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Brazilian 2018 presidential elections in figures
This fact sheet present figures of the results of the second round of the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections. The data comes from different sources:
Items 1, 2, and 10 come from the TSE (Electoral Justice) database.
Data and maps presented in Items 4, 5 and 6 (cities, income, race, religion) combine data from the Electoral Justice data systems with social economic indicators collected by the National Bureau of Statistics.
The figures presented in the other items come from Datafolha electoral polls.
Fernando Haddad (PT) received 47 million votes, while Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) received 57,8 million, which comprise 55,13 percent of "valid" votes. Voting is obligatory in Brazil, but the so-called "valid" votes exclude abstentions, null and blank votes. When considering the totality of voters in this election there were 2,5 million blank votes (2.1 percent), 8,6 million null votes (7.4 percent) and 31,3 million abstentions (21.3 percent). This means that of the 147,3 million people apt to vote the sum of abstention, null and blank votes was of 42,1 million voters (roughly 30 percent of the total). This pattern is not new. In 2014, there were 37 million nonvoters.
Bolsonaro was, therefore, elected by 39 percent of voters, which is not a super majority. As seen 61,8 percent of Brazilian voters and potential voters did not vote for him (the sum of Haddad voter, abstentions, null and blank ballots)
Votes by states
Bolsonaro won in 15 states, while Haddad won in 11 states. PT lost in four states, in which it had won since 2002: Amapá, Amazonas, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro. Minas and Rio are the states with the second and third larger number of voters in the country, which implies this defeat had a significant role in Bolsonaro's victory.
Regional patterns
Bolsonaro won the South region, with 68 percent of votes, followed by the Midwest (66 percent) and the Southeast (65 percent). The PT won in all states of the Northeast with 69 percent of votes.
Bolsonaro won the highest HDI and richest cities
A report by Estado de São Paulo newspaper informs that Haddad won in municipalities with the lower Human Development Index (HDI), while Bolsonaro won in 98 percent of higher HDI cities.
Similarly, El País reported a sharp divide between the candidates according to income. Haddad won in the poorest municipalities and Bolsonaro won in the richest.
Amongst voters who earn between five and ten minimum wages per month, 66 percent declared they would vote for Bolsonaro. Haddad won amongst families who earn less than two minimum wages.
The vote according to race/color
The El País maps also show that Bolsonaro won in the cities and states where the white population is predominant, while Haddad won in states and cities where the black population is the majority. It is important to recall the convergence of race/color and income.
Voting by educational levels
Bolsonaro was predominantly preferred by people with tertiary education and also 51 percent of those who ended high school. In this group, 35 percent declared they would vote for Haddad, who was preferred by a majority of voters with primary level education. Significantly enough a larger number of illiterate voters declared they would vote for Bolsonaro
The evangelical vote
In an article published by the web platform Ecodebate, the demographer Jose Eustáquio Diniz Alves analyzed religious based voting patterns to conclude that when considering all religions and even Protestant denominations Evangelicals have massively voted for Bolsonaro: 69 percent. This meant an advantage for Bolsonaro of 11,6 million voters. This figure is larger than the overall difference amongst the candidates which was of roughly 10 million. This allows for the conclusion that the Evangelical vote has defined the results.
Sex differentials in voting patterns.
The Electoral Justice database informs that in the whole female voters, comprise 52.5 percent of voters, but because of vote secrecy, the voting patterns cannot be disaggregated by sex. Therefore this information has to be extracted from the electoral polls. The first electoral polls (July) showed a pronounced gap difference between male and female voters. While 30 percent of male voters had already decided for Bolsonaro, just 15 percent of women declared that they will vote on him. In August, another poll revealed that 30 percent of women had not yet decided their vote. After the first round, however, the polls have shown that by late October women were sharply divided between the two candidates as shown in the Graphic below.
The shift of women's vote towards Bolsonaro still requires further research, in particular, because it began to happen after the massive #EleNão marches of September 29th and expanded he won the first round. Isabela Oliveira Kali correctly remarks that the many other events and factors must be taken into account to understand this shift, such as Bolsonaro release from the hospital, declared support from the head of the largest Pentecostal Church in the country and changes in his campaign strategy.
As for men, 55 percent declared they would vote for him against just 35 percent who would vote for Haddad.
Age differential in voting patterns
50 percent of people older than 60 years old voted for Bolsonaro, while 34 for Haddad.
When sex and age are combined, however, polls data shows that 60 percent of women aged between 16 and 24 would vote for Haddad, while amongst men in the same age span, 60 percent would vote for Bolsonaro. The sex differentials are drastically more pronounced.
How LGBT people voted
For the first time in history, Datafolha polled voters according to the sexual orientation and gender identity of people interviewed. Haddad was preferred by percent the voters polled. Even so, the percentage of Bolsonaro potential voters was quite high: 29 percent.
