Author: Mick Hartley

ob, advertised for women only, despite being a man without a gender recognition certificate. This was at the time of peak SNP-driven gender identity ideology, before the wheels came off that particular wagon.

The reviewer, charity sector consultant, Vicky Ling, said she was also told victims were not using the service because they deemed it unsafe, given there was no guarantee of being seen by a counsellor born female.

And she recommended ERCC refer any concerned survivors to guaranteed women only services such as Beira's Place, the rape help centre funded by JK Rowling and condemned by Wadhwa as transphobic.

Wadhwa labelled rape victims bigots and transphobes if they doubted whether a man identifying as a woman should run a centre helping women recover from male violence.

She said any staff who did not think all trans women were women should be fired.

According to the employment tribunal, Madhwa was on a mission to 'cleanse the organisation of those who did not follow her beliefs’.

Let's not forget Cameron Downing, the former SNP equalities officer who identified as non-binary and claimed to have received extensive support from the ERCC. He made no secret of his hatred of women – he wanted to “beat the f**k” out of feminists – and was imprisoned for six years after being found guilty of multiple sexual offences. That's who the ERCC was there for – not the women victims.

Joan Smith had a good piece on the ERCC at Quillette a month back.

ontact with her son – after the gay couple who paid to rent her womb said it was 'homophobic' for her to be involved in their 'motherless family' – has highlighted the contentious nature of surrogacy. Jo Bartosch at Spiked – Surrogacy is exploiting women in the name of ‘inclusivity’:

The positioning of surrogacy as about gay rights is a particularly sinister manoeuvre. Just as with the misogynistic campaign to remove ‘women’ from law for the sake of ‘trans rights’, the push to erase motherhood has come cloaked in a rainbow flag and decorated with inclusive sparkles.

The truth is that gay men are (rightly) at liberty to adopt just as heterosexual couples are. Yet surrogacy is being promoted by mainstream LGBT lobby groups as if using a woman’s womb were a human right. Looking at the steady stream of positive surrogacy stories, it seems a public-relations campaign to normalise the practice is well underway. Already, the surrogacy industry is lucrative, global, powerful and growing. Estimates suggest that within 10 years, it will be valued at around $129 billion….

‘Kindness’ and ‘inclusion’ are being weaponised to normalise the rental of wombs, the sale of babies and the cutting off of contact between children and their mothers. This is brutal, exploitative and fundamentally anti-human.

So the interests of British women and girls are now in the hands of a politician who can't define what a woman is, but is certain men are women if they say they are. Fabulous news. https://t.co/FhxLWWDUHc

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) September 12, 2024

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=nRdgqJUNc_o”>YouTube clips of young people being sentenced to hard labour for watching South Korean dramas.

The punishment may be worse than years in a hard labour camp: it could be execution.

a convicted murderer who is serving a life sentence. Sirvio, 52, beat a man to death with a hammer before setting his house on fire in November of 1995. A repeat offender, Sirvio has several other convictions that include multiple charges of assault, burglary, and theft. He was quietly transferred to MCF-Shakopee in November 2023, a full five months ahead of the date that a newly-drafted gender identity policy was set to take effect.

The two remaining men confirmed by Reduxx to have been transferred into the women’s prison are Nathan Charles Johnson, serving two years for aiding and abetting a burglary, and a trans-identified male who uses the name Christina Suzanne Lusk, but was born Craig Lusk.

In June 2022, Lusk launched a discrimination lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Corrections which ultimately resulted in the implementation of measures permitting male convicts to be housed in the female estate. Lusk, who was serving a five-year sentence for the possession of methamphetamine at the Moose Lake correctional facility for men, was backed by the trans activist non-profit organization Gender Justice – which was recently revealed to have received nearly $500,000 in taxpayer funds from the administration of Governor Tim Walz.

The Democratic vice presidential nominee’s office handed out $448,904 to Gender Justice just one year after the organization filed the sex discrimination complaint against Minnesota’s DOC on behalf of Lusk, according to a review of public records published by the taxpayer watchdog group OpenTheBooks.com.

Of course I understand the general jubilation across liberal America after the Harris-Trump debate, where Trump came across as a narcissistic buffoon – which of course he is. And also, deranged. The prospect of a second Trump presidency is chilling. But – and it's a big but – the Democrats are right behind this gender ideology, from Harris and Tim Walz on down. They shouldn't be given a free pass on this just because they're not Trump.

f the US population evidently disagree with Beard’s assessment. But of course we know how spurious this ‘fact’ is. As Jameson tells us, the people ‘are united by the fear of saying anything that contradicts this completely spurious media consensus’.

