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Links - 15th July 2026 (2 - General Wokeness)

2026-07-15T17:25:00.000+08:00

Steven Bonk on X - "The Liberals shut down farming research stations across Canada. Then they gave $160,000 to fund two grotesque “art” shows, including a theatrical performance featuring actors playing sexualized 13-year-old twin boys doing “sexy dances,” stripping naked, and performing a “blood sacrifice.”"

Now systemic racism is driving ANIMALS out of deprived urban areas as creatures ditch poor areas - "Scientists claim that there are fewer wild animals in neighborhoods where mostly people of color live - and their absence is affecting residents' mental health. A research study that looked into the genetic diversity of wildlife in neighborhoods across the United States found government rules that previously mandated separated neighborhoods based on race, is still having lingering after-effects on where animals choose to live decades on. The study suggests that areas where mostly white people live have a greater diversity when it come to animals living in the area. Areas with less diversity could also be having negative effects on both the mental and physical health of the people who live in such 'deprived' neighborhoods. The findings were published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a peer-reviewed scientific journal."

How Biased is the Criminal Justice System? - "an interesting new meta-analysis by Chris Ferguson and Sven Smith about race and class bias in the U.S. criminal justice system. TL; DR: For most crimes, the researchers found no compelling evidence that Blacks or Hispanics receive harsher sentences than Whites or Asians, and no compelling evidence that poorer defendants receive harsher sentences than wealthier ones. They did find evidence for racial bias in sentencing for drug crimes, but the effect sizes were very small. Higher quality studies found less evidence for bias, as did studies exhibiting lower levels of citation bias."

jake on X - "I do understand the opinion on the intersection between climate activism and Palestine/imperialism in the Global South - but has anyone explained why the Sunrise Movement has given up *completely* on any dedicated climate change advocacy and now focuses on Palestine alone?"
Meme - (((Jeremy Posner))) @jmp_nyc: "Sunrise Movement deleted the tweet, but someone there thought this was a idea to put out there. Apparently the environment isn't in need of advocacy anymore, but face tattoos of the omnicause are worth celebrating?"
Sunrise Movement @sunris...: "Feeling confident for NYC elections tomorrow #FuckAIPAC" *FUCK AIPAC forehead tattoo*
"I can't be the only one who finds it depressing that the entire environmentalist movement has been completely swallowed by generic left slopulism to the point where no one even talks about it anymore."
The left wing agenda is all connected

Civil servants blow the whistle on a woke and wasteful Whitehall

Just a little melancholic, maybe a little blue: Mental health as an emerging political identity. - "Is mental health an emerging political identity? In the first study that investigates experiencing mental illness as a political identity, I find that it is. Using a nationally representative survey of Americans fielded in the 2022 CES (N = 1,000), I answer the question: “For whom is mental illness a political identity?” I adapt Jardina’s work (White Identity Politics. 1st ed. Cambridge University Press, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108645157.) to create mental health identity and mental health alienation batteries that examine closeness with the ingroup, importance of identification to self, strength of identification within the ingroup, and alienation. I find that people who have experienced mental illness feel close to others who have experienced mental illness. They are also likely to self-categorize as having or having had a mental illness, share a sense of group consciousness with others who have or had mental illness, and recognize the need to work together to change laws that are unfair to people with mental illness. I further find that there is an emerging mental health political identity that is most pronounced among younger (Gen Z) and more liberal Americans. I also find that the emerging mental health identity has political predictors and political consequences. Those who self-categorize and have high scores on the mental health identity and/or alienation scales are just as likely to participate politically and use (social) media, on average, as those who do not self-categorize and have low scores on the mental health identity and/or alienation scales. In addition, there is a strong association between mental health categorization, identification, and alienation and the expressed desire for increased healthcare, education, and welfare spending. Finally, I find that the political predictors and political consequences for the emerging mental health identity differ from those for physical disability and serious physical illness categorization and identification. These findings have far-reaching consequences for mental health advocacy and the role mental health identity will play in the political sphere—especially as Gen Z matures as a cohort."
Mental health might be emerging as a source of political identity, study finds - "Senator Tina Smith is a prominent advocate for mental health who has sponsored multiple pieces of mental health legislation during her tenure in the U.S. Senate. In one of her speeches on the Senate floor, she stated that mental health is one of her top priorities and that one of the reasons for this is that she also struggles with depression. She described her condition with the words “I’m one of them,” referring to people with mental illness, indicating that having a mental illness might be a basis for a political identity. Study author Lauren Van De Hey posed the following question: If political elites are beginning to think about their own mental health condition in terms of political identity, do citizens also think about their own mental health in terms of political identity?... Approximately one-half of study participants with mental illness stated that their identity as a person with a mental health illness is very important or somewhat important to them. These percentages were somewhat lower for individuals with a physical disability or chronic illness... those who self-categorize as having suffered from mental illness and have high scores on mental health identity are just as likely to participate politically as those who do not self-categorize. This is notable, as having a physical disability typically lowers voter turnout and political participation."
Time for more "awareness" about mental health, and to intensify grievance mongering, so more people will be radicalised into pushing the left wing agenda
Clearly, conservatives are just in denial and refuse to seek help, and no one ever wants to think that they have a problem. Overdiagnosis is never a possibility, even though people with actual physical and/or objective illnesses are less likely to treat it as an identity.

Rebekah Jones on X - "The Bible Belt is also:
The divorce belt The teen pregnancy belt The obesity belt The murder belt The poverty belt The high-school dropout belt The uneducated belt The MAGA belt The prison belt The disease belt
None of these are a coincidence. They are not simply correlation. This is cause and effect."
Correlation is causation when it pushes the left wing agenda. The ecological fallacy means you can demonise your enemies

Students excluded from university free speech complaints system - "A new freedom of speech complaints system for England’s universities has come under fire for excluding students."

Feasting on rich food and drinking local wine is just being very French, not far-Right - "Thousands of jolly people sitting cheek by jowl at long tables, feasting on charcuterie, duck magret, suckling pig and artisan cheeses and drinking generous lashings of local wine. So far, so French. In France, food and gastronomy are often seen as metaphors for national identity. But today, the mega-banquets run by Le Canon Français (The French Cannon), launched five years ago to celebrate terroir and cuisine, find themselves in hot water. They are being accused of “gastro-nationalism”, a xenophobic weaponisation of French food. Le Canon Français is the brainchild of two entrepreneurs, Pierre-Alexandre Mortemard de Boisse and Géraud de la Tour, who launched their start-up in the wake of the pandemic to support local winegrowers and food producers... The events are attended by people from the rural and peri-urban areas of la France profonde (the non-Parisian French heartland). And Parisian elites find overt displays of patriotism distasteful... Shockingly, the firm’s founders and some of their suppliers, from winegrowers to bakers, have received death threats. They vigorously deny being a Right-wing vehicle, and deplore what they see as a desire to “politicise cheese and charcuterie”."
We are still told that left wingers don't hate their countries

Meme - Christian Heiens: "Democrats only have any sort of sentimental attachment to America when they feel like they have total ideological control over it because they're Liberals, and Liberals ultimately have no nation of their own. Trump didn't drain the soul out of anything. Democrats just adopted an ideology that dissolves the nation and leaves its own adherents increasingly atomized and mentally ill."
"Pride in Being an American, by Political Party, 2001-2025. How proud are you to be an American - 'extremely proud, very proud, moderately proud, only a little proud or not at all proud? Figures are the percentage who are extremely or very proud
*2001-2025*
Republican *Consistently above 80% regardless of who is in power*
Independent *Going down over time to a low of 53%*
Democrat *Going down over time to a low of 36%*"
It's telling that even when Democrats are in power, Republicans are still prouder to be American than Democrats
aezzie !! @AezzieUwU: "It's actually sad how Trump has just... drained the soul out of our country. Before he was elected, 80% of Democrats and 76% of independents reported being "extremely" or "very" proud to be an American"

Irish Muslim Council Condemns Arson Attack on Talbot Street Mosque - "The Irish Muslim Council strongly condemns today’s shocking arson attack on a Mosque on Talbot Street in Dublin city centre. The reported petrol bomb attack, carried out on a Monday afternoon in broad daylight, is a deeply disturbing assault on a place of worship and an attack on the fundamental values of peace, religious freedom and community safety that Ireland holds dear... On numerous occasions, individuals associated with the far right entered the mosque, livestreamed worshippers on social media platforms, interrogated members of the congregation, and spread inflammatory and false narratives portraying Muslims as a threat to Irish society. Such campaigns of harassment and dehumanisation are reckless and dangerous. While the Garda investigation will determine the circumstances surrounding today’s attack, sustained hate-filled rhetoric and organised intimidation create an environment in which extremists may feel emboldened to commit acts of violence. The Irish Muslim Council has repeatedly warned about the growing threat posed by anti-Muslim hatred and far-right extremism. Today’s attack demonstrates that when hatred is normalised and incitement is left unchecked, the consequences can be grave... We also urge political leaders, social media companies and all sectors of society to confront hate speech, organised intimidation and extremist propaganda before further violence occurs. The Muslim community has long been an integral part of Irish society, contributing positively to every aspect of national life. We will not be intimidated by those who seek to divide our communities through fear and hatred. We remain committed to working with people of all faiths and backgrounds to uphold the values of mutual respect, justice and peaceful coexistence."
Good luck if you confront "pro-Palestine" hate speech, organised intimidation and extremist propaganda, or other flavours of those that Muslims are involved in

“The far-right will not win,” say PBP, after arson attack on Muslim prayer hall - "Ballymun-Finglas councillor Conor Reddy said, “this is a frightening incident and our full solidarity is with the Muslim community in Dublin and with everyone who worships at Al-Madinah.” “An attack on a mosque or prayer hall is an attack on all of us, and on the diverse, inclusive city that Dublin should be,” he said. “This is shocking, but sadly it is not surprising; there has been a febrile climate of racism, and Islamophobia whipped up in this country,” Reddy asserted. “We have seen attacks on IPAS centres and homes, harassment on our streets, and a growing confidence among racist and far-right forces.” Reddy stated, “this hatred does not come from nowhere; it is driven forward by far-right figures in Ireland, elected and unelected, linked to an international far-right ecosystem around figures like Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk, and then echoed, softened and normalised by sections of the political establishment who dog whistle and toy with racism to divide us.” The People Before Profit councillor stated “we got a glimpse of this in action during the Dublin Central by-election when former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said he was ‘worried about the next generation of Muslims in Ireland’ while speaking to a constituent who was recording him as he canvassed her home. “That kind of rhetoric feeds the atmosphere we are now seeing. It casts Muslims as a threat, as outsiders, as people to be watched or feared,” he claimed."

Man arrested after arson attack on Dublin Islamic centre - "While witnesses reportedly heard the man shouting racially abusive comments, Irish broadcaster RTÉ said the authorities do not believe the attack was linked to racist or far-right motives."
Iranian national arrested in relation to Talbot Street arson - "The man arrested yesterday in relation to a fire that Gardaí believe was deliberately started at a Muslim prayer centre on Talbot Street is “an Iranian national who, sources say, has had a grievance against the Islamic prayer hall,” it has been reported... Garda sources also clarified to several media outlets that they did not believe ‘far-right or racist’ elements were involved. Despite this, speculation continued online, and several national media outlets carried claims in comments today that the attack was a reflection of far-right hatred and demonstrated what could happen when “incitement is left unchecked”."
Weird. Why would he be "racially abusive" towards (other?) Muslims
When you see what you want to see

Reddit Lies on X - ">be Christ
>come to Earth
>establish the Church
>400 years later
>Rome collapses, its schools along with it
>warrior-kings conquer all of Europe
>only the Church survives
>general literacy drops to near 0%
>only the clergy are widely literate
>only 14% of leaders can read
>leaders need the clergy to read their own laws to them
>literal idiocracy
>copying texts becomes a core monastic duty
>Aristotle, Plato, Virgil, the Bible, and more all copied by hand
>90% of surviving classical literature today was saved by the Church
>Painstakingly do this for 500 years
>Church saves literacy itself from extinction
>fast forward to 2026
>Atheists on the Internet: "Christians caused the Dark Ages"
>yfw: *annoyed Christ*"

Sarah on X - "Democrats think they’re using Muslims to usher in socialism. The truth is Muslims are using Democrats to usher in Islam."

Meme - Christian Heiens: "Liberals will ask, "Why can't you just enjoy it?" at the same time other Liberals post, "Everything I do in life is with the intention of making you miserable". People are not angry because they can't enjoy things. They are angry because they correctly understand that the things they once loved are being converted into weapons for an ideology that hates them. There is a very obvious sadistic side to Progressivism's hijacking of things like movies and video games. These people do not love the media they're destroying, They're not trying to make something good. They just want revenge against the normal world. They want the actual fans to feel alienated and dispossessed, That's the entire point. And every so often, someone is bold enough to admit it."
Terminally Online Leftist @terminallyOL: "she was so real for this"
Aurora @SpectralAurora_: "it brings me so much joy to know that you feel like all your favorite hobbies are being stripped away from you. you will never get what you think you had back and that is hilarious"

Meme - @godblesstoto: "This is one of the strangest things I've seen Owen Jones say. Here he is defending Islamic hatred of gay people. Then he says: "We should fight for everyone to have inclusive views." So, 'fight' to make everyone think the same way? That doesn't sound very inclusive"
5Pillars @5Pillarsuk: "5Pilars has compiled a brief guide for Muslims living in the West on how to navigate LGBTQ Pride month during June,"
Jason Reld @JasonReidx: "If thats the case, then The UK most certainiy inthe place for you."
Owen Jones @owenjonesjouno: "If they were Christian evangelicals, would you have said the same thing? These are Brits with bad views about homosexuality. It's obviously problematic to suggest Mustims should leave their own country, whatever their views. We should fight for everyone to have Inclusive views."

SPLC Paid KKK Members Not to Leave Movement: Indictment - "The Southern Poverty Law Center allegedly paid at least three people who wanted to leave the white supremacist movement not to do so... The organization has maintained that it paid these informants in order to alert law enforcement to extremist violence before it happened, and some of the informants’ information did lead to prosecutions. However, the indictment claims some of the SPLC money actually went to prop up the organizations—and the superseding indictment reveals more details of the allegations. The superseding indictment alleges that the “field sources” used the money from the Southern Poverty Law Center to grow extremist groups. Field sources used the money to attend and host “extremist group rallies”; grow and create “new chapters of extremist groups”; recruit new members; donate to extremist group leaders; “purchase materials for cross burnings; purchase materials to make Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods”; and more. One of the field sources, identified as “F-9,” reportedly had a romantic relationship with an SPLC employee. F-9 infiltrated the neo-Nazi organization National Alliance and received $140,000 from the SPLC. F-9 shared bank accounts with the SPLC employee, who used the cash to pay for the couple’s personal living expenses... The field source identified as F-30, who led the National Socialist Party of America, was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and led a faction of the Aryan Nations that had chapters in approximately 17 states, reached out to the SPLC while “seeking to get out of the white nationalist movement.” An SPLC employee “offered F-30 a monthly salary of approximately $2,500.00 in addition to payment of expenses to continue to lead and maintain the violent extremist organization F-30 told the SPLC employee he wanted to leave,” according to the superseding indictment. The SPLC used the shell company Rare Books to pay F-30 more than $70,000 in donor funds between 2010 and 2016, according to the indictment. “F-30 used donors’ money to, among other things, travel to extremist rallies, host extremist rallies, donate money to leaders of other extremist organizations, recruit new members into his extremist organization, publish racist and extremist material for the purpose of recruiting new members, … and create racist paraphernalia to sell at rallies to raise money for his extremist organization,” the indictment states. “This was known to certain employees as they continued to secretly funnel donors’ money to F-30.” Two more “field sources,” identified as F-31 and F-32, were members of a Ku Klux Klan organization who “feared for their safety from other Klan members and wanted out of the movement.” They reached out to the SPLC after seeing news reports about the center helping another person leave an extremist group. “Despite their requests for help getting out of the movement, an SPLC employee encouraged F-31 and F-32 to stay in the movement and offered to pay them a $1,200.00 monthly salary as well as pay for expenses as incurred,” the indictment recounts. “Once they were financially backed by the SPLC to do so, F-31 and F-32 agreed to remain in the movement.” The SPLC employee directed these field sources to falsely state they received the money for helping college students write and research essays, the indictment claims. Using this money, F-31 and F-32 “attended extremist group rallies in multiple states,” and the activity led F-31 to rise to “a leadership role within an extremist group.” In that role, “F-31 actively recruited new members using donors’ money.” “F-32 also participated in recruiting new members using donors’ money,” the indictment adds. “In addition, an SPLC employee knew that F-32 used donors’ money to purchase material to make Ku Klux Klan garments for others.” The SPLC also allegedly reimbursed these field sources for the expenses they incurred for cross-burning events."
Time to condemn cops for having relationships with informants as abuse
Clearly, paying the KKK to stage cross-burnings means you are paying informants for information

Liberal Southern Poverty Law Center reimbursed Klan members for cross-burnings, feds say in stunning court documents : r/NewsWorthPayingFor - "Given the near certainty that perpetually-online SPLC staffers are reading this, let me just say: your pinko friends over at The Nation turned out to be wrong on pretty much every count -- and they're going to throw you under the bus. This article did not age well:
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/splc-indictment-doj/"
The DOJ’s Bogus Allegations Against the SPLC Are a Dog Whistle to White Nationalists | The Nation

Exclusive | SPLC employee who paid neo-Nazi lover $1.2 million unmasked - "“Employee-2” wrote an article based on material stolen from National Alliance headquarters in 2014 and then paid off an informant to take the blame for the robbery. Based on the details in the June 2 superseding indictment, “Employee-2” is believed to be Heidi Beirich, a 58-year-old fascism expert who was the director of intelligence at the Alabama-based anti-extremism nonprofit between 2012 and 2019... “Between 2015 and 2021, approximately $140,000 in donors’ money flowed from the SPLC operating account … and was ultimately deposited into the joint bank accounts held by F-9 and [Beirich]. “This amounted to approximately 66% of all money ever deposited into their joint bank accounts. [Beirich] then used donors’ money to pay the couple’s personal living expenses.”... The indictment then describes how the SPLC tried to cover up who their informant was by paying a second informant “approximately $6,000” to take responsibility for the burglary... By 2013, the National Alliance had effectively ceased to exist. That year, group chairman Erich Gliebe — a former boxer nicknamed the Aryan Barbarian — had sent a letter to followers saying the group was ending its membership program that September, writing they were abandoning dues-paying chapters in favor of a “supporter-based” structure. Membership had collapsed from 1,400 to around 20 in less than a decade. Despite the internal chaos and decline, the following year the SPLC began bolstering the group’s public profile, writing nearly a dozen articles about the organization. Tax filings reviewed by The Post show Beirich earned $190,000 a year in salary and benefits from the SPLC before her departure... In April, The Post exclusively unmasked other informants mentioned in the indictment, including a one-legged Imperial Wizard in the KKK named Bradley Scott Jenkins who took the nonprofit’s money while revitalizing a once-defunct KKK splinter group"

Bernie as a Nazi / Hitler as DSA member

2026-07-15T13:20:00.000+08:00

"I'm not saying Bernie Sanders is a Nazi
But his supporters do *Bernie with man with Nazi Swastika flag in the background*"

Of course, left wing logic is that a Nazi Swastika flag at an event only means the event is associated with Nazis if it's organised by people they disapprove of.

""Hitler was a failed art student and a vegan who blamed all his problems on rich people and the Jews.
"If he was around today, he'd be attending the Democratic Socialists of America conference""

Links - 15th July 2026 (1 - Zohran Mamdani [including Housing, Budget])

2026-07-15T09:43:00.000+08:00

Brecca Stoll on X - "NOW: Mamdani says his admin will transfer ownership from bad landlords to non-profits. “For buildings that have suffered chronic neglect, we will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards. Stewards that include community land trusts, non-profits, or even the tenants themselves.""

New York Post on X - "DSA NY House hopeful unveils radical housing plan to 'take buildings away' from so-called bad landlords"
Claire Valdez on X - "Yes, that's correct."
Coddled Affluent Professional on X - "From your lips to Clarence Thomas’s ears. Every now and then you should to take a moment to thank God for how stupid the Left is. Zero impulse control or forethought. With any luck in a couple years when SCOTUS makes it illegal libs will be crying ‘We didn’t ackshually mean rent control is a taking!’ in the same way they cried, ‘We didn’t ackshually mean defund the police!’"

Shipwreckedcrew on X - "This has always been the strategy -- prior mayors simply refused to carry out the last step. Rent control means insufficient revenue for landlords to properly maintain the building. Decline in condition of the building due to deferred maintenance leads to city pursuit of condemnation -- even though it is the city policy that starves the landlord of the needed funds. Condemnation is followed by city-financed renovation, and lease to NGO to operate as city-owned housing. All without a "takings" under eminent domain."

Rothmus 🏴 on X - "The most interesting aspect of Zohran Mamdani’s housing plan is that it doesn’t simply transfer seized properties to the city as that could later be reversed by a future mayor. Instead, it funnels them directly to NGOs and “community stewards” that are reliably aligned with leftist priorities and unlikely to ever relinquish control. Even tenants who gain temporary possession will soon discover they lack the expertise and resources to manage buildings themselves, forcing them to rely on these permanent third-party intermediaries. This expropriation strategy didn’t start with Mamdani. Democrats laid the groundwork years ago but lacked the nerve to follow through fully. Mamdani is openly commie and has no such hesitation.
The play:
>impose strict rent controls that make it financially unviable for owners to properly maintain or repair their properties
>blame the landlords for the resulting deterioration
>label the buildings “chronically neglected” based on your own standards
>seize the properties and transfer them to your political allies, the nonprofits, community land trusts, or tenant groups
Because the criteria are deliberately vague and subjective, virtually any owner can be targeted. This gives authorities the power to confiscate private property at will. Mamdani’s campaign made this direction explicit. It’s about pursuing “equity” by redistributing housing stock, often framed as taking from wealthier (white) neighborhoods to benefit others. In reality, many of these properties are expected to end up under the control of nonprofits serving the city’s large foreign-born population, all within a framework of permanent “progressive” dominance.
TLDR: it’s leftist plunder and pillaging, again."
Clearly, if you call him a communist, you're clueless and ignorant

WestHarlm on X - "Mamdani's political party announced their intensions to the world years ago. Their goal is to bankrupt NYC landlords via ridiculous rent control laws and then take the owner's properties away and give them to people who didn't earn them. This is happening in America. The Dem party continues to allow Socialists to run as Dems. Why?"

End Wokeness on X - "Mamdani says he'll seize a building from the landlord because it has a beehive"

Hon. Vickie Paladino on X - "Let's understand a few things about what's actually about to happen here if Zohran gets his way -- which he almost certainly will, unless courts intervene. First and foremost, Cea Weaver and DSA 'organizers' will be unleashed with the full institutional and legal support of the city government to ramp up tenant complaints in targeted buildings. No complaint will be too small. No building will be too small. Everything will be treated as catastrophic. Full-scale demagoguery will ensue, complete with protests, rent strikes, street theater, and harassment of property owners. Accordingly, the city buildings department will be weaponized to begin writing as many violations as possible in order to bolster the city's effort to justify a seizure. It won't matter how small or large the violations are, the total number will be breathlessly cited as evidence of mismanagement. It will be impossible for landlords to clear these violations in good faith. The combination of a weaponized buildings department writing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, rent strikes, and constant threats and harassment against landlords by militant activists will make the situation untenable for any property owner to realistically fight back, and the city will seize the property. The landlord will be lucky to walk away without prison or being beaten to death in the street by an angry mob (as Zohran's buddy Hasan Piker referred to landlords -- 'let the streets run red with their capitalist blood'). But that's only the first half of the plan, and everyone needs to pay very close attention to the big picture here, because it's hugely important and has national implications. The properties will then be turned over to nonprofits. This is no small detail. This is in fact the whole point. The idea here is to build up Zohran's DSA-connected nonprofits with a multbillion-dollar portfolio of hard assets -- New York City real estate. This portfolio could theoretically reach into the hundreds of billions or even the trillions, depending on how aggressive they get. Now these highly political nonprofits would become the new land barons of New York, complete with all the political clout, leverage, and reach that goes along with it. It would be a true nightmare scenario. As it stands now, the nonprofits depend mostly on the largesse of grants, donations, and other third-party resources to stay afloat. They are lavishly funded of course, and many do hold significant assets, but it would all pale in comparison to simply handing them the keys to a New York City real estate empire, courtesy of Zohran Mamdani and the DSA. The resources at their disposal would be immense. The organizing potential that goes along with those resources will have national implications. Every DSA candidate in every town and city in the country would be trained, funded, and staffed by organizers with ties to the NYC nonprofit empire backed by a trillion dollars in free real estate. And they would be shameless in leveraging those resources for pure political power. That's the game plan here. That's the whole ball of wax. Zohran isn't interested in making housing better for anyone. If he was, we'd be talking seriously about solving the NYCHA disaster. Hell, if he was even remotely sincere about seizing these properties from 'bad landlords' for the 'public good' he'd be focused on turning them over to the city itself, as misguided as that would be. No, this is about nothing more than consolidating political power for the DSA. Just like everything else these people do. Giving the DSA a massive war chest backed by seized real estate. Once you understand that they have no interest in fixing anything other than elections, it all makes a lot more sense."

Tom Elliott on X - "In 1918, the Bolsheviks instituted the nationalization of urban housing in Moscow & Petrograd. Large apartment buildings were expropriated & converted into kommunalki (communal apartments). Owners were dispossessed, usually being assigned a small room in the building they formerly owned. Families who'd owned apartments with multiple bedrooms were accused of "bourgeois excess"; their "underuse" of property was likened to theft from the "proletariat." Their homes were seized & parceled out to poorer working-class families. Just in case you're curious as to where this could be heading."

A Gene Robinson on X - "So let me get this straight… During COVID, government imposed eviction moratoriums across cities and states. A lot of Americans still do not understand what that actually meant. It did NOT mean government paid everybody’s rent. It meant landlords were often legally blocked from removing tenants for nonpayment. But the landlord’s obligations NEVER stopped. Mortgage? Still due. Property taxes? Still due. Insurance? Still due. Water bills? Still due. Heating systems? Still due. Repairs? Still due. Code violations? Still due. So imagine a small Black landlord in a struggling neighborhood with a duplex or triple they worked decades to buy. Tenants stop paying for months… sometimes years. Meanwhile inflation explodes. Material costs explode. Insurance spikes. Taxes rise. Savings disappear. That owner drains retirement accounts and maxes out credit cards just trying to survive while politicians stand behind podiums pretending compassion costs nothing. Then comes the final insult. Buildings deteriorate because cash flow collapsed… and now politicians like Zohran Mamdani point at the deterioration THEY helped create and say: “Negligent landlord.” “Take the building.” “Transfer ownership.” So government creates the financial hemorrhage… then blames the wounded for bleeding. The wealthy corporate developers survive. Massive investment firms survive. Politically connected nonprofits survive. But the working class landlord? The old Black couple trying to leave property to their children? The immigrant family that scraped together enough for 6 units? The retired tradesman depending on rental income? CRUSHED. And Americans better wake up to what this really means. Because once government decides “neglect” justifies control… the definition of neglect expands every year. Today it is deferred maintenance. Tomorrow it becomes “underutilized property.” Then “community necessity.” Then “housing equity.” That road always ends with less private ownership and more centralized control. You do not save neighborhoods by destroying the people who stayed invested in them. You do not stabilize cities by terrifying small property owners. And you absolutely do not rebuild Black wealth by making ownership itself politically dangerous. Watch carefully. The people who suffered under the moratoriums are now being portrayed as villains for surviving the policies imposed on them. #SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove"

Meme - "The problem with Communists is their naive stupidity. Any thinking person knows that it is IMPOSSIBLE to take a government entity today, and fund it TODAY so it will be "permanently" funded for all eternity. You don't need a master's in Political Science to understand that--it's simple common sense. It's like adults believing in Santa Claus."
The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller: "This is why they really hate him - because he's showing government can actually do good stuff for regular people"
pattonoswalt: "This MONSTER"
demzdeliver: "NEW: Zohran Mamdani to permanently fund NYC libraries and parks. Libraries will no longer have to plead for funding each year."

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on X - "When we came into office, we uncovered a $12 billion budget deficit. Today, I’m proud to say we brought it down to zero. We didn’t close the gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public housing. Call it Pothole Politics. Call it Democratic Socialism. It's government that delivers for the people who make this city run. That’s what New Yorkers deserve. And that’s what we will keep fighting for every single day."
Austin Berg on X - "Seems notable that the single largest lever in Mayor Mamdani’s proposal to close New York City’s budget deficit is not a new tax on the rich or new state funding. It is simply lowering the city’s contributions to its pension funds (saving $2.3 billion). And that move was made possible due to higher-than-expected investment returns over the last several years. Capitalism was the mayor’s saving grace."

Yogi on X - "Mamdani is lying to you. He didn't turn a $12B budget deficit to $0.
Spark notes: He inflated the deficit by $8B compared to Adams, brought it back down, then closed the rest with one-off bailout funds from Kathy Hochul who's desperate for a win. Funny thing is most of you morons believe it. The entire Democratic party is cheering a lie while "cooking" the books. New York City has been LEGALLY REQUIRED to balance its budget every single year since 1975. State law. The Financial Emergency Act. Passed after the city almost went bankrupt and Gerald Ford told them to drop dead. Mamdani's own budget message brags this is the 47th consecutive balanced budget. Bloomberg balanced. de Blasio balanced. Adams balanced. Giuliani balanced. Crediting Mamdani for balancing the budget is like crediting a taxi driver for stopping at a red light. Now the $12 billion. Adams left office with a projected FY27 gap of $4.69 billion. So where did the extra eight billion come from? Mamdani's own team. They walked in and moved hidden spending back onto the books: rental assistance, shelter ops, special ed reimbursements, NYPD overtime. Legit cleanup work. Then they ran to a podium and called it a deficit they inherited. They printed the number. Then they took credit for printing the number. How did they "close" it? Half came from Albany. Hochul wrote a check: $8 billion in state aid over two years. THIS IS NOT SUSTAINABLE. HE DIDN'T FIX ANYTHING. Mamdani's signature millionaire's tax? KILLED by Hochul. Corporate rate hike? KILLED. Free buses he ran on? KILLED. CityFHEPS expansion he campaigned on? He's in court right now fighting it. Then there's the pension trick. $1.64 billion of the "savings" comes from extending pension amortization from 2032 to 2037. The Citizens Budget Commission called it "a pension gimmick" that "balances this budget on the backs of future New Yorkers." William Glasgall, Volcker Alliance, said it "creates a debt that's more expensive than muni bonds."
And the kicker. The budget IS NOT ADOPTED. Council votes June 30. The state budget the whole thing depends on was still not enacted as of last week.
Out-year gaps under Mamdani's own numbers:
FY2028: $7.1 billion
FY2029: $8.5 billion
FY2030: $9.8 billion
The hole grew $5.4 billion in three months.
So the real headline. Hochul cut a check. Future workers eat the pension bill. The structural deficit is BIGGER than the day he walked in. They didn't fix anything. They moved it.
The math: $4.69B real gap. $8B from Hochul. $1.64B pension can-kick. $25.9B in future gaps. He didn't balance the books. But he's gambling your future and kicking the can down the road. So maybe stop celebrating. But what do I know. Good luck."
Left wingers are crowing that he balanced the budget by "taxing the 'rich'" and not cutting services. Lol

New York Post on X - "Mamdani blasted for planned cuts to veterans services, axing events including parade"
Hon. Vickie Paladino on X - "It's quite simple actually. The mayor isn't an American in any meaningful way other than paperwork, and in fact seems to hold nothing but contempt for our traditions and values, so why would we expect him to care about the men and women who fought and sacrificed to defend this country? There will be endless billions for progressive nonprofits to 'organize' on behalf of the DSA and for useless pet projects and leftist special interests, but our veterans get less in the annual budget than we spend to build a single public toilet. It's a disgrace. My district has the largest number of veterans per capita in the entire city, and my district office hosts the first and only veteran resource center in New York. I meet these men and women every day and my office tries to do everything we can for them, but we're already operating on a shoestring and it's heartbreaking to think we're going to have even less to offer them. When we import the third world, we become the third world. And with that we discard what's always been most important to us as a nation, as our resources are pillaged and our traditions defiled. Very sad."

Insurrection Barbie on X - "Mamdani’s budget plan in full:
Step 1 — inherit a deficit
Step 2 — create a bigger deficit, but schedule it for later
Step 3 — borrow 7 billion dollars from future New Yorkers who can’t vote yet
Step 4 — call it savings, film a viral video about pens and paper, and declare victory
Have a bunch of illiterate people cheer."

John M Chell on X - [On dropping crime] "Sorry to burst the Mayors bubble here but this is a continuation of 3 years of grinding by the NYPD- he has done nothing. PC Tisch has been continuing the trend since 2023 - a strategy built by my team and executed by the rank and file - Eric Adams allowed us to be cops. My sources tell me that he and his team are absolutely clueless about public safety and it shows. I’d rather you just said Thank you. Nice try but gotta hit the BS button on this one."

Hannah Simpson | Facebook - "Dear Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani, Zohran Kwame Mamdani, FOX 5 NY, Mamdani, you specifically mentioned your concerns about the Israel’s “government” as your reason to avoid this year’s parade, despite it being an event that is about a celebration of deep cultural ties to an ancestral homeland, which has gone on across decades of governments that come and go—both within Israel and in NYC itself. However, you seemed to be having a blast at the Chinese New Year festivities not long after your inauguration. Could you please give us an equally thoughtful analysis of the current Chinese government and how their performance or efforts encouraged you to come out? This is the part people don’t get: Anti-semtism isn’t merely the decision he made, it’s the hypocrisy and the double standard."

Rabbi Poupko on X - "First The Israel Day Parade, now this. Zohran Mamdani is planning on removing the name of NYC Mayor Ed Koch from the East 59th Street iconic Ed Koch Bridge (aka Queensboro Bridge). A disgraceful erasure of Jews by a NYC mayor."
Trisha Posner on X - "Mamdani is hiding the anti-Jewish part of the move under the guise of LGB activism since it is being framed as criticism of Koch’s response to the AIDS crisis when he was Mayor in the 80s! If anyone thinks this renaming effort is just about what Koch did or did not do 40 years ago in office about AIDS, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. How times have changed over those decades, @RabbiPoupko . From 1974 to 1989, NYC had 2 back-to-back Jewish mayors (Abe Beam and Ed Koch), and then again a Jewish mayor in Michael Bloomberg from 2002-2013. @geraldposner and I lived full time in NYC from ‘78 to 2003 and it was then an oasis free for the most part of the anti-Jewish/antisemitism that now seems part of the city’s DNA under its radical far-left @NYCMayor"

Meme - Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate: "This is a good example of what radicalizes Mamdani's base: Ostensibly the type of person who takes this job is going to be sort of smart and well educated (credentialed) but they're only going to be comfortable financially and wise in NYC if they have a trust fund or it's a second-income vanity career. You can get off a plane from wherever and barely speak English and make this much driving an Uber. Nurses in NYC can easily make $150k a year. The dynamics of our economy that funnel people into these sort-of- high-status/ mediocre-salary jobs make them insane and then they become Leftists who want to burn everything down."
emily rahhal she/her @Rahhalemily: "@NYCMayor is searching for a new speechwriter"
"Associate Speechwriter. OFFICE OF THE MAYOR. No Exam Required. Department: Director Of Communications. Salary Range: $80,000.00 $90,000.00. Full-Time. Location: MANHATTAN"

Links - 14th July 2026 (2 - UK Politics)

2026-07-14T17:39:00.000+08:00

Greens overtake Labour in wake of by-election - "The pollster, which sampled around 2,000 adults on March 1 and 2, said it had never recorded a lower score for Labour in its 26-year history."

The Greens are finally coming under serious scrutiny – and they’re rattled - "they’re starting to come under some actual scrutiny. And they clearly don’t like it one little bit. Look how they reacted after Mothin Ali, the Green Party’s deputy leader, was criticised in the Commons on Monday for attending a protest against the air strikes on Iran. Sir Alec Shelbrooke, a Tory MP, accused Ali of “protesting in support of the Ayatollah”. In reply, Sir Keir Starmer said, “I think we’re all shocked by the actions of the deputy leader of the Green Party.” Pretty mild stuff by the usual standards of Commons debate. Yet it seems to have sent the Greens into a shrieking meltdown. Zack Polanski, their leader, howled that Sir Keir was guilty of “blatant Islamophobia”, by “smearing a caring man of principle for standing up for peace”. Meanwhile, Ali wailed that he was a victim of a “defamatory lie” and “pure racism”. Funny how things turn out. Polanski has spent almost his entire leadership smugly proclaiming that any politician or pundit who dares criticise the Greens is “rattled”. Yet all of a sudden, he’s sounding distinctly rattled himself. All I can say is that he’d better get used to it. Because, for the first time, people are beginning to take the Greens seriously. And for Polanski’s party, that’s bad news. After all, let’s face it – one of the main reasons for their recent success is that many of their own voters don’t actually know what their policies are. We demonstrated this at the weekend, when Telegraph reporters visited the scene of the Gorton and Denton by-election and asked Green voters whether they knew that, for example, the party wants to legalise crack cocaine and prostitution. Local Muslims, in particular, were aghast. “It seems they hid those policies,” lamented one. “Who supports these policies?” gasped another. Both said they would never have voted Green if they’d known. Well, lots more people will soon know about those policies, too, because the Green Party’s opponents will be making sure everyone does. No voter will be able to avoid hearing that the Greens want to give primary school children lessons in how to take drugs “safely”, make the UK pay billions of pounds in reparations for the 18th-century slave trade, and allow absolutely all illegal immigrants to remain in Britain (while giving them a house each, and handing them free money “at the level of Universal Basic Income”, with no obligation to work for it). As a result, the next general election should be somewhat unusual. Normally, political parties spend the campaign telling the electorate about their own policies. But this time, they’ll all be telling the electorate about Green Party policies – purely to ensure that the nation finally grasps just how screamingly bonkers they are. I used to think of the Greens as the party that puts the “mental” into “environmentalism”. But of late, they seem to have gone oddly quiet on the environment – and started putting the “mental” into everything else, instead... Still, Polanski can cling to one small hope. Most of his party’s policies are so preposterous that voters may assume that their opponents have simply made them up."
If you criticise Muslims, that's Islamophobia

British strikes on targets in Iran would be lawful, says deputy prime minister - "Cyprus has vocally criticised the UK over its lack of alacrity in sending defensive assets to protect the island. On Friday Lammy wrongly claimed to the BBC that “Cyprus is a Nato ally”. It is one of four EU nations that are not part of the 32-state alliance. Lammy also mistakenly referred to a Typhoon jet as a “tycoon”. A Number 10 spokesperson said the prime minister retained confidence in him."
Damn racists criticising a black man!

Lammy accused of forcing through plans to scrap jury trials - "David Lammy has been accused of railroading plans to scrap jury trials through Parliament. MPs on the Commons justice committee said the Justice Secretary had failed to seek a “broader consensus” for the proposals before introducing a bill that enacts them in Parliament. Failing to consult on the Courts and Tribunals Bill “inhibited” scrutiny of the plans, which represent the biggest change to criminal courts in more than 50 years, the MPs said. The cross-party committee also warned that the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) was placing “unrealistic” demands on magistrates who would have to hear tens of thousands more criminal cases under the plans... The committee also expressed concern that defendants with previous convictions will be more likely to get a jury trial than those with a clean record if the court reforms go ahead. The disparity would be an “unintended consequence” of the new trial allocation process, which will factor in the length of sentence someone would probably get when deciding whether their case should be held before a jury, the committee said... The Criminal Law Solicitors’ Association told the committee that the “differential impact” on defendants would amount to “a penalty for being of good character”."

The Free Speech Union on X - "Senior figures at Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, under the command of Andy Burnham, have cautioned firefighters who support Reform UK over their political views. In a further chilling assault on free speech, staff have also effectively been urged in an email to report colleagues who support Reform. Fire brigade bosses have also said they are seeking legal advice on what to do about firefighters who decide to stand as Reform UK candidates. This is despite the fact that, unlike police officers, there is no legal bar preventing firefighters from participating in national or local politics. In their email, fire brigade bosses Mr Petch and Ms Ahmed said: ’We are aware that some staff members have chosen to represent Reform UK in their local areas. We know this may cause concern within our network and wider. ’The individuals involved have been spoken to, to make it clear that as members of GMFRS (Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service) our core values and professional behaviours must be displayed at all times. ’The service is currently seeking formal legal guidance… to ensure we are protected from all perspectives and that our inclusive culture remains safe. ‘Our priority is and always will be ensuring that every member of this network feels supported, respected and safe at work.’ They also confirmed that they would be consulting the Fire Brigades Union on the matter. In his role as Mayor of Greater Manchester, @AndyBurnhamGM — who is also tipped by some to be a future Prime Minister if he wins the Makerfield by-election — is also Greater Manchester’s Fire Commissioner, responsible for overseeing the service. General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, Lord Young of Acton, has now written to Mr Burnham to raise concerns about the chilling effect this has on free speech. Lord Young said that the ‘clear implication’ of the email from the fire brigade bosses was that ‘representing Reform UK constitutes an inherent threat to the institution’s culture and values and is to be treated as morally suspect’. He also highlighted that no action appears to have been taken against firefighters who support other political parties. The letter also states: ‘Staff are further invited to report colleagues who support any groups that go against the service’s values, which effectively amounts to an instruction to inform on colleagues for their political beliefs. ’The email will create a chilling effect on the free speech of GMFRS employees who support Reform. ’The practical effect is that a public fire and rescue service governed by you is treating the lawful political activity of your electoral opponents as a reputational risk to their employer. ‘Regardless of whether this reflects your instruction, it reflects your governance; and a public office-holder who permits his institution to demonise or chill the speech and political activity of those who support his principal electoral rival cannot claim to be discharging that office with the impartiality it demands.’"

Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 on X - "If Vladimir Putin changed the voting system days before an election to stop his opponents winning, every British journalist would call it what it is: rigging the rules. Tonight, Labour rammed through a last‑minute switch in the Lords so that if Andy Burnham wins Makerfield and quits as Greater Manchester Mayor, his replacement won’t be chosen on a simple first‑past‑the‑post ballot, but on the supplementary vote system instead. Why now? Because Labour knows the race to replace Burnham would be a straight two‑horse fight with Reform UK – and under FPTP, the candidate with the most votes wins, no second chances, no back‑room redistributions, no “stop Reform” stitch‑ups. Under SV, Labour gets a second bite of the cherry: if their candidate can limp into the top two, they can hoover up second preferences from every other party and magic a “majority” on the second count, even if Reform tops the poll on first preferences. This isn’t “modernising democracy”. It’s the governing party using its Commons majority and the unelected Lords to hurriedly doctor the rules of one specific contest because it’s terrified the voters might choose someone else. When the establishment preached to the world about “rules‑based order”, they forgot to mention one thing: in Britain, the rules are “based” on whether Labour thinks it might lose."

Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy | Robert Clark | The Critic Magazine - "In addition to rising anti-Semitic violence, two other areas must be urgently addressed if the next Government is to combat rising radical Islam: family-based voting — a threat to British democracy and freedom of speech — and the Government’s tacit support for polygamy in the form of increased welfare payments. This latter problem is liable to essentially endorse people trafficking through forced marriages. The recent Gorton and Denton by-election was an inflection point. Independent election observers Democracy Volunteers raised concerns in Gorton and Denton, reporting instances of family voting across multiple polling stations. In 2022, the group reported up to 5% of voters engaging in family voting, 85% of whom were women from Asian families. Reform UK reported their observations in Gorton and Denton to Greater Manchester Police; in 2022 the previous Conservative government made some attempt to combat the practice, including pushing the Electoral Commission to prioritise the issue of family voting. Labour has now vowed to scrap these measures. Sir James Cleverly, the shadow communities secretary, has said: “Off the back of a by-election marked by allegations of breaches of electoral law, this Labour Government is now going soft on electoral fraud as part of a wider lurch to the sectarian Left”. The next government must ensure that toughened Electoral Commission guidance is enforced, support independent observers like Democracy Volunteers to increase fair election monitoring, spread awareness and education in wards with high Muslim demographic, improve polling station and voter booth infrastructure to afford voters greater levels of privacy and introduce much tougher sentencing for offenders, with special tribunals and very public naming and shaming. Fundamentally the Electoral Commission must get serious targeting Islamic dominated wards and districts for heavy observation, rather than the government relying on misguided blanket national policies such as national ID. Separately, it was recently revealed that the Department for Work and Pensions has since April 2026 increased the benefits paid out to households in polygamous marriages. Whilst illegal under British law, polygamous marriages are common amongst any African and Asian cultures, and under sharia law. Monogamy is one of the Judeo-Christian world’s great advantages, and created a family structure that has been a massive developmental advantage for western societies. This is now being eroded, not simply from imported Islamic tradition, but by the British Government itself. Under a Central Tribunal system to handle the deportations of illegal migrants, failed asylum seekers, and foreign criminals from Britain, there must also be a special tribunal established for individuals engaged in polygamous marriages. Whilst there are estimates of up to 20,000 polygamous marriages, this goes to a much deeper concern; a 2024 poll discovered that up to 32% of all British Muslims were in favour of sharia law. This level of support by British Muslims for sharia law – let alone by its foreign agents on UK soil – is one of the root causes for much of the sectarian strife we are witnessing unfold on our streets. The next government must go further than any before it and ban sharia courts which operate across British towns and cities, with stringent penalties, whilst also naming and shaming Islamist charities which support these courts and their ideologies... Much of this — especially deportations — is only possible once Britain leaves the ECHR. Both the Conservatives and Reform UK have already committed to this long-overdue action. Without this sense of urgency, and preparation, expect the march of Islamisation to roll on."

David Lammy defends tweet about growing up on 'tax credits' - "London mayoral candidate David Lammy has defended a tweet in which he claimed his mother had relied on tax credits to bring him up – despite him having been aged 31 when the benefit was introduced... Lammy was born in 1972, but child and working tax credits were introduced by the Labour government in 2003, when the MP was in his 30s."

Green council destroys thousands of flowers planted by volunteers - "Volunteers have been left “beyond angry” after flower bulbs they planted were mown over by a Green Party-led council. More than 70 volunteers planted almost 30,000 bulbs in St George Park in Bristol on Saturday after raising thousands of pounds to fund the initiative. But thousands of the bulbs were “shredded” days later when council workers mowed the grass in the park."

James Heale on X - "Starmer didn’t fall in the battle for any great cause or principle. He didn’t have a foreign policy crusade (Suez) or major reform (poll tax), a strategic gamble (referendum) or economic package (mini Budget). His support just seemed to ebb away in pointless, petty matters."
Mike Jones on X - "Starmer made two genuinely big calls in office. The first was scrapping the Rwanda plan on day one, despite it being paid for, legislated for, and ready to go. He replaced it with the nebulous promise to “smash the gangs”. That decision blew a hole in his entire approach to illegal migration. The second was his mobilisation of state power during the Southport riots. A muscular response was necessary, but Starmer crossed a red line. In doing so, he exposed the two-tier nature of the British state. Those were the two defining decisions of his premiership. Both were deliberate choices. And both ultimately helped undo his premiership."

Threads - "The truth about the Keir Starmer resignation: He was hounded out of office. A concerted effort from the mainstream media to trash him began almost immediately. Then, as Trump destroyed the international rules based order, and forged a new era of domestic and international corruption, Social Media bosses fell in line. Musk, Zuckerberg and others allowed disinformation and AI generated lies to proliferate unchecked. Bots flourished, and foreign actors took advantage. This cannot go on!"
Jack Dart | Facebook - "Legislation must be passed to tackle this. Social media companies must be forced to take action. They want to push responsibility onto others. That is not acceptable."
Left wingers hate free speech so much and want to control everything

Sam on X - "The first major wave of online misinformation resulted in Brexit, a decision that the majority of economists regard as the most damaging economic choice Britain has made in modern times, making millions of working families poorer. Now it appears a second wave may succeed in forcing out a democratically elected Prime Minister who in a short timeframe has a track record of delivering policy designed to help millions of working families. Not a perfect man, but certainly one of the better PMs of the last 30 years or so. A wave of gross & obvious misinformation, spread and amplified by foreign-owned social media platforms, in a deliberate campaign designed to indoctrinate UK citizens, may have toppled a British Prime Minister. We are going down a very dark path here."
Peter Hague on X - "You cannot just brand all disagreement as misinformation and expect to be taken seriously. This bunker mentality among metropolitan elites is a large part of why governments keep failing one after another. Consider, just for a nanosecond, that you and your mates might be wrong."

Peter Hague on X - "While we are doing our autopsies of Keir Starmer’s unimpressive premiership, I’d like to suggest he is a prime example of a certain personality type that causes us problems. He has been a high achiever his whole life. From the 11+ onwards he passed tests and ascended every hierarchy he found himself in. This, I believe, shaped his worldview in a way that made him absolutely unsuited for the office. For Starmer, you accept the rules of the system, you play the game, and when you win you get rewards. Number 10 was just the last objective that he earned by mechanically playing society like a video game - it was his by right for ticking all the boxes correctly. His visible confusion and inability to grasp the job of actual leadership is, I think, a result of never having had to deal with the world beyond whichever social game he was playing at the time. Law is such a bounded game where a rigid, goal oriented thinker like Starmer can and did thrive. A better leader would be someone who has some experience doing something which contacts base reality, where outcomes are not socially determined. Business, STEM, the military etc all fall into this category. Those people who spend their careers in the purely social feedback loops of law and politics do I think make poor leaders even if they excel at the process that gets them to the leadership."
AB on X - "I think this is partly right but omits the impact of his particular choice of legal career. His Doughty Street private practice was built on deep distrust and challenge to the exercise of power and authority by state and business with human rights as the highest norm. I think that is a damaging world view for someone who goes on to wield the power and authority himself. That was seen with him as DPP in stuff like the Twitter Joke Trial where he, having identified himself so strongly with being on the side of right, was unable to get off those rails to challenge himself as the holder of power and authority. Same again on Chagos and probably assisted dying. Had he been a lawyer whose career had been about working within the system and believing it to be a good one or at least a morally neutral one, he would have been better at the actual persuasion and good faith negotiation needed both in law and politics. But the combination of complete moral certainty, opposition to the existing structure of society, and procedural exactitude proved bad for the more ambiguous real world."
Peter Hague on X - "He was still working In a hierarchy, just a parallel one. And one that still ultimately was part of the greater hierarchy of the law"
AB on X - "True but the way that human rights driven practice, particularly in its earliest days, worked was by subverting the system and exploiting the features of its hierarchy. Running that angle on everything turned cases into intellectual games divorced from the substantive “did X commit Y crime”/“should Z be deported?” to focus on whether regardless of the substance there was a breach of rights to trump it. So the likes of Starmer and Hermer became adept at arguing those drily to judges, separate from the substantive case, rather than persuading juries of innocence. But because the hierarchy and system rewards winning and in particular winning in novel appellate cases, it drove them rapidly upwards."
Helen Dale (not on your team, but always fair) on X - "Lawyers can be able politicians—Australia’s longest-serving & second-longest serving PMs (Menzies & Howard) were a barrister & solicitor respectively. Both were outstanding in the top job. However, when lawyers in high office fail, they fail in a particular way—they mistake process for outcome. That is at the root of Starmer’s failure."
AB on X - "Absolutely. Both Thatcher and Blair here also were barristers and similarly outstanding PMs and politicians. Though I think maybe being middling enough barristers to switch early career rather than outstanding ones may have helped. It gave them and honed all the valuable professional skills but also an awareness of their limits and the limits of process and law which only politics can address. So they were interested in and understood how to get things done by law and process but knew that it was a politician’s job to decide what things should be done and to persuade people of this. Many people don’t get this. Even in my mundane legal career I spend a lot of time telling clients who want me to decide what to do that while I can, it’s their job, mine is to help them achieve the thing they want to do. If they want me to decide that then they’ve got no role at all. And if I wanted to do that I’d go and become the Sales Director or CEO myself."
Helen Dale (not on your team, but always fair) on X - "I have given similar advice at least hundreds of times in my life. “Lawyers act under instruction,” repeated over & over."

Heskel Balas 🚁 on X - "This is correct. Lawyers don't have the right mental models to be in charge - they approach problems through regulation and paperwork, which is why we have so many in the west. For some reason lawyers have become a dominant force in government instead of builders and doers"

All of our submarines are missing - "None of the Royal Navy’s attack submarines are currently at sea. A fleet of nuclear-powered hunter-killers all tied up alongside or in dock, every one of them, is a serious matter. This is not the first time it’s happened and last time it did, the Ministry of Defence trotted out the tired mantra “we continue to meet all our operational tasks”. We do not."

Chaotic Green Party tearing itself apart over internal complaints - "Since Zack Polanski became leader last year, the Green Party has been consumed by factionalism, infighting and accusations of anti-Semitism. Now the party’s own disciplinary committee is tearing itself apart as it tries to deal with a mounting backlog of complaints... Between July 1, 2025, and June 10, 2026, the party received 116 disciplinary cases, representing a “significant and sustained increase” in complaints. Of those, just 18 have concluded, while seven have been paused and 74 are still active, according to the report. Just six disciplinary hearings took place between July and November last year. Then, for the next six months, from December 2025 to May this year, no full hearings took place. In May, the chairman of the committee resigned. Currently, the committee has only managed to fill 15 out of 22 seats, stalling progress. Reacting to the report and news that the party had made almost no progress resolving complaints, one Jewish Green Party member, who wishes to remain anonymous because of fears of a backlash, told The Telegraph: “To hear there has been little to no progress with complaints is deeply concerning. “I am aware of Jewish members who are submitting complaints about members, and there is real concern that if these complaints are delayed then these people will continue to be a threat to Jewish members.”"

Council staff in Norfolk invited to ‘safe space’ session to air fears about Reform UK - "Staff at a Reform-led council were invited to a “safe space” session to vent about the party’s newly formed administration. Unison, Britain’s largest trade union, urged Norfolk county council employees feeling “vulnerable and targeted” to attend the two-hour drop-in session last Wednesday. But the event was criticised by several of Reform UK’s 40 newly elected councillors in the county – with one describing it as a “snowflake session”... Scott Hussey, a Reform councillor, said: “We value the professionalism and welfare of council employees and if any employee has a genuine concern about their welfare or working environment, they should raise it through the appropriate channels. “But here we have a Labour-affiliated union – operating at a council with just one Labour councillor – organising needless snowflake sessions. “Even Unison’s own members don’t share their leadership’s ideology. Recent polling found trade union members now back Reform UK and Labour equally, with six in 10 believing Labour has lost touch with working people.”"

UK puts Chagos Islands deal on hold to avoid ‘toxic backlash’ : r/unitedkingdom - "You mean giving away territory and paying for it is an unpopular policy? Colour me surprised..."

Once a Bastion of Free Speech, the A.C.L.U. Faces an Identity Crisis

2026-07-14T13:09:00.000+08:00

This was after left wingers stopped pretending that they believed in free speech; they hate free speech and take over many institutions. Book bans and violating due process are good when they push the left wing agenda.

The Charlottesville mention is ironic, given what we now know about the SPLC.

From 2021:

Once a Bastion of Free Speech, the A.C.L.U. Faces an Identity Crisis - The New York Times

"It was supposed to be the celebration of a grand career, as the American Civil Liberties Union presented a prestigious award to the longtime lawyer David Goldberger. He had argued one of its most famous cases, defending the free speech rights of Nazis in the 1970s to march in Skokie, Ill., home to many Holocaust survivors.