For the first time, newspaper Folha de São Paulo's research institute Datafolha used a sexual orientation axis in electoral polls, which revealed staggering results. As expected from Bolsonaro LGBTphobic claims, Haddad is preferred among the LGBT electorate, as 57 percent declared would vote for him. This leaves 29 percent of non-heterosexual people who have declared they would vote for Bolsonaro.
How Brazilians expatriates voted
Among Brazilians who live abroad, Bolsonaro has o won with 71 percent of votes, winning in 104 cities, while Haddad received 29 percent votes winning in 19 cities. Bolsonaro had a large advantage in Japan, in the US, in Italy and Portugal. Haddad won in Cuba, Germany, France, Netherlands and Russia.
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Cyber hacking has evolved from a hazy IT concern to a public menace. In April, WannaCry ransomware hit hundreds of thousands of systems around the globe, including U.K.'s National Health Service, nearly 30,000 research and educational institutions in China, and police computers in the Andhra Pradesh state in India.
Weeks later, another cyber attack swept the globe in the form of Petya, whose malicious software infected machines in several global companies, including marketing communications company WPP and Mondelez, one of the world's largest snacks companies.
And last month in Malaysia, the personal details of some 46.2 million mobile-phone subscribers were leaked online, in what is believed to be the largest data breach in the country.
As event planners, we accumulate masses of sensitive data every time we hold an event. And as the industry becomes increasingly digital, with more and more data gathered by smart gadgets and event apps, how can we safeguard events against a data breach?
Kai Hattendorf, managing director and CEO of UFI, the global association for exhibitions, said the industry is still grappling with how to manage big data.
"Data gathering and data analysis is still not structured," he said. "Everybody is talking about it, but no one knows how it works."
Speaking at the Singapore MICE Forum 2017, held July 27–28, Hattendorf said that we now have myriad tools at our fingertips that capture data, but there is often an argument over who owns the data and, therefore, who is responsible for its protection.
"Event organisers say data related to their customers is their data, but service providers say, 'We're collecting the data for you, so it's our data that we're handing over to you.' Then venues argue, 'This is happening in our space, therefore it's ours.'"
Ultimately, it comes down to who's gathering and providing data and who runs the server.
"Event planners have a duty of care to keep people safe," Hattendorf said. "We need to apply the very same thinking in order to keep data safe."
Michael Park, cyber security adviser and partner at international law firm Allens, which has offices across Southeast Asia and Australia, said that many event planners aren't equipped to fight on the global cyber battlefield.
"Cyber security is like an arms race," Park said. "There's a continuing escalation so that the hackers are always one or two steps ahead of counter measures that are developed."
According to the 2017 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 44 records are compromised globally every second and two-thirds of data breaches arise from a deficiency in supplier systems.
Park strongly advises event planners and venues to manage third-party vendors with active due diligence — from both an operational and contractual perspective.
"Ensure service agreements include points on confidential information, security access, and notification in the case of a breach, as well as compliance," Park said. "You need to look carefully at who you're doing business with and, in particular, the sort of people you're sharing data with."
Event planners should also have an appropriate cyber response or data-breach plan that is practical, up-to-date, and easy to follow. According to Park, the plan should consider scenarios for both external and internal data breach (such as accidental loss) and appoint a response team with representatives from across various departments.
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The onus is now on company directors to educate employees and provide regular training and data audits. It's important to ensure temp staff are also made aware of data-protection policies, like password protocol, and limit access to internal servers.
For events in sectors where content is highly sensitive, such as pharma or financial services, consider using private servers or setting up a virtual private network (VPN) to safeguard information from potential leaks.
There's also a growing threat of cyber attacks on critical infrastructure. "A worst- case scenario would see a venue's technology system compromised," Park said, "leading to an external organisation taking control of the venue, locking doors and sealing exits. This has not yet been seen, but is considered a significant risk."
Data travels
An additional concern for event planners is not only the ease with which data travels, but also the changing nature of data-protection laws.
UFI's Hattendorf gave the example of China, where companies must set up servers in the mainland in order to overcome the "Great Firewall." Meanwhile, regulation in the EU dictates data must be stored locally or in countries with similar laws; and in Australia, companies are gearing up for mandatory data- breach notification laws, which will be rolled out in Feb. 2018.
Ensure you have a cyber-security policy that outlines codes of conduct for employees while they're on the road, and warn against the risk of accessing company information while using public Wi-Fi networks.
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Triple Crown World Series — CBS Sports Network, 2 p.m.
World Series of Beach Volleyball, Long Beach, CA
World Series of Beach Volleyball Men's Semifinals — Universal Sports, 1 p.m.
World Series of Beach Volleyball Women's Gold Medal Game — NBC Sports, 4:30 p.m.
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Grand Prix of Hungary, Budapest, Hungary
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Senior Open Championship, Southport, England
Final Round — ESPN2, noon
Canadian Open, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Final Round — Golf Channel, 1 p.m./CBS, 3 p.m.
Boise Open, Boise, ID
Third Round — Golf Channel, 7 p.m. (same day coverage)
Boston at Baltimore — TBS, 1:30 p.m.
