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Chloe Cole, a detransitioner who is in court in a case against the doctors who pushed her and her parents into a radical chemical regime and mutilating surgery when she was young, now is charging that there is evidence of malice, oppression and fraud by the doctors who "treated" her.
And she wants a court judgment of punitive damages against them.
The transgender ideology has exploded in popularity amid the term-long promotions by Joe Biden, who has made it one of his legacy goals.
But along with that has come a higher awareness of the lies being told to gender dysphoric children, the promises made them and the industry that surrounds their lifelong treatments.
"Medical professionals who peddle falsehoods and conceal research in order to mutilate young girls must pay for their egregious, intentional disregard for medical ethics," explained Harmeet Dhillon, CEO and founder of the Center for American Liberty. "The pursuit of punitive damages is the pursuit of sufficient accountability for malpractice and true justice for Chloe. This critical measure is an important step towards ensuring no more children will be forced down the path of dangerous surgeries and drugs by the activist medical establishment."
The request for punitive damages was announced by the Dhillon Law Group, LeMandri & Jonna LLP and the Center for American Liberty.
They have submitted a motion seeking leave to add a claim for punitive damages in Cole's complaint that names as defendants Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Foundation Hospitalis and the individual doctors "who fraudulently coerced her into a medical gender transition when she was 13-17 years old."
She is charging they "deliberately and maliciously misled" her and her parents to coerce her into "gender-affirming" ideology.
"While medical professionals around the world wake up to the atrocities committed against children, the 'doctors' that destroyed my childhood continue to lean into their sick experiments," Cole charged. "It is clear these butchers will not stop until they pay for what they have done. This is the next step in holding them accountable."
The announcement said the evidence of malice, oppression and fraud is based on her "treatment" but also on analysis from experts such as Robin Dea, M.D., former chair of the Chiefs of Psychiatry and Regional Director of Mental Health Services at Kaiser.
"Chloe's case mirrors a disturbing trend among troubled teenage girls, highlighting the urgent need to halt this harmful practice," said Charles LiMandri, partner at LiMandri & Jonna. "Imposing punitive damages is crucial to dissuading gender ideologues, like the Kaiser defendants, from continuing their cruel experimentation on children. Chloe's motion for punitive damages, backed by expert testimony and supported by California law, is a vital step in seeking justice and deterring such reprehensible conduct."
Cole suffered from "multiple mental health co-morbidities" as a young girl.
"When she was 12 years old, she expressed a perceived psychological issue 'gender dysphoria.' Under defendants’ advice and supervision, between 13-17 years-old, Chole underwent harmful transgender interventions, specifically, puberty blockers, off-label cross-sex hormone injections, and a double mastectomy to transition to a male identity."
But she and her parents never were told of "less invasive psychiatric treatment" or any other approach "that attempted to treat the underlying psychological conditions" producing her mental state at the time.
Further, the physicians pushing her into transitioning "made no attempt to convey and impress upon Chloe the gravity of the life-long and devastating decision that she was making. They falsely represented to Chloe that her symptoms would never resolve unless she transitioned and that she was at a high risk of suicide."
WND previously reported on Cole's case that Instagram had restricted her statements, claiming she was encouraging violence by relating the facts of her own treatment.
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The chief of the FBI is warning that China already has "burrowed" into critical infrastructure in the United States and now is just waiting for "the right moment to deal a devastating blow."
The FBI's Christopher Wray said in a Reuters report that an ongoing hacking campaign, known already as Volt Typhoon, has gained access to American telecommunications, energy, water and other companies, including pipeline operators.
Wray charged China is assembling the "ability to physically wreak havoc on our critical infrastructure at a time of its choosing. … Its plan is to land low blows against civilian infrastructure to try to induce panic."
The report explained, "Wray said it was difficult to determine the intent of this cyber pre-positioning which was aligned with China's broader intent to deter the U.S. from defending Taiwan."
That is a fast-developing conflict that has the potential to draw the United States into a fight on the other side of the globe. China claims it owns Taiwan, while Taiwan says its own people will decide their future.
China has suggested that Volt Typhoon has nothing to do with the government but is a criminal ransomware group.
WND has reported several times on the threat of China infiltrating and damaging American infrastructure.
In February, it was the Epoch Times that reported on CISA documentation that the Communist regime is installing "malware" in key U.S. systems in preparation for the chance that there would be a major conflict.
"A Feb. 7 advisory released by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) seeks 'to warn critical infrastructure organizations' about China’s attempts to infiltrate, disrupt, and destroy vital U.S. facilities," explained a report in the Epoch Times.
