Kiev Failed to Notify Backers of Kursk Incursion – Berlin
Ukraine kept its plans for an incursion in Russia’s Kursk Region secret, the deputy spokesman for the German government has said. Wolfgang Buchner claimed on Monday that none of Kiev’s backers had been informed in advance about Ukraine’s plan to attack Russian territory.
“There is contradictory and sometimes deliberately distorted information about the operation, which was apparently prepared very secretly and without feedback,”Buchner said at a press briefing.
He did not condemn or otherwise appraise the situation, saying only that “everything so far looks like a spatially limited operation.”However, he noted that details were still unclear and therefore “it would be unwise to make a public statement.”
Buchner said Berlin would be in close contact with “all partners, including the government in Kiev” in relation to the incursion.
When asked whether Ukraine was using weapons supplied by Germany in the operation, Buchner said Berlin did not have sufficient information to comment. However, a spokesman for the German Defense Ministry separately clarified that there was nothing stopping Kiev from using the weapons supplied by Germany on Russian soil.
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“International law stipulates that a defending state may also defend itself on the territory of the attacker… There are no obstacles whatsoever and Ukraine is free to choose its options,” he stated.
The same position was set out by Social Democratic Party’s (SPD) chairman Lars Klingbeil, who defended Ukraine’s “right to defend itself”by encroaching on Russian territory using Western-supplied weapons.
“That is what is happening right now, it is part of a war. You can find that brutal, we all want peace, but we are also consciously saying that Ukraine must be able to defend itself,” he asserted. He noted, however, that Kiev’s reasons for the incursion remain unclear.
“We will certainly hear more in the next few days whether it is about getting Russia to the negotiating table quickly, as some suspect, or whether it is about causing unrest on the Russian side,” the politician stated.
READ MORE: West backed Ukrainian attack on Kursk – Politico
Kiev’s incursion in Kursk Region, which was launched on August 6, is its largest attack on Russian territory since the outbreak of hostilities in February 2022. The Russian military earlier reported that the advance by Kiev’s forces into the country’s territory has been halted.
Graham Urges Retired NATO Pilots To Fight For Ukraine Calling Incursion Into Russia ‘Beautiful’
US Senator Lindsey Graham has hailed Ukraine’s cross-border operation into Russia’s Kursk region as “brilliant” and “bold” and is now suggesting that retired Western F-16 pilots are invited to fight. He called on Western pilots […]
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Detransitioner Sues Planned Parenthood for Giving her Testosterone After 30-Minute Visit
HUDSON, New York (LifeSiteNews) – While best known for abortion, Planned Parenthood is also deeply invested in the gender “transition” business, and its diversification has recently gained it a lawsuit from a young autistic woman it gave testosterone after a mere half-hour of consultation.
On August 7, The Free Press published the story of Cristina Hineman, who upon turning 18 in November 2021 went to a New York Planned Parenthood location to obtain the testosterone therapy she sought without the consent of her parents.
She had been dealing with a variety of issues, including self-harm, depression, anxiety, and autism, many of which were exacerbated by the social isolation of the COVID-19 lockdowns, and recalls being turned on to the possibility that gender was at the source from YouTube videos that led her to conclude, “trans includes all the things I’ve been feeling — my discomfort with my chest, my discomfort with being called ‘young woman,’ not being sure of who I was or what I wanted to be.”
After completing a consent form, answering a few questions, and going over “expected changes” from the hormone – a process taking less than 30 minutes – Hineman was given a prescription for testosterone gel. But after a year of hormone therapy as well as removal of her healthy breasts at age 19, Hineman regrets her transition.
“I was brainwashed,” she said. “A lot of people say that adults should be able to do whatever they want. But if you have mental illness that’s clouding your view, or you’re so misinformed about what gender dysphoria even means, then you cannot consent to such invasive treatments.”
Hineman says she remains left-of-center and in favor of legal abortion, but she is suing Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the PP staffers behind her consultation and prescription, the therapists who encouraged her transition, and the surgeon who performed her double mastectomy for negligence and failure to obtain informed consent.
