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Marxists seek to destabilize American society through sexualization of young people: James Lindsay

Hannah Ng and David Zhang
The Epoch Times
Sun, 24 Apr 2022 00:01 UTC
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© Brendon Fallon/The Epoch TimesJames Lindsay, co-author of "Cynical Theories," in New York on Feb. 28, 2020.
Young people in the United States are being subjected to communist-style sexualization, according to author and expert James Lindsay.

The goal is to destabilize society to make it ripe for communists to grab power, Lindsay, author of "Race Marxism" and "Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody," recently told EpochTV's "China Insider" program.

And their plan has been afoot for more than a century.

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'I don't care what a bunch of 19-year-old gender-studies students think,' says boss of new publishing imprint offering a home to 'cancelled' authors

Charlotte Lytton
The Telegraph
Sun, 24 Apr 2022 05:00 UTC
trans activists
© Brighton PicturesPublish and be damned: Sussex University protesters rallying against Kathleen.
Mavericks, apostates, contrarians: all are welcome at Forum, a new publishing imprint catering to the "politically homeless". As the industry finds itself lurching from one cancel-culture row to the next, with authors seeing their books commissioned and then scrapped before even reaching publication, the outfit - current team size: one - hopes to become the "go-to publisher for anyone who doesn't easily fit in with the orthodoxies and intellectual policing that have become so common in the 21st century".

It's being headed up by George Owers, a 33-year-old ex-Labour councillor and "Tory socialist" who has strong opinions about the current state of the industry. "There's a lot of spinelessness in publishing [and] a very narrow band of political views," he says when we meet in a Cambridge pub. "You'd be hard pressed to find somebody who votes Tory, or even somebody who has the views that 90 per cent of the rest of the population have on all kinds of issues like Brexit or trans rights."

This groupthink, Owers believes, is doing readers a disservice. "People are sick of the same old stuff and they want to hear a different perspective." Indeed, the "cancelled" could prove to be a literary cash cow - both in terms of demand, and because authors deemed too unpalatable to be published elsewhere come to presses like Forum "cheap".

Comment: There are a number of companies that are carving out new niches for themselves by picking 'cancelled' artists whose works the public still want to consume. Be they authors, actors, filmmakers, musicians - there is a big market for 'controversial' artists who dare to go against orthodoxy.

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Butterfly

Haul of hundreds of stuffed endangered animals worth €29m seized by police in Spain


The Guardian
Sun, 10 Apr 2022 14:34 UTC
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© Spanish Guardia Civil/AFP/Getty ImagesPolice inspect some of the stuffed animals seized in Bétera.
Police in Spain have seized one of the largest hauls of taxidermy animals in Europe as they investigate potential smuggling, after a warehouse in Valencia was found to contain stuffed rhinos, polar bears, elephants and other animals.


Comment: And expertly done too; likely for discerning, and wealthy, clientelle. It's probably no surprise that we rarely see them convicted.


The Guardia Civil discovered more than 1,000 specimens in a 50,000 sq metre (538,000 sq ft) industrial warehouse in Bétera, Valencia, on Wednesday, it said in a statement on Sunday.

The haul included more than 400 protected species, including some that have been extinct in the wild, such as the scimitar oryx, or severely threatened, such as the Bengal tiger. Others included lions, leopards, cheetahs and lynx.
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Disney has lost $34 billion in value since embarking on culture war with Florida

Tom Ozimek
The Epoch Times
Sun, 24 Apr 2022 00:01 UTC
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© Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via APGuests wear masks as required to attend the official reopening day of the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla, on, July 11, 2020.
Disney's market cap has shrunk by nearly $34 billion since the company expressed its full-throated opposition to a Florida law banning instruction of gender identity and sexual orientation in public schools for kindergarten through third grade.

Florida lawmakers in March passed HB 1557, dubbed by opponents as the "Don't Say Gay" bill, which was signed into law by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on March 28.

That same day, Disney waded deeply into the controversy, issuing a statement that was highly critical of HB 1557, saying it was the company's objective to have it repealed. From March 28, the day the company issued the statement, to April 22, Disney's market cap has fallen by roughly $33.9 billion.

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Marijuana

Washington lawmakers claim term 'marijuana' is racist, remove it from state laws

James Anthony
The Post Millennial
Sun, 24 Apr 2022 19:36 UTC
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A bill in Washington will soon take effect striking the word "marijuana" from all state laws after progressive lawmakers deemed the term "racist." The change removes the word, swapping it out for the term "cannabis" instead.