Chicago Cubs at San Francisco — WGN America, 4 p.m.
St. Louis at Atlanta — ESPN, 8 p.m.
2013 Baseball Hall of Fame Awards Presentation — MLB Network, 12:30 p.m.
2013 Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — MLB Network, 1:30 p.m.
MLB Tonight — MLB Network, 3;30 p.m.
Baseball Tonight — ESPN, 7 p.m.
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 8 p.m.
Quick Pitch — MLB Network, 11:30 p.m.
Sprint Cup Series
Brickyard 400, Indianapolis, IN
Race– ESPN, 1 p.m.
NASCAR RaceDay: Indianapolis — Speed, 10 a.m.
NASCAR Victory Lane: Indianapolis — Speed, 5 p.m.
Inside Training Camp Live — NFL Network, 10 a.m.
Training Camp Live — NFL Network, 8 p.m.
Final, Chicago, IL
United States vs. Panama — Fox, 3:30 p.m./Univision Deportes, 3:55 p.m./Univision 4 p.m.
Fútbol Central — Univision/Univision Deportes, 3:30 p.m.
Portland Thorns. vs. Chicago Red Stars — Fox Soccer, 7 p.m.
Seattle vs. Chivas USA — Univision Deportes, 11 p.m.
Morning Drive — Golf Channel, 7 a.m.
Outside the Lines — ESPN, 9 a.m.
The Sports Reporters — ESPN, 9:30 a.m.
Nine for IX: No Limits — ESPN2, 11 a.m.
The Clemente Effect — ESPN Classic, noon
Sportfolio: The World of Larry "The Prince of Darkness" Lucchino — Bloomberg, 1 p.m.
The Lost Son of Havana — ESPN Classic, 6 p.m.
Fox Soccer News — Fox Soccer, 11 p.m.
US Open — CBS Sports Network, 8 p.m.
Atlanta Open, Atlanta, GA
Final — ESPN2, 3 p.m.
Baku Cup, Baku, Azerbaijan
Final — Tennis Channel, 4 p.m. (same day coverage)
Bank of the West Classic, Stanford, CA
Suisse Open, Gstaad, Switzerland
Croatia Open Umag, Umag, Croatia
Final — Tennis Channel, 10 p.m. (same day coverage)
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Uber's latest honest mistake? Charging $14,000 for a $20 ride
Imagine going about your day, calling an Uber for a short $20 ride only to discover that you've been charged more than $14,000.
Yes, this is one of Uber's latest honest mistakes.
The company did refund the money eventually, but not immediately. And this isn't the first time its system has overcharged customers by thousands of dollars.
The whole thing happened in Canada, where a user was charged CAD$18,518.50, which is about $14,418.69 for a 21-minute ride that should have cost around $20. Per Slate, the following screenshot was shared on Telegram, before a friend of the Uber user posted it on Twitter:
My friend was charged 18K for a 20 Min ride (!), and they are sticking to it. What in the world??? This is insane! @Uber_Support @badassboz @Uber pic.twitter.com/RjFihVLKIC
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The crazy part of that tweet is that tidbit about Uber sticking with it.
"There was an error here, and it has been resolved. We have provided a full refund to this rider and apologized to him for this experience," an Uber spokeswoman told Slate. "We have safeguards in place to help prevent something like this from happening, and we are working to understand how this occurred."
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{
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So, now you're proudly going to tell me: "Yes, of course we've shared all of our vibes with each other, let it all hang out, brought up and worked out all of the issues. Full disclosure! And we know that it's vital to write all the conclusions and decisions down.
So, we've papered all the revelations and agreed solutions into our pre-nuptial, and even post-nuptial, agreements, a whole new set of estate plan instruments and their explanatory ethical wills and memoranda of instruction, all the personal beneficiary and pay-on-death designations that aren't frozen by commitments to former partners and others, and the ownership and titling records for all the assets. It's now all documented on paper, legally validated and executed where appropriate.
We recognize that the key re-partnering instruments to prevent those ugly surprises are our nuptial agreements, covering all of the potential issues, on which all of our plans and other instruments are based, and committing us personally to honor our agreements, no matter what. There are so many issues, especially if one or the other of us is bringing significant assets into the marriage or expects to inherit them or a business someday, or has children — even if all the relationships including the ex's seem to be amicable.
We also expect to create more nuptial agreements to handle emerging issues as we go.
We've thoroughly examined, and are synched about such as:
▪ Each other's and our joint goals and expectations for the future.
▪ Keeping assets 'on track': Who gets what upon divorce, incapacity or death, and who (often advisedly a third party) is to be in fiduciary charge of handling it?
▪ Whose income pays for what expenses, both now and later when living gets expensive, and still bequeathe equitably to all the loved ones.
▪ Whether to file income taxes as jointly, married filing separately, or just to live together and file as singles.
▪ Which assets are to be co-mingled and/or marital, and which not.
▪ Which marital rights are to be relinquished to the other's family and which are to be protected from their assaults.