Mr. Goldberger, now 79, adored the A.C.L.U. But at his celebratory luncheon in 2017, he listened to one speaker after another and felt a growing unease.

A law professor argued that the free speech rights of the far right were not worthy of defense by the A.C.L.U. and that Black people experienced offensive speech far more viscerally than white allies. In the hallway outside, an A.C.L.U. official argued it was perfectly legitimate for his lawyers to decline to defend hate speech.

Mr. Goldberger, a Jew who defended the free speech of those whose views he found repugnant, felt profoundly discouraged.

“I got the sense it was more important for A.C.L.U. staff to identify with clients and progressive causes than to stand on principle,” he said in a recent interview. “Liberals are leaving the First Amendment behind.”...

The organization, said its former director Ira Glasser, risks surrendering its original and unique mission in pursuit of progressive glory.

“There are a lot of organizations fighting eloquently for racial justice and immigrant rights,” Mr. Glasser said. “But there’s only one A.C.L.U. that is a content-neutral defender of free speech. I fear we’re in danger of losing that.”

Founded a century ago, the A.C.L.U. took root in the defense of conscientious objectors to World War I and Americans accused of Communist sympathies after the Russian Revolution. Its lawyers made their bones by defending the free speech rights of labor organizers and civil rights activists, the Nation of Islam and the Ku Klux Klan. Their willingness to advocate for speech no matter how offensive was central to their shared identity.

One hears markedly less from the A.C.L.U. about free speech nowadays. Its annual reports from 2017 to 2019 highlight its role as a leader in the resistance against President Donald J. Trump. But the words “First Amendment” or “free speech” cannot be found. Nor do those reports mention colleges and universities, where the most volatile speech battles often play out.

Since Mr. Trump’s election, the A.C.L.U. budget has nearly tripled to more than $300 million as its corps of lawyers doubled. The same number of lawyers — four — specialize in free speech as a decade ago.

Some A.C.L.U. lawyers and staff members argue that the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of speech and the press — as well as freedom of religion, assembly and petitioning the government — is more often a tool of the powerful than the oppressed.

“First Amendment protections are disproportionately enjoyed by people of power and privilege,” said Dennis Parker, who directed the organization’s Racial Justice Program until he left in late 2018.

To which David Cole, the national legal director of the A.C.L.U., rejoined in an interview: “Everything that Black Lives Matter does is possible because of the First Amendment.”

A tragedy also haunts the A.C.L.U.’s wrenching debates over free speech.

In August 2017, officials in Charlottesville, Va., rescinded a permit for far-right groups to rally downtown in support of a statue to the Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Officials instead relocated the demonstration to outside the city’s core...

The A.C.L.U. unfurled new guidelines that suggested lawyers should balance taking a free speech case representing right-wing groups whose “values are contrary to our values” against the potential such a case might give “offense to marginalized groups.”

A.C.L.U. leaders asserted that nothing substantive had changed. “We should recognize the cost to our allies but we are committed to represent those whose views we regard as repugnant,” Mr. Cole said in an interview with The New York Times.

But longtime free speech advocates like Floyd Abrams, perhaps the nation’s leading private First Amendment lawyer, disagreed. The new guidelines left him aghast.

“The last thing they should be thinking about in a case is which ideological side profits,” he said. “The A.C.L.U. that used to exist would have said exactly the opposite.”

The 2016 election blew like a hurricane over the A.C.L.U. Lawyers texted one another in disbelief; a deputy director broke into sobs as he told his 4-year-old that Mr. Trump had won; some staff members spoke of a nation irredeemably racist.

Mr. Romero, who is Latino and the organization’s first nonwhite executive director, arrived at the office just past dawn the next day. He crafted a letter to Mr. Trump and ran it as a full-page ad in The Times, attacking the president-elect on such issues as immigration and abortion rights. “If you do not reverse course and instead endeavor to make these campaign promises a reality,” he warned, “you will have to contend with the full firepower of the A.C.L.U.”

The A.C.L.U. became an embodiment of anti-Trump resistance. More than $1 million in donations sluiced into its coffers within 24 hours and tens of millions of dollars followed in 2017, making the organization better funded than ever before. Salaries reflected that — Mr. Romero now makes $650,000 and some lawyers in senior management $400,000. Its 2017 annual report came with “RESIST” superimposed on an image of the Statue of Liberty.

When Brett M. Kavanaugh was nominated for the Supreme Court, the A.C.L.U. surprised longtime supporters by entering the fray, broadcasting a commercial that strongly suggested the judge was guilty of sexual assault. When a book argued that the increase in the number of teenage girls identifying as transgender was a “craze” caused by social contagion, a transgender A.C.L.U. lawyer sent a tweet that startled traditional backers, who remembered its many fights against book censorship and banning: “Stopping the circulation of this book and these ideas is 100% a hill I will die on.”

The A.C.L.U. embraced dormitories set aside for Black and Latino students and argued that police forces were inherently white supremacist. “We need to defund the budgets,” Mr. Romero said last year. “It’s the only way we’re going to take power back.”...

The A.C.L.U. in 2018 poured $800,000 into what looked like a campaign ad for Stacey Abrams during her bid for governor of Georgia — a questionable move for a nonprofit organization that calls itself nonpartisan...

The $1 million anti-Kavanaugh ad campaign, which compared his denial of a sexual assault accusation to Bill Cosby’s incredulity at mounting allegations and Bill Clinton’s lie about an affair, left some longtime lawyers inside the A.C.L.U. uncomfortable. No organization aside from the U.S. government argues more cases before the Supreme Court, and A.C.L.U. amicus briefs have drawn praise from even the strictly conservative justice Clarence Thomas.

“I share the discomfort with the A.C.L.U.’s engaging in partisan-looking activity; it risks taking luster off our reputation as straight shooters,” noted Ben Wizner, the longtime head of the A.C.L.U.’s free speech, privacy and technology project.

The money that flooded into the A.C.L.U. after Mr. Trump’s election allowed Mr. Romero to flex the organization’s progressive muscles and greatly increase the size of its staff. Many of the new employees, however, were not nearly as supportive of the A.C.L.U.’s traditional civil liberties work. They worked inside their policy silos, focused on issues like immigration, transgender rights and racial justice.

Some fired off tweets like bottle rockets, causing headaches and confusion...

Those who control the official A.C.L.U. Twitter account can prove erratic, at the national and state levels. In 2018, the Trump administration proposed revamping Obama-era regulations on Title IX, which sets guidelines for investigations of sexual harassment and assault on campuses. It strengthened protections for the accused.

The A.C.L.U. tweet in response to the news was scathing: This “promotes an unfair process, inappropriately favoring the accused.”

Because the A.C.L.U. has championed the due process rights of the accused for 100 years, the tweet came as a surprise. It turned out a staff member at the A.C.L.U.’s women’s rights project had typed and clicked “send.”...

In another case, a police officer in Columbus, Ohio, fatally shot 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant as she tried to plunge a knife into a young woman. The A.C.L.U. of Ohio tweeted, “@ColumbusPolice murdered a 15 year old Black girl.

Here too was another example — in this case an A.C.L.U. affiliate — of seemingly overriding its traditional insistence on the presumption of innocence. Video shows that the officer made a split-second decision. And murder is determined in a court...

Several younger lawyers suggested a toll taken. Their generational cohort, they said, placed less value on free speech, making it uncomfortable for them to express views internally that diverged from progressive orthodoxy...

After Charlottesville, Mr. Cole wrote an essay in The New York Review of Books that defended the decision. “We protect the First Amendment not only because it is the lifeblood of democracy and an indispensable element of freedom, but because it is the guarantor of civil society itself,” he wrote.

That ignited anger among some 200 staff members, who signed a letter stating the essay was “oblivious” to the A.C.L.U.’s institutional racism. The A.C.L.U.’s upper ranks are diverse; 12 of the top 21 leaders are either Black, Latino or Asian. Fourteen are women...

Two decades ago, as free speech battles erupted on college campuses, a new civil liberties group took shape to vigorously advocate for First Amendment principles. Called the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, the organization was purposely nonideological and nonpartisan. A founder, Harvey Silverglate, had served on the board of the A.C.L.U. of Massachusetts and considers it an ally even as he sees its limits...

“FIRE does not have the same tensions,” Mr. Wizner said. “At the A.C.L.U., free speech is one of 12 or 15 different values.”...

In 2015, University of Missouri students protested racism and established an encampment in a campus quad. When a student journalist tried to take photos and talk to protesters, students and a communications professor physically blocked the reporter from doing so. The A.C.L.U. of Missouri applauded the “courageous” leadership of student activists and faculty members, and two national A.C.L.U. officials wrote columns about the protests. They did not mention First Amendment rights.

Four years later at the University of Connecticut, two white students walking home late at night loudly repeated a racial slur. In the ensuing uproar, the university police arrested and charged the students with ridicule on account of race.

The A.C.L.U. of Connecticut demanded that the university hire 10 Black faculty and staff members and require a freshman course on ending racism on campus. It made no mention of the arrests, other than to opine that the police force is “an inherently white supremacist institution.”

Two days later, Mr. Cole issued a corrective: The students’ conduct “is not criminal,” he stated. “The First Amendment protects even offensive and hateful speech.”

Even the New York Civil Liberties Union, traditionally an independent-minded A.C.L.U. affiliate that has produced several national executive directors and stood at the forefront in defending free speech cases, did not want to talk about those issues. A spokeswoman for its executive director, Donna Lieberman, said, “We don’t feel we’ll have anything to add.”

Such reticence sounded like terra incognita to Norman Siegel, who led the New York group when Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani tried to block the Ku Klux Klan from rallying downtown in 1999.

The Klan was anathema to Mr. Siegel, but he fought like a cornered cat for its First Amendment rights. “Did I give anyone else a veto? No way,” he said. “I would have compromised my integrity.”

Mr. Siegel, who is white, drew support from the Black publisher of The Amsterdam News and from the Rev. Al Sharpton, a Black activist, who filed suit in support of the N.Y.C.L.U. Mr. Siegel recalled receiving a standing ovation from a Black audience.

“A woman came up and said: ‘You did the right thing. If Giuliani could shut down the Klan, he would do it to us,’” he recalled."

Links - 14th July 2026 (1 - Socialism)

2026-07-14T09:53:00.000+08:00

Sandy Petersen 🪔 on X - "A group of city leaders organized and saved Leningrad when it was sieged by the Germans for 800 days. They rationed food & medicine, set up a submachinegun factory (which made better SMGs than the Red Army’s), kept morale high. They were true national heroes. After the war, Stalin had these harmless old men all executed lest anyone steal his spotlight. This is Communism’s legacy."

Konstantin Sonin on X - "88 years ago, on February 3, 1938, Stalin's henchmen executed 32 members of the Skatuve Latvian Theatrical Company in Moscow. All of them - 22 actors and actresses, five stage hands, two directors, one stage director, one general director and a secretary. Just because they were Latvians, just because this was culture."

Meme - "THE USSR MURDERED MY FAMILY
CHINA PUT MY WHOLE FAMILY IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS
Yerba Mate Girl with Mao, Antifa, Stalin and one more Communist badge: NICE TRY CIA!"

Meme - Swann Marcus @SwannMarcus89: "I'm sorry, but leftists are low-IQ mental defectives. I don't even know what else to say at this point. Your plan is to eliminate labor specialization. That's literally what you're arguing here. Are you motherfuckers brain damaged"
"But a shared labor socialist society would change the character of the necessary labor, because necessary labor would be shared; everyone would do some, so that nobody had to spend their whole life doing all of it. And it would be work that everyone has a reason to do, therefore, because it means they are not contributing their efforts to a society that just uses them. They're contributing their efforts to a society that has their freedom as its aim. You start that by sharing the necessary labor; that reduces the amount that anyone has to do to a relatively small amount. It does create real free time then to use as you like, including to go and develop and contribute your talents if you want. But that would then mean that work has been transformed from something merely necessary into something that is an expression of human solidarity."
Jacobin @jacobin: "Some leftists imagine a postcapitalist society will free everyone from the need to work. But the only realistic and fair way to manage production under socialism is to democratically distribute and share in the burdens of labor."

The Forsaken Road: Reassessing Living Standards Following the Cuban Revolution and the American Embargo - "We investigate the causal effects of the 1959 Cuban Revolution on income using a synthetic control approach. We employ a novel dataset with revised GDP estimates that do not rely on the regime's self-reported statistics. We also analyze GDP estimates net of aid coming from the Soviet Union. Our identification strategy allows us to separate the direct effects of the revolution from the diplomatic events that ensued. By overcoming concerns that Cuban GDP statistics are inflated either by the regime's direct manipulation or by Soviet aid, we identify a large decline in Cuban GDP per-capita relative to its counterfactual. The decline is larger when accounting for Soviet aid. The embargo only accounts for a minor share of Cuba's under-performance relative to the counterfactual. Our results hold after being subjected to multiple robustness checks and lead to the conclusion that the Revolution was the main driver of the inferior economic path Cuba has followed since 1959."
Clearly, the US embargo made Cuba carry out the 1959 San Juan Hill massacre

Creative Deduction on X - "In the 1970s, Labour minister Tony Benn came up with a bold socialist plan to rescue failing British factories: hand them over to the workers. The results were equal parts tragic and farcical. One factory on Merseyside began producing washing machines, car radiators, storage heaters - and, bizarrely, orange juice. Another tried to save the iconic Triumph motorcycle brand. A third launched a worker-run newspaper in Glasgow. All three experiments - Kirkby Manufacturing, Meriden Motorcycle Co-operative and the Scottish Daily News - received generous government support and quickly collapsed in spectacular fashion. The Scottish Daily News lasted just six months, Meriden limped on until 1983, and Kirkby became a national joke for its chaotic mismanagement and bizarre product lines. The entire episode is a perfect illustration of the gap between socialist theory and economic reality. Without the discipline of private ownership and market competition, workers’ cooperatives suffered from the same problems that plagued nationalised industries: weak incentives, political interference and an inability to allocate resources efficiently. The fundamental realities of economics remain undefeated."

𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 on X - "Religious people will describe heaven as a classless, stateless, moneyless society with no private property, no suffering, and everyone’s needs met, then turn around and call communism evil. It will never stop being funny."
When communists admit communism runs on magical-religious logic, which is why it could never work in the real world

Octavian 🇪🇺 on X - "Marx struggled quite a bit with this. The basic assumption of communism is that there's a single, identical, collective interest of the global proletariat by virtue of their relation to capital (as propertyless individuals). The big question for communists then is why isn't the proletariat realising this collective international interest and why aren't they organising as such to pursue their interests as workers. In other words, why aren't they just thinking Rationally Enough to realise it? One problem for Marx was that the English and the Irish proletariat didn't unite or work together, mainly because the English proletariat sided with the empire and wasn't too keen to accept Irish nationalism and saw the Irish as competitors, and the Irish proletariat was on the other hand not too keen about being part of the British Empire. He outright says he expected them to work together, which then didn't happen. Look how he describes in a letter (first pic) to Engels that Irish needs to emancipate itself from the working class, so that the working class focuses on its struggle as the working class, but that he "cannot tell the working class" themselves. Basically, he, Marx, as the great intellectual, knows better than the working class themselves what's good for them, and his job now is to manipulate things in a way that is good for the working class themselves, even if they themselves are not aware of it. Basically he wants to be the catalyst for Hegel's Cunning of Reason. There's constantly all these factors that supposedly prevent the working class from thinking Rationally and doing what's Right (according to Marx). The classic "billionaires tell the English to hate the Irish to divide them" trope was actually thought of by Marx all the way in 1870. The history of communism is just a long, very long list of copes to try to explain why the proletariat is not thinking rationally and isn't coming to the "correct" conclusion of communist revolution. From Stalinist purges and de-kulakisation, to the Maoist cultural revolution, to Adorno and Horkheimer's Culture Industry, to Gramsci's "cultural hegemony"... it's all this. Over and over and over. They simply do not want to accept that there could be genuinely rational and legitimate reasons to not do communist revolutions and build "international solidarity"."

Handre on X - "The Soviet whaling fleet killed 180,000 whales between 1948 and 1973, delivering rotten carcasses that nobody wanted to eat. Soviet citizens had zero demand for whale meat. The ships hunted anyway, fulfilling quotas handed down from central planners who counted tons of dead whale as economic output. This was bureaucratic box-checking that nearly drove multiple whale species to extinction. Soviet whalers targeted endangered right whales and humpbacks specifically because they were larger, helping them hit tonnage targets faster. The meat rotted on deck during long voyages back to port, where officials dutifully recorded the numbers and sent reports to Moscow declaring another successful harvest. Central planners measured success in tons harvested, not consumer satisfaction or long-term sustainability. Factory managers got promoted for exceeding whale quotas, regardless of whether anyone actually wanted whale meat (they didn't). The feedback mechanism that normally connects production to human needs had been severed entirely. When bureaucrats replace market prices with administrative targets, you get mass slaughter with zero purpose. You still see this today every time politicians promise to "create jobs" in industries that lose money year after year. When government agencies measure their success by dollars spent rather than problems solved. When university administrators chase enrollment numbers instead of student outcomes. Remove the profit motive and price signals, and you get 180,000 dead whales rotting in the sun while commissars celebrate meeting their targets. You don't get rational planning. Socialism is fundamentally destructive to the environment and inevitably leads to ecological disasters."
Proof that capitalism destroys the planet

Alice Smith on X - "“Capitalists are obsessed with money,” says the socialists whose entire vision of life is built around seizing and redistributing the money made by others."

Rothmus 🏴 on X - "National socialism IS a form of socialism. In “The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius” (1941), Orwell wrote: “Internally, Germany has a good deal in common with a Socialist state. Ownership has never been abolished, there are still capitalists and workers, and - this is the important point, and the real reason why rich men all over the world tend to sympathize with Fascism - generally speaking the same people are capitalists and the same people workers as before the Nazi revolution. But at the same time the State, which is simply the Nazi Party, is in control of everything. It controls investment, raw materials, rates of interest, working hours, wages. The factory owner still owns his factory, but he is for practical purposes reduced to the status of a manager. Everyone is in effect a State employee, though the salaries vary very greatly.” In this system, the State exercises direct control over virtually every aspect of the economy, wages, investments, raw materials, and the means of production themselves. “Everyone is in effect a State employee.” It is not Marxist. It is not internationalist. But it is socialism. And this is precisely why authoritarian socialist regimes have so often flipped from one variant to the other with relative ease. Far from being opposites, they are two sides of the same coin. Rival authoritarian gangs competing for control over the same centralized power structure and the same conquered territory."
Left wingers need to dismiss George Orwell, a dedicated Socialist, as someone who was stupid and had no idea what he was talking about

Handre on X - "When People's Democratic Republic of Yemen declared itself a Marxist-Leninist state in 1967, it promised to transform the Arabian Peninsula's poorest region into a socialist paradise. By 1990, South Yemen had achieved something remarkable: it remained the poorest Arab state while managing to make its already dire economic situation substantially worse. You can trace the socialist experiment's failures through the numbers. Per capita GDP stagnated at roughly $500 throughout the 1980s while North Yemen's market-oriented economy grew. South Yemen's government employed 75% of the formal workforce by 1989, creating a massive bureaucracy that produced virtually nothing of value. The state controlled all major industries, from fishing to agriculture, and predictably drove productivity into the ground. The human cost tells the real story. Over 300,000 South Yemenis fled to North Yemen and Saudi Arabia during the socialist period, voting with their feet against central planning. Those who stayed endured chronic shortages of basic goods while party officials lived comfortably in Aden's government quarters. The state's agricultural collectives destroyed traditional farming methods that had sustained communities for centuries, replacing local knowledge with Soviet advisors who knew nothing about Arabian Peninsula agriculture. Compare this disaster to the Gulf states' experience during the same period. While Kuwait, UAE, and Saudi Arabia built modern economies through market mechanisms (however imperfect), South Yemen's planners allocated resources according to ideological fashion rather than economic reality. They built a steel plant in a country with no iron ore, subsidized unprofitable fishing cooperatives, and maintained a bloated military that consumed 20% of GDP. The 1990 reunification wasn't a merger of equals. North Yemen absorbed a failed state whose currency had become worthless and whose infrastructure had crumbled under central planning. Socialism doesn't eliminate scarcity. It ensures that scarce resources flow to politically connected bureaucrats instead of productive entrepreneurs."

Meme - Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith: "Communists in the U.S. *obese woman*
Communists in North Korea *starving woman*"
BlueBerry! @BlueLynxCat: "considering north korea is a democracy and not a communist, this image is more western propagranda."
Commies insist that China is communist, but North Korea is not communist. Also that the Nordic countries are socialist. Clearly, communism and socialism are defined by outcomes

Daniel Priestley on X - "John Lennon wrote a beautiful song about socialism. “Imagine no possessions” he told us. He also:
– helped write his band’s anti-tax anthem, Taxman
– incorporated his IP holdings
– moved to a lower-tax country
– fiercely protected his royalties
- drove two Rolls Royce’s and had multiple luxury homes.
– made sure even the royalty cheques for Imagine were kept safe for his estate so his family would remain wealthy in perpetuity.
If he believed it, he’d have lived it. The trouble with socialism is that even the people who love the idea won’t run the experiment on themselves. John Lennon writing Imagine while owning two Rolls Royce Phantoms and later having a law suit to protect his royalties tells you all you need to know about socialism in practice. It doesn’t work outside of the imagination."

Creative Deduction on X - "The most dangerous thing in politics is not malice. It's arrogance: the belief that a small group of experts can redesign society better than the countless individuals who actually live in it. Friedrich Hayek had a name for this mistake: The Fatal Conceit. In his final book, Friedrich Hayek delivered his most pointed critique of socialism and central planning. The book’s title refers to the fatal intellectual error at the heart of socialist thought: the arrogant belief that human reason is capable of deliberately designing and controlling the complex order of society. Hayek called this “constructivist rationalism” - the idea that we can scrap inherited institutions and traditions and rebuild society according to a rational blueprint. Hayek argued that this conceit is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how civilisation actually works. The extended order of the market - our system of prices, division of labour, property rights and moral traditions - was not invented or designed by anyone. It emerged through a long process of cultural evolution. No single mind, and certainly no central planning board, possesses the knowledge required to coordinate millions of individuals with constantly changing needs, preferences, and local circumstances. The price system, Hayek explained, is a remarkable mechanism that communicates dispersed knowledge far more effectively than any planner ever could. When socialists attempt to replace this spontaneous order with conscious direction, they do not merely cause inefficiency. They destroy the very foundations that make advanced civilisation possible. The Fatal Conceit goes beyond economics to defend the moral and cultural foundations of a free society. Hayek showed that the socialist project is not just impractical - it is based on a dangerous overestimation of human reason and ability, and an arrogant dismissal of evolved wisdom. The fatal conceit is still very much alive today in every attempt to centrally engineer society, the economy, or human behaviour. Hayek’s warning endures: civilisation is fragile, and those who believe they are wise enough to redesign it are usually the ones who end up destroying it."

Daniel Priestley on X - "Karl Marx wrote the communist manifesto 7 years before the creation of Limited Liability Companies. Before then, if you wanted to set up a business you have to be seriously rich because anything the business did could impact your entire net worth. If your business got sued, you could lose your entire estate. Only the very rich had businesses and they ran their businesses like every decision could be financially catastrophic. Then in 1855, the Limited Liabilities Companies Act was passed into British Law and the game changed. Suddenly anyone could set up a business, raise investment and trade. There was separation between ownership and control. This wasn’t lost on Karl Marx either. He wrote good things about this change. He was even a company director at one point. Essentially, it means that under capitalism you can be a socialist if you want to. A socialist can set up a company, give shares to all the workers, put workers on the board, pay executives the same as everyone else and if there’s any profit remaining they can freely donate it to the government. There is absolutely nothing stopping any socialist from living according to these values under a capitalist system. Nvidia is the most valuable company in the world and most of the employees own shares. Many are millionaires. In the UK, John Lewis and Waitrose are owned by their workers and are much loved successful businesses. Capitalism has no problem with workers owning the means of production. Under capitalism, anyone with an idea can set up a company, pitch to investors and launch it. Starting with nothing, they can be a millionaire (on paper) within a month. Socialists can lead by example; the fact that they almost never do this tells you a lot about socialists and human nature. The same is not true under socialism. It is not possible for a capitalist to live according to their values. Under socialism, if I believe in small government, self-sufficiency, low regulations I must leave the country - if it’s even possible to do so. It’s not enough for a socialist to live their values, they need everyone to do it too."

Ilektra Mercury 🌟 on X - "Read Marx. Read Engels. Read Lenin. Read Stalin. Please, I’m begging you, just read the theory."
Possum Reviews on X - "I don't care what communism is in theory because I know what it is in practice."
Charles Murray on X - "My daughter's friend in grad school, upon being asked by a member of her dissertation committee why she didn't include a Marxist perspective. "I grew up in the Soviet Union. I don't practice recreational Marxism.""

RedWave Press on X - "WOW: CNN’s statistician Harry Enten BREAKS DOWN the “stunning” rise of socialism in the Democratic Party. “Capitalism has absolutely fallen through the floor. Look at this: it’s now just 42% of Democrats who have a favorable view of capitalism. Socialism, on the other hand, has risen like a rocket…” “You mention New York, you mentioned Vermont, obviously, there’s the D.C. mayor. We’ve seen it in Pennsylvania as well. The Democratic Socialists seem to be doing considerably better than they used to be, and they have the chance to knock off, in fact, Democratic incumbents in Congress.” “And part of the reason for that, why we’re seeing these Democratic Socialists having such good chances, or downright outright winning nominations, is — take a look here. Net favorability among Dems, Democratic Socialists of America — look at that, a plus-17-point net favorability rating among Democrats.”"

Handre on X - "While Western intellectuals spent the 1970s and 80s gushing over Soviet "achievements," Ludwig von Mises had already written the empire's obituary decades earlier. In 1920, he published his devastating critique of socialist calculation, proving that rational economic planning becomes impossible without market prices. The academic establishment ignored him. The Soviets dismissed him as a capitalist propagandist. You cannot allocate resources efficiently when you have destroyed the price mechanism. When the state owns all means of production, it eliminates the very market signals that coordinate human action. No central planner, regardless of intelligence or computing power, can substitute for the decentralized knowledge that emerges from voluntary exchange. The proof arrived exactly as Mises predicted. By the 1980s, Soviet grocery stores sat empty while millions of bureaucrats shuffled paper in Moscow offices. Factory managers produced worthless goods because they responded to arbitrary quotas rather than consumer demand. The entire system collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions in 1991, stunning the same Western economists who had spent decades praising Soviet growth statistics. Meanwhile, Paul Samuelson was still teaching students in 1989 that the Soviet economy might overtake America's. The New York Times continued publishing editorials about the resilience of socialist planning. Mises got it right because he understood human action and the impossibility of calculation without private property. The establishment economists got it wrong because they confused mathematical models with economic reality. They treated human beings as equations instead of purposeful actors making choices under uncertainty."

Thread by @sfliberty on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "In 1960, newly independent African leaders had a choice: capitalism or socialism. Almost all of them picked socialism. A Ghanaian economist named George Ayittey spent forty years documenting what happened next. His findings are in print, and almost nobody outside Africa wants to hear them. 🧵
The reasoning in 1960 looked airtight. Colonialism had been run by Western capitalists. So capitalism was a tool of oppression. Socialism, its opposite, would be the path to liberation. Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana, Julius Nyerere in Tanzania, Sékou Touré in Guinea, Mengistu Haile Mariam in Ethiopia, and Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe all reached the same conclusion through the same logic. The logic was tidy. The results were catastrophic.
In Ghana, Nkrumah's government built 64 state enterprises before his overthrow in February 1966. Only three or four were profitable. By 1970, the Ghanaian state was setting prices on nearly 6,000 items across more than 700 product groups. In Tanzania, Julius Nyerere called the program ujamaa, a Swahili word for familyhood. By 1976, the state had relocated more than 11 million peasants into roughly 8,000 collective villages. Much of the relocation was done at gunpoint. Government bulldozers flattened old houses so families could not return. Tanzania exported 540,000 tons of maize in 1970. By 1974 it was importing 300,000 tons. Within a few years a country that had been able to feed itself was depending on Western grain shipments to survive. In Guinea, Sékou Touré made unauthorized trade a criminal offense. Smuggling could be punished by death. Out of a population of 5.5 million, about 2 million Guineans fled the country. The richest territory in French West Africa ended up importing food it once exported.
Ayittey then asked the question he considered most important. How do the rich get rich in the United States compared to Africa? In the United States, the wealthiest people are builders. Elon Musk built Tesla and SpaceX. Jeff Bezos built Amazon. Roughly two thirds of American billionaires founded the company that made them rich. In socialist-era Africa, the wealthiest people were heads of state and their ministers.
- Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo): estimates of stolen wealth ranged from 1 to 5 billion dollars.
- Sani Abacha of Nigeria: around 5 billion.
- Ibrahim Babangida of Nigeria: roughly 12 billion.
- Hosni Mubarak of Egypt: estimates ran as high as 40 billion.
- Muammar Gaddafi of Libya: estimates reached 200 billion.
Ayittey put it plainly. The combined net worth of every American president from George Washington through Barack Obama, all 43 of them, was about 2.7 billion dollars in 2010 figures. Sani Abacha alone stole more than that in five years in office. African socialism built a ruling class that created nothing and extracted everything. The argument Ayittey most wanted Africans to hear, and the one almost nobody quotes, is that socialism was never African. Pre-colonial Africa had open markets, long-distance trade, and private enterprise. Cloth-weaving, iron and gold smelting, regional commerce. Property was held by extended families and clans, not by the state. Nyerere and his peers took kinship-based property and relabeled it communism. They confused village solidarity with state ownership. They imported a nineteenth-century European industrial ideology and applied it to agricultural societies that already had functioning markets older than the modern European state. Shortages, political prisons, and a parasitic ruling class followed.
South Africa in 2026 is preparing the same policies. The Expropriation Act was signed in January 2025. The MK Party introduced a constitutional amendment bill this April to push land restitution claims back to 1652 and remove compensation from the property clause. Zimbabwe ran this experiment in 2000. Tobacco export earnings fell from 600 million dollars to 175 million by 2009. Maize production did not return to pre-seizure levels until 2017. Ayittey warned about this for thirty years. He died in January 2022. South Africa is doing it anyway."
Damn legacy of colonialism keeping Africa poor! White people need to send even more trillions over!

Links - 13th July 2026 (2 - Air Conditioning in Europe)

2026-07-13T17:52:00.000+08:00

Melissa Chen on X - "How on earth did air-conditioning become so right-wing coded? Apparently man can conquer biological sex, but God forbid he conquers the heat wave"

CJ on X - "It's actually because socialist countries are too poor to afford the cost of an AC unit and its high electric usage. Only by supporting capitalism can the average person afford it."
NekoGaDaisuki on X - "You forgot some details : Is is also forbidden to protect the most at risk, such as our old ones, our kids, people that are disabled or with pathologies that put them in danger, etc.. Here in France, it is "bad" apparently to expect schools, regardless of the students age, as well as hospitals and EHPAD to have reversible heat pumps (pompes à chaleur), because bureaucracy and ecologist apparently consider it is needed to fill tons of papers just to "ask" for permission to provide air-conditionning. Oh, also, look at the irony : we are told the global warming is a reality, so lets enact laws that force new constructions to be more efficient during the winter (because global warming for shure) while these new buildings are littéral ovens during the summer. Yes that is a thing, it is called RT2012 construction standard in France. Earth becomes hotter, but lets make our lives hotter than ever just to be sure..."
Ex-Lefties on X - "The ideas of anthropogenic climate change and the solution to that 'problem': the sustainable economy are both communist coded. Communists believe that everything which opposes them is right-wing coded."

How Europe Became the World Champion of Heat Deaths - "a Frenchman relaxing in a spacious air-conditioned villa, drawing on nuclear power, still emits less carbon than a frugal German drawing from a coal-fired grid. Grid management beats self-flagellation... 'I’ve been scarred mentally and physically from sweating bedridden after a C-section in a German hospital without AC during a heat wave. And I was extremely fit and strong. I can’t even imagine what it’s like for the truly sick and disabled this entire week. It’s torture. And it’s crazy that the people supposedly in charge of the vulnerable are the ones most opposed to A/C for ideological reasons.'
The harder task for Europeans is the mental switch: to stop treating energy as something to atone for. Energy is the master resource, the thing that buys us nearly every other good. The whole of human history is the story of harnessing ever more energy to improve our lives and to hold the lethal forces of nature at bay. To despise energy is to bite the hand that feeds you. Which brings me to one last trivia question: which continent suffers the most cold-related deaths? It’s neither Europe nor North America, but Africa. Prosperity is what allows us to adapt—to heat and cold alike—and adaptation is what stands between us and an inhospitable nature."

Make Europe Cool Again - "when it comes to AC access Europeans are not only behind North America, they’re also behind the Asia Pacific, the Middle East, as well as Central and South America. Why does Europe have so little AC? We could start with the fact that Europe has historically enjoyed a mild climate. As such, Europe has no existing “AC culture” and adoption will slowly change as a result of climate change. However, this “natural” explanation of European AC-poverty becomes less convincing if we compare Europe to other cases with a historically mild climate, such as South Korea. As recently as 1993 South Korea had a European-equivalent AC adoption rate of 6%, a “luxury tax” on AC and misinformed cultural beliefs such as “fan death”. Today, it has one of the world’s highest AC adoption rates at 97%. A better explanation is that European policy has strongly disincentivized installed ACs through a variety of national and local regulations. These regulations have not happened by accident, but they come from an ideology that emphasizes energy degrowth as the only viable solution to climate change... France has passed a Climate and Resilience Law (2021) that requires a “Diagnostic de Performance Énergétique (DPE)”, which means all apartments are assessed by how many kWh/m²/year they consume. Based on this, they receive an energy performance certificate that rates homes from A (best) to G (worst). This energy rating comes with severe consequences... Despite having the highest exposure, most heat deaths are not from outdoor workers. A typical heatwave victim in Europe is an older adult with pre-existing health issues, living alone in suboptimal housing... during the COVID-19 pandemic we shut down pretty much all economic life largely to protect the elderly. In comparison, allowing people to own an AC seems like a very small price to pay to protect the elderly... In Europe indoor heating consumes more energy and contributes more to climate change than AC. Yet, Europeans (rightly) don’t treat indoor heating as a luxurious indulgence that should require a strict permit and is by default not included in new buildings, unless you can prove carpets and ski jackets are not helping enough and that you have a special medical need for warmth. Similarly, AC is increasingly essential for health and well-being. If you want to ban indoor ski slopes in the desert, fine, but we can’t deny people AC when thousands die during heatwaves... As Europeans increasingly suffer from heat in their homes, more and more will eventually buy ACs, and if they can’t have installed ACs, they will buy mobile ACs... This is part of the irony. De facto banning installed ACs forces more and more people to choose less energy efficient alternatives. To maximize energy efficiency you should go in the opposite direction and promote scale through district cooling where chilled water from central plants is provided to multiple buildings... an individual living in France consuming 116’000 kwH (50% more energy than the average American) still has lower carbon emissions than an individual living the 2000 watt society lifestyle (17’520 kWH per year) in Germany... If you are concerned about the impacts of climate change, you should care about heatwave deaths. According to the European Environment Agency 94% of all fatalities from climate-related disasters in Europe from 1980 to 2023 have been due to heatwaves. However, as the old saying goes: There are no natural disasters, only natural hazards. We know how to prevent many if not most of these deaths. AC will not solve everything on its own, but it is a key tool for climate adaptation, especially during heatwaves."
Clearly, the solution is to ban mobile air conditioners

Greg Lukianoff on X - "Dear Europe (yes, even you, Glasgow!): a couple of points. Your aversion to air conditioning is moralistic, not scientific. Heating homes across Europe takes VASTLY more energy than cooling them. Not a little more. Orders of magnitude more. Depending on how you count it, home heating can swallow something like a hundred times the energy used for cooling. Globally, the same basic point holds: heating is the much bigger energy burden. Cooling matters, and it will matter more as the planet warms. But pretending AC is the great sin while everyone blasts heat all winter is just silly. I’ve watched the anti-AC theater in my mother’s home country, the UK, and it has all the earmarks of a devotional self-flagellation ritual: less environmental science than a belief in the nobility of suffering. Also: heat pumps exist. They cool your home in the summer and heat it in the winter, using far less energy than traditional heating."
Iain Murray on X - "One of the many ironies is that the government is insisting on heat pumps being installed, but also insisting that the cooling function is disabled."

Air conditioning must be REMOVED from homes say councils in Net Zero crackdown despite 40C heat - "Britons have been ordered to remove air conditioning from their homes - despite the country baking in up to 40C heat this week - under a fresh Net Zero crackdown. Planning officials at councils have told residents to take down their cooling units over concerns about carbon dioxide emissions. They say AC, despite the heat, should serve only as a "last resort". The crackdown comes from building regulations which demand "active cooling" is used only after all "passive cooling" methods, like opening windows or running fans, have been exhausted. The Tories have accused the Government of leaving Britain "in the dark ages" through Net Zero policies which prevent citizens from accessing "modern conveniences that are completely normal in other countries". Standard guidance says planning consent is not needed for air conditioning in most circumstances. But permission becomes mandatory in specific scenarios, including properties in conservation areas - with separate regulations applying to flats, leasehold properties, and shared buildings. This creates situations where units are fitted believing they comply with rules, only for council enforcement teams to turn up and demand their removal. One Londoner received orders to "permanently remove" two cooling units from the rear of their property, The Telegraph revealed. Camden Council's planning inspectors determined there was "no justification" for the equipment, ruling it breached the authority's "cooling hierarchy" policy. During an appeal, the homeowner was advised to open windows and balcony doors in their first-floor flat to achieve ventilation "by natural means". When the resident raised security concerns in the crime-addled capital, inspectors dismissed these, arguing the risk was not "as great as those associated with ground floor windows" and suggesting windows could remain closed overnight. Camden inspectors specifically noted "the absence of ceiling fans" in the property, though this was never a stated requirement. Even after determining the units were "neither intrusive nor harmful" to the neighbourhood's character, officials still demanded they were scrapped. The homeowner ultimately won on appeal to the Planning Inspectorate by proving their property already featured environmental improvements like solar panels. Londoners are at greater risk of enforcement action. The capital's borough councils have incorporated rules derived from Sir Sadiq Khan's "London Plan" into their local planning frameworks. The Mayor's 2021 strategy notes that "new development in London should also be designed to avoid the need for energy intensive air conditioning systems as much as possible". Camden's local plan pledges to actively "discourage the use of air conditioning" over concerns it raises "demand for energy" and warms "the local micro-climate". Islington Council also restricts cooling systems on environmental grounds, saying they "must only be considered as a last resort". These local policies go above and beyond national building regulations, which merely prioritise "passive cooling" measures like window shading before AC. Shadow Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho said: "It is totally bonkers for council bureaucrats to block people from installing air conditioning because it uses too much energy. "This is exactly why we must repeal the mad building regulations that force councils to care more about box-ticking and process than letting people keep their homes cool in the summer. "We have to get out of this miserabilist Net Zero mindset which says that Britain alone has to stay stuck in the dark ages and can't enjoy the modern conveniences that are completely normal in other countries." Estimates indicate roughly three per cent of British homes have air conditioning, compared with 90 per cent in America. The Climate Change Committee has acknowledged the need for cooling systems in care homes, schools and hospitals as temperatures increase, appearing to contradict official Government policy. Labour failed to amend building regulations last week, saying they reflected "the Government's commitment to improving energy efficiency". A Government spokesman said: "Air conditioning units are not banned. They can be installed in both existing and new homes and we expect councils to take a common-sense approach to the rules around this, which are there to manage the interests of communities and the environment.” A Camden Council spokesman said: “Residents seeking planning permission need to demonstrate that alternative, more climate-friendly measures are not suitable, and that units will not create noise or other harmful impacts on neighbours. “Enforcement action in these cases is rare and used only as a last resort where this guidance has not been followed.” Meanwhile, a spokesman for the London Mayor said the policies kept “keep homes cooler without relying on energy-intensive solutions”. They added: "Local planning decisions are the responsibility of the boroughs, who have their own policies in place”."
The cruelty is the point

Ben Habib on X - "They cannot fix the roads. They cannot police the streets. They cannot stop the boats. But they can tell you to rip air conditioning out of your own home during the summer because it offends the net zero cult."
Human rights mean they cannot police the street or stop the boats. Human rights also mean they can force you to die of heatstroke

The Sales Bull 🎯 Follow if you sell B2C or B2B on X - "The British state gets away with so much because if you describe the the truth people think you’re mad"
See also "The Democrats' Insanity Defense"

Air conditioning: saving lives and accelerating net-zero - "Britain is getting hotter, but is poorly prepared for the heat. Only 5% of British households have air conditioning, compared to 37% of people worldwide. Half of all UK homes overheat during the summer months. Heat-related death rates in the UK in 2022 were over 10 times those in Sweden, and twice that of the (climatically-similar) Netherlands. London's rate of heat related deaths exceeded any other northern European capital city, and were similar to those in Rome. High temperatures are not only uncomfortable; they cost lives. In 2022, circa 3000 people in Britain died from heatwaves. Studies show air conditioning can cut heat related deaths by 75%. Heat related illness disproportionately affects the elderly and those with disabilities. High temperatures make workers less productive and students perform worse in exams during heatwaves. Despite these costs, government heat pump upgrade schemes exclude air-to-air devices whilst building regulations decree that air conditioning is only used when other measures are insufficient. This effectively bans air conditioning in new build homes. Similar restrictions are baked into London’s planning policies. Our analysis shows that UK electricity demand peaks in the winter months, and will continue to do so as heating is electrified. Adding air conditioning demand makes use of this spare grid capacity in summer. Air conditioning can help balance the grid and support the green transition, since its demand profile is well aligned with solar generation. Adoption is likely to increase solar energy demand and help speed up clean power. It may also help speed up clean heating adoption by giving homeowners a reason to upgrade. The impact of the modern British summer – on our health, welfare and productivity – is not inevitable, but the result of policy choices. This Government has the opportunity to make Britain a greener, healthier, and cooler place to work and thrive."

Polymarket on X - "JUST IN: German public broadcaster begins “anti-AC campaign” warning of the dangers of air conditioning, as record heat wave hits the region."

Meme - NIFFTYCAT: "Someone needs to step in"
"HVAC HERO FILMS PRESENTS: CITIZEN VIGILANTE 2: CHILL ARMADA *Armie Hammer with air conditioning unit*"

Auron MacIntyre on X - "The fact that the entirety of Europe is willing to sacrifice a notable amount of their population to a Covid-esque purity spiral is a pretty good indication that no lessons were or will be learned"
Covid and air conditioning hysterias are not about saving lives but pushing left wing ideology

Cruadin on X - "It's becoming increasingly apparent that most European electrical grids can't support a 21st Century civilization, complete with modern wonders like ... (*checks notes*) indoor climate control. Instead of simply conceding their glaring governmental malfeasance they've cobbled together a religious belief system to explain why their restive populations must continue to suffer."

Ruxandra Teslo 🧬 on X - "Here, Patrick explains with common sense & compelling examples that Europe has a degrowth/anti air-con mentality and is told that "these are just anecdotes". This is a type of argument often employed by so-called "moderates" that has done much damage in the past decades. Basically, for every talking point, you have a bunch of degrowth/extreme left crazy people that are fairly well-embedded in institutions and "respectable". The polar opposite right-wing/libertarian position is almost never represented in respectable institutions. Then, you have the moderates. They often distinguish themselves by insisting on "statistics" and hard facts and refusing to accept common sense arguments and "what is before their eyes". The "just anecdotes" dismissal treats empirical observations as epistemically worthless unless accompanied by a regression table. But quantitative evidence itself is abundant for things that powerful intellectual institutions want to measure. It is scarce for things they would prefer not to examine too closely. The intellectual landscape ends up looking roughly like this:
1) On one side, there is a well-funded, institutionally embedded, socially respectable body of opinion that is broadly degrowth, skeptical of markets, skeptical of air conditioning etc. These views appear in EU policy documents, in academic journals, in mainstream journalism and in NGO reports. They might not be held by most academics broadly construed (e.g. engineering profs), but they are held by the small minority that studies these topics and that is enough.
2) On the other side, the full-throated pro-growth, pro-energy and pro-development counterargument exists but is largely confined to think tanks that are routinely described as "industry-funded" or "right-wing," which in respectable discourse functions as a full rebuttal. In the middle sit the moderates, who pride themselves on not taking sides, on demanding evidence, on resisting "populist" or "anecdotal" reasoning. This moderate position is not symmetric in its effects and moderates do not apply equal skepticism to both sides. Overall, the lack of actually balanced perspectives leads to the polarization of those who are more right leaning and suspect something is amiss. But because they lack any institutional home, they end up becoming cranky and conspiratorial. End result: broad erosion of public dicourse. Also if you wonder why AC has become a right wing shaped topic, it's also because of the craziness of the discourse, caused by the above."
Richard Hanania on X - "The best reason to be pessimistic among Europe is that degrowthers actually have power. America has crazy people. But they actually try to argue that wokeness or socialism or MAGA will make people wealthier. In Europe, you can just be pro-poverty. That's insane."
Left wingers always dismiss examples that challenge their worldview as "anecdotes", and love ones that support it as "proof". You can see that with climate change in general too

Kangmin Lee | 이강민 on X - "Japan, USA, and South Korea dominate the world when it comes to air conditioning. Air conditioning is right-wing because civilization is right-wing"
Mr. Ovis🐑💼(Office Worker Sheeptuber) on X - "The reason why the EU is having this whole debate and calling AC right-wing is because the arguments in favor of AC are pro-freedom and pro-human. The arguments against are pro-collective and anti-human. For instance, an American says "Well, you should just be able to go get an AC if you want one, you'll be comfortable" The rebuttal to this from the EU is a grand sweeping "Well, we shouldn't need AC at all, we need to terraform the entire planet by paying all of our money in taxes!""

France blames US for deadly heatwave - "Unlike the US, where air conditioning is common, in France only one in four households has air conditioning. Historically, the French have been sceptical about air conditioning: an Ipsos survey published earlier this month found that 78 per cent of French people believe that it’s bad for the environment and one in six respondents said they would rather suffer for the sake of the planet."
Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 on X - ""Dear American social media 'influencers': for days, you have been making fun of Paris because the city does not have A/C in every room..." -Audrey Pulvar, the city's deputy mayor Yeah, we have because your garbage ideas are killing people and they need help."
Weird how they don't blame China

Neighbours turn on each other in Portofino air-con crackdown | Italy | The Guardian - "Portofino has been part of a regional national park since 1935, and up until a few years ago, the installation of AC units on its pastel-coloured buildings was entirely banned. As summers became hotter, the rules were loosened to allow use of the appliances, so long as the homeowner asked permission and ensured that the units were discreetly placed and did not sully Portofino’s natural beauty. Police have been scouring the narrow streets for unauthorised units poking out over the terraces of the village’s homes. There were reports of 22 illegally installed units spotted on various rooftops and terraces between January and May, and a further 15 since June as temperatures soared... As the intrigue heated up along with the temperature, Corriere della Sera reported a “vendetta” among residents involving tit-for-tat denunciations between neighbours. Some culprits have attempted to hide their AC unit or disguise the appliance by painting it to blend in with the local surroundings. In some cases, people have reportedly accepted an invitation into the home of a neighbour, only to secretly take a photo of a unit that they have then passed on to police."

Housebuilder behind ‘flat-pack’ net zero homes on brink of collapse - "Craig White, its chief executive, told industry publication Inside Housing last year that it had “the proven model to tackle the UK’s housing crisis at low cost and speed”... The business built its pipeline around government-backed affordable housing schemes, but has been caught in a wider slowdown in delivery. The Government is falling short of its ambition to build 1.5 million homes by 2029. To reach its target, it needs to build 300,000 homes per year, but just more than 150,000 a year will be built between now and March 2028, down from 189,000 last year, according to Savills. “The planning system is broken, delays in getting planning permission have got worse and there’s a massive skills shortage in the UK,” said Mr Pear."
Time for more environmental regulations to cripple other builders so they can compete!

Thread by @ZubyMusic on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "The fact that being 'anti-AC' is an actual political position shows you just how stupid large swathes of humanity are. It's essentially a pro-death position. It's as stupid as being against heating in the winter. Choosing to not personally use air conditioning is one thing... But actively opposing it lol? I do believe people used to be more sensible overall."

Meme - max tampers @maxtempers: "In Soviet Britain, there is a "cooling hierarchy" with five tiers that you must demonstrate to your council you have exhausted before you are allowed to install air conditioning; otherwise, it's taken down."
"The cooling hierarchy. 8.109. The cooling hierarchy, set out in the London Plan 2021, provides measures that should be used to manage heat risk in developments. The cooling hierarchy is as follows:
1. reduce the amount of heat entering a building through orientation, shading, high albedo materials, fenestration, insulation and the provision of green infrastructure;
2. minimise internal heat generation through energy efficient design;
3. manage the heat within the building through exposed internal thermal mass and high ceilings;
4. provide passive ventilation;
5. provide mechanical ventilation; and
6. provide active cooling systems."

Meme - Sir Muppet of Smegg @Galac...: "air conditioning still produces heat."
Simon Maechling @simon...: "Yes. in exchange for producing cold."
Sir Muppet of Smegg @Galac...: "feedback loop much ?"
IWaTaRA: "Not really, the interior electronics would generate significantly less heat than the cold air blasting inside. And the heat ejected outside disipates will away from your thermostat."
Sir Muppet of Smegg @Galac...: "hahahahah dude doesn't understand concept of cumulative. typical karen council."
IWaTaRA @pepperjackmack: "If only they're was some sort of cooling period either via a natural low energy state that occurs every day, or some machine that transfers heat away"
Sir Muppet of Smegg @Galac...: "hahahahah dude thinks heat floats off into space at night... clearly never been to lindos in rhodes."
Alex Godofsky on X - "Europeans literally believe that air conditioning doesn't work. their sincerely held belief is that air conditioning is actually a fraud that just creates endlessly more need for air conditioning to deal with the heat it moves outside your house, rendering net cooling impossible."

DaiWW on X - "As a Chinese person, I certainly don't want to see Europeans all installing air conditioners. If all 500+ million people across Europe ran AC and lived the way folks do in China, it would spell real trouble for our planet. Moreover, just as Europeans don't want to see modernization in China's Tibet and Xinjiang, claiming it destroys the culture of local ethnic minorities, we Chinese feel the same way — we don't like seeing modern technologies, such as AC, destroy Europe's primitive way of life. It's an assault on Europe's indigenous culture. We Chinese must speak up for the preservation of European traditions, and never allow modern technology to wipe out Europe's backward but beautiful cultures."

Lance Gooden on X - "Europe wants to blame the United States for its deadly heat wave.
1. Europe refuses AC to "save Earth"
2. The Paris Climate Agreement allows China to keep INCREASING greenhouse gas emissions.
Europe only has themselves to blame."

Pudge (Don’t Trust: Ver-i-fy!) on X - "Hey Europoors. I just got AC installed. In my garage. For my dogs. And I don’t even live in the South. My dogs live better than you do. I care more about my dogs than your govt cares about you." Meme - *Gillette The Best Men Can Be*
Interested White Man: *EUROPOORS*
White Woman walking by: *AIR CONDITIONING*
*Greta Thunberg stopping him*

How Female Grievance Prevents Adulthood

2026-07-13T13:33:00.000+08:00

Feminism infantalises women:

How Female Grievance Prevents Adulthood

Pew recently found that women under 50 without children were more likely than men to say they simply did not want children, while young men without children were more likely than young women to say they wanted to become parents someday. This suggests a real shift in how young women imagine marriage, motherhood, and domestic life.

Frustratingly, the current conversation around delayed motherhood is desperate to solve the problem everywhere except at the level of psychology. We talk about childcare, dating apps, fertility treatment, and economic pressure. We even talk about how women were “sold” a lie about what feminism could give them. But we rarely ask why so many women bought it.

A lie is easier to believe when it flatters an existing wound. It is easier to tell a woman that marriage will trap her if she has already been trained to see dependence as humiliation. It is easier to sell the idea that motherhood will erase her if she has already been trained to see sacrifice as exploitation. The grievance framework didn’t only give women new ideas. It changed the emotional conditions under which those ideas became believable and are now so hard to erase.

That matters because the decision to delay or reject motherhood is not only a lifestyle preference. It often reflects a changed relationship to adulthood itself. For most of human history, forming a household and raising children were among the clearest signs that a person had adjusted to adult life. They required responsibility, reciprocity, gratitude, self-restraint, and the ability to tolerate frustration without immediately locating the source elsewhere. The central problem with grievance is not merely that it makes women unhappier. It is that it interferes with the development of precisely the qualities necessary to adjust to adulthood. We can identify three mechanisms through which this change might have occurred.

Externalization of Blame

The first is externalization of blame. Locus of control research makes a simple distinction. Some people believe their choices meaningfully affect what happens to them. Others believe their lives are mostly shaped by luck, fate, other people, or forces outside their control.

In general, the first group copes better. The second tends to struggle more. That matters here, because grievance trains the second habit: look outward first, locate the cause elsewhere, and protect the self from responsibility.

That is how a grievance-centered model of female socialization can prevent maturation and keep adolescent patterns intact. If a girl is taught that her dissatisfaction is primarily caused by beauty standards, unpaid labor or social conditioning, it may protect her ego in the moment. But she loses something much more important for long-term success: the ability to ask, Was I unfair? What do I need to change? A person who automatically interprets frustration through external blame loses access to the most important developmental move: I am partly responsible for the problem, and therefore partly responsible for the remedy. That sentence is, in essence, adulthood.

When Victimhood Becomes Personality

The second mechanism is victimhood and suspicion hardening into personality. Once grievance colours perception, a woman does not merely notice unfairness. She begins to anticipate exploitation. Ambiguous situations are read as hostile before alternative explanations are considered. Dependence on a man feels inherently risky. Ordinary male flaws such as immaturity or forgetfulness, start looking less like human shortcomings and more like evidence of male malice.

An example of this effect can be seen in the “mental load” phenomenon: the viral trend that originated in academia. The concept captures something real; women often do more of the planning, remembering, organizing, and anticipating needs inside family life. Pew found that among married or cohabiting parents with children under eighteen, 78 percent of mothers reported doing more than their partner in managing children’s schedules and activities.

Perhaps because this trend fit so neatly into the narrative of the woman as the victim of family life, the default response (after loads of biased research) was to declare the trend evidence of inequality. Without considering other factors, such as women’s preferences or men’s burdens, maternal dissatisfaction was mapped directly onto paternal deficiency. The question bypassed whether family burdens were being measured fairly, jumping straight to how fathers could be made to do more so that women would feel better.

This reveals the psychological effect of female-grievance culture: it trains the female eye to see marriage as a zero-sum game. “If I’m exhausted, it means he’s not doing enough.” The possibility that two people can both be working hard, both feel overwhelmed, and both feel underappreciated begins to disappear. That is how the normal heterogenous parity in family life is interpreted to overemphasize her contributions, dismissing his, and then calling the resulting perception “inequality.”

That way of thinking extends far beyond childcare. When a woman struggles in marriage, the first question becomes: how am I being exploited? When she clashes with a man: how has he been conditioned by society to harm me?

This maps closely onto the literature on trait victimhood. Researchers describe it as a stable tendency to experience oneself as the victim across many different interactions and situations. People high in trait victimhood are more likely to assume malicious intent, hold onto perceived slights, and interpret new experiences through the lens of previous injuries.

The deeper problem is developmental. Adulthood is built through thousands of small frustrations. Experiences where the person must be coaxed to ask the uncomfortable question: Was I partly responsible? Did I contribute to the problem? What do I need to change? That process is how people mature.

