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(1) Orbán speaks of ‘Muslim invaders’ and migrants as ‘a poison’(2) Hungary fans oppose the taking of the knee - Frankl Furedi(3) Major Police Departments Losing Officers, Struggling With Recruiting(4) Olympics hit with backlash after first-ever transgender athlete qualifies on women’s side(5) Australian Senate Bans Critical Race Theory from Classrooms.(6) US military features Drag Queen(7) Giuliani’s law license suspended in New York over claims about Trump, 2020 election(8) & (9) Biden's Jewish Appointments(1) Orbán speaks of ‘Muslim invaders’ and migrants as ‘a poison’https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/racist-xenophobe-tyrant-raymond-ibrahim/‘Racist, Xenophobe, Tyrant!’Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and the price of truth speech on Islam.Fri Jun 18, 2021 Raymond IbrahimRaymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowtiz Freedom Center.Criticism against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is again on the rise, now that his nation is set to take the presidency of the Visegrad group of Central European nations next month.  According a recent report, "Britain’s government has condemned comments made by Viktor Orbán about Muslims and migrants on the eve of a bilateral meeting between the Hungarian leader and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.  In a statement, No. 10 Downing Street said that Orbán’s 2018 comment to a German newspaper about ‘Muslim invaders’ and his later description of migrants as ‘a poison’ were ‘divisive and wrong.’"In fact, Orbán’s ultimate motive is to secure his nation against the crimes and problems that come along with Muslim migrants.  Speaking back in 2015, during the heyday of mass Muslim migration into Europe, he clearly laid out his logic:Those [migrants] arriving [into Europe] have been raised in another religion, and represent a radically different culture. Most of them are not Christians, but Muslims.  This is an important question, because Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity….  We don’t want to criticize France, Belgium, any other country, but we think all countries have a right to decide whether they want to have a large number of Muslims in their countries. If they want to live together with them, they can. We don’t want to and I think we have a right to decide that we do not want a large number of Muslim people in our country. We do not like the consequences of having a large number of Muslim communities that we see in other countries, and I do not see any reason for anyone else to force us to create ways of living together in Hungary that we do not want to see….The prime minister went on to invoke history—and not in the politically correct way (to condemn Christians and whitewash Muslims) but according to reality:I have to say that when it comes to living together with Muslim communities, we are the only ones who have experience because we had the possibility to go through that experience for 150 years.Orbán was referring to Islam’s conquest and occupation of Hungary from 1541 to 1699.  Then, Islamic jihad, terrorism, and Christian persecution were rampant.Indeed, on this very day in history, on June 15, 1389, a horde of Muslim Turks met and crushed a coalition of Serbs, Hungarians, Poles, and Romanians, at the pivotal Battle of Kosovo.  Thereafter, much of southeastern Europe, including Hungary, and portions of modern day Russia, was conquered, occupied, and terrorized by the Turks—sometimes in ways that make Islamic State atrocities seem like child’s play. (Think of the beheadings, crucifixions, massacres, slave markets, and rapes that have become IS trademarks—but on a much grander scale, and for centuries.)Still, to Western "progressives," such histories and the lessons they impart are meaningless.  Thus, in an article titled "Hungary has been shamed by Viktor Orbán’s government," the Guardian mocked and trivialized the prime minister’s position:Hungary has a history with the Ottoman empire, and Orbán is busy conjuring it. The Ottoman empire is striking back, he warns. They’re taking over! Hungary will never be the same again!… Hence the wire; hence the army; hence, as from today, the state of emergency; hence the fierce, unrelenting rhetoric of hatred. Because that is what it has been from the very start: sheer, crass hostility and slander.Similarly, after acknowledging that Hungary was once occupied by the Ottomans—though without any mention of the atrocities it experienced—the Washington Post complained that "it’s somewhat bizarre to think this rather distant past of warlords and rival empires ought to influence how a 21st century nation addresses the needs of refugees."Unable, or rather unwilling, to appreciate the continuity of Islam’s history with the West—many Muslims in Europe, including migrants, maintain their ancestors’ hostility for "infidels"—the so-called "mainstream media" fall back to default: they accuse Orbán of being a "racist," "xenophobic," a man "full of hate speech," and Europe’s "creeping dictator." Sounding like the mafia boss of the Left, the Guardian simply refers to him as a "problem" that needs to be "solved."If this is how politicians who speak truthfully and implement policies that secure their nations are treated, is it any wonder that so very few politicians bother doing so?