▪ Which children (regardless of age) are to receive what benefits and from which sources, and how to protect their interests.
▪ The pre-existing legal, marital, child-support, contractual, fiduciary and financial obligations 'baggage' that accompanies both of us into the union and who and whose assets are to be responsible for it.
▪ Custody issues, present and potential future, and their solutions.
▪ The benefits and entitlements that will be knowingly sacrificed because of the new union, and any arrangements to compensate for that.
Yep, we've done all of that!
Titling assets
I've harangued you about beneficiary and pay-on-death designations. Now it's the loving, sweet gesture of joint ownership's turn, especially when the right of survivorship is added.
▪ You can't keep spousal jointly-owned assets in "blood line." When you die the other joint owner gets them by law.
▪ On the other hand, the entire asset is vulnerable to the other joint owner's creditors' claims, even if New Beloved blithely contributed them to the union in expression of commitment, not to cover the other's debts — or ex's claims!
▪ Titling non-marital assets into spousal joint ownership makes them marital, subject to statutory marital rights and beyond the reach of otherwise intended successor owners, no matter what other documents say.
Non-marital assets contributed to the new marriage, or newly acquired but intended to be kept non-marital, should not be co-mingled with marital ones, especially when one partner's contribution is substantially larger than the other, thus disturbing its line of future inheritance. Instead, they should be titled separately and managed by someone else, their status reinforced by nuptial agreements. Their earnings shouldn't even be co-mingled, and even the act of actively managing them during the re-marriage risks unwanted "marital property" exposure. All of this is to prevent marital laws and ex-spouse (including the new one if the union fails) claims from overriding one's intentions. It also makes the business of managing them cleaner and simpler, and simplifies estate planning and administration.
Co-mingled or not, some other forms of ownership are:
▪ Tenancy in common: You both own shares of the asset, but the law treats each share as separate property.
▪ Life estate, or right to occupy: Someone else might own or inherit, but the person has full rights to occupy, possess, and enjoy the asset until a specified event happens.
▪ Partnership shares: Like a business partnership, but still vulnerable to one shareholder's whims and liabilities.
▪ Fee simple: "Plain vanilla" outright ownership by one person.
▪ Trusts and corporations: A galaxy of variations, but legally an artificial person separate from (even if owned by) the individual. Some are insulated from claims against the person.
They're handy in addressing the special laws governing disposition of the family home. Personal trusts, especially revocable intervivos ("living") ones are popular and resilient solutions to many issues. Irrevocable trusts with third-party trustees often are the way to insulate assets from spousal rights claims and from spousal or ex-spousal control while effectively reserving the assets and their earnings for the children.
When your assets are located ("sited") in community property states, even if you aren't, you've got an additional set of rules to work with and around, to avoid past, present, and future marital rights headaches.
Come to think of it…
We noted last time that information abounds on the Internet. There you'll find the experts – They expound all of this, and a great deal more. Surely, and they agree, as we equip ourselves with knowledge from there and various other sources, we learn to appreciate the important vital contributing role of our marital-affairs, elder-affairs, and estate-plan-oriented attorneys.
Contact Gary Newman at gary@gnewman.org. Your ideas and comments are always welcome.
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Zoltán Tildy Jr. (6 June 1917 – 22 March 1994) was a Hungarian publisher, photographer, and writer, the son of Prime Minister and President of Hungary Zoltán Tildy.

Biography

Zoltán Tildy Jr. was born in Dombóvár on 6 June 1917 to minister Zoltán Tildy (1889–1961) and Erzsébet Gyenis (1896–1985), who had married in 1916. His father served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 1945 until 1946, and President of Hungary from 1946 until 1948. Tildy began taking photographs at the age of 15. He had one sister, Erzsébet (1918–2012) and one brother, László (1921–1983). He obtained his law degree in 1941. Zoltán Tildy Jr. was an employee of the Hungarian Publishing Company from 1941 until 1942. In 1956 Tildy was a founding member of the Hungarian Photographers Association. His work included landscapes as well as pictures of animals.

Tildy died on  in Szeged.

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Wet room has a bath, washbasin, and WC.
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Indivisible's main complaint is Walden's reluctance to hold town hall meetings with the public. It's a common theme with Indivisible groups nationwide, with many local chapters tracking their representative's records on holding town halls.
By the end of August, the local group said, it will have been 500 days since Walden's last town hall in the district.
Oregon District 2 Indivisible members started their tour in Medford, heading to Klamath Falls Friday afternoon and then Bend. Saturday morning, they have a rally scheduled in downtown Bend, then they'll head through The Dalles and finish in Hood River.
There, they said, they'll hold a town hall even if Walden doesn't attend. Members said his Democratic opponent, Jamie McLeod-Skinner, planned to come.
At Walden's most recent town hall in Medford, held last April, he answered questions amid shouting and booing from the audience, which included Indivisible members.
When asked about the caravan Friday, Walden said he hadn't paid attention to Indivisible's campaign messages because he has been busy working on issues such as fire and smoke management.