Victimhood interrupts that process. If the source of distress is assumed to be male selfishness, oppression, inequality, or social conditioning, there’s no need for self-examination. The explanation arrives before the reflection. Responsibility remains external. The person becomes increasingly skilled at explaining suffering and increasingly unpractised at adapting to it.

Over time, she no longer thinks, “Something unfair happened to me.” She begins to think, “Unfair things happen to me because I am a woman.” The self becomes innocent by default. Men become suspects, and every disappointment filed away as further evidence of what she already believes.

This is how grievance becomes part of the psychological make-up. Perception starts organizing itself around expected exploitation. “I experienced unfairness” slowly becomes “I experience unfairness because I am a woman.” What began as a complaint becomes an identity. And once it becomes identity, it starts creating the very situations it claims only to describe. Sexism becomes a self-profiling prophecy.

Rewarded Antagonism

The third mechanism is rewarded antagonism through culture, therapy-speak, and media. Our social world has learned to reward contempt and outrage. Phrases like “weaponized incompetence,” “decenter men,” “mental load,” “boundaries,” “gaslighting,” and “trauma” were given as tools to turn ordinary conflict into moral injury.

Somewhere along the way, women were taught to think of suspicion as being insightful: The quicker she detects exploitation, the more perceptive she feels. The less she accommodates, the more empowered she appears. And slowly, the older virtues that make adult life possible—gratitude, sacrifice, reciprocity—begin to look not like maturity, but like naïveté. Think of the infantilizing, condescending tone feminists use when talking about “tradwives.” Or how they lecture stay-at-home mothers about risks.

There is a scientific basis for this. Anger-rumination research shows that rumination is associated with greater aggression and slower physiological recovery from anger. That matters because grievance culture does not merely encourage women to notice injury; it encourages them to revisit it and make memes and reels that they can bond over.

In an earlier moral structure, a woman might have been encouraged to cool down, forgive, contextualize, or look for her own part. Men are still often advised this way when they try to vent. “Go for a walk.” “Calm down.” “Don’t blow up your life.” But when women vent, the current script often moves in the opposite direction: name it, validate it, call it out, post it, locate what must change in the environment to make her feel better. Imagine advising a female friend in the middle of a rant about her husband to “go take a walk.” The advice may be good, but the culture now treats it as betrayal.

Social media, of course, intensifies this. Research on online outrage shows that positive social feedback increases later outrage expression. If a young woman receives likes, comments, shares, and solidarity for posting contempt toward men, suspicion toward relationships, or resentment toward motherhood, those styles are strengthened. Whether it began as conviction, frustration, or even fake performance matters less over time. Rewarded performances become habits and beliefs.

Over-represented in these social media performances is therapy-speak. The emergence of popularized clinical language gives grievance scientific authority. The woman is no longer simply angry, disappointed, jealous, exhausted, ashamed, or afraid. She is “triggered,” “dysregulated,” “traumatized,” “invalidated,” or “unsafe.” The life she is expected to lead by the mean society has made her sick. And so, the faulty perception of distress is now a symptom. That makes it harder to deal with.

You cannot tell someone with a “symptom” to grow up without sounding invalidating. You cannot tell her to learn to tolerate frustration without sounding like you are minimizing trauma. The clinical vocabulary shields the young woman from performing the difficult tasks necessary for adult adjustment. Any expectation will be met with clinical language; people will be forced to accommodate and growth stalls.

Together, these mechanisms arrest development. Externalization protects the ego from responsibility. Victimhood identity organizes perception around anticipated harm. Rewarded antagonism turns resentment into status, language, and belonging.

A closer look at the feminist well-being literature revealed a much narrower claim than the one usually drawn from it. It showed that women who identify with feminism often report feeling more autonomous, more self-accepting, and more assertive. But the relationship literature points in the opposite direction when it comes to long-term adult stability. Gratitude in everyday interactions predicts greater connection and relationship satisfaction the next day. Self-transcendence, constructive communication, and sacrifice are also associated with higher relationship quality.

These are not nice-to haves, these are necessary for long-term relationships. People have to notice what is being given, not only what is missing. Sacrifice has to be experienced as loyalty rather than theft. Burden has to be experienced as meaningful, not as evidence of oppression.

And that is the trade off the feminist well-being literature never really measures. It can tell us whether women feel more empowered, more assertive, and more accepting of themselves. It does not tell us whether they become more grateful, more stable, more forgiving, more reciprocal, or more capable of sustaining the ordinary burdens of marriage and motherhood. A grievance culture reverses that training. It teaches women to keep score, scan for exploitation, and treat gratitude as naïveté.

Links - 13th July 2026 (1 - IQ)

2026-07-13T09:35:00.000+08:00

Meme - Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort: "The reason I don't think the Democrats can ditch wokeness is because even the moderates are unwilling to say "group differences are not caused by past or present discrimination, and there's no reason to care about closing them as long as all groups do better over time."
Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma: "Democrats are not willing to accept "Black people are genetically dumber than white people" for the simple reason that *it is not true*"
i/o @eyeslasho: "I would bet my house that this guy hasn't spent one minute of his life reading any of the scientific literature on the subject, and therefore his tweet should be treated like the garbage framing and garbage opinion that it is. There have only been two comprehensive published surveys asking scientists who study intelligence about the cause of the IQ gap between US blacks and whites, and in the most recent one (published in 2020 in the journal Intelligence) an overwhelming majority of respondents indicated that they believe that at least some of the gap is due to genetic factors. About half of the respondents indicated that about 50% or more of the gap is due to genetics. "Because it's not true" should always be treated as code for either "I'm totally uninformed on the subject" or "I'm informed but my moral claim is more important" or "I can't deal with this question so I'm taking the easy way out." The contempt I have for these people knows no limits. The fact is that the reason(s) for the gap are still an open scientific question, and if you don't acknowledge this you're engaging in bad faith, moral cowardice or ignorance. (I had to use a screenshot of the tweet because, naturally, he blocked me.)"

Meme - Emil Kirkegaard @KirkegaardEmil: "We just published a study showing that national stereotypes of intelligence are also accurate. It looks like this."
John Carter @martianwyrdlord: "India lol"
"Relationship between national stereotypes and national IQs. Shaded region corresponds to the 95% confidence intervals of the linear regression"
*India with much higher stereotyped IQ than actual IQ*

Meme - Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil: "I was reminded of this yesterday when looking into national IQ estimates. The "pseudo-analysis" style of critique is to just spit out tons of possible problems, to nitpick, and then to assume that means a whole enterprise is rotten without even checking if the critique holds."
"Pseudo-Analysis. A principal feature of the many critiques of hereditarian research is an excessive concern for purity, both in terms of meeting every last assumption of the models being tested and in terms of eliminating all possible errors. The various assumptions and potential errors that may, or may not, be of concern are enumerated and discussed at great length. The longer the discussion of potential biasing factors, the more likely the critic is to conclude that they are actual sources of bias, By the time a chapter summary or conclusion section is reached, the critic asserts that it is impossible to learn anything using the design under discussion. There is often, however, a considerable amount known about the possible effect of the violation of assumptions. As my colleague Paul Mechl has observed, 'Why these constraints are regularly treated as "assumptions" instead of refutable conjectures is itself a deep and fascinating question...' (Meehl, 1978, p. 810). In addition, potential systematic errors sometimes have testable consequences that can be estimated. They are, unfortunately, seldom evaluated."

Emil Kirkegaard on X - "The US congress is also an intelligence meritocracy. Replicates our prior finding of genetic meritocracy and IQ. Religious groups and race groups with higher polygenic scores for IQ/edu. have higher measured IQs and more success in life."

Alexander on X - "The people I learned about IQ from - in two separate master’s programs - were left-leaning and maybe moderate at most. This is true of most researchers of human intelligence and cognitive ability in fact, given the large skew left in psychology overall. But the people who have a sort of axe to grind against this line of research - which remains by the way one of the most robust and replicable lines of research in psychology - are almost always political activists of the far left. They cannot conceive of individual differences in ability as anything except for a threat against their political ideology. What I don’t entirely grasp is why they stop at IQ or research on intelligence. For example, we have a lot of (unfair, unequal?) individual differences in humans (and widely researched in psychology):
1. Physical attractiveness. Not everyone is equally attractive and large benefits go to those who are.
2. Personality traits, like conscientiousness. These benefit individual life outcomes about as much as IQ does. Not everyone is equally predisposed to be hard-working and diligent. These are also highly heritable traits.
3. Every other cognitive ability. Memory. Attention. Social cognition. We see big differences across individuals here, too.
The same methods are used to research all of these, by the way. Nothing special, unique, or different is really going on with IQ. Hard to imagine someone being an “IQ denier” without also leveling the same critiques at every other human psychological trait."

Meme - i/o @eyeslasho: "Low IQ is consistently associated with antisocial behavior, and antisocial behavior is consistently associated with criminality. So it shouldn't be surprising that those groups with a higher mean IQ have lower crime rates than those with lower IQ nearly everywhere in the world."
i/o research @iointelresearch: "Genetic analysis (GWAS) of antisocial behavior found it negatively correlates with intelligence (rg -0.40) and educational attainment (rg -0.46). The association between lower IQ and higher antisocial behavior is a consistent finding..."

i/o on X - "High-minded new paper advocates restricting public access to genetic data so racistly racist comparisons between groups (especially on cognitive traits between blacks and whites) can't be made. When you think you're losing, you try to rig the game."
Peter Boghossian on X - "If someone genuinely believed an empirical claim, why would they oppose studying it? The argument that research might be “misused” is weak—that’s a call for better studies, not bans. My suspicion? The authors don’t believe their argument. It reeks of special pleading. Can you name another domain where believers argue against more research out of “misuse” fears? I can’t. Let’s have a real conversation. I invite the authors on my show to discuss this paper. I doubt they’ll accept."
Charles Murray on X - "Back in the early 2000s, I tried to put together scholars on both sides to jointly design a major study testing the effects of racial admixture on IQ. Hereditarians were eager. Environmentalists had zero interest. Now, with so many alleles affecting various traits having been identified, and with big multi-racial genomic datasets available, much more informative studies are possible. Hereditarians are eager to conduct them. Environmentalists want to sequester the data. Inferring the reason is trout-in-the-milk level of uncertainty."
Emil Kirkegaard on X - "Hereditarians: Yay science! Open science awesome! Study all the difficult questions! Release the data publicly! No censorship!
Egalitarians: Nooo, hide the data, fire the offenders, you can't know nothing, what if someone somewhere derives a political opinion I don't want!"
What could the left possibly have to hide?

Alexander on X - "Reading this paper ranking 300 careers by cognitive ability (IQ).
1. The average IQ of tech professionals is similar to social scientists (around 110).
2. Skilled trades are where you begin to see average IQs around the upper 80s and low 90s (varies a lot by trade though)."
(Not just) Intelligence stratifies the occupational hierarchy: Ranking 360 professions by IQ and non-cognitive traits
It also looks at Big 5 and other personality characteristics by occupation

i/o research on X - "David Reich's Harvard team detects recent positive selection for intelligence among Europeans: "We also identify selection for combinations of alleles that are today associated with... increased measures related to cognitive performance.""
i/o on X - "In study after study, modern genetics research is murdering blank slatism, and it's quickly becoming a bloodbath. Marxist biologist Stephen Jay Gould (who is still widely read and taught in academia) once said: "There’s been no biological change in humans in 40,000 or 50,000 years. Everything we call culture and civilization we’ve built with the same body and brain." This was orthodoxy for over 40 years because academia wanted it to be orthodoxy. The possibility that psychological traits like intelligence could change in certain groups but in not in others as a result of evolutionary processes put into operation by exposure and adaptation to novel environments outside Africa was morally and ideologically unacceptable. But science is real, baby, and that well-meaning and rigidly-enforced orthodoxy is now in tatters."

i/o on X - "Something just occurred to me that probably won't mean much to most of you, but it does to me. Years ago, when I had another (much smaller) account, big left-leaning accounts on Twitter would constantly post scientifically illiterate takes on IQ and I'd show up in their replies and beat the crap out of them and ratio them. This happened all the time. Sometimes we'd send out the bat signal to @Steve_Sailer , who, if he wasn't too busy with something else, would drop by and calmly super-ratio them. It was a blast, like shooting at fish in a barrel: These accounts had no idea at all what they were talking about. But here's the thing: I can't remember the last time this happened. No big lefty accounts on X post about IQ anymore. They know that they're going to get pummeled if they do, and my guess is that they also know by now that they're on the retard side of the debate. I consider this a victory."

High intelligence is not associated with a greater propensity for mental health disorders

Spooky Werewolf Misha on X - "I think IQ believers often go too far in the direction of “if I was born into a slum, I would simply reason my way into a well-paid, nonviolent life.”"
Meme - Do Not @ Me, PhD @UsingLyft: "Black kids with IQs of 100 have the same odds of escaping the bottom quintile of socioeconomic status as white kids"
"Percent of Children Moving Up and Out of the Bottom Quintile, Conditional on AFQT Score, by Race"

Meme - (Black Woman) OmoAuntyNurse @_arike_adey: "Nursing hard af ain't nobody dumb finishing that shit. Passed my iq test and scored in the top 85%, lot's of the doctors I work couldn't even get that high"
"TestYourlQ.org. Results: Your IQ is 86. Your IQ is in the top 85%"

Auron MacIntyre on X - "For all its vaunted capabilities when it comes to contemplating hypotheticals or abstractions high-IQ doesn't seem to enable individuals to understand the lives of those who are lower on the distribution High-IQ individuals have a very hard time developing a theory of mind for those with lower IQ and understanding how they order themselves This leads to a cognitively sorted elite developing systems that rely on every mind working exactly like their own and then becoming disdainful of the 80% of people who do not function this way Perhaps this was less of a problem when martial prowess and other factors were more heavily involved in elite selection but in a world of foxes cognitive capacity becomes the only selection criteria, and lions are left on the wayside Any elite can become isolated and grow disdainful of the people but an elite selected solely on intelligence seems to be uniquely incapable of grasping what the good may look like for someone who isn't a few standard deviations above It also seems to encourage the belief that all people are both improvable (at least according to the standards of the current ruling class) and interchangeable Of course our elite have now become so insuler they are no longer selecting for merit even in the realm of intelligence, only for ideological conformity, for faith in the religion of the elite class, which only separates them further from a vision of the good which would serve other segments of the population I don't have any immediate answer here but there just is a serious disconnect that will only increase as we encourage cognitive stratification"
The Black Horse on X - "A huge issue here is the isolation of high-IQ individuals from gen-pop and especially from physical hardship. The fact that our present elite class is coddled from birth is a bigger issue than their raw IQ."

Into the Memory Hole on X - "Reminder that the government forbids any further research on the proven genetic links to race and IQ"
Muzzling scientists and obstructing science is only wrong when it hinders the left wing agenda

Fight Mate on X - "Cameraman deserves an Oscar for catching this moment from ever angle..."
Eric S. Raymond on X - "It was difficult for me to watch this video all the way through to the end, but it reminded me of something important that I think a lot of people at and above IQ level 100 don't understand. It's something I only understand myself because travel is broadening. This video is what like life among the truly stupid is like. The incompetent, spasmodic monkey-dance violence. The pre-verbal hooting crowding out articulated speech. The squalor of people without the cognitive capacity to plan much beyond the next cheap high. No, the important thing about these wretched people isn't that they're black. It's that they're sampled from a population with an average IQ of 85, and the high time preference that predicts, and the general inability to handle counterfactual hypotheticals that that predicts. If you picked a stupid enough cohort of white people and let them stew in each other's juices for long enough, you'd see the same crap. Hillbilly Elegy anyone? People of average intelligence (average intelligence for Europeans or Northeast Asians anyway) do not usually understand how stupid stupid gets. When they try to model the behavior of somebody with an IQ of 85 or below, they imagine someone like themselves but with a smaller vocabulary and missing the ability to do specific smart-people things like mental arithmetic or whatever. It isn't like that. It isn't like that at all. This video is what it's like."

Family of slain Twin Peaks photographer lament jury deadlock - "A mistrial was declared today in the murder trial of Fantasy Decuir and Lamonte Mims in San Francisco Superior Court. The pair were accused of robbing and killing photographer and film location scout Ed French, 71, at Twin Peaks overlook in July 2017... While they did not dispute that their client fired the shot that killed Mr French, defense attorneys argued that, at the time of the killing, Ms Decuir was in a “sickle cell crisis” and suffering from opiate painkiller withdrawal. They added that Ms Decuir had a low IQ, a “lack of adaptive functioning” and suffers from stress and anxiety. As a consequence, they said, she did not act “consciously” when firing the gun."
Weird. Didn't they get the memo that IQ was meaningless

Jeremy Stamper 🇺🇦 (e/acc) on X - "1) There’s only one race: the human race.
2) race is a social construct.
3) there’s no such thing as “intelligence.
4) there are many different kinds of intelligence.
5) the difference within races are larger than the differences between races.
6) Neil DeGrasse Tyson
7) the soft bigotry of low expectations
8) redlining
9) we can’t rule out clerical errors"
The original tweet got deleted (OOP seems to always delete his old tweets after a while) but it was something about the race/IQ taboo

Darkage Possum on X - "In my post graduate program in the 1980's at the youngsters request the chairman took us through the work of Jensen, the dishonest and facile criticisms of it, what happened to his career and everyone else who touched it, and basically said " never speak of this again. These conversations never happened." This has really opened up a lot since then. It was okay to leave it alone as long as policy was grounded in the notion of equal opportunity and equal treatment as individuals. The idea of equity, that group outcomes must be equalized forces confrontation of the fact that groups aren't equal because it is creating huge injustices. Equality doesn't exist in nature. It was nice to protect peoples ethnic pride and let that dog sleep but bigger things than peoples feelings are at stake now"
Bala on X - "If you can't win an argument using facts, logic, or reason, then tabooing that argument is the way to protect your narrative."
Ralph Kaladin on X - ""Truth is not important, only social justice""

Meme - Emil O W Kirkegaard @KirkegaardEmil: "Smarter Nazi leaders more likely to be acquitted at Nuremberg trials."
Clearly, the only thing IQ tests measure is how good you are at doing IQ tests

Measuring Human Capital Across Countries: IQ and the Human Capital Index - "It has been shown that country-level IQ and aggregated performance by school-age children on international assessment tests in math and science are by-in-large capturing analogous indicators of the cognitive human capital. We expand that analysis by comparing country-level IQ to the World Economic Forum’s Human Capital Index (HCI). This index, comprised of several dozen separate indicators, accounts for inputs and outcomes to measure human capital, across age profiles and gender. Two outcomes are of note. First, there is a positive, significant correlation between IQ and the vast majority of the component indicators in the HCI across all age cohorts. Second, because the HCI’s interpretation of educational attainment extends beyond formal education by including indicators such as on-the-job learning and other work-related skills, our finding that IQ is positively correlated with these measures suggests a deeper connection between national average IQ and the fundamental factors of what constitutes the cognitive side of human capital development."

Meme - Asterix Respecter @ArmoricaStan: "Can anyone tell me the average IQ of a house elf? Miss Granger"
"Actually, IQ is a pseudoscience which doesn't measure anything exc..."
"That's wrong, 10 points from Gryffindor. Now, ogres make up just 13% of the population, yet-"
"50, Sir"
"Correct, 20 points to Slytherin"

Thread by @CiurriaMichelle on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Thread on the ableist fetishization of so-called intelligence in academia. I just read yet another article that glorifies so-called intelligence, which is a social construct rooted in eugenics. In an ableist culture (such as ours) in which so-called intelligence is so idolized that it’s a condition of citizenship & personhood, everyone will have anxieties about whether they’re ‘intelligent enough.’ Intelligence is a disciplinary apparatus that mobilizes people into a regime of compulsory (able-minded) intelligence, which conveniently justifies capitalism as a ‘meritocracy’ that both produces and rewards the most ‘intelligent’ (nondisabled) citizens. Capitalism is vindicated by its ability to produce intelligent citizens, who are, coincidentally, from the wealthiest & most elite families! And this capitalist regime of compulsory intelligence also punishes & persecutes the (disabled) ‘unintelligent’ by pushing them out of the economy, forcing them into public dependency, politically disenfranchising them and making them a spectacle of horror for the ‘intelligent’ able-bodied majority, who are compelled to avoid ‘unintelligence’ (in themselves & their offspring) at all costs. Academia is deeply complicit in this charade, and this can be seen seen in the ubiquity of ‘impostor syndrome’: academics have so internalized compulsory able-mindedness that they never feel ‘smart enough’ no matter how many degrees they rack up or how much they alienate themselves from the public by their ascetic intellectual regimens. We subject ourselves to rarefied philosophical defenses of human supremacy and, relatedly, the supremacy of (Eurocentric) ‘intelligence’ above all other human faculties to the point that we - or many of us - internalize this bullshit as scripture and live the rest of our lives in constant fear of being (seen as) ‘stupid.’ Crip theorists consistently debunk the fetishization of intelligence in academia and society in general, and underscore its roots in the capitalist-eugenics regime that uses ‘intelligence’ to uphold racial-patriarchal institutions and hence we are, unsurprisingly, marginalized and silenced. So is the toxic culture of the neoliberal-ableist university. #ableism #academia #philosophy #intelligence #iq #impostorsyndrome @biopoliticalph"
If you don't reward stupid people the same way as smart people, you're a bad person

Jesse Singal on X - "The New Yorker, on Jon Haidt: "He has been beset by a troubling fixation on the heritability of I.Q.—a contention widely dismissed as scientific racism" This is completely false. The heritability of intelligence is accepted by mainstream researchers. The debate is over *race*. I don't understand how something like this gets through fact-checking. It's quite frustrating. Spreading misinformation about the present state of intelligence research doesn't help anyone."
i/o on X - "The only consensus — and I do not use that word lightly — scientific finding that is routinely deliberately slandered in the media is the heritability of intelligence. Literally — and I do not use this word lightly either — no reputable intelligence researcher disputes that intelligence is substantially heritable. So why does this lie keep finding its way into the pages of even "prestige" publications like the New Yorker? Because intelligence heritability, if it were ever widely-known and understood by the public, can threaten the blank slate foundation of the modern progressive project."
When fact checking is about pushing a left wing agenda, and not checking facts, this is what happens

Meme - RAMZPAUL @ramzpaul: "Interesting. White women who date blacks statistically have lower IQs than black women who date Whites."

Meme - "r/trans
Trans people stay winning! Top 15% IQ and I barely even tried. It's time to destigmatize being your true self.
Your IQ is 86. 16%. Your IQ is in the top 85%"

i/o on X - "The decoding of the human genome brought powerful tools to investigate the relationship between genes, race, and IQ. But fear of where this research might go led the best genetic database in the US to restrict access. The most recent survey of scientists conducting research in this area indicated that findings on human intelligence have been tipping over the past few decades in favor of those who believe race IQ gaps have at least a partial genetic basis. The left has waged a continuous campaign of smears, misinformation, data suppression, censorship, cancellation, grants withholding, and even physical intimidation and violence, to stop this research. Activist scientist Eric Turkheimer famously wrote that if the hereditarian hypothesis were ever proved correct it would be like an "atom bomb going off.""

i/o on X - "Jonathan Haidt: "I expect that dozens or hundreds of ethnic differences will be found.. the ways in which we now think about genes, groups, evolution and ethnicity will be radically changed by the unstoppable progress of the human genome project."
We already see federal government agencies and universities, as a matter of stated policy, refusing to share genomic data with scientists conducting research into certain types of differences between population groups."
i/o on X - "Institution: There are no innate differences in intelligence (and other psychological traits) between groups.
Scientists: Let's take a look at the genomic data so we can show that this is true.
Institution: No! Only bad people would want to do that kind of research!
Question: If they're so convinced that innate group differences are impossible, then what are they so afraid of?
Answer: They're afraid because they are not convinced.
They're afraid because they know what the existing scientific evidence looks like — and what the clear majority opinion is of those who conduct the research — and they will do everything they can to stop any scientific investigation that might be dispositive. As activist scientist Eric Turkheimer warned: The effects of a clear scientific finding of innate race differences in intelligence would be like an "atom bomb" exploding."

RiotIQTest on X - "Intelligence researchers often focus on "g," referring to a general factor of intelligence that arises because different scores are positively correlated with each other. But is g found in non-Western groups? This 2019 study by @Russwarne says yes. The authors found 97 archival datasets from 31 non-Western, economically developing nations (shown in dark grey on this map) and performed a factor analysis. The results were clear: 94 (96.9%) of the datasets produced g, which is a strong indication that g is not a cultural artifact of Western culture or economically developed nations. The authors stated, "Because these data sets originated in cultures and countries where g would be least likely to appear if it were a cultural artifact, we conclude that general cognitive ability is likely a universal human trait" (p. 263, emphasis in original). Moreover, the average strength of the g factor was 45.9% of variance, which is about the same as what is found in Western samples (~50%). It is important to mention what this study does not show. This study is not evidence that the g in one country is the same as the g in another country. The study also cannot be used to compare or rank order countries in intelligence. Those conclusions would require a different design. But it is still an important contribution to understanding g. It is not a cultural artifact. It is something that exists cross-culturally and is worthy of study."

Richard Hanania on X - "Study from Sweden shows that children adopted from non-Western countries ended up having lower IQs than native Swedes. The one exception was South Koreans, who actually had higher IQs than Swedes. I guess babies take "Confucian culture" with them when they are adopted?"

Links - 12th July 2026 (2 - Climate Change)

2026-07-12T17:05:00.000+08:00

Biased science reports fuelled climate alarm | Financial Post - "The journalistic rule, “If it bleeds it leads,” appears to be widely followed in reporting on climate change. In a new National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper, researchers compared newspaper articles from 10 major outlets in the United States and United Kingdom with scientific evidence from all six IPCC assessment reports from 1990 to 2023 (IPCC being the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations body). Their conclusion? “Public summaries of IPCC climate assessments lean toward the more severe end of the technical evidence.” The biased media reporting takes place in two stages. The first is caused by the unusual nature of IPCC reports, in which the scientific assessments are condensed into a Technical Summary (TS) and then further condensed into a Summary for Policymakers (SPM). “The SPM reaches policymakers, journalists, and the public,” the authors of the NBER paper explain. “Before its release, representatives of all 195 IPCC member governments approve it line-by-line in plenary.” As a result, the SPM is “a politically negotiated artifact rather than a neutral summary of the underlying science.” Using large language models to analyze scientific claims made in these documents, the researchers find that for every IPCC assessment report from 1990 to 2023, the politically negotiated SPMs skew towards the more severe ends of what the scientific assessments actually show. Next, when journalists and editors use the SPM to write their articles, the same shift takes place: the more severe climate impacts are given more weight and emphasis... If journalists favour emphasizing the most severe projected climate impacts, so too do activists and politicians keen on imposing sweeping government interventions. For more than a decade, including in his 2021 book Value(s), Mark Carney backed large-scale climate initiatives premised on the idea that RCP 8.5 (an extreme scenario under which temperatures rise an estimated 4.5 degrees by 2100) was a likely outcome. But RCP 8.5 was always an extreme top-of-range scenario, and the new scenario framework published last month that will form the basis for the next IPCC assessment report excludes it from the range altogether. The emission projections under RCP 8.5, the scenario authors concluded, have “become implausible.” In fact, RCP 8.5 was known to be implausible for years. An article in Nature in January 2020 called it a “dystopian” scenario that was becoming “increasingly implausible with every passing year. Emission pathways to get to RCP 8.5 generally require an unprecedented fivefold increase in coal use by the end of the century, an amount larger than some estimates of recoverable coal reserves.” Ross McKitrick noted in a column in June 2020 that the assumptions RCP 8.5 relied on not only didn’t make sense, they also contradicted each other. But that hasn’t stopped Carney and others from using it to stoke climate alarm. In recent years, both the Canadian Climate Institute, which is funded by the federal government, and federal departments themselves have used RCP 8.5 prolifically."

Steve Guest on X - "Vox with a BOMBSHELL admission in the wake of the demise of RCP8.5. “Those numbers shaped a decade and a half of climate journalism, including a lot of my own when I covered climate change at Time magazine. I didn’t always know — and didn’t always communicate — that the scenario behind the most apocalyptic, attention-getting findings was largely an attempt to imagine how bad things could get, not a true forecast. But I wasn’t alone. RCP 8.5 was a frequent background presence in climate journalism.”"

Thread by @SenEricSchmitt on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Did you know our Judiciary has its own taxpayer-funded “neutral training pipeline"? Meet the USAID of Article III. The Federal Judicial Center. What I've uncovered isn't "neutral" judicial training. It's ideological capture. Take a look at how it's infecting our judiciary. 🧵
The Federal Judicial Center (FJC) is the official research and education arm of the federal courts, created by Congress to train and equip our nation's judges. It shapes how these judges evaluate evidence. Its materials influence real court cases across the country every day. You'd assume the FJC is filled with unbiased and impartial legal scholars, especially when it comes to directing judges' continuing education. Let's meet @jrlinkins, Director of Education at FJC. She describes her "heroes" as Zora Neale Hurston (known for her flagrant plagiarism in her extensive work on Haitian Voodoo) and Staceyann Chin (A Chinese-Jamaican Lesbian Poet known for writing smut and reciting it at poetry slams). Unsurprisingly, this is the type of content being promoted by the FJC's leadership. But does this asinine ideology flow into FJC's work? Of course. The FJC has partnered with Columbia University and other left-wing organizations. Together they “educated” over 2,000 judges on climate change nonsense. This is clearly a taxpayer-funded patronage network. While doing the Left's dirty work in the Judicial branch, Linkins quietly funneled kickbacks through ActBlue to Democrats in Congress and Biden's Campaign. Then came the bombshell: The FJC’s Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, the guide judges use to decide what science counts in court. They snuck in a MASSIVE new climate change chapter, written by organizations actively suing energy producers. The backlash was so fierce that the FJC was forced to pull the entire climate chapter, but only after it had already been distributed to thousands of judges. Let that sink in. They laundered Greta Thunberg talking points into the official judicial reference manual. This taxpayer funded outfit has become infested with pop scientists peddling Davos-approved talking points. This isn’t something we can simply overlook or ignore. The courts are not a branch of the left-wing NGO complex. They are not supposed to be trained by the very left-wing activists filing the lawsuits. They are not supposed to get their “science” from outfits whose explicit goal is to reshape law in favor of climate policy outcome. The rule of law is sacred. It demands real neutrality, not indoctrination from Columbia climate warriors and their NGO allies. We’re going to keep shining a light on this until the pipeline is shut down and accountability is restored."

Lauren Chen on X - "This is why the left wins all the time. Each bureaucrat is actually an activist working to ingrain their ideology into our institutions at every chance. Take this example with the Federal Judicual Center, which has an official manual that instructs judges on how to weigh scientific evidence. It turns out the climate section was really the work of green activists, meaning they were effectively biasing judges toward climate change activism before cases even got to court. Now this climate chapter was pulled once it was discovered how slanted it was, but imagine how many more examples are out there in every corner of government, academia, media, and corporate life..."

WALLACE: The Iran shock destroyed the illusion of a renewable-only future - "The closure, first by Iran and then subsequently by the United States (US), of the Strait of Hormuz has caused an international energy crisis with prices spiking above US$100–120/bbl and LNG prices jumping more than 50% from 2025 averages. While the current events in the Straight of Hormuz were not predictable at the time we wrote our paper in 2022, the consequences of emissions policies that advocated for the curtailment, and in some cases the elimination, of vital fossil fuels were nonetheless predictable. As we wrote then: “North America and particularly the European Union are experiencing the consequences of misguided energy policies that have undermined efforts to sustain energy security throughout the West.” Mintz and Wallace, 2022. As Western economies raced to reduce carbon emissions, many lost sight of the vital contribution that fossil fuels make to economic resilience and national, regional, and international security. Those policies, especially in the EU, have demonstrated that energy transitions are neither automatic nor inherently secure and have been seen to result in market instabilities, power interruptions, and continued price escalations. Evidence from Germany’s recent experience demonstrates that assumptions of a smooth, inevitable shift to renewables have seriously underestimated system complexity and have shifted the emphasis to reliability, affordability, and geopolitical resilience. The strategic role of firm energy supply was demonstrated when the EU was forced to spend an additional €6 billion in just 17 days on fossil fuel imports as renewables alone could not stabilize its grid. The EU’s energy bill rose by €24 billion in the first 52 days of the Iran conflict, showing how price escalations and supply insecurity persisted despite aggressive decarbonization policies... since 2015, Canada has implemented regulatory and tax policies that have substantially blocked Canadian energy from reaching beyond traditional destinations to enter the international marketplace. The exception is the performance of the Trans Mountain pipeline... a sobering reminder of the income foregone by Canada because of major project cancellations, like the Northern Gateway pipeline, by the Trudeau government. Canada and Alberta have both maintained legislated or policy anchored net zero commitments, frameworks that are explicitly designed to constrain the emissions profile of hydrocarbon production, at a time when the major points in the Canada-Alberta MOU for a BC coast pipeline remain unresolved. Meanwhile, as European states reassess and evaluate the effects of energy security shocks, Canadian energy could be backfilling against sanctioned Russian oil and gas and curtailed shipments from the Middle East. Despite reassurances, Canada appears fixated on policies for net zero, with few realistic options to increase exports to the EU or to optimize energy security within Canada. Europe’s strategic policy decision to undermine its own energy production in favour of renewables has exacerbated the effects of the Iran crisis. Europe is now twice as exposed to the Hormuz crisis as is the US and faces an imminent shortage of strategic supplies such as jet fuel — a dual threat to the military and industrial capacity of Europe. Meanwhile, the US has become a major net exporter of refined products, including jet fuel, with shipments to Europe surging to record levels. Europe, by contrast, must import 60% of its total energy and 40%–75% of its jet fuel. The Iranian conflict demonstrates that policies for net zero and renewable energy, commitments that required vast financial investments, are wholly insufficient to maintain energy and economic security. As the fourth largest global producer of crude oil, Canada’s opportunities have been limited by insufficient infrastructure, punitive regulatory timelines, and limited international access. The Iran shock has exposed the false assumptions of uninterrupted global trade and steadily falling demand for fossil fuels."
The widespread cope is that the Iran war shows that countries need to double down on renewables. Reality is no match for climate change hysteria

Sainsbury’s ditching brown eggs is damning proof of the net zero farce - "The rationale behind this apparent scrapping of brown eggs is that, according to Sainsbury’s, its white eggs were found to have a 12.7 per cent lower carbon footprint than brown ones. This magical little figure was fashioned, the company reports, “through a lifecycle assessment with three of our egg suppliers”. This nugget appears in their recently published 2026 annual report. Further wording adds little flesh to the bones, claiming that the lower carbon footprint is “largely due to better feed conversion” (the report’s authors don’t waste any time explaining whatever that might mean), and “the longer productive lifespan of the white hens”. “Additionally,” the report continues, “white hens are less prone to feather pecking, leading to higher animal welfare.” It’s a point of no relevance to the issue at hand, of course, but it gives another warm hug of feel-good buzzwordery. Still, Sainsbury’s says determinedly it is “making progress on transitioning our shell eggs from brown to white eggs, aiming towards 100 per cent in our own brand core ranges”. Do you follow? If not, let me help with some clarity here. There appears to be some science, from just three egg producers, that there might be a slightly smaller carbon footprint from hens that lay white eggs, which has something to do with feed. Aside from that, the company’s claim to be “making progress on transitioning” means it’s unlikely to be doing very much very soon. Besides, this shift will only affect its “own brand core ranges”, so lots of other brown eggs will still remain on sale. Yet this vague garbage is then pushed out as a story about Sainsbury’s glorious charge to net zero... Sainsbury’s messaging simply shows how infected it is by the woke dogma of Ed Miliband and his green agenda – a drive to net zero that makes us all colder and poorer, while having a direct effect on the planet’s annual emissions of less than 1 per cent. As Peter Mandelson was reported to have said: “The Chinese are not listening to Ed Miliband.”"

I’m not giving up meat for Miliband, and neither should you - "Everyone laughed when they saw that unfortunate photo of Ed Miliband trying to eat a bacon sandwich in 2014, but perhaps they’ll come to regret it because the Energy Secretary has just signed Britain up to stringent new climate targets. The Climate Change Committee, which provides independent advice to the Government, says that to help achieve these targets, the public will need to eat 25 per cent less meat. In response to this claim, a spokesman for the Government has insisted that it will succeed “without telling people how to live or behave”. All the same, I have an uneasy feeling that a certain someone may privately see this as the perfect opportunity for revenge. “Now nobody will be able to eat a bacon sandwich because we’re going to drive all the farmers who produce bacon out of business!” At any rate, I certainly won’t be giving up meat for net zero – and neither should you. Why? For starters, net zero zealots endlessly claim that the farming of meat plays a huge role in causing climate change because cows and other farm animals release so much methane. Yet, a 2021 study found that vegan men fart seven times more than men who eat meat... an awful lot of vegans’ favourite foods – quinoa, avocados, lentils, soybeans and chickpeas, for example – are grown in countries many thousands of miles away. To reach Britain, they have to be transported on long, environment-damaging flights."

Net zero killed British industry, not Thatcherism - "Burnham, like many on the Left, argues that Britain’s economic and social malaise started with deindustrialisation brought about by so-called “neo-liberal” reforms undertaken by Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives in the 1980s. While memories of miners’ strikes, union reforms and the privatisation of failing nationalised industries reinforce this popular narrative, the facts tell a different story. Start with the total output of the industrial sector in inflation-adjusted terms. Between 1979, when Thatcher entered office, and 1990, when she resigned, industrial production rose by a healthy 16pc – barely slowing from its preceding trend. The volume of goods exports rose by 50pc over the same period. Under Thatcher, Britain produced more and sold more to the world. Even as production and exports grew, industrial employment slumped by 28pc, a loss of 2.1 million jobs. Total employment rose by 6.5pc – a net increase of 1.7 million. In the 11 years to 1990, Britain created as many new jobs as it had done from 1952 to 1979. Similar patterns are visible elsewhere... Through the 1970s, successive British governments had run up massive costs, encouraged overmanning and capital misallocation to delay inevitable structural changes. Thatcherism, grounded in sound economics, represented the moment when policymakers decided to stop fighting the tide. British industrial production, alongside goods exports, continued to grow steadily after Thatcher left office – under John Major’s Conservatives and for most of Tony Blair’s New Labour reign – even as both administrations stuck with the market reforms of the 1980s. But as production grew, its share of GDP predictably continued to edge lower, along with its employment share. The decisive negative turn in industry came in the 2000s, when Britain tilted its energy policy towards decarbonisation and in favour of renewables like wind and solar. This process started in the 1990s, accelerated in the 2000s, and ramped up with the 2008 Climate Change Act, subsequent renewables targets, the Carbon Price Floor in 2013, emissions performance standards, contracts for difference and the 2019 net zero law. However well-intentioned, these policies have resulted in energy scarcity in the UK and some of the highest industrial electricity costs in the advanced world. It is no surprise that trends in electricity availability and output in energy-intensive industrial sectors track closely over time. Energy capacity and production rose precipitously through the 20th century until 2005, when electricity supply peaked. A year later, industrial production reached record highs. Since then, the reduction of electricity capacity, including coal and oil as well as nuclear, combined with a painfully slow build-out of renewables, has cut electricity supply by a fifth, while industrial production has fallen by around 7pc. If Burnham wants to reindustrialise Britain, he needs to reverse net zero, not Thatcherism. Abundant, stable, and competitively priced energy is vital for a healthy industry. But even then, he could not expect to see a jobs boom in the industrial sector. In the age of automation, that is impossible. The benefits from reviving British industry would stem from faster economic growth and increased productivity. Higher wages, stronger public finances and renewed national confidence would follow, without any need to recreate the factory floor of the 1970s. While Burnham may believe he can bring fresh thinking into No 10, his penchant for demonising Thatcher and appealing to misplaced nostalgia suggests there is limited scope for a course correction once the realities of office hit."

Sir Tony Blair mocks Energy Secretary Ed Miliband over net zero policies - "Sir Tony Blair has mocked Ed Miliband over his net zero policies, in a further attack on the Labour Government. The former prime minister accused the Energy Secretary on Wednesday of pushing a “quixotic fantasy” and said that China, the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, did not care about his beliefs... Sir Keir is coming under pressure from his Cabinet to overturn a ban on North Sea drilling, according to reports. Ministers are beginning to question Mr Miliband’s repeated claim that allowing new North Sea drilling would “not take a penny of bills” because even if they remained the same, prices would fall across the wider economy. One Whitehall source said: “People keep saying that it won’t take a penny off bills. But if it improves your balance of payments, it helps your currency, potentially letting you get more for your money on all sorts of goods. A second source said: “There is a growing feeling that we’ve boxed ourselves in with a line that’s technically true but politically useless. People hear ‘it won’t cut bills’ and assume there’s no economic benefit whatsoever.” The UK emits less than 1 per cent of global greenhouse gases within its own borders. In 2025, its net contribution was estimated at 367 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent – a 2 per cent fall on the previous year and a 54 per cent decrease compared to 1990. By contrast, global carbon emissions from fossil fuels were expected to rise by 1.1 per cent in 2025, reaching a record high of around 38.1 billion tonnes. Sir Tony warned Britain would continue to rely on carbon beyond the net zero deadline of 2050, adding: “I don’t understand why you’d shut your own fossil fuel industry and import someone else’s.”... Mr Miliband has been accused of having an “ideological obsession” with net zero, driving him to pursue green policies at any cost. Earlier this month, he was accused of “covering up” evidence suggesting his flagship schemes could backfire while taxpayers foot a multi-billion-pound bill."

John Tomkinson on X - "In Ottawa, discussion on Alberta’s pipeline are now framed as violence against women. "Violence against nature and the climate are inseparable from violence against humans. One example is climate change as a gendered issue, which leads to systemic disadvantages for all women.""

Miliband defies Starmer over cuts to fund defence - "Sources said the Energy Secretary was pushing back against demands to find capital budget savings of at least 1pc within the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero to help fund the long-delayed defence investment plan (DIP)... The pushback will be seen as fresh evidence of Sir Keir’s waning authority as Labour MPs and ministers openly prepare for a leadership competition that could see the Prime Minister supplanted by Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Manchester. Mr Miliband has been supporting Mr Burnham behind the scenes and is said to have fallen out with Sir Keir in recent weeks after telling him that he felt his position had become untenable."

Poll: Majority of British women think nuclear power is not low-carbon 🤦‍♂️ - "only 31% of British women believe nuclear energy produces no or low carbon emissions... The gap between men and women in this poll is staggering across the board. Men are more than twice as likely as women to think nuclear power is safe (64% vs. 28%). Men want way more nuclear energy in the mix (59% vs. 17%). And when asked about building a nuclear plant in their own backyard, men say yes at 57% while women clock in at a resounding 22%. People tried to offer explanations (most of them had to do with repealing the 19th Amendment, which isn't even a thing in England 😂). There are debates to be had over nuclear power, but one of these debates is not about its carbon footprint being too large. It uses magic rocks to give near-unlimited power while emitting steam (AKA water). The UK is trying to lower its carbon emissions, but if women think nuclear power emits a bunch of carbon, they are going to be stuck with wind turbines and solar panels (both of which have regular replacement costs with higher carbon requirements)."
Epistocracy is "sexist", so too bad

We can’t afford a $20-billion Pathway to nowhere | Financial Post - "Given its massive debt and never-ending deficits, Ottawa should not waste tens of billions of dollars in tax credits and cash on a project that has no chance of achieving its public policy objective, even if it does give the prime minister political cover. The boondoggle in question is the Pathways Project, a $16- to $24-billion (excluding cost overruns) carbon capture and storage (CCS) network in northeastern Alberta sponsored by the six largest oilsands companies. Its mission is to capture greenhouse gas emissions from over 20 oilsands sites and transport them via pipeline to an underground storage hub near Cold Lake. Prime Minister Mark Carney has made Pathways a condition for approving any major oilsands pipeline project, on the grounds it would eliminate emissions from drilling, processing and flaring. But such upstream emissions are only 15 per cent of the total. Downstream emissions from consumption in transportation, industrial use, power generation and buildings account for the rest. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith obviously knows this but succumbed to the feds’ extortion because it was the only way to get them on side. In a recent opinion piece, Martha Hall Findlay, chair of the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy and former Liberal MP, came out against Pathways, which she spent years helping create. She belatedly admits it would entail significant cost “with, frankly, a negligible effect on global emissions.” A dramatically changed world provides a reason for her about-face: “Canada’s priorities are now clearly economic diversification, national defence, national security — nothing less than our sovereignty.” Findlay is correct that geopolitical events make the Pathways project even more indefensible, but without massive government subsidies CCS was never economically viable, according to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). And another reason for her change of mind existed when she helped create Pathways: Canada produces a mere 1.3 per cent of global GHG emissions; the oilsands represent 12.4 per cent of Canada’s total emissions; and Pathways’ first phase would likely reduce global emissions by less than 0.02 per cent — or one in 5,000 — with an undetectable impact on global temperatures. Even worse, the IEEFA says no CCS project anywhere has ever reached its target CO2 capture rate, and most miss by a lot. CCS projects have a troubled history around the world, with chronic underperformance, ballooning costs and technical failures. For example, in May 2024, Edmonton-based Capital Power cancelled a $2.4-billion project built to capture up to three megatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions from its gas-fired Genesee generating station in Alberta. The reason? It was not “economically feasible.” Even hard-line green NGOs oppose CCS. Environmental Defence called it a billion-dollar scam based on junk science, with associate director Julia Levin saying: “Carbon capture is unnecessary, ineffective and expensive.” Mind you, her solution is to prevent energy projects from being created in the first place. Then there are the safety risks, which have not been adequately addressed. When stored in deep saline aquifers or depleted reservoirs, compressed CO2 can leak into groundwater or the atmosphere. In 1986, a release in Cameroon killed about 1,700 people. In 2020, the rupture of a CO2 pipeline in Mississippi resulted in dozens of hospitalizations and the evacuation of an entire town. Apart from the dangers of carbon dioxide poisoning, fluid injection can induce earthquakes by altering underground pore pressure, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Unfortunately, Mark Carney is unlikely abandon Pathways. He is using CCS to justify pipeline construction on the false pretence it will make energy projects carbon-neutral. He may even delude himself that purchasers will pay more for “net-zero” fossil fuels, which they never have and likely never will. Even with Pathways going ahead, several Liberal caucus members, including Steven Guilbeault, could jump ship, jeopardizing Carney’s razor-thin majority. The NDP’s Avi Lewis, environmental activists and some members of the media will also be outraged by Carney’s perceived betrayal of the climate cause. Last Sunday marked 20 years since the release of Al Gore’s hyperbolic movie, “An Inconvenient Truth.” That sci-fi thriller propelled Gore to centi-millionaire status and contributed to an outburst of collective madness that has cost the world $17 trillion in failed net-zero policies. Although in most places the tide has begun to turn against self-destructive climate hysteria, our government has been slow to acknowledge the new reality. Abandoning Pathways would help Canada catch up with the rest of the world. Too bad it won’t happen under Carney’s leadership."
Time to waste money on left wing conceits and weaken the country further, so the US can annex Canada faster

i/o on X - "Extraordinary. Among the many claims that Al Gore got wrong or grossly overstated were:
(1) An imminent 20-foot sea level rise
(2) The disappearance of snow on Mount Kilimanjaro
(3) Polar bears drowning in "significant numbers"
(4) Hurricane Katrina was a direct result of warming
(5) An influx of fresh meltwater from Greenland could completely halt the Gulf Stream, potentially plunging Northern Europe into a sudden ice age
(6) The drying of Lake Chad was entirely due to global warming
(7) Rising carbon dioxide levels historically directly caused the Earth's temperature to rise in a cause-and-effect relationship
(8) Glacier National Park would lose all (or nearly all) its glaciers soon
(9) Arctic summer sea ice could disappear very soon
(10) Low-lying Pacific atolls/islands were currently being inundated now, causing evacuations due to warming
(11) Coral reefs facing imminent widespread destruction primarily from warming
(12) Increased frequency and severity of floods, wildfires, tornadoes, or general extreme weather directly are tied to warming
(13) Himalayan glaciers melting rapidly and will soon lead to depletion of water supplies"

M. A. on X - "Want to manufacture a global climate emergency? It’s easy: just delete Southern Europe from your dataset. While the media runs a coordinated meltdown over a standard two-week summer stretch in England, France, and Germany, look at what’s actually happening in Europe's traditionally warmest regions. Take a look at the real data for Valencia from 2000 to 2026. The historical average for June sits at 34.3°C (the blue line). But look at the far right of the chart for this year, 2026. The temperature has plummeted all the way down to 32.0°C, well below the baseline. But you won't see this chart on the news. The strategy relies entirely on rigging the data pool: cheery-pick a tiny geographic window, filter out the cool regions that ruin the narrative, and declare a hot afternoon a global catastrophe. This is pure geographical narcissism masked as science. Because the major media empires and political institutions happen to sit in London, Paris, and Brussels, they project their local afternoon sweat onto the entire planet. They’ve rigged a linguistic trap where the narrative can never lose: when Western Europe gets hot, it’s a systemic planetary failure, but when the Mediterranean runs cold, it’s just background noise to be ignored. Real analysis looks at the whole map. Propaganda just hunts for whatever local thermometer is high enough to justify the day's headlines."

Tony Aubé on X - "I just came back to my Airbnb in France. It’s 96° outside and 104° inside. No AC. The woman was angry because one of the light was left on, and “they pay for it”. Have a lot of empathy for your French friend. People are surprisingly poor there and the struggle created by socialism is unbelievable for the average American."

Feminism and Liberal Democracy

2026-07-12T13:04:00.000+08:00

Feminism and Liberal Democracy

"Maybe it’s the company I keep, but I keep hearing people lament that no matter who you vote for, no matter who is in power, nothing really changes. At most, the pace of change may vary a bit but not the direction.

There’s a name for the worst form of this problem: illiberal democracy. Illiberal democracies have elections but little changes because the safeguards that liberalism requires – open debate, equal citizenship and impartial institutions – have been eroded.

This isn’t just a theoretical problem, it’s the reality in Turkey, India and other states. Those countries were steered to illiberalism by their political leaders. But there is another path to illiberal democracy – one marked by institutional capture rather than executive decree.1 And, as I argued in my previous essay, it’s a path well-trod by feminism. So, is feminism steering some countries into illiberal democracy? In this essay I’ll examine that question using Australia as a case study...

There are fundamental conflicts between liberalism and feminism. So, it should come as no surprise that many feminists have little affection for liberal democracy. Some have “casually dismissed liberal democracy” in the words of liberal feminist Christina Hoff Sommers. Others, including leading academic Anne Phillips, are even more strongly opposed to liberal democracy than they are to liberalism...

So, what do these attacks look like? The surprising answer is - nothing special. It looks like a few feminists on a government committee steering it towards feminist policies. Or a journalist starting from feminist assumptions. Or a judge being appointed because of her feminist views. All very prosaic but, once a critical mass is reached, organisations become political players when they should be impartial...

Liberal democracies run on informed debate – it’s how they find truth and discard error. Without informed debate, liberal democracy withers. Healthy informed debate matters – a lot.

The process starts from information - if that’s flawed, so is debate. So, it’s worrying that universities today are widely criticised for placing ideology above evidence.(1, 2, 3) In politically sensitive fields like domestic violence, ideology is all.(1, 2, 3) As philosopher Susan Haack lamented, even science and philosophy have become “only politics in disguise”.3

Beyond academia, government agencies such as those producing statistics are key to understanding our society, our problems and how to fix them. I’ve written before of a key agency, the Australian Institute of Family Studies which has misrepresented data on sexual abuse, misled the government on coercive control research and manipulated data on domestic violence. But there are many other examples – like the Australian Institute of Criminology that has erased female violence from their research and ignores male deaths on their homicide dashboard. In politically sensitive areas, misinformation dominates.

Informed debate also requires citizens to have ready access to more than one perspective. But, as I’ve written previously, that doesn’t happen with gender politics. In that essay, I looked in depth at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, but other media show the same bias. Just like the ABC, the Sydney Morning Herald publishes many articles (43 this year) on feminism and none on men’s rights or egalitarianism. Just like the ABC, News.com writes frequently on women’s rights but not men’s rights, men’s issues or egalitarianism (46 articles this year vs 0). I could go on but it should be clear: one side is promoted; the other is absent.

Censorship is obviously an enemy of informed debate and, sadly, it is a reality even if it’s less apparent than a heavy-handed government banning books.

Instead, it looks like a publisher’s staff trying to block publication of a book critical of feminism. It looks like a full shelf of feminist books at my local library but none on men’s rights. It looks like the UN calling on media to self-censor criticism of feminism. It looks like feminist protests blocking screening of a pro-male documentary at Sydney University.

And then there’s the hallmark censorship of feminism and identity politics – cancel culture. Universities are plagued by it, as demonstrated by two recent Australian cases (1, 2) of academics sacked for feminist dissent. Cancel culture has become mundane but it’s still sobering to realise that, in the US, academics are four times more likely to self-censor than they were at the height of McCarthyism. And just as sobering that 65% of ordinary Australians feel they must self-censor.

Surveying the result, informed debate is being misled and suppressed. What remains isn’t enough to sustain a liberal democracy.

One of the most fundamental commitments of a liberal democracy is to equal citizenship. Consequently, equality becomes the canary in the coal mine – discrimination isn’t just a problem for those discriminated against; it signals a systemic failure.

I’ve written at length about discrimination against males (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) as have others (1, 2). Its presence clearly signals problems in our liberal democracy. But do the problems go even deeper? Even into the law itself? Are men and women still equal before the law?

Law should be how equal citizenship is enforced. If the law doesn’t treat citizens equally, the system itself has been subverted and a dangerous line has been crossed.

Much law proceeds from legislation. So, is there legislation undermining equality? Sadly, yes. The Sex Discrimination Act, Workplace Gender Equality Act, Equal Employment Opportunity Act, Fair Work Act and many state acts (especially domestic violence Acts) are all explicitly discriminatory.4

Many others aren’t explicit but still affect males and females differently. For example, consider the law reform commissioner who justified removing a criminal defence, not because it would improve justice but on the grounds:

the defence was being misused in the sense that generally speaking, it was commonly invoked by men…

Courts also erect barriers to equality. I’ve already pointed out that males are commonly excluded from lists of groups deserving equality before the law (e.g. 1, 2).

The result is some startling double standards. Consider the recent case of Corbie Jean Walpole who poured petrol on a friend and set him alight because he made a joke she considered in poor taste. The man she set alight was put into a medically induced coma, spent months in hospital and had the sweat glands burned off his body. Judge Jennifer English though apparently empathised with Walpole, accepting that Walpole had been traumatised by her own violence and it was “a tragic case in so many ways for … the offender and her family.” Then, in sentencing, the judge explained that she dislikes putting women behind bars.

And she’s not the only one. There’s ample evidence that women are less likely to be sent to prison for the same offence and, when they are, they receive lighter sentences. (1, 2)

In highly politicised areas, the inequalities escalate dramatically. Inequality in family law courts has been criticised by everyone from litigants to lawyers to academics and even family court judges. Similar criticism has been levelled by academics at recent changes to sexual assault and domestic violence laws. Worse still, politicised matters are often judged not in proper courts but in campus kangaroo courts, workplace inquisitions or trauma-informed courts – a problem to which I’ll return later.

Add it all up and, for half the population, equality before the law is limited and conditional – a very long way short of a pass mark. In the words of one academic, the feminist lobby is responsible for “a flagrant assault on the cardinal tenet that all persons are regarded as equal before the law”.

For liberal democracies to function, their institutions must not choose political sides – referees aren’t supposed to kick goals.