CISA warned, "[Chinese] state-sponsored cyber actors are seeking to pre-position themselves on IT networks for disruptive or destructive cyberattacks against U.S. critical infrastructure in the event of a major crisis or conflict with the United States."
That threatening computer code would be intended "to launch destructive cyber-attacks that would jeopardize the physical safety of Americans and impede military readiness," the agency warning said.
The report noted a week earlier, 'intelligence experts confirmed the U.S. already had removed Chinese malware from more than 600 computer systems linked to 'critical U.S. infrastructure.'"
A report about that same time frame said China was capable of launching cyberattacks against critical United States infrastructure, including oil and gas pipelines as well as rail systems, based on the discovery of a Chinese hacking group reaching into various networks.
And report from late last year said China's threat included schemes to disrupt power and water supplies, communications and even transportation.
Experts quoted by the Washington Post explained that hackers linked to China's People's Liberation Army already have succeeded in breaching "the computer systems of about two dozen critical entities over the past year."
The goal, the report describes, is to find ways to "sow panic and chaos or snarl logistics in the event of a U.S.-China conflict in the Pacific."
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Xavier Becerra, the radically pro-abortion former California state official picked by Joe Biden to lead the federal Department of Health and Human Services, has refused in a congressional hearing multiple times to explain what he believes about abortion.
Instead, he insisted over and over, during questioning by Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., that Roe v. Wade be reinstalled in federal law.
That precedent, found to be unconstitutional, in fact was relied on by the government for years for its "constitutional right" to abortion, which the high court determined does not exist.
And it, in fact, authorized abortion in nearly every possible situation, with courts striking down many time-based, health-based and other limitations that were proposed over the years.
Kennedy had asked if the mother and baby are healthy, would Becerra support abortion a baby the day before the due date.
Becerra refused to answer, commenting about "after gestation" and "40 weeks."
Becerra also claimed he hadn't heard people talking about abortion the day before the due date, again insisting on Roe's return.
When Kennedy quoted Becerra's own words, "No government, state or federal, has the right to make decisions for a woman about her body or her health care," Becerra returned to his mantra: "I have always supported Roe v. Wade."
He claimed that faulty law does not do what Kennedy described, but in fact, the actual court ruling did not provide for limits on abortion.
When Kennedy insisted, "I want your answer," Becerra again refused.
"Why are you dodging the question? Why are you embarrassed to answer?" the senator ultimately asked.
Becerra's pro-abortion advocacy has long been documented, even to the point he orchestrated charges against undercover journalists who caught abortion business players boasting about the profits they made with abortion.
One key player in the industry bragged about wanting to raise prices for the organ specimens obtained from unborn babies and sold for research because, "I want a Lamborghini."
When the Supreme Court in its Dobbs decision overturned Roe, it didn't affect abortion in America except that the federal government no longer was setting the rules, states were.
The controversy quickly divides the nation into two groups, largely because abortion is the only "medical" procedure where, if done correctly, guarantees the death of one of the two patients involved, even given the health of both going in.
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Transgenderism, one of Joe Biden's main agenda ideologies for his term in the White House, took a blow this week when the Supreme Court decided to allow Idaho to enforce its new ban on gender mutilations for kids.
Raul Labrador, the state attorney general, had asked for the court to narrow an injunction that had blocked the law from being enforced, and the high court said that could happen now, for "an array of gender-related treatments for minors."
The ban will be in effect while litigation proceeds, according to a report from Just the News.
The state law calls for up to 10 years in prison for those who impose a number of gender treatments including hormones, puberty blockers or mutilating surgeries on children.
Labrador's request was for the court to narrow the lower court's injunction, and the decision means the state may enforce the ban on relevant parties – except for the specific plaintiffs.
So far, some two dozen states have adopted bans on body-mutilating gender surgeries for children. The issue has blown up into a full-blown scandal for America because of Joe Biden's advocacy and promotions.
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Democrats have claimed for years it is President Donald Trump, with his plans to "Make America Great Again," who is the threat they must defeat. He's a danger to "democracy," they claim. Their rhetoric theorizes that the United States will a gone if he's re-elected.
But actually, it is Joe Biden who repeatedly has made light of the U.S. Constitution.
