@mazemoore

The climate scam isn’t complex. We are always 7-10 years away from climate catastrophe.

It will never get any better or any worse, just always on the edge of Armageddon.

Lizzie, sorry to hear your specialist gave you the bums rush.
I swear, some of these cosmetic surgeons are mercenary sharks.
A total pain in the arse.
Anyway, don’t rush into anything.
Watch a few episodes of “Botched” first.
The quest to retain/regain perkiness is often tinged with regret.

Censorship silences necessary debate

Senator Claire Chandler, The Spectator Australia June 11, 2024

Last week I asked the eSafety Commissioner a simple question, ‘Are Australians allowed to call a violent male rapist who identifies their way into a women’s prison a man or a male?’ In case you’re wondering: no, this isn’t hypothetical. I’ve spoken in the Senate previously about the abhorrent case of the depraved man who spent years in a European men’s jail for sexually assaulting his young daughter, before committing a serious sexual assault on a woman in Melbourne. He was referred to as a woman and a ‘she’ in Australian media and the court, and was ultimately allowed to identify their way into a women’s prison.

There’s a simple and important reason this question needs to be asked. And that is because the website of the eSafety Commissioner – who has the power to order anyone’s social media posts be taken down in Australia – claims that ‘misgendering’ or refusing to use preferred pronouns is an example of ‘gendered violence’ or ‘gendered hate’.

There’s a huge problem with authorities and people in positions of power making ideological statements like this. It’s a pretty basic concept that if you’re trying to explain why a male shouldn’t be in a female sport or space, you have to be actually free to say he is male.

And that’s precisely why a trans activist lodged a complaint to the press council against the Herald Sun when it was one of the only Australian media outlets to cover the complaints by female prisoners against this male sex offender being housed in prison with them. The ideology that any male must be free to identify as a woman can’t withstand open discussion of the occasions when this policy plainly puts women in danger. As the Herald Sun reported, this activist has repeatedly tried to launch legal action against Australian media outlet for their reporting.

Authorities which label ‘misgendering’ as hate speech and have the power to accept complaints and take action against it are actively contributing to the undermining of women’s single-sex spaces, sports and facilities, when they deprive us of the ability to describe a man as a man.

While it’s pleasing that in this case the Press Council rejected the complaint from an activist, the reality is that it has upheld many other spurious complaints against journalists and media outlets trying to cover the various debates around self-ID. And on social media, the equivalent of the Press Council – but with vastly more power – is the eSafety Commissioner.

If you’ve paid any attention at all to this issue you know that forcing people to call males ‘women’ was the key that allowed men into female spaces. Many of the people who would rightly object immediately to a man walking into a women’s change room or a male rapist being put in a women’s prison suddenly go missing if that male claims to be a woman. And plenty of the rest who can still see how unfair and unsafe it is will nevertheless stay silent because they’ve heard loud and clear from authorities that ‘misgendering’ is hate speech.

Again, this isn’t a particularly difficult concept to grasp. Very few people actually agree that a violent male sex offender should be in a women’s prison. But if there’s a threat of punishment – or even the threat of being labelled a bigot – for pointing out there’s a man in a women’s prison, very few are comfortable to publicly object. So nothing gets said, nothing gets written or published, and it can keep happening.

The eSafety Commissioner is perfectly capable of understanding this. That’s why it was so shocking when her response to my question about the male rapist in a women’s prison was to label it ‘a long bow’ and say she refuses to be drawn on the issue.

This is the same Commissioner whose website labels ‘misgendering’ as hate, and the same Commissioner who has ordered news articles that accurately report on males in women’s sport must be taken down in Australia.

This is the trick gender activists have been playing for years now. Change the language, demand you comply, and then accuse you of hate and bigotry if you don’t. It’s one thing for activists to play this game, but when it comes from people with the power to limit free speech and discussion, it has catastrophic consequences for our society.

Muslim leader Sheik Wesam Charkawi driving the bid to topple Labor in southwest Sydney

Alexi Demetriadi, The Australian, 11 June 2024

Community leader Wesam Charkawi is mobilising the Muslim vote across key southwest Sydney federal seats to topple Labor at the next election as prominent figures warned the ALP of electoral abandonment. Sheik Charkawi, a Western Sydney University PhD candidate, is the brains and organiser behind The Muslim Vote campaign, The Australian can reveal.