Fear, one wonders, of what? Has Jameson ever been silenced for his views? Beard, in any case, goes on to complain about our ‘glib definitions of “terrorism”’ and our ‘refusal to listen to what the “terrorists” have to say’. ‘There are,’ she continues, ‘very few people on the planet who devise carnage for the sheer hell of it.’

Well, I suppose it depends on what one means by ‘the sheer hell of it’. By analogy to terrorism, perhaps we should not have bothered with definitions of Nazism or Fascism, but should have listened to what Hitler and his friends had to say. I seem to recall that Neville Chamberlain tried just that; he even had ‘a piece of paper from Herr Hitler’. But as Churchill knew, ‘an appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile thinking it will eat him last.’ As it turned out, after all that ‘listening’ at Berchtesgaden, there were quite a few people on the planet who were quite happy to devise carnage ‘for the sheer hell of it’, taking that phrase quite literally. Hell is, in any case, what transpired.

It is true that the US has committed some atrocities in the Middle East and that, say, Clinton’s bombing of the wrong target – a beautiful new hospital – in the Sudan was a major crime. Does it therefore follow that ‘the US had it coming’? And which of us in the US are included?

I have been a subscriber to LRB since the journal’s inception some twenty-five years ago. But I hereby cancel my subscription and shall urge my Stanford students and colleagues to boycott the journal. Let me end, however, on an upbeat note that speaks to Beard’s ‘of course’. The man who takes care of our garden in Pacific Palisades, Ruben Vargas, was here the other day. A Latino who came to California from Mexico not all that long ago, Vargas has a daughter who is a freshman at UCLA. Some of us like to think that such upward mobility is what makes the US unique. I asked Ruben what he thought of the attack. ‘Well,’ he said, ‘at least now we’re all in it together.’ I responded: ‘But Ruben, many of my friends think it’s all America’s fault.’ He smiled and said: ‘Excuse me, Marjorie’ – yes, in California, one has only a first name – ‘but isn’t that a minuscule part of the population?’ Of course!

Marjorie Perloff
Los Angeles

According to new reports, South Africa has asked to delay the genocide case against Israel because it hasn’t found any evidence of genocide.https://t.co/N24YwGK7Ua

— Nicole Lampert (@nicolelampert) September 10, 2024

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From the linked article:

South Africa is attempting to extend the deadline for presenting evidence against Israel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague because it is unable to prove its allegations of genocide, Kan News reported on Tuesday.

The move comes some nine months after the country submitted a suit against the Jewish state over the Israel Defense Forces’ conduct in the war against the Hamas terror group in Gaza, claiming that the IDF is committing genocide.

South Africa is required to submit its evidence on Oct. 28, but is trying to extend the deadline by several months in the hope that evidence proving their genocide accusations will come from other places.

Baset Al-Lulu, who specializes in creating “cinematic illusions” with makeup that replicates war wounds, demonstrated his skills in a series of social media posts and journalistic reports between 2015 and 2021. He demonstrated how he recreates open wounds of various sorts and the illusion of severed members and limbs. Al-Lulu explains that he also has a set of pre-prepared faux wounds that can be used according to the director’s specification without taking up much filming time.

It's a bit gruesome to be honest, even though it's fake, so I'm not putting the video online here. Follow the link above…

It may be hard to believe that there's a darker side to the Taliban's suppression of women, given what we know already – but yes, there is. From the latest Private Eye, issue 1632:

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THE BBC REPORT IS OUT.

After months of work, I have a lot to say. But, for now, I want to leave you with one of our key findings for BBC Arabic.

I sampled 160 randomly selected interviewees. Of these, 45 had Reportable Affiliations [mostly to Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic…

— Khaled Hassan (@Khaledhzakariah) September 8, 2024

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After months of work, I have a lot to say. But, for now, I want to leave you with one of our key findings for BBC Arabic.

I sampled 160 randomly selected interviewees. Of these, 45 had Reportable Affiliations [mostly to Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad] and 14 were found to have official ties to Hamas. The BBC should have reported the affiliations of its interviewees (that's why the BBC refers to such affiliations as "Reportable Affiliations"). Instead, they presented to you, the non-Arabic speaking public, as innocent civilians, legitimate journalists, poor victims, etc.

BBC Arabic is an excellent outlet….for representing the views of a society that supports Hamas, such as Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, or Lebanon. BBC Arabic is unfit for purpose. BBC Arabic is the British Al Jazeera. Paid for by the British government to promote pro-Hamas content!

When Jews are attacked on our streets, on campuses, at schools, workplaces, and synagogues, it's because of the hatred and lies our publicly funded broadcaster has fed to the public over the years.

This is not okay.