Mick Hartley

Author: Mick Hartley

  • The new Lysenkoism

    Ideally, political beliefs would not bias views of scientific reality. But take a look at how the media covered the Trump administration’s new executive order. The Globe: “Trump executive order misstates facts about sex and gender, scientists say.” Time: “Trump’s ‘Biological Truth’ Executive Order Is Not Based in Biology or Truth.” The Guardian: “Most scientists now reject the idea that sex is strictly binary” and “sex is a hell of a lot more complicated than Trump’s executive order would have you believe.” NBC: “The executive order questions [transgender people’s] existence by saying the government would recognize only two unchangeable sexes: female and male.”

    As for Fox News: “Trump is returning sanity to the gender conversation.”

    Many journalists — and the experts they consult — seem unable to disentangle their politics from analysis of the relevant science. I’m a Democrat, and I have never voted for a Republican. Yet while I might have worded things in Trump’s executive order a little differently, I agree with the way this administration has defined sex.

    There are two and only two sexes. Sex is immutable in humans and other mammals, and it is defined by gamete size.

    When you see it laid out like this, with all the resources of the liberal US media, plus all the scientific institutions that've bowed their heads to the gender gods and gone with the ideology rather than the science, the comparison with Lysenko is clear. 

    [If you don't know about Lysenko, here's Wiki. Basically he rejected genetics in favour of a Marxist-friendly kind of Lamarckism – the belief that acquired characteristics can be inherited by offspring, in opposition to Darwin's proven theories:

    For starters, he believed that plants and seeds could be trained to follow socialist organizational principles. His theory, which would eventually be dubbed Lysenkoism, stated that crops could be trained to conform and produce vast yields almost from out of thin air. According to what he called “the law of the life of species,” seeds wouldn’t compete with one another, but rather they would cooperate with each other in a near-sentient fashion — like humans.

    Applying the Marxist principle of materialism, in which the conditions surrounding an individual dictate its behaviors and responses, Lysenko believed that plants and animals, too, could be reshaped as needed.

    In 1927, Lysenko’s theories appeared to be proven when a crop of peas he’d planted in the winter before burst forth into green life. He thought this proved that he had taught the peas to grow even in their off-season simply by exposing them to the cold.

    Stalin backed him, Lysenkoism became officially approved Marxist-Leninist biology, opponents were jailed or sent to the gulags – and millions starved to death.

    It's the classic case of ideology trumping science – cited, often enough, as proof of the idiocy of Soviet Communism under Stalin, and the willingness of regime apparatchiks to go along with the latest approved fad for the sake of their careers.

    Well….]

  • Russian war crimes

    own people during an exchange, someone else would kill us. The threat of death was always there.”

    Since Russia launched its full scale invasion of Ukraine, it has been repeatedly accused of mistreating prisoners of war and Ukrainian civilians.

    At least 48 detention centres have been identified by the United Nations, while Ukraine’s Prosecutor General reported that at least nine out of ten POWs returned to the country suffered physical and psychological torture….

    Every day the women were forced into stress positions – another form of torture where prisoners are forced to hold agonising postures – for hours at a time, and made to do near-impossible exercise routines supervised by guards who would beat them if they failed to keep up.

    “We would fall to the ground and they would punish us […] We were made to march on the spot in the freezing cold for hours at a time, singing the Russian national anthem,” she said. “Every day your only task is to survive.”

    Ms Zubko and her fellow prisoners were fed porridge mixed with water, which she said was barely enough to survive. “We were like skeletons,” she said.

    Ms Zubko and several women The Telegraph spoke to reported being given electric shocks by cattle prods and power cables during the repeated interrogations….

    And so on.

    But, you know, Putin must be appeased. Zelensky is the dictator. 

    Younger girls would be taken to a dormitory where Russian soldiers stayed.

    “When they returned, they cried,” said Ms Huseynova. Other women were often raped by soldiers who promised they would get food or see their children again, she said.

    “I heard terrible screams. I could hear people beating and people were screaming. It was such a horror. In my life, even when I was already beaten, it was not as horrible as listening to this.”

    Almost three years later, Ms Kycherenko has still not been reunited with her husband or son, who are still in captivity. She is kept awake at night by the thought of them suffering in the same way she did.

    “I want to tell them that I love them. I was trapped for seven months, but to think of them there, three years later, is unbearable.”

  • Facebook vs. X

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  • UN on Hamas’ “sickening act”

    he deceased and the dignity of the families.”

    "Spare us the tears. The UN has spent years funding, legitimizing, and excusing Hamas. Now it pretends to be shocked when the terror group desecrates a hostages babies’ bodies?"

     

  • The coffin handover

    ops, as different coffins were seen being handed over to the Red Cross by masked Hamas fighters dressed in black.

    Despicable. And the Red Cross are happy to play along with this obscene ceremony – the only time we see them and their lovely ambulances is in these grotesque Hamas parades.

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  • The baby prisoner

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  • Un-Islamic

    n, as ever, the biggest victims.

    In Katje Adler's recent two-parter report from the Balkans she made some interesting comments from Kosovo, where the Muslim faith of the young used to be of the kind we saw here as Christianity declined: they paid some lip-service so as not to offend their parents, but weren't really interested. Recently, though, Saudi Arabia has been pouring billions into a program of Mosque-building, and spreading their hard-line Wahhabi teachings. Now you see young woman in black, all veiled up….

  • “All he knows how to do is read the news”

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    "all he knows how to do is read the news."

  • A mouthpiece for Kremlin propaganda

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  • Putin’s Russia “a role model for the new Great America”

    deology is remarkably in line with ours,” Dugin told Russian state media after JD Vance, the US vice- president, criticised European democracy in Munich last week.

    Dugin’s books and essays have been translated into English and are increasingly popular among the American right. A recent publication criticised “the twin diseases of liberalism and western political modernity” and praised Trump’s war on the “strangling tentacles” of woke culture. Dugin has also suggested that Putin’s Russia could act as “a role model for the new Great America” that he says Trump is building….

    One of his biggest admirers in the US is Jack Posobiec, an activist who was invited by the Pentagon to accompany Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, on his trip to Europe last week, according to The Washington Post. On Thursday, Posobiec said on social media that he was travelling in Ukraine with Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, and had met President Zelensky in Kyiv.

    Posobiec has advertised Dugin’s 1997 book The Foundations of Geopolitics, which was once reportedly required reading at the Russian general staff’s academy, to his followers on social media. The book called for Russia to restore its influence after the collapse of the Soviet Union through alliances and annexations and for the Kremlin’s special services to “support isolationist tendencies” in the United States.

    In 2018 Dugin met Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist and ideologue during his first presidency. Bannon said he had urged Dugin to agitate for a union between Russia and the West that would be founded on ultra-conservative values, according to Benjamin R Teitelbaum, an American author who interviewed both men for his book War for Eternity.

    Dugin was introduced to a wider American audience last year by Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host, who travelled to Moscow to interview him. Dugin used the interview to praise Putin and warn of a dystopian future that awaited the West unless radical steps were taken.

    “For Russia’s propagandists, it provided a successful entry into American living rooms,” wrote Julia Davies, a US media analyst, in an article published by the Center for European Policy Analysis. “Russian propagandists have long dreamt of injecting their ideas and twisted rendition of history into the American mainstream.”

    He's strongly behind the Islamic world in its battle against Israel, and espouses what has been called a particularly Russian form of classic fascism. And he has old links with Aleister Crowley and Nazi Satanism. Lovely fella.

    Also:  “I think we should kill, kill, kill [Ukrainians], there can’t be any other talk.”

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