He said he would have to check with his campaign on whether any debates had been scheduled with McLeod-Skinner.
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We, the Knights and members of the Hapsburg Restoration Movement, appeal now to all the races of the Kingdom of Hungary, be they Magyar, Vlach, Szeklers, Transylvanian Saxons, Slovaks, Croats, Serbs, Turks, Cumans, Szerecsen, or of any other nation. We enjoin you to aid the swift return to the throne of his Apostolic Majesty Károly V, that the suffering of Hungary might end. Has not the suffering brought by the denunciation of Legitimacy hindered the Common Good of your Country for long enough? Has not this suffering shown you the consequences of denying the laws set in place to protect the succession of the Kingdom from vile men?
In the past one hundred years, many events have happened, many tragedies have happened. The destruction of the last remnants of the Holy Empire of Christendom, the perverse estrangement of peoples, the destructive communist regimes and their destructive falls, the rise of "illiberal democracy" which simply is a euphemistic title for slavery, and the ghastly return of populistic Nationalism. And now the current crisis facing not only the Kingdom of Hungary, not only Europe, but in fact the majority of the Civilized world, in which among even many of those dedicated to the Cross hatred has taken the place of Charity.
And you of all peoples, the valiant Magyars, who came in the reign of Emperor Otto the Great from the depths of Asia, to become the very Shield of Christendom, have you forgotten that you once had a King-Emperor who ruled justly over Christian and Muslim alike, directing all to their ultimate Good and the Catholic Truth? Have you forgotten that it was your own first King who set forth for the ages the proper conduct towards foreign peoples? "God, who made the world, and all things therein; he, being Lord of heaven and earth… hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times, and the limits of their habitation…" (Acts 17: 24,26) and it is He who arranges the destiny of countries and nations according to His providence. As He brought the wild tribes of the Magyars from Asia to become the second of Seven Holy Crowns, so would you now stand athwart his plans for the conversion of the desert tribes?
Some might ask when will the Restoration of the Good come? When will we see the return of the Holy Empire which is foundation of all the Kingdoms and Republics of Christendom? When will the chains of Islam be loosed, and its slaves made into free Christian men? To this I answer, we must have faith in God's providence, for it will be in His time that these things come to pass, but we must not neglect our part nor cause by such neglect or malice the delay in the fulfillment of His purpose. By appealing to you today, I fulfill my solemn duty, one of many to which I am freely bound, though it were another three hundred or three thousand years before that for which I labor comes to pass. Till my end I will have faith that the Holy Crown will not remain in the hands of those who like the forsworn traitor Horthy seek for their own power, but will return to him whom by right of law is bound to its duties.
I did not know that there were Muslims in the Kingdom of Hungary. How was this possible?
Very early in the formation of the Magyar Confederation several tribes of Turkic Kabars, as well as many Böszörmény, Muslims of various nationalities, joined the Magyars as a significant demographical entity (as well as the later Besenyö "Pechenegs"). A large part of these remained Muslim until influenced by the mass conversions of the Pagan Cumans in the 13th century, during the Mongol invasions. Many of the Böszörmény were employed as Royal administrators, and a converted Muslim, Count Mizse, was made Palatine by King Ladislaus IV of Hungary in 1290. Of course there are the minor amounts of Turkish settlers who did not flee in the advent of the Austrian Imperial Army, who later intermarried and became converted (the amount of Ottoman Turks in non-military roles in occupied Hungary was miniscule to begin with). And finally most recently you have the Muslim Bosniaks some of whom settled in various in various parts of Transleithania around 1900, as well as those in the infantry. Interestingly enough you have the Turkish XV Corps fighting for the Catholic Emperor in Galicia 1916-1917, who are commemorated by the Turkish Memorial Cemetery in Budapest. Also of note (though not directly related to your question) are the Magyarab tribes in Nubia (modern Egypt and Sudan), descents of Magyars in Egypt who intermarried the local Nubian population and incorporated the local language, keeping their own distinct culture, some of whom remained Catholic, while others became Muslim.
Well, actually the 30th of December 1916 seems to be a Saturday.
And the Feast of the Holy Family, promulgated by Leo XIII, was set on the Sunday within the Octave of Epiphany, the eighth day inclusive (the Sunday between January 7th and January 13th) until the reform of the Calendar in 1969 (so, those Catholics who attend the Tridentine Mass under Summorum Pontificum will celebrate Holy Family on January 8, 2017). After the reform of 1969, the Feast of the Holy Family is the Sunday within the Octave of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Christmas Octave), the eight day exclusive (thus, when Christmas and its Octave Day i.e. New Year fall on Sunday, the Feast is celebrated on December 30th, for instance in 2012 and 2016).
Blessed Charles, pray for us!
Thank you for commenting, you are of course correct. My intention was to highlight that this 100th anniversary of the Coronation (not the day itself) fell upon the day celebrated as the Feast of Holy Family according to the General Roman Calendar. I see now that this does not come across clearly in the text and it shall be amended to reflect my original intention.


