Author: Mick Hartley

  • Judenfrei

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  • Return of the street children

    From the Daily NK:

    Homeless children are reappearing on North Korean streets as soaring food prices drive desperate families deeper into poverty.

    Children begging and stealing food around markets and train stations have become increasingly common, with people saying there are “definitely more than before.”

    A Daily NK source said recently that authorities had reduced street children through crackdowns and support programs just one or two years ago. But they’ve returned to the streets in large numbers recently, prompting some to call it “evidence that people are struggling to survive.”

    The children survive by stealing from passersby or eating food scraps around markets and train stations.

    The resurgence stems from worsening food shortages as market prices have surged in recent months. Families living day-to-day can no longer cope, the source said. In rural areas, growing numbers of households survive on just a few potatoes daily because they can’t afford rice or corn.

  • Reminiscent of Stalinist Russia

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    Full interview here.

    Some background here.

  • At the Dame Phyllis Frost Correctional Centre

    hild abuse material between May and June of 2023. The female child in the materials was identified as Harper’s own 5-year-old daughter….

    During the trial, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Rajan Darjee was called upon to interview Harper and create a profile of his offending. Disturbingly, Darjee framed Harper as though he were a “female” who had been “pressured” by a male into committing the offenses.

    Darjee told the court that Harper would not need any “specific interventions to prevent further sexual offending” and dismissed the need for sex offender treatment. He also denied that Harper had a paraphilic disorder, and argued that Harper had no sexual attraction to children.

    Judge Nola Karapanagiotidis similarly highlighted Harper’s “gender dysphoria” and experiences with “transphobia” as mitigating factors, and appeared to accept the defense’s argument that he only committed the abuse to be “validated … as a woman and a sexual person.”

    A strange way of being validated as a woman: sexually abusing your 5-year-old daughter.

    Both Harper’s arrest and trial were completed in relative silence, with no police releases or domestic media indicating the incident had occurred. Reduxx was first to cover Harper’s case after a source close to the court came forward to provide information on Harper and his charges.

    Now, Reduxx has learned that Harper has been housed in a women’s facility in Victoria on the basis of his self-declared “gender identity.”

    Harper is being held at the Dame Phyllis Frost Correctional Centre, which has previously attracted controversy for housing transgender sex offenders amongst the female inmates.

    What would Dame Phyllis have made of all this? And what on earth is going on in Australia?

    Added. It's not a happy place:

    A former prisoner says she documented seven suicide attempts in just four weeks inside Victoria's maximum security women's prison, amid a wave of lockdowns triggered by staff shortages….

    With each prisoner sealed in a small individual cell, Ms Flanagan likened the conditions to solitary confinement.

    She says she and her fellow prisoners were locked away with no interaction or support or sometimes even meals for days and nights on end.

    "You'd normally get unlocked at 8:30 in the morning, they would count everyone … and then the next thing you know, you're not getting let out. So you're required to stay in your cell," she told 7.30.

  • Told to apologise for her online posts or face an investigation

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    Full text:

    Deborah Anderson, a mother of two, was visited at her home in June by an officer from Thames Valley Police. He told her someone had lodged a complaint about her social media posts. She told him she was an American citizen and a member of the Free Speech Union and he should be investigating burglaries and rapes, not hurty words on social media.

    Chillingly, he told her he was there to get her to apologise to the person who was offended by her posts. If she refused, she’d be questioned down at the station.

    What was Deborah’s supposed crime? The policeman didn’t tell her. Was it her passionate support of President Trump and the MAGA movement on her Facebook and X pages?

    To make it worse, Deborah is in the midst of cancer treatment, including chemotherapy. She ought to be have been convalescing. Instead, she was harassed for her tweets.

    The FSU took on her case and, as a result, the police have now dropped their investigation. But they still haven’t told Deborah which of her posts got her into trouble, claiming they’ve accidentally deleted the record of the complaint.

    Thames Valley Police are responsible for guarding President Trump this week. What would he make of the fact that those same officers are visiting the homes of his supporters – including US citizens – and threatening them with arrest.