“There’s a real belief among these plaintiffs and lawyers that this is the great medical scandal of our times,” said attorney Jordan Campbell, who is representing Hineman.
“Treatment without a competent evaluation shouldn’t be foisted on you whether you’re 15 or 30,” added attorney Kevin Keller, who is donating his expertise on other similar lawsuits across America. “Vulnerability is the issue. If there’s no comprehensive screening in place before a medical intervention that’s going to have permanent effects,” that’s a breach of duty, he argues.
A significant body of evidence shows that “affirming” gender confusion carries serious harms, especially when done with impressionable children who lack the mental development, emotional maturity, and life experience to consider the long-term ramifications of the decisions being pushed on them, or full knowledge about the long-term effects of life-altering, physically transformative, and often-irreversible surgical and chemical procedures.
Studies find that more than 80% of children experiencing gender dysphoria outgrow it on their own by late adolescence, and that even full “reassignment” surgery often fails to resolve gender-confused individuals’ heightened tendency to engage in self-harm and suicide — and may even exacerbate it, including by reinforcing their confusion and neglecting the actual root causes of their mental strife.
Many oft-ignored “detransitioners,” individuals who attempted to live under a different “gender identity” before embracing their sex, attest to the physical and mental harm of reinforcing gender confusion, as well as to the bias and negligence of the medical establishment on the subject, many of whom take an activist approach to their profession and begin cases with a predetermined conclusion that “transitioning” is the best solution.
“Gender-affirming” physicians have also been caught on video admitting to more old-fashioned motives for such procedures, as with a 2022 exposé about Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Clinic for Transgender Health, where Dr. Shayne Sebold Taylor said outright that “these surgeries make a lot of money.”
While Planned Parenthood is best known as the nation’s largest abortion chain, it is also deeply involved in the LGBT movement. It advertises itself as a “safe and welcoming place to get transgender/nonbinary hormone therapy (sic),” including estrogen, anti-androgen, testosterone, and puberty blockers.
According to the abortion giant’s most recent annual report, 45 of its affiliates offered so-called “gender-affirming hormone therapy” in 2022. Its previous report said 30 affiliates participated in 69 medical studies, an unspecified number of which involved so-called “care” to reinforce gender dysphoria.
Channel Migrants Set Record Daily Crossings for Starmer’s Labour
More than 700 illegal immigrants crossed the English Channel from France to the U.K. on Sunday as the new left-wing government in Westminster struggles to contain the long-running crisis.
Home Office figures released on Monday revealed a total of 703 migrants were escorted to British shores, a new record since Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his Labour Party took office last month.
The figure is the third-highest daily total this year, with illegal immigration showing no signs of slowing down under the new administration.
??‼️ A total of 703 migrants were escorted to shore by U.K. border police on Sunday — a record in a single day under the new left-wing government.
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) August 12, 2024
With Keir Starmer scrapping legislation by the previous Conservative government to deport all new arrivals for offshore processing,… pic.twitter.com/Bx3dsvWWh8
Illegal immigration and asylum are at the forefront of the political debate in Britain currently and were key issues during the general election campaign.
The left-wing Labour Party pledged to scrap the former Conservative government’s Rwanda scheme, which would have seen all migrants who arrive illegally in Britain deported to the African country for offshore asylum processing — a policy former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hoped would deter migrants from making the perilous journey across the waterway and thwart the criminal gangs exploiting the crisis.
Starmer scrapped the scheme in his first few hours in Downing Street, a move that has certainly not helped stop the boats.
Since the start of the year, 18,342 asylum seekers have been registered arriving on British shores, a 13 percent increase over the same period last year. So far this year, 25 people have died during the dangerous crossing.
NEW: ??? Immigration is now the number one issue in Britain.
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) August 7, 2024
More than half of Brits (51 percent) put immigration in their top three issues facing the country in a recent YouGov poll.