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Billy/ July 10, 2019 July 10, 2019 / Australia; Frontier Nation, Cultural Marxism, Free Speech, General, Religion
Australia has two "new media" organisations of note; Quillette and Crikey.
They could hardly be more different. The stated aim of Quillette is to publish "heterodox" ideas and be "where free speech lives". A grand and quite brave claim for a website hosted in Australia, a country where the right to not be offended has been invented and given higher priority than the right to speak.
Crikey is a left of centre website with a focus on Australian politics.
Australian politics is not a hugely interesting subject, being mainly a real life case study of the Dunning-Kruger effect and venal opportunism in an extremely small fish pond. It's like Lord of the Flies re-imagined with middle-aged characters and less violence.
Hence I tend to read more articles published by Quillette than Crikey.
This one by Guy Rundle has done nothing to change that.
He's written about the Israel Folau saga….. because what the world really needs right now is yet more partisan speculation on that case, right?
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of his article is the style of rhetoric he employs for the argument he is trying to make.
Thinking about the subject matter, one could probably write in a choice of styles that might look something like the following list (or a combination of it):
Factual; straight reporting of who said what, known relevant legal precedent and process, likely next steps and timelines.
Reactions; reporting how a range of stakeholders claim to feel and have responded to the case.
Measured opinion; based on the case, here's my personal view of the morality of each stakeholder and my prediction for the future.
Sketch; poking fun at those involved in a way designed to amuse the reader.
The first two are what we'd hope objective news media would produce, the latter two are classed as "OpEd" and are, by definition, subjective. Here's the rub though, if you claim to be a serious professional, even a subjective opinion requires the underpinning discipline of accuracy.
I've read and re-read Rundle's article several times. It takes a while to understand what's being presented to the reader on the page. What follows is an attempt at deciphering The Rundle Code (tm) :
First paragraph;
How is the right's push on religious freedom going? Terribly! It's really great to watch — a bright spot in an otherwise bleak political landscape. There's no way it can end well for them, and whatever happens will in someway benefit the left. As an added bonus, they are actively damaging previous successes they had in securing the autonomy of religious institutions in hiring practices. I'm loving every installment of this.
Ok. Ignore the two spelling mistakes… He's correctly framing the case as a culture war battleground and he's chosen his team.
Second paragraph;
Let's do a quick recap. During the same-sex marriage plebiscite, one of the right's more desperate tactics was to allege that a "yes" vote would be an assault on religious freedom in this country, for reasons they couldn't explain. Discrimination on the basis of sexuality was already outlawed — same-sex marriage simply added one more area in which they couldn't be discriminated against.
People did explain. You rejected their explanations. Here's mine at the time, for example, and a subsequent follow up confirming my concerns were correct.
Third paragraph…. where Rundle claims to be able to read the minds of two other people;
The "religious freedom" scare came from a section of the conservative right identified with both elite Catholics like Paul Kelly — who see religion as a glue to bind society together whatever their real attachment to belief in God — and Protestant politico-cultural hysterics like Andrew Bolt, who believe the pagan endtimes are upon us.
Quite what the definition of a politico-cultural hysteric is remains a mystery Rundle doesn't help solve. I think it means he disagrees with something the person said.
Fourth paragraph;
This gang has rode out before, in the great 18C debacle — remember 18C? — and had their arses handed to them by Tony Abbott and the Liberal Party, petrified of the reaction from Big Multiculturalism. They lost on 18C, and they had a lot better material to work with. The best they could come up with on religious expression was Israel Folau.
Nice use of the vernacular there. What a Big Multiculturalism is goes unexplained.
Do we detect a hint of sarcasm in the line, "the best they could come up with"? What's the inference? That Folau isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer? Ah, the bigotry of low expectations.
Are all Pacific Islanders stupid, Mr. Rundle, or just this one? To quote Ali G, "is it 'cos he is black?
Fifth paragraph;
Personally I don't think sports people should have to trade away their citizenship freedoms to do what they're good at. But Folau appears to have flouted a contract he knowingly signed and it's a far-from-ideal rallying point. Luckily for the right, the cultural left has come to their rescue, turning Folau's childish just-so story pronouncements of "burning in hell" into potent political statements, by constructing them as potent hate speech.
Ignore the missing comma. Right then, which clause in Folau's contract are you referring to? Oh, you haven't seen the contract? Ah….
And we've decided stupid, brown Folau is childish now? Keep digging, son.
Paragraphs six, seven, eight and nine attempt to delve into the nature of rights. It's safe to say these are not going to be challenging the USA Federalist Papers for intellectual robustness any time soon.
Rights that Rundle rejects are labelled content-based junk rights. It's interesting that Rundle puts forward a strawman argument that there is a movement to legislate a right to Religious Freedom. I'm not aware of this, unless he's referring to the removal of existing restrictions.
