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 American Action News: A British jury convicted United Nations Judge Lydia Mugambe on Thursday of forcing a Ugandan woman into domestic servitude after luring her to the U.K. under false pretenses. Mugambe, who also serves as a high court judge in Uganda, brought the victim to Britain under the guise of securing her a job in a diplomatic household — only to make her work as an unpaid maid and nanny. She confiscated the victim’s passport and visa, leaving her trapped until she was able to contact a friend, who alerted authorities, according to a Thames Valley Police statement . “Lydia Mugambe used her position to exploit a vulnerable young woman, controlling her freedom and making her work without payment,” Eran Clutliffe, an attorney for the Crown Prosecution Service’s Special Crime Division, said. The 49-year-old judge, who was studying for a doctorate at the University of Oxford at the time, according to her profile on the U.N.’s website, was found guilty on four charges, includ...

  They were trying to make the case that DeSantis was saying slavery was beneficial when he quoting from what an actual former slave said.

 Charles C. W. Cooke: NBC reports that Kamala Harris intends to visit Florida today to criticize its new school curriculum: In remarks Thursday, Harris blasted efforts in some states to ban books and “push forward revisionist history.” “Just yesterday in the state of Florida, they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery,” she said at a convention for the traditionally Black sorority Delta Sigma Theta Inc. “They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not stand for it.” This is a brazen lie. It’s an astonishing lie. It’s an evil lie. It is so untrue — so deliberately and cynically misleading — that, in a sensible political culture, Harris would be obligated to issue an apology. Instead, NBC confirms that she will repeat the lie today during a speech in Jacksonville. I have been trying to work out how best to illustrate the sheer scale of Harris’s falsehood, and I’ve come to the conclusion that the only way to achieve it ...

 Fox News: Reparations demands are spiking and Democrats have this astonishing reaction Democrat promises of money for reparations have created expectations among Black citizens  Hundreds of thousands payed the ultimate price for freeing the slaves.  The greed of those who were never slaves should not be rewarded.

  American Action News: Ten major liberal environmentalist groups have been caught lobbying Congress to allow the importation of illegal Communist Chinese solar panels made with slave labor. In 2021 Congress passed legislation outlawing the importation of solar panels made in Communist China by slaves in Uyghur detention camps, which Communist China evaded by laundering the panels through shell companies in other countries. In addition, the Trump administration placed a tariff on slave labor-made solar products. As part of President Joe Biden’s “green energy” agenda, that tariff was repealed and Communist China was allowed to continue importing slave labor “green energy.” Congress responded by introducing a Congressional Review Act resolution overturning Biden’s order and reinstating the tariff, which quickly drew the ire of major environmentalist groups, who rely on Chinese slave labor to make so-called “green energy” products, which rely heavily on heavy toxic metal from pollutin...

  Legal Insurrection: China Appears to Be Selling Electric Batteries Made by Slave Labor US ban on imports from China’s Xinjiang region takes effect. This should put a dent in Biden's electric car push. 

  Washington Examiner: International Olympic Committee picks Chinese uniform supplier suspected of using slave labor They "  expressed concern the uniforms to be donned by Olympics officials — not athletes — may have been made with cotton harvested in the  Xinjiang  Uyghur Autonomous Region."  The IOC responded with hearsay claims that denied the claim.

 CNBC: President Joe Biden signed a bill Thursday that aims to crack down on human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region. The legislation bans imports from Xinjiang and imposes sanctions on individuals responsible for forced labor in the region. The measure marks Washington’s latest effort to curb the harsh treatment of the Uyghur Muslim minority in China. Underscoring the broad support for addressing human rights abuses in the region, the Senate passed the bill unanimously this month following an overwhelming bipartisan vote in the House. The Chinese Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment. Beijing has denied it has mistreated religious and ethnic minorities in the region. The Biden administration has previously described the abuse of Uyghurs and members of other Muslim minorities in the region as “widespread, state-sponsored forced labor” and “mass detention.” The Biden administration has previously warned businesses with supply chain a...

