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Japan Overhauled Its Entire Intelligence Community...and One Nation Is Not Happy About It

Japan seems cautious of its powerful neighbor across the East China Sea: The National Diet has decided to overhaul its entire intelligence-gathering system. This is one of the key initiatives of the current Japanese Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi. She aims to expand this institution's capabilities and centralize those efforts. The focus goes beyond counterterrorism; Takaichi reportedly also wants to know if the island nation is being surveilled and who might be spying. This is not new: everyone engages in these activities, whether adversary or ally (via Japan Today):

Takaichi has said a system for registering agents of foreign governments engaged in lobbying activities should be considered, and that Japan needs to establish its own foreign intelligence agency.

The new law lacks provisions for parliament to monitor intelligence activities, leaving questions regarding democratic oversight unresolved.

Speaking to reporters at her office, Takaichi maintained the new law will not raise risks to privacy, saying it will "establish the foundations of Japan's intelligence capabilities" and strengthen the country's ability to "protect public safety and the national interest."

Regarding further intelligence measures, she said the government will "proceed with our deliberations carefully and steadily while listening to a wide range of views."

Devised in response to national security concerns, including cyberattacks and election interference via social media disinformation, the council will be chaired by the prime minister and composed of nine other Cabinet members, including the chief Cabinet secretary and foreign minister.

It will centralize a fragmented intelligence apparatus, with the law stating the council's secretariat, the National Intelligence Bureau, will comprehensively coordinate intelligence gathered by the National Police Agency, the Foreign Ministry, the Defense Ministry and other organizations, with the authority to ask them to share information.

The government could establish the council and bureau as early as July and set up an expert panel to discuss counterespionage legislation. It is expected to formulate policy with an eye to submitting a bill during the regular parliamentary session in 2027. 

One nation that isn’t too pleased about this bill is China, for obvious reasons:

Japan's lawmakers need to learn the lessons of history and act prudently, a spokeswoman for China's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.

Commenting on the passing of a bill by Japan's Upper House to establish a National Intelligence Council, Mao Ning said: "We're concerned about the move and note that it has already been both domestically and internationally questioned."

Addressing a regular news conference, Mao quoted people with insights in the country who have pointed out that the move is not simply Japan's internal affair, but also a major issue concerning the country's constitutional system as well as its domestic and foreign security policies.

Mao added that Japan's intelligence community has, in the past, paved the way for militarism and wars of aggression which resulted in innumerable crimes against its Asian neighbors as well as the people of Japan themselves.

Now, that’s the CCP talking right there. 

‘We don’t like this bill because of Japan’s past history of militarism.’

Well, is that the reason? This tweet from Palantir might shed some light. The American artificial intelligence company, which has been integrating its capabilities into the very fields Takaichi wants to strengthen. That might be hitting a bit close to home for Beijing, which is engaged in an AI war with the United States. Palantir executives, including co-founder Peter Thiel, met with the Japanese prime minister last spring. 

Yeah, I can see why the Chinese are a bit sour about this. 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/05/30/japan-just-overhauled-its-entire-intelligence-communityand-one-nation-is-not-happy-about-it-n2676945

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Watch How a Hijab-Wearing AOC Is Treated by a Muslim Male Audience as She Tries Pandering to Them During Eid Celebration in New York City

AOC wearing a hijab while addressing an audience during Eid celebrations in New York City.

A Muslim male crowd gave AOC a rude welcome as she attempted to pander to them at a prominent Muslim holiday celebration in New York City.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, AOC was seen wearing a hijab at an Eid Celebration in New York City, which was attended by Muslim men.

Addressing a crowd on Wednesday, AOC called on people to “renew our commitments to one another” so together they “can bring light into the darkness.”

Despite claiming to be a feminist who wants to dismantle the patriarchy, the hijab is widely seen as a symbol of female repression intended to prevent Islamic women from attracting the attention of men.

Despite AOC’s pandering, the Muslim audience was unmoved.

Instead of listening, the attendees ignored what she was saying and started speaking among themselves.

In addition, the background noise completely muffled her speech.

So much disrespect for AOC.

WATCH:

In contrast, look at how the audience received Mamdani:

Islamists are more than happy to vote for leftist politicians like AOC because she will help usher in demographic changes favorable to them and appeal to their anti-Semitic beliefs.

But make no mistake: they respect women like AOC as much as dirt.

What happened on Wednesday was no accident.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/watch-how-hijab-wearing-aoc-is-treated-muslim/

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Australia’s Trans Radicalism Crumbles Under The Weight Of Its Own Absurdity

Image CreditThe case of Tickle v. Giggle is the perfect demonstration of what happens when a government decides sex is whatever you say it is.

When you tell gigantic whoppers about what it means to be human as male and female, those lies will reveal themselves in grand and embarrassing ways.