Paragraph ten, wherein Rundle goes full ad hominin on two people he doesn't agree with;
In The Australian, Katrina Grace Kelly — her name at time of writing — noted that Folau's claims were unlikely to succeed given the lean towards employers in such laws, but that if they did, they'd reset employment law entirely. The Institute of Public Affairs' John Roskam is running a little dog 'n' pony show around the right (word is still out on whether Roskam is pony or dog), and Freedom Boy Tim Wilson made a cute little comment on the push by getting sworn in on a copy of Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom.
That first dig is a reference to the fact that Ms. Kelly recently changed her name from the one she was given when she was adopted. The inference Rundle is offering is this won't be her final name change. I'm not sure how that is in any way relevant to the Folau case, so will have to conclude he's just being mean because he's a misogynist (see what I did there?).
As for the line about Roskam being a dog or a pony, that tells us more about Rundle's character than Roskam's.
The final two paragraphs go on to predict Folau will lose and the right will whine.
I spotted the following fallacies used by Rundle, see if you can find any more; ad hominin, strawman, slippery slope, tu quoque, cherry picking.
However, this article is extremely informative, actually because of its form not it's argument. Rundle has acknowledged this is the battleground for the culture war and, through an astounding inability to argue his side's case without reverting to use of fallacies, has demonstrated his concerns about the weakness of his team's position.
Better still, professional journalist Guy Rundle had to revert to the bigotry of low expectations, racism and misogyny to make his arguments.
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Billy/ July 9, 2019 July 10, 2019 / Australia; Frontier Nation, Free Speech, General, Legacy Press (c)
This might be nothing or it might be quite significant. I'll defer to our regular legal expert for the definitive opinion in the comments.
A defamation case has just concluded in Australia where the judge found in favour of the plaintiff's claim that Creepbook page owners are liable for comments made under their content.
There is a very lengthy but highly-informative Twitter thread here with a detailed breakdown of why Creepbook page owners are simply unable to comply with the ruling. In summary, the tools aren't made available to control the content and it is currently impossible to switch off comments…. wait for it… unless you are a pharmaceutical company.
No, really….. go to the bottom of that Twitter thread to find that gem and shake your head.
The ruling seems to hold a page "owner" liable for anything anyone posts in reply. Unfortunately, Creepbook doesn't provide the ability to disable comments on pages ("groups" have this function though) and the keyword blocking function is far from watertight.
There's much debate currently in the USA about whether the social media giants have become the de facto "public square" and therefore should be subject to the First Amendment or they are publishers curating content and therefore have liability for anything which breaks a law or incurs libel cases.
The general position of the tech companies is that they are common carriers like the postal system or a phone company. Except there's a major inconsistency with their actions; the phone company doesn't cut you off if you say something it disagrees with.
Somewhere between these three positions the US courts will eventually rule. Many other commentators have written and spoken extensively on this dichotomy and have speculated on how it might land. My voice isn't going add much either way.
In the meantime, it looks like an Australian judge may have hurried things along a little.
It might be argued this ruling has restricted free speech in Australia. However, regular readers will likely concur that ship sailed from Australian shores a long time ago.
My personal position is one of free speech near absolutism; with the exception of calling for violence, I'm generally ok with people saying whatever the hell they want.
That's not to say they can say it without consequence, public opinion and libel laws are useful moderators.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean the right to an audience though. If social media giants "de-platform" voices they dislike, that's fine. Those voices will find a way to be heard, particularly if what they are saying resonates with others as being virtuous and true. We should have faith in our fellow humans in being able to discern mendacity from honesty.
This Australian case might result in changes to Creepbook globally, it might result in changes only to the way Australian companies engage on Creepbook, or it might result in very little change at all. Anyone who claims to know is deluding themselves and you.
Creepbook and its page owners might be liable for what's written by others or they can remove opinions they dislike. I don't care either way, I'm not on Creepbook so was unlikely to read it anyway.
Yet somehow I manage to keep myself informed of a diverse range of opinions. It's almost as if, I dunno, there's an entire world outside of Creepbook.
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Kill it with fire
Billy/ June 25, 2019 June 25, 2019 / Australia; Frontier Nation, Cultural Marxism, Free Speech, General, Identity Politics, Legacy Press (c), Religion
Sorry, but this saga isn't going away and nobody is covering themselves with glory;
Christian charity to be investigated for helping Israel Folau.
Yes, Tom Decent was less interested in Australia's progression to the cricket World Cup semi final after defeating England yesterday but continued his single issue activism journalism.
In a worrying omen for Folau, Gillian Triggs, the previous Australian Human Rights Commission president has offered words of support for his cause. Why is this worrying? Well, Triggs is one of those cultural bellwethers like Peter Fitzsimons; on any given issue, if they've made a public prediction about it, you're usually safe to assume the opposite will occur.
Back to the inconvenient Israel Folau; he's raised a further $1.2m in the previous 24 hours via a Christian charity donation website. Given that the previous money hasn't been refunded yet, he's probably well over the $2m level.
Understandably, this has really annoyed the people who are correct about these things. So, rather than bother letting due process play out, they're trying to close him down again.