But they have. Anyone with experience of universities, mainstream media, the law or the public service will have seen their support for feminism. (For more details see my last essay.) And the reality isn’t in doubt - feminists speak proudly of their influence. (1, 2, 3)

Such institutional capture always represents a failure in a liberal democracy, but some failures are worse than others. If the Board of Water Quality is politicised, life goes on. But if courts prioritise ideology over due process, one of the foundations of a free society is gone. Have things gone so far?

Due process means that accusations are tested impartially through fair and consistent procedures. But there is often little sign of fair and consistent procedure – especially when men are judged outside the legal system.

Ever since #MeToo, trial by media and campus kangaroo courts have cost many innocent men their reputations, friendships and livelihood.

There’s also a grey area – within the legal system but outside the courts. When researching this essay, I was appalled to learn that men can be thrown out of their homes without a court order – in fact without any opportunity to put their side. Police are able to issue these domestic violence orders with literally less evidence than they would need for a parking ticket.5

And even within the court system, men can still be punished without trial. Here in New South Wales, most people in jail for domestic violence assault (60%) and intimidation/stalking (57%) have not been tried or found guilty, they’ve simply been refused bail.

The problems don’t end even if there is a trial.

As I’ve already described, training courses, bench books, peers and media all pressure judges to, as one said, “bend the knee”. The worst problems are seen in trauma-informed courts like the Family Court which stop just a hair’s breadth short of a blanket “Believe Women”. (1, 2, 3)

Legislation can add to the bias. For example, NSW legislation6 forbids juries being told that someone alleging sexual abuse has a history of false accusations – even when, in the words of one judge, the woman is “a compulsive false accuser”.

All these problems are serious but what about that preeminent principle of the criminal law - the presumption of innocence? If that is lost, little remains.

And that presumption has long been under attack because, for many feminists, all men are culpable. For example, Susan Brownmiller in her book Against Our Will, says rape is a process “by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.” Little wonder that other feminist academics lament that “legality is a troubling impediment”.

The result is that procedural inequities have effectively dismantled the presumption of innocence – and many pillars of the legal community are prepared to say so. (1, 2, 3) That takes some courage given the huge pressure on lawyers not to protest, as one senior barrister explains:

to even publicly suggest such things as a presumption of innocence for all persons charged with criminal offences but particularly sexual offences is to risk criticism, abuse and ostracism.

When defending the presumption of innocence provokes attack, the legal system is no longer a liberal institution. Like equality before the law, for males the presumption of innocence has become limited and conditional. Law is merely the continuation of gender politics by other means...

A country does not become illiberal only when every safeguard collapses. It becomes illiberal when institutions and protections fail in key areas. And we are long past that point...

To understand why illiberalism is overlooked, we need to start where informed debate ends - because the consequences go deeper than bias. Once the same feminist narrative echoes through enough institutions, it becomes pervasive and then natural, moral, and inevitable. Dissent appears wrong rather than normal pluralism. The questions that can be asked, the evidence that counts and the conclusions that are permissible all shift.

Today, feminism is generally not even seen as an ideology but merely as common sense. It has become literally a non-issue - so pervasive it’s invisible. Debate may still continue, but only inside approved assumptions. The public can argue over trivia while the deeper premises are treated as settled, moral and beyond challenge.

Even the language is subverted. Disadvantaging males is no longer discrimination but “gender equality”. Censorship becomes “safety”. Dissent becomes “misogyny”. “Gendered violence” leaves no space to talk about violence against men or children. One viewpoint sits alone at the centre of our assumptions.

In the jargon, feminism has achieved hegemony. It’s a contested hegemony to be sure – we see those contests through the lens of popular media as “culture wars” and are encouraged to tut-tut in disapproval. And even as we do, we are surrendering the vantage points from which to see the issues and the space in which to mount a defence.

I’ve tried to make clear the prosaic nature of institutional capture: a few feminists on a government committee, a feminist journalist here, a feminist judge there. Unremarkable, but it persists because the whole rapidly becomes greater than the sum of the parts. Captured institutions have formed a complex ecosystem: some set beliefs, others demand alignment using standards, regulation and accreditation; yet others enact feminist policies and each reinforces the other. They’ve become a shadow system.

The critical point is that the system is insulated from democratic change. Governments may come and go, but the government committee, the journalist and the judge remain. The machinery that keeps producing the same results stays intact. The link from voters to policy has been hacked.

Yet there was no master plan. It grew from alignment, not conspiracy – pragmatism, not totalitarianism. It’s more banal than any plot but also more durable. The result is a democracy that still performs the rituals of elections, but the machinery beneath no longer responds. And that is how a democracy becomes illiberal without anyone quite noticing...

Australia is, sadly, well down this path - but it’s not alone. The UK, for example, also suffers media bias, censorship and problems with both due process and equality before the law (1, 2, 3). In fact, much of the West shows the same worrying signs. There’s little room for ambiguity. Australia has become an illiberal democracy and other nations are following.

Over to you. Liberal democracy or feminism? You can’t have both."

Links - 12th July 2026 (1 - General Wokeness [including Ethically Modified Memes])

2026-07-12T09:01:00.000+08:00

Diana S. Fleischman on X - "A new paper in Evolutionary Human Sciences examines race memes on x but doesn't reproduce the original memes so readers don't have to be exposed to racism when reading a paper about racism. Here are the "ethically modified" memes."

Meme - Soyjak with Twitter, Facebook, reddit, YouTube logos drawing red X: "SIR! SIR! YOU CAN'T LAUGH! YOU CAN'T LAUGH AT THIS MEME! NO YOU CAN'T VIEW THE ORGINAL EITHER! STOP CHUCKLING RIGHT NOW SIR!!" *No Fun Allowed*

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry on X - "During Stalin’s Show Trials, one of the charges against the defendants was that they’d read subversive material, which of course was illegal and punishable by death. But this posed a problem for the judges: even if it was only to confirm that it was indeed subversive material, reading said material was still dangerous. And so, on the margins next to the evidence of subversive material, the judges would pencil in "Did not read but disapprove." Just as bees make beehives, leftists reinvent Stalinism from first principles every time they are allowed to have power."

Meme - News Fist @malinformedtv: "There is something deeply haunting about this image. It is the final form of leftism. Every detail stripped, every nuance destroyed, every 'offense' ironed out. The censorship is total, the process complete. Nothing can be talked about as it is, instead it must be abstracted a million degrees from the truth to satisfy the endless hunger to erase a reality that refuses to conform to ideology. Ironically, it is a meme unto itself. The perfect reply to Woes law. Not only can they not understand reality, they cannot even depict it with any accuracy, lest someone be offended."
*Kinda soyjak* "I'm sorry [text removed] but we need him for the football team
Figure 2. Ethically modified schematic reconstruction of meme using the "soyjak" character to ridicule progressive positions"

Meme - "The Four Stages of the Simulacra, from Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard
Grooming gang review kept secret as Home Office claims releasing findings 'not in public interest"
Stage One: Initially, the sign (image or representation) is a reflection of basic reality.
Richard Murphy @RichardMurphy: "The migration policies of Reform and Restore Britain would destroy football throughout the UK. Have those planning to vote for them thought about that?"
Stage Two: The sign masks a basic reality. The image becomes a distortion of the reality. *Richard Murphy's photo*
Soyjak looking like Richard Murphy: "I'm sorry your daughter was raped by a retarded cannibal, but we need him for the football team"
Stage Three: The sign marks the absence of basic reality. The image calls into question what the reality is and if it even exists.
*Kinda soyjak* "I'm sorry [text removed] but we need him for the football team
Stage Four: The sign bears no relation to any reality whatsoever; it is its own pure simulacrum."

“You can’t preach here!” | Ciarán Kelly | The Critic Magazine - "Go and preach somewhere else.” That dismissive statement is fast becoming the stock response to the expression of Christian faith in modern Britain. Earlier this year, a video of a lone female police officer went viral after she rejected demands from hecklers to stop a Christian street preacher sharing the gospel in Whitechapel. In the middle of the exchange , bystanders were recorded trying to silence the preacher, shouting: “He can say it in a peaceful place like Hyde Park, go to Hyde Park!”; claiming “this is a Muslim area”. Quite rightly, and to the pleasant surprise of many, the officer was having none of it. It’s not the first time we’ve heard “Go and preach somewhere else”. In 2008, The Christian Institute assisted two church workers in Birmingham in pursuing legal action after they were prevented from handing out Christian leaflets. On that occasion it was a Police Community Support Officer telling them, “you can’t preach here, this is a Muslim area.” Others have been stopped from peacefully evangelising at pride festivals. In each case the underlying message is the same: “Preach if you have to, just not in places where there are people who might not want to hear your message.” And the list of places where offence rules supreme gets longer and longer... this rubs up against fundamental human rights provisions for freedom of speech, freedom of thought, conscience and peaceful assembly as well as religion. One of the most serious examples of this form of creeping censorship is found in a court case that took place last month in Northern Ireland. Clive Johnston, a 78-year-old retired pastor, was found guilty of being reckless as to whether his actions might “influence” people accessing abortion facilities when he preached “For God so loved the world” outside Causeway Hospital, Coleraine. This hospital is in an abortion buffer zone. Clive was found guilty despite the universally accepted fact that he didn’t even mention abortion. He had even taken the trouble to let local police know his intentions, reassuring them that this was not an abortion protest, but an open-air Sunday Service taking place near the hospital with a small group from his local church. This was not good enough for the officers who told Clive he should end his Bible preaching and move it to a “safe space” like a chaplaincy, where he wasn’t at risk of being heard by passers-by."
How ignorant. Don't they know that free speech is only meant to shatter policewomen's spines with sledgehammers, block motorways and throw paint on paintings? If you're not pushing the left wing agenda, like saying that Muslims calling areas Muslim suggests that there're no go zones, you're a dangerous far right extremist spreading misinformation who needs to be jailed

Meme - "Finally gets a Job as a Face Model In a popular upcoming Video Game *pretty girl*
It's a Western Gaming Studio *ugly girl*"

Oxfordshire council launches High Court bid to BAN Union Jacks which 'intimidate diverse communities' - "A Lib Dem-run council has escalated its campaign against flag-raisers to the High Court after a months-long feud over the Union Jack. Just as patriotic Britons have been urged to fly their banners for the World Cup, Oxfordshire County Council has supercharged its legal battle to ban raising British flags on lampposts. The council has applied for an injunction to block the Raise the Colours group from hanging the flag in a bid to "protect" its residents and "values"... A council spokesman said on Wednesday: "Residents across Oxfordshire, from Adderbury to Wallingford, have complained to the council about safety risks, intimidation and distress linked to this activity... Former England boss Harry Redknapp decried the anti-flag action in a major intervention last night. "We are proud to be British - that is what we are. Fly your flags, be proud of your country. Don't be ashamed to be British," he said. The county has so far spent £15,000 to remove more than 300 Union and St George's Cross flags from lampposts... Council leader Tim Bearder said: "This application is about protecting our residents, our workforce and the values we stand for as a county. "We are proud of Oxfordshire's diverse communities and of our Council of Sanctuary status."... "We have a clear responsibility to keep people safe and ensure our public spaces are welcoming and inclusive for everyone.""
We are still told that left wingers don't hate their countries
Isn't it racist and xenophobic to say that asylum seekers, refugees, migrants and/or "minorities" hate/fear the Western countries they live in?

Why has the English flag become so toxic? - "broader discomfort with the embrace of national self-interest that now marks most elite Britons. Cultural and educational change since the Second World War, and the role of nationalism in causing that conflict, has meant that sincere patriotism has come to be seen as threatening. Anything but the most cautious and hedged enthusiasm for one’s own country is now considered low-status, something engaged in by your ghastly suburban relatives. The recent embrace of national symbols by people who regard the current elites as their enemies is, consciously or not, a reaction against what Roger Scruton called “oikophobia”, an irrational and excessive scepticism of one’s own country and people. There is now a serious and fundamental divide between the national and post-national visions of Britain, and the public display of flags will continue to be a tangible manifestation of that split, just as it has been in Ulster for many years."

The working-class Bristolians defying Britain’s ‘wokest’ council - "when it comes to controversial flag waving, the council itself has form, with the Palestine tricolour flown from City Hall last year after the Government’s recognition of the state of Palestine. The suggestion that the England flag is being used for jingoism has not gone down well in Torrington Avenue, where it is a local tradition dating back decades... “It even brings tourists to the area,” said Isaac Smith, 31. “You see people driving past filming with their phones.”... In keeping with the Greens’ lurch to the Left under their new leader, Zack Polanski, Bristol’s council no longer just promotes cycle lanes and carbon-neutrality. It is also assertive on transgender rights, declaring last year that women should be referred to as “people with ovaries”. Last year, 18 Green councillors staged a walkout at City Hall when members of the public raised gender-critical matters."

Why does the Left think it owns gay people? - "Recent polling shows something quietly seismic is afoot. According to More in Common, Reform UK now enjoys the support of 25 per cent of gay and bisexual men, putting Nigel Farage’s party out in front before both the Greens and Labour in the community. In France, Marine le Pen’s National Rally has seen similar figures. For a group long assumed to be a locked-in progressive voting bloc, this is a noticeable shift, and one that’s leaving certain corners of the LGBTQ+ commentariat spluttering. Drag queens have refused to take part in a Pride event run by a newly elected (gay) Reform councillor. A writer in the obscure magazine Gay45 recently wailed about gays “voting against themselves” – which you’d imagine might be better targeted at the small but arcane group known as “Queers For Palestine” (a slogan so irrational it borders on performance art). The very idea of a monolithic gay community has always been faintly silly. It’s more accurate to speak of a gay population – i.e. wildly differing individuals with wildly differing priorities, just like any other demographic slice. And you would think that homosexuality being regarded with a casual shrug of “so what” by formerly hostile factions would be cause in the gay world for – if not celebration – at least a satisfied smile. The idea that your sexuality is the big factor that defines your politics – not your nation or your family, or such trifling matters like the economy, housing or defence – seems quaint, even insulting. But for a small, though very vocal, cohort of gay men, in a world increasingly stripped of deeper meaning, that single characteristic is all they have. Without a cause, preferably one involving gaudy parades and corporate sponsorship, they fear they are nothing. They don’t actually want to be rid of the drama. Their struggle must continue, even if the struggle has largely been won in the West. To continue it, they’ve taken up the cause of transgenderism... This is the vital distinction between what we might call the LGBTQ+ political complex, and gay men as individuals. There is the rainbow tip – all drag acts, glitter, wigs, and officially sanctioned bunting – versus the enormous iceberg of ordinariness beneath. Most gay men live lives that look remarkably similar to everyone else’s: mortgages, Monday mornings, arguments about whose turn is it to do the bins. This gap between the screeching activist class and ordinary reality is maintained with impressive discipline by the LGBTQ+ establishment, in much the same way that the Stasi once worked to convince everybody in East Germany that their neighbours were all cock-a-hoop for communism. The elephant in the room – the one that the LGBTQ+ establishment has to pretend isn’t trumpeting loudly in the corner – is increasing sectarianism, and the rising influence of political Islam in British (and European) politics. This is a growing shadow over sexual freedom of all varieties. Gay men, being neither stupid nor blind, have noticed this. The denial and frantic cognitive dissonance required to maintain the progressive Weltanschauung in the face of this reality is something to behold. It was captured perfectly in the recent Channel 4 drama Tip Toe, which went to ludicrous lengths to locate the threat to gay men in every direction except the obvious one. Indeed, a friend of mine reports that his partner – an otherwise unexamined progressive – watched the show in baffled amusement before declaring: “Well, I’m definitely voting Reform now.” You will, indeed, search in vain for any TV drama about the real-life murder of three gay men by an Islamist in Reading in 2020, on Channel 4 or anywhere else. Perhaps this dearth of honest representation on screens is why Right-wing gay men are proving popular online. The couple who run the “Nice Boys in the Country” account on Instagram started off sharing bucolic snapshots of their rural life. But posts in support of Donald Trump or demanding Starmer “stop the boats” have seen Alex and Mick Bull garner tens of thousands of new followers. One of the drag queens who pulled out of the Reform-led Pride event stated that the party was “working actively against people like me”. But in fact, Reform has no policy on reversing gay rights. They merely have the intention to follow the existing law that stops men from entering women’s private spaces, and to maintain the sensible safeguards for women that we wisely place around all men. “People like me” in this context refers in fact to transvestites, exhibitionists and fetishists, not gay men. There is a difference... Many gay men, like their neighbours, want to live in a prosperous and stable country which doesn’t treat their safety as collateral damage in someone else’s ideological experiment. Turns out we are, in fact, just like everybody else. Shocking, I know."

Meme - Jonathan Kay @jonkay: "Nine years ago, BLM staged a sit-in that blocked Toronto's Pride parade -and wouldn't let the parade keep going until Pride officials agreed to the following nine demands. At the time, it was imagined to be a random spasm of social-justice weirdness among Toronto activists."
Black Lives Matter - Toronto @BLM_TO: "Apparently to some, our demands are "too Look for yourselves fam #BlackPride"
"Black Lives Matter Toronto, along with various community groups, including BQY and Blackness Yes have the following demands:
1. Commit to BQY's (Black Queer Youth) continued space (including stagertents), funding, and logistical support.
2. Self-determination for all community spaces, allowing community full control over hiring, content, and structure of their stages.
3. Full and adequate funding for community stages, including logistical, technical, and personnel support. Double funding for Blockorama + ASL interpretation & headliner funding
5. Reinstate and make a commitment to increase community (including the reinstatement of the South Asian stage).
6. A.commitment to increase representation amongst Pride Toronto staffing/hiring, prioritizing Black trans women, Black queer people, Indigenous folk, and others from vulnerable communities.
7. A commitment to more Black deaf & hearing ASL interpreters for the Festival
8. Removal of police floats/booths in all Pride spaces.
9. A public townhall, organized in conjunction with groups from marginalized communities, including, but not limited to, Black Lives Matter- Toronto, Blackness Yes, and BQY to be held six months from today. Pride Toronto will present an update and action plan on the aforementioned demands."
Time to jail Christians for disrupting Pride

Meme - Will @Cognitiveldeal: "The idiot element of the far left, note that isn't all of the far left, don't seem to realise that they are the ones constantly spouting hatred and division. At this rate they'll accuse anyone who breathes as being 'far right'..."
Crazed activists with Free Palestine, BLM, Defund the Police, Equality Now!, Anarchy symbol, Everything is Oppressive! signs and Palestinian and Pride flags, one in a trans rights t-shirt, another with his face covered with a keffiyeh, one with purple hair and one with green hair: "You cause DIVISION!"
Man sitting on bench with coffee cup: "REALLY?"
Anyone who doesn't go along with the left wing agenda is "dividing us"

York Revolution forfeits game after players refuse to wear Pride Night jerseys - "A refusal by several players to wear a special Pride Night jersey led to the York Revolution deciding to forfeit an Atlantic League baseball game against Southern Maryland"
Of course, left wingers were bashing them as hateful bigots

Jennuh 💜🏳️‍⚧️ on X - "Having been homeschooled by Christian Fundamentalists, I’m confident in the fact that normal Americans will eventually get tired of the Christian Right’s obsession with hating anyone who’s different while constantly crying victim. Normal people aren’t this pathetic and exhausting"
The projection is off the charts

Creative Deduction on X - "Classical Marxism failed because the working class refused to revolt. So the left did something far more effective - they abandoned the working class entirely. One of the most significant developments in modern leftist thought was the shift from traditional Marxism to Critical Studies - an approach built explicitly around group identity and the demand for active political struggle. It is the dominant intellectual framework in much of today’s academia, media and corporate culture. At its core, it is an extension and radicalisation of the Critical Theory developed by the Frankfurt School in the 1930s. Critical Theory argued that Western society maintains its power not primarily through economics, but through culture, ideas, language and institutions that shape how people think. Since the spontaneous revolution Marx expected didn’t arrive, it would have to be actively forced through the systematic critique and dismantling of these “oppressive structures”. Revolution, in other words, became something that must be consciously engineered. This approach exploded in the 1970s and 80s with the rise of Critical Legal Studies. Scholars argued that law was not neutral but an instrument of power used by the dominant class to maintain control. That opened the floodgates. Soon came Critical Race Theory, Critical Gender Studies, Critical Pedagogy. All of them share the same core project: identifying hidden systems of oppression based on race, gender, class and sexuality, and demanding active intervention to achieve “equity” (equality of outcome) rather than mere equality of rights. We now call this "woke". That the revolution must be forced to happen is why modern critical theory is so explicitly activist. As Ibram X. Kendi put it: “It is not enough to not be racist; we must be actively anti-racist.” Passivity is seen as complicity. Neutrality is impossible. Education, under Critical Pedagogy, is no longer about teaching knowledge but about turning students into political activists who view society through the lens of power and oppression. Critical Studies’ deeply anti-individual core replaces the idea of the sovereign individual with group identity and collective guilt. It rejects objective truth, merit and colour-blind liberalism in favour of power analysis and enforced equity. What began as a marginal academic project has become a powerful ideological machine that now dominates government policy, corporate hiring and education systems across the West."

Rothmus 🏴 on X - "The left just normalized so much insanity that basic self-preservation now gets called “far right extremism.” Decades of open borders and failed assimilation delivered parallel societies, welfare strain, and crime spikes in city after city. Green fanaticism delivered energy poverty and deindustrialization while virtue signaling. Woke ideology delivered confused kids, erased women, and attacks on national identity. And the result is voters across France, Germany, Italy, Poland, the UK and beyond are backing the parties the media smears as “far right.” Those parties are simply saying what was common sense centrist a generation ago. Secure borders. Citizens first. Affordable energy. Law and order. Protect children. Preserve your culture. The Overton window got dragged so far left that reality, sanity, and common sense now look radical."

Reddit Lies on X - "Pew Research put a quiz on r/politics and revealed the subreddit is 97% left leaning, with nearly half being the farthest left the poll counted. Reddit is an echochamber, discourse is dead on that site."
Golden Press PR on X - "They still don't realize that their site is an astroturfed echo chamber. Even after kamalas loss you think they would realize that? Reddit and bluesky are now the new tumblrs. containment chambers. They are deceived into thinking they are the majority. They will keep losing"

‘Monstrous’ Equality Act has gone too far, warns Lord Sewell - "The Equality Act is a “monster” that has embedded “flawed ideology” in the British state, a report has said. Lord Sewell, the Tory peer, said the legislation had given the state too much power to “actively enforce equality” and had done so unevenly. A Prosperity Institute report, published on Tuesday, calls for the repeal of the act, claiming it has replaced “individual freedom with collective victimhood”. The paper argues that the act, which came into force just before the 2010 election, means “discrimination is assumed to be the norm”. In a foreword, Lord Sewell wrote: “We built a monster. The original intent of anti-discrimination law was to give citizens legal recourse against discriminatory acts. “Instead, we created something far more ambitious: a framework that grants sweeping powers to the state and its agencies to actively enforce equality.” The peer, author of a 2021 report on race and ethnic disparities, added: “The problem is not merely that this power exists – it is that access to it remains unevenly distributed.” In addition, Lord Sewell noted that class and geography, the two characteristics that “most reliably determine one’s prospects in modern Britain”, were not protected under the legislation... the Conservatives have pledged to tear up the requirement for public-sector bodies to promote equality by abolishing the public sector equality duty (PSED). The PSED is part of the Equality Act 2010, and tells public bodies they must promote equality of opportunity between those who have a protected characteristic (such as women, black people and gay people) and those who do not. According to Lord Sewell’s report, the legislation led to a “legal shift from a concept of negative law, in which certain specific acts of discrimination were prescribed” to a more sweeping approach. The report proposes that the act should be repealed altogether, and that the concept of protected characteristics should be taken out of the law. The report suggests replacing it with a “bare” anti-discrimination framework which could be bolted on to the Employment Rights Act to protect some groups such as those with disabilities."

Council held ‘safe space meeting’ for ethnic minorities after Henry Nowak’s death - "Diversity and inclusion staff at Southwark council, in south-east London, advertised the meeting for non-white colleagues in the wake of Mr Nowak’s death... The council’s first safe spaces were organised in 2024 following unrest in the wake of the Southport killings. And a meeting was held in May following the death of Yves Sakila, an Irish-Congolese man who died after being restrained by security guards outside a Dublin department store following an alleged shoplifting incident."

Matthew Schmitz on X - "Helen Lewis and Ezra Klein spend a lot of time here dismissing @herandrews ’s “The Great Feminization.” But important Democrats seem to think that Andrews has a point, even if they’d never say so out loud and their responses are misguided at best. Graham Platner is now being promoted as the Democratic Party’s answer to “HR-lady politics.” Gavin Newsom is comparing himself to Patrick Bateman, a character who’s unspeakably violent toward women. When it comes to policy questions, these men are upstanding feminists. But in their self-presentation they’re leaning into masculinist messaging."
Thread by @GreenPlusAnE on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Dems can’t do anything about this because it is downstream from the law. The law created HR, and “HR ladies.” Employment law is vague. It was left to HR and the courts to figure it out. In effect it banned hiring for virtue, and mandated HR bureaucracy, diversity training, grievance panels and racial preferences. And Dems worship these laws. This is also why I disagree somewhat with Andrews’ monocausal explanation of feminization. It downplays the role of the administrative state and the overall regime. Women would have different roles and impacts under a different regime."
Matthew Schmitz on X - "Instead of moderating on the substance, they seem to have decided it makes sense to lean into bizarre forms of masculinist messaging (Nazi tattoos are a sign of authentic working-class masculinity; vote for the Patrick Bateman look-alike; Mayor Pete is now a lumberjack)."
Russ Greene on X - "Exactly. Simple example: affirmative action is an 80-20 issue. Just oppose it. But no, too hard."

John Rain on X - "A U.S. situational study found that: Police officers took 1.09 seconds to shoot an armed, aggressive white suspect versus 1.32 seconds to shoot a similar black suspect. Study title: "The effect of reverse racism".
Source : James, L., James, S. M., & Vila, B. J. (2016). The Reverse Racism Effect. Criminology & Public Policy, 15(2), 457–479. doi:10.1111/1745-9133.12187"

Links - 11th July 2026 (2 - Women)

2026-07-11T17:32:00.000+08:00

Speaking as a gay man, why are women taking over all of the *very* few spaces we have? : r/MensRights - "Women sued every men’s only clubs out of existence. They can’t stand not being around men whom they hate. They chose the bear but won’t leave us alone."
"What gets me is the double standard. They attack men’s clubs and spaces, demanding “admittance”. Then promote ever more women’s only spaces and say it’s “not the same”. And then have the gall to come out and deny that men aren’t allowed their own spaces and it’s “all in our heads”! Gaslighting? You bet! And the excuse it’s about women having “equal access to power” is a red herring. Yes, those big London and New York clubs were a place where the elite made connections. But they don’t limit themselves to them. The Men’s Shed movement is anything but high end. But that in no way slows them down from demanding admission! I think the truth is that women in general, and feminists in particular, get suspicious and jealous of men spending time together. They assume there’s something important they’re being shut out of. Or that men are up to something “nefarious” when they’re alone and need female supervision! Many wives resent their husbands being absent “with the guys”. The “golfing widows” syndrome. How many apply the same rules to their own activities I wonder? Well “that’s different” isn’t it!"
"They cannot stand the idea that there could be places where they are not the center of anything."

Only 15% Of Women Show Interest In 5'8" Men On Dating Apps, According To Survey - "we all know the age-old stereotype that women prefer tall men. While there might be some truth to this claim, the recent data from the dating app Bumble brings this into sharp focus, providing quantifiable evidence of women's height preferences in dating. A survey from Bumble found that 60% of women indicate that they are looking for a man over 6 feet tall in their search filters. However, that number drops steeply as the height of men lowers. 30% of women want to date men who are 5'11" and only 15% of women are willing to date men who are 5'8" or shorter. In fact, more women are willing to date extreme heights such as 7 feet tall rather than a man who is 5'11". Anyone who is under 6 feet tall tends to be overlooked generally by the majority of women. While the data paints a somewhat gloomy picture for those under 6 feet tall, it is essential to put these findings into perspective. Not all women filter by size, meaning that those who prioritize height are overrepresented in the statistics. Furthermore, online dating environments tend to amplify superficial attributes like height and appearance, perhaps more than they would be in real-life dating scenarios. This can potentially skew perceptions, especially in the context of surveys. The preference for tall men isn't limited to dating, though. The data echoes studies in other areas of life, showing that tall men are overrepresented in high-paying leadership roles and are, on average, happier. Various studies, including a 2013 survey, have delved into why women are more attracted to men who are approximately eight inches taller than themselves. Experts like John Malouff, Ph.D., propose evolutionary psychology as an explanation, positing that taller men may have been historically seen as better protectors and providers. This height preference could also translate to psychological perceptions of tall men as dominant leaders. Societal constructs and media also often portray tall men as attractive and masculine. Some research also points to the possibility that short men may have less than desirable personalities. A study published in the Elsevier journal Personality and Individual Differences, conducted by a group of Polish scientists on 367 men and women, has found intriguing results concerning short men's behavior. The research, titled "The Napoleon complex, revisited: Those high on the Dark Triad traits are dissatisfied with their height and are short," suggests that shorter men might compensate for their height with antagonistic behaviors, exhibiting traits known as the Dark Triad—psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism."

Darth Powell on X - "Its easy to explain what's happening here:
1. 99% of women want to date that 1% guy on Instagram who's attractive, rich and doesn't work for a living.
2. That guy goes through a list every night. I've seen this live. Text 20 girls to come over, of the 5 that respond, pick top 1. Do this 5-7 nights per week.
3. Girl thinks that guy is now her level (he never calls her or wants to take her on dates, in his mind its biological satisfaction for the evening, not dating).
4. Cycle repeats.
5. Girls ignore 99% of men.
6. 1% men have no reason to ever change their ways. ZERO.
7. Media asks why no one is dating, getting married or having kids."

Blk_Chauvinist on X - "If there is supposed to be a "male loneliness epidemic," why is every social media platform filled with single women complaining about being lonely, asking "Why won't men approach us," & "Where are all the good men?" The only ones talking about "lonely men" are lonely women""

‘Beautiful and clever’ girl, 16, killed in London Underground station : r/gbnews - "Girl suffers horrific tragedy. When making a statement attempting to define the loss, her family calls her 'Beautiful'. Something families have been doing for centuries. All of a sudden, people come out the gate with: "oh so now we can find sixteen year olds attractive?" Shut up."
"As a man one of the more difficult things to accept was how men dying isn't really seen as a tragedy. You can even make jokes about it especially given some of the ways men die. I was a Royal Marine in the 00s and people talked about deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan as just numbers really. If a woman dies and she's beautiful it really is considered far more of a tragedy. Watch a movie and your hero can kill an infinite number of men but killing a woman is usually considered a really big deal. It's terrible this girl has died and I'm not trying to take anything away from it. It's just when people say "she was beautiful" it kind of implies that less visually pleasing people like men aren't that big a deal if they die."

Man drinks 3 glasses of wine on plane. Minds his own business. Woman feels “unsafe”. : r/MensRights - "She should consider that the man may have had a valid excuse for drinking. After all, he was seated next to her!"
When the guy next to me on the flight downed his third bottle of wine, I felt unsafe
Good luck if you police how much wine a woman drinks

Meme - Woman: "I'M SO GLAD FINALLY GOT A MAN I DESERVE WHO MAKES SIX FIGURES"
"LATER"
Woman: "UGH, WHY DO YOU WORK ALL THE TIME? MY BROKE EX WAS ALWAYS AVAILABLE DURING THE DAY!"

Attraction Matriarch @TheXMatriarch on X - "Men are expected to understand every nuance of female desire while women are allowed to dismiss male desire with one irritated sigh. That imbalance is part of the problem."

Meme - "Reaching levels of "every single time" never seen before"
"Photographing something you want to show everyone
Males: OBJECT
Females: *woman blocking most of object*"
Ellie Sleightholm: "Artemis II launch... caught in my glasses reflection"

Meme - Basil the Great: "Even Female NASA astronauts do the meme" *Women taking photos of themselves when the photos are supposed to be of other things*

Meme - Attraction Matriarch @TheXMatriarch @TheXMatriarch: "We've raised a generation of women to be excellent employees and terrible wives."
CallMeRoy @CallMeRoy635404: "They're also awful employees."

Millions Of Women Are On Antidepressants And No One's Asking Why - "The scale of antidepressant use among adult women is staggering on its own. But the story becomes even more unsettling when we turn to the next generation. Teen girls, in particular, are being medicated at unprecedented rates. For girls aged 12–17, one study showed monthly dispensing rates of antidepressants post-March 2020 increased by 129.6 percent compared to before the pandemic. This is highly controversial. UK guidelines state that young patients should be sent to therapy and evaluated by a psychiatrist before receiving medication. Yet in both the UK and U.S., many doctors are bypassing those safeguards and prescribing antidepressants anyway. Has anyone stopped to consider what kind of damage this could do to a developing mind? Why do we think it’s wise to give potent antidepressants to teenagers when even adults can barely tolerate them? Not all doctors are to blame, but trust in the medical system is fading, and pharmaceutical lobbying isn’t helping. Whether in public or private healthcare, the story is the same: overwhelmed clinics, five-minute appointments, and antidepressants tossed out like Band-Aids for deep emotional wounds. Therapy could offer a therapeutic healing space, yet long waits and high prices keep it out of reach for many. What’s clear is that antidepressants do not address the root cause of the symptoms women are facing and perhaps are even making them worse... One of the most frequently cited reasons people come off antidepressants is emotional blunting, a symptom that dulls a patient’s ability to feel both positive and negative emotions. Many describe feeling “numb,” “flat,” or “detached.” And while it’s natural to wish we could erase negative feelings, part of life is learning to push through hard times; they make the good moments meaningful and give us a sense of accomplishment when we overcome them. The symptoms don’t stop there. Many patients also report sexual dysfunction, loss of libido, difficulty becoming aroused, or trouble feeling any sexual pleasure. In one large sample, nearly eight in ten antidepressant users reported sexual dysfunction, with almost two-thirds experiencing it at moderate to severe levels. Sex and attraction are an important part of life, and with so many women on SSRIs, it’s worth asking whether this plays a role in why so many are staying single. For women, our interest in sex often comes from feeling confident and connected to our own femininity. SSRIs can disrupt that, dulling desire and making it harder to feel attracted, not just to a partner but to ourselves. While it seems like an oxymoron, antidepressants can also cause more depression and more anxiety. This is especially heightened for young people under the age of 25, with the FDA’s own analysis concluding a doubling of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in adolescents and young adults compared to placebo... A 2008 meta-analysis by Irving Kirsch and colleagues found that much of the benefit patients feel from antidepressants can be attributed to expectations rather than the drug’s chemical action. Kirsch concluded that roughly 75 to 80 percent of the apparent benefit of antidepressants is reproduced by placebos... women in previous eras faced serious challenges, but many were grounded by strong values, faith, and community anchors that helped them weather hardship. Modern women often don’t have those same supports. As liberalism pushed society toward secularism and hyper-individualism, the moral and communal frameworks that once gave women direction and belonging have slowly disappeared. Women have been handed a platter of freedoms that were supposed to make us happy. Hookup culture became the norm, encouraging women to act like men while simultaneously criticizing men for doing the very same thing. It asks women to detach from their emotions, downplay their need for connection, and treat intimacy as a weakness. This creates a deep internal conflict: on one hand, she offers her sexuality in exchange for male acceptance, and on the other, she’s left with a profound sense of emptiness that this so-called freedom never fills. Feminism has pushed many women to suppress their natural instincts to nurture, bond, create, and build meaningful relationships. Instead, we’re encouraged to be “strong,” “independent,” and endlessly productive for a soulless corporation. Marriage and motherhood may not be the right path for every woman, but for many it’s the environment in which the feminine actually thrives, a life rooted in love and connection. Yet the rise of casual dating has made it increasingly difficult for women who want marriage. It may be called social media, but the apps in and of themselves have made everyone less social. People live more isolated lives than ever: fewer friendships, weaker communities, and almost no interdependence. Loneliness has quietly become one of the most widespread emotional struggles among women, yet it hides beneath clinical labels like “anxiety” and “depression.” If people had the opportunity to form closer, more meaningful bonds I believe a lot of the mental health struggles would disappear. In this emotional landscape, medication has become more than a treatment. For some, it becomes their identity. Online, women celebrate “Sertraline anniversaries” or post about their SSRI journey like other people would celebrate one year of marriage or their baby’s first words. Women of the past were criticized for depending on their families or husbands, but modern women have simply traded one dependence for another. And now, this new dependence is treated as normal, while any attempt to question why women are so unhappy is quietly pushed into the background. If we truly care about women’s well-being, we need to stop medicating the symptoms and start confronting the societal forces that are making women so profoundly unhappy."

Meme - "MEN DO NOT HAVE TO;
Be muscular
Do laundry
Have a beard
Be masculine
Pay for dates
Be feminist
Be over 6 foot tall
Believe in the wage gap
Give up their seat for pregnant women
Pay child support"

Meme - "Actual needed PSA"
@tinopo19 Translated from Japanese: "The Reason Why Big-Breasted Women Wear Tight Clothes"
*Woman in loose blouse hiding breasts looking fat*
*Woman in tight tee showing breasts looking thin*

Winnie M Li on X - "18 yrs ago, I was violently assaulted & raped while walking alone. Every year on the anniversary of that day, I go on a solo hike to remind myself that there is still beauty in this world & I can enjoy it. This yr, I pushed myself & did a few days of the Southwest Coast Path…"
N I M B ❂ on X - "Treat her well, she will forget you in a week. Rape her, she will create an anniversary for you 🤵🏻‍♂️🥂"

PoIiMath on X - "I'm kind of in awe of the phrase "pick-me girl". I can't believe they made up an epithet for being friendly... It's such a bizarre insult. I asked my daughters about it and it seems to mean "being nice to a boy for any reason whatsoever""
Clearly, misandry is a misogynistic myth

𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 on X - "I refuse to believe men being unable to find the clitoris is actually a thing. You open it up and it's literally right there like a video game boss critical hit zone."
Wilfred Reilly on X - "I have never, as a guy who spent 8-10 younger years, in locker rooms heard a man privately express ANY confusion about this. Any guy who feigns confusion here just doesn't much like head-for-her."

Arrests in France after scores report being attacked with syringes at street music festival - "The feminist influencer Abrège Soeur warned online before the festival that calls had been made on social media for women to be targeted with syringes. It was not certain where such posts would have been made or by whom. The interior ministry said 145 victims across the country had reported being stabbed with needles during outdoor music events across the country. Paris police reported 13 cases in the capital. Officials did not say if these were cases of so-called needle spiking with date-rape drugs such as Rohypnol or GHB, used by attackers to render victims confused or unconscious and vulnerable to sexual assault. “Some victims were taken to hospital for toxicological tests,” the ministry said. In Paris, investigations were opened after three people, including a 15-year-old girl and an 18-year-old male, reported being stabbed in separate incidents across Paris, prosecutors said. All three reported feeling unwell. Across France, 12 suspects have been arrested, the interior ministry said. Among them were four people in the south-western city of Angoulême suspected of having targeted about 50 victims, a police source said. Two men were also arrested in the centre of the north-eastern city of Metz on suspicion of syringe attacks. The regional public broadcaster France 3 reported that one man had been caught with a syringe and a woman who complained of being stabbed with one had recognised the other... There was a wave of reports in 2022 about alleged syringe attacks against women and men in clubs, bars, music events and even theatres. The government put out messages at the time for people going out at night to be vigilant and advising them that they should go immediately to the police and also have a toxicology test if they thought they had been drugged by a syringe prick. Some complaints were made by women during the 2022 Fête de la Musique, and over the course of the year several hundred complaints were made in cities including Nantes, Grenoble and Toulouse. Agence France-Presse reported on a 2022 police memo stating that syringe marks were generally on the arms, buttocks or back, without victims seeing the alleged attacker. More than 370 people were detained during this weekend’s nationwide music festival on various charges, including nearly 90 people in Paris. Fourteen participants in the festivities were seriously injured, including a 17-year-old hospitalised after being found sitting on the street with stab wounds to the lower abdomen."
From 2025

Syringe attacks at France-wide music event: How panic spread on social media - "After the evening of Fête de la Musique, nearly 145 suspected cases of 'random syringe attacks' were reported. Yet, to date, not a single case of drug injection has been confirmed... You can share an article by clicking on the share icons at the top right of it. The total or partial reproduction of an article, without the prior written authorization of Le Monde, is strictly forbidden. For more information, see our Terms and Conditions. For all authorization requests, contact syndication@lemonde.fr. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2025/06/27/syringe-attacks-at-france-wide-music-event-how-panic-spread-on-social-media_6742787_13.html Online, throughout the night and in the days that followed, alarming messages proliferated. On its Instagram discussion channel, ActuReact shared several alerts, reporting syringe attacks in various French cities and even the hospitalization of "about 20 women in Les Sables-d'Olonne [on the Atlantic coast] after knife attacks." This information was false. "We are aware that sharing such information can help create a climate of anxiety. That's why we always try to add warnings and clarifications to our posts," the teenager said. "Our approach is journalistic and aims to alert as many people as possible to this issue." In several cities, fear of syringe assaults grew rapidly. In southwestern Angoulême, for example, as the first concerts were getting underway, multiple messages on social media described scenes of panic and even one or more deaths. In reality, no one was killed. Over the course of the evening and night, 22 young women went to the police station and hospital with suspicions of syringe attacks. Doctors examined them, but two days later, the prefecture stated that, "at this stage, no clinical evidence of injection nor symptoms suggesting the administration of a psychoactive substance have been found." Four men suspected of being "injectors" and arrested during the festivities were released for lack of evidence. Elsewhere, such as in Lorient, Rouen and Alençon, medical examinations quickly identified the real culprits: mosquitoes. Their bites, amid heightened fear fueled by rumors, were mistaken for syringe marks. Many people who reported being "injected" and spoke to the media described sudden, intense fatigue and voiced fears of having been exposed to drugs. However, no toxicology tests detected any drugs. From a judicial standpoint, the outcome has so far been minimal. More than a dozen people were arrested on suspicion of syringe attacks during the Fête de la Musique, but according to Le Monde's tally, no indictments have been reported... Amid the chaos of the evening, at least one person was reportedly targeted by the crowd and falsely accused of being an "injector." The incident took place in the southwestern commune of Agen, according to France 3, where a deaf and mute man had his photo shared on social media before being violently attacked by about 10 people. The local prosecutor's office did not respond to Le Monde's inquiries. Another widely circulated video, said to have been filmed in Les Sables-d'Olonne, apparently showed an "injector" being caught and beaten by the crowd during the festival. While at least two complaints for syringe attacks were filed, "I am not aware of any 'beating,'" said Gwenaëlle Coto, prosecutor in Les Sables-d'Olonne. "I'm all the more sure of this as I was on duty and patrolling on foot with the police."... This frenzy recalls a previous incident. In 2022, hundreds of alleged syringe attacks were reported at concerts, bars and nightclubs. Even then, it was difficult to distinguish fact from fiction amid the flood of warnings. Some legal proceedings at the time did result in indictments. These included a man accused of syringe attacks at a concert and two others in a southern nightclub in Var, one of whom was found with several syringes at home, according to Ici. In the first case, the local prosecutor's office was unable to provide Le Monde with additional information; in the second, the two suspects' cases were dismissed "because toxicology tests of the victim were negative," according to prosecutor Samuel Finielz. In almost all cases that year, no substances were detected in the analyses. Authorities remained cautious, all the more so as experts have noted that chemical submission by injection is extremely difficult to carry out. A subsequent investigation by the National Agency for Medicines Safety (ANSM) also downplayed the scale of the phenomenon. After analyzing nearly 2,200 reports of possible chemical submission by various means, it ruled out the vast majority of suspected syringe attacks. Among cases studied by the ANSM where an assault did occur, 27 involved possible syringe attacks. The agency pointed to a possible "cognitive bias" among victims, "linked to the anxiety generated by the 2022 alert about malicious syringe attacks." It concluded: "In reality, the harmful substance was most likely administered through the usual channels identified in the investigation," such as drinks or food."
Clearly, this is misogynistic gaslighting and they need to believe women. This is just allowing men to drug and abuse women. Women being more prey to social contagion and moral panic definitely does not explain why so many young women are FTMs nowadays - that's just proof that trans people have always existed and society is transphobic and suppressing them

Pins, Needles, and Paranoia: The French Needle Panic of 2025 - "Despite the scary headlines, not a single spiking was ever confirmed. Some were determined to have been caused by toothpicks; others were attributed to mosquito bites. Blood tests were unrevealing. The events in France have all the hallmarks of a social panic triggered by social media. For the average person learning of the claims of syringe attacks in France, it would have been alarming to hear that 145 people were assaulted, as the assumption would have been that so many people can’t all be wrong. But like all social panics, it is vital to understand the context. These scares just don’t happen organically; there is always a specific social and cultural backdrop that drives them. Social panics reflect prevailing fears, and in this case, it is the danger posed by unchecked immigration. There was a lot of discussion on French social media immediately prior to the "attacks" that young male migrants from North Africa and the Middle East were planning to inject women with HIV-infected needles to gain revenge for having rejected them. This is remarkably similar to an urban legend that has been circulating since the 1980s. Those accused are always unpopular groups on the margins of society, with the content of the legend reflecting popular fears. This incident and several similar scares at European music festivals in recent years appear to be part of a wider moral panic over the exaggerated dangers posed by migrants... Attacks at public music festivals have been reported for the past several years across Europe, and, unsurprisingly, no one ever gets convicted. Of course, anyone who reports being spiked with a needle should have their claim taken seriously and thoroughly investigated, but the statistics are revealing. Since the summer of 2021, more than 2,000 police reports have been investigated across the United Kingdom of needle-spiking in public places. It was even the subject of a Parliamentary inquiry. To date, not a single person has been convicted. It is a similar story in Europe, with more than a thousand reports being investigated by police on the continent since 2022 and no convictions. Scares involving syringe attacks have been going on for well over a century. In the early 1900s, there were similar scares in cities like New York and London involving hundreds of police reports, yet no one was ever convicted"
Of course, you can't talk about the feminist moral panic about men. When even the Guardian doesn't blame this on xenophobia, calling this a manifestation of anti-migration sentiment is... interesting

Meme - "situationship breakups are so crazy bc why did this man just tell me the only person he wants to be with is his ex and then immediately make me eggs on toast. he *nut*ed in me like 10mins after this. what in god's name is happening"
Clearly, if you think most men and women treat casual sex differently, you're a misogynist and a rapist and proof of why women choose the bear

Rita🎀 on X - "I once offered to buy a guy food, he refused. Later I heard him telling his friend he hadn’t eaten all day. Men hate accepting help from women I don’t know why."
OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 on X - "Because even though he didn’t accept your offer, you still came here to tweet this. Now imagine if he let you buy him food, you will release a music video."

Meme - "Wtf
So my boyfriend and I have sex once a month, it's not like I don't like sex but I don't want our relationship to be centered around sex every time we meet. I love him very much so I need to set standards for him to see value in me but deep down I crave sex everyday. Recently I've been seeing this guy, I don't love him, I don't see my future with him so I feel comfortable having sex with him everyday, I don't mind if he sees me as a whore I'm just using him to satisfy my urge."

The wave of violent teenage girls unleashed by Covid - "Since 2019, the number of women and girls aged 20 or under arrested for violent crimes has increased by almost 24 per cent, from 7,885 to 9,755."
I like how people still found a way to blame men for female violence

Book Review: Crazy Like Us (Mental Health)

2026-07-11T13:54:00.000+08:00

Time for more "awareness" about mental health. Clearly, there is no such thing as overdiagnosis or encouraging mental illness:

Book Review: Crazy Like Us

"We talk a lot about falling biodiversity. Sometimes we apply the same metaphor to the human world, eg “falling linguistic biodiversity" when minority languages get replaced by English or whatever. In Crazy Like Us, Ethan Watters sounds the alarm about falling psychiatric biodiversity. Along with all the usual effects of globalization, everyone is starting to have the same mental illnesses, and to understand them in the same way. This is bad insofar as greater diversity of mental illness could teach us something about the process that generates them, and greater diversity of frameworks and responses could teach us something about how to treat them.

He makes his point through four case studies, starting with:

I. Anorexia In Hong Kong

Until the 1990s, there was almost no anorexia in Hong Kong. There were lots of patriarchal beauty standards, everyone was very obsessed with being thin, but anorexia as a disease was basically unknown.

At least this is the claim of Sing Lee, a Hong Kong psychiatrist who studied in the West. He learned about anorexia during his training in Britain, then went back to Hong Kong prepared to treat it. He couldn't find anybody. He tried really hard! He put out feelers, asking if anyone knew anybody who was having some kind of psychiatric problem where they were starving themselves. With apologies for the unintended offensive pun - nobody bit.

After a while, he was eventually able to scrounge up a handful of cases. But this was almost more infuriating than nothing at all: the few anorexics he was able to find couldn't be less interested in thinness or beauty standards or anything like that. Also (unlike in the West) they weren't delusionally sure that they were fat. They were very aware that they were starving themselves to death, and they were against this. They just felt like they had some sort of nausea or stomach disease which made it impossible for them to eat. The stomach doctors said they were fine, and usually this started during some time of profound stress, so it was reasonable to think this was a mental disorder - and given that, it was probably reasonable to call it anorexia. It just didn't look like the typical Western version where people were scared of being fat and really wanted to be thin so they could be be ballerinas or whatever. The would-be ballerinas were just dieting normally and becoming ballerinas, and other people with unrelated stresses were getting anorexia.

This lasted until November 24, 1994, when a photogenic schoolgirl collapsed and died on a busy Hong Kong street in the middle of rush hour. The cause of death appeared to be anorexia, a condition most Hong Kongers had never heard of. News cameras caught the whole thing, covered it out of morbid fascination, and it became a sort of national panic. Western experts were flown in to hold public awareness campaigns where they went on TV and said that anorexia was a debilitating condition where patriarchal-beauty-standard-obsessed women dieted to death, and no doubt it was rampant in Hong Kong, and it was important that everyone be aware of how rampant it was so that the problems of ignorance and underdiagnosis could be fixed. Experts would go into girls' boarding schools and lecture the students about how much anorexia they probably had and how publically aware of it they needed to be.

(the few Hong Kong experts who were consulted mentioned that they basically never saw anorexic patients, that none of their anorexic patients seemed especially fixated on beauty or thinness, and that they suspected the dead girl was just a rare outlier)

Anyway, after a few months of this, psychiatrists reported loads of anorexia cases, hundreds of times as many as there had been before the public awareness campaigns, and all the patients said it was definitely because they were afraid of being fat. The doctors were left extremely suspicious that the public awareness campaign had been a vector for the condition.

Weirdly enough, all of this had happened before. According Watters, pre-industrial Europe had the same pattern of anorexia as Hong Kong - rare, extremely scattered cases, mostly for stress reasons unrelated to beauty standards (plus or minus a couple of weird nuns). At the dawn of scientific psychiatry in the 19th century, most neurotic illnesses among women were classified under the general heading of "hysteria". Common hysterical symptoms were nervous tics, sudden inexplicable paralysis of the limbs, on-and-off blindness, convulsions, amnesia, and inability to walk (none of which are typical symptoms of depression/anxiety today!) Around the 1850s, some hysterics started also having something like anorexia. Psychiatrists found this fascinating, wrote a bunch of well-received papers about it, and it became a common topic of discussion in Victorian salons. As interest in the disease spread, so did the disease itself, with anorexia going from one of the rarest hysterical symptoms to one of the most common. Incidence peaked around 1900, after which it slowly trailed off, until around 1940 it was vanishingly rare again. Watters quotes medical historians who attribute this to decreasing interest: once it became so dirt-common that doctors stopped writing papers about it and high-society types stopped talking about it in hushed voices, it became boring and gradually died out. The disorder came back in the 1970s and 80s, for a bunch of reasons. First, a famous singer, Karen Carpenter, collapsed on stage from anorexia, making the news in the same way as the Hong Kong schoolgirl case. Second, terrible 1970s feminists learned about it and started romanticizing it as some sort of brave hunger strike against the patriarchy. Third, and probably most important, US obesity rates went like this:

*going up*

By the late 1980s, anorexia had “caught on” a second time, and people were getting it at higher rates than ever.

Here Watters is working off a theory, sometimes raised by psychiatrists and medical historians, that I think of as a kind of Kantian perspective on mental illness. Kant, remember, said that we have no idea what actual reality is; we see reality through the filter of our own preconceived notions and mental categories, and although there is an external world, we shouldn't claim to know very much about it. In the same way, Watters suggests, there probably is some base-level objectively-real mental illness. If you have to think of it as something, you can think of it as formless extreme stress, looking for an outlet. But the particular way the stress finds an outlet is based on the patient's cultural preconceptions. If you believe that stressed people go blind, you'll go blind. If you believe that stress people act possessed by demons, you'll act possessed by demons. And if you believe that stressed people become obsessed with being really thin and starve themselves, you might become obsessed with being really thin and starve yourself. A few people will have some natural tendency towards one outlet or another - there are a tiny handful of anorexics even in societies like pre-1990 Hong Kong that don't recognize anorexia, just as there are a few modern Westerners who still act possessed by demons. But unless you're especially predisposed towards some method or another, your stress will take the outlet already worn to a deep groove by your cultural milieu.

Does this explain what happened in Hong Kong? I'm not sure.

First, my own theory of anorexia (discussed here) is that it's a natural (though hard-to-explain) response to any extreme ego-syntonic dieting - if you extreme-diet long enough, and enjoy it, and maybe have a certain predisposition, your body will "get stuck" in extreme dieting mode and refuse to go back. This would explain why medieval nuns who got too into fasting got it. It would explain why modern Westerners who get too into looking beautiful get it. It would explain why pre-1990 Hong Kongers who were really depressed and couldn't eat got it. It would even explain why Sing Lee got it. Lee (the psychiatrist whose work on Hong Kong anorexia frames the chapter) had a proper old-school experimental temperament, and decided that he wouldn't be able to treat anorexics unless he really understood them. So he decided to starve himself, and for the first three months it was just as unpleasant as you would expect, and then after that it started being really fun, and he felt great about it, and he had to call off the experiment because he didn't want to actually give himself anorexia...

Second, there's something weird about which societies have weight problems to begin with. Mid-20th-century America had low rates of overweight and obesity. Around 1970, rates began to grow very quickly; the same happened in other countries with various time delays. I don’t have a graph for Hong Kong, but here’s China:

*going up*

So sure, 1980s Hong Kong had thinness-based beauty standards without any anorexia. But maybe that’s because everyone met the thinness-based beauty standard easily. Once this became hard, and “what if I’m too fat?” became a serious concern, people started getting anorexia. For all I know this happened in the 1990s, although if it’s true that doctors started seeing orders of magnitude more anorexics over the space of a few months I guess that’s still a bit fast for this explanation. Still, it’s worth keeping in mind...

II. Depression In Japan

The frame story here is about a top anthropologist invited by GlaxoSmithKline to a lavish conference at a five-star resort in Japan. They asked him a bunch of questions about the cultural construction of mental illness. He pressed deeper and learned they were trying to “raise awareness of” depression in Japan as part of their effort to market the antidepressant Paxil there. This had, Watters thinks, much the same effect as “raising awareness of” anorexia in Hong Kong.

Here I’m less sure about where Watters is going. It seems like a stretch to argue that 1990s pharma companies introduced depression to Japan - a country where committing suicide is basically the national pastime. But Crazy Like Us tries its best... although pre-1990s Japanese people sometimes got, let’s say, “spells of low mood”, they thought of this as a normal part of life which it’s important to go through and probably learn lessons from.