(3) Major Police Departments Losing Officers, Struggling With Recruitinghttps://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/major-police-departments-losing-officers-struggling-with-recruiting_3867527.htmlBY PETR SVAB June 21, 2021 Updated: June 21, 2021The largest police departments in the United States have seen a steady decline in officers over the past year and a half amid the CCP virus pandemic and a rash of anti-police activism.The top three police departments in the country have lost thousands of officers since 2019, driven by an increase in retirements and resignations on top of recruiting woes. Reports of officers leaving in droves have been coming from other major jurisdictions as well.Meanwhile, those cities have seen a significant uptick in murders and shootings.New York CityThe largest police agency in the country, the New York Police Department (NYPD) is down about 1,500 officers as retirements jumped to 2,600 last year from 1,509 in 2019, the department’s spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email. Another nearly 350 officers had exited by mid-May this year.Many of the retirements had to do with anti-police sentiment fanned by activist groups during protests and riots that followed the death of convicted felon George Floyd, a black man, during an arrest in Minneapolis last year. The officer had knelt on his neck and back for more than eight minutes as Floyd repeatedly said he couldn’t breathe before becoming unresponsive.Last year, the state of New York outlawed officers from using a knee on a suspect’s back or chest as a restraint technique during an arrest. Police officers and experts have criticized the law for criminalizing martial arts techniques routinely used by police to safely subdue resisting subjects.New York City also implemented new laws regarding bail that banned judges from requiring cash bail for most nonviolent and some lower-level violent crimes, resulting in criminals returning to the street quickly after an arrest. Officers called the policy demoralizing as it makes their work seem pointless.The NYPD mounted a large recruitment drive this year, even waiving the usual $40 application fee, although still falling short of the applicant numbers of a previous drive, according to NYPD Personnel Chief Martin Morales. Part of the reason is that the drive was shorter than usual this time.Of the more than 14,500 who applied, only about one in nine will make it through the entrance exam and the academy, if past results are any indication, Morales said during a May 18 press conference.That means there will be about 1,600 new officers sometime next year. By then, thousands more may have left the force, if the pace of retirements continues.While overall crime in the city continues to decline slightly, shootings are still on the rise. In 2019, the police reported over 900 people shot, fatally and nonfatally. In 2020, that number more than doubled. This year, 721 have been shot as of June 13—the highest number for this period since 2002.ChicagoThe Chicago Police Department has lost nearly 700 officers since 2019, according to data provided to The Epoch Times by the local lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), the officers’ union. FOP represents about 8,000 active and retired Chicago police officers.In 2019, the department was able to hire 464 officers. In 2020, that number dropped to 157. This year, 101 have been hired as of June 15, based on the FOP data.Meanwhile, 560 officers retired last year, compared to 475 in 2019 and 339 the year before. This year, 360 have retired as of June 15.It’s not just the old guard leaving, though."We have young officers doing lateral transfers, leaving this department and going somewhere else, whether it’s a suburb or out of state entirely," the FOP lodge’s president, John Catanzara, told The Epoch Times. "I’m talking the same people that [wanted] to pick up the mantle and carry on this police department are the ones that are even saying they had enough." [...](4) Olympics hit with backlash after first-ever transgender athlete qualifies on women’s sidehttps://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jun/21/laurel-hubbard-first-transgender-olympic-backlash/By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Monday, June 21, 2021New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard made history Sunday when she became the first openly transgender athlete chosen for the Olympics, but those fighting to keep biological males out of women’s sports say she only proves their point.At 43, Ms. Hubbard is nearly twice as old as many of her competitors. She transitioned at age 35 and then rose to the top ranks of international women’s weightlifting after a solid but unspectacular career as a junior male lifter.She qualified for the New Zealand Olympic Team in the super-heavyweight category despite suffering a potentially career-ending injury in 