A few examples: His party's demands to change election laws in ways that are likely to allow fraud, such as illegal aliens casting ballots. And their allowance of undue election influences, like the FBI's censorship interference in 2020, and Mark Zuckerberg's $400 million to recruit liberal voters. And Biden's work with giant corporations to suppress and censor Americans' thoughts and ideas with which he disagrees. And his decision to force taxpayers to repay the loans taken out by students attending elite universities. And the still-under-investigation Biden family operations to peddle influence to foreigners who are not always friendly.
Then there's his insistence that aborting unborn children absolutely must be the "law of the land."
While many of these disputes are raging in the halls of Congress and the courtrooms across the nation, they also impact ordinary Americans.
And it is with that knowledge that the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association is planning its summit in Las Vegas.
It is organizing an "unprecedented gathering of American leaders, patriots, and constitutional advocates" at the Ahern Luxury Hotel on April 17.
The event, called "Resist the Temptation," will explain "peaceful and effective solutions to the crises threatening the very foundation of America's constitutional Republic," they explained.
Speakers will include General Flynn, Sheriff Richard Mack, Mike Lindell, Mark Finchem, Sheriff Dar Leaf, Sheriff Bob Songer, Patrick Byrne, Steve Bannon, farmer Jared Bossly, Sheriff Glenn Hamilton, Wayne Allyn Root, and others.
"America is at a critical juncture," warns Mack, the organization's founder. "This event is not just about discussing the problems we face but is focused on presenting tangible and actionable solutions that can lead us back to the principles of liberty and justice that America was founded on."
Sam Bushman, the CEO, said the event already has attracted attention worldwide with media outlets from Russia, London, and Australia, as well as major American outlets, making plans to cover it.
Members of the public can attend with a $49 registration, and candidates and elected officials are invited to attend without charge.
The association was set up originally to educate and empower law enforcement officials, elected officials, and the public on how to protect and preserve Americans' civil rights.
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The federal government opened a criminal investigation into Ashli Babbitt after she, while unarmed, was shot and killed by a police officer on Jan. 6, 2021, according to a report from government watchdog Judicial Watch.
The organization said it got 62 pages of records from the Department of Justice under a Freedom of Information lawsuit revealing the agenda pursued by the government after the officer, ex-Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd, killed her.
The records show that eight days after her death, she was targeted in a "posthumous investigation" that focused on "potential violations" including civil disorder, unlawful entry, riots, and "injuries to property."
The document from the government also said there were two subjects shot that day, one of them being Babbitt.
The report explained that the records now in hand "may also be responsive to a recent FOIA suit for the family for FBI files and potentially related to the $30 million wrongful death lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch on behalf of the Babbitt family."
That protest-turned-riot is what Democrats ever since have claimed was an "insurrection" against the government, during which rioters would be attempting to overthrow a government and take control of its military, economy, foreign policy, and more.
There's actually no evidence it was any more than a protest during which a few hundred people rioted.
The documents also revealed that Babbitt had deployed with the U.S. military to Kyrgyzstan, Iraq, and the United Arab Emirates.
A government source told investigators at the time, "She likely did not know the risk of passing through the window."
Multiple reports of people being interviewed about Babbitt were redacted, the report said.
"It is beyond belief that the Biden FBI gave Ashli Babbitt’s killer a free pass while engaging in a malicious months-long ‘criminal’ investigation of Babbitt herself," charged Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
The watchdog report noted that it earlier had gotten evidence of "the extensive apparatus the Biden Justice Department set up to investigate and prosecute January 6 protestors" and that other records showed how prosecutors refused to charge Byrd for shooting Babbitt.
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Americans can thank Bill Gates and his foundation for school lessons that teach that there is "white supremacy" in mathematics lessons across the country, that those create "systemic barriers to equity for black, Latinx and multilingual students," and that the solution is, in fact, "antiracist math education."
And for that, teachers must examine "the ways in which they perpetuate white supremacy culture in their own classrooms."
A report from the Washington Examiner notes the lessons come from a plan called "A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction," which is promoted online.
"The Pathway offers guidance and resources for educators to use now as they plan their curriculum, while also offering opportunities for ongoing self-reflection as they seek to develop an anti-racist math practice. The toolkit ‘strides’ serve as multiple on-ramps for educators as they navigate the individual and collective journey from equity to anti-racism," the programming intended for children explains.
And the Examiners notes that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation "is the only donor listed on a website for a group dedicated to eliminating racism from the nation’s math curriculum, which would be accomplished, in part, by eliminating the need for students to show their work after solving a math problem."
Condemned in the lessons are the "focus" that insists students get the "right" answer and requiring students to "show their work."