The pre-1990s Japanese word for depression was utsubyo, which meant a lifetime tendency to extremely severe depression that would probably land you in a mental hospital. Utsubyo was considered a rare but severe mental illness much like schizophrenia, one that a few unlucky people had, probably for genetic reasons, but that most people would never have to worry about.

(I don’t remember if Watters mentions it, but this is also the pre-mid-20th-century American/European conception of depression - there’s nothing particularly Japanese about it. The usual term for this idea is melancholia, sometimes used to mean an especially severe endogenous depression, although other people use the word in different and confusing ways. Better historians than I can debate whether the West saw the concept of melancholia fade gradually into modern depression, or whether it had to do with SSRI-induced marketing campaigns here too; I suspect there was a gradual halfway transition from 1900 - 1990, followed by an extremely sudden transition after the invention of SSRIs and the publication of Listening To Prozac. But let’s go back to pretending this is an exotic Japanese phenomenon.)

As part of GlaxoSmithKline’s marketing work, they replaced utsubyo with a new idea, kokoro no kaze, “cold of the soul”. This was supposed to mean that depression was a minor illness (like a cold), something everyone got occasionally (like a cold), and something that was purely biological and could/should be controlled with medication (like a cold). Japanese people were extremely excited about this and bought Paxil by the bushel, and now they use SSRIs at a rate close to Americans.

I was kind of unimpressed with this chapter. It seems pretty obvious that Japanese people got depressed before Paxil’s marketing campaign, including depressed to the point of suicide. GlaxoSmithKline comes off looking a bit manipulative, but it does kind of seem like the rush to get Paxil after their advertising campaign was less “sinister pharma company invents a new disease” and more “oh my god, there’s a name for this thing that I’m suffering from and maybe someone can help me!” There’s certainly a philosophical issue here - do you shrug off depression as just a part of life, or medicalize it? - but it’s not obvious that there’s anything different or uniquely Japanese about this question, or that Westerners made anything worse by exposing Japan to our solution.

Much more fun was the history of Japanese mental illness, which focused on neurasthensia. This was another one of those fully-generic late-1800s diagnoses like hysteria (I assume late-1800s psychiatrists just sort of flipped a coin: heads you were neurasthenic, tails you were hysteric). Around the Meiji Restoration, when everyone was obsessed with how great foreign stuff was, Japanese medical students went to Germany, learned psychiatry, came back to Japan, and told everyone they were neurasthenic. Being neurasthenic became first a fashion, then a class marker. The idea was that neurasthenics were people who were working too hard (good, admirable), and who were so smart and doing so much furious intellectual activity that it was straining their nerves (impressive). Also, they were probably sensitive souls too pure for this world. The most embarrassing extreme of this happened in 1903, when some photogenic Japanese youth carved a poem in a tree, went to a beautiful waterfall, and leapt to his death. Everyone praised him for how sensitive and artistic and neurasthenic this was, and turned him into a posthumous national hero. Meanwhile, “in 1902 an article reported that fully one-third of patients visiting hospitals for consultations were suffering from the new disease.”

Eventually Japanese psychiatrists got fed up, and started announcing that actually neurasthenia sucked and you should not have it...

Finally everyone struck a compromise and agreed that most of the lower-class patients weren’t real neurasthenics (hard-working, intelligent, sensitive, admirable), but had a similar condition, imitating the symptoms of neurasthenia, based on being too weak and pathetic to cope. This seemed to do the trick, and people stopped coming to the hospital with neurasthenia symptoms...

III. PTSD In Sri Lanka

In 2004, a magnitude 9 earthquake struck the Indian Ocean. The resulting tsunami devastated Southeast Asia. One of the worst-affected countries was Sri Lanka, where 30,000 people died and millions were left homeless.

Foreign aid agencies sprung into action to try to support the survivors. Joining in the general mobilization were Western mental health professionals, who predicted a [insert some term other than “wave”] of post-traumatic stress disorder cases.

I cannot do justice to Crazy Like Us’ excellent portrayal of these people. They combined a genuine and admirable desire to go halfway around the world to help people in need, with a burning desire to be “culturally sensitive” and reject “white savior narratives”, with a total lack of even the tiniest amount of actual knowledge about Sri Lanka. The island nation was [insert some term other than “inundated” or “flooded”] with a [insert some term other than “tide”] of counselors, therapists, and psychiatrists, holding public awareness campaigns, appearing on TV/radio/etc, browbeating Sri Lankan officials for not caring enough about the mental health aspect of recovery. Through this whole process they were all tripping over each other to look culturally aware despite having no clue what they were doing. My favorite anecdote was the training lectures, where earnest sensitivity counselors would tell play therapists not to play “Go Fish” with young survivors - given that many of their parents had just been swallowed by the sea.

According to [insert some author name other than “Watters”], mostly things went like this: foreign counselors would go into a refugee camp and tell everyone that they had to speak openly about their trauma and emotions. The survivors would say that it sucked a lot that their families had just been killed, but wouldn’t seem very emotional about it, or really confess to having “trauma” as classically understood. The therapists would say this was very bad, and they were keeping all of their emotions “bottled up”, and they really had to “let it out” or else it would fester and they would end up with PTSD. The refugees, who were never exactly clear which sets of white people were giving out free food and which ones weren’t, figured they ought to do what these people wanted in case they were the free food ones. So they would say, fine, they all felt very emotional and had lots of trauma. The therapists would be delighted and move on to the next camp...

Watters points to research showing that “psychological debriefing” - the practice of sending mental health professionals to talk to recently traumatized people and have a single brief session where they “process” the trauma - is counterproductive and makes trauma worse. This is true in Western countries, and it’s probably true in Sri Lanka as well. So the psychological relief effort itself probably did more harm than good. Darn...

The part I found most enlightening was the history of trauma. Although cultures throughout history have included some people with bad reactions to traumatic events, it’s controversial whether this has happened at anywhere near the levels of today. Historians can hunt down some things Romans said that sounded vaguely PTSD-like, but the fact is that a very large segment of their society was going into a bunch of pitched sword battles and/or crucifying people for fun and profit, and mostly pretty blase about it. We don’t have great records for historical traumatized populations, but it would surprise me if eg antebellum slaves had classic PTSD symptoms at the same rate as Afghan War veterans.

In fact, at the very beginning of the emergence of modern PTSD - around the Vietnam War - the original researchers of the condition called it “post-Vietnam syndrome” and tried to define it as a distinctly Vietnamese experience. The idea was that soldiers in past “good” wars had been fighting for something they believed in , had the support of the population back home, and didn’t have psychological problems. Since soldiers in Vietnam were developing all these new symptoms, that was yet more evidence that it was a “bad” war which had to be stopped. Over the course of decades (plus lots of marketing by enthusiastic therapists), PTSD expanded from a Vietnam-only problem, to all wars, to all natural disasters, to abuse and sexual violence, to the modern understanding where people say they got PTSD from a bad boss, a bad roommate, or an insufficiently woke college reading assignment...

(this is starting to feel less like true deep cross-cultural differences, and more like a couple of decade lag between an idea taking over America and it taking over somewhere else)

IV. Schizophrenia In Zanzibar

If you want an objectively real psychiatric illness with no culture-bound component, schizophrenia is as close as you’re going to get. For one thing, it’s mostly genetic (80% in twin studies). For another, it has pretty uniform prevalence: everywhere from Abhkazia to Zanzibar, 1% of the population gets schizophrenia...

The interesting cross-cultural aspect of schizophrenia is prognosis. Studies in the 80s and 90s suggested that developing countries had better outcomes than developed ones. This sparked some interest in figuring out what developing countries were “doing right” and whether we could replicate it...

Watters focuses on two things he thinks Zanzibaris do right. First, they minimize schizophrenia. Because of the spirit-possession aspect, instead of being marked apart as ill and unusual, they’re treated as on a continuum with everyone else (since we all get possessed by spirits sometimes). Even when they take a more medicalized perspective on schizophrenia, they call it by extremely vague terms that don’t differentiate it from mild illness, eg “an attack of the nerves” (this seems to be a universal developing-world euphemism for schizophrenia, shared by eg Latin Americans). Zanzibari schizophrenics never feel that different from anyone else - everyone gets possessed by spirits sometimes, everyone gets attacks of the nerves sometimes, lots of people never leave their family homes.

Second, Zanzibar is low expressed emotion. Lots of studies have shown that schizophrenics do best in low-expressed-emotion households. Sometimes this is glossed as “people don’t yell at them or criticize them”, but other times it’s taken more broadly, to also include fussing over them and praising them and getting excited about them. At its worst, this line of research sometimes bleeds into the bad old theory that schizophrenia is caused by overly-attached mothers, but some studies suggest it has value - schizophrenics in high-expressed-emotion households seem to have many more relapses, and some studies show that schizophrenics separated from their families do better than those who stay with them (presumably because staff are less emotional).

Anyway, according to scientists, America has the highest expressed emotion, Europe and other developed countries are also really high, and developing countries are mostly really low. 67% of Anglo-American families studied qualified as high-expressed-emotion, compared to 48% of Brits, 42% of Chinese, 41% of Mexican-Americans, and 23% of Indians... I hear woke people talk about how demanding a calm, quiet, low-expressed-emotion environment is white supremacy because only white people care about that kind of thing. But nope, according to Crazy Like Us scientists have determined that white Americans are the highest-expressed-emotion culture in the world...

Anyway, according to Watters, Zanzibar’s low expressed emotion and lack of differentiation between schizophrenics and neurotypicals suggest that these are part of the “secret sauce” that the developing world uses to beat First World schizophrenia outcomes. As with his other case studies, western psychiatrists are coming to Zanzibar and telling everyone that schizophrenia is purely biological and getting everyone really worked up about it, and probably this is bad.

One background part of this chapter which I enjoyed was the section on biological views of mental illness. Westerners tend to spread these in order to reduce stigma - “has a brain chemical malfunction” sounds better than “is possessed by demons”, or even than “is just inexplicably lazy and weird”. But studies generally show that the biological view of mental illness makes people less sympathetic to the mentally ill, more concerned about them being violent, more interested in avoiding them, etc...

V. Conclusion: Towards Mental Health Unawareness Campaigns

Overall I was only moderately interested in the book’s thesis that we are globalizing American concepts of mental health. With the exception of the genuinely interesting anorexia chapter, the depression/PTSD/schizophrenia chapter all showed societies with pre-existing recognizable versions of these disorders. America got really interested in and heavily medicalized these disorders in the mid-20th century, and now these other societies are getting really interested in and heavily medicalizing them. People who like calling things “colonialist” should call this colonialist...

I was more interested in a sort of sub-thesis that kept recurring under the surface: does naming and pointing to a mental health problem make it worse? This was clearest in Hong Kong, where a seemingly very low base rate of anorexia exploded as soon as people started launching mental health awareness campaigns saying that it was a common and important disease (as had apparently happened before in Victorian Europe and 70s/80s America). But it also showed up in the section on how increasing awareness of PTSD seems to be associated with more PTSD, and how debriefing trauma victims about how they might get PTSD makes them more likely to get it. And it was clearest in the short aside about the epidemic of neurasthenia in Japan after experts suggested that having neurasthenia might be cool, which remitted once those experts said it was actually cringe. A full treatment of this theory would go through the bizarre history of conversion disorder, multiple personality disorder, and various mass hysterias, tying it into some of the fad diagnoses of our own day...

I find myself imagining a culture that holds Mental Health Unawareness Campaigns. Every so often, they go around burning books about mental illness and cancelling anyone who talks about them. If they must refer to psychiatric symptoms in public, they either use a complicated system of taboos (like Sri Lankans) or maximally vague terms like “an attack of nerves” (like Zanzibaris). Whenever there is a major natural disaster, top experts and doctors go on television reassuring everyone that PTSD is fake and they will not get it. Whenever there’s a recession or something, psychiatrists tell the public that they definitely won’t get depressed, since “depression” only applies to cases much more severe than theirs, and if they feel really sad about losing all their money then that’s just a perfectly normal emotion under the circumstances.

(if anyone asks why there are psychiatrists, the psychiatrists will say they’re sticking around to treat anyone who believes in mental illness, which is a delusion, and incidentally the only delusion that exists. Secretly the psychiatrists will still treat anybody who comes to them, they’ll just make them swear an oath of secrecy first. “Doctor patient confidentiality” will get redefined to mean that the patient has to keep it confidential that doctors exist.)

I’m not sure if this culture would have more or less mental illness than our own. But we’re trying the opposite experiment now, so I guess we’ll get to see how that turns out."

Links - 11th July 2026 (1 - Migrants: UK [including Belfast Unrest, Dundee Scotland Axe Girl)

2026-07-11T09:31:00.000+08:00

Labour announces social media crackdown 'in times of crisis' after Belfast attack - "Labour will crack down on Britons' social media use in times of "crisis", the Technology Secretary has threatened. Liz Kendall last night vowed to strengthen the Online Safety Act, granting Ofcom enhanced powers to throttle social media users during periods of heightened tension. The proposed amendments come in response to this week's knife attack in Belfast and the ensuing chaos across the city... Reform UK's Matt Goodwin argued that ministers should address the root causes of public discontent rather than attempting to regulate online discourse. "It's not social media that's 'inflaming tensions'," he said. "It's not Elon Musk. It's not Nigel Farage. It's not the 'far-right'. It is the very deliberate policy of mass uncontrolled immigration and open borders. "This policy has to end or it will destroy Western nations.""
Riots are only the voice of the unheard when they push the left wing agenda

BRITAIN IS BROKEN 🇬🇧 on X - "I’ve just heard paramilitaries are now ready to get involved in tonight’s protests in Belfast and across Northern Ireland Now, there’s some people you really don’t want to piss off….."

Adnan Hussain MP on X - "When a person recently granted leave to remain attempts to behead someone in the street, public concern is entirely legitimate. Silencing that concern doesn't make it disappear. It simply stores up anger that will ultimately be directed at innocent refugees/minority communities."
Adnan Hussain MP on X - "And this is what we get when the concerns of the majority are supressed over and over again. Leadership and policy decisions have to have absolutely failed for us to arrive at this point as a nation. This should terrify us all, and shock us enough to pay real attention."
Damn far right Islamophobe!

Meme - "POLICE. WHAT TO DO IF YOU BEGIN TO BE BEHEADED
*Stephen Ogilvie with Hadi Alodid trying to behead him*
Step One - Don't be racist
Step Two - Don't be Islamophobic
Step Three - Patiently wait for the police to come and arrest you
Step Four Do not react in anger. Use the incident to being us all together
Issued by the Ministry of Community Cohesion. Stay Calm & Carry On. Report Hate incidents"

Inevitable West on X - "🚨BREAKING: The Daily Mail has revealed that a government propaganda unit, named RICU, is intervening to write statements by families of victims of horrific migrant crime to "prevent inflaming tensions" They are manipulating the masses."
Proof that if you oppose the government, you're a fascist

Tommy Robinson detained under counter-terror laws

Britain can't trust Ireland to manage its borders - "Why does it seem that the only land border in the whole of Europe that can’t be policed is the land border on the island of Ireland? The EU’s other external borders have barbed wire across them. EU airports are happy to hold Britons in queues for several hours under their new entry control scheme. And if there are problems within the Schengen zone, internal EU border controls can be, and are, put in place “temporarily”. Only the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, it seems, must be left wide open for anyone to wander across at will... Just as the Spanish police get to stand behind Gibraltar border officers, supposedly to give them “confidence” that Gibraltar won’t allow illegal entry into the Schengen area, so we could demand a Border Force presence at Dublin Airport. It would be enjoyable to turn onto the Irish their arguments to us during Brexit, and insist that since policing couldn’t be done at the land border, it would have to be done at the Irish point of entry. Sadly, few national negotiators are as feeble as Britons faced with the European Commission, so we can hardly expect the Irish to roll over as ours have done to facilitate such a solution. So the only other choice is to come back to the land border. Why should it remain control-free for ever? Why can’t we have more checks, closer to the border? Why are third-country residents of Ireland allowed across paperwork-free? Why can’t we do as the Irish do, and visibly check movements south across the border when they think it necessary? We can’t be complacent. We should start asking these questions. For we can’t be taken for granted for ever."

How migration surge changed Belfast - "A surge in migration across Northern Ireland had already caused racial tensions to spiral long before Monday night’s knife attack. The country’s foreign population has risen at almost twice the rate of that of mainland Britain. Race crimes are at a record high in the year to this March – up from 1,806 in the previous year to 2,367. Before tensions boiled over into violence this week after a Sudanese asylum seeker allegedly launched a knife attack in Belfast, Northern Ireland had already seen two successive summers overshadowed by protests about immigration. In 2024, there was disorder following the Southport murders, and the following year riots gripped Ballymena after two teenage Romanian boys were accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl. The charges were later dropped... In east Belfast, residents described how Protestants and Catholics had “joined forces” on Tuesday night to target homes belonging to non-white families. The words “local homes for local people” were scrawled on a wall near a burnt-out house from which a family had been forced to flee... for some, it is confirmation that Northern Ireland’s sectarianism does not offer protection against anti-immigrant sentiment. Jack Crangle, a social historian at Queen’s University Belfast, said: “Some commentators and researchers believed, especially during the Troubles, that people in Northern Ireland were too preoccupied with fighting one another to bother with racism."

Sudanese Belfast stabbing suspect is former policeman

Belfast knife suspect won asylum in Britain under 'fast-track' scheme introduced by Rishi Sunak's government - "Hadi Alodid was given permission to stay here after completing a 10-page Home Office questionnaire rather than undergoing the standard – and far more rigorous - face-to-face interview process. It prompted new calls to re-think the 'streamlined' programme set up when Rishi Sunak was prime minister as part of his pledge to clear a backlog of 92,000 asylum cases. Then home secretary Suella Braverman and immigration minister Robert Jenrick – who have both since defected to Reform - oversaw the introduction of the scheme. It was privately described within the Home Office as the 'grant factory', in reference to the huge numbers of asylum seekers granted refugee status. Asylum seekers from countries like Sudan were allowed to access the streamlined system – reducing the backlog - because the vast majority of their claims were eventually granted in any case due to conflict in their home nations. But the scheme was dubbed a 'dangerous folly' and an 'asylum amnesty in all but name' by Migration Watch UK, which campaigns for tougher border controls, after its launch in February 2023, the month Alodid travelled by bus from Dublin to Belfast. Four months later, in June 2023, it was extended to Sudanese nationals and Alodid was granted a five-year refugee visa in September that year... Known as the 'Streamlined Asylum Process', or SAP, it was also open to Eritreans, Syrians, Afghans, Libyans and Yemenis. A Tory source said: 'The Home Office at the time did not want to do the fast-track scheme but Rishi forced it on them. 'It was the worst of both worlds because he failed to stop small boats across the Channel and, at the same time, made it easier to win asylum. 'It was totally illogical and they should have been working to disincentive asylum seekers.' Ms Braverman was sacked from the Home Office by Mr Sunak in October 2023 and in a blistering resignation letter accused him of betraying both her and the nation, particularly on immigration. Accusing him of 'magical thinking' and of repeatedly 'compromising' on tough changes to asylum law, she wrote: 'This irresponsibility has wasted time and left the country in an impossible position.' A Daily Mail analysis of latest Home Office data shows the number of asylum claims from Sudanese nationals has soared from 2,853 in 2022 to 5,112 last year... the number of Sudanese coming here by small boat and then claim asylum has nearly tripled from 1,525 in 2022 to 4,537 last year – as migrants know that under the SAP scheme they are almost certain to be handed refugee status. Dr Rakib Ehsan, senior fellow at the think-tank Policy Exchange said of the Alodid case: 'This raises serious questions over the immigration and asylum policy of successive governments of all parties. 'With the possibility that his asylum claim was granted under efforts to streamline decision-making processes to reduce the backlog of cases, this course of action has risked undermining public security of local communities across the home nations. 'The UK must toughen its border security and reform the asylum system in a way that has the safety of established communities at heart – even if this means extricating itself from international conventions and treaties.'... The Daily Mail revealed in 2023 that civil servants warned ministers the SAP would fail to identify 'bad guys' including terrorists and serious offenders who, as a result, would receive the right to remain in the UK instead of being refused asylum and put on a deportation list... Alodid was able to cross from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland thanks to the Common Travel Area (CTA), which means there are no identity checks on travellers... Britain's independent reviewer of terrorism legislation Jonathan Hall KC called for wider debate on how migration was affecting national security and 'destabilising to the nation'. He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: 'It does raise the question if certain countries are more likely either to commit very serious offences or to get involved in state threat activity, do we need to start thinking about migration now not simply in terms of the economy or housing but also in terms of national security?' He added: 'At the moment there are people who happen to be black and brown but are as British as you or me who probably feel they can't go about their business. That is destabilising to the nation.'"
Too bad making the UK a less attractive place for migrants violates human rights, so they couldn't have taken that approach to reduce the backlog
If they'd turned down his application, he could just have sued on human rights grounds The entire population of Sudan, Eritrea, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya and Yemen should just claim asylum in the UK
Given that Braverman was sacked for not being soft enough on immigration, it's rich for people to criticise her for causing the problem
Too bad revoking the CTA will, we are told, cause civil war to break out again in Northern Ireland
Time to fire the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation for dog whistling and jail him for encouraging "fascists"

Badenoch blames Reform defectors for Belfast migrant failings - "a Reform source said: “Kemi has the architect of mass immigration in her shadow cabinet. If Kemi had any shame, she’d sack Priti Patel and grovel to the public for forgiveness. “Rob and Suella were the only ones to resign and be kicked out of Government for standing up to the blob in the Tory Party and Civil Service. Unlike Kemi, who stayed until the bitter end, endorsing every single destructive policy... Ms Braverman said the fast-track scheme had been forced on the Home Office. “I never liked it but kept trying to persuade Conservative colleagues on leaving the ECHR to fix the whole problem. Kemi, Rishi, James [Cleverly], Priti, they all opposed leaving the ECHR when the Tories had the power. I warned them time and time again but was ignored,” she said. “Ultimately my attempts to try to change the Conservative Party from within failed and that is why I left the party. I was let down but more importantly, millions of British people were betrayed. I will never trust them again.” A former Home Office official said: “This was another madcap policy cooked up by Rishi and imposed on the Home Office,” said a former mandarin. “You could never have stopped this bloke getting asylum within the European Convention on Human Rights – but leaving was a red line for him and the Tory party.”"

Belfast knife suspect won asylum in Britain under 'fast-track' scheme introduced by Tory gov : r/uknews - "Yeah, what shocks me most is after terrible events like the attempted behending, they give 0 solutions. Their solution to it is to basically tolerate it and supress critisim of migration or asylum. The public pays in blood for bourgeoisie virtue."
"Imagine looking at the history of Northern Ireland and thinking that what they need is forced immigration of new groups, including new religious extremists and inverted lunatics from foreign war zones who see the West as the cause of their problems. Any politician in history right up until the 2000s would have known that was rank lunacy."

Furkan Gözükara on X - "🚨 DISGUSTING: A terrified Belfast father reveals his children were trapped inside their home as smoke from a bus set ablaze by racist rioters filled their street. He describes horror of protecting his kids on Sky News. UK establishment is actively enabling these fascist mobs."
Daniel Concannon on X - ""Belfast father-" LET ME STOP YOU RIGHT THERE...:"
Not just are many Americans unable to tell the difference between race and nationality, now they can't even tell the difference between race and coming from a city

Andy Ngo on X - "Remember the viral video last year of the young Scottish girl who brandished a knife and axe at a violent migrant to protect herself and her sister? The video was called “propaganda” and dismissed as far-right lies by liberal media and leftists. A trial showed the girls weren’t lying. A migrant pursued sexual activity with one of the children and came back to violently assault them with his migrant sister after he was rebuffed. Both the migrant siblings were convicted. @France24_en @VedikaBahl , the French state-funded news broadcaster, called the girls liars and blamed @elonmusk and Tommy Robinson."
Jonathan B on X - "Well this is going to get completely memory holed by all the people saying it was an example of dangerous misinformation"
Fat Conservative on X - "I was shocked at the attitude that a lot of people in the UK had toward her because she was "working class". It did shed some light on the rape gang scandal for me... Some seemed to think if Americans knew what class she was we'd stop defending her. One person told us to associate her with "ghetto". What they didn't get is that it doesn't matter what social class she is - a grown man shouldn't be following, harassing, and filming little girls and if they have to find some sharp household implements to protect themselves, then the girls should be applauded for it."
Charleswoods on X - "The only thing the government/media does is gaslight and twist the truth. If you don't like us importing infinity 3rd world immigrants, don't like being raped, stabbed and murdered, even if you just want to discuss this...then you're the problem, you're causing division!"

Humza Yousaf breaks silence after conviction in 'Dundee axe girl' case as he warns 'Muslims are a target' - "Humza Yousaf has commented publicly for the first time since a Bulgarian national was convicted of assaulting a 12-year-old girl in Dundee, as he said Muslims were now a "target" in the UK. The former first minister has faced criticism for claiming the far right was pushing "misinformation" in relation to the case last year... At the time, Mr Yousaf tweeted: "But Stephen-Yaxley Lennon (Tommy Robinson) and his racist far-right mob told me migrants tried to sexually assault the girls? Who would have guessed the far-right were full of bulls**t?"... Belov, 22, was also convicted of behaving in a "threatening or abusive manner" towards four girls, all of whom were aged between 12 and 14. His sister Nadjedzha Belova, 20, earlier pleaded guilty to one charge of assaulting a 13-year-old girl in the incident, which happened in the Lochee area of the city in August 2025."

Swinney apologises over wrongful arrest of girl harassed by sex pest - "John Swinney, the First Minister of Scotland, has apologised to a girl who was wrongly charged after being targeted by a Bulgarian sex pest. Lord Offord of Garvel, Reform UK’s Scotland leader, said the girl had been falsely described as “a liar, right-wing and a racist” following the encounter in Dundee in August 2025. Online footage posted at the time of the incident showed the girl with an axe and a knife. It was alleged that she and her friends had been harassed and followed by immigrants. Police Scotland initially charged the 12-year-old with possessing weapons, prompting Elon Musk to post on X: “What kind of government arrests little girls who try to defend themselves?” The force then criticised “misinformation online in relation to an incident where a Bulgarian couple were approached by youths”. However, last week, Ilia Belov, 22, was found guilty of making sexual remarks to a group of girls aged between 12 and 14 before grabbing and pushing one of them to the ground. Lord Offord told First Minister’s Questions that the 12-year-old had been “wildly vilified for wielding an axe and a knife”, which she had used to “fend off a Bulgarian migrant and his sister”. He said the girl’s mother had demanded an apology from the police and Mr Swinney after they had appeared to cast doubt on her version of events... During Belov’s trial, the court heard that he had said “hello sexy, I’ll show you a good time” to the girls while walking past them in the Lochee area of Dundee. After one of the girls called him a creep, he had returned to confront the group and called his sister, who arrived shortly afterwards and assaulted one of the girls."
"Misinformation" is anything that threatens the left wing agenda

Meme - ""Sophie" was protecting her sister who had been hit, had her hair pulled and had been sexually harassed. Her sister was taken to the local hospital to be treated and yet the police initially denied that had happened. The police however could not deny the hospital records recording the fact."

Benonwine on X - "The Police drove her to hospital. The police saw her injuries. Yet, the police, the Tele/Courier, the council, the politicians, the TV, all said the Bulgarian was innocent. Let that sink in... They made the families life hell, to protect a Bulgarian migrant who is actually well know to both the council and the police. There was also no mention of the migrant needing to be restrained and a spit hood placed on him, nor him urinating in the back on the police van. Dundee City Council Dundee Evening Telegraph Police Scotland Scottish National Party (SNP) Rupert Lowe The Courier UK Even after the Hospital Admission letter for concussion was posted online, they all stuck to the narrative the wee girls were being racist towards an innocent migrant, and his wife. The innocent migrant asked the wee girls if they wanted a good time. The innocent migrants wife was his sister, who was clearly seen running over and grabbing the 13yo's hair and throwing her to the ground. This case was an open and shut case from the onset. Yet, they put the family and girls through months of hate and death threats. Even now, people are still calling the family scumbags, saying the verdict means nothing. Instead, focussing on the girl and the weapons, not the beast who tried chatting them up and then assaulted them when they told him he was a "fucking creep, we're 12". 2 young girls, children, were assaulted before any weapons entered the equation. I genuinely hope the family sue the lot of them. I hope Elon Musk finances her court costs, or the family are crowd funded"

NewstalkFM on X - "Labour has said they fear releasing data on the nationalities of people allocated social housing could lead to “disgusting” abuse on social media."
Fella Writes on X - "Can’t release migrant crime data. Can’t release housing allocation data. Both apparently show no issues at all, and releasing both would then disprove all these ‘racist conspiracy theories’…but we just can’t release them, because *reasons*."
MichaeloKeeffe on X - "In other words - "A load of foreigners are getting houses in Ireland and we've been covering it up for decades.""
Chatnoir on X - "I'll repeat. My Step mum lives in Glasgow high rise. It was mostly single parents and elderly, very peaceful..the odd druggie would appear and die or be removed...now as they leave it's all immigrants. ALL. Her upstairs neighbour died and an African family moved in. No carpets. Four of them thumping about it was really loud and they often thumped about seemingly all through the night too. After 4 months of going out her mind, getting ear plugs, really trying, she had friends round who hears the thumping and it was really really bad...so she took some sweets up and knocked on door, a grumpy African man answered she said kindly, hello I live downstairs, i know you're new and don't have carpets, perhaps I can give you a number to help you get some or some help to..it's just really very loud downstairs in my home and i can't sleep so please if you could be a little mindful....she added these are for your bairns offering the sweets. he slammed the door in her face. She also volunteered for the immigrants programmes and arranged free reiki and yoga and art and all sorts trips..only to find out on a trip to highlands she was looking forward to it was for 'women of colour only' yeah...thanks a fucking bunch huh? She said there is constant rubbish thrown out windows, that's a thing..the bins are a disgrace and hallways get filled with it, never seen anything like it. mess"
The truth is dangerous. No wonder they're banning social media, supposedly for kids, while creating a backdoor that will mean anonymity is impossible

Hon. Vickie Paladino on X - "Socialized housing in the UK, which was meant to give the English people an affordable place to live — particularly the elderly, veterans, and the working poor — has turned almost exclusively into free housing for foreigners, and housing costs in the UK have never been higher. It solved nothing. And in fact made everything much worse. Remember this when Zohran and the DSA lecture us about how ‘social housing’ is going to make New York ‘affordable’ as they seize property from homeowners. It won’t fix anything."

People are finally waking up to the threat our open borders pose - "The British state has been idealistic for decades. It insists that there is no contradiction between mass migration, human rights and national security. This has been sustained despite the fact that our open borders and often non-existent deportations system allow terrorists, hostile state agents and organised criminals to enter and remain in this country at will. But now, at last, it seems the delusion is ending. Today Jonathan Hall KC, the government’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation and Independent Reviewer of State Threats Legislation has brought some realism to the discussion. He has made a rare public statement, stating that immigration needs to be treated as a national security threat, because violence by newly arrived migrants is “becoming more relevant” after a Sudanese asylum seeker was charged over a knife attack in Belfast, and violence spread across the province in response. Hall noted that “if [people from]] certain countries are more likely either to commit very serious offences or particular offences, or to get involved with state threat activity, do we need to start thinking about migration now, not simply in terms of the economy and housing, but also in terms of national security?” He also noted that there was the added factor that many asylum seekers from war-torn states had suffered serious trauma which potentially increased the risk that they could be more likely to commit violence. In making these assessments, Hall is correct. Mass migration risks destabilising Britain beyond repair, not just because migrants, especially those from regions such as the Horn of Africa are disproportionately likely to commit sexual and violent offences – foreign nationals accounted for one in seven sexual convictions in 2024 – but also because of how migrant crime is destroying the state’s legitimacy. So Jonathan Hall is right – the state needs to wake up, fast, and become realistic about mass migration, the threats it poses to our security and the conflict between it and human rights culture. His intervention is very significant. I believe Hall hopes to begin a serious awakening in the establishment. We must hope that others follow, and it proves to be the first step in the British state waking up and getting real."

Migrant crisis: More than 150 kebab shops given Home Office licenses to hire workers from overseas in 'absurd' scheme - "A total of 159 kebab shops across Britain have been granted Home Office licences allowing them to sponsor overseas workers under the skilled worker visa scheme. The licences enable businesses to recruit workers from abroad, with sponsored employees often able to bring family members with them to the UK... Official records also show that 79 vape shops and 16 car washes also hold licences permitting them to sponsor overseas workers."

My 20-year-old daughter can’t find a job, and the reason is making me furious - "Since the start of 2020, for every additional young Briton who found a payrolled job, employers took on 27 young workers from outside the EU... My generation – the lucky one, the paid-to-study one – did not merely climb the ladder. We pulled it up behind us, then hired someone from abroad to carry it away. We did this by policy, as a choice; we did it licence by licence, each one signed off by someone who will never watch a 20-year-old nearly weep because she cannot find a toilet to clean. And when she walks into a supermarket or a chain pub suddenly, it seems, every employee is a 47-year-old man recently arrived from Bengal."

NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 on X - "Here is the loophole, step by step.
Step 1: hold dual British-Pakistani citizenship while committing your crimes.
Step 2: when Britain strips your British citizenship to deport you, renounce your Pakistani citizenship too.
Step 3: declare yourself stateless. International law forbids deporting the stateless.
Step 4: remain in Britain. Indefinitely.
This is exactly what Rochdale's convicted ringleaders did. One tore up his passport days before a Court of Appeal ruling — and secured his right to stay by doing so. Pakistan says it has "no basis to accept" people who are no longer its citizens. London negotiates. Years pass. A tribunal even noted it would be "relatively easy" for them to reclaim Pakistani nationality. They are simply "unwilling". A paperwork manoeuvre defeated the entire British state. Why has this loophole outlived every minister who swore to close it?"
raltheon on X - "International law is largely bunk. I don't know why anyone in the West abides by it. If you declare yourself "stateless", that should be fair game to send you to the middle of the African continent."

Links - 10th July 2026 (2 - Hamas Attack Oct 2023)

2026-07-10T17:27:00.000+08:00

No evidence of genocide in Gaza found — ICC Chief Prosecutor - "International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan currently sees insufficient evidence of genocide by Israel in the Gaza Strip. He stated this in an interview... He emphasized that prosecutors should not act under the influence of political slogans or public pressure, but must rely solely on evidence. Hasan pointed out that many experts, as well as his predecessor Luis Moreno Ocampo, already refer to Israel's actions in the war as genocide. However, Khan made it clear that the ICC needs a specific evidentiary basis for such conclusions — and at the moment, he does not see it."
Matthew Taub: Supersizing the fight against Canadian Jew hate | National Post - "antizionism has evolved far beyond criticism of Israeli government policy. It has become a social, political, academic, and institutional movement that increasingly treats Jewish self-determination as uniquely illegitimate among the nations of the world. That distinction matters because the consequences are no longer theoretical. Over the last several years, Canadians have watched Jewish schools shot at. Synagogues vandalized. Jewish students harassed on campuses. Businesses targeted. Community centres threatened. Jewish neighbourhoods subjected to weekly demonstrations that would never be tolerated outside almost any other minority community in the country. At the same time, much of Canada’s institutional class continues insisting that antizionism and antisemitism are entirely separate phenomena. One of the most powerful discussions came during the panel on Islamic antizionism, featuring Rawan Osman, Abraham Hamra, and Loay Alshareef. These are voices the West desperately needs to hear more often: individuals from Middle Eastern and Muslim backgrounds willing to speak openly about extremism, indoctrination, antisemitism, authoritarianism, and the weaponization of anti-Israel narratives inside parts of the Arab and Islamic world. These conversations require courage because dissent in these spaces often comes with enormous personal cost. A panel also examined the collapse of public trust in legacy institutions that many Jews believe have failed to report on antisemitism and anti-Zionist extremism with consistency or moral clarity. That panel, featuring Lizzy Savetsky, Eve Barlow, Jesse Brown, and moderated by Emily Austin, highlighted a growing reality in modern Jewish advocacy: independent voices are increasingly filling the vacuum left by institutions and media organizations unwilling to confront anti-Jewish extremism directly or consistently. Savetsky and Barlow in particular have become prominent public voices willing to endure enormous online harassment, intimidation, and reputational attacks simply for speaking openly about antisemitism, Jewish identity, Zionism, and the climate many Jews are experiencing across Western society. Whether one agrees with every position they take or not, their willingness to continue speaking publicly in an increasingly hostile environment reflects a broader shift taking place globally — Jews becoming less willing to remain silent simply to preserve social acceptance... At a time when trust in media institutions is collapsing across the political spectrum, discussions around what is happening inside journalism, activism, and digital discourse have become central to understanding why so many Jews increasingly feel abandoned by institutions that once claimed to champion minority protection and human rights universally... For too long, many institutions have attempted to fight antisemitism while refusing to directly confront antizionism itself — largely out of fear, political discomfort, or ideological confusion. That strategy is failing. The World Symposium Against Antizionism was significant because it signaled something larger: the emergence of a growing international movement no longer willing to speak about this issue in euphemisms."
McGill withdraws amnesty offer, toughens tone with pro-Palestinian protesters : r/canada - "McGill just announced they’re expanding and continuing their program to train Saudi doctors. Saudi Arabia 1) guns down African migrants trying to reach their country by the hundreds, 2) is involved in the civil war in Yemen that killed 400,000 civilians and starved 100,000 children to death, 3) enforces a gender apartheid on their women, 4) puts homosexuals in prison (after lashing them). Seems like that would be a perfect target for a divestment campaign by students. I wonder what’s different…"
"The orgs supporting these protests are all being funded by Muslim associations. With the recent worldwide investigations into MAC, Muslim Association of Canada, and Qatari funded universities, who’s surprised ?"
Hamas Co-Founder’s Son Rips Pro-Jihadi UK Government - "Mosab Hassan Yousef, who defected from his father’s Hamas terror group to Israel and converted to Christianity, has a message for the antisemitic UK government: “October 7 didn’t happen because ‘Palestinians’ were denied a state, it happened because they were given one.” The Muslim Arabs always refused to share a state with the Jews, and the British in the 20th century tried to appease them by arbitrarily creating the Muslim nation of Jordan. That simply allowed the Muslims to launch Jihad against the newly refounded state of Israel. Then Israel tried to appease the Muslims who had begun to call themselves Palestinians by giving them the Gaza Strip. And all that did was provide another base of terrorist operations right on Israel’s doorstep. The two-state solution was tried and failed — spectacularly. Yet the UK and French governments are gung-ho on trying it yet again. It is no doubt excessively frustrating to have seen up close the reality of Hamas and Palestinian jihad and not be able to convince cultural imperialist Westerners of the truth. Yousef wrote on X on July 29, “‘UK to recognize ‘Palestinian’ state unless Israel end war and commit to peace.’ How about no ‘Palestinian’ state unless ‘Palestinians’ release the hostages, elect a moderate leadership, drop their violence, hand over those who planned and participated in war crimes and apologize to the Jewish people.” Britain’s Keir Starmer and France’s Emmanuel Macron simply want to reward jihadis for committing the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Yousef challenged, “Before proposing a state we need to know who are the ‘Palestinians’? Are they jihadists, communists, con artists, mafia savages, rapists? How can anyone propose a state without being able to know who would run it? Another important question: on what land? What’s the capital, what’s the constitution?” It would be on Israeli land, of course, and the Palestinians would not be satisfied until the only Jewish nation in the world is destroyed. In conclusion, Yousef rejected the claim that the UK is working for peace: “Pleasing Muslim voters in the UK and France at the expense of another democracy is rude, provocative, and will not bring peace.” Yousef has repeatedly tried to warn the West about how the Palestinians are overwhelmingly pro-jihad, and that most of them are fully brainwashed into the Muslim religious teachings about raping and killing non-Muslims. As he said last year on Dr. Phil‘s show, if the so-called Palestinians did not have Jews to kill, they would simply be fighting each other based on different tribal groups. Israel is not committing genocide; it is combating attempted genocide. This was why Donald Trump‘s previous plan to deport many people from Gaza and let it be under the control of Israel again was so excellent. Unfortunately, that is not likely to happen as Israel keeps trying to make leftist governments happy with it, hundreds of aid trucks line up for the people who teach their five-year-olds to aspire to terrorism, and Hamas terrorists still control much of Gaza and continue to kill Israeli soldiers."
Mosab Hassan Yousef on X - "“Palestinians” should be held accountable for their war crimes. Not rewarded for weaponizing civilians in pursuit of political and financial gain. “Their” unconditional support behind Hamas doesn’t indicate willingness to accept any type of responsibility. And let’s not forget that “Palestinians” placed booby traps in populated areas to maximize civilian casualties, a strategy to gain global sympathy. Unforgivable crime. To take an anti war stance is acceptable, but to support the use of human shields is partnering in the crime."
Mossad Commentary on X - "🚨 BREAKING: A USAID Inspector General review reportedly identified 101 additional UNRWA teachers, principals, and staff members as Hamas terrorists who took part in the October 7 massacre. The U.S. is now considering whether to designate UNRWA as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. @UNWatch"
Lee Humphrey on X - "This has been clear for almost 20 years & was why the Harper gov cut all funding to UNRWA. Fast forward to 2016, it’s still clear that UNRWA supports Hamas, teaches antisemitic hate in their schools & allows Hamas to hide weapons, ammunition & fighters in their facilities yet Trudeau restores their funding. In 2017, he doubles it. In 2025, Carney not only extends the UNRWA funding but adds a one time extra $60 million dollar payment to the annual $50 million. Why is Canada funding terrorism & the teaching of hate to children? Why @liberal_party gov?"
Australian Jewish Association on X - "ANOTHER 70 UNRWA STAFF FIRED DUE TO TERROR LINKS - Credit: UN Watch AJA conducted a major campaign to expose the terror links of UNRWA and the nexus with Australian foreign aid. The previous LNP govt substantially cut UNRWA aid but as soon as Labor was elected it restored and increased our foreign aid to UNRWA. Now although UNRWA has tried to resist responding to the strong evidence, it has been embarrassed and reportedly forced to sack 70 of the worst and most obvious - still probably just the tip of the iceberg. So why does Labor insist on pouring even more $ millions into UNRWA? And credit to our friends at UN Watch for their tireless efforts gathering "
Alaa From Gaza on X - "Last Thursday, as a former @UNRWA employee myself, I received an email from UNRWA's Commissioner-General ad interim, Christian Saunders @CFSaundersUN , informing staff that he had decided to terminate the employment of 70 UNRWA employees in Gaza with immediate effect. He stressed that the decision was neither a disciplinary measure nor a validation of the allegations made by Israel, noting that UNRWA had repeatedly requested evidence from the Israeli authorities and had received none. Instead, he said the dismissals were intended to mitigate what the Agency considered growing security risks to its staff, beneficiaries, premises, and operations. There is something deeply unjust about dismissing 70 people while admitting that no evidence was ever provided against them. Allegations are not proof. When accusations alone are enough to end careers and devastate families, due process ceases to be a principle and becomes a privilege. PS: @UNRWA terminated my contract, along with those of 621 of my colleagues, simply because we escaped the genocide in Gaza and didn't want our children to be killed in front of our eyes. Many of my colleagues were injured and left on medical evacuations. Others accompanied family members who were seriously wounded. We were all terminated in January 2026 after spending an entire year on forced exceptional leave, despite the fact that many of us continued working online throughout that period. The funny thing is that "Western" UNRWA employees were not terminated, even though many of them are also outside Gaza. They continue to receive salaries that are at least 15 times higher than ours, not to mention the benefits that come with them. An agency established to care for Palestinian refugees ended up firing Palestinian refugees like myself while retaining and generously paying international staff. It's a joke. Except it's not funny, because it's real. @UNWatch"
Not that any evidence will ever be enough for terrorism supporters. Like they claim Israel has a Greater Israel project and the proof is invading Lebanon to clear out Hezbollah. But when you point out they don't invade Egypt and Jordan because no one is attacking Israel from there, the cope is that it's proof Mossad control Egypt and Jordan. Which is revealing because that's a tacit admission that they think Israel needs to be violently attacked till it's destroyed, even if they pretend Israel is and has always been the aggressor, and that Muslims who don't do that are traitors
Ex-TDSB legal executive claims antisemitism in lawsuit against board | National Post - "The lawsuit, filed by Paul Koven, the interim general counsel for TDSB since January 2023, argues that the school board failed “to address rampant antisemitism affecting TDSB students and staff, while prioritizing other forms of racism”... Koven, whose lawsuit claims he “was the only Jewish executive at the TDSB before his medical leave,” accused Leola Pon, the board’s associate director of organizational transformation and accountability, of sidelining him and making “overtly antisemitic and racially divisive remarks.”... Among the incidents alleged in the lawsuit are Pon’s alleged refusal “to support a Jewish lawyer for an award because he was a ‘Zionist’” and her alleged insistence that “no Black or Jewish investigator be used in an incident involving a Board Superintendent using the ‘N-word’ due to a supposed ‘race war’ between Jewish and Black staff.”... Canada’s most populous school board has been plagued by several high-profile antisemitic incidents since late 2023, including high schoolers giving Nazi salutes and bathroom graffiti of swastikas, “Hitler was right” and “#KillTheJews.” Figures released by TDSB from 2024 show that Jewish students in the board made up just three per cent of the student body but 15 per cent of all recorded racist incidents. Koven’s lawsuit placed his treatment in the broader context of TDSB’s attempts to combat antisemitism since October 7. The legal filing accused TDSB of “systemic indifference” in the wake of the Hamas atrocities, which has “had a direct and severe impact on his physical and mental health and that of other Jewish employees at TDSB.”"
Banning Palestine Action was lawful, Court of Appeal rules - "The decision to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist group was lawful, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Five senior judges said Palestine Action was no “ordinary protest group” after siding with the Government over the proscription. The Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr said the group had engaged in a criminal campaign of direct action against “key national infrastructure and defence firms”, including those providing support to Ukraine and Nato. The proscription, which began on July 5 last year, made membership of, or support for, the direct-action group a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison. Judges at the High Court ruled in February that the decision to proscribe Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000 was unlawful, following a legal challenge from Huda Ammori, the group’s co-founder. The Home Office appealed the ruling, arguing that criminal sanctions for dealing with the group had become “insufficient” following an “escalation” in the scale and intensity of its actions... In their 44-page judgment, the judges said Palestine Action encouraged its activists, in its Underground Manual, to “cause serious damage to property”. They added: “It presented a very real risk of injury not only to property but also to members of the public. Its campaign was intended to close down the operations of a company pursuing a lawful business by intimidation, not persuasion”... The judges said people were free to express support for the Palestinian cause, opposition to Israel and the Israel Defense Forces. They said: “But it is a fundamental mistake to overlook the fact that Palestine Action overtly promotes unlawful violence amounting to terrorism. “It is not – as claimed – a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes, operating transparently in the open. Palestine Action has little or nothing in common with the suffragettes or the anti-apartheid or Iran War protest groups.”... The Court of Appeal’s decision comes days after four Palestine Action activists were jailed following a on Israeli defence firm Elbit Systems’ UK factory. The group used sledgehammers and crowbars to destroy computers, drones and other equipment before police and security intervened. The Elbit raid, near Bristol, was one of the triggers for Palestine Action being banned as a terrorist organisation. The judges said the decision to proscribe it also came in the wake of an attack at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire in June 2025, in which two military aircraft were damaged. They said: “Palestine Action’s campaign was intended to close down Elbit and other lawful businesses. It took direct criminal action against businesses and institutions, including key national infrastructure and defence firms that provide services and supplies to support Ukraine, Nato, the ‘Five Eyes’ allies and the UK defence enterprise.”"
The terrorism supporters are very upset, of course
The suffragettes were terrorists also, so
New pro-Palestinian group should be banned, says former anti-extremism tsar - "The Government’s former anti-extremism tsar has called for the People Against Genocide protest group to be banned. Lord Walney, a former aide to Gordon Brown and ex-government adviser on political violence, accused People Against Genocide of being a “successor group” to Palestine Action. People Against Genocide has claimed credit for raids on sites linked to Elbit Systems, an Israeli arms company, and other businesses... People Against Genocide also promotes Direct Action Training, whose website states: “Direct action is for everyone who is committed to the anti-colonial struggle. If you would like to gain the skills to dismantle the Zionist machine brick by brick, drone by drone, then register.” Posters on the website include calls to “smash the supply chain”, “pick up a sledgehammer”, “occupy the death factories” and “join the resistance”... Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said: “Political violence of this kind is totally unacceptable. In this country, we decide things through debate and elections, not smashing up property and attacking a police officer with a sledgehammer. “If a new group replicates what Palestine Action has done, then they should be treated the same way.” David Taylor, a Labour MP, said: “Anyone joining organisations like this aren’t virtuous activists – they are dangerous criminals, plain and simple. The Government must crack down on any group that promotes committing violent crimes in the name of a political cause.”"
Court of Appeal’s Palestine Action judgement: Are juries still willing to do their duty? - "Menon’s defence strategy – that those on trial should be judged not by what they do but by how they (and jurors) feel – has been proving increasingly successful. It threatens to upset the delicate balance that makes trial by jury worth protecting from a Government seeking to limit its use. That risk was all too obvious last Friday when the pro-Palestine protest outside the court was addressed by Maud Dromgoole, a juror from the initial trial, who claimed that Mr Justice Johnson’s decision to treat the defendants as having a terrorist connection amounted to a “secret extra charge”. “I feel really sorry for the jury that did [convict]. They didn’t know what they were convicting the defendants of,” she said, having also urged social media followers to “mobilise” and join her at the protest. Jurors are instructed by the judge not to let any sympathy they may feel for a defendant influence their verdict. A summary of the law in the Crown Court Compendium handbook says: “The jury need to be directed that they are responsible for decisions of fact; the judge for decisions of law.” This division of responsibilities lies at the heart of our jury system. If juries make up the law as they go along – if they rely on the defendant’s view of the law rather than the judge’s – then people on trial will be wrongly acquitted. There will be no consequences for individual jurors; but trial by jury as a concept will be slowly poisoned. Such toxicity took on particular significance on Monday, when Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, won her appeal against a High Court ruling in February overturning the ban on Palestine Action, the group to which Head and her fellow defendants belonged. Prosecutors will now have to decide how to handle thousands of people arrested after expressing support for Palestine Action after its initial proscription in July last year – including scores more arrested outside Woolwich court on Friday. It remains to be seen whether Palestine Action activists carry out further acts of criminal damage. And if they do, we may see them – and their defence lawyers – appealing to the consciences, prejudices or political predilections of juries... As with so much in the United Kingdom’s unwritten legal-constitutional framework, this tension remains usefully unresolved because it is thought to produce an acceptable outcome. Jurors generally strive to respect judges’ directions. And past occasions when juries appeared to acquit in the face of the evidence have been seen as a warning to over-enthusiastic prosecutors. One of the clearest examples is the case of Pat Pottle and Michael Randle, two peace activists who helped the Soviet spy George Blake escape from Wormwood Scrubs prison in 1966. After owning up in a book they had published in 1989, they were tried and acquitted in 1991. Another “perverse verdict”, as they are sometimes called, came in the form of Clive Ponting, a civil servant who had leaked secret documents about the sinking of the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano during the Falklands war, being found not guilty of breaching the Official Secrets Act in 1985. Lord Devlin, the judge who in 1956 famously described trial by jury as “the lamp that shows that freedom lives”, told me after Ponting’s acquittal that a jury had a right to be perverse in the exercise of what he called its legal and constitutional spirit: “If it’s asked to enforce law which it really feels is against its conscience, it says no and it acquits. And that’s to my mind our proudest constitutional achievement.” But these were exceptional cases. Now juries are routinely facing pressure to let conscience rule their decisions in trials involving pro-Palestine and eco-activists. One such case involved David Lambert, a parks and gardens conservationist from Stroud, who was one of six defendants cleared by a jury of criminal damage after a two-week trial in 2021. As part of the Extinction Rebellion protests, he and others had broken windows, spilt fake oil over the front of the Shell building on the South Bank and sprayed messages on the wall about the climate crisis... We have seen other such acquittals in recent years. Four protesters accused of damaging a monument to the 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston, which had been pulled down in 2021 and thrown into Bristol harbour, were acquitted by a jury the following year after claiming they had lawful excuses for their actions. Two of the defendants said they believed that the people of Bristol would have consented to any damage caused by the statue’s removal. In 2023, an un-named activist was cleared of conspiracy to damage a building after asserting that those responsible for the premises would have consented to the damage if they had known its purpose was to alert them to the nature and extent of man-made climate change... six medical professionals were acquitted of criminal damage after a retrial. They had damaged windows at the European headquarters of a bank, arguing that they were attempting to save lives in the face of a climate and ecological emergency... When Parliament said that anyone accused of criminal damage would have a lawful excuse if they believed the property-owner would consent, it was not authorising unlimited damage based on a subjective belief about how to solve some of the world’s most intractable problems. Criminal damage has to be paid for – either through larger insurance premiums or increased taxes, both of which lead to higher prices. Such offending is selfish and solipsistic, allowing perpetrators to feel good about themselves while disrupting public services and making the environment more miserable for the rest of us... there are legitimate concerns about how willing juries are to do their duty. Is this because we now show too much respect to the feelings of others? Has the distinction between facts and opinions become so blurred that objectivity has been replaced by the concept of “my truth”? Has society become so fragmented that members of the public are no longer willing to take direction from those who society has placed in a position of authority? Perhaps all of the above. How else can we explain why thousands of ordinary folk – just the sort of people you might expect to find on a jury – allowed themselves to be arrested after expressing support for a banned terrorist organisation?... the biggest threat to trial by jury is the perception by too many potential jurors that the ideological end justifies the legal means."
Basically, you can break the law if you push the left wing agenda
The Green Party could be about to get even more sinister - "The dangerous cause of Palestine, which has been adopted by countless progressive grifters to render baying mobs spell-bound to their venal ambitions, is now at the heart of the growing struggle between the traditional Greens and their newly acquired allies in the green-headband faction – now bizarrely dubbed the “Global Majority Greens”, or GMG. What values does the GMG stand for? In a nutshell, it wishes to saturate every aspect of the party with an obsession with race. Slavery reparations are a must, as is (according to their website) the wholesale elevation of the interests of “people from African, Caribbean, Asian, Latin American and others of Global Majority ethnic descent in England and Wales” above those unlucky enough to have been born in the racial majority. Predictably, all of this is most vividly expressed in a rabid hatred of “Zionists”. Enter Zack Polanski. The big softie may never tire of reminding us of his identity as Britain’s only Jewish political leader, but he has played the Islamist game with grim commitment. No bigotry, it seems, has been beyond the pale for the former breast hypnotist, from claiming that Israel “kills a child every 45 minutes” to defending the “globalise the Intifada” chant, to condemning the police for being too rough with the alleged Golders Green stabber while placing him under arrest. This has won him significant polling success. Even this performance, however, is apparently not “anti-Zionist” enough for the GMG and its tribune – deputy leader Mothin Ali. Here is a man who greeted news of his election as Leeds councillor with a cry of “Allahu Akbar”, and who defended Hamas’s October 7 atrocities on social media (he later apologised). According to transcripts of messages obtained by the Spectator – Ali has been fomenting a GMG mutiny against Britain’s only Jewish political leader because of his supposed favouritism towards the Jews. At the heart of the matter is allegedly Ali’s resentment of the way Polanski suspended party members accused of levels of anti-Semitism too grotesque even for the Greens. To give you a sense of the tone here, one example is the case of Sabine Mairey, who shared a post that included a picture of a man holding a placard that read “ramming a synagogue isn’t anti-Semitism. It’s revenge.” Just healthy anti-Zionism, am I right? More than 30 local election candidates were accused of spreading such venom on social media last month, leading to nearly a dozen suspensions and two arrests. Yet this, the GMG insists, is an example of persecution of “Global Majority candidates and those who support Palestinian liberation”, supporting an atmosphere that supposedly “demonises migrants and Muslims” as well as “women”. Why all the focus on anti-Semitism? If the GMG had its way, there would seemingly be no limit to the hatred permitted towards the “Zionists” (Jews, the GMG concedes – by which I suppose it means that small number of Jewish Leftist cranks who are shoved into the vanguard at Gaza marches – must be kept “safe”), coupled with a greatly magnified pre-occupation with perceived slights against anybody non-white... if the “Israel lobby” were so powerful, would the Government have recognised a state of Palestine? Methinks the growing power lies elsewhere. All this raises the dilemma of our times: How can liberal democracies stop their freedoms from being subverted from within without sliding into authoritarianism? Depressingly, our political leaders have not even started asking this question, let alone answering it."
If you don't support the killing of Jews, you're guilty of anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia
‘Pro-Hamas’ TV channel blamed Israel for Golders Green attack - "A “pro-Hamas” TV channel blamed Israel for provoking the stabbing of two Jewish men in Golders Green. Campaigners are demanding a clampdown on Al-Hiwar TV after guests claimed the attack in north London was not the result of anti-Semitism, but a reaction to Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. The Ofcom-licensed channel, which has more than 6.4 million followers on Facebook and 1.9 million subscribers on YouTube, has also been accused of peddling Hamas propaganda. One of its presenters described the Oct 7 attacks as “like a fantasy”, and it has broadcast sympathetic interviews with supporters of the banned terror group... One argued that the incident was not anti-Semitic but an act of opposition to Israel’s actions in Gaza and that the Jewish state bore “the lion’s share” of responsibility for what happened. Jafaar El-Ahmar, a London-based journalist, told the channel: “This is not anti-Semitism but rather an expression of his [the attacker’s] rejection of the Israeli attacks against the Palestinian people.” Contributors to Al-Hiwar also described last December’s Bondi Beach attack in Australia – when 15 civilians were shot dead at an orthodox Chabad event – as a reaction to Israel’s military offensive in Gaza rather than an anti-Semitic attack on Jews. Campaigners have called on Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator, to examine whether the channel, which is also available to British audiences via a number of foreign satellite TV providers and through multiple websites and apps, has breached UK laws against promoting terror groups. Azzam Tamimi, Al-Hiwar’s co-founder and chairman, has previously called on Muslims to support the Tehran regime against Israel... Bilal and Mr Tamimi also described the Oct 7 terrorists – along with the IRA – as individuals who “struggle for the sake of freedom”. The interview with Bilal took place in Turkey, following his release from an Israeli prison in exchange for hostages held in Gaza. Bilal had been jailed by Israel for his part in two suicide bombings in 1995, with the attacks killing 12 – 10 of them civilians – and injuring another 140 people. He admitted to having prepared the explosives and provided transport for the suicide bombers. Since the Oct 7 attacks the station’s presenters have described Hamas and Hezbollah fighters as “martyrs” and “the resistance”, described suicide bombings as “legitimate resistance under international law” and called for the “dismantling of Israel”... The channel was previously found by Ofcom to have breached its broadcasting code on two occasions, in 2009 and 2018, after it broadcast “highly offensive” comments by guests encouraging violence without being challenged."
So following terrorist supporter logic, we can blame Islamist terrorists for "Islamophobia"

Another Major Transgender Suicide Study Crumbles

2026-07-10T13:16:00.000+08:00

Good citations on it being myths that "gender affirming care" reduces trans suicide and improves mental health, and that the trans regret rate / detransition rate is under 1 percent.
Clearly, left wing "awareness" raising can never have negative effects, even if people see what they are primed to see rather than what is actually there (see: the Dartmouth Scar Experiment). Social contagion is definitely not a thing if it would threaten the left wing agenda. Ditto for conflict of interest.
Another Major Transgender Suicide Study Crumbles
"In 2024, amid a wave of state legislation on transgender issues, the prestigious academic journal Nature Human Behavior (NHB) published a study titled “State-level anti-transgender laws increase past-year suicide attempts among transgender and non-binary young people in the USA.” The study claimed to find that passage of state “anti-transgender laws increased incidents of past-year suicide attempts” by as much as 72 percent.