2018. Fair Play for Women called her a textbook example of "why female sport must be reserved for the female sex only.""Just think about it for a moment," the British group tweeted. "A testosterone-fueled puberty provides such a large physical advantage in weightlifting that someone can still qualify for the female category at the Olympics at the age of 43 and after breaking their arm."The New Zealand Olympic Committee announced Sunday that Ms. Hubbard had earned a spot on its five-member weightlifting team, fueling a firestorm ahead of the Tokyo Olympic Games, which run July 23 through Aug. 8."What the Olympics is doing by allowing males to compete in the women’s category is not only shameful but a mockery of sport," said Beth Stelzer, president of Save Women’s Sports. "The rights of females should not end where the feelings of a few males begin."New Zealand officials defended the selection. They noted that Ms. Hubbard met the International Olympic Committee and International Weightlifting Federation criteria by keeping her serum testosterone level below 10 nanomoles per liter for at least 12 months before competition and declaring her gender identity as female for at least four years."As well as being among the world’s best for her event, Laurel has met the IWF eligibility criteria including those based on IOC Consensus Statement guidelines for transgender athletes," said NZOC CEO Kereyn Smith. "We acknowledge that gender identity in sport is a highly sensitive and complex issue requiring a balance between human rights and fairness on the field of play."From a public relations standpoint, however, Ms. Hubbard is hardly an ideal barrier-breaker."What a pitiful day in the history of women’s sports," said Linda Blade, a former Canadian track champion and author of the newly released book "Unsporting: How Trans Activism and Science Denial Are Destroying Sport.""It is utterly despicable," Ms. Blade said in an email. "This is NOT the way to be ‘inclusive’ or ‘equitable.’"Mark House, a U.S. lawyer and an IWF Category 2 technical official, urged Ms. Hubbard to decline the chance to compete at the Tokyo Olympics. He warned that she would set back the cause of transgender athletes, particularly if she medals."Is Laurel Hubbard the person advocates want to be the face of transgender policy?" he asked in a May 30 op-ed in Inside the Games. "The question is rhetorical because the answer is obviously ‘no’. Having an individual who spent most of her adult life as a man, transitioning at age 35, as the face of a movement will surely spell disaster for any real transgender policy from ever taking effect or even being considered."He said her best finish as a junior men’s weightlifter would have been good enough to win the past couple of U.S. junior national events but "would not come close to earning a place on an international team."In short, pre-transition Laurel was talented, but not a world-caliber athlete," Mr. House said.Ms. Hubbard, who has avoided interviews for the past few years, said after her selection that she was "grateful and humbled by the kindness and support that has been given to me by so many New Zealanders.""When I broke my arm at the Commonwealth Games three years ago, I was advised that my sporting career had likely reached its end," she said in a statement. "But your support, your encouragement … carried me through the darkness."LGBTQ advocates have lined up behind Ms. Hubbard. Some pointed out that the IOC approved guidelines for male-to-female transgender participation in 2003 but that it took nearly 20 years for the first such athlete to make a team."The guidelines for trans-inclusion at the Olympics have been thoughtfully studied, created, and implemented, which is partly why no transgender person has ever competed at the Olympics. The standards are incredibly high," tweeted transgender activist Charlotte Clymer. "I’ll be rooting for Laurel Hubbard as she makes history."The LGBTQ group Athlete Ally offered its congratulations, tweeting that "for the 1st time ever, we will see transgender athletes competing at the #Olympics, including New Zealand‘s Laurel Hubbard."At least two biological females who identify as nonbinary or transgender are expected to participate in the Olympics — in women’s sporting events — but Ms. Hubbard is so far the only male-to-female competitor going up against women.Two other male-to-female Olympic hopefuls, both Americans, are unlikely to see action in Tokyo.U.S. cyclist Chelsea Wolfe, 28, was selected last week as an alternate for the U.S. BMX Freestyle team, and 26-year-old hurdler CeCe Telfer, the first male-to-female transgender athlete to win a women’s NCAA title, is a long shot to qualify at this week’s Olympic track-and-field trials.Meanwhile, the opposition to competition of male-to-female athletes like Ms. Hubbard against biological women has been fierce. Concerned Women for America called Ms. Hubbard’s selection "just another example of an athletic governing body denying women equal rights.""There are immutable biological differences between male and female bodies that transgender identity won’t erase," said the conservative