"White supremacy culture infiltrates math classrooms in everyday teacher actions,” the lessons charge. "Coupled with the beliefs that underlie these actions, they perpetuate educational harm on black, Latinx, and multilingual students, denying them full access to the world of mathematics."
The lessons inform faculty, "Antiracist math educators deconstruct the ways they have been taught math to learn and teach math differently."
Subtopics include "ethnomathematics," "thoughtful scaffolding" and having students "reclaim their mathematical ancestry."
Also important, it explains, is using math as "resistance," and that includes teaching "students of color" to "disrupt the disproportionate push-out of people of color" in math and STEM fields.
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Propaganda including journalists using political narratives rather than facts long has reigned in the Middle East.
It's now routinely found in the West, too, but "nowhere has narrative reigned over journalism more completely – propaganda over actual news – than in the Middle East, especially in Arabic-language media," a new report from the Middle East Media Research Institute explains.
Almost all news outlets there do it, but the champion undoubtedly would be Qatar's Al-Jazeera Arabic Satellite Channel, the report said.
The danger of the influence of false information was pointed out just this week in Israel, where lawmakers have approved a law giving "the government temporary powers to prevent foreign news networks from operating … if they are deemed by the security services to be harming national security."
The law specifically already has been dubbed the Al-Jazeera law.
According to the Times of Israel, "Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, who spearheaded the effort to pass the law, vowed immediately after the final vote that the Qatari-funded Al-Jazeera news channel would be closed down 'in the coming days,' saying 'there won’t be freedom of expression for Hamas mouthpieces in Israel.'"
In America, White House Press spokeswoman Karine Jean Pierre said "freedom of the press" is important, but the MEMRI report noted the U.S. already has had its share of similar behaviors.
The report said, "One way of telling the difference between a credible news outlet and a propaganda source is the subservience of news coverage to an ideological narrative. Given the dynamic nature of news, coverage would flow in all sorts of directions, a propaganda narrative only flows in one direction. In a normal, free media environment, the misdeeds of the offspring of the powerful are an irresistible topic. And yet in 2020 (and beyond), we saw the dominant news media outlets and social media companies in the United States intentionally suppress reporting on Democratic candidate Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden. The 'Biden Laptop' scandal is a signal example of the triumph of narrative over journalism, the narrative in this case being Joe Biden's rise to the presidency."
Giving rise to concern in the Middle East was a recent Al-Jazeera report claiming Israeli soldiers had raped Palestinian women as they were attacking Muslim terrorists "holed up at the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City."
The false report was deleted later "with no explanation."
MEMRI reported, "Additional detail on the incident came from an interesting source – Jordanian journalist Yasser Abu Hilaleh, who had been Al-Jazeera Arabic's general manager from 2014 to 2018 and before that had served as the channel's bureau chief in Amman for many years. Abu Hilaleh noted on Twitter in Arabic (in a tweet with almost two million views) that the news was fabricated, according to an investigation conducted by Hamas."
The report said the claims were broadcast to "arouse the nation's fervor and brotherhood."
Al-Jazeera has been known for its past uses of "false or exaggerated information," and it always follows an ideological agenda – against Israel.
The report said, "Early on in the war both Al-Jazeera and much of the world's press (including the BBC and the New York Times) promoted and amplified a lie, that Israel had intentionally struck a hospital in Gaza and killed hundreds of people. It turned out that not only had Israel not struck the building, a PIJ rocket struck nearby, but hundreds had not been killed in the blast."
The rape lies became powerful because of the earlier claims by eyewitnesses that Hamas terrorists raped and sexually assaulted female Israeli hostages following their invasion of Israel on October 7 in which some 1,200 civilians were butchered by the terrorists.
The new Israeli law, for now, is temporary.
MEMRI reported, "As Ilan Benatar has noted, Hamas mastermind Yahya Sinwar has written a script where Israel is the villain and the goal was to 'harness the entire world as a force multiplier to fight Israel on Hamas's behalf.' The fuel for such a scenario is Palestinian suffering – real or imagined – in Gaza (and anywhere else that serves the narrative)."
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A key legal team that has fought for years for the pro-life movement, for religious and civil rights in America, is calling out Joe Biden's Food and Drug Administration for an egregious comment about poor children.
That they should be aborted.
It is Liberty Counsel, which recently submitted to the Supreme Court its arguments on the issue of abortion pills, and whether women need to have basic health guidelines to protect them, that said one of the problems is that business operators in pro-abortion states like New York and California are encouraging doctors to break the law and send those chemicals to patients in states where they are not permitted.