This is what’s currently happening with gender ideology in Australia, and it is worth everyone’s attention in both hemispheres. These incidents serve as a grand demonstration in the madness of gender ideology. On Aug. 1, 2013, it became Australian law that a person’s sex was mutable and self-defined. Of course, this erased any objective meaning of what it means to be male or female.

Australia is now dealing with the fallout, and it is comically infuriating.

What has blown things up down under is a case called Tickle v. Giggle. Seriously. A very feisty female tech entrepreneur named Sally (Sall) Grover is being fined serious money by Australia’s federal court for kicking a bloke off her all-female social media site, Giggle for Girls. That man started posing as a woman in his late 40s and now presents as “Roxane (Roxie) Tickle,” trying desperately to pass as a woman. Few are buying it, and Grover certainly didn’t when her company reviewed Tickle’s personal photograph.

Robert James Bromwich, a sitting judge for the Federal Court of Australia, has declared in a legal ruling against Grover that Tickle’s “sex is now that of a woman” because 1) the man said so, 2) he legally changed his birth certificate to denote this wish along with his newly adopted name, and 3) he had sex mutilating surgery. Grover must now pay more than $20,000 because she does not, according to Judge Bromwich, “accept that a person’s sex can be a matter for self-identification.”

Gender activists in Australia have messed with the wrong woman. Grover is fighting back so fiercely, deftly and truthfully, that she said this week Facebook has permanently banned her from posting to her own page. Grover wryly responded, “I don’t want to labor the irony of being banned on a social networking platform while fighting in court for the right to ban men from a woman-only social networking platform.”

This injustice has gotten the attention of at least three common-sense senators in Australia’s Federal Parliament, and they are digging up all kinds of absurdity.

On May 26, Sen. Malcolm Roberts questioned officials from the Prime Minister’s Office for Women on whether they “stand with biological women or does this office also include men identifying with women?” The official answered, “We stand with all women, Senator.” He clarified, “So, biological women?” Then someone from the committee asked with shock, “What does that term even mean, that’s a ridiculous question.”

They fail to grasp the simple logic that you cannot protect what you cannot define.

Sen. Roberts was forced to get more specific and asked officials of the Office for Women, “Do you believe that a man born with male genitals and male chromosomes can be anything other than a male?” Officials curtly, but inaccurately responded, “This is a medical question, Senator Roberts. You’re better off in the Health Department, which is next week.”

Do you catch the revelatory irony here? The Australian Government’s Office for Women are admittedly not doctors, yet they are cocksure they know that a man can be a woman if he says so. That’s crackers, straight up.

The same day, Sen. Michaelia Cash keenly questioned Dr. Anna Cody, Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner, on legal pregnancy protections for “trans women” i.e., men who pose as women. Upon questioning, Cody correctly confessed, “Clearly, trans women cannot become pregnant.” This is indeed an important admission by the governmental official tasked with advocating for “trans rights.” She just admitted that “trans women” are not actually women, because women are humans with the potential for pregnancy.

Things got even stickier for Cody, though. Watch the full, confusing exchange below:

Ms. Cody has been here before, though. A year ago, Sen. Claire Chandler asked Cody about a curious comment she recently made before the National Press Club that “we are not one version of woman.” Chandler asked her to explain, given that, as Chandler explained, “a woman is an adult human female with XX chromosomes.” Cody responded, “There is great diversity in who we are as women,” and this includes “women with disability, lesbians, trans women, uhm, non-binary, there are a range of people who identify as women, who are women.”

Chandler then brought up the dreaded B-word. “Did you mean that biological males can be women?” Cody, laughing slightly in frustration, responded, “Men … so, I think we have different language that perhaps you’re using, than I would use.” She then confessed, “I don’t understand the term biological men.”

Cody has a Ph.D. in law, has worked as a lawyer and dean of a law school. She is not dumb.

She well understands what a biological male and female are. No one can pretend otherwise. Yet, that is precisely what she is doing. She just cannot admit it because she is too deeply catechized in the liberal politics of gender ideology. Like Ketanji Brown Jackson, she knows the whole artifice of her life’s work would come crumbling down if she admitted what any 4-year-old of average intelligence well knows.

This is the cultural moment we find ourselves in, and these current experiences from Australia are relevant to all of us across the world because they demonstrate the literal insanity a people must descend into out of loyalty to this mind virus masquerading as progressive compassion.

This is what gender theory does. It creates an alternative reality where the most universal and fundamental truth of humanity as male and female, boy and girl, man and woman, have no objective meaning but rather becomes whatever gender ideologists say they are in any given situation. And when you try to point it out, they play mind games with you. We must all resolve to never, ever participate in any way in this madness. We must always insist on living in the healthy space of reality, like these good Australian senators.

May there be more like them across the globe.

https://thefederalist.com/2026/05/29/australias-trans-radicalism-crumbles-under-the-weight-of-its-own-absurdity/

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