 Legal Insurrection: Washington Post columnist George Will understandably is not most Republicans’ cup of tea considering his abandonment of the party, which started well before  his hatred  for Donald Trump became a thing. But he wrote  a column  last week that deliciously ripped apart the “1619 Project” and the New York Times’ amplification of it, in the process enraging “woke” leftists who didn’t appreciate the inconvenient truths he told about the project’s creator Nikole Hannah-Jones’ flagrant rewriting of history. In it, Will examined the central component of Nikole Hannah-Jones’  deeply flawed  argument: That the basis for the American Revolution was to preserve slavery. That claim and many others she made have been  discredited  by scholars and historians alike, but because the New York Times published it and because she received so many seemingly prestigious accolades from the usual corners (including a  Pulitizer prize ) as a r...

 Raymond Ibraham: According to a Nov. 19, 2021  report , "an Egyptian court sentenced an 80-year-old-intellectual earlier this week to five years in prison over his remarks on the early Islamic conquests."   Ahmed Abdu' Maher , a high-profile lawyer, expert on Islam, and author of fourteen books on Islamic history and jurisprudence, was found guilty of "contempt of Islam, stirring up sectarian strife and posing a threat to the national unity." One of Maher's chief "crimes" is his view on the seventh- and eighth-century Arab conquests — a view based on a close and correct reading of both Muslim and non-Muslim sources: that Arabs conquerors invaded non-Muslim regions — specifically the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain — and engaged in atrocity after atrocity; that, while "spreading Islam" was the motive Islamic later historiography attributed to the Arabs, their true actions belied a lust for rape and rapine; and that they overthrew and...

  Daily Mail: Tears of the girls sold by their starving families: The Taliban pledged a new future for Afghan women... but the reality is famine and poverty so extreme that parents are making an unimaginable choice ...   He was paid 170,000 Afghanis — £1,386 — for the little girl, then aged five, by a 52-year-old man he doesn't know.  He doesn't know when her purchaser will come and pick up his 'goods'. 'I had to sell her to keep the others alive. I didn't have a choice,' he says. But all of the money he was paid has since been spent, largely on medical care for one of Qadir's four sons and paying off a debt he owed their local shopkeeper for food. With every passing month, Zohra acquires a new, agonising understanding of her horrific predicament. Her eyes fill with tears as the Mail asks her how she feels to be sold, and she replies: 'I'm scared.' Qadir, as tormented as his daughter, adds: 'She cries all the time. She asks her mother wh...

  Washington Free Beacon: Kerry Lobbying Against Legislation To Ban Import of Chinese Goods Produced by Slave Labor   Import ban could agitate Beijing as U.S. pushes for climate deal China is unlikely to give up slavery or the burning of fossil fuels for the slaves to produce solar panels.  His whole approach on this subject is ludicrous. 

 Jeff M. Lewis: The Inherent Fraud of ‘The 1619 Project’ Lewis provides a history of the opposition to slavery on moral grounds.  While there is certainly a case for that, there is also one that holds it was an impediment to economic prosperity too.  The main problem with slavery as an economic model is that virtually all the incentives for the workers are negative.  There is little to no incentive to increase production because there is no reward for doing so under slavery.  After slavery was ended the industrial revolution led to production increases in agriculture that were not even dreamed of during the tenure of slavery.  The end of slavery led eventually to greater productivity because there were clear incentives for making farming more efficient. BTW, some of my ancestors left from Oxfordshire England at about the same time and landed in Massachusetts.

 Power Line: ... So what is the nature of the Chinese Communist regime? Are they our moral equal, if not our moral superior, as liberals generally believe? Some  light is shed  on that question by a former Chinese policeman now living in exile in Europe: A former Chinese policeman said Uyghur Muslims were hanged from cell ceilings, tortured with electric batons and ordered to be raped by fellow prisoners, in what appears to be the first interview with an official whistleblower. The former detective described the extreme abuse Uyghurs were subjected to in order to elicit confessions as China rounded up about two million people in a social cleansing programme. Two million people. The officer, identified only by the surname Jiang, said he worked in one of the hundred internment camps dotted around far-western China. He said that initially he felt the patriotic pull to join 150,000 police recruits to staff detention centres in Xinjiang but he was quickly disillusioned by abus...