Left-of-center media kicked into full gear, announcing that a study had found causal evidence that Republican-led laws are producing an epidemic of adolescent self-harm...
It is not uncommon for researchers in gender medicine to exaggerate their findings and let allied media spin the rest. But in this case, the authors of the NHB study themselves promoted a narrative of cause and effect. “In this study,” wrote lead author Wilson Lee on LinkedIn, “we presented causal evidence that enacting state-level anti-transgender legislation increased suicide attempts among transgender and nonbinary young people in the US.” Co-author Ronita Nath told CNN, “We’ve long known that the associations between anti-transgender policies and negative health outcomes for LGBTQ+ young people exist, but this is the first time any study has shown this causal relationship.”

Yet, in what has become routine in this research area, the NHB study’s findings and conclusions later crumbled under scientific reexamination. As a methodological criticism published (to its credit) in the NHB last month—over a year after the original study—shows, the observed elevation in suicide attempts came from a small sample (roughly 100 youth) in a single state (Idaho), at a time when that state’s “anti-transgender” laws were not even in effect. Further, the researchers did not properly control for confounding factors...
Predictably, neither the authors nor the media outlets that trumpeted their “findings” have so far bothered to correct the record. In fact, the authors have said that the methodological criticisms “do not alter the interpretation of our findings.” NHB gave the authors of the original study a chance to respond to the criticism. As explained below, not only did their response fall short, but it also included a potentially damning admission. To judge by how these things usually go, the study will almost certainly continue to be cited as settled fact, bolstered through citation laundering in scientific journal publications.
Wilson Lee et al. will likely enter the pantheon of zombie studies that provide “evidence” for common talking points: that the practice of pediatric transition was launched based on good evidence, as asserted by de Vries et al.; that regret is less than 1 percent, per Bustos et al.; that “gender-affirming care” reduces suicidality by 73 percent, per Tordoff et al.; that hormones improve “psychosocial functioning,” per Chen et al.; and so on. That the findings from these studies have been scientifically examined and discredited (see here and here for de Vries; here and here for Bustos; here, here, and here for Tordoff; and here, here, here, and here for Chen) does not diminish from their canonical status among advocates of pediatric transition.

But even by the standards of this literature, the NHB study and its shaky foundations stand out. In fact, a coauthor confessed in an interview soon after the study’s release that the work had an explicit political goal. It’s worth examining the story in full.
The two main problems with the NHB study concern its data source and methodology. To begin with the first, the authors—who were (or are) all affiliated with the Trevor Project, a national advocacy group for suicide prevention among “LGBTQ+ young people”—utilized a Trevor Project survey of LGBTQ youth ages 13–24 between the years 2018 and 2022. The survey is a non-probability (non-representative) sample, and the total number of minor respondents was 35,196. Respondents were recruited through social media.

Surveys of this nature are notoriously unreliable as a basis for scientific studies on cause and effect. Consider, for example, the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS-15). The survey has served as fertile ground for gender-affirming researchers to produce studies that claim to find positive mental-health benefits from puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, all based on respondents’ answers.

As Michael Biggs found, however, almost three-quarters of USTS-15 respondents who said they took puberty blockers said that they started them after age 18, which wouldn’t make sense. Even the survey’s authors acknowledged that “the question may have been misinterpreted by some respondents who confused puberty blockers with the hormone therapy given to adults and older adolescents.”
This was not the only example of confusion or recall bias. In a 2023 study purporting to debunk the “rapid onset gender dysphoria” hypothesis, UCSF psychiatrist Jack Turban and colleagues uncritically accepted the self-report of about 700 USTS-15 respondents who, as adults, recalled realizing they were “transgender or gender diverse” by age two.

It makes sense that bias is baked into the USTS-15. Respondents were recruited through social-advocacy networks and were likely to be more politically engaged and tuned in to transgender-movement politics. Perhaps many recalled realizing they were transgender at age two because they are invested in a “born that way” narrative of transgender identity.
Respondents to the Trevor Project survey were likely to have been similarly motivated to produce answers that the Trevor Project wanted to see. And because the survey was taken against the backdrop of “anti-transgender” laws passing around the country—and a constant drumbeat of alarm about those laws—it’s at least possible that some respondents were motivated to exaggerate or misrepresent their experiences of suicide attempts.
Finally, it’s noteworthy that the NHB authors used a survey of “LGBTQ young people” rather than, say, a survey of gender-clinic-referred youth, to study the link between “anti-transgender laws” and suicide attempts. If we want to know how age-minimum restrictions on medical transition affect suicide attempt rates, it might make sense to focus on data from kids who seek medical transition. By including data from kids who identify as transgender but do not seek medical transition (a larger group than those seeking medical interventions), we risk “contaminating” the sample, as those kids may have different psychological response mechanisms.

Assume, though, that the survey is reliable. Even more serious problems await in the NHB study’s methodology. The authors’ confident use of causal language to describe their findings stems from their reliance on a quasi-experimental method called “Difference-in-Differences” (DiD). In DiD, researchers create two groups (intervention and control), document the changes in each group over time, and then compare the changes to estimate the effect of the intervention.
One problem with the NHB study’s DiD model is that the “intervention” (independent variable) is arguably not a single variable. Of the 48 state laws included in the study, 30 prohibit males from competing against females in female sports and only seven impose age minimums for access to pharmaceutical interventions. By coding all laws as “anti-transgender” and treating them as functionally the same, the authors assume that they have the same psychological impacts on adolescents who identify as transgender.
But why should we allow that assumption? Citizens readily perceive that different laws or regulations affecting a particular social group may have different motivations or justifications. For example, a law that stops racial gerrymandering might not have the same psychological impact on African-Americans as a law that eliminates racial affirmative action in higher education, even if progressive activist groups describe both laws as “racist.” The NHB study authors’ assumption that all “LGBTQ young people”—a category, note, that includes gay, lesbian, bisexual, and gender-nonconforming (“queer”) youth, not just youth who identify as the opposite sex and seek medical interventions—would respond in a similar manner to both kinds of laws covered seems highly dubious.
Key to the reliability of a DiD study design is what is known as the “parallel trends” requirement: absent the intervention, the difference between the two compared groups would remain constant over time. If this requirement is not fulfilled, it is not possible to attribute any observed effect to the intervention. As the methodological critique points out, however, there were good reasons to doubt the existence of parallel trends in the NHB study model. One reason: “Idaho was one of only two states that began to ration care due to COVID-19” during the time period reflected in the survey’s data, which “could plausibly influence mental health.”
The authors of the original study claim that they controlled for Covid impacts. Indeed, the original study states: “For controlling for COVID-19 covariate, population-adjusted COVID-19 death counts by state was used as a proxy for the overall impact of COVID-19 in a given state.”

But this control likely does not address the critique’s concerns. Adolescent mortality rates from Covid were extremely low, and far below those of older adults. Meantime, Covid appears to have had negative mental-health impacts on many adolescents. It seems hardly plausible, then, to use Covid deaths as a proxy for youth mental-health impacts. The fact that Idaho had state-specific Covid impacts and responses very likely invalidates the parallel trends assumption and renders the DiD design untrustworthy.
But there’s an even bigger problem with the study. Despite leading readers and the media to believe that “anti-transgender” laws increased suicide attempts anywhere they were passed, the NHB authors’ model found nothing of the sort. The authors examined survey responses from three post-passage periods (t1, t2, and t3) following passage of “anti-transgender” laws. An increase of attempts relative to pre-legislation years was observed in five states during t1, but the increase was very small and barely reached statistical significance (p=0.049).

The study does find an effect on suicide attempts in periods t2 and t3. But that increase is driven entirely by about 100 respondents in the state of Idaho. Moreover, the only two laws passed in Idaho that qualify as “anti-transgender”—HB 500, concerning school sports, and HB 509, concerning the recording of sex on birth certificates—had little to do with medical interventions. Moreover, both laws were blocked in the courts more than a year before the rise in suicide attempts appeared in the data.
In response to this observation, the original authors conceded that though the laws were not fully in effect (the sports law may have been implemented in some areas of the state despite the judicial block), “the public discourse surrounding the passage of these laws would not have ceased when they were enjoined, providing a further plausible mechanism for sustained effects.” In other words, even if the laws weren’t in effect, the mere discussion of the laws would have had the same mental-health impacts as the laws’ actual provisions.

This maneuver by the authors presents a serious problem for them. As noted in the methodological criticism, if public discourse stressing calamitous mental-health impacts from a law is itself “a mechanism for sustained effects,” then that messaging confounds the observed increase in suicide attempts...
In their effort to defend against a criticism, the Trevor Project authors inadvertently concede the potential for “public discourse” (alarmist messaging about teen suicidality) to become self-fulfilling prophecy. That implies that transgender advocates themselves might bear responsibility for the (let us assume real) rise in suicidal behavior...
All we can say with confidence, based on existing research, is that youth who identify as transgender or are diagnosed with gender dysphoria (the two are not synonymous) appear to be at elevated risk for suicide and suicidality, though the risk of suicide remains, thankfully, very low, and there is no credible evidence that hormonal and surgical interventions are needed to manage that risk. The best available evidence suggests that mental-health comorbidities, common in this population, better account for suicide risk, and that risk of suicide remains elevated relative to controls following transition.

At the same time, suicide prevention experts (and LGBT advocacy groups, until recently) have acknowledged that suicide is a socially contagious behavior. For this reason, they have warned about the risks of improper public discussion of the topic. In the United Kingdom, for example, Professor Louis Appleby, a government suicide prevention expert, issued a report in 2024—just a few months before the NHB study was published—in which he described the suicide narrative commonly deployed by transgender activists as “dangerous,” adding that it “goes against guidance on safe reporting of suicide.”...
One thing journals could do is tighten up the requirements for reporting conflicts of interest. Even a cursory glance at the NHB study suggests evidence of such conflicts. The authors were all affiliated with or worked for the Trevor Project, a nonprofit whose fundraising prospects are directly tied to funder perceptions about suicide being a serious problem. To their (partial) credit, the study authors list their affiliation with Trevor under “competing interests.” But readers unfamiliar with the organization or its fundraising incentives may not see the full significance of this affiliation.
Evidence of author bias appears throughout the study. The authors, for example, refer to laws that ban males from female sports as “anti-transgender.” But it is a male’s sex, not his transgender identification, that makes his participation in female sports a matter of public concern. That’s why there is virtually no controversy over trans-identifying females competing in male sports. The authors also assert that “gender-affirming healthcare has well-established benefits,” providing as citations only surveys of parental attitudes about state age-restriction laws, a survey of adults on the impact of Covid for access to “gender-affirming” interventions, and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)’s latest “Standards of Care.” (Left unmentioned, of course, is the hard evidence that WPATH suppressed systematic reviews after discovering disappointing findings.) The authors simply ignored the existing systematic reviews that find no credible evidence for mental-health benefits from pediatric gender medicine.

Most strikingly, one of the study’s co-authors openly confessed her team’s agenda in an interview with CNN shortly after the study was published: “We knew if we were able to show this it would be a breakthrough for using definitive scientific evidence to support calls for protective and affirming policies for trans and nonbinary young people and to help, ultimately, save their lives.”
This is an astonishing admission. They went into this project intending to provide “scientific” ammunition to a legal fight. It is hardly the first example of dressing up legal advocacy in scientific garb, but it’s striking to see the strategy acknowledged so frankly.

As anyone who closely follows the subject knows, research in this field is contaminated by activist agendas and misconduct. The findings are fundamentally compromised, and the journals—even the most prestigious among them—often act as willing collaborators in the suppression of scientific debate. Though NHB deserves credit for allowing some debate, the 2024 study on suicide attempts shows, once again, that when it comes to transgender issues, activist researchers can exploit academic journals’ refusal to enforce even the most rudimentary scientific standards."

Links - 10th July 2026 (1 - Indigenous Peoples in Canada)

2026-07-10T09:05:00.000+08:00

CTV News Vancouver on X - "First Nations decry denialism on anniversary of suspected graves found at B.C. site"
Jonathan Kay on X - "How is it “denialism” to question something that even the most gullible media outlets in Canada now acknowledge is merely “suspected” You don’t even know what you’re trying to argue anymore"
Wei Wai Kum say civil disobedience coming if Province doesn't pause K'ómoks treaty - "There’s a stark warning tonight from the chief of the Wei Wai Kum First Nation in Campbell River, who says if the Province doesn’t pause approval of the neighbouring Komoks First Nation’s treaty then his members are ready to engage in civil disobedience... He says they’re angry and disappointed that the Province and neighbouring K’omoks First Nation aren’t listening to their concerns. The Province and K’ómoks signed a treaty in April, and now Bill 20 as it’s called is going through the legislative process in Victoria before final approval. The issue according to the Wei Wai Kum is that the K’ómoks treaty land claims overlap much of its own ancestral territory."
If two "indigenous" groups fight... it's whitey's fault
Mario Zelaya on X - "Some hard facts on “mass graves”:
-The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, found 0 cases of homicide. ZERO.
-In 165 years of residential schools, there were a total of 6 suicides in residential schools.
-From 2011 to 2015, the estimated deaths by suicide was 1,180 for First Nations -There were a total of 3201 deaths in 165 years
-Over a third were before 1940
-Tuberculosis, influenza (the Spanish Flu), and pneumonia were the leading cause of death
-Antibiotics weren’t widespread until the 1950s
-This is well documented in the 1907 Dr Bryce report (screenshot attached)
-Back then, there was NO admission medical exams & kids who were admitted were documented as sick
-IMPORTANT FACT: the Spanish Flu FORCED common graves with PRIESTS, STAFF, & STUDENTS
-This was the norm during this era: Philadelphia, the UK, and Norway all used mass graves in 1918–19
-And yes, outside of the 1918 Spanish Flu there was SHARED USE cemeteries
-School cemeteries buried priests, bishops, settlers, and reserve community members so remains aren’t necessarily students
-This is a FACT CONFIRMED by the truth and reconciliation commission of Canada
-Pupil burials were free to First Nation parents; what was known as Indian Affairs, they had a policy to do this to keep costs low
-This ensured that on site burials were the cheapest option
-This was consistent with how institutions treated the impoverished or indigent in a general sense
-It’s worth considering that neglect can explain “unmarked” graves
-Wooden crosses with painted names deteriorated or were destroyed after schools closed and were abandoned post 1969
-So “unmarked” reflects decay, not some sort of secret burial
-Here’s a major discrepancy which you might not know of: Kamloops
-The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada documented only 51 deaths at Kamloops
-This completely contradicts against the May 27, 2021 press release of “215 children.”
Where did that number come from?
-The community’s own framing, Chief Rosanne Casimir stated it was “not a mass grave, but rather unmarked burial sites,” and the press release acknowledged the cemetery was already “spoken about” and known
-FYI: ground penetrating radar detects ONLY soil anomalies
-It cannot confirm human remains, identify age, nor determine whether a body is a student, former student, a nun a priest or community member"
Harrison Faulkner on X - "A City of Toronto activist on the "2SLGBTQ+ Advisory Committee" asks officials to rename Queen's Park due to "the insidious nature of settler colonialism." City staff have proposed relocating the King Edward statue within Queen's Park to the periphery to "address the colonial landscape.""
Daniel Tyrie on X - "Why is this foreigner trying to a shame us for our history? Our ancestors risked everything to build a civilization from nothing. They collaborated with First Nations to create a unique society. They brought technology, literacy, and prosperity to the new world. We should be proud of our colonial roots."
Jared Taylor on X - "Indians immigrate to Canada and tell Canadians they can't have a Queen's Park because the "indigenous" deserve better? Despicable swine."
Time to condemn this racism and xenophobia while calling white people born in the country colonizers, settlers and immigrants
Tom Fletcher | Facebook - "BC's current land claims crisis officially started in 2017 with the election of John Horgan's NDP government. My latest for Western Standard.
A brief history of British Columbia’s deconstruction
David Eby’s ‘shared decision-making’ is the second province-wide effort to put the land claims genie back in the bottle
VICTORIA – It appears we will have to wait until this fall to learn if British Columbia can find a way out of the latest effort to resolve the historic tangle of indigenous land claims and unfinished treaties across the province. Premier David Eby has been warned that his latest trio of watered-down treaties, two of which were tabled in the BC legislature in April, must be halted for 180 days or they will face challenges in the courts and on the highways due to overlapping claims. Eby has also backed down on his plan to amend the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), promising to spend the summer negotiating a solution acceptable to at least some of the 203 indigenous communities in the province. Eby’s voluntary “shared decision-making” plan, to effectively cede control over large areas of Crown land in secret negotiations outside of treaty talks, may also be stalled. Appeals of court decisions that threaten private property and the entire framework of provincial law are years away, as even American-based tribes begin to use DRIPA to assert their claims over BC mining projects. BC residents may wish that this effort to resolve the land claims across the province ends the way the last one did. It was in 2009 when former BC premier Gordon Campbell pulled back at the last minute on the Recognition and Reconciliation Act, which would have reconstituted BC’s unceded lands into 30 historic tribal areas. BC Conservative opponents, surging in public opinion polls even before they choose their next leader, have promised to repeal DRIPA on day one after defeating the NDP. The concept of “shared decision-making” goes back to 2006, when Campbell’s government signed a framework agreement for the “Great Bear Rainforest,” a faux-indigenous name for the vast region of the central and northern Pacific coast that was transferred to effective control of the group that came to be known as the Coastal First Nations. That’s a selected group of the many coastal communities set up by the David Suzuki Foundation with US support to form a barrier against Canadian oil exports. Shared decision-making in those days was not only with the Haida Nation and other anti-oil indigenous groups, but with Greenpeace, the Sierra Club and ForestEthics, now known as San Francisco-based Stand.Earth. The north coast oil tanker loading ban remains today, thanks to Justin Trudeau, and US-backed environmental groups are still active in BC. A current court challenge to BC’s second natural gas pipeline to the north coast is being run by Ecojustice, formerly known as the Sierra Legal Defence Fund. The current crisis officially arrived with the election of an NDP government under John Horgan in 2017. He barely toppled the BC Liberal dynasty with the help of three BC Green Party members and a Fraser Valley MLA who defected to the NDP to become speaker. Horgan’s mandate letter for his first minister of indigenous relations and reconciliation instructed him to make the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples part of BC law. Then-attorney general Eby completed that task with a little-noticed change to the Interpretation Act, which the BC Court of Appeal has since ruled makes DRIPA the law of the land in the province. History, common sense and the latest opinion poll suggest that Eby’s summer-long effort to settle this mess is not expected to succeed. It’s difficult to win when your opening move is to surrender, as Eby has done with the legal directive to abandon “extinguishment” of aboriginal title as the Crown’s position in court. BC may survive this latest crisis, assuming DRIPA is repealed and the legitimacy of the Crown is restored. But that’s not likely to be achieved by an NDP government."
Meme - Scott McLeod: "Last week I was sitting beside a non Indigenous gentleman at the airport waiting for my connecting flight. He struck up a conversation with me which, for the most part was pleasant enough (he was actually from sturgeon). When he inquired to what it is I do for work I informed him that I was Chief of my community. His reply was simply "Oh so I pay your salary?" Rather than being insulted and getting angry I decided to do him a favour and educate him a little. My reply: "Sir, a little lesson in the basics of economics may give you a better understanding of how things actually work. The very fundamental ingredient for any economy in this world is having a land base, one that is rich in resources. These resources are harvested, extracted or grown from that land. This creates commodities and revenues, This in turn creates a workforce that pays into a tax base that creates roads, infrastructures, schools and hospitals. This workforce in turn needs services and goods which expands this economy creating more businesses and more jobs. Pretty basic stuff. Now, where do you think this land base came from sir? The Indigenous people of "Canada" signed Treaties to share our land base so Indigenous and non indigenous could all prosper from the richness of our land base. Instead, our people got raped, murdered, thrown in residential schools, jails and marginalized from the economic benefits of our own land and became the poorest people as a result. So no matter what job or business you have, Indigenous people have paid and continue to pay YOUR salary every single day whether you'd like to admit it or not. No land base = no country = no economy = no job, it's really that simple" To all my non Indigenous friends, this week is Treaty Week, if you believe Canada is the best country in the world please take the time to learn about it's real history and be thankful.
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The people who support this also call landlords useless parasites who harm society because they don't produce anything
Fran Yanor on X - "A new DRIPA-related case in BC courts could force BC Hydro to pay more for energy generated by Indigenous-owned power producers, potentially leaving ratepayers on the hook, writes former BC Utilities commissioner Richard Mason for @BeatNorthern"
Ben Woodfinden on X - "This is bonkers, worth reading because if the implications. A First Nation bought into Rockford, a regular private power company in 2023, after BC Hydro’s standard renewal terms were already public knowledge. Now they’re in court arguing their Indigenous status entitles them to the higher rates BC Hydro reserves for brand new Indigenous-owned projects. They entered a commercial venture with eyes open, and are now using constitutional consultation rights to extract a better price. This is what DRIPA has created - weaponized litigation to renegotiate commercial contracts after the fact. The courts get clogged. The uncertainty spreads. Investors flee. And ordinary people pay more for electricity. This madness needs to stop."
Federal, Manitoba governments breached First Nations' child welfare rights, judge says in 'historic' decision : r/winnipeg_alt - ""A good place to start would be focusing on preventing involvement with Child and Family Services, rather than apprehending kids, she said." Really easy way to do that is not abuse children in the first place."
"Yeah I’m sure they’ll just stop trying to rescue these kids and then we will get blamed for not doing enough, cycle continues etc. etc."
Clearly, indigenous people abusing their children is white people's fault, but the only solution is to give even more money to them
The Reclamare on X - "Sept 6, 1930 Kamloops Residential School. A request is made for Ottawa to pay to build larger fruit and vegetable storage rooms at the School "wishes to buy 15 tons of apples for winter use""
Damn Genocide! Clearly this was a precursor for the Gaza Genocide!
Karla Treadway | Host Sovereign Sphere Podcast on X - "Chief Allan Adam is the lead voice of the First Nations coalition that brought the legal challenge that killed the citizen-led Alberta separation petition. He went on CBC to celebrate the ruling. He called it a "great win for Canada and for democracy." But here is what CBC didn't ask him about. Chief Allan receives foreign interference money. The Tides Foundation is a left-wing lobby organization based in San Francisco who wired $55,000 directly to Chief Allan Adam's bank account to oppose the oil sands. Shortly after receiving that money, Adam flew to Toronto to sit on a stage next to Neil Young to publicly demonize Canada's energy industry. CBC themselves reported that various American funders contributed an estimated $40 million to Canadian environmental and Indigenous groups with one specific goal.... to landlock Alberta crude by blocking pipeline construction. Researcher Vivian Krauss attributed the cancellation of Northern Gateway, Energy East, Keystone, and Trans Mountain directly to this coordinated American-funded campaign. Chief Allan Adam was part of that campaign. He gladly took the money. This is real foreign interference in Canada's energy economy. And the same man who took American money to block Canadian prosperity is now the man leading the charge to block Albertans from having a democratic vote on their own future. Meanwhile he REAPS the benefits of tax payer money from the very same industry profits. The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation's own audited financial statements tell a story that Chief Adam did not mention once during his CBC interview. Combined with existing assets and real estate holdings, the band is sitting on close to $300 million. And the registered population of this band? 1,567 people total. With only 33 people living on reserve. That works out to roughly $9 million per person on reserve and Canadian taxpayers are still sending them $10 million a year plus a $100 million lump sum payout. Meanwhile this reserve has no public accounting of money spent since 2021. That's five years of missing financial disclosures. No accountability. No transparency. And the money keeps flowing. Chief Adam has been doing this for years:
2018 — The National Post reported his complaints were complicating the Liberal review of the Frontier Oil Sands mine. The Alberta government publicly stated his concerns were about money, not environment.
2018 — Despite publicly criticizing fossil fuel developers and hosting anti-oil activists including Leonardo DiCaprio, Adam signed a benefit agreement with Teck after what he described as positive negotiations. His opposition was for sale.
2020 — Adam was stopped by RCMP outside a Fort McMurray casino for an expired license plate, resisted arrest, and publicly accused the officers of "racist" treatment. The RCMP was cleared. No evidence of misconduct was found.
Chief Allan Adam did not vote against Alberta separation. He did not organize Albertans to vote against it. He went to court to make sure Albertans never got to vote on it at all. Over 300,000 Albertans signed that petition. They followed the law. They used the exact democratic mechanism the Legislature created for them. And a judge threw every one of those signatures in the garbage. A man taking money from foreign interference organizations who also massively benefits from Alberta prosperity is taking democratic rights away from Albertans. Yet he thinks this is a "win for democracy." Canadians you are being scammed in every way possible."
Foreign - American, even - interference is only bad when it threatens the left wing agenda
She heckled a land acknowledgement. Child services were sent after her - "Childcare authorities were called on Lara Yates, a mother-of-four, after she dared to heckle a land acknowledgement at a school in British Columbia, says her lawyer. Land acknowledgements are tedious political theatre and pompous virtue signalling and weaponizing social services to persecute those who refuse to adhere to this zealotry smacks of the Inquisition. For her sin, Yates was also banned from the school premises for two months. She is now at the centre of a legal battle which might have the advantage of declaring land acknowledgements as quasi-religious in nature and should therefore be banished from schools, city councils and other places where we don’t expect to be indoctrinated by those in authority. “Schools are supposed to be neutral public educators, they’re not supposed to be weighing in on political or sectarian matters,” said Lisa Bildy, the lawyer for Yates... “This has become a form of quasi-religious ritual now, at the beginning of all these performances, and not everybody agrees.”... “Targeting this family with social services interventions because they do not share the current progressive orthodoxy over land acknowledgments is reprehensible. Ms. Yates and her family have rightly interpreted this action as threatening and intimidating, meant to wield the power of the state in order to silence their political and ideological dissent.”... In one of her letters to the school district, Bildy cited a Supreme Court of Canada case who referenced a judge saying, “If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.” That Supreme Court case has lots of profound nuggets which officials, like school principals, would do well to read. Such as, “a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.” Or, “The essence of the marketplace of ideas argument is that control and regulation of expression is intolerable because we can trust no government to know the truth. Those who purport to legislate the truth invariably turn out to be tyrants.” Tyrants, you say?"
Clearly, land acknowledgements are part of being a decent human being, and human decency is not being political
Coastal B.C. First Nation leaders go to Calgary to dissuade pipeline investors - "A delegation of First Nations leaders from British Columbia have come to Calgary to relay a message to pipeline executives face-to-face: steer clear of investing in a new bitumen pipeline to the northwest coast or risk a prolonged legal fight... Chief councillor Arnold Clifton of the Gitga'at First Nation recalled the "David and Goliath" fight northern B.C. communities won against Enbridge Inc., whose Northern Gateway proposal to Kitimat, B.C., was scrapped a decade ago amid fierce Indigenous opposition. "I think it's going to be a lot stronger now if anything would come up, because we'll have everyone involved to fight," he told The Canadian Press... Hereditary Chief Darin Swanson of the Haida Nation, who also goes by Ginaawaan, said no amount of money would convince him to support a bitumen pipeline and tanker port."
Clearly, Donald Trump is the reason why Canada has seen stagnant GDP per capita growth since 2015, when the Liberals took over federally, and Alberta are traitors for selling their oil and gas to the USA
Pickering councillor faces possible 9th sanction over residential school video | CBC News
Jonathan Kay on X - "1. councillor notes that no “unmarked graves” found in Kamloops
2. colleagues attack her for speaking a forbidden truth
3. CBC, which *itself* admitted in 2025 that no “unmarked graves” found in Kamloops, reports on it…without mentioning that she’s right"
You're not allowed to question anything Indigenous people say if that threatens the left wing agenda. Indigenous people can say anything they like and no proof is needed, an if you ask for it this is "far right" and it has "no place in respectful public discourse".
Rob Shaw on X - "BC Parks says Joffre Lakes Provincial Park near Pemberton will close to non-Indigenous people from June 20-27, and Sept. 8-30 to allow First Nations to practice cultural and conservation traditions. Has been policy for several years. But could be contentious in current climate."
Jonathan Kay on X - "Yes racial segregation at government facilities does tend to be “contentious”"
Meme - *Every Child Matters logo*
"Every Hoax Matters"
Meme - "It's Red Dress Day, a day to honour the memory of the astoundingly high number of aboriginal femicides, mostly at the hands of aboriginal men. The sad statistics that speak volumes about a high level of aboriginal domestic violence also dispel activist accusations of genocide."
"Statistics Canada (2023 Juristat report on homicides of Indigenous women and girls, 2009-2021): In most solved cases, the accused was Indigenous (explicitly stated as 86% for accused persons between 2014 and 2021). Victims and accused were known to each other in 81% of cases (intimate partner 35%, acquaintance 24%, family member 22%). The vast majority of homicide perpetrators overall (across all groups) are male; female-perpetrated homicides of females are rare. Indigenous women and girls had a homicide rate about 6 times higher than non-Indigenous counterparts."
The cope is that this is just those who are caught, and anti-indigenous racism means there're much more white men out there killing indigenous women, but they are not caught because white supremacy means white people can murder indigenous people and get away with it
Sarkonak: Danielle Smith gets it. Aboriginal rights have gone too far | National Post - "Within the tangle of Indigenous rights holding down the Canadian economy is Section 35 of the 1982 Constitution — the Indigenous rights guarantee. It’s the country’s very own Gordian Knot, and that’s why it was such a good sign that Premier Danielle Smith is willing to split it. “If there’s an appetite among the other premiers to talk about defining that ever further through some kind of constitutional amendment, I’m open to having that conversation,” Smith told reporters at a Friday news conference. She added that the conversation could start as early as this week. Section 35 is the reason why private property rights have been in flux in B.C. since last summer; it’s the cause of death for pipeline projects that couldn’t survive past the drawing board. It’s a convenient excuse for weak governments to justify their inaction when Indigenous fishers on the East Coast harvest illegally. And earlier this month, when an Alberta judge invalidated a citizens’ petition on secession for the preposterous reason that Indigenous people weren’t consulted first, it became a barrier to democracy. Since it was added in 1982, this part of the Constitution has grown far beyond treaty acknowledgements and assurances that traditions will be considered when state decisions are made. This is because the courts have interpreted it more broadly and given it more power over time. In 2004, for example, the Supreme Court decided that Section 35 imposes upon the Crown a duty to consult with potentially affected Indigenous people whenever an upcoming government decision could affect their interests. This has given the anti-development wings of the Indigenous community incredible leverage in their efforts to roadblock the Canadian economy. They’re much more likely to win in court if they decide that consultations aren’t to their standard. Even the most unserious arguments that fail in the end — like the claim that a grizzly bear spirit would be disturbed by a new ski resort and thus it should not be built, which lost at the Supreme Court in 2017 — can pause projects for years and cause such a political headache that projects die on the page anyway. Last year, a judge in B.C. applied that duty retroactively to Vancouver-area colonial officials a century ago in a case called Cowichan Tribes. To the shock of no one, these long-dead men did not meet her high standards. The effect? Some early land transactions that took place long ago in an area of Richmond were tainted. The people who own those lands today were told in August that the local Cowichan Tribes also have exclusive property interests over the area. It doesn’t make a lot of sense, and, by the account of Aboriginal law lawyer Thomas Isaac, it appears to be causing landowners grief. “I know of two examples, firsthand knowledge, of two commercial purchases in the eight-digit range — the tens of millions — of two commercial parcels, two separate deals, not on the 800 or the 1,800 acres (in the area affected by the court decision) … within the city of Richmond,” Isaac told the Kelowna Real Estate Podcast in December. “Both of those deals fell apart because the purchasers walked away, and in both of those instances, the only reason that was given was a lack of certainty in British Columbia’s land title system and the Cowichan decision.” The worst of this problem manifests in B.C., but it’s always possible that a judge could find that historic Crown agents also had a duty to consult with the Indigenous in the course of arranging land secession treaties elsewhere in the country. That would pull the rug out from under the property system in places considered stable now, such as the Prairies and Ontario. Few dare to talk about paring it all back. It’s a bold idea, one met with visceral displeasure from progressives who thirst for decolonization, and amplified by the media sympathetic to them. Anyone who talks about removing or declawing Section 35 risks severe political blowback. But between the erosion of property rights in B.C. and now, democratic rights in Alberta, the moment calls for bravery. Smith gets the honour. The trouble with Section 35 is that it’s ironclad, lodged within a Constitution that is nearly impossible to amend. It takes the House of Commons and the Senate to both agree, along with two-thirds of the provinces (with the additional requirement that these provinces comprise more than half of the country’s population)... “I think it’s worth it to go back and look at what the founders had to say when they were putting (Section 35) in the Constitution,” Smith said"
Left wing logic: since corporations don't want to build due to regulatory and legal uncertainty, governments shouldn't do anything because the free market has spoken and we shouldn't interfere with the free market. If governments try to do anything to reverse the damage, this is a "corporate subsidy" and "crony capitalism" and proof of corruption
This is why left wingers hate Danielle Smith and Alberta so much

LInks - 9th July 2026 (2 - Migrants: Europe - Germany [including Citizen Vigilante])

2026-07-09T17:55:00.000+08:00

The migrant-killing vigilante film that’s been banned in Germany - "Citizen Vigilante was inspired by a notorious case in Hamburg in 2016, when a group of teenagers gang-raped a 14-year-old girl and left her for dead, only for the perpetrators to walk free with suspended sentences. Parallels between this and the recent case in Britain when three teenage boys walked free after raping two teenage girls are obvious, and for Boll, it’s important that his pictures respond angrily to what he sees as social injustices. “If you look at what happened in Hamburg, where the rapists walked free without any penalty, the coverage in the media was like ‘oh, the poor perpetrators’,” says Boll. “It’s as if we’re living in a completely insane and absurd political environment, especially in Europe, where people have completely lost track. There is a huge difference between so-called ‘hate speech’ and stabbing people in the neck. But facts don’t matter any more.”... The film is implicitly critical of Boll’s native Germany, despite being set in the United States (and filmed, for budgetary reasons, in Croatia), and he has been rewarded with its being effectively banned in his home country. “The rating system refused to give us a rating, so now you can only watch it if you bring in a Blu-ray from Austria or Switzerland. And I think they did that on purpose. It was a deliberate censorship decision. I hired a lawyer to complain about it, but we lost in a six-two vote, as I was told that the film was inciting violence against migrants.” Boll is used to considerable opposition to his films, which also include the widely derided House of the Dead and Postal. The director’s robust, two-fisted approach to his critics – quite literally, in 2006, when he fought and beat five of his most vehement detractors in 10-round boxing matches – has seen him become a pariah in Hollywood and the European film industry, but he continues to obtain funding from a variety of sources. His low-budget pictures, often starring actors who have either passed their prime or faced difficulties in the profession, usually turn a profit thanks to foreign sales and a public appetite for sensational, often violent, content on screen... “It’s absurd how I feel politically,” Boll tells me. “Now you’re being told that if you’re a conservative about anything – social, sexual, political – that you’re a Nazi. But this is how things stand at the moment. If you question anything – such as the hundreds of billions being pumped into Ukraine – then you’re either a friend of Putin or a Nazi or both.” Is he? Boll laughs, like a man who has been asked this question several times before. “I am not a Nazi!” Boll, in fact, would not even regard himself as a conservative. “I grew up a Social Democrat, as did the rest of my family, and we voted for leaders like [former German chancellor] Gerhard Schröder. Now, of course, he’d be persona non grata as well, despite having done the only economic reform in Germany that worked. These days, Social Democrats want leaders like Mamdani in New York: literal communists who just want to tax the rich to death and have the government take over the economy so we can all follow socialist rules.”... Boll expresses a desire to have an Expendables-esque lineup of other great thespians who have fallen foul of the system in his pictures. “Take Kevin Spacey, for instance. One of the best actors working today. I’d love to cast him in a strong male lead in one of my pictures, but by doing so, I can guarantee that the film would not get an American distributor. To me, that’s unfair. He won all the lawsuits and legal cases, and now he’s stuck in these very cheap exotic movies he’s making now. I think he should come back and get another shot.” Boll has never been in the mainstream of the film industry, despite having, at various times, cast actors as respected as Jason Statham, Ben Kingsley, JK Simmons and, now, Hammer in his pictures. He dismisses Hollywood entirely: “they schmooze up to Trump but most of them hate him, and with the possible exception of Paramount, none of them are conservative…all the decision-makers, from Netflix and Apple to Amazon, are all on the left, and they’re so politically correct that they won’t greenlight anything that is politically critical.”... Boll wants Citizen Vigilante to be taken seriously, and our interview ends on a sombre note. “I’m not surprised about the rioting that I saw in Belfast the other day. In the end, this is what you get when you ignore people, and that’s the same as in my movie. I’m not condoning violence of any kind – it’s unacceptable and I’m against it in any form – but I think people are just saying ‘Enough is enough’ now.”"
How two violent gang rapes of teenage girls by migrants in Germany inspired a 'banned' movie now being watched by millions around the world - to the horror of the liberal establishment - "We have discovered details for the first time about its links to that night in September 2020 in Hamburg’s City Park (called Stadtpark) when the nine young migrants dragged the drunk teenager into some bushes, raping her for almost three hours while filming the horror on their mobile phones. Only one of her attackers, an adult Iranian, was imprisoned, and in 2023 he received a pathetic sentence of less than three years. The remaining eight were exonerated by the judge on the premise that their sickening attack, after which the gang stole the girl’s wallet and mobile phone, was a ‘means of releasing frustration and anger’ stemming from their experience of migrating to Europe and their resulting ‘cultural homelessness’. Controversially, the trial – at a youth court because the perpetrators were aged under 21 at the time – was held in secret. It ran for 68 days and took evidence from 96 people including sympathetic ‘migration experts’ and social workers. An outcry over the non-custodial sentences, later upheld by an appeals court, followed the landmark case. Shockingly, there were even calls on social media for attacks on the presiding judge, a move condemned by the city judiciary as ‘utterly intolerable’. In a further twist, a 20-year-old Hamburg woman named only as ‘Maja R’ sent one of the migrant attackers a WhatsApp message, calling him a ‘disgraceful racist pig and freak’ who should feel ashamed. Horrifyingly, Maja herself was sent to a youth prison for a weekend in June 2024 as punishment for ‘insulting’ the rapist. Hamburg, a liberal city, was already reeling from an earlier high-profile case in the working-class suburb of Harburg in February 2016. Several young migrants from Balkan countries had gang-raped a teenage girl at a birthday party, using bottles and other objects during their assault and filming it on their phones. The half-naked victim was left ‘like a piece of meat’ in the freezing cold which resulted in her being rushed to hospital with hypothermia. This attack also sparked a row over lenient sentencing when three of the perpetrators, aged between 14 and 17, received suspended terms of under two years because they had ‘shown remorse’. Tens of thousands of Germans signed a petition demanding longer jail terms for the rapists, and a retrial ordered by Germany’s highest criminal court eventually resulted in tougher penalties for the culprits. Such are the febrile conditions in which Citizen Vigilante was created... Citizen Vigilante sets out to show that the West’s criminal justice system has been hijacked by a Left-wing establishment that protects migrant criminals at the expense of native Europeans... Sanders goes on to confront the family of a young rapist, asking his father why his son had attacked a girl, apparently because she was wearing a miniskirt. The father responds: ‘I teach him the values of the Koran and this family,’ which shockingly earns him a bullet in the head... ‘If five neo-Nazis raped a 15-year-old migrant girl, they would get 15 years in prison,’ he insists. Yet when a migrant commits the same crime, ‘these people always get off the hook. We’re told they’re under 18, or “traumatised”, or they are getting “psychological evaluation”. Law enforcement, the judges, the media, have become almost crazy.’ He says that Citizen Vigilante represents all those people who have been let down by the system. ‘It doesn’t help them to hear things like the rapists were “traumatised migrants”. I mean, what would you feel if you are the father of that girl [in Hamburg’s Stadtpark], or if you’re the raped girl herself?’ Boll says after the 2020 park-rape case, a seasoned newspaper commentator went on German TV to say the migrant attackers were victims of failed integration: they needed more money, more teachers, more social services and a better environment in Germany. ‘That is where I draw the line. It sends out a view that the victim doesn’t matter at all.’ In the graphic opening scene of his film, in which, as he puts it, a ‘mother gets stabbed and bleeds out in front of her little son’, he says: ‘This was deliberate, as a way of dealing with these random acts of violence, that get sugar-coated in the media. I have had discussions with people here in Germany, and they pointed out there are way more rapes and stabbings inside marriages. ‘My point is that the random violence of being pushed in front of a Tube train, or stabbed from behind in the neck, or being raped because you wear a bikini to the public swimming pool, is way more dangerous. ‘It’s terrible, of course, if a wife gets raped inside a marriage, but that’s not a security risk for anybody else. But if you have daughters or, as a woman, you go on your own to the lake to swim – and then you get grabbed and raped randomly – that’s a huge security risk because you basically cannot go to the pool because you are scared.’... ‘The German subsidised [state] system only produces the films where migrants look good, where migrants are successful, where migrants are fully integrated. Not one movie is done in Germany at all where migrants commit a real crime.’ His movie, thanks in part to the notoriety secured by its being banned, was on the way to huge success even before Elon Musk provided a platform for it. As it reaps millions of dollars for Boll, he tells us unemotionally that ‘when I was going around with the script, every streaming service told me I was a Nazi. They despise this idea even of shooting the movie like this. And it’s already topping Apple TV in America.’ At the end of Citizen Vigilante, a controversial statement appears in large letters. It says: ‘This film is dedicated to the thousands of rape and murder victims in Europe who were betrayed by our legal system.’ As things stand today, that is a stark message that German authorities, and perhaps those of other European countries mired in the growing problems wrought by mass migration, would prefer no one sees."
Left wingers love to promote "banned" media. Ironic.
Nate Fischer on X - "Watched Citizen Vigilante thanks to the endorsement by the German government. They are right to recognize the danger of its message. Nothing delegitimizes a regime more than refusal to protect its citizens—an intentional failure to fulfill the most fundamental and timeless function of government. And nothing more instinctively draws citizens to a prospective replacement than filling this gap."
Germany’s Intelligence Chief Warns of Islamist Infiltration of Political Institutions - "Islamist groups in general and the Muslim Brotherhood in particular were exerting targeted influence on state and political structures in Germany with a view to transforming the state and society, Selen told the secret meeting. The ultimate goal of these infiltration attempts was the establishment of an Islamic society. The Muslim Brotherhood does not act violently, but it is no less dangerous, because it pursues its objectives in an extremely strategic manner with long-term goals, the intelligence head noted. The Islamists respect German laws—but only insofar as these laws are compatible with Sharia. The Muslim Brotherhood’s strategy involves establishing contacts with political figures and inviting them to events through a complex network of organizations. The goal is to build long-term relationships and influence public officials in line with the movement’s agenda. For example, officials should oppose criticism of political Islam or turn a blind eye to Islamism, Selen said... In a follow-up interview with BILD published on June 4, Güner Balci, the Integration Commissioner for Berlin-Neukölln, confirmed that Islamist infiltration was so widespread in Germany that there are “still police projects nationwide in which Islamists participate.” “Women and girls are forced to enter marriage as virgins or at least to pretend to be,” Balci warned. Because many people in Muslim communities “despise, abhor, and even want to punish” homosexuality, “we have a very high number of homophobic attacks and crimes in Neukölln, but also in other districts of Berlin.”... It is noteworthy that both Germany’s domestic intelligence chief Sinan Selen, born in Istanbul and raised in a secular Turkish family that immigrated to Cologne, and Berlin-Neukölln Integration Commissioner Güner Balcı, the daughter of Turkish Alevi guest workers, have emerged as particularly clear-eyed voices on the Islamist threat. Their backgrounds underscore the critical distinction between Islam as a faith and Islamism as a political ideology. Those with intimate knowledge of Muslim-majority societies and communities often best appreciate this divide—and recognize that effectively countering Islamist infiltration requires supporting anti-Islamist Muslims and secular voices rather than blurring the lines between the religion and its totalitarian perversion... “Aha! Officially, they say the threat comes from the right—but behind closed doors, they say something completely different,” the computer scientist and political commentator Hadmut Danish remarked. “What only select guests in the Bundestag were allowed to hear behind closed doors should be known to all of Germany.” “The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the Greens, and the Left Party can be considered to have been taken over by Islamists. In the case of the Greens, this is quite clear, and in the case of the Left Party, it’s practically blatant,” Danish wrote. “I know the Greens are strongly Islamist, and the entire left-wing bloc is infiltrated by Islam.” Exploring the links between leftist ideologies such as feminism, immigration, and Islamism, Danish asked: “Could it be, if one thinks this through further, that feminism serves this goal simply to prevent Germans from having children so that Islam can gain a majority more quickly?” He added, “First feminism, then migration due to declining birth rates? A plan? Systematic extermination? At least feminism and Islamic immigration both emerged at roughly the same time, in the seventies.”... Writing on X, the German political scientist Nina Scholz said she was “naturally delighted when security agencies share the analysis from our book.” Scholz’s book, Political Islam—A Hybrid Threat to Europe: The Muslim Brotherhood’s “Civilization Jihad,” was published in April. According to Scholz’s findings, the Muslim Brotherhood attempts to delegitimize the state and its institutions by infiltrating state institutions, influencing legislation, and exploiting the state’s weakness caused by external and internal crises to shift norms. “A central element of their strategy is citizenship, which grants civic rights to activists in the network,” she writes, explaining that Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the chief ideologue of the Brotherhood, explicitly recommends that Muslims accept the citizenship of their host countries in his book on the interpretation of Islamic norms for Muslims in non-Muslim countries... Ultimately, the “strategic goal of the Muslim Brotherhood is the complete elimination of equal partnerships,” which are “replaced by a model of asymmetrical alliances in which potential partners are subordinate to the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood.”"
Germany: Government report reveals astronomical crime rates for young foreigners compared to German youth - " The suspect burden figure (TVBZ) has been compiled by the Federal Criminal Police (BKA) and published in the Police Crime Statistics (PKS) starting this year. This ratio shows the total number of identified suspects over the age of eight, and is calculated per 100,000 inhabitants per population group. It examines all crimes except for immigration law violations, and the data presents a concerning trend. For German suspects across all age groups, the TVBZ is 1,878. In contrast, Syrian suspects have a TVBZ of 8,236, and Afghan suspects are at 8,753 — more than four times higher. New German federal government statistics indicate that young foreigners are disproportionately represented as suspects in numerous crimes, with particularly significant differences in street crime and shoplifting. The suspect burden figure (TVBZ) has been compiled by the Federal Criminal Police (BKA) and published in the Police Crime Statistics (PKS) starting this year. This ratio shows the total number of identified suspects over the age of eight, and is calculated per 100,000 inhabitants per population group. It examines all crimes except for immigration law violations, and the data presents a concerning trend. For German suspects across all age groups, the TVBZ is 1,878. In contrast, Syrian suspects have a TVBZ of 8,236, and Afghan suspects are at 8,753 — more than four times higher. However, when the data is compared among young people, the disparity is even more pronounced. Syrians between 14 and 18 years old are five times more likely to commit a crime than Germans in the same age bracket. However, in regard to other groups of young people from North Africa, the difference is even more astronomical. Algerian youth feature a TVBZ rate that is a tremendous 56 times higher than Germans. For Moroccans, it is 19 times higher. Differences are also notable across specific offense categories. In street crime, which includes offenses like bodily harm, robbery, sexual harassment, and pickpocketing, the TVBZ for German suspects is 168. For Syrians, this figure jumps to 1,291, and for Afghans, it’s 1,218—nearly eight times as high... Many of these German citizen suspects have a foreign background; however, there is often no way of knowing how many of these suspects have a foreign background because Germany does not record this information. There are some ways around this. As data from North Rhine-Westphalia showed, when the first names of gang rape suspects are analyzed, it shows that at least half of the German citizens clearly had names from a foreign background, such as Mohammad. During the Berlin riots on New Year’s, a list of the names of suspects was leaked to the press, which showed a huge number of the “German” suspects actually had foreign names. New German federal government statistics indicate that young foreigners are disproportionately represented as suspects in numerous crimes, with particularly significant differences in street crime and shoplifting. The suspect burden figure (TVBZ) has been compiled by the Federal Criminal Police (BKA) and published in the Police Crime Statistics (PKS) starting this year. This ratio shows the total number of identified suspects over the age of eight, and is calculated per 100,000 inhabitants per population group. It examines all crimes except for immigration law violations, and the data presents a concerning trend. For German suspects across all age groups, the TVBZ is 1,878. In contrast, Syrian suspects have a TVBZ of 8,236, and Afghan suspects are at 8,753 — more than four times higher. However, when the data is compared among young people, the disparity is even more pronounced. Syrians between 14 and 18 years old are five times more likely to commit a crime than Germans in the same age bracket. However, in regard to other groups of young people from North Africa, the difference is even more astronomical. Algerian youth feature a TVBZ rate that is a tremendous 56 times higher than Germans. For Moroccans, it is 19 times higher. Differences are also notable across specific offense categories. In street crime, which includes offenses like bodily harm, robbery, sexual harassment, and pickpocketing, the TVBZ for German suspects is 168. For Syrians, this figure jumps to 1,291, and for Afghans, it’s 1,218—nearly eight times as high. The data was released after a parliamentary inquiry from AfD domestic policy spokesperson Martin Hess, who criticized the findings, stating, “This is the predictable result of a migration policy that has been completely failed for decades and has given up all control since 2015 at the latest.” Hess had previously requested detailed data on crime rates among foreigners, broken down by nationality and age group, in a small inquiry in June. This data also needs to be considered from another perspective. Many of these German citizen suspects have a foreign background; however, there is often no way of knowing how many of these suspects have a foreign background because Germany does not record this information. There are some ways around this. As data from North Rhine-Westphalia showed, when the first names of gang rape suspects are analyzed, it shows that at least half of the German citizens clearly had names from a foreign background, such as Mohammad. During the Berlin riots on New Year’s, a list of the names of suspects was leaked to the press, which showed a huge number of the “German” suspects actually had foreign names. A top Berlin prosecutor has indicated that up to three out of four clan members have German citizenship. Any time any of these suspects commit a crime, it is recorded as a German suspect. If Germany kept data on the crime rate of German citizens with a foreign background, as Denmark does, it would likely reveal an incredibly high crime rate among this group of German citizens. This policy has been promoted by the AfD, also to help measure the integration rates of foreigners even after generations have resided in Germany. The new TVBZ data will also pop a myth from the left, which is that foreigners are committing such high rates of violence because they are mostly young men. However, as the data shows, German suspects, when compared to foreign suspects from the same exact age group, often feature dramatically lower crime rates. Germany also has an extremely strong welfare state, which means these foreign youths have access to food, shelter, and consumer goods. This data comes after crime data showed that German men actually feature lower violence rates than women from a number of different foreign groups."
Are men really behind the crime problem? German statistics show foreign women are more violent - "The constant refrain is that men in general are behind Germany’s crime problem and that foreign origin is secondary. However, current data shows the opposite is true. Last year, Syrian women had higher rates, per 100,000 people suspected of violence, than German men. The data shows that for 100,000 German men, 272 were suspected of a violent offense. For Syrian women, this figure per 100,00 was 336. Clearly, Syrian women were more violent than German men. However, they are not the only group. Afghan women are also more violent, with a rate of 359, even more violent than Syrian women. Iraqi women have an incredible rate of 394, which is considerably more than German men. Even Serbian women are more violent than German men, with a rate of 371. Bulgarian women are at 359. For German women, only 60 are suspected of a violent crime per 100,000. All of this data makes the left’s generalized argument about the “violent male” questionable at best. Although, German police, in the name of the left’s precious mantra of gender equality, did somehow manage to confiscate knives from elderly German women at Christmas markets."
'We have imported knife violence' – Wave of knife attacks shakes Germany once again - "Another wave of knife attacks has hit Germany, showing that not much has changed despite the many lost lives and Germans maimed in knife attacks. In fact, the statistics show that these crimes are even getting worse, with 79 knife attacks per day now recorded. A German criminal lawyer warns that Germany has “imported knife violence,” in response to growing blade crimes. In the last few days, headlines include Kosovar man arrested after knife attack in Germany injures three, including 12-year-old girl” “Man stabbed half to death on basketball court,” “Manhunt continues after Syrian asylum seeker stabs 5 outside student bar in Bielefeld,” and “Rioter injures police officer with knife.” However, thousands of such headlines have run in the German press in recent years, with Remix News reporting on many of them. The overwhelming number of perpetrators are foreigners or those with a foreign background, yet despite promises to crack down and enact deportations of migrant criminals, the bloodshed not only continues but appears to be getting worse. “We have imported knife violence. In other cultures, the knife is a kind of status symbol. This is changing the social climate here in the country,” stated criminal attorney Udo Vetter. He further notes that “knives have become an everyday companion for many people. And the barrier to using them is low.” Notably, he warns that due to the rise of knives and knife crimes, it is creating a problem that is expected to only grow exponentially, with more and more people arming themselves with knives out of fear."

