwide protests against racism and policing.


Head over to Legal Insurrection for live coverage… 

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