Mick Hartley

Author: Mick Hartley

  • Thoroughly rotten capitalist acts

    d as demand among women for breast augmentation procedures skyrockets,” a Daily NK source in Pyongyang said recently. “The Ministry of Social Security issued an emergency crackdown order to its Pyongyang branch on the morning of July 13.”

    According to the source, the ministry’s order criticized women for “engaging in all sorts of decadent behavior” under bourgeois influence within the socialist system. While authorities had previously overlooked women getting double eyelid surgery or eyebrow tattoos, the order stated that “thoroughly rotten capitalist acts” like breast enlargements were now becoming commonplace.

    Breast augmentations have grown trendy among women in their 20s and 30s seeking more voluptuous figures, particularly those in Pyongyang’s upscale central neighborhoods like Jung and Potonggang districts, the source said….

    However, since authorities consider breast augmentations non-socialist behavior, women cannot receive them at official medical institutions.

    As a result, surgeons secretly perform illegal procedures in their homes using silicone imported from China. This creates serious problems, as such procedures carry high risks of complications like infections….

    Taking the rising number of illegal breast augmentations and medical complications seriously, the Ministry of Social Security issued its emergency order. Pyongyang police have organized strike teams to conduct intensive crackdowns through the end of September, aiming to “eradicate non-socialist behavior.”

    City police issued detailed crackdown instructions. First, officers will infiltrate places performing illegal medical procedures by posing as women seeking breast augmentations. Second, officers will patrol with neighborhood watch unit heads, stopping women with enlarged breasts and taking them to police stations or hospitals for questioning and physical examinations.

    Police taking any woman they think might have large breasts off the streets and down to the station for a closer inspection. No, I can't see any problems there.

    “Strike teams in civilian clothes are already active in Pyongyang’s central districts, where they’ve begun their crackdown,” the source said. “Women and private doctors could face forced labor or other criminal punishments for engaging in non-socialist behavior.”

  • Palestinism

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    "Today we ask again: is there any military — or any other — solution to a worldview that prefers self‑destruction, in one form or another, so long as Israel suffers more? I do not yet know exactly how we will overcome this current assault — especially when our leadership is, this time, so dismally cowardly and poor. But I am certain Israelis will find a way. Because at its core, this is a struggle between two ideologies: Palestinism, which will not rest until not a single sovereign Jew remains between the river and the sea; and Zionism, which — despite the ferocity of every assault against it — remains committed to nothing more, and nothing less, than the right of the Jewish people to live as a free nation, in at least part of their historic homeland."

  • The BMA and the “omnicause”

    n the NHS Fife case, that not one single trades union that I'm aware of would support Peggie here. And certainly not the RCN. They're all completely behind the gender cause. Such an obvious case of workers' rights under attack from middle-class management, and they all look the other way.

    Also this: a nurse racially abused by a trans paedophile, and the RCN's only concern is that she "misgendered" him. 

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    "Jennifer was racially abused by the patient and threatened with assault. But it is now Jennifer who has been suspended and is being investigated as a 'risk' to the NHS for not using the patient's preferred gender identity.

    "A paying RCN member for 12 years, Jennifer says that when the incident happened the union dismissed her case as not “meritorious” and told her to complete a “reflection” exercise to avoid future ‘misgendering’. She received no support despite the RCN recognising the abuse she experienced."

  • Owning it

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  • The state of California

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    Full text:

    The boy never once identified as a girl and never had any desire to be a girl. It was all the mother. Jeff won his case in Texas (and helped get the state to block this abuse) so the mother ran to the child-castrating, sanctuary state of California under @CAgovernor @GavinNewsom .

    The boy even told the courts that he doesn't like wearing dresses and doesn't identify as a girl. So the courts went after the father, saying he was "forcing him to be a boy."

    California Judge Juhas removed all of Jeff's parental rights and gave the ex-wife full authority to castrate his son, James. Jeff is not allowed any contact with the son without court supervision.

    You don't hate the TQIAP+ activists and child-abusing courts, doctors, and politicians enough.

    As Annette Bening said, speaking for all those Hollywood mothers, "having a trans kid makes you interesting".

  • A failure of leadership

    tyle=”font-size: 11pt”>A spokeswoman said: “Of particular concern are the number of MPs and peers who are openly saying that the rights of trans people are under threat. This not only calls into question the legitimacy of the Supreme Court judgment which explicitly states the ruling ‘does not remove protection from trans people’, it actively fuels fear within the very community they claim to support.”

    She said: “We now call upon the government to maintain their resolve and remind outlier Labour MPs, who seek to push their own agenda, of their duty to uphold the law.”

    Maya Forstater, chief executive of the charity Sex Matters, said that leadership was needed so that MPs understood the law.

    She said: “Every government has backbench rebels. But when they make dismissive and factually incorrect statements that run directly counter to the government’s stated position, it’s a failure of leadership to let them stand.”