Finally we have the proof that Lucy Connolly was stitched up (Two Tier Justice)

2026-07-09T13:46:00.000+08:00

Government-spread misinformation is good, because it pushes the left wing agenda.
Finally we have the proof that Lucy Connolly was stitched up
"[She] had been made an example of by a British state that was increasingly nervous that people no longer accepted its narrative on multiculturalism – “Diversity is our strength!”.
So terrified was the criminal justice system by the threat of social unrest it was determined to clamp down on anyone who dared challenge it.
As most of you will know, on July 29 2024, on the evening of the Southport massacre of three little girls, Lucy was in quite a state. Diagnosed with PTSD after Harry’s death, she was easily triggered by any report of children suffering. The horrific incident, in which an unidentified male ran amok with a knife at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class on the first day of the summer holidays, had tipped her over the edge.
The fact that Axel Rudakubana was originally said by the media to be a Cardiff-born “quiet choir boy” angered Lucy, as did the insistence by police and MPs that the attack was not “terror related”, despite the targets being young Western girls enjoying moving their bodies to “decadent” pop music (not unlike the jihadist attack on the Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena which I have always attributed to Islamist misogyny), the discovery (we later learnt) of an al-Qaeda training manual on Rudakubana’s computer, and the presence of enough ricin under his bed to poison everyone in his street.
In the heat of the moment, Lucy put an angry and deeply unpleasant post on X – “Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f---ing hotels full of all the b-----ds for all I care, while you’re at it take the treacherous government and politicians with them. I feel physically sick knowing what these families will now have to endure. If that makes me racist, so be it.” She then took the dog for a walk, got home, thought better of what she’d said and took the tweet down within three hours of posting it.
Lucy was deeply ashamed of the tweet. “It doesn’t represent who I am”. That should have been the end of it, but somebody (believed by the Connolly family to be a Labour councillor) screenshotted it.
Lucy posted again, this time saying that “violence is not the answer”, but by then her original post had gone viral. The police came to arrest her at the start of a day when her living room was full of the small children she looked after. After an interview, it was reported by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) that Mrs Connolly had told police she “did not like immigrants and claimed that children were not safe from them”. She said nothing of the sort, but by the time the CPS admitted it the damage was done. Within hours, she was all over the media as “Tory councillor’s racist wife”.

Lucy was denied bail, although as a first-time offender with a blameless record she was the perfect candidate for it. With remarkable speed, her case was rushed through. Lucy was held on remand in prison and was persuaded by a duty solicitor that “going guilty” was her best option if she wanted to be home in time for Christmas with her 12-year-old daughter.
Such a case might be expected to be heard in a magistrates’ court – I was told by one horrified magistrate that she would be “looking for any reason not to jail someone like Lucy” – but a magistrate could not have given Lucy a long sentence, something we could speculate the state was rather keen on in the aftermath of the Southport “riots”.
The Connollys were shocked when the judge at Birmingham Crown Court delivered a lecture on what a diverse and tolerant nation the UK was and then, apparently ignoring all the mitigating factors and the powerful testimonials from ethnic-minority parents, sentenced Lucy to a shocking 31 months in jail.
I was deeply suspicious about Lucy Connolly’s case. Ray Connolly was almost as demonised as Lucy for insisting on Sky News “my wife is not a racist”. I believed him. After my own brush with police over a long-deleted tweet, I began to talk to Lucy in prison, and heard how she was being denied the normal leave granted even to hardcore offenders. I came to the chilling conclusion she was effectively a political prisoner.
After I wrote about Lucy, her story was picked up around the world, contributing to a growing alarm that Britain – ironically led by “human rights” lawyer Sir Keir Starmer – was exercising censorship of our ancient free-speech rights.
Much of this was surmise and not easy to prove. Questioned about the case, the Prime Minister said he had no knowledge of it. Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, was said not to have been involved in the sentencing of Mrs Connolly and others arrested in connection with the Southport riots. When Lucy applied to the CPS for her files, they said they didn’t have them.
Like many things Lucy was told, that wasn’t true. She put in a SAR (Subject Access Request) and this week was finally sent all the relevant documents. Some of what they contain is utterly damning – not of Lucy but of the criminal justice system that was clearly in a hurry to punish her as harshly as possible.
Lucy was charged on the night of August 9. By 9.45am the following day – a Saturday, when good lawyers are hard to find – the CPS had got confirmation that Lord Hermer had signed off the prosecution. Up early, was he? Emails said the case had gone through as an “emergency prosecution”, what one senior barrister described to me as “almost certainly unlawful”.
“They have to prove it’s an emergency – and it clearly isn’t,” he said. “What is it they’re trying to prevent? Mrs Connolly had already deleted her tweet. Saying it’s an emergency prosecution is clearly political.”
On email, the CPS continued: “There is evidence of other racist tweets sent on L.C’s account. Both before and after the particular tweet. This demonstrates that this was not a one-off regrettable tweet but part of her dislike for immigrants and a desire for…” [The final word of the sentence is redacted.]
Not true. “No further racist tweets were found on my phone or my Twitter account,” Lucy says. “This is confirmed by Northamptonshire Police in a reply to a complaint I made against them. There is one charge for one tweet on the indictment.” If the police or CPS claimed there were other racist tweets then they “misled the court,” says the barrister, “which is very serious.”
Astonishingly, district judges had been informed about “these cases” (linked to Southport presumably) and were told they must be put in “the next available slots”. Who was telling them that? Surely, it was the Ministry of Justice or even the Attorney General himself. “Unconstitutional” is what the barrister calls it.
Reasons cited for denying Lucy bail twice are “obviously unlawful”, he says. She didn’t need “protection” as she could be safe at home with her family. Also, there was no danger of a repeat offence, as the documents claim. “Police could have taken away her phone and her computer. Again, it looks like a political decision.”
The documents record that, on August 22, Lucy’s solicitor attended her second bail hearing (the first request had been refused). The hearing lasted two minutes. Just long enough to read out Lucy’s name, date of birth and address. “The decision had already been made,” Lucy tells me. “They clearly weren’t prepared to listen to any of my mitigating factors because how could they in such a short amount of time?” Either her solicitor didn’t offer a defence, or he wasn’t allowed to.
The courts were also told that charges and sentencing should reflect the “seriousness” with which Parliament “has approached the issue of racial hostility”. What has Parliament got to do with it? Isn’t the judiciary supposed to be independent?
As Lucy’s was a first offence she could have been fined and her case heard in a magistrates’ court. But, in the documents, the CPS reveals that they’ve been told that people (involved in Southport) are going to get custodial sentences of more than 12 months. Judges have been told that they will have to award a certain sentence. “They have a Sentencing Council which they claim is independent,” says the barrister. “Specifying what the sentence should be is definitely political interference.”
The documents also reference Frank Ferguson, head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, who said in a statement issued after Lucy pleaded guilty on September 2: “During police interview, Lucy Connolly stated she had strong views on immigration, told officers she did not like immigrants and claimed that children were not safe from them.”
“This was not what was said,” according to Lucy. “Police interviews confirm I did not say I did not like immigrants. I said I was concerned about undocumented men arriving in the UK illegally and we don’t know what they’ve done or where they’re from. This was later corrected by the CPS to reflect what I’d actually said.”
None of the above is particularly surprising to be honest, although I still find it shocking. “It just confirms everything we suspected,” says Lucy. “I’m just surprised they were prepared to put it down in black and white.”
With Starmer and Hermer preparing to restrict trial by jury, there seems no let-up in the authoritarian crackdown on “hate speech” (very often just telling the truth) that saw Lucy Connolly cruelly and absurdly spend more than a year away from her child. The same criminal justice system which gives insanely lenient sentences to foreign rapists did, in effect, put on a show trial for a white, working-class mum of previously good character who called out an asylum system which poses a growing danger to women and girls.
Well, it backfired. Lucy’s case became notorious. Once her draconian release conditions are lifted in a year’s time, and she can travel abroad, she has an open invitation to go and speak at the White House about the way she was fitted up to act as a deterrent to others who feel inclined to criticise what Lucy rightly called “treacherous government and politicians” who have lost control of our borders.
The Trump administration makes no secret of the fact that it regards Starmer’s Britain as a free-speech basket case and, in fact, Graham Linehan, the comedian, gave evidence to Congress today, about his arrest at Heathrow Airport by five armed officers last September for tweets he sent about the transgender debate."

Links - 9th July 2026 (1 - Department of Government Efficiency: USAID [including Layoffs])

2026-07-09T09:28:00.000+08:00

A Year After U.S.A.I.D.’s Death, Fired Workers Find Few Jobs and Much Loss - The New York Times - "Former U.S.A.I.D. workers who have done informal surveys estimate that less than half have found full-time work, with many making less than before. An estimated third are unemployed. Others are in part-time work... Others acknowledged that there was bloat and waste in the agency and a need for reform. Much of the $35 billion it managed in 2024 went to Washington-based contractors, not directly to people in need overseas. The success of many projects was hard to measure... U.S.A.I.D. workers who once thought of themselves as ambassadors for American “soft power” said they worried about the trust in the United States that was lost overseas"
Even before USAID got dismantled, the US was hated around the world. Looks like it was a very poor return on investment.
The fact that so many have not managed to find a new job suggests that they aren't very good workers
Robert Sterling on X - "I feel terrible for anyone who loses their job. I’m not trying to kick anyone while they’re down. But these USAID and NGO workers are the least sympathetic unemployed people I’ve ever seen. EVERY person in this story was making well into six figures:
USAID employee: $175,000
USAID contractor: $127,000
USAID-funded NGO employee: $272,000(!)
USAID advisor at the DOD: $195,000
USAID contractor: $200,000
There were 16,000 employees at USAID, and the New York Times was only able to interview one making less than $175k. Worldwide, there were an estimated 280,000 contractors. ALL of these people were getting paid from our tax dollars. Many were making 2-4x the wage of the average American taxpayer ($65-70k per year). Yes, USAID did some good work, especially during the Cold War. And, yes, many of the agency’s employees were hard-working Americans, with good intentions and love for their country. Again, we should take no joy in seeing thousands of people lose their livelihoods—this is not a case of justifiable schadenfreude. But it’s not sustainable for an agency with so little accountability to manage tens of billions of dollars per year, enriching tens of thousands of NGO-industrial-complex managers living in the DC/Maryland/Virginia metroplex in the process. Even the NYT acknowledges that “there was bloat and waste in the agency and a need for reform. Much of the $35 billion [USAID] managed in 2024 went to Washington-based contractors, not directly to people in need overseas. The success of many projects was hard to measure.” Every last dollar that went to these highly paid employees was funded by an American taxpayer, the vast majority of whom make far less money than the people laid off from USAID. We have the right to demand accountability, and we have the right to expect that these funds will be spent in our interest, not theirs. USAID and its thousands of employees, contractors, and NGO beneficiaries ignored that principle, and they eventually paid the price with their careers. I wish them all nothing but the best, but I won’t mourn that they will no longer be making $200k per year on the backs of American workers."
Fugitive Caesar on X - "personally I find this hilarious that Democrats spent the past 50+ years deindustrializing America, sending factories overseas, flooding blue-collar and white-collar jobs with 150 million foreigners, regulating business to death... and now they need to find jobs in this economy."
Razib Khan 🧬 ✍️ on X - "one thing that annoys me a bit is how the media focuses on gov. and media layoffs like tragedies in a way that they don't do with other sectors nearly to the same extent. losing your job and finding another one is pretty common for americans"
David Armano on X - "I was laid off in 2020 during the height of the pandemic in June, right around the time when our cities began to burn. It was terrible. I don’t wish that on anyone and it altered my career. I was 49. there’s little sympathy for private sector layoffs like what you see here"
Left wingers don't care about private sector layoffs because they hate the private sector
SightBringer on X - "⚡ The woman in that photo is being used as a political prop by the NYT and she probably doesn't even know it. The framing wants you to feel outrage at the cruelty of the cuts. But the actual data point buried in the story is devastating to the narrative it's trying to build. 272k for a senior VP at a USAID-funded nonprofit is not a real salary. It's a subsidy. That job existed inside a closed loop: taxpayer money flows to USAID, USAID funds NGOs, NGOs hire professionals at inflated rates, those professionals build lives around compensation that was never stress-tested against the open market. The entire salary was a function of proximity to the spigot. Not output. Not value creation. Not demand for her specific skills. The $19/hour number isn't the system being cruel. It's the system being honest for the first time. The market is saying: without the government funding stream, your skills at 57 command 39k. That's the real price. The 272k was the fiction. And here's what nobody in that thread will say: there are tens of thousands of people in the DC metro area alone sitting in exactly this position right now. Government-adjacent professionals whose entire compensation structure was built on a funding model that is being unwound. Not by AI, not by automation, but by simple political reallocation. And the market is going to reprice every single one of them. The deeper pattern is that an entire class of professional jobs in America were never real market jobs. They were artifacts of institutional spending that created its own employment ecosystem. Government, corporate middle management, DEI departments, compliance layers, consulting firms that exist to service other consulting firms. The whole structure was a series of jobs that existed because the money existed, not because the work needed doing at that price. That structure is now being compressed from multiple directions simultaneously. AI from one side. Spending cuts from another. Corporate efficiency mandates from a third. And the professional class that built its identity, its mortgages, its kids' tuitions, its retirement plans around those salaries is about to discover what the open market actually thinks they're worth. That's the repricing. This woman is just the first photo to go viral."
Clearly the problem was they weren't paid enough, which is why they're struggling now
Aakash Gupta on X - "A "senior VP" at a "nonprofit" was pulling $272K a year. Every dollar of it was yours. Sheryl Cowan's salary came from a federal appropriation, routed through USAID, laundered through a DC-area 501(c)(3) so nobody had to call it what it was. Roughly nine out of every ten USAID dollars in FY2024 never left the DC beltway. Samantha Power, the USAID administrator herself, called the industry the "industrial aid complex." The scale of what was inside that wrapper: Chemonics took a $9.5 billion USAID contract to manage health supply chains and, per Senator Ernst's office, overbilled the agency by up to $270 million while the project produced 31 indictments for illegally reselling taxpayer-funded supplies. $800 million flowed through Johns Hopkins alone. DAI, FHI 360, RTI International, Creative Associates: a network of "nonprofits" and contractors that collectively employed 20,000 Americans, almost all in Arlington, Bethesda, and Falls Church, almost all paid with money you earned. That's why Sheryl can't ladder down to a $150K role now. There is no $150K role. Every rung of her career collapsed in the same quarter because every rung was on the same payroll. Chemonics furloughed 750 US staff, roughly 70% of its American workforce. DAI cut 380. FHI 360 eliminated 483. RTI laid off 370. The USAIDstopwork tracker counted 19,187 American jobs gone. She can't step down to $180K because those jobs were federal money too. She can't take $120K because every former program director is applying for it. The reference network collapses with the paycheck network because the references were on the same grants. $272K was federal money with a nonprofit logo on the check. The "private sector" in a 30-mile radius of the Capitol was an accounting fiction, and the 20,000 people finding out right now what it really was are the same people who spent a decade calling it private."
David P Deavel on X - "So, what you're saying is that a person who is paid six-figures by a government agency is not worth more than a small fraction of that in the rest of the world? I'm stunned."
VoxDawg - Pattern Recognizer on X - "Pro Tip: If your NGO has to close its doors when the government stops funneling taxpayer dollars to you, then you were NOT a "Non-governmental organization""
Jamazel on X - "I don’t seem to remember the Times doing a sympathy piece on all of those people who lost their jobs when the government shut down the economy because of a virus that has a 99.99% survival rate. Also, that photo is not of Sheryl Cowan."
mjsb on X - "West Virginia coal miners would like to help by suggesting she "learn to code""
Brittany Hughes on X - "So we’re to believe she was good enough to be worth $272,000 a year and somehow couldn’t find another commensurate job elsewhere? For a whole year? Or maybe, like many taxpayer-funded positions, she just wasn’t worth $272,000 in the first place."
Tee Baille on X - "Most of the higher level USAID people I have had the displeasure of meeting while working overseas (almost 30 year career) are not only incompetent, but abusive, insulting and completely useless."
TexasSIMRP-edu on X - "I can speak to that regarding some USAID folks in Africa. They were useless."
Thread by @iliketeslas on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "I’m in South America , and a friend who worked with USAID in different projects for 15 years just told me “everything DOGE found about the waste is true” we really lived a life of kings with USAID’s money 😅 Everyone around the world knew about the US government corruption except the Americans If democrats were concerned about the people whos funds were cut by canceling USAID.. shouldn’t they be trying to reactivate a way to send aid in a transparent way instead of just saying “Elon bad” ? The hypocrisy 🤷🏻‍♂️"
Libs of TikTok on X - "BREAKING: USAID official and 3 company executives plead guilty in fraud and bribery scheme involving at least 14 contracts worth over $550 million USAID Official Roderick Watson took bribes, was showered with lavish gifts— including cash, laptops, thousands of dollars in tickets to a suite at an NBA game, a country club wedding, downpayments on two residential mortgages, cell phones, and jobs for relatives. In exchange for the bribe payments, Watson influenced the award of contracts by manipulating the procurement process at USAID. Watson faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison. Imagine how much more fraud there is…"
This won't stop left wingers from continuing to post their fake news memes about how DOGE hasn't charged anyone with fraud, therefore it was all a scam. They think things can happen instantly, which is why they claim Trump didn't send the National Guard in on January 6th because he was the one who incited the insurrection
Director on USAID Project Arrested for Nine-Year Fraud Scheme | Office of Inspector General - "Ruth Chisina Mufute of Zimbabwe is charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and four counts of wire fraud"
District of Maryland | Former USAID Employee Pleads Guilty to CARES Act Fraud | United States Department of Justice - "Simeon Bakare, 55, of Waldorf, Maryland, pled guilty to wire-fraud charges in connection with the scheme"
District of Columbia | Former Contractor of USAID-Funded Program Extradited to the United States, Convicted and Sentenced for Conspiracy to Obtain Grant Money Through Fraud | United States Department of Justice - "Stephen Paul Edmund Sutton, 53, a United Kingdom citizen, pleaded guilty and was sentenced today for his participation in a fraud scheme, perpetrated when he was employed by a contracting firm that implemented a U.S. Agency for International Development-funded (USAID) power distribution program (PDP) in Pakistan"
Office of Public Affairs | USAID Official and Three Corporate Executives Plead Guilty to Decade-Long Bribery Scheme Involving Over $550 Million in Contracts; Two Companies Admit Criminal Liability for Bribery Scheme and Securities Fraud | United States Department of Justice - "Four men, including a government contracting officer for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and three owners and presidents of companies, have pleaded guilty for their roles in a decade-long bribery scheme involving at least 14 prime contracts worth over $550 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars.
Roderick Watson, 57, of Woodstock, Maryland, who worked as a USAID contracting officer, pleaded guilty to bribery of a public official; Walter Barnes, 46, of Potomac, Maryland, who was the owner and president of PM Consulting Group LLC doing business as Vistant (Vistant), a certified small business under the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) 8(a) contracting program, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery of a public official and securities fraud; Darryl Britt, 64, of Myakka City, Florida, who was the owner and president of Apprio, Inc. (Apprio), a certified small business under the SBA 8(a) contracting program, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery of a public official; and Paul Young, 62, of Columbia, Maryland, who was the president of a subcontractor to Vistant and Apprio, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery of a public official."
Meme - DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican: "Screen-capped for posterity. This individual claims to be a PhD student in economics at @GeorgeMasonU . They are not even hiding their motives. I read the essay; it presents little in the way of specifics. As of this writing, it has received 16 likes. In their view, cutting USAID justifies firebombing Teslas and issuing daily threats against public figures. In their view, deporting an MS-13 immigrant is a reason to start a civil war. (And that incident is most of the author's premise for the essay.) Maybe I'm naive, but I don't want believe some of our neighbors are so innately consumed by malice that they would kill us for wanting to preserve this nation. And yet, their actions, and increasingly, their words say otherwise. Pray for this nation."
Nicholas Decker @captgouda24: "The ultimate source of political power is, and always will be, violence. If the present administration should continue on its course, there is no choice but war. I say this out of sorrow - when must we kill them?"
More proof that the right incites violence
Nicholas Kristof on X - "The @washingtonpost reports on how the chaos around the closure of USAID led to breakdowns in supply lines, resulting in kids dying of malaria: https://t.co/s85AJKw0CG @SecRubio says US aid cuts haven't killed anyone; in fact, they kill kids at a rate estimated at 88 per hour."
Some dude on X - "In 1950 before white people started pumping their nations with foreign aid there were about 180 million sub Saharan Africans and they desperately needed our help. 75 years later there are 1.2 billion sub Saharan Africans and they desperately need our help."
dikgaj on X - "There are a few countries trying to be different. But the mechanism of aid is always to sustain dependence and recycling of aid back to source after allowing a part to go into nepo elite corrupt pockets who help in retaining indirect say in the country."
Weird how the US gets denounced as an evil genocidal country all the time, but it turns out they're supposedly providing so much life-saving aid and it's an evil genocidal country to remove it. If they get slammed no matter what they do, why not save some money?
Defiant L’s on X - "Sen. John Kennedy: "You're getting rid of $5.5 million to lesbian, gay biseuxal transgender queer and intersex advocacy in Uganda. I can't believe we're arguing about this!""
Shane Goldmacher on X - "NEWS: The DNC took out a $15 million loan in October, the latest sign of financial distress for the official arm of the Democratic Party. The party ended the month with $18.3 million in the bank — $15 million of which came from the loan."
DC_Draino on X - "Trump cutoff USAID funding and suddenly the DNC is going bankrupt. Hmm."
PBS News on X - "When USAID shut down, more than 80% of its programs were canceled. In an attempt to keep the most cost-effective and life-saving projects up and running, two laid-off agency employees created a website called Project Resource Optimization to match donors with threatened programs. So far, they've helped keep nearly 80 projects running in 30 countries. @AliRogin sat down with founders Caitlin Tulloch and Rob Rosenbaum for more."
The Dank Knight 🦇 on X - "PBS accidentally showing how programs continued fine without billions of taxpayer dollars. Proving USAID was just an activist money laundering scheme for Democrats to spread their woke degenerate cancer."
USAID Being Removed has KILLED at least 600,000 people. : r/DoomerCircleJerk - "Imagine if the U.S. actually had that level of soft power fielded, China would probably have a lot less influence in Africa. That or 600,000 shitty indie game devs have committed suicide."
"If US AID being removed killed that many people then aren’t they admitting the U.S. has saved hundreds of millions of people and thus the most benevolent and helping nation in the history of humanity"
"Nope, their argument then becomes that those people wouldn't need to be saved if the US hadn't crushed them due to capitalism or racism or blah blah."
"That’s right. They are always shifting goalposts and never giving credit for legitimate works."
Left wingers just hate the US and the West and despise them even while demanding they spend endless resources on the rest of the world. But then, they also claim "billionaires" are evil for not giving away all of their money, which supposedly would keep people from dying (even if they don't spout that delusional line about it saving the world). Foreign aid given by the West has remarkably poor ROI, even if you count "soft power"
Hutch on X - "Trump’s decision to end USAID has already led to 400,000 children killed. I’m having some angry thoughts about all the Killer Kamala rhetoric from a certain set of single issue voters who decided that their emotions were more important than actual outcomes."
John Fruz on X - "I hate Trump, but this is some of the most retarded "evidence" I've seen. It's a random mathematical model. It's not even purporting to track excess deaths, much less actually have specific cases."
Daniel Friedman on X - "There are places that are entirely dependent on international aid, and the populations there are exploding but if the aid spigot from one country is cut off, hundreds of thousands of children supposedly die in a matter of months of malnutrition and preventable disease. These countries have been aid dependent for decades and have no internal capacity to feed or care for their people. With the population of Africa exploding as the population of the West declines, we're heading toward a world where half the population will be places that depend on aid. We can't take care of them all."
John Magilligan on X - "Don’t be surprised when China swoops in and picks up our slack. They’re forming relationships while we’re cutting children off from necessary aid. This is the century of humiliation for the USA"
Daniel Friedman on X - "The fucked up thing is, USAID was so captured by progressives that the organization wasn’t using the “soft power” it was creating to spread American values; it was promulgating academic Marxism, race resentment and third-worldism."
Thread by @BalazsOrban_HU on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "❌️ Hungarians don’t need a 'Norwegian USAID'. We’ve seen this playbook before: money, ideology, loyal NGOs — and a foreign agenda wrapped in the language of “democracy.”
And yet, here we go again: another €20 million in foreign funding, courtesy of the Norway Fund, once again handed to a Soros-backed liberal organization to distribute in 🇭🇺Hungary — just as Norway insisted last time, rejecting even neutral candidates like the Hungarian Red Cross. If Norway truly wants to support Hungarian society, it should invest in what people actually need. Promoting woke ideology through foreign-funded gender campaigns targeting children, for example, is not one of them. But this isn’t about supporting civil society. Out of approx. 60,000 Hungarian NGOs, Norway opted to channel the money through a group with clear links to George Soros — a pattern repeated across multiple European states. It’s about directing funds to loyal ideological networks — the very same strategy once used by #USAID around the world, where funding meant influence, and influence meant pressure on sovereign governments. The Norwegian version follows the same script: across multiple European countries, including Hungary, organisations tied to George Soros have repeatedly been chosen to manage the disbursement of these funds. These groups serve as ideological foot soldiers in a global liberal network, often the very same ones attacking 🇭🇺 #Hungary’s child protection laws, migration policy, and national sovereignty under the banner of “progress.” Call it “civil society” or “democracy promotion” — but in practice, it’s foreign-funded activism pushing the global liberal network’s agenda."
Charlie’s Voice Rising on X - "🚨WOW… Mike Benz just dropped a wild bombshell on Joe Rogan’s podcast. During the Obama years, USAID pushed $1.2 BILLION through Cayman Island accounts, pretending it was “aid for Pakistan”… …but the cash actually funded ZunZuneo — a Cuban Twitter-clone built to spark rent-a-riots and topple governments around the world. You can’t make this up."
The SCIF on X - "USAID was funding BOTH the WUHAN Lab gain-of-function research & SMARTMATIC Election Systems. Do you think it was a coincidence that "covid" came out right around the 2020 election? Coincidentally, the same left-wing billionaires, NGOs, and USAID also funded the 'NO KINGS' protest, aka, the color revolutions across America. This means that USAID was simultaneously funding BOTH the election-rigging technology that would steal the 2020 election WHILE manufacturing and releasing a WEAPONIZED VIRUS that would distract the world from the theft of said election while depopulating the planet at the same time. It's all connected. Everything is out in the open and face-up on the table... I don't even know what to say anymore. You can't be this naive anymore. We can't live under this fraud and tyranny anymore. Americans are suffering, and everyone else is robbing you blind getting filthy rich."
Rubio defends USAID closure after Hurricane Melissa response success - "Those worried about shuttering the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) were wrong, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who touted the agency’s record in delivering support in the wake of Hurricane Melissa that ravaged the Caribbean in October. Although USAID historically functioned as an independent agency to deliver aid to impoverished countries and development assistance, the State Department announced in March that it would absorb remaining operations and functions in an effort to streamline operations to deliver foreign assistance amid concerns that USAID did not advance U.S. core interests. The move resulted in cuts for thousands of USAID employees. Critics including Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said that upending the agency would "lead to millions of preventable deaths," while a group of House Democrats wrote a letter to President Donald Trump in February as USAID cuts got underway that changes would lead to increased maternal and child mortality. But Rubio now claims those skeptics’ fears were unfounded. "Alarmists in politics and the media forecasted that the closure of USAID would result in catastrophe. Now, nearly a year later, they’ve been proven wrong," Rubio said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "The State Department has realigned foreign assistance with the interests of the American people, streamlined disaster response capabilities, and leveraged the ingenuity of American companies to save lives." Specifically, Rubio pointed to the assistance the State Department provided in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, which hit Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane and was the strongest to strike Kingston since the island started tracking its storms 174 years ago. The State Department deployed a regional disaster assistance response team (DART) and activated U.S.-based urban search and rescue (USAR) teams to support response efforts in the region as part of recovery efforts. Likewise, the State Department assisted in administering food and other resources to those in need, using predesignated supplies housed in 12 different warehouses across the region. Ultimately, the State Department coordinated with the United Nations World Food Program to distribute 5,000 family food packs to families in Jamaica, and provided nearly $37 million in assistance to those hit by the storm. "This new era of foreign assistance eliminates extreme ideological projects that previous administrations forced the American people to subsidize, cuts out the wasteful NGO industrial complex, and puts the American people first," Rubio said. The Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think tank, evaluated the State Department's response to Hurricane Melissa looking at key performance indicators including speed, logistics, funding, and interagency coordination, and concluded that the U.S. "delivered a textbook surge of humanitarian aid in the wake of a natural disaster of historic magnitude."... The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) targeted USAID in its push to eliminate wasteful spending during a review earlier in 2025. The agency attracted scrutiny for a series of funding choices, including allocating $1.5 million for a program that sought to "advance diversity, equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities" and a $70,000 program for a "DEI musical" in Ireland... the State Department is undergoing its own transformation. In addition to absorbing USAID, the State Department has undergone a massive overhaul as part of the largest restructuring for the agency since the Cold War. Additionally, it rolled out an America First Global Health Strategy in September to deliver health aid worldwide by working directly with recipient country’s governments instead of through non-governmental organizations and other aid programs."
AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance - The New York Times
Left wingers keep complaining about the US putting its nose in other countries' business, yet they keep screeching about USAID cuts, of course
Of course, left wingers always chant "correlation isn't causation" when they hate the results
Joseph Guarino 🐲🐝🏳️‍🌈🚊🦉🍥 on X - "Fun fact: dismantling USAID was a goal of both Project 2025 and the DSA platform."
So was it still evil?

Links - 8th July 2026 (2 - Migrants)

2026-07-08T17:27:00.000+08:00

Thread by @willsolfiac on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "One example I didn't have space to bring up in my recent article on the spread of the 'nation of immigrants' article is Ireland, which is a fascinating example because its immigration advocates are coming to exactly the same conclusions as in Britain, but from a completely different historical basis. So if Britain must become a nation of immigrants because it had an empire, Ireland must become one because it sent out lots of poor emigrants. The conclusion is always the same.
See this article for an example. As well as making this argument, he claims that Ireland's refugee crisis comes from Western-caused wars in the middle east. The top five source countries for asylum in Ireland in 2025 were:
1. Somalia
2. Nigeria
3. Pakistan
4. Afghanistan
5. Georgia
So only one that could plausibly be linked to wars in the middle east."
Saying that all Muslims are responsible for the actions of any Muslim is racist and Islamophobic, but saying that all white people are responsible for the actions of any white person at any point in history is anti-racist and anti-colonialist
MichaeloKeeffe on X - "This is one of the most disturbing things I've ever read, but it perfectly encapsulates modern Ireland. As men moved to neutralise an Algerian migrant who was stabbing kids outside a creche in Dublin, women on scene locked hands to protect him." Sister of Stardust victim tells jury of moment she jumped on alleged Parnell Square attacker - "A WOMAN WHOSE brother was a victim of the Stardust nightclub fire has told the Central Criminal Court how she was taking a break from an inquest into his death when she confronted a man stabbing children in Dublin city centre. Siobhan Kearney today told a trial jury that she “jumped” on the defendant Riad Bouchaker (52) and tried to get him to the ground. She said the knife he was wielding landed at her feet and she kicked it away while things went “really crazy”, with people hitting Bouchaker. Kearney described how she then locked hands with another woman to protect Bouchaker from further blows. She said she started screaming “we’re not savages” as people tried to get at the accused."
Some people claim it was unjustified to continue to hit him because he was on the ground and had no more knife and thus was no longer a thread, but even handcuffed suspects who have been searched by the police can guns, or even fire them, even hitting police
Meme - Klaus Arminius @Klaus Armin...: "A Gypsy migrant kills an Irish school teacher. An Algerian migrant stabs Irish children. An Arab migrant beheads 2 Irishmen. An Indian migrant rapes Irish women. lrish women report sexual harassment by migrant men. Then there's smooth brain @CriticalRedPen "White Irish men""
Elaine Burke @CriticalRedPen: "I'll tell you what I'm scared of in Dublin right now and that's white Irish men."
Love Island’s Billykiss Azeez: People assume I’m not Irish. It hurts - "The government has come under pressure from an unlikely advocate for hate speech legislation: a Love Island contestant. Billykiss Azeez, who lives in Dublin but is originally from Nigeria, has spoken about her disappointment with the decision by the Fianna Fail and Fine Gael-led coalition to park new laws after a political and public backlash over perceived threats to free speech. “It’s disappointing to hear that the government, whose job and responsibility is obviously to protect the people, will not push to get that hate speech legislation in place,” Azeez, 28, told The Sunday Times. It’s disappointing to see that they’re not putting the people first. The people is everyone; it doesn’t matter if their ethnicity is pure Irish, white Irish, or if they’re black Irish.” "
Time to go on about "white fragility"
Clearly, if you assume she's not Irish, you should go to jail for hate speech
Andy Ngo on X - "Dublin, Ireland — While in the city center of @Dublin_ie , I was told to go back to China. I was reporting at a migrant encampment by the canal when this happened. An NGO worker pitching tents tried to stop my interview with the migrants, who are all adult males. She also falsely claimed it was illegal to record them in public. Ireland has been experiencing a migrant crisis fueled by a surge of foreign nationals mostly from Africa and the Middle East. Nonprofit groups have been helping build tent cities around Dublin."
Konstantin Kisin on X - "It turns out that if you import millions of people who are taught to hate Jews their entire lives your country becomes less safe for Jews. Who could have predicted this?"
Time to crack down on the "far right" to keep Jews safe
Meme - Soyjak: "Lol, there's no such thing as "Irishness". lreland has always been a rainbow nation of Danes, Normans, English and Zimbabweans. Catalonia is for the Catalonians. I have a PhD in critical race theory, you know"
Shadi Hamid on X - "My new @washingtonpost column: Why do Muslims need to be like everyone else? A case against assimilation."
Melissa Chen on X - "This explains what Lee Kuan Yew observed in 2011 when he said: “I have to speak candidly to be of value, but I do not wish to offend the Muslim community. I think we were progressing very nicely until the surge of Islam came, and if you asked me for my observations, the other communities have easier integration – friends, intermarriages and so on, Indians with Chinese, Chinese with Indians – than Muslims. That’s the result of the surge from the Arab states. I would say today, we can integrate all religions and races except Islam.” This specific attitude is anathema to pluralistic democratic societies. If the government tolerates Islamic exceptionalism, then the social fabric frays which destabilizes society. And if you think totalitarian ethnostates would welcome the refusal to assimilate, may I remind you of what is going on in Xinjiang, China."
Is it racist, xenophobic and Islamophobic to say that Muslims don't assimilate when they say it themselves?
Tyson Zahner | Facebook - "Ask a progressive what gentrification is… They'll almost certainly be able to tell you that when a large enough group of people moves into a community, it...
* fundamentally changes that community.
* Long-term residents get displaced.
* The cultural identity of the neighborhood erodes.
* Businesses that served the original community close.
* New ones open that cater to the newcomers.
* The people who built the community no longer recognize the place they call home.
They'll tell you these are legitimate grievances. They'll tell you the long-term residents have every right to be upset. They'll tell you that demographic change has real consequences for real people and that pretending otherwise is either naive or dishonest. And they're right.
So why does all of that understanding suddenly evaporate the moment the same dynamic applies to mass immigration?
When a community of people primarily born in America experiences rapid demographic change, the same things happen. Cultural character shifts. Economic pressures emerge. Long-term residents feel displaced. Community institutions and norms change. The people who built the community watch it become unrecognizable. If you understand why residents of Harlem might have legitimate concerns about an influx of outsiders transforming their neighborhood, then you already understand why American citizens might have legitimate concerns about rapid, large-scale demographic change transforming theirs. Same principle. Same dynamics. Same human instinct to care about the place you call home. But suggest that out loud and suddenly you’re a racist or you’re a xenophobe or you're a conspiracy theorist pushing "Great Replacement Theory." Funny how that works."
Otter's Rock - "This is probably a little too much nuance, but whenever I see a "all borders are violence" post (a political position I generally agree with!) I always add a little asterisk that says "*but the border checks that keep you from bringing homegrown produce into big agricultural areas to avoid the transmission of parasites and invasive species are actually fine and if we were more vigilant about that kind of thing maybe we wouldn't have spotted lanternflies in the states." That doesn't work as well as a slogan, though"
"Things borders should be for:
Biosecurity
Customs management (you do not want people importing a bunch of stuff that doesn't meet your country's safety standards, for example)
Things like that one lake in Europe where three national borders coincide and they built an island specifically so you can run between countries for fun
Things borders shouldn't be for:
Policing who can and can't come into a country"
Left wing logic: "So basically, keeping spotted lanternflies out is more important than keeping murderers out? If you say so..."
Mark W. on X - ""The seething racial resentment in the Third World against the West — decades after independence and trillions in foreign aid — should cause second thoughts about opening our borders to mass immigration from that world..." Pat Buchanan"
vittorio on X - "if the purpose of a system is what it does, then the whole western immigration system is a machine that turns taxpayer money into raped daughters. the moderate response would be to stop, deport everyone who shouldn’t be here, and hang any bureaucrat and politician responsible. the actual response is to prosecute anyone who points it out. you are paying for the importation of men who rape your daughters and you’re not even allowed to be upset about it. and worst of all, the leftists who defend this will look at this chart and the thing that upsets them is that you shared it"
African refugee who sexually abused niece spared deportation - "A low IQ African refugee who sexually abused his nine-year-old niece has been allowed to stay in Australia because he would lose access to NDIS support for his intellectual disability if deported back to Sierra Leone. The illiterate child sex offender, 37, was anonymised as YGTC to protect his identity by the Administrative Review Tribunal in Melbourne on Thursday after successfully appealing the October 2025 cancellation of his humanitarian visa. ART Senior Member Margret Bourke overturned the cancellation under immigration minister Tony Burke’s controversial Ministerial Direction 110, which has resulted in dozens of serious criminals being spared deportation in recent months. The tribunal heard that YGTC was convicted of two counts of indecent act with a child aged under 16 years for abusing his sister’s daughter in 2015, but spared jail and given an 18-month Community Corrections Order (CCO) after pleading guilty in 2019. While under the CCO he was referred to the National Disability Insurance Scheme, placed on an NDIS plan and has continued to receive support services, the tribunal heard, and was not required to complete a sex offender program as he was assessed as “low risk”. Ms Bourke noted that YGTC had “an intellectual functioning in the extremely low range, with tests recording that he functions in the first or second percentile”, meaning he has an IQ lower than 69, and therefore did not warn him against self-incrimination at the start of the hearing so as not to “confuse” him. She found that he would face “significant social and economic hardship” if returned to his home country, as “the assistance available for persons with disabilities in Sierra Leone is virtually non-existent”... She further found that it was in the best interests of YGTC’s two minor children, aged 1 and 2, for him to remain in Australia, that his wife and parents rely on his for support, and that he was unlikely to reoffend, even though a psychologist found he had “no insight into the effect of the behaviour on his niece”... This year alone the ART has used the ministerial direction to restore the visas of a Chinese wife-killer, an Ethiopian rapist, an obese homosexual Indian paedophile, an Iranian drug smuggler, a killer Sri Lankan driver, and a Sudanese refugee who was jailed over the fatal stabbing of an Australian teenager."
Meme<>/a> - "LET'S GO BE OPPRESSED!!! *non-white people rushing to white countries*"
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "In this Guardian article, a new migrant to Australia complains she is not entitled to welfare. In the same article she says she doesn’t want to give up foreign citizenship to obtain Australian citizenship: “We have ancestral property, houses, land. We’d have to give that up.” Can someone explain how that’s Australia’s problem? If you have “ancestral property, houses and land” in your home country, why should Australian taxpayers be expected to support you? Maybe somebody can explain this to me."
Evangelical Dark Web on X - "Watching The Lion King with my kids and it's amazing how the first act of Scar's tyranny is to import a bunch of low IQ foreigners who ruin the Kingdom in a matter of years."
Andy Ngo on X - "“Go back to your country! You destroyed your county. You come to South Africa to destroy our country!” Protests against mass migration have been ongoing in South Africa. They want the Somalis, Pakistanis, and other Africans gone."
James on X - "Many African countries are facing serious challenges, especially with governance, but at least most have not been dumb enough to blame immigrants for those problems."
For A Marxism Without Guarantees on X - "Please be serious. Which Migrants are going to flock in South Sudan for better opportunities for example 😭. People go where there are opportunities for them to survive. The blaming of migrants is misdirected anger yes but don't act like people are going to all those countries which they are not. They are mostly going to south Africa. We need to interrogate that."
Jesus' Fave🙏🏽👑 on X - "Nigeria blamed Ghana for its problems during the Ghana Must Go era."
How ignorant. Don't they know they need to blame white people?
Dr Fred on X - "Dear Xenophobic South Africans 🇿🇦, For those of you who foolishly think you don’t have your people in other countries, and that even if you do, they are all staying there legally, On March 1, 2026, 63 South Africans were deported from Ireland to South Africa. This operation was carried out by the Garda National Immigration Bureau. 10 (~16%) of the deportees were convicted of offences in Ireland. This is how civilised countries handle illegal immigration. The country doesn’t allow citizens to behave like animals, go around beating up anyone who doesn’t speak their language, loot their shops, and dehumanise them, as is happening in South Africa."
VuyeLwa on X - "Heyyyyi animeni! There’s no xenophobia here. No Afrophobia either! Why is everyone pretending to ignore simple facts? Our systems are all under pressure because of a large influx of immigrants, majority of whom are in the country illegally. It’s not sustainable!!"
What an idiot. Doesn't he know that white countries without open borders are fascist, authoritarian regimes?!
Paul on X - "🇮🇪🚨 The "South African" family that was deported from Ireland this year have been arrested in South Africa as they were Nigerians who illegally obtained SA passports 🇳🇬 These Nigerians scammers were plastered all over Irish media and used as a sob story by media & NGOs"
South Africa’s migrants begin exodus as vigilantes prepare for crackdown
Do Immigrants Import Their Economic Destiny? - "over the extremely long run, a good predictor of your nation’s current economic behavior is your nation’s ancestors’ past behavior. Exceptions exist, but so does the rule. Recently, a small group of economists have found more systematic evidence on how the past predicts the present. Overall, they find that where your nation’s citizens come from matters a lot... There are three major long-run predictors of a nation’s current prosperity, which combine to make up a nation’s SAT score:
S: How long ago the nation’s ancestors lived under an organized state.
A: How long ago the nation’s ancestors began to use Neolithic agriculture techniques.
T: How much of the world’s available technology the nation’s ancestors were using in 1000 B.C., 0 B.C., or 1500 A.D...
On average, nations with high migration-adjusted SAT scores are vastly richer than nations with lower SAT scores: Countries in the top 10% of migration-adjusted technology (T) in 1500 are typically at least 10 times richer than countries in the bottom 10%. If instead you mistakenly tried to predict a country’s income today based on who lived there in 1500, the relationship would only be about one-third that size. The migration adjustment matters crucially: Whether in the New World, across Southeast Asia, or in Southern Africa, one can do a better job predicting today’s prosperity when you keep track of who moved where. It looks like at least in the distant past, migrants shaped today’s prosperity... Overall, the relationship between a nation’s percent population of Chinese descent in 1980 and current economic freedom is strongly positive. Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, the countries with the largest percentage of post-1500 Chinese immigrants, are the freest. Hong Kong, which had only a few thousand Chinese residents before the British arrival, is now the economically freest country in the world. Malaysia (a third of whose residents are of Chinese descent) and Thailand (10 percent) are next, and Malaysia is clearly the freer of the two. The remaining countries, Laos and Myanmar, are substantially less economically free than Singapore... Economists have long known that some of the strongest statistical predictors of long-run national prosperity have been “percent Confucian” and “percent Buddhist.” A famed paper coauthored by Xavier Sala-i-Martin demonstrated that conclusively. It’s time for scholars to investigate whether, for most countries, a pro-Confucian migration policy is a good option... second-generation immigrants to the U.S. are more likely to favor income redistribution policies if they come from a country where the average citizen today also favors more redistribution. In this case, attitudes migrate, so heavy immigration from pro-redistribution cultures will tend to boost a nation’s number of pro-redistribution citizens decades later. More importantly, the same holds for trusting behavior... trusting attitudes migrate. And the link from trust to economic performance is well-accepted at this point: One famous paper, “Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff?” [Answer: Yes] is now routinely cited in economics textbooks. And why do low-trust societies generate worse economic performance? One reason is that low-trust individuals demand more government regulation... One particular attitude has been well-studied in the migration literature: Strong family ties. This is often known as “amoral familism,” the view that you should help out your family, right or wrong. In comparative anthropology and sociology, it’s well known that cultures strong in amoral familism tend to be places where children live with their parents into adulthood, where corruption is common, and where identity is heavily shaped by one’s extended family... At this point, it’s clear that attitudes migrate to a substantial degree, and at least in democracies, they’re likely to take those attitudes into the voting booth. There’s an old saying in the migration policy world, a line by Max Frisch: “We wanted workers, we got people instead.” It looks like that saying needs updating: “We wanted workers, we got voters instead.”... giving the vote to women really did change government in a more progressive, expansionist direction... Women did not quietly, meekly vote for whatever the men around them supported. They had their own minds, and those minds, when empowered by the vote, moved policy in a more progressive direction. And notice that the longer-run effect was twice the immediate effect: Expanding the franchise to a group that favored more government spending indeed increased government spending, but it took decades to see the full effect. In U.S. history, new voters have mattered. And this is no one-off study: the policy impact of female suffrage has been studied extensively... “eliminating poll taxes raised welfare spending by 11 to 20 percent” among other findings, so once again, new voters made important progressive policy change a reality... Government policies don’t radiate from subterranean mineral deposits: they are in large part the product of its voting citizens. And in the long run, new citizens lead to new policies."
Clearly, mass migration from poor countries with weak institutions and low human capital can only strengthen a first world country
Dr. Sydney Watson on X - "I find feminists today really fascinating. They have long made this argument that "it's not all men, but it is always a man" But, conveniently, that doesn't apply to immigrants - especially when we know a HUGE PORTION of these "asylum seeks" and "refugees" are fighting age men from countries that hate women. Feminists use the analogy that, if you had a bowl of M&Ms and knew a few were poisoned, you wouldn't take the chance eating any. To them, this applies to men - most men might be fine, but you wouldn't chance finding out which ones are not. But, again, all of this self-preservation dies when it comes to immigration. All I can conclude is if these women acknowledged their cognitive dissonance, their brains would break. So, it's a lot easier to fight for the rights of invaders, and justify their violence and shittiness, rather than acknowledge that their ideology is broken and flawed. I've said it a million times - the FEMINIST position is one that is anti mass immigration. It is one that protects women from the hundreds of thousands of foreign males who do not respect women, and believe we are lesser than. It bothers me endlessly than these women are sowing the seeds of not only THEIR own destruction, but the destruction of the rest of us women as well. And they're too arrogant and militant to see that."
Meme - Lauren Witzke @LaurenWitzk...: "Most third-world migrants can not assimilate into civil societies. Prove me wrong."
viet thanh nguyen @viet_t_nguyen: ""Third World" refugee here. I have a PhD in English and I won a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. What have you done?"
A PhD in English and he still doesn't know what "most" means
Christian Heiens 🏛 on X - "The math behind this is actually really fascinating, and it explains why the Left has to rely so much on institutional capture and mass migration to remain alive. The children of Liberals adopt their worldview 89% of the time, while Conservatives see their kids adopt theirs 81% of the time. But this advantage on the Left is dwarfed by the fact that they’re essentially an anti-catalyst movement. We know that women have kids at a higher rate than men across the board, but Conservative men have kids at a higher rate than even Liberal women. This means that ~59% of Conservatives become parents, while just ~31% of Liberals do. That’s almost a 2X fertility advantage. And when you multiply those numbers by the ideological detainment rate on both sides, you see that:
59% x .81 = 47.8
31% x .89 = 27.6
So that rounds to a minimum of 48 Conservative-aligned children per 100 Conservative adults, compared to a minimum of just 28 Liberal-aligned children per 100 Liberal adults. Conservatives are reproducing their worldview at ~70% higher rate per adult than liberals. And this is a minimum estimate because all our math here assumes that both the Conservable and Liberal families had only one kid, but we know Conservatives on average have much larger families. The Left can’t compete with this organically, so they have to essentially steal the children of Conservatives through the education and media system (which they’ve all ideologically hijacked) and import new voters who will make up for their own collapsing birthrates. If you ended all immigration and dismantled their dominance over education, the Left would be extinct in 20 years."
See also: Islamo-leftism and Muslims reliably voting left wing
The Atlantic on X - "An Afghan asylum seeker hopes that “one day my children will live in a world that sees refugees not as a burden, but as human beings who survived the unimaginable.” George Packer tells her story:"
Holly Grayle on X - "We see you as a burden because you are in fact a burden. Afghans are one of the most welfare-dependent groups in the West, and that's not even factoring in their disproportionate level of violent and/or sexual offending. We'd all like to see you as something other than a burden too, but you need to actually stop BEING a burden first. Afghans built a dysfunctional country and frankly, they should have to live in it."
QTCinderella on X - "I want everything that you want to happen to immigrants to happen to you ❤️"
Matt Morse on X - "I want them to live in their own country."
Naturally, she hid replies
Meme - ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa: "You would think Singapore of all places would be safe from replacement migration dynamics but reports are that the Mainland Chinese migrants there are now displacing the older Singaporean Chinese and so ‘Chinese-ifying’ the country. Is it really just the same shit everywhere?"
hoeflator/滥交师傅 (Yishun Kampung mode) on X - "Singapore is undergoing The Great Replacement. Our supermajority is being usurped by PRCs that give little care for our unique microcosm of history and do naught to integrate or join the actual supermajority. We will eventually form two separate ethnic enclaves that will exist within the “Chinese” grouping but have very different values, cultural behaviors, and logos driving them. As our local Chinese refuse to breed due to the religion of fiat currency, we will be replaced. In 20 years we may hear nothing but PRC mandarin at a hawker centre. I’m early, not wrong. I have drunk the water of life (108v charged filtered NEWater) and see the truth… the iron rice bowl has begun to fracture…"

A Salient Example of Hajj Amin el-Husseini’s Canonical Islamic Jew-Hatred—Introduction, Text, and Commentary (2/X)

