Analyst who nailed bitcoin’s $40,000 level says 50% collapse could come next

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The Chinese government is trying to rebrand forced sterilization as feminism

A report from a state-run thinktank says the reason for declining Uighur birth rates is gender equality – an outrageous but not unprecedented play Genocide gets the girlboss treatmentYou know those horrific mass detention camps in China? Turns out we were all completely wrong about them. The Chinese government isn’t oppressing its Muslim minority population, it’s simply rounded up over a million Uighurs in order to open their minds. It’s not forcibly sterilizing Uighur women, it’s just teaching them feminist theory.I know that may sound a little hard to believe, but the Chinese government has firmly assured us that this is the case. On Thursday the Chinese embassy in the US tweeted a link to the findings of a report on demographics in Xinjiang, a predominantly Uighur area. Birth rates have dropped dramatically in recent years – something that many international observers believe is down to forced sterilizations. That’s nonsense, according to the report, which was created by a state-run thinktank, and reported on by China Daily, an English-language newspaper owned by the publicity department of the Chinese Communist p54arty. The real reason for declining Uighur birth rates is gender equality.“[I]n the process of eradicating extremism, the minds of Uygur women in Xinjiang were emancipated and gender equality and reproductive health were promoted, making them no longer baby-making machines,� the Chinese embassy in the US tweeted. “They are more confident and independent.�Does Twitter have any issue with this outrageous propaganda? Nah, of course not: the social network has said that the tweet doesn’t violate its policy against hateful conduct. That doesn’t mean you can say whatever you like on Twitter without censure, of course. If you incite a coup then you will be locked out of your account for 12 hours. Twitter takes its responsibilities very seriously!The full extent of what China is doing to its Uighur population isn’t clear. However, evidence of what some experts have called a form of “demographic genocide� is mounting. An Associated Press investigation last year found that the state of Xinjiang “regularly subjects minority women to pregnancy checks, and forces intrauterine devices, sterilization and even abortion on hundreds of thousands�. If ethnic minorities have too many children they’re threatened with internment, the AP said.The fact that China is brazenly rebranding demographic genocide as gender equality is outrageous and unconscionable – but not unprecedented. In the 1990s about 350,000 people were sterilized in Peru under a program promoted by President Alberto Fujimori, who argued a lower birth rate was the key to eliminating poverty. “Peruvian women should be the owners of their destiny!� Fujimori said in a 1995 speech to congress. He presented his family-planning campaign as a step forward for feminism, and even got funding from the US Agency for International Development, USAid. Many of the women who were sterilized, however, came from poor indigenous backgrounds and were coerced or forced into the procedure.I find it hard to wrap my head around what’s happening in China: there are a million Muslim Uighurs in detention camps and the world is doing very little about it. Disney even shot Mulan in the same region as these camps –thanking the government entities in Xinjiang in the film’s credits. The fact that so many people seem to be turning a blind eye to what’s happening to the Uighurs, the fact that the Chinese government feels emboldened to crow about declining Uighur birth rates on social media, demonstrates the extent to which Muslims have been dehumanized by the “war on terror�.The west must hold China to account for what is happening to the Uighurs but it must also hold itself accountable. After 9/11 you could infringe civil liberties with impunity in the name of combating extremism. Michael Bloomberg, for example, has never apologized for an unconstitutional mass surveillance program targeting Muslims after 9/11; indeed, he’s justified it. “Of course we’re supposed to do that,� he said. Treat a huge group of people as if every single one of them is a potential terrorist? That’s what you’re supposed to do? Because that’s exactly what is happening in Xinjiang. China is simply following a playbook that America put together. Just a reminder that women in America have also been forcibly sterilized recentlyMore than 40 women have submitted written testimony attesting to abuse by a gynecologist while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. Dr Mahendra Amin performed so many hysterectomies that he was known as the “uterus collector�. Women are allowed to drive Moscow subway trains againThe Moscow metro stopped hiring female drivers in the 1980s and “train driver� was added to a long list of jobs considered too demanding for women to undertake. It was removed from that list last year and the city’s transport department welcomes its first female driver on Sunday. Virginity tests for female rape survivors outlawed by Pakistani courtLahore’s high court abolished the test, saying the practice “offends the personal dignity of the female victim�. The tests have been used to victim-blame: if an exam demonstrated that a woman was “habituated to sexual intercourse� then it was assumed she was less likely to have been raped. As well as being misogynistic it should be noted that virginity tests are entirely unscientific. Shockingly, they’re also legal across much of America. Germany is getting more diverse stormsA low-pressure system called Ahmet hit Germany last week. It brought low temperatures and the winds of change: Ahmet is part of a new campaign to make the weather news more diverse. “So far, our weather had mostly typical German names only, even though 26% of people in Germany have migrant roots,� one of the leaders of the initiative explained. Iran moves to criminalize violence against womenCabinet ministers approved the long-awaited bill on Sunday. While it’s not law yet, this is a hugely positive step. “The events of last year, both ‘honor killings’ that got national attention and the MeToo movement in Iran, have increased the pressure on the government to push this bill that was in the making for almost a decade,� a researcher for Human Rights Watch told the New York Times. Man buns are making a comebackLockdown is causing more men to experiment with their hair, apparently. Demand for sperm is through the roofThe pandemic has caused some sperm banks to run low, the New York Times reports. Enterprising individuals with unregulated Facebook groups are stepping into plug the gap: meet the Sperm Kings of America. ‘College hunks hauling junk’ spotted outside Javanka’s mansionSpeculation was rife after the moving truck was pictured by Ivanka and Jared’s Washington DC home on Thursday. However, the orange “College Hunks Hauling Junk� truck was just picking up Salvation Army donations, a source close to Ivanka said. Which is a shame: I can think of some trash that needs to be cleared away.

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