A number of complainants, however, have confirmed to the Herald that they have raised their concerns with the charities commission over the fundraising role played by the ACL.
In a statement, the commission said it "expected all registered charities to meet their obligations under the ACNC Act and the Governance Standards".
"The ACNC can investigate concerns that a charity has breached the ACNC Act or the Governance Standards," the statement said. "This may include not pursuing its charitable purpose, not operating in a not-for-profit manner, or providing private benefits to members."
Presumably these complainants are hoping to help Folau raise a further $3m next week by going out of their way to annoy everyone who ever let a religious thought enter their head into donating in a act of defiance at being told what to think?
At least the Christians have realised the media aren't their friends;
ACL's managing director Martyn Iles was contacted for comment.
Quite right. Declining calls from Tom Decent is the smart thing to do at this stage; he stopped trying to pretend he was "Independent. Always" some time ago.
It's not beyond the realms of belief that the Charities Commission will shut this latest fundraiser down. I don't have any insight into the organisation but there's a good chance it's a captured institution given that it's (a) public sector, and (b) not a meritocracy (but I repeat myself).
If they do, which direction does this saga tack next? People are increasingly wanting to offer Folau support and have shown they will find a way of doing so.
The only logical course to prevent these despicable people from supporting bigotry is to prevent Folau from enjoying the privileges of owning a bank account and accessing the internet and telephone networks.
Anything is reasonable in response to discovering Emanuel Goldstein in our midst, after all.
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Australian hypocrisy's name is Lisa Wilkinson
Billy/ June 24, 2019 June 24, 2019 / Australia; Frontier Nation, Cultural Marxism, Free Speech, General, Hashtag Diversity, Identity Politics, Jihad, Legacy Press (c), Religion
Christ, can we please all just shut up about Israel bloody Folau?
No? Ok then, here's our 3rd sodding blog post in a week about the ridiculous saga…..
For those who care enough to continue reading this blog and this specific post but aren't bothered enough to keep up with the news, which I suppose is probably the square root of bugger all people, the latest update is as follows;
Go Fund Me have taken down his donation page because it breaches their terms of service.
The money will be refunded to the donors.
The Sunday Project ("prow-ject" in the vernacular) host, Lisa Wilkinson, berated a God botherer in a hard-hitting interview last night because he was of the wrong opinion.
Firstly, the Go Fund Me terms and conditions are linked on our previous offering on this subject if you're curious. They really don't explicitly exclude Israel's campaign, but have a big clause about the website's discretionary powers which would allow them to shut him or anyone else down at a whim. The reporting of this that tries to claim a breach of terms is either wrong or duplicitous. At this stage of the culture war, it's probably going to save you time if you just assume the latter.
In summary, they are a private website and the contract you sign when you use it allows them to do whatever the hell they want. That isn't the same as pre-emptively banning on principle Israel Folau's campaign or similar campaigns.
Refunding the money will be interesting, however. As commenter, Sgt 73rd Regt mentions on our previous post, the inference is that the money goes straight to a trust bank account and doesn't sit on the Go Fund Me account earning interest for them. I will be able to confirm what really happens shortly as I, ahem, may have considered it worth an amusing tenner to donate under Lisa Wilkinson's beta male husband's name….
Which brings us on to the increasingly haggard, post-menopausal La Wilkinson….
Last night on a TV show nobody was watching, she gave a 30 year old God botherer a proper lesson in investigative journalism. Nah, not really; she just did the easiest thing in the world and ran logic rings around someone with faith. If this is important work, there's a billion people in India who believe God looks like a blue elephant whom she could doorstep with a willing camera crew.
Picking on God botherers is fine, if that's how you want to make your money but we would like to point out two reasons why La Wilkinson is being incredibly hypocritical;
Her co-host on The Prow-ject is an outspoken muslim who has struggled in the past, on camera, to explain his faith's doctrinal view of homosexuals. Presumably, her hard-hitting interview with Waleed will air later this week?
A very lucrative part of Lisa's annual salary is earned from hosting "Carols in the Domain" each Christmas. One assumes she's spotted the underlying religious element of that TV program?
I promise this is the last missive on this subject until something halfway interesting occurs (and that doesn't include faux legal advice in the comments from a failed civil engineer).
It's probably worth clarifying my personal faith regarding this issue first; I'm an atheist who enjoys the benefits of where the Judeo-Christian tradition arrived in 2019. Perhaps a "cultural Christian", if you will. I have no animus whatsoever toward homosexuals, to use the cliché, some of my best friends, etc.
If I could be so inclined, I could seek out discussions with people of faith and run logic rings around them just for fun. In fact, when I was younger, more foolish and cruel, I often did, asking my Christian relatives what they thought about those awkward fossils in the Natural History Museum and what the implications were for their reading of the Old Testament, for example.
What seems odd to me is that Lisa is applauded for poking fun at someone of a particular faith, especially as she's very fucking happy to take their coin every Christmas. We can play the whataboutery game here too; why doesn't she ask the question of other religions, for example the bloke she sits next to several evenