On men saying they are women when destined for prisons; on prison rapes as a torture tool used by you-know-who; why Canada won't be transparent about foreign influence unless it's coming from China, Russia or Iran; the producers of the neo-Nazi rallies in the USA; the Prigozhin paradox; Zionism. etc.

 

https://www.972mag.com/sde-teiman-prisoners-lawyer-mahajneh/

‘More horrific than Abu Ghraib’: Lawyer recounts visit to Israeli detention center

At Sde Teiman, Khaled Mahajneh found a detained journalist unrecognizable as he described the facility’s violent and inhumane conditions.

By Baker Zoubi June 27, 2024

“The situation there is more horrific than anything we’ve heard about Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.” This is how Khaled Mahajneh describes the Sde Teiman detention center as the first lawyer to visit the facility. More than 4,000 Palestinians whom Israel arrested in Gaza have been held at the military base in the Naqab/Negev since October 7; some of them have subsequently been released, but most remain in Israeli detention.

Mahajneh, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, was initially approached by Al Araby TV, which was seeking information about Muhammad Arab, a reporter for the network who was arrested in March while covering the Israeli siege of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. “I contacted the Israeli army’s control center, and after providing them with a photo and an ID card of the detainee, as well as my official power of attorney document, I was informed that [Arab] was being held at Sde Teiman and that he could be visited.”

When Mahajneh arrived at the base on June 19, he was required to leave his car far away from the site, where an army jeep was waiting to transport him inside. This was “something I had never encountered on any previous visit to any prison,” he told +972. They drove for about 10 minutes through the facility — a sprawling network of trailers — before arriving at a large warehouse, which contained a trailer guarded by masked soldiers.....

 

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https://reduxx.info/uk-trans-identified-male-found-guilty-of-rape-claimed-to-have-been-regular-bbc-guest/

UK: Trans-Identified Male Found Guilty Of Rape Claimed To Have Been Regular BBC Guest

By Reduxx Team

July 3, 2024

A trans-identified male has been found guilty of rape after sexually attacking a woman during a night out. Lexi Secker, previously known as Alexander Secker, was said to have committed the crime when he was “living as a man.”

The assault is said to have taken place in Blunsdon, Wiltshire, in April of 2023. While details are extremely limited, it is known that Secker began identifying as woman in the period between the assault and his court hearings.

But in a statement on the arrest, Wiltshire Police referred to Secker as a “person convicted of rape,” adding that he was recorded as a male by police but “tried as a woman” in court.

In subsequent coverage by the BBC, feminine pronouns were used for Secker. A photo of the criminal was noticeably absent from reports on the conviction, which had sparse details on the incident beyond noting he had been remanded into custody awaiting sentencing............

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https://dimitrilascaris.org/2024/06/30/is-canadas-parliament-concealing-embarrassing-information-about-canadas-allies/

By Dimitri Lascaris

 Posted June 30, 2024

Earlier this month, the Canadian Parliament’s National Security and Intelligence Committee (NSICOP) released an 84-page, special report on alleged foreign interference in Canada’s “democratic processes and institutions”.

Initially, the committee delivered its special report to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on March 22 of this year.

As a result of mounting controversy around allegations of foreign interference in Canada, NSICOP then publicly released a heavily redacted version of its special report.

How can an evidence-free report be “damning”?

Predictably, Canada’s corporate media described the report as “shocking“, “explosive” and “damning“. They did so despite the fact (which the media ignored) that the report is totally devoid of evidence.

I’ve read the report twice. I did so from the perspective of a litigator. That is, to assess whether NSICOP’s allegations were supported by persuasive evidence, I brought to bear my extensive experience in evaluating evidence........

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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hidden-history-robert-muellers-right-wing-terror-factory-part-1

The Hidden History Of Robert Mueller's Right-Wing Terror Factory, Part 1

 Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA,

In 2007, Orlando residents were furious to discover that an FBI informant had organized a neo-Nazi rally through one of the city’s mostly black neighborhoods a year earlier.

“To come into a predominantly black community, which could have resulted in great harm to the black community? I would hate to be part of a game,” Orlando City Councilwoman Daisy Lynum said at the time, calling for a “full-scale investigation” into the matter.

 However, an FBI agent testified that his informant participated in the event, but didn’t organize it. The city’s uproar passed without a public investigation, full-scale or otherwise—until now.

Thanks to a trove of previously unpublicized law enforcement records and interviews with several players involved, Headline USA can reveal that the Orlando neo-Nazi rally was indeed organized by the FBI. The Orlando event also seems to have been part of a larger program to hold Nazi rallies across the country. And according to FBI records, the bureau sponsored those events despite knowing they led to an increase in the number of card-carrying Nazis in America.

Moreover, the FBI’s Nazi rallies led to a much larger operation to target right-wing groups. Dubbed “Primitive Affliction,” the operation featured a motorcycle front group, rogue undercover agents, Outlaw bikers, Satanists, bomb-makers and a fugitive on the lam in Mexico.......

 

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https://news.antiwar.com/2024/06/25/high-court-rules-ultra-orthodox-men-are-subject-to-draft-threatening-netanyahus-coalition/

 High Court Rules Ultra-Orthodox Men Are Subject to Draft, Threatening Netanyahu’s Coalition

The ultra-orthodox parties in Netanyahu’s government condemned the ruling

by Connor Freeman June 25, 2024 at 8:09 pm 

Israel’s high court ruled that men in the ultra-Orthodox community are subject to conscription on Tuesday. The community, known as the Haredim, is politically powerful, subsidized by the citizenry, and until now had been unaffected by the mass mandatory enlistment. This is a heavily contentious issue as more than 600 Israeli soldiers have been killed and thousands more wounded in Gaza, and the ruling could spell trouble for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fragile ruling coalition.

The court’s decree, which was unanimously supported by all nine justices, says “At the height of a difficult war, the burden of inequality is more than ever acute.” It also stipulates that, if they refuse military service in the absence of a formal exemption, ultra-Orthodox men studying at Yeshivas will lose their taxpayer funding.

The secular and non-Orthodox population including men and women have long been subject to mandatory enlistment, “[serving] three and two years respectively as well as reserve duty until around age 40,” the Associated Press notes. Naturally, they view the previous status quo as discriminatory. Whereas, for decades, the Haredim have vehemently opposed military service while enjoying their exemption. The dispute has boiled over now as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been bogged down in the Gaza slaughter campaign, while concurrently Tel Aviv seems ready to drastically escalate the burgeoning war with Lebanon.

Opposition parties on the left and right have praised the long-awaited change in policy. The Movement for Quality Government issued a statement calling the high court decision “a historic triumph for the rule of law and the principle of equal military service burden.” The same party led the petition to the court and has now implored Defense Minister Yoav Gallant to immediately draft Haredi men.....................

 

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https://www.rt.com/russia/599771-prigozhin-paradox-wagner-mutiny/

 

By Roman Shumov, a Russian historian focused on conflicts and international politics

The Prigozhin paradox: What was Russia’s Wagner PMC and how did its June 23 mutiny happen?

The now fighting group was the stuff of legend before it came out of the shadows. Then like Icarus it flew too close to the Sun 

 

On June 23, 2023, one of the most mysterious events in modern Russian history kicked off. Units of PMC Wagner – at the time a highly combat-ready but also historically unusual component of the Russian Armed Forces – withdrew from the theater of operations in Ukraine.

Restaurateur and musician

The story of the Wagner mutiny cannot be told without the story of the people behind the creation of the PMC. The main figure is Yevgeny Prigozhin, a St. Petersburg businessman who rose from humble beginnings to become a wealthy tycoon. His youth was turbulent, and in the early 1990s, as the USSR collapsed, he went into business, far removed from military affairs. Prigozhin was a restaurateur. He started by selling hot dogs, but quickly acquired money and ambition and began to open restaurants in St. Petersburg to suit all tastes and budgets. By the end of the 1990s, Prigozhin ran a chain of restaurants and a catering company, and was well known to the establishment of the city on the Neva. When Vladimir Putin, also from St. Petersburg, became president of Russia, Prigozhin found more success. He was involved in organizing catering in schools and then in the army, construction and other projects. The businessman tried to keep a low profile, but in the 2010s became increasingly involved in politics.......

 

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https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/zionism-is-the-exact-opposite-of

 Caitlin Johnstone

Jun 21, 2024

 

Zionism Is The Exact Opposite Of Spirituality

It takes a profound cruelty to support raining tens of thousands of tons of military explosives onto a giant concentration camp full of children. It takes outright malignant narcissism to expect everyone to accept this, and to act wounded and indignant when they don’t.

Zionism is like the exact opposite of people who identify as “spiritual but not religious”; it’s religion stripped bare of all spirituality until it’s nothing but a shitty political ideology that’s ultimately really about land, western imperialism, and geostrategic control.

People feel called to religion because there’s something in all of us that tells us this world isn’t quite what it seems, like there’s some wondrous mystery lurking just below the surface (really what they’re experiencing is an uncomfortable dissonance with the delusion of egoic consciousness and an impulse to try and awaken from it, but that’s a story for another time). So they look to their religion to tell them how to have a living spirituality that gives them what they’re craving, and, if they are involved in certain Christian or Jewish sects, they’ll be told that they can obtain what they long for by getting passionately engaged on issues regarding the military and geopolitical objectives of a small country on the other side of the planet.