group. "By ignoring this, these athletic organizations deny Olympic female athletes the safety, opportunity, and fair competition they deserve in order to appease the woke Left."Mary Kate Fain, communications director for the feminist Women’s Liberation Front, said it was "very disappointed in the decision to allow Laurel Hubbard, a man, to compete on the New Zealand women’s weightlifting team in Tokyo.""By allowing a man to force his way into the women’s league primarily based on the arbitrary characteristic of ‘gender identity,’ the Committee has set a dangerous precedent that threatens to undo decades of progress towards athletic equality for women," Ms. Fain said in an email.Kara Dansky, president of the U.S. chapter of the Women’s Human Rights Campaign, said the organization "steadfastly opposes Hubbard’s participation in the women’s weightlifting category for the simple reason that Hubbard is not a woman.""The IOC must amend its policy on allowing men to compete as women," said Ms. Dansky.The IOC is already wrestling with another contentious gender issue: the status of South African runner Caster Semenya, who was born with a disorder of sex development that gives her elevated testosterone levels.The 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medalist was banned in 2018 from competing in 400-meter to 1-mile races in by World Athletics unless she takes testosterone-lowering drugs, which she has refused to do. She has appealed the decision to the European Court of Human Rights.(5) Australian Senate Bans Critical Race Theory from Classroomshttps://wentworthreport.com/2021/06/22/australian-senate-bans-critical-race-theory-from-classrooms/By James Morrow.The Senate voted Monday night to call on the federal government to keep contentious "critical race theory" doctrines out of the national curriculum.By a vote of 30-28, the Senate supported a notice of motion put forward by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson calling "on the federal government to reject critical race theory from the national curriculum." …Speaking at a conservative conference in Texas last week, Republican Senator Ted Cruz blasted critical race theory, saying it "says every white person is a racist.""Critical race theory says America’s fundamentally racist and irredeemably racist. Critical race theory seeks to turn us against each other and if someone has a different colour skin, seeks to make us hate that person.""And let me tell you right now, critical race theory is bigoted, it is a lie and it is every bit as racist as the Klansmen in white sheets," Senator Cruz said.(6) US military features Drag Queenhttps://www.rt.com/usa/527308-nellis-airforce-drag-show/Drag queen show was ‘essential to morale, cohesion and readiness,’ US Air Force base tells media23 Jun, 2021 00:30 / Updated 1 hour agoSitting outside Las Vegas, Nevada, Nellis Air Force Base is home to the largest US air combat training center. It also just hosted a drag queen show, in order to boost morale, diversity, and inclusion. A flyer for the ‘Drag-u-Nellis’ show at the Nellis Club, intended to teach airmen (and women) the "significance of Drag in the LGBT+ Community," was first posted on Twitter last Friday, by a veteran Air Force podcaster wondering what that was all about.The first-ever drag show was indeed hosted on June 17 by the 99th Air Base Wing, a spokesperson for Nellis AFB confirmed on Tuesday in a statement emailed to Breitbart News."The event was sponsored by a private organization and provided an opportunity for attendees to learn more about the history and significance of drag performance art within the LGBT+ community," said the statement, adding that "Ensuring our ranks reflect and are inclusive of the American people is essential to the morale, cohesion, and readiness of the military. Nellis Air Force Base is committed to providing and championing an environment that is characterized by equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion."The private organization referenced in the statement was Top 3, a social and professional organization established to "enhance the morale, esprit de corps, of all enlisted personnel assigned to the Wing and to facilitate cooperation between members of the top three enlisted grades," according to its private Facebook page accessed by Breitbart.Nellis is home to the USAF Warfare Center, where pilots from all branches of the US military – as well as foreign allies – train in air combat. The day before the drag show, the base’s Twitter account promoted the training with members of the Qatar Emiri Air Force.The base website describes the Warfare Center as "the largest and most demanding advanced air combat training mission in the world" where "crews do not come to learn how to fly, but instead how to be the best combat aviators in the world."President Joe Biden’s administration has put the pursuit of diversity, inclusion, and equity front and center in every aspect of government – including space exploration – and the military has been no exception. The Pentagon’s new recruitment campaign was designed to appeal to racial minorities and the LGBTQ community.When critics