2026-07-08T13:23:00.000+08:00

Part 1
The end might be what people are referring to when they say the Grand Mufti declared Palestine a waqf in 1937.
A Salient Example of Hajj Amin el-Husseini’s Canonical Islamic Jew-Hatred—Introduction, Text, and Commentary (2/X)
"Proclamation of the Grand Mufti to the Islamic World in 1937 (Ed: here is an alternate translation of this text, Islam i Židovstvo [Islam and Judaism])
Since the earliest days of their history, the Jews have been an oppressed people and there must be good reason for that. As far back as the Egyptian pharaohs, energetic oppressive measures had to be taken against the Jews, because they were exploiting the Egyptian people and destroying general morale through usury and other crimes. Finally there was nothing left to do but banish the Jews from the land and, under the leadership of Moses, the Jews traveled through the Red Sea. As the recognized Arabic theologian, Tabari, relates, the Jews wanted to kill Moses when he returned from Mount Sinai. As punishment for this crime and for their apostasy, Allah caused them to wander in the desert for forty years. By means of this catharsis, the new generation which arose during this time would have had the possibility of stripping away the sins of their fathers and returning to the way of Allah. This new generation spread out across Mecca, Medina, Syria and Iraq—the lands where milk and honey flowed. But this generation was still worse than the previous one, as says the Arabic proverb: "A dog had a young one, but the young one was more like a dog than the one that created it."
That portion of the Jews which had come to Syria and Palestine were now under Roman rule. The Romans very quickly recognized the danger posed to the land by Jewry and therefore decreed sharp measures against the Jews. Added to this was the fact that a serious epidemic— the plague—broke out, which in general opinion had been brought in by the Jews. When the doctors, too, declared that the Jews were the epicenter of the disease—in which they were no doubt correct—such outrage arose among the people that many Jews were killed. This event is that reason that the Jews to this day are called "microbes." For that reason, the Arabs understand especially well when likewise energetic measures are undertaken in Germany against the Jews and they are driven off like mangy dogs. In any case, the Arabs are the injured party by that, since the Jews for the most part made their way from Germany to Palestine.
The Jewish scum from all lands came together there, to take the Arabs‘ land away. They have bought up land from the poorest of the poor and from conscienceless landowners; they have stolen bread from the mouths of poor widows, taken milk from children, to gorge themselves. They have not shied away from committing bloody murders. when Arabs resisted the Jewish immigration, and they deprived families of their providers and brought them to misery. "Allah will punish them for these shameful deeds!"
This battle of Jews against Arabs is nothing new; the venue has just changed over time. The Jews hate Muhammad and Islam and every person who wishes to improve his people and fights against Jewish greed and corruption. The battle between the Jews and Islam began when Muhammad fled from Mecca to Medina, where he created the foundation for the development of Islam. At that time, the Jews were great business people and noticed immediately that Muhammad‘s influence in spiritual as well as in business matters could become dangerous to them. So they developed an even greater hatred for Islam and this hatred increased more and more, the stronger and more powerful Islam became. They broke the treaty of Khaybar that had been agreed upon with Muhammad and their rage reached its height when the Koran showed their deepest spiritual feelings and revealed their unscrupulousness and lack of conscience, and made them generally known. And at that time the Jewish methods were already the same as today. Their weapon as ever was defamation, and so they tried to lower Muhammad in the eyes of his followers. They said he was a swindler, a magician, a liar. And when they did not achieve their ends that way, they tried to undermine Muhammad‘s honor by spreading the rumor that his wife Aisha had committed adultery. By spreading these rumors and reports, they wanted to sow doubt in the hearts of Muhammad‘s followers.
And when none of this worked, they tried to discredit Muhammad‘s teaching. To this purpose, several Jews converted to Islam, only to take up Judaism again the next day. When they were asked about this sudden change of feeling, they explained slyly that they had tried Islam with good intentions, but were forced to conclude that everything was a lie. The following words about this are in the Koran: "Many of the people of the Book wished they could make you unbelievers again, after you had become believers. The envy in their souls, after the truth had become clear to them." (Koran 2: 109)
When the Jews recognized the impossibility of achieving their ends by the means already attempted, they sought a new way and began to ask Muhammad senseless and unsolvable questions. By doing this, they wanted to show others that Muhammad was lacking in knowledge and wisdom. But with this method too, as before, they had no success. So they became convinced that Islam is firmly rooted in the hearts of Muslims and thereafter tried to eradicate the Muslims. They committed the cowardly crime of giving money to several non-Muslim Arabic tribes to fight against Muhammad. But almighty Allah wished it otherwise and with an iron fist struck down the rebellious tribes for Muhammad and conquered their city. The Jews could not bear this defeat and decided to destroy Muhammad and hired murderers for this purpose.
The Jews in Medina lived in the city district Banu Nadir and Muhammad had concluded a treaty with them after he had come to Medina. One day, he went to this district with ten companions in order to speak with the Jews and convert them to Islam. Muhammad showed the Jews the foundations of Islam and the Jews appeared interested and approachable, While Muhammad was in friendly conversation with some of the Jews, other Jews were preparing an attempt on his life. They convinced a man to throw a heavy stone at Muhammad‘s head. Muhammad would have been lost if a warning had not come from Allah. An inner voice warned him to leave the place, so the traitorous Jews could not carry out their plan. Muhammad sent one of this followers to the Jews to tell them that they were to leave the city within ten days. They had broken the treaty they had made with him by plotting to take his life. Every Jew still found in the city after ten days would be punished by death.
Now some of the Jews who had outwardly adopted Islam but were inwardly still Jews convinced the other Jews not to leave the city. Therefore, when the ten days had elapsed, Muhammad saw himself constrained to drive the Jews out by force...
The Jews who had fled to Khaybar did not admit defeat and resolved to avenge themselves on Muhammad. They turned to the other Jews in Khaybar as well as the Jews of Taima and Wadil el Kura with whom they fashioned a plot. With the help of much money, they incited the non- Muslim Arab tribes to attack Medina. When Muhammad learned of these plans, he quickly armed his people and marched against Khaybar, the center of the revolutionary plans. The Muslims conquered Khaybar, drove out most of the Jews, while Muhammad concluded a treaty with the remaining Jews and assured the peace. Only after this devastating blow could the Islamic realm develop peacefully. It is, however, no wonder, considering Jewish character, that the Jews did not give up their dark plans in spite of the agreed treaty, and tried by all means to destroy Muhammad. They invited Muhammad to a banquet and he accepted the invitation without suspicion. Splendidly roasted lamb was set before him, which was served him by Zaynab, the Jewess, the wife of Sallam b. Mishkam. There was talk about the treaty and the good understanding which now prevailed, and nothing was further from Muhammad‘s mind than to suspect treachery. Muhammad and his faithful follower Bishr b. al-Baraa each took a piece of the lamb, but Muhammad did not swallow his, because he noticed an odd flavor and said: "The bone tells me that the lamb is poisoned." Muhammad had Zaynab the Jewess summoned and asked whether this meat was in fact poisoned. She answered: "You know that I have a good reputation among the Jews, and I admit that I poisoned the lamb. I thought that, if you are only a king, I would be killing a king, but if you are a true prophet, you would know that the meat was poisoned."
Muhammad‘s companion died as a result of the poison. The little bit of poison that Muhammad had on his tongue became more and more noticeable, and there are historians who attribute his death to the effects of this poison...
The Muslims must think again and again of the meal of Khaybar. If the Jews could be so treacherous to Muhammad, how treacherous will they be to them.
The Jews now were convinced that Muhammad‘s person was protected against any attack, so they decided to sow dissension among the tribes, to break the power of Islam... A vengeful old Jew, Shas b. Qays, was one day with his friends passing through a square where there was a gathering of the reconciled tribes. He could not bear to see the two tribes which had had so many wars with each other so peacefully united, and he devised a devilish plan. He sent his friend, who was a connoisseur of the war literature of the earlier time and charged him to perform some of the old songs of hatred in their gathering. The Jew, an accomplished orator, went to the gathering and began to recite the battle songs of both tribes. He succeeded in finding one man in each tribe in whom the old hatred flared up. These two began fighting with each other and called their tribesmen to their weapons. An incalculable disaster would have occurred if Muhammad—as soon as he had report of the civil war—had not hurried to the place of battle...
The Koran has this to say about the Jew Shas b. Qays in this connection: "Oh, people of the Book, why do you hold back the one who believes from the path of Allah, when you yourselves are witnesses? But he will not overlook what you are doing." (Koran 3:99)...
In spite of all their efforts, the Jews never succeeded in sowing dissension among Muhammad's followers and leading them back to unbelief. Although the Jews must have realized the futility of their efforts, they tried repeatedly to carry out their devilish plans. And indeed this time they attempted by deception to bring Muhammad himself to apostasy. There was conflict between two Jewish tribes, and the one that was in the wrong had a meeting and sent their leaders to Muhammad. The Jewish leaders said to Muhammad: "You know that we are very influential men. If you judge in our favor in our quarrel with the other party, we will use our influence to assure that all Jews convert to Islam." Naturally, Muhammad rejected this request. In the Koran, this is said about it: "That you make your decisions according to that which Allah reveals and do not follow your own desires. Be cautious in their presence, so that they do not divert you from a part of what Allah reveals to you. If they turn away, know that Allah will surely strike them for some of their sins. Truly, many people are transgressors." (Koran 5:49)
Another example of the subversive activities of the Jews is passed on by Ibn Abbas. At the time when Muhammad went from Mecca to Medina, prayer was said in the direction of Jerusalem. This situation lasted only 17 months and then Muhammad received a divine revelation to change the direction of prayer for the future to Mecca, and since this time prayer is always said with the face turned toward Mecca...
When the Jews heard these verses, they became very angry and raised the idea with Muhammad of turning the direction of prayer back to Jerusalem. In this case, they promised that all Jews would accept Islam. Muhammad, however, did not allow himself to be diverted by this offer into offending against the divine command...
And yet another example of how the Jews did not shy away from stabbing Muhammad in the back at times of greatest danger. When Muhammad had won the battle of Badr, he sent a messenger to Medina on his own camel—because it was the fastest, in order to bring the news of victory. The Jews attempted to cause confusion in the Muslim ranks and to dishearten Muhammad‘s comrades-in-arms by spreading the false report that Muhammad had fallen in the battle. As proof of that, they offered the fact that Muhammad‘s camel had returned with a strange rider. When this plan too was unsuccessful, some of the Jews turned to Mecca and tried to incite Muhammad‘s enemies against him. They declared that they were prepared to support the Meccans against Muhammad with an army. When the heathen Meccans asked the Jews whether Muhammad's religion was good, since the Jews indeed had received a holy scripture before Muhammad, the Jews said: "You know that we are men of science. So believe us when we tell you that your religion is better."...
And it can be seen how this curse has come true. The Jews are scattered homeless across the entire world and nowhere do they find true help and support.
Further, there is a verse in the Koran which quite unmistakably characterizes the position of Islam and Judaism. It says, "You will certainly find that the Jews and the idolaters harbor the strongest hostility toward those who believe." (Koran 5: 82)
And this thought is even more strongly expressed in a statement of Muhammad: "It will never be possible to see a Jew and a Muslim together without the Jew having a secret intent to destroy the Muslim."
Abu Huraira passes on the following hadith: "The day of judgment will only come when the Muslims have dealt the Jews a crushing blow, when every stone and every tree behind which a Jew has hidden, speaks to the Muslim: ‗Behind me is a Jew. Strike him dead.‘ Only the tree Gharqad, a small shrub with sharp thorns, will not take part, for it is a Jewish tree."
The reason for the arguments made above is that the Jews are on the point of reaching out their hands toward the holy places which are sacred for each Muslim and each Christian. The Islamic world and the friends of Islam shall be shown how the Jews truly are in their innermost being. Usually, one only sees the Jews with the veneer of civilization, but the Arabs have learned best how they really are, that is, as they are described in the Koran and in the sacred scriptures. Then the agonies to which the Arabs in Palestine have been subjected can be understood. And one can imagine how these agonies will increase to the monstrous when the Jews have fully and completely laid their hands on Palestine."
I present to my Muslim brothers in the entire world the history and the true experience which the Jews cannot deny. The verses from the Koran and hadith prove to you that the Jews have been the bitterest enemies of Islam and continue to try to destroy it. Do not believe them. They know only hypocrisy and guile. Hold together, fight for Islamic thought, fight for your religion and your existence! Do not rest until your land is free of the Jews. Do not tolerate the plan of division, for Palestine has been an Arabic land for centuries and shall remain Arabic."

Links - 8th July 2026 (1 - Left Wing Economics: UK)

2026-07-08T09:17:00.000+08:00

A crippling consensus | James Vitali | The Critic Magazine - "the Greens, the Liberal Democrats, and the Labour Party... all proffered a strikingly common economic worldview. And it is a worldview resting upon three key pillars: a belief that Britain must pursue closer European integration, a certainty in net zero as a driver of prosperity, and what I call the statist imperative... The fact that the most salient problems with the UK economy predate Brexit seems not to have been a consideration for those who see some form of re-entry into EU institutions as a panacea for our anaemic growth. And given that the EU’s performance over the last decade has been highly disappointing, and that the EU’s share of global GDP continues to fall, is that the economic future that we want to tie our country to? Secondly, the “just energy transition” has become not merely a social cause but a defining component of the British left’s economic agenda. With energy prices so frequently cited as a factor inhibiting growth across the entire economy, so-called “free” solar and wind energy appears to be an attractive proposition. “Homegrown renewable energy” will “cut bills” argue the Liberal Democrats; according to the Labour government, energy security will be secured through “offshore wind in the Celtic and the North Sea” at the expense of North Sea gas; scaling up renewables will mean we are no longer vulnerable to supply shocks in the Green Party imaginary. Of course this belief is based on the erroneous idea that there are no economic trade-offs in seeking to totally replace dense energy sources with renewables. Nor does the left appear to recognise that gas is going to remain an important part of our energy mix for many years to come, not least because of the intermittent nature of wind and solar energy. Either way, an energy policy dedicated to the ideology of net zero as-fast-as-possible will lead to higher costs for households and businesses, not lower bills. Finally, and despite the fact that each party on the left wishes to present their ideas as novel and fresh, all continue to be united by that old statist view that the path to prosperity lies through government management. Of course, this social democratic perspective is now given a different name — the “active” or “catalytic” or “strategic” state, depending on the day of the week. But the idea is the same: that it is the state, not individuals or businesses, that drive economic growth. Every major political party agrees that low investment and subdued productivity growth constitute the two biggest drags on the British economy. What unites the left is a view that addressing these issues depends on a bigger role for government... On productivity, Labour has set out the statist agenda most explicitly. “Securonomics”, an approach which Reeves doubled down on during her Mais Lecture, holds that the state must guarantee people’s financial security, in order to provide a platform for improved economic performance. It is on this basis that they have justified further intervention in the jobs market, or discretionary welfare to support people with their bills. But the same logic lies behind the Green Party’s obsession with instituting rent controls and redistributing wealth through higher capital gains tax, or Davey’s statement that the government should be “more generous” in its support for household bills. All contend that if we let the state control the economy more tightly, it will be able to provide us all with more security, and growth will somehow magically ensue. The truth, of course, is that much of the opposite will happen. A bigger state will not have a “multiplier effect” as Polanski — a learned Keynes scholar to be sure — puts it, but will instead impair the dynamism of the wealth-creating parts of the economy. Indeed, we already have evidence that Reeves’s tax and borrowing increases have hurt private investment. The British left is in fantasyland. With debt set to exceed 270 percent of GDP by 2070 according to the Office for Budget Responsibility, they want more borrowing. With energy bills higher in the UK than most peer economies, they want us to be even more exposed to global supply shocks. With government expenditure already comprising about half of the GDP, they want the state to do even more on our behalf. And however much they try to differentiate themselves, each major party on the left wishes us to continue trudging down this path towards further impoverishment. All of this makes it even more essential that British conservatives start getting on the same page in advance of the next General Election. Some old truths need restating with renewed clarity and conviction: that the sources of our prosperity lie not in government, but in the energy and enterprise of the British people, that the world is a competitive marketplace, and we need to start competing much more effectively, and that a politics of envy can never produce a society of enterprise and entrepreneurship. As the bookies show, the stakes couldn’t be higher."
‘Uninvestable’ Britain is turning into a shake-down state - "Eurotunnel, which operates the link from Dover to Calais, last week condemned Britain as “uninvestable” as it prepared to take the Government to court over the increase in its rates bill. Likewise, Mondelez, which owns Cadbury, warned it may have to wind down investment here over the endless obesity targets and levies. A worrying pattern is starting to emerge. Britain is turning into a shake-down state – and investors will have no choice but to get out as fast as they can. Business rates were originally meant to be a way of raising money for local services, and were based on a modest assessment of what a company’s premises were worth. But like so many taxes under this Government they have morphed into a way of squeezing as much cash out of companies as possible. Eurotunnel is a good example. Getlink, the Paris-based owner of the route, has seen its bill pushed up from £40m to £118m... Gatwick Airport last year complained of an £11m annual increase in its rates bill (one reason why it has pushed up the rightly disliked “drop-off” fee to £10 a car) while Heathrow faces a £35m a year increase in the amount it has to pay. You can’t pick up a tunnel or a runway and move it somewhere else. The companies have little choice but to stump up the cash. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have any impact. It just gets passed on in the form of higher prices for customers, and less investment in keeping the facilities up to date. Likewise, obesity levies were originally designed as a way of persuading us to eat more healthy foods, but they are starting to turn into a revenue machine as well. The result? Mondelez says endless taxes and targets would eventually force it to invest elsewhere... Business rates are imposed seemingly on the basis of where cash is squeezed out of companies, which have no choice but to stay where they are, even if there is no real basis for them. Windfall taxes are imposed more or less arbitrarily, depending on how much money the Treasury thinks it can squeeze out of a sector and not because an industry is genuinely making exceptional or unjustified profits. There is an endless series of green levies imposed on top of what is already the most expensive industrial energy in the world. Packaging levies are imposed on anyone the Government thinks may be able to pay them, while businesses are somehow meant to hit a social target the Government has set for itself, but no longer has any money left to pay for. The list goes on. Companies used to simply have to pay corporation tax on any profits they happened to make. Now they face a bewildering series of charges and levies that drain any chance of making any money. In reality, it is little more than a series of shake-downs. Like a local protection racket, officials are tasked with simply hustling money out of companies wherever and however they can. There are two big problems with that. To start with, it is morally wrong. Investors and entrepreneurs are entitled to make a return on the time and capital they put into creating a good or a service. More seriously, it is a huge deterrent to putting capital to work in this country. The one thing investors value over almost everything else is stability and the rule of law. Whatever its other drawbacks, such as poor infrastructure, cumbersome regulations, and limits on its access to the European market, Britain always scored very highly on both. Its institutions could be trusted. Unfortunately, that is no longer true. There are already worrying signs that foreign direct investment into Britain is starting to fall significantly. In 2025, according to figures from the consultancy EY, we secured 730 inward investment projects, but that was a 14pc year-on-year decline (we maintained second place in Europe, but only because our neighbours did even worse). We have witnessed huge projects being cancelled, such as the £1bn that the pharmaceuticals giant Merck was planning to put into Britain, or the massive data centre from OpenAI. Meanwhile, we have seen virtually no major new investments announced so far in 2026. Companies are looking at the treatment of the likes of Eurotunnel and Cadbury and deciding it is not worth the risk."
Left wingers want degrowth so this isn't all bad for them. Good luck paying for the unlimited social spending they demand - they think money and prices are fake, so hyperinflation is in the works
Letters: The benefits of HS2 will never justify the astronomical cost of delivery - "It is no surprise that HS2 may cost more than Nasa’s Artemis mission: there are no bats between Earth and the moon."
"I had contact with the HS2 project in a number of engineering and management roles over several years. As with almost everything in public life, nobody is accountable for failure. An overly complex project and legislative environment fosters a culture where no one takes responsibility, bad news is “massaged”, and there is active obfuscation or deception. Within the project, contradicting the party line on costs or time frames leads to sanctions, or even one’s services being dispensed with. Politicians are also to blame, having shown a lack of critical analysis of what they were told, taking information supplied at face value."
Getting welfare under control is now the central issue of politics - "The British state is apparently short of money. The Armed Forces, for example, have been starved of funds for decades. Warships languish in dock for years on end, essential capabilities are not replaced when they wear out, buildings are falling down. Things are no better in other areas. Police stations, schools and courts are often as poorly maintained as the defence estate. The Government plans to reduce jury trials, fairly obviously to save a small amount of money. Roads are potholed, the railways don’t always work, and street lights are turned off. Every possible saving is made. Yet the machinery of the state is spending colossal, unprecedented amounts. The Office for Budget Responsibility expects public spending of £1,368bn for 2025-26. Despite new and burdensome taxes, it expected the Government to only bring in £1,235bn, adding another £133bn to the national debt – now rapidly approaching £3tn. The UK’s debt as a share of GDP has tripled over the past 25 years, a bigger increase than any other country over the same period except Botswana. We now spend much more on debt interest payments than on defence, education, transport or justice; and the Chancellor is thinking of ways to borrow even more through other means such as PFI."
Bernie on X - "Remember when I told you this… I’m bored of telling you that All the parties are lying to you. Because if they told you the truth they wouldn’t be elected. Britain is nearly bankrupt and politicians have no idea where this ‘mythical’ growth to cover obscene spending will come from Because they can’t! There isn’t any. The working-age population is shrinking, the number of people claiming benefits is rising, and the public sector, funded by the private sector, is ballooning. AI is on track to replace huge amounts of white-collar jobs in the next 10–15 years. All of these people will be jobless and needing to claim benefits. Which we won’t be able to afford to pay! The guff about “net zero” and “green jobs” is bollocks (technical term) Those jobs only exist during the construction phase, after that, these are largely automated industries. As for those shouting about Universal Basic Income er … from where? How would it be funded? You’re dreaming. And those saying we can just tax the corporations, they’re dreaming too. They’ll just operate from outside the UK. And to control you … as you demand pay rises and more benefits? Well a near total clampdown of speech and thought through legislation and censorship and those Digital IDs, “just so you behave yourself.” There really is little growth, even trades will be hit because the population won’t have the money to buy their services. We’re are in a badly managed decline, with grossly under qualified and incapable leadership in any party at all. And all those screaming to tax the wealthy? You’re just morons. I really wasn’t exaggerating 🔥"
Labour may need help from the IMF, economists warn - "In a warning shot to Labour leadership hopeful Andy Burnham, the former IMF chief economist Ken Rogoff said a major UK debt crisis before the end of the decade was now more likely than not... Sir Charlie Bean, a former official at the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), warned that IMF intervention was now a “material risk”... Mr Rogoff, a Harvard economics professor, compared Mr Burnham’s pledge to nationalise swathes of the economy to the radical Left-wing agenda introduced by François Mitterrand in the early 1980s. “Mitterrand came in being Andy Burnham, and the markets collapsed,” said Mr Rogoff. The move triggered a collapse in the franc, rampant inflation and capital flight that forced Mr Mitterrand to impose severe austerity just years later. Mr Rogoff said the UK economy was now more vulnerable than the US, even though the world’s biggest economy has higher deficits and debt levels. He added: “The UK is definitely in more trouble than the US because there isn’t a growth story in the UK.” Mr Rogoff said the Government would likely use the IMF as a scapegoat. He added: “They don’t need the IMF, but they would call the IMF. McKinsey will often get called in by a company that knows they need to fire their CEO.”"
Labour’s magical thinking on debt will doom future generations - "There will, of course, be those who point to the fact debt rose under the Conservatives. But they conveniently ignore two important pieces of context. One is that, in 2010, the Conservatives inherited a situation from Labour where the government was borrowing one pound in every four it spent. We managed to bring the deficit down such that, before the pandemic hit, debt as a proportion of our economy was falling and the current budget was in surplus. The other factor, of course, is the pandemic, where governments across the world had to step in to support the economy and the health system, and debts rose sharply, followed by the energy crisis caused by the invasion of Ukraine. Those events mean we have a particularly elevated level of debt. That problem is then exacerbated by higher interest rates. Interest rates have risen across the world compared to the 2010s. And the mismanagement of Rachel Reeves means the UK pays a higher premium on its borrowing costs than any other G7 country. The response to this should be to bring down borrowing urgently so that we can stabilise our debt and start to bring it back down to a more sustainable level. But Labour has opted to do the exact opposite. Since coming into office, the deficit has been 75 per cent higher than was forecast when Rachel Reeves entered the Treasury. Incredibly, the Chancellor has been claiming that she is bringing borrowing down – when in reality she has massively increased it. She seems to think that a slight reduction in a number which she herself sent soaring is somehow an achievement. In total across this Parliament, Labour’s plans now involve more than a quarter of a trillion pounds of additional borrowing compared to the plans they inherited. Debt is set to rise every single year. Labour seems to believe every problem can be solved by spending more money, but it’s ordinary families who end up paying the price for high debt and crippling interest bills. Every pound borrowed today must be repaid, with interest. Every pound spent servicing debt is a pound that cannot be spent on defence, policing, schools, or to bring taxes down. The bond markets are now delivering a brutal reminder that hard choices never disappear. They are merely postponed. Britain today pays more to borrow than almost any major Western economy. Investors are demanding a premium because they can see what many politicians refuse to admit: our current path is unsustainable. We saw how deep their concern was when Andy Burnham announced his intention to return to Parliament and bond yields spiked. His past comments show he has the perennial Labour disease of thinking deficits do not matter. He has complained the Government is too “in hock to the bond market”. And despite now saying he is committed to the fiscal rules, in a recent interview he was unable to say what those rules actually are. Hardly a man to inspire confidence from our creditors. Debt is not merely an economic issue. It is a question of national strength. A country drowning in debt loses freedom of action. It becomes more vulnerable to economic shocks, less able to respond to crises, and more dependent on the goodwill of creditors. Debt is, in effect, a tax on the future, and a profoundly unfair one at that: the people paying for it – future generations – had no say in accumulating it."
Shameless Burnham will promise anything for power - "obviously, Burnham has tied himself to a group that refuses to say what it believes in pursuit of naked self-interest. Lest we forget, the original aim of the Waspi campaign – long since scrubbed from its Facebook group in case anyone realises the depth of its selfishness – was for the state pension age not to be equalised at all. But only for them. When asked a decade ago by Frances Coppola, an economist and journalist, whether they would consider supporting younger women, they suggested they “start their own campaign”."
Is this Andy Burnham’s worst idea yet? - "It is hard to think of any less deserving cause in British politics than the Waspi women. Standing for Women Against State Pension Inequality, it campaigns on behalf of the women who lost out when the retirement age for men and women was gradually equalised. Even though it was flagged many years in advance, giving them plenty of time to plan their retirement, and it was always hard to understand why women, with a longer life expectancy, collected their state pension earlier than men, the group insists more than three million of them are owed compensation. A bail-out package could cost the government more than £10 billion. It turns out that Burnham agrees with them. Pressed on the issue at a hustings event, he said would “stick by the Waspi women because they deserve some recompense for the unfairness”. It is going to be hard for him to row back on that now. The trouble is, there are two big problems with a package of support. To start with, compensation for the Waspis is very unfair on everyone else who will have to pay for it. With free universities, and cheap houses, it is not as if the women born in the 1950s were dealt the worst hand in life’s lottery. Why not compensate the generation that suddenly had to pay more £9,000 a year for their degree in 2012? Or the generation that were locked out of school because of Covid? Once you start, the list will never end. In reality, life is full of twists and turns, and we can’t expect the state to compensate us for all of them. Next, and more importantly, it exposes the free spending populism that will characterise a Burham government. The Starmer-Reeves double act has hardly spent much time trying to control spending, pushing up taxes and borrowing to finance soaring public sector salaries and welfare payments. But Burnham, to borrow a line from Spinal Tap, would ramp that up to 11. There doesn’t appear to be any form of spending he is not in favour of. Let’s nationalise the utilities. Let’s subsidise the buses. Let’s build more council houses. Heck, why not? After all, we don’t want to be “ruled by the bond markets”. That is not going to end well. The government is already running out of money. Last year, the Treasury had to borrow £132 billion, and with the figures already running way ahead of the forecasts it is likely to punch well through the £150 billion barrier this year. That amounts to £1,925 per person, or close to £10,000 for the average family. Every year. Bond yields have already started to touch twenty-year highs as investors grow more and more nervous about the viability of the state. It is hard to think of a worse possible moment to ramp up spending even further, especially on a cause as undeserving as this. In reality, Burnham is going to keep on throwing money around like confetti until it finally runs out. Most of us probably already suspected that a Burham premiership would trigger a financial crash. Now we know for sure."
‘I moved to America 18 years ago. Britain seems like it’s waiting to die’ - "I moved from Britain to the US East Coast 18 years ago, living first in the New York suburbs and then Palm Beach, Florida. At 45, I made the move with my family for many reasons, but primarily because I was fed up with the UK’s constant negativity, and disdain for people who succeed, even when self-made. Although there are things I miss – such as the British sense of humour, and the sense of fairness that most Britons possess – I would never move back. The UK appears poor and lethargic, like it’s completely lost its mojo. It’s as if it has entered old age and is just waiting to die, and some parts do seem overwhelmingly foreign. It’s a great shame because the country has so much to be proud of. The quality of life is so much better in the States. There’s nicer weather, more financial opportunities and dynamism, a constant and vigorous debate of new and fresh ideas, and a “can-do” attitude. While the US has its problems with crime, you don’t get the same sort of disruptive, low-level hoodlums and petty criminals that blight residential areas of the UK and contribute to a diminished sense of safety and quality of life. I’m also Jewish, and the attitude towards Jewish people is much more positive in the US than in the UK. I feel at home in the US, whereas, despite being born in the UK, I sometimes felt, and still feel, like merely a guest there. This aspect has worsened in the last few years... The US is huge, and has such varied options for travelling, though generally I’d say Europe does cities better – they are much more historic and on a human scale – while the US does the outdoors better... I have lost 40-50lbs since moving here, because of the generally more active and healthier lifestyle most people embrace, again in the larger cities on both coasts. I’m sure this will be a surprise to most Britons, who view Yanks as 25st slobs."
"Yes there are problems there too, but the optimism and belief that if you work hard you will get rewarded and have a nice life, and also the pride in the nation, stands out head and shoulders above the UK.”
"The British media portrays Trump as the devil and living here under him as hell, but that’s far from the truth for most people – he has made the country feel more secure by closing those bloody wide open borders we had under Biden. We complain about the cost of gas and electricity, but electricity is three times cheaper than in UK . Yes the cost of healthcare is exorbitant even with insurance, but at least you can get treated in a timely manner. We used to wonder if we would move back to the UK, but given what is happening there now? No way. I hope Britain recovers from successive governments’ awful policies.”
"While I hate to think what the woke left in the USA are going to become as adults (if not deprogrammed), the Americans are as a whole my favourite people in the world. I prefer France and Spain for infrastructure and food (the UK is the opposite), but the Americans are positive, kind, helpful, honest, hard-working, and don’t have a nasty bone in their bodies.”
"It runs rings around the UK for opportunity, decency and quality of life. I visit the UK at least once a year and it seems like the country is on an exponential decline in terms of culture, financial stability and effective leadership.”
Factory bosses prepare to shift jobs abroad as ‘patience runs out’ - "Factory bosses have issued a plea to the Government to alleviate the cost burden on industry and prevent an exodus of manufacturers. Without urgent government action to bring down energy bills and employment costs, the deindustrialisation of Britain will accelerate in the coming months, costing thousands of jobs across the country, businesses warned. A quarter of the UK’s manufacturing base is threatening to shift operations overseas, and more than one in four fear they could run out of cash in the next 12 months if ministers don’t do more to temper soaring costs. A slew of recently expanded government relief schemes will fail to halt the crisis sweeping through heavy industry, manufacturers said. The stark findings came in a survey of British industrial companies jointly conducted by Make UK, the manufacturing lobby group, and the Trades Union Congress. “Despite a promise in last year’s Industrial Strategy of ‘bold action’ to bring down energy costs, nothing has yet been delivered to support businesses. Patience has run out,” Make UK said. Stephen Phipson, chief executive of Make UK, said: “The time for talking is over. The time for action is now. Britain faces deindustrialisation unless manufacturers get relief from high energy prices. “Electricity and gas in the UK are far too expensive, and it’s costing our country steeply. We cannot afford to be delayed by political upheaval or by further consultations,” he added... Make UK said the need for further support was given greater urgency because energy prices in Britain were already the highest in the G7 before the conflict in the Middle East and had increased further since the outbreak of war in the region... According to the Chemicals Industry Association, Britain experienced a near-40pc fall in UK chemical production between 2021 and 2024, with 25 site closures."
Left wing logic: jack up business costs through disastrous policies, then complain about "corporate subsidies" if governments try to stop businesses leaving/shutting down and collapsing the economy
Britain risks ‘terminal decline’ unless Labour backs business, warns Wrightbus boss - "Britain faces “terminal decline” unless Labour adopts a more pro-business approach to entrepreneurs, the owner of Wrightbus has warned. Jo Bamford, whose bus manufacturer employs 2,500 staff in Northern Ireland, said an ignorance of corporate Britain in the Government and among London’s civil servants was holding back growth... He said Labour needed to do more to back UK start-ups or risk hollowing out swathes of the country and consigning their residents to the scrap heap. “If you don’t start getting people working hard and don’t start having businesses that they can come into, you just go into terminal decline,” he warned... Bamford said that despite owning Wrightbus, one of only two UK busmakers and among a handful worldwide to produce a range of traditional and net zero models, he has struggled to get a hearing in Whitehall. “I’ve never met the minister of transport,” he admitted. “I met the head of buses once. This is the guy coming up with the bus policy for the UK. I’m one of the only people in the world with a hybrid, diesel and battery bus, and he won’t see me. “I go and talk to them and they go, no, you’re wrong. But I’ve been doing this my whole life, and I’m not sure what you’ve done before.” Britain’s political class, from the 650 MPs to the Civil Service and government-appointed quangos, also have a lack of business know-how, which was holding the UK back, he added... “Look at the committee on climate change, which the Government is mandated to listen to. I think barely one of them has ever been an engineer. Most of them are commentators or civil servants who have done PPE. And they are designing our plan on energy transition.”"
Jack on X - "Lewis Hamilton says there should be a limit to how much wealth one person can have "One of the things that I struggle with every day is that there is such a disparity between the wealthy and the poor” "When you drive around LA there's still so many people living on the streets. You shouldn't be able to have billions" "I think there should be a limit to how much you can have because there's enough to go around for everyone”"
Rush on X - "The same Lewis Hamilton who used a corporate leasing structure to save money on taxes (around £3.3 million in VAT) when acquiring his Bombardier Challenger 605 private jet in 2013? The same Lewis Hamilton who bought the £16.5 million jet through his British Virgin Islands company (Stealth Aviation Ltd) and who then set up an Isle of Man leasing company (Stealth (IOM) Ltd, to import it into the EU and sub-leased it to a UK jet management firm (TAG Aviation), which in turn provided it back to Hamilton and his Guernsey company under charter agreements? *That* Lewis Hamilton?"
Starmer refuses to cut welfare to boost defence - "John Healey resigned as defence secretary on Thursday, accusing Sir Keir of putting the country’s safety at risk by failing to come up with the cuts required to properly fund the Government’s defence investment plan (DIP). The Conservatives said the failure to include benefits in the scope of cuts was proof that the Prime Minister had never been serious about increasing defence spending to the level required to make the nation safe."
Morgan Barrett on X - "Jeremy Clarkson’s Farm show on Amazon is the most radicalizing piece of mainstream media I’ve ever seen Just one example (bear with me): Badgers became a protected species in Britain 40+ years ago. The population has exploded and now frequently transmits tuberculosis to cows But farmers can’t cull the badger population to protect their cattle because the government still considers them to be endangered Instead of addressing the root cause, the UK has the most batshit testing regime for cattle There’s no TB vaccine. So the cattle have to get tested. The vets administering the test have to measure welts on the cows neck. Whether a cow lives or dies comes down to a vet trying to discern 1mm on a caliper (reactive vs non reactive). If a cow tests positive, the farm (already running on super thin margins) is quarantined and starts hemorrhaging money. Jeremy Clarkson’s cow (pregnant with twins) has an inconclusive test so it’s separated from the herd. It receives a second inconclusive test so they have to kill it (before it can give birth to the twins). Now here’s the kicker: the autopsy reveals no sign of TB. It was a healthy cow needlessly killed. So - silver lining the farm should be removed from quarantine, right? WRONG - it’s still under quarantine and has to keep testing and can’t sell its beef. Kafkaesque doesn’t even begin to describe how f’d up it is for British farmers"

Links - 7th July 2026 (2 - Migrants: Europe)

2026-07-07T17:15:00.000+08:00

Wall Street Mav on X - "This is really a stunning change in Germany. The AfD party, the only party supporting mass deportations, was always stronger in the former east Germany regions (right side). Now AfD even has a majority in the west German regions (left side data). The new data shows AfD is even the most popular party among women for the first time in German polling."
Anthony Koch on X - "It’s still remarkable to me how centre-right parties across Europe would sooner speedrun themselves towards electoral oblivion than just meaningfully address immigration."
Elites will get the AfD banned soon to "Protect Democracy"
Ihsan Horani on X - "Germany's intelligence chief just warned a closed Bundestag meeting. The Muslim Brotherhood is infiltrating German political institutions. Strategic. Patient. Non-violent. Building relationships, influencing legislation, embedding through civic organisations funded by German taxpayers. His most alarming finding: left-wing parties are the most vulnerable. The SPD. The Greens. The Left Party. "More open and susceptible" due to what he called "a poorly understood concept of tolerance." A German political scientist confirmed it in blunter terms. Left-wing allies "possess no argumentative resistance to the Brotherhood. They are discursively co-opted and subordinate themselves." The Brotherhood does not confront the left. It cultivates it."
If you oppose Islamo-leftism you are racist, xenophobic and Islamophobic
Ryan Lackey on X - "How much of the anti-migrant backlash in Europe over the next decade will spill over into deterring economically productive/desirable immigrants as well? Mobs aren’t exactly known for being precise or accurate."
i/o on X - "So much of Europe's descent into failed multiculturalism and the inevitable far-right backlash against it could have avoided if the continent had only allowed itself to be rational about who it allowed inside its borders. But, no, to distinguish between immigrant groups destined to produce generations of hostile leeching residents (e.g., rural Pakistani peasantry, Somalis, Afghans) and those which reliably produce instant net contributors would be "racist" or "Islamophobic" or "neo-colonialist". Nothing has exposed the limitations of contemporary liberal values more than the immigration policies of European nations."
Ben Podgursky on X - "I think the bigger problem than mobs is that legal immigrants are (1) legible and (2) realistically can be deported Government will get elected promising to deport "migrants", but can't effectively deport untraceable people to countries that refuse to take them back. So they'll flail around trying to fill that mandate and the only way to hit numbers will be to cut the well-documented legal immigrants who followed the rules (leaving the ones the voters actually wanted to remove)"
How Denmark’s ghetto laws caught the eye of Kemi Badenoch - "This is Askerød, an estate branded a “parallel society” under Denmark’s controversial ghetto laws. Today, its population is 54 per cent “non-Western” – above the 50 per cent threshold that can compel councils to demolish, vacate or sell off social housing... The Danish government no longer uses the word “ghetto” to describe such areas, referring to them instead as places where there is a “parallel society”. As well as having more than 50 per cent non-Western people living there, parallel society areas must also meet two of four other criteria for houses to be demolished – such as having unemployment levels above 40 per cent, or crime rates of at least three times the national average. Those living in the affected properties are then re-housed in other areas, with the hope that this will improve integration and reduce crime. There are currently eight areas on the parallel society list... Ms Beckmann, a member of the Liberal Party, said a big change came when the municipality was granted full authority to decide who can move into Askerød and the nearby Gersagerparken estate. New residents must now meet certain criteria: they must be employed or in education, have no criminal record, and hold EU citizenship. She said a survey on the housing estate found that residents in the development reported feeling safer... A supporter of the parallel societies laws, Ms Beckmann described them as “overall good and effective”. “We simply cannot allow the existence of parallel societies where children and young people grow up under social control, religious indoctrination, crime, gangs, and with poor prospects for education and employment”... “When we ensure a diverse resident mix, we break down under-resourced areas. “Places where people feel unsafe, lose faith in the future, and where children see no other possibilities than what they encounter at home or next door.” The widespread political mainstream support for strict immigration measures is a sign of how much the debate in Denmark has changed. During the 1960s and early 1970s, the country welcomed large numbers of immigrants on guest worker status amid surging demand for labour. But concern grew for decades over how well newcomers were able to integrate. In 2015, the European migration and refugee crisis marked a turning point, when well over a million migrants came to Europe – mostly heading to wealthier northern countries such as Denmark, Sweden and Germany. That year, the anti-immigration Danish People’s Party (DPP), became the second biggest power in the country’s parliament. After losing the 2015 election, the Social Democrats made a public break from its previous past reputation of openness to migration. “My party should have listened,” new leader Mette Frederiksen said at the time. Since then the country has tightened rules dramatically and introduced a litany of restrictions. Its “anti-ghetto law” was introduced in 2018, and Ms Frederiksen, who became prime minister the following year, has since pursued a “zero refugee” policy. Successful asylum bids had almost halved by her second year in office, from 85 per cent in 2015 to 44 per cent in 2020. Last year just 860 asylum requests were granted in Denmark, the lowest figure apart from 2020, when Covid halted new arrivals."
Low education and low income are the other 2 criteria
Ironically, left wingers are usually in favor of forced integration
Weird. Left wingers tell us that migration is a force of nature that cannot be stopped, and is also karma for the West for colonialism
Swedish parliament requires public workers to report unauthorized migrants - "Critics said it will create a climate of fear and could negatively impact migrants’ physical and mental health. The law is part of Sweden’s efforts to tighten its approach to migration and comes as the European Union overhauls its migration system, including to expedite deportations... Teachers, doctors and social workers have been exempted from the reporting obligation, following criticism. Sweden will now make it compulsory for employees of tax authorities, employment and social insurance agencies and prison and probation services, among others, to tell police when they have reason to believe the people they come in contact with do not have the documents required to live in the country. “Reporting obligations imposed on public agencies create a climate of fear that harms not only undocumented people but everyone who depends on these institutions,” Louise Bonneau from Brussels-based nonprofit PICUM, which supports migrants, told the AP... The new law contradicts basic human rights of migrants and encourages racial profiling, a group of researchers from three Swedish universities warned... In 2005, Germany adopted legislation asking public authorities to report migrants without valid residency status, potentially leading to their deportation. The law only applies to some public institutions such as welfare offices, while schools and hospitals are exempted. Nevertheless, migrants in Germany are known to avoid exercising their right to medical care because of the requirement to obtain a document from the welfare office in advance, which exposes them to reporting to migration authorities. To address that, several institutions offer healthcare specifically for migrants without valid residency status, usually in large cities like Berlin. In 2018, the U.K. government revised a policy that had permitted immigration officials to obtain patient information from the National Health Service, following concerns that the arrangement deterred migrants from seeking medical treatment and undermined the confidentiality of patient records. Under the revised rules, the Home Office was restricted to accessing only the names of people suspected or convicted of crimes who were subject to deportation proceedings."
Having the police catch criminals creates a climate of fear and negatively impacts criminals' physical and mental health. So the police need to ignore criminals
Isn't it racist to say that certain racial groups are more likely to be illegal immigrants? Ironic.
If you're against open borders, you're against basic human rights
Lozzy B 🇦🇺𝕏 on X - "23 year old Sudanese migrant Abubaker Mohamad Awad, stabbed 19 year old Tommie Lindhn to death in his own apartment in Härnösand, Sweden after Lindhn tried to stop Awad from raping a Swedish girl at knife point. After killing Tommie, Awad continued to rape the young girl next to Tommies dead body. The Sudanese migrant had already previously been convicted of several crimes, including sexual harassment, drug offences & shoplifting. Had he been deported, Tommie would still be alive. The media painted Tommie as Far Right, implied he was racist & that his life didn’t matter. Tommie’s life DID Matter, all White Lives Matter. Tommie Lindhn was a HERO R.I.P Tommie 🤍🕊️ There is no justice without completely overhauling the broken system in the West & without Remigration. Locking up violent foreign criminals AFTER they kill does not stop the next innocent person from losing their life. No justice, no peace."
Apple Lamps on X - "Pim Fortuyn exposed the multicultural fraud before it turned European cities into war zones. He told the truth that mass immigration from Muslim countries would bring crime, welfare dependency, and values that despise Western freedom, especially for the gay man he was. The far left activist Volkert van der Graaf could not win the debate so he put a bullet in Fortuyn's head. This environmental leftist radical turned political assassin revealed the left's ultimate argument when facts threaten their ideology. They kill. Then the system they captured let him out early after serving only twelve years of an eighteen year sentence. That disgraceful early release proved the left protects its own killers while the rest of us get the full weight of the law. The same movement that excuses Antifa violence and riots over deportations once murdered the one politician brave enough to say the quiet part out loud about Islam. Fortuyn's warnings were dismissed as hate then. They read like prophecy now. The left has never apologized for that murder or the soft treatment of the assassin because admitting the motive would require admitting he was right. They chose the gun over the argument and then made sure the gunman paid almost nothing. Europe has paid in blood ever since."
Rome, “Take in a Migrant for Free at Home”: Program Flops, Three Sign-Ups in Three Months : r/europe_sub
David J Harris Jr. | Facebook - "🚨TRAGIC: After being robbed at knifepoint by Algerian migrant Said Malkoun, Italian woman Cinzia Dal Pino, 65, got back into her Mercedes, chased him down, and ran him over multiple times — killing him — before retrieving her bag and driving away. Prosecutors are now demanding life in prison, arguing she was fully in control of her actions despite the trauma of the armed mugging. Meanwhile, attackers from similar backgrounds who mow down civilians are often quickly labeled “mentally ill.” This is a clear DOUBLE STANDARD!"
Meme - Sardoche @Sardoche_Lol. Translated from French: "Spoiler: He got probation - 0 days in prison. The lawyer argued that he wasn't used to seeing free women and that he couldn't know how to behave. At least we're having a good laugh."
Dr. Maalouf @realMaalouf: "BELGIUM: A 30-year-old refugee from Afghanistan sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl in a public swimming pool. His lawyer argued:"
Clearly, Europe needs to import loads more men from the Third World who are not used to seeing free women and don't know how to behave, and condemn indigenous white men for perpetuating rape culture
Monireh Kazemi on X (translated) - "The Absurdity of the Self-Inflicted Transformation
It is one of the great ironies of our time: Millions of people flee from Islamically influenced countries to the West because economic conditions, freedom, and future prospects there are miserable—often as a result of corruption, clan structures, religious paternalism, and a lack of innovation culture. They seek precisely what they did not have at home. Yet therein lies the absurdity: The larger their communities grow in the West, the more they alter the political landscape. Western politicians, driven by electoral arithmetic, become dependent on these votes and increasingly tailor their programs to the demands of the new electorate—at the expense of the native population. The outcome is predictable and tragic: The problems the migrants fled from are slowly imported. Advancement through merit, secular freedom, and the rule of law increasingly give way to no-go zones, high social costs, declining educational standards, and growing religious influence. In the end stands the bitter punchline: People leave failed societies—and through their mere presence reproduce precisely those conditions they sought to escape. The West imports not only people but also the archaic cultural notions, gender roles, homophobia, antisemitism, and institutional deficits of their countries of origin. Anyone who criticizes this because it does not fit the parties' narrative is quickly labeled as “right-wing.” But the real absurdity lies in the fact that a continent once admired for centuries for its achievements is voluntarily embarking on the path to its own decadence—merely to avoid appearing “intolerant.”"
Visegrád 24 on X - "🇩🇪 The Left Party in Germany has submitted a motion to allow foreigners to vote in German elections, provided they have lived legally in Germany for at least five years. They argue that the current system does not reflect Germany’s character as a country of immigrants. According to the Basic Law, only Germans can vote in Bundestag elections, but The Left argues that some parts of the Basic Law use the term “people” rather than explicitly “German people,” meaning voting rights could be extended to foreigners."
This is why left wingers push mass migration
Mario Nawfal on X - "🇪🇸 Tens of thousands of Spaniards hit the streets demanding Pedro Sanchez resign. “SANCHEZ, RESIGN NOW!” First the UK, now Spain. People across Europe look fed up with their leaders."
German taxpayers bled dry: Mass migration cost €40 billion in 2025 - "Migrants cost German taxpayers — just at the federal level — €24.8 billion in 2025, according to new data in the “refugee costs report” from the German Federal Ministry of Finance. However, the true sum is much higher. The €24.8 billion is strictly the federal bill. The actual, combined national cost of migration for Germany is that €24.8 billion plus the massive, separate billions that the individual states and municipalities had to pull from their own local tax revenues to cover their own deficits brought on by mass immigration. Welt notes that the total figure is indeed much higher, since it does not include states and local communes, but Welt does not provide this combined data. Nevertheless, previous years indicate that this number is at least €15 to €20 billion. That means any total figure is likely well over €40 billion, but as in previous years, it may actually go as high as €50 billion... Of course, all of these expenses only cover specific areas like housing, direct social benefits, and integration courses. The true cost is still far higher than €40 billion to €50 billion. The costs, for instance, do not cover expenses associated with the substantial foreign prison population. They also do not cover the need for the vastly increased police forces and counter-terrorism efforts. There are also “gray areas” that lead to other hidden taxes on Germans brought on by mass immigration. For instance, mass immigration has led to vastly higher housing prices, more road traffic, crowded hospitals, and longer wait times for medical treatments. Germans are even paying higher health insurance premiums now due to mass immigration. The head of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds (GKV-Spitzenverband) has repeatedly criticized the federal government for creating a massive multi-billion-euro deficit that forces them to raise premiums, with the core of the complaint revolving around “non-insurance benefits.” These are social welfare benefits mandated by the government that are paid out to people who have not paid regular insurance contributions into the system. This includes long-term unemployed citizens and refugees... Once on welfare, they are fully integrated into the statutory health insurance system. This is where the GKV-Spitzenverband argues the math breaks down, with the government only paying €108 per person per month for welfare recipients, the majority of which are migrants and those with a migration background, when the care actually costs between €300 and €350 a month. This has resulted in a multi-billion euro deficit, which the insurance companies say now needs to be passed on to Germans actually paying for their health insurance. In short, Germans are being squeezed from all sides due to mass immigration, and despite claims that foreigners would pay the pensions of Germany’s aging population, this is clearly unrealistic. Instead, Germany’s elderly may now be expected to work even longer, with a strong movement in the government to raise the retirement age to 73."
Migrant grooming gangs in Nuremberg accused of luring underage girls into prostitution in exchange for hard drugs - "Migrant drug gangs in the Bavarian city of Nuremberg are accused of exploiting underage girls by luring them with gifts, getting them hooked on hard drugs, and then demanding sex in exchange for further supplies"
Nearly Half of Italian Rape Victims Raped By Migrants - "Data from the Italian Interior Ministry has stated that 42 out of 100 rapes in the country are committed by migrants and the numbers continue to rise. The statistics from the Interior Ministry also suggest that Italian women are more prone to be the victims of sexual harassment and minor sex attacks than foreign women, while foreign women have a slightly higher rate for serious sex crimes such as violent rape, Il Giornale reports... A report from the Italian Interior Ministry released last August suggested that nearly one in three crimes in Italy are committed by migrants despite migrants making up just eight percent of the population."
Visegrád 24 on X - "Greta Thunberg has spoken up against migrant deportations in Sweden, claiming that the country is “becoming increasingly hostile and racist.” “The right to seek asylum is a basic human right and cannot be compromised,” she said. The popular left-wing activist, who led a so-called “Freedom Flotilla” to Gaza, did not comment on the report released a few days ago that showed the true scale of Hamas’s sexual terrorism during and after the October 7th attack. The report, prepared by the Civil Commission, examined over 10,000 photographs and gathered over 430 accounts from witnesses, survivors, experts, and medical staff. In one testimony, a survivor told how a woman was gang-raped by terrorists, during which one cut off her breast. “He throws it on the road, and they are playing with it,” she said. A terrorist then “shot her in the head” while still assaulting her. This is the reality of Hamas’s sexual violence, which left-wing activists like Greta Thunberg still choose to ignore."
It's the omni cause. The left wing agenda is all connected/ "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution"
Francesco 🇮🇹 on X - "Estibaliz Kortazar, a far-left Spanish activist, did what good comrades do, she opened her home to a North African migrant. Once he got what he wanted, the man started sexually harassing her, insulting her, and beating her. Then he threw her out, changed the locks, and took over the house. She called the police for help. Their response? “We can’t do anything without a court order.” Now she’s sleeping at relatives’ houses, seeing a psychologist after a nervous breakdown, and has launched a petition to fast-track the legal process and get her home back."
RAW EGG NATIONALIST on X - "The kicker: none of this will change her political views. She’ll still promote the same policies and vote by the same way."
From Refugee Helper to AfD Voter: YouTuber Explains Her Political Shift - "Nicole Blair, a 36-year-old YouTuber who once worked actively as a refugee helper, has explained why she now votes for Germany’s right-wing opposition party, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). In 2015, during the height of the migration crisis, she spent time in Budapest, where she saw families camping without food or shelter. Back in Germany, she threw herself into volunteer work—donating blankets, teaching children, arranging housing, and supporting newcomers. “I was totally passionate. I wanted to be a good person,” she told the Schwäbische Zeitung. But over time, her enthusiasm faded. While she built friendships and received much gratitude, she also said she met migrants who lied about their background, stole from her, or showed a “sense of entitlement.”... Ahead of the 2021 Bundestag election, Blair decided to re-engage with politics. She read every party’s manifesto in full. “To my surprise, the AfD’s programme made sense to me,” she said. What stood out most was its migration policy. “It didn’t say ‘all foreigners out.’ It said people who integrate are welcome, but those who commit crimes or lose their right to asylum should return. That sounded logical.” She also agreed with AfD positions on family, education, and the economy... Blair stresses that she does not oppose genuine asylum seekers. “People who are really persecuted must get help. But many I met openly admitted … they came for a better life. That’s understandable, but it’s not what asylum is for,” she stressed. She argues that encouraging young men to rebuild their home countries would be “more respectful and compassionate” than offering long-term welfare in Germany. Her YouTube channel, launched shortly before the 2021 election, quickly attracted hundreds of thousands of views. Many viewers, she says, thanked her for voicing doubts they shared but were afraid to express."
Asylum NGO Boss To Marry Convicted Libyan Smuggler - "Alaa Faraj was sentenced by Italian courts to 30 years in prison for multiple counts of manslaughter and aiding illegal immigration, linked to a 2015 Mediterranean shipwreck that left 49 people dead. He served a decade in Palermo before receiving a partial presidential pardon in December from Sergio Mattarella, reducing his sentence by more than 11 years. He remains liable to serve additional time, though further reductions are possible. Faraj is now planning to marry Alessandra Sciurba, a university lecturer and former president of the NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans. The two met during a prison education programme in Palermo, where Sciurba became involved in his case and publicly supported his claim that he had been wrongly convicted... Separately, several members of Mediterranea Saving Humans are currently facing trial in Italy on accusations of facilitating illegal migration and profiting from their activities."
Jonatan Pallesen on X - "The most idiotic progressive idea may well be the idea that people with low IQ should get far lower sentencing. Just now in Norway, a Syrian migrant is sentenced to only 6 months in jail after child rape. It makes zero sense. It obviously doesn't make it less bad for the victim or future victims that their rapist is retarded. His IQ wasn't even that extremely low. It was estimated to be in the range of 64–75. The Syrian mean is around 78. So he is within normal range for the Syrian population. Even if their argument did make sense, 6 months for child rape is an insanely low. What are we doing?"
Jonatan Pallesen on X - "The policies of left-wingers in Europe are the same as they would be if their goal was to get more rape. First, allow mass immigration from the peoples in the world that have the highest propensity for rape, such as Afghanistan and Somalia. Especially aim for getting many young men. A problem is that many of these are not able to support themselves in Europe. And if they leave again, they would not have as many chances to rape. So they should be supported by lavish welfare, ensuring that they will stay. And finally, aim to make the sentences for rapists as lenient as possible. This helps both reduce the deterrent effect and gets rapists back on the street faster. For extra bonus points, ban women and girls from carrying protection such as pepper spray."
Switzerland votes against 10 million population cap - "The proposal sought to limit the number of residents in Switzerland to 10 million. It has about 9.1 million today and foreigners make up nearly 28 per cent of the population. It was billed as a potential “Swiss Brexit” because the initiative could ultimately have forced Bern to tear up its free movement agreement with the EU. This could have risked the collapse of wider bilateral accords that give Switzerland privileged access to the EU market... Xavier Alonso, a senior editor at RTS, told The Telegraph the result showed that the SVP had lost at the ballot box but won “the battle of ideas”. “The SVP campaigned alone against everyone and won 15 to 16 points more than its militant base, which is around 30 per cent,” he said. “Almost one Swiss person in two thinks that growth and immigration, despite prosperity, is a problem.” The result also exposed a sharp town-country divide, with rural areas much more receptive to the cap than the cities."
ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 on X - ">swiss think immigration is too high
>propose referendum to limit immigration
>government accepts proposals
>holds referendum to limit immigration
>limit immigration vote wins
>government limits immigration
>central issue of C21st western politics instantly solved
>it’s that easy"
Germany: Syrian asylum seeker Fahad A. on trial for murdering 70 people, torturing 115 - "The man was able to apply for asylum in Germany in 2023 as a war refugee, but now, the prosecution alleges that the defendant served as a prison guard and secret service agent who partook in brutal forms of torture while serving the former regime of Bashar al-Assad."
If you don't welcome all refugees, you are heartless and evil
German day cares under police protection over pork - "Plans to no longer serve children pork or gelatin-containing products like gummy bears at two day care centers in the eastern German city of Leipzig prompted a wave of criticism online and made headlines... "Out of respect for a changing world, only pork-free meals and snacks will be ordered and served starting from July 15," read a letter sent to parents, according to Bild... By the evening, the director of the two centers said they were putting the plans on hold for now following the outrage... "Imagine if German children in Riyadh fought for their right to currywurst and forced the majority of society to change their diet," she said, referring to a popular variation of German sausage. Sawsan Chebli, a German politician in Berlin for the center-left Social Democrats who is of Palestinian descent, said the measure may have been well-intentioned, but did little to include Muslims."
From 2019
All Meals in Yet Another German School Will Be ‘Halal’ - "After a daycare center in Lower Saxony recently raised the hackles of parents by only serving sausages from halal-slaughtered animals, now a school in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhein-Westphalia, is also bowing to the demands of the Muslim population when it comes to food offerings. Starting next school year, Erle Comprehensive School will serve only halal meals, according to an announcement on the school’s website... Around 60% of students in Gelsenkirchen have a migration background, with some districts seeing even higher numbers. Pork has already been banned in all schools since 2010, following a decision by the city’s food advisory board. Other schools in Germany, including a special needs school in Baden-Württemberg, have also shifted to halal-only menus... some non-Muslim Europeans view halal-slaughtered meat being the ‘default’ offering as a form of religious accommodation that they have not chosen, or even a forced passive participation in a system they don’t adhere to. Certain Christians oppose consuming halal meat because the animal is dedicated to Allah, a deity they do not worship or recognize. And animal rights activists have opposed halal slaughter that does not stun the animal before its throat is slit and it is drained of all blood. No word on whether German schools intend to cater to the religious food rules of the Jewish population—who do not consume halal foods"