    We await Sir Keir's firm and resolute rebuke to these wayward MPs. 

  • The Irish and Gaza

    by the Hamas, is now the taste of the month, the fashion among Western Europe’s mainly ignorant young, who know nothing about the Israel-Palestine conflict beyond the daily and nightly images, many of them fake, broadcast on TV screens of dead and dying children, images efficiently engineered by the Hamas’s propaganda machine; know nothing of, and care even less about, the consistent Palestinian rejection of all compromise proposals by the international community and, periodically, by the Zionist leaders these past hundred years; and know nothing of, or care about, the constant Palestinian resort to terrorism, culminating in the Hamas assault on Israel on 7 October 2023, in which some 1,200 Israelis (a few of them Arab Israelis) were killed and 250 (mostly civilians, aged six months to 89 years old) taken hostage.

    He goes on to cite a number of examples from Irish media…

    The Irish Independent of 23 July sported two long articles in a two-page spread, accompanied by photographs depicting Palestinian hunger and death, one by Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dawoud Abu Alkas and the other by Nedal Hamdouna (all Arab names and, presumably, Palestinians). The first article was titled “Six-week-old boy among 15 people to die of Starvation in Recent Days”; the second, “Skeletons Marching to Death – Palestinians Face Hunger and Bullets as Israel Steamrolls into Gaza.”

    Hamdouna’s opened her article with a striking quote by “Younis,” a 32-year-old Gazan father of four: “The gunfire was so intense that it was like they were aiming to drink our blood.” A curious phrase, given that I have seen no reports of anyone drinking anyone’s blood in Gaza these past twenty months of combat – but, deliberately or not, it echoes the Medieval antisemitic trope about Jews drinking the blood of Christian children and maybe the Gazans have been so indoctrinated that they believe Jews routinely do this.

    That day, the Independent also ran two relevant letters to the editor. One, by Declan Foley from Melbourne, Australia, read: “The abhorrent and continuing inhumanity to the people of Gaza cannot be described as anything other than genocide.” It can, but I won’t go into this here. But the letter fails to note that “the people of Gaza” – and, incidentally, the Arab population of the West Bank – overwhelmingly endorsed the Hamas onslaught on Israel on 7 October 2023 (while, of course, denying the mass rape, mass executions, decapitations, etc. that accompanied it). Foley laments “the killing [by the IDF] of innocent people – God’s children” and goes on to decry the “antisemitism” charge voiced by Israel’s defenders by saying, in effect, that Arabs, “Phoenicians” and “Akkadians” are also “semites,” so they can’t be accused of antisemitism.

    Yes, we've heard that one before.

    The flood of reportage on Gaza’s suffering in the Irish press appears to stake the moral high ground and Irish righteousness. I wonder whether these newspapers devoted a hundredth of their attention to the world’s other humanitarian crises during the past decades, especially crises in which Muslims slaughtered fellow Muslims actually in their hundreds of thousands.

    See here for more on antisemitism in Ireland, including the Limerick Pogrom of 1904.

  • Starting to recognize a Palestinian State

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  • Shifting clouds

    Iranian water resources expert Mohsen Arbabian at MEMRI TV:

    "Israel and the United States, who claim to have the capability [to cause a drought], and who have been hostile toward us, have been doing this gradually for the past 40 years.

    "I say this with confidence, because you can see in satellite images how the clouds shift from their course. I don’t have how many people say that this is normal. I say it is not. While Lake Van [in Turkey] is full of water, Lake Urmia [in Iran] has dried up."

    "The clouds that come from the Mediterranean and should enter our country gradually drift toward Turkey and move toward Azerbaijan and Armenia."

    Could this not be the work of Allah, showing His displeasure with Tehran, and perhaps demonstrating a preference for Sunni over Shia? Just a thought.

    Business as usual elsewhere on MEMRI TV….

    • Lebanese Journalist Khoder Taleb on Hizbullah TV: I Wish The Nazis Had Burned All The Jews; This Situation Is Worse Than The Nazi Holocaust.
    • Texas Sermon by Yasir Qadhi: Israel Is 'Demonstrably More Evil' Than The Nazis; The U.S. Has Been Taken Hostage By Israel And AIPAC.

    People accuse the Jews of "weaponising" the Holocaust, but there's no obsession like the obsession to throw the Holocaust and "genocide" back at the Jews, and Israel.

  • At the Edinburgh Book Festival

    r challenging topics addressed in the programme, we don’t shy away from difficult conversation.'

    Except gender. There's only one side we want to hear from on that particular debate – and it's not yours. Go away.

    Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon – a fierce advocate of gender-ID policy – has been handed a speaking slot at the Festival, which runs until 24 August, to launch her as yet unpublished autobiography, ‘Frankly’.

    Her former Chief of Staff Liz Lloyd became a director of the event earlier this year.

    Well there's a coincidence.

    See Ursula Doyle's thread here.

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