The economy dropped to second with 44 percent, while crime shot up to third with 39 percent… pic.twitter.com/WXQ897XUJv
Mass immigration and a lack of integration have dominated political discourse in Britain recently following the mass stabbing of young girls at a dance class in the northwest town of Southport by a 17-year-old son of two Rwandan asylum seekers last month.
The attack led to mass rioting across the country and a controversial crackdown on free speech by Starmer’s party with dozens of people consequently jailed for posting comments about mass immigration that were deemed to have incited racial hatred.
British Columbia Venue Cancels Feminist Event Opposing Gender Ideology after Pressure from LGBTQIAAP2S+ Activists
VICTORIA, British Columbia (LifeSiteNews) — A British Columbia venue has canceled an event organized by a feminist speaker who exposes the dangers posed by gender ideology, including the “transitioning” of children, following pressure from LGBT activists.
On August 9, Meghan Murphy, a feminist speaker who opposes gender ideology, announced that the Ambrosia Banquet in Victoria, B.C., canceled her panel discussion scheduled for September 14 after the venue received intense backlash from LGBT activists.
“The harassment started immediately,” Murphy posted on X. “Trans activists called and emailed Ambrosia incessantly, showed up at the venue, harassed staff, causing one young female to have what she described as a ‘mental breakdown.’”
Well now, this is a strange mystery: Our group of volunteers booked the Ambrosia Banquet for an event called “Vancouver Island Speaks: Women’s spaces, parental rights, and protecting kids” in May.
— Meghan Murphy (@MeghanEMurphy) August 9, 2024
We decided to keep the venue secret to protect them from the inevitable… pic.twitter.com/OxJjKRgPPv
“The owner told us he had been ‘abused’ by these people,” she continued. “They vandalized the building, which, alongside the mental breakdown, appears to have been the last straw.”
“Tormented, stressed, and afraid, the owner cancelled our event,” Murphy said. “He told us the stress of this ongoing abuse was too much.”
The event, scheduled for September 14 and titled “Vancouver Island Speaks! Detransing Canada,” would have been the second hosted at the Victoria venue.
The first, titled, “Vancouver Island Speaks: Women’s spaces, parental rights, and protecting kids,” took place in May. At the time, Murphy decided to keep the location of the event secret to avoid the “inevitable harassment, threats, vandalism, and bullying venues hosting women advocating for kids, parents, and their sex-based rights receive.”
However, Murphy revealed that the Ambrosia pushed for the group to reveal their venue location, “as they were proud to host the event and wanted to advertise it to their communities.”
“They told us they supported us and our message and were excited we’d chosen their venue for this conversation,” she explained, adding that they ultimately decided to keep the venue secret.
As LifeSiteNews previously reported, Murphy’s events have routinely been canceled as venues refuse to host such discussions under pressure from the LGBT mob.
Following the success of the May event, another event was schedule for September, and this time the location was made public.
“Ambrosia Banquet was fully aware of the event and its aims and again was supportive, and swore up and down they wouldn’t cancel no matter what, so this time we decided to be open about our venue,” Murphy asserted.
However, the venue was apparently not prepared for the level of harassment which the LGBT mob brings against those who oppose their narrative.
Unfortunately, in addition to canceling the event, the venue seemed to blacklist the group, taking down the poster and marking a red “X” over the faces of the speakers.
The venue also posted messages “pretending they weren’t ‘aware’ of our event, that our event doesn’t ‘align with their values,’ and that they ‘stand for inclusivity,’”according to Murphy.
“I am, perhaps naively, disgusted, shocked, and appalled,” Murphy replied. “They are too cowardly to tell the truth and stand up for what they believe in. They are willing to throw women under the bus to save themselves. They don’t yet know that catering to these bullies will only result in more bullying, and will learn the hard way.”
Furthermore, according to a local LGBT activist, the venue has now booked September 14th for a “Queer Family Values All-ages Dance Party.”
Israeli Singer Urges Netanyahu To ‘Start The Last War’
Israeli singer and composer Ofer Levi has urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to start the “last world war” in order to summon, what he believes, is the Messiah. In a video intended for and “especially […]
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