Gov. Jay Inslee signed the bill, which passed unanimously and changes every Revised Code of Washington, into law March 11. The changes take effect in June.

Supporters of the bill, House Bill 1210, say the word "marijuana" has a long history of racism, claiming its usage is racist against black and brown people.

Comment: Notice they don't indicate why the word is pejorative or racist. The plant has been referred to as marijuana for decades (maybe longer) and for most people has no association whatsoever with race. File this one under "Leftist Logic" and move on.

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Catholic priest, nun injured in stabbing attack at French church

Leif Le Mahieu
The Daily Wire
Mon, 25 Apr 2022 00:01 UTC
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A man stabbed a Catholic priest several times and injured a nun at a French church on Sunday after shouting, "We have to kill Macron."

Both the priest and the nun survived the attack, which took place at a church in Nice beside the French Riviera. The motives of the suspect, who was taken into custody by police, are still unclear, although his mental faculties had been under watch.

The nun, Sister Marie-Claude, was injured while trying to stop the attacker from stabbing the priest, Father Christophe. Her actions were praised as heroic and she was credited for having "extraordinary courage."

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Climate activist dies after setting himself on fire outside Supreme Court

Hannah Nightingale
The Post Millennial
Sun, 24 Apr 2022 22:43 UTC
climate activist burns himself alive
A climate activist by the name of Wynn Bruce has died after he set himself on fire outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on Earth Day.


Comment: This man wasn't a hero. He was a deeply disturbed individual caught up in a scam perpetrated by the elites on the populace. To say he killed himself in vain is an epic understatement.

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Boat

Global shipping update: China is about to wreck your summer

Mish
Mish Talk
Sat, 23 Apr 2022 06:29 UTC
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Vessels Waiting to Enter Port of Shanghai


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People

Over 60% of French voters against Macron securing majority in parliament this summer, poll reveals


Sputnik
Mon, 25 Apr 2022 06:16 UTC
macron vs marine le pen
© AP Photo / Jeremias Gonzalez
More than 60 percent of French voters do not want President Emmanuel Macron to get a majority in the National Assembly in the coming parliamentary elections that will be held in June, a new poll reveals.

The majority of French people do not want Macron to win in the June legislative elections: 63 percent of those questioned said they want Macron not to have a majority in parliament, while 35 percent said they do want him to secure a majority, according to an Opinionway poll conducted for Cnews and Europe 1.

The survey was conducted on Sunday, among 1,300 French voters, after the first results of the presidential election runoff were published.

Asked about who they would favour as prime minister, 46 percent chose Marine Le Pen, 44 percent said they favoured Jean-Luc Melenchon, while 8 percent sided with Valerie Pecresse (the presidential candidate from The Republicans party).

49 percent of the respondents said they were satisfied with the results of the second round of the French presidential election; the same number of participants said they were not satisfied with the outcome of the vote.

The French presidential election runoff was held on Sunday, 24 April. The French Interior Ministry said after processing 100 percent of the ballots that Incumbent President Emmanuel Macron won with 58.55 percent of the votes, while far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen secured 41.45 percent.

During the first round, held on 10 April, Macron won 27.84 percent, while Le Pen secured 23.15 percent of the votes.
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Attention

Two men and a woman stabbed and several others injured in Warwickshire market town attack

Jack Wright
Daily Mail
Sat, 23 Apr 2022 18:36 UTC
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Google Streetview of Leicester Road in Bedworth, Warwickshire, where a man allegedly stabbed and attacked several people with a pair of scissors on Saturday morning
Two men and a woman have been stabbed and several others injured by a suspected lone attacker in a market town in Warwickshire.

A shopkeeper claimed a man 'assaulted people coming from town and supposedly kicked a man's dog' before 'pulling a pair of scissors on staff' inside a shop in Bedworth, near Coventry, at 8am on Saturday.

One of the victims, a man in his 20s, was in a stable condition in hospital on Saturday evening, while the second man and a woman had been discharged.

Police said the suspect, who allegedly had to be tasered during his arrest, will have his mental health assessed.

'One of our customers was going into the town, the man had a go at him, then they came back up here covered in blood', the shopkeeper told the Coventry Telegraph.

The suspected attacker allegedly threatened people as he stormed up and down Leicester Road, near to the One Stop store in the town.

Police have since issued an appeal for other potential victims to come forward.
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