 Washington Free Beacon: Pro Bowl NFL cornerback Marlon Humphrey shut down a July 4 attempt to smear the United States by Rep. Cori Bush (D., Mo.), a far-left member of Congress who said "black people still aren't free" in the country. "I feel free lol," the Baltimore Ravens star—a black man who was raised in Alabama— wrote in response to Bush. ... Humphrey was drafted by the Ravens in 2017 after two years at the University of Alabama. During last year's season, Humphrey signed a $98.75 million contract extension, making him one of the highest-paid players in football. I think Bush has been corrupted by the CRT movement which makes her feel sorry for herself despite her ability to achieve public office.  As for being free, unlike slaves, Bush is free to come and go as she pleases and she can even leave the country if she wants to. 

 Breitbart: Monday, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) took aim at his colleague Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) for her Fourth of July tweet  claiming  Independence Day is about freedom for whites, while black people “still aren’t free.” Donalds said on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom” that the tweet is “outlandish” and “ridiculous,” adding it “flies in the face of reality.” He argued black people have been free in America since 1865 and no other country has allowed them to achieve as much wealth as the United States. ... Donalds is right.  I would also tell Rep. Bush that she is free to leave this country at any time.  If she were not a free person she could not do that.  Slaves are not free to leave where they live and work.   

 Rich Lowry: ... The Yale professor Timothy Snyder, a scholar of totalitarianism and 20th-century atrocities, has written a piece for The New York Times Magazine titled “ The War on History Is a War on Democracy .” At The Atlantic, Anne Applebaum published a piece with the headline “ Democracies Don’t Try to Make Everyone Agree .” Applebaum summarizes what she thinks is the crux of the anti-CRT push in schools: “Schoolchildren should not be taught the history of racism in America; they should not learn about slavery; they should not be allowed to think about the long-term consequences. That, apparently, is now the consensus in a segment of the Republican Party.” Not to put too fine a point on it, but this line of attack on anti-CRT bills is either woefully misinformed or willfully dishonest. It doesn’t interact at all with the intention or the text of the anti-CRT provisions. In sum, it is a hysterical smear. Applebaum doesn’t even try to provide an example of the alleged campaign...

 Newsmax: A Chinese company that produces a key ingredient in solar panels will be barred from the U.S. market as part of a broader effort to halt commerce tied to the country's repressive campaign against Uyghurs and other minorities, the Biden administration said Thursday. U.S. Customs and Border Protection will immediately halt shipments from the Hoshine Silicon Industry Co. Ltd. and its subsidiaries under a law that bans the import of goods produced with forced labor. In addition, the Commerce Department will add six Chinese entities involved in the production of raw materials and components for the solar industry to a blacklist restricting their access to the American market, the administration said. The moves target a relatively small slice of the U.S. import market, but it is notable given the administration's renewable energy goals. It also reflects an escalation of efforts to use economic leverage to pressure China over its use of forced labor as part of its campaign a...

 National Review: President Biden pledged to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by at least 50 percent by 2030 from 2005 levels. An estimate shows that to reach this ambitious goal, at least half of the U.S. power supply would have to come from clean energy such as solar and wind. However, one dirty secret that President Biden and his green allies don’t want to talk about is how “clean” solar energy is largely built on forced labor in Xinjiang, China, according to a new investigative report by U.K.’s Sheffield Hallam University. China dominates the global supply chain for solar power and is the leading exporter of solar panels and critical components for making solar panels. For instance, about 95 percent of solar modules rely on one mineral — solar-grade polysilicon, and China produces 80 percent of the world supply of polysilicon. Xinjiang alone is responsible for 45 percent of the world’s supply of polysilicon. Such a high level of production requires a significant supply of labo...

 Washington Free Beacon: In April, Apple announced it would not produce a film about slavery in Georgia in light of the state's recent voting law. A month later, the tech giant was found to have relied on Chinese slave labor to build parts for its tech products. Apple moved production of its upcoming drama Emancipation to Louisiana after star Will Smith and director Antoine Fuqua said they could not support a state that "enacts regressive voting laws that are designed to restrict voter access." But this week, The Information released a report naming seven Apple suppliers that rely on the forced labor of Uyghurs. Apple is the latest corporation to suspend business in protest of a law that added requirements for absentee ballots. House majority whip Jim Clyburn and President Biden have referred to the law as a "new Jim Crow." But Apple's continued reliance on forced labor raises questions about the company's dedication to human rights. According to The In...