It is one among many websites to emerge recently targeting Muslim Australians to support pro-Palestine candidates or oust sitting members who are not, including some Labor ministers, and rates them on their voting record and stance on Israel.

The emergence of such campaigns, and popular and well-connected figures such as Sheik Charkawi driving them, will remain a headache for Labor HQ until and during the federal election, likely to be early next year.

Last month Sheik Charkawi – a Sunni Muslim – led calls for the dismissal of ASIO chief Mike Burgess, who had said Sunni Islamic extremism posed the “greatest religi­ously motivated threat in Australia”.

The Australian revealed in April how Labor feared key Sydney heartlands, such as Jason Clare’s Blaxland, Anne Stanley’s Werriwa and Tony Burke’s Watson, could be at risk, given community anger about the Gaza war.

Sheik Charkawi, a frequent presence at the University of Sydney’s pro-Palestine encampment, was unreachable but has told his large following “things were in motion” for the next election and the Muslim vote had been “taken for granted”.

Outside Parramatta MP Andrew Charlton’s electorate office – another seat the campaign has targeted – Sheik Charkawi said it was “time to change the status quo” and a campaign was “mobilising for the election”.

Last month the campaign warned Labor its stance on the war would cost it at the election, particularly among young voters, saying it was “alienating its base”.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 29 of the 151 federal electorates have 5 per cent or more people of Islamic faith – 27 of those 29 seats are held by Labor.

Of those 29, 16 are held by Labor on margins of 10 per cent or more, and at the previous election it suffered primary vote swings against it of up to 18.5 per cent.

Six of the 10 biggest swings were in seats with large Muslim communities. Mr Clare’s Blaxland and Mr Burke’s Watson are each held with about a 15 per cent margin. Muslim voters make up 35 per cent and 27 per cent respectively in the two seats.

Southwest Sydney Muslim leaders said the party would be naive to think it wouldn’t suffer at the polls.

“You’d have to be absolutely naive to think there wouldn’t be electoral backlash,” Lebanese Muslim Association general secretary Gamel Kheir said He stressed that the community was appreciative of Mr Burke and Mr Clare, and it would be aimed at the party at large. “There’s a sense that they (Labor) will be punished for the stance they’ve taken on Palestine.”

Mr Kheir said although the community wasn’t homogenous, it would no longer default to Labor. “The community is younger and clear on who is going to best represent them,” he said, adding that they felt their voice was “not being heard”.

Mr Kheir said it “hurt more because it’s Labor”, comparing Anthony Albanese’s vocal criticism of damage to the US consulate with what he said was a lack of criticism of Israel. “Labor has traditionally looked out for minorities and migrants, we held them to a higher standard,” he said.

Although Sheik Cherkawi’s campaign may not run candidates, several pro-Palestine independents will run as viable protest votes and likely would be endorsed by it.

The Greens’ pro-Palestine stance is also rising in popularity, although the party would struggle for widespread support.

Of the sheik’s campaign, Mr Kheir said it could be “revolutionary”. “Our community is nuanced, filled with second or third-generation migrants, a patchwork of Australia … there’ll be collective backlash (against Labor),” he said.

Community leader Dr Jamal Rifi said although most elections were fought over the economy, the next would have more emphasis on foreign policy, namely the conflict. “It will play a bigger part than before,” he said.

Dr Rifi noted that it was the same government who reversed a relocation of Australia’s embassy to Jerusalem. “When they made that decision the local reaction was one of happiness, their score was high,” he said. “That score is now low – but it remains the same government (who did that).”

Dr Rifi pointed to a “tightrope” the government had to walk, especially given Hamas’ terror designation, and pointed to an “incremental but gradual” shift in its approach to Palestinian statehood and its people, revealing that meetings between the community and government were bearing fruit.

‘We have the Israelis where we want them’: Sinwar’s words revealed – WSJ report

According to a Wall Street Journal report, Yahya Sinwar has been in direct contact with Hamas leaders in Qatar, saying civilian casualties are “necessary sacrifices.”

Gender dysphoria diagnoses among children have spiked 133% since 2019, data indicates

Twice as many children and teenagers are being diagnosed with gender dysphoria today than before the pandemic, a report suggests.