The issue is over whether the FDA should reverse its decision to allow those chemicals to be prescribed without a doctor's visit, and mailed out.
"Shockingly, in a declaration submitted to the court, the Biden FDA parroted Rockefeller, Sanger, and The Population Council’s racist claims by telling the High Court that children should be aborted because they are more likely to be unfit for school, for adulthood, and for society."
Liberty Counsel noted, "This claim is outrageous in the truest sense of the word. But equally outrageous" is that pro-abortion statements encouraging doctors to break the law.
For example, the report noted, "New York and California have recently passed 'shield laws' that promise to 'shield' abortion doctors from facing penalties for providing mail order abortions to women in states where the abortion is banned."
One operator engaged in "illicit" mail order abortion business operations admitted the chemicals are going to states where pharmacies can't provide them, because mail order abortions are banned.
The report from Liberty Counsel said Dr. Linda Prine is "one of the doctors using N.Y.’s 'shield law' to flagrantly violate other states’ laws that prohibit or restrict mail order abortion drugs. As the NY-based Coalition for Telemedicine's co-medical director, Prine says she is sending out up to 10,000 abortion pills a month to women she has never met in person, on whom she has never performed an examination, and who live in states where Prine’s practice is illegal."
The report noted, incidentally, that would mean revenue for Prine's clinic of $5 million monthly.
The chemical mifepristone actually carries an FDA warning for causing drug toxicity, ruptured ectopic tubes, hemorrhage and more, and from February 2019 to September 2020 it is blamed for some 3,197 deaths.
That was the evidence used by the FDA previously to insist that doctors examine patients in person before handing out such chemicals.
But under Biden, the bureaucracy flipped, and it now wants to allow the distribution of the drugs through the mail, Liberty Counsel said.
The fight pending before the high court is whether such restrictions should be restored.
The briefing to the justices noted the patent for the deadly drug is owned by The Population Council, a "racist and eugenic" organization set up in 1952 by John D. Rockefeller III and hopes to "reduce human population."
That group has suggested some people are "weeds" that need to be removed, and states, "unfit, poor, and unintelligent people were more fertile than fit people."
It's "research" at one point claimed minorities made "wrong choices with respect to family planning because they were incompetent, unmotivated, or influenced by their own or their family’s culture."
One of the group's ideas was at the time to infect urban water supplies so that young women would temporarily be sterilized.
Liberty Counsel said it offered the friend-of-the-court briefing on the abortion pills because its clients "are tired of watching helplessly as their populations are devastated by racist elitists who claim 'overpopulation' but who mainly seem fixated on reducing the populations of black and brown people."
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How well does the classic "To Kill a Mockingbird" meet contemporary society's color-conscience race agenda?
Or perhaps "Pride and Prejudice," or "Animal Farm" or "The Count of Monte Cristo?"
Maybe "The Hobbit" aligns? Or "Wuthering Heights"?
Or maybe not.
But now a report at The College Fix reveals that two Ivy League teachers are being handed a $1 million grant to "apply" critical race theory to such iconic classics.
CRT is a belief system that all of American is racist and the solution to that racism is more racism. From it stems the radical concept of "reparations," the idea that those people who never owned slaves must pay off those who never were slaves, just because they want that.
The report explained the Mellon Foundation gave the funds to Sasha-Mae Eccleston of Brown University and Dan-el Peralta of Princeton.
The report said the concept for the de-construction of the classics started with a conference in 2017.
"The inaugural event invited participants to unabashedly center race and ethnicity in their research in order to counter the dangerously universalizing pretensions of 'Western Civilization' and other white supremacist ideologies suffusing the academy," the original description claimed.
Princeton announced a new program will include a "multi-year fellowship program designed to mentor graduate students and early career researchers of the ancient Mediterranean as they center critical race studies in their scholarship and teaching."
The Fix noted, "Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber personally endorsed the project. 'The proposed program will transform the study of classics in significant ways and build a sustainable community of scholars committed to inclusive and collaborative scholarship,' the president said."
The political agenda, however, drew questions from political science professor Scott Yenor of Boise State.
"We turn to the classics in order to have our prejudices challenged, not simply to confirm them. The classics among the Greeks spoke to the universal in man, not to the particularities that obsess us today," he told the publication.
"Clearly it is the job of teachers to ensure that minorities and really all students take the ideas of the great authors seriously, instead of only paying attention to our strange obsession with race and ethnicity," Yenor said. "When race is so elevated, the results are predictable: The classics are corrupted and no one will be better off for it."