Author: Mick Hartley

es of baghy (armed rebellion).

Mohammadi is a 45-year-old workers’ rights activist from Mianeh in Eastern Azerbaijan who resided in Rasht. She was arrested on 5 December 2023 and held in solitary confinement and denied access to phone calls and visits. According to reports, she was subjected to severe psychological and physical torture to extract forced confessions.

The latest ruling sparked outrage as the Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) condemns Mohammadi’s death sentence, calling it "a part of the Islamic Republic’s campaign of intimidation following the nationwide “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests.

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"There was nowhere I could have gone, it was one road."

Ms Browne was forced to run alongside them which she said was "humiliating".

"That really put me off running," she said. "I just remember going home crying my eyes out."

She said she felt there was "literally nowhere for me to go" where she would be "free from harassment or male violence".

The list of male harassments goes on…and on.

Ms Browne said when women are murdered or sexually assaulted they are portrayed as "isolated incidents" but "they've not just spawned out of nowhere".

"It comes from a larger issue, which is behavioural and structural," she said. "They might be your friend, your brother, your family member."

She said that while "the average day-to-day man does not hold the power to change an entire economic political system, everyday men do have the power to call each other out on their behaviour, reflect, and actually do something about it".

Ms Browne said gender-based violence is an epidemic.

A brave woman.

I think – I hope – that it's better here in London. I see at least as many women running by themselves as men. But of course I don't really know. 

No wonder so many young girls, appalled at the prospect of puberty, get seduced by the siren calls on social media to de-sex themselves.

n it.

Farishta Jami, 36, was found guilty of terrorism offences on Thursday for planning to fly to Afghanistan to join IS.

West Midlands Police initially released an image showing her full face and hair – but then published a second that showed only her eyes beneath a navy blue niqab.

Matthew Brook KC, Jami’s barrister, told Leicester Crown Court on Friday that she had experienced “considerable distress” because of the photograph showing her full face.

The mother of four, who planned for her children to become martyrs for the terror group, was described in court as an “observant” Muslim.

Before:

After:

"I was told 'You should have been gassed with your ancestors, Jew. Free Palestine and kill Israel.’”

A young student testifies at a Toronto District School Board meeting about the antisemitism he has faced without any intervention from his teachers, the principal, or the… pic.twitter.com/dsv8cOra8l

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Arthur Siegel, May 1943. 

"Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. The canteen building at night."

"Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland. The shipways at evening."
[Photos: Shorpy/Arthur Siegel for the Office of War Information]

In April of 1941, the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard employed around 350, a number that grew exponentially as war production increased. By 1942, 11,000 people worked at the shipyard; in late 1943, the number was at its highest with around 47,000 employees. War production never stopped — Bethlehem-Fairfield employed three shifts, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, year-round.

Here we go again:

A transgender paedophile who was snared by police officers while trying to meet up with a young boy has been jailed for four years.

Bex McCullgh, from Backwell, North Somerset, was arrested on arrival at the scene in Bristol, where officers were waiting.

At Bristol Crown Court, the 25-year-old – who was previously called Beckham – admitted a number of offences including attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity.

McCullgh was handed an eight-year sentence, four of which will be served in custody, followed by another four on extended licence.

Despite court records referring to the paedophile using “he”, police have since referred to McCullgh as “she”.

So he referred to himself as "he", but the police insisted on "she". Right.

An investigation from the South West Regional Organised Crime Unit (SWROCU) resulted in an arrest in October last year….

Det Insp David Wells, from SWROCU, said: “The sentence handed down to McCullgh reflects the threat she posed to children and, together with the indefinite order, will help prevent her reoffending when she is eventually released."

But it's not a woman posing this threat to children. It's not a "she".

mythic past, where the nation, once great, has experienced humiliation and loss of land, the result of weakness and decadence brought on by liberal democracy. To make up for these losses, real and supposed, fascist leaders encourage violent reassertion of previous greatness, as well as the destruction of liberal democracy in favor of a one-party state or, more typically, a single autocratic ruler who is synonymous with the nation.

In the Russian nationalist version of the mythic past, Ukraine is central. According to this mythology, there are no Ukrainians—just lost Russians living, whether they know it or not, in the heart of historic Russia. Under Putin, Russia has been harshly sexist and homophobic, familiar manifestations of fascist ideology. But Russia’s violent imperial war against a neighboring cosmopolitan democracy that it seeks to absorb is the clearest manifestation yet that its animating ideology is something akin to classical fascism….

Also, on the unlikely Dugin links with Aleister Crowley and, um, Throbbing Gristle.

The Unison women's conference motion that "“trans women are women and trans men are men” has been passed without any opposition:

"Not one delegate spoke against"

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The state of the union. No one dared raise their hands to oppose. Not so much a happy democratic decision as a sign of the mindless group-think of today's unions, with any doubters keeping their thoughts to themselves.

They're yesterday's progressives: always the last to abandon the old left shibboleths. They were banging on about class war long after Marx was dead and buried, and now they're full on board with the old gender cult just as everyone else is realising what a crock it all is. 

Back in November the Darlington nurses, outraged that they had to share a changing room with a trans-identified male, met up with the health secretary.  Unison boss Steve North's response: it was “deeply concerning”, he tweeted, “that Wes Streeting appears to be once again pandering to anti-trans bigotry”.

As I wrote at the time: The phrase "union dinosaurs" comes to mind. The battling trade unions of old, campaigning against the excesses of a rampant Victorian capitalism, have long since atrophied into stale depositories of a parody "working class" male entitlement.

h the risks of an interrupted puberty which may impact their fertility, sexual function and brain and bone development. It is unclear what the purpose of the treatment is or what such a trial would achieve.”

Puberty blockers are powerful drugs – effectively chemical castration. It's outrageous to propose using these drugs on troubled children as part of a clinical trail. All children need to go through puberty. 

Good lord. John Bolton. And very well said.

It is unconscionable to allow Russia to assault Ukraine’s sovereignty, recruit enemies like North Korea to aid in their fight, and then sell out the Ukrainians by conceding the loss of their territory and NATO security guarantees or membership. By making these and others…

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It is unconscionable to allow Russia to assault Ukraine’s sovereignty, recruit enemies like North Korea to aid in their fight, and then sell out the Ukrainians by conceding the loss of their territory and NATO security guarantees or membership. By making these and others concessions before negotiations even started, Trump has effectively surrendered to Putin on Ukraine. 1/3

I warned many times that Trump will favor Russia in negotiations between Zelensky and Putin. Russia's military performance has been miserable, but Trump is vindicating Putin's decision to invade. The harm to US security interests will extend well beyond Central Europe, as our adversaries in the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific can plainly see. 2/3

It is incumbent on U.S. leaders to stand unequivocally with Ukraine and whatever NATO allies stick with Kyiv. It is not in our national interest to let the Kremlin's unprovoked aggression against Ukraine prevail. Shame on the Trump administration. 3/3