compared the "woke" ads to those of the Russian or Chinese militaries, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin dismissed the criticism as "talking points" that foreign adversaries could "capitalize on." Austin said the US military was not becoming "soft" but instead doing a "great job of recruiting the right kinds of people."ALSO ON RT.COM US State Department will fly extra-woke ‘Progress’ flag for end of Pride Month(7) Giuliani’s law license suspended in New York over claims about Trump, 2020 electionhttps://www.rt.com/usa/527507-rudy-giuliani-law-license-suspended/24 Jun, 2021 17:57 / Updated 23 hours agoA New York court has suspended former mayor and once top prosecutor in NYC Rudy Giuliani from practicing law over "false and misleading statements" about Donald Trump and the 2020 presidential election.Giuliani’s suspension was sought by the Attorney Grievance Committee for the First Judicial Department and granted by the Appellate Division in Manhattan. New York state Sen. Brad Hoylman, (D-Manhattan) had filed the formal complaint with the Attorney Grievance Committee.The suspension order accuses Giuliani of making false claims to "courts, lawmakers and the public at large" while he worked as a lawyer for Trump.Giuliani was one of the central figures in Trump’s attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, with both the former president and his lawyers claiming voter fraud in key swing states, though no official evidence of widespread fraud has been found.One example given for Giuliani’s suspension is a claim that "dead people ‘voted’ in Pennsylvania," one of multiple states where the lawyer and former city mayor argued false ballots were pushed through in favor of Joe Biden."As the anecdotal poster child to prove this point, he repeatedly stated that famous heavyweight boxer Joe Frazier continued to vote years after he was dead and stated on November 7, 2020 ‘he is still voting here,’" the order said of Giuliani’s claim, adding that his Frazier comment was "unequivocally false.""We conclude that [the] respondent’s conduct immediately threatens the public interest and warrants interim suspension from the practice of law, pending further proceedings before the Attorney Grievance Committee," the new order states.Giuliani’s critics, including anti-Trump lawmakers, have celebrated the former mayor’s suspension since it was announced on Thursday. ...(8) Biden's Jewish Appointmentshttp://www.renegadetribune.com/all-10-of-bidens-high-profile-appointees-are-jews/President-elect Joe Biden filled the months before Inauguration Day lining up a slate of Cabinet secretaries, assistants and advisors, many of them Jewish. Biden’s choices reflect a diverse cross-section of American Jewry and possess expertise gleaned from decades of experience in government, science and medicine and law.Here is the rundown they give of Biden’s top jews.Anthony Blinken, Secretary of StateDavid Cohen, CIA Deputy DirectorMerrick Garland, Attorney GeneralAvril Haines, Director of National IntelligenceRonald Klain, Chief of StaffEric Lander, Office of Science and Technology Policy directorRachel Levine, deputy health secretaryAlejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland SecurityAnne Neuberger, National Security Agency cybersecurity directorWendy Sherman, deputy secretary of stateJanet Yellen, Treasury secretaryWhere is the diversity? Why is 2% of the population occupying all the top positions of this administration (much like the last)? It’s because we are living under a Zionist Occupational Government, where jews have all the "privilege."(9) Biden's Jewish Appointmentshttps://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jews-in-the-biden-administrationJoe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on January 20, 2021.Ron Klain		Chief of StaffJanet Yellin		Secretary of TreasuryAlejandro Mayorkas	Secretary of Homeland SecurityTony Blinken		Secretary of StateMerrick Brian Garland	Attorney GeneralJared Bernstein	Council of Economic AdvisersRochelle Walensky	Director of the Centers for Disease Control and PreventionWendy Sherman		Deputy Secretary of StateAnne Neuberger		Deputy National Security Adviser for CybersecurityJeffrey Zients		COVID-19 Response CoordinatorDavid Kessler		Co-chair of the COVID-19 Advisory Board and Head of Operation Warp SpeedDavid Cohen		CIA Deputy DirectorRachel Levine		Deputy Health SecretaryJennifer Klein		Co-chair Council on Gender PolicyJessica Rosenworcel	Chair of the Federal Communications CommissionStephanie Pollack	Deputy Administrator of the Federal Highway AdministrationPolly Trottenberg	Deputy Secretary of TransportationMira Resnick		State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regional SecurityRoberta Jacobson	National Security Council "border czar"Gary Gensler		Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman*Genine Macks Fidler	 National Council on the HumanitiesChanan Weissman	Director for Technology and Democracy at National Security CouncilThomas Nides		U.S. Ambassador to Israel (not yet confirmed)*Nominated by Biden but serves a five-year term and not technically a member of the administration.