  • Double marching standards

    pportunity to demonstrate that their outrage about minority groups feeling threatened by a major march through London is not selective.

    British Jews will watch to see whether such politicians can show a shred of consistency.

    I think we can safely predict exactly how much consistency – or how little – we'll see.

    Jews still don't count.

  • So it has ever been for Israel

    Jerry Coyne on the UN genocide charge:

    I’m wondering what these critics would have Israel do. Withdraw and allow Hamas to keep running Gaza? It’s curious that we don’t hear them saying what is clearly true: Hamas and other terrorist groups are bent on genocide of the Jews, as they have written and repeatedly stated. As everyone knows, if Israel was really intent on wiping out Palestinians, it would withdraw its soldiers and simply bomb the territory to smithereens. They are not doing that, but sending in IDF soldiers, many of whom have been killed. And they warn civilians of strikes in advance as well as telling them where to go for safety, though things are chaotic in Gaza with this assault.  The critics don’t know from genocide. But it’s true that Israel is losing the public relations war, as another article in the WSJ asserts: it’s “winning the war but losing the world.” And so it has ever been for Israel.

    Yep.

  • Preventing immorality

    I wonder why they'd do this:

    The Taliban leader banned fibre optic internet in an Afghan province to “prevent immorality,” a spokesman for the administration said Tuesday.

    It’s the first time a ban of this kind has been imposed since the Taliban seized power in August 2021, and leaves government offices, the private sector, public institutions, and homes in northern Balkh province without Wi-Fi internet.

    Oh yes. Women. Can't have them learning.

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  • At the National Centre for Social Research

    In 2021 the Office for National Statistics hugely overestimated the trans population. They asked “Is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth?”, and found that places with high immigrant communities whose first language was not English, like the London boroughs of Newham and Brent, had surprisingly high levels of trans identification – a result much celebrated by trans activists. It took Michael Biggs, sociology professor at Oxford, to point out the problem: they didn't understand the question.

    The statistical confusion continues:

    Trans women have been allowed to self-identify as women in a survey about social attitudes.

    Polling published by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) included biological men who were allowed to give their answers as women.

    Gender-critical academics claimed that the report, which is part of the British Social Attitudes series, could be “misleading” because it “conflates sex and gender”.

    NatCen insisted that the sample size of men identifying as women, non-binary, or vice versa was too small to affect the results significantly.

    If they know it's a problem, why do it?

    The NatCen report concluded that “gender identity matters most to women”. It cited polling showing that 66 per cent of women say that being a woman is extremely or very important to how they think of themselves, compared with 52 per cent of men who feel the same about male identity.

    That makes no sense. These women are saying that being women – their sex – is very important to them. It has nothing to do with "gender identity" as the term's now used by activists. These NatCen people are hopelessly confused.

    Prof Alice Sullivan, of UCL, an expert on gender identity, told The Telegraph: “They are overriding the sex where that doesn’t agree. Thirteen of the men identified as women. That’s muddling sex and gender identity.

    “And they are using gender identity when it doesn’t agree with sex and the way they report that does not make it obvious.

    “It’s unfortunate given that they have data on sex, so they can look at sex separately, but they have chosen to effectively muddle the two and that could be quite misleading.”…

    Prof Selina Todd, a modern history academic at the University of Oxford, claimed: “This report seems very confused, because the authors conflate sex and gender.

    “They also misunderstand sex as ‘assigned at birth’ – it isn’t, it’s a biological fact, determined at conception.

    “Gender is not an innate identity, as they claim, but a set of roles and behaviours that people are expected to conform to, depending on which sex they are.”

    Back to the drawing board.

  • “Uncomfortable” but “ultimately right”

    id he was “frustrated” that the upcoming clinical trial into puberty blockers had “taken longer than I would have hoped” because of the ethical governance required.

    A clinical trial that should never happen.

    But yes, he stood firm in front of a hostile audience. That's no small matter.