Analysts at LexisNexis — which tracks 300million patients — found the number of insurance claims for gender identity care among under-18s spiked 133 percent from 2019 to 2023.

It is part of a wider sharp increase in mental health issues among children.

It is indeed.

Indeed, and there are existing laws, but strangely, curiously and oddly there seems to be an unwillingness to use these laws against those who scream ‘f*ck the Jews’, who scream ‘kill the Jews’…

In which case, if the legal threshold of criminal harassment has been met, there would be grounds to make a formal complaint about police refusing to investigate the matter. She could also obtain legal advice about civil action against the alleged culprits.

I would advise the lady concerned to keep scrupulous records of the incidents, if she hasn’t already, and to report to her doctor any adverse impacts on her mental or physical health.

It’s time to stand up to these bullies.

UK animal rights activists target King’s portrait

• By AFP
• AFP
• 7:21AM June 12, 2024
• 73 Comments

Animal rights protestors have covered an official portrait of King Charles III with the face of the eccentric, cheese-loving animation character Wallace to campaign for better animal welfare on farms.
In a video shared by Animal Rising, two campaigners are seen sticking an image of Wallace, from the Aardman characters Wallace and Gromit, on top of Charles’s face and a speech bubble at a London gallery.
Activists said the protest was aimed at raising awareness about practices at Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) certified farms.
Jonathan Yeo’s striking red portrait of Charles is on display at the Philip Mould Gallery in London, after being unveiled by the king himself last month.
The speech bubble pasted on Charles, who is an RSPCA patron, read: “No cheese, Gromit. Look at all this cruelty on RSPCA farms!” in a reference to Wallace’s faithful canine companion.

Off with their heads!

God bless you Indolent, you provide us with a lot of good reading. But I suspect that many Cats pass it by, because of the volume.

Could I put it an urgent recommendation for one of Indolent’s posts this morning? It is a short (8 mins) discussion by the indomitable Victor Davis Hanson on the the fact that the West is on the cusp of disintegration as a result of societal and economic transformation. It has been posted in the last few days. It is a compelling argument and has serious implications for all of us.

Hanson is right that the West has been captured by a Left consisting of the media, the academy and those who control the corporate world. Gramsky predicted it all. We live in dangerous times.

“Victor Davis Hanson JUST Exposed This to the ENTIRE World!!”

Cassie of Sydney
 June 12, 2024 10:45 am

And in news just in……

Jarryd Hayne’s conviction has been quashed.

So will the politicised DPP charge him again, for the fourth or fifth time?

The report I heard (and I just caught it so might not be 100% correct) said he would be up for another trial. I am not sure if that was from the DPP or just enthusiastic wishful thinking by the radio j’ism.
It would be a tad unusual for a DPP to announce another trial without carefully reading the judgement, but here we are.

Bruce Lehrmann asked for $13,250 following alleged ‘extensive damage’ to Sydney apartment
By liam mendes

• Reporter
• 3:17PM June 12, 2024

Bruce Lehrmann is being asked to pay $13,250 for alleged “extensive damage” at the multimillion-dollar property in the north-eastern Sydney suburb of Balgowlah provided for him by Seven Network, and pay lost rent.
The former Liberal staffer failed on Wednesday to appear at the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal, where on Wednesday it was heard Lady Gaenor Meakes, the property owner who launched proceedings against him, was seeking $13,250 for coverage of alleged damage.
Her daughter Matilda Meakes, a paralegal appearing on her behalf, confirmed the scope of the claim, stating $13,250 was the amount her mother was claiming. The bond payable for the premises was $10,600.
Mr Lehrmann recently filed an appeal to the Full Court of the Federal Court following his landmark defamation suit loss in April this year during which Justice Michael Lee found, on the balance of probabilities, that he sexually assaulted Brittany Higgins inside Parliament House on the morning of March 23, 2019. The defamation suit was against presenter Lisa Wilkinson and Network 10.
For the Balgowlah apartment, there are two proceedings against Mr Lehrmann: the first, relating to alleged property damage and the second to loss of outstanding rent, with the tribunal previously hearing the two proceedings would likely run together.

One Russian Kamikaze tank destroyed an entire Ukrainian Tank convoy

IIRC that was quite a while ago.

Wowee, it doesn’t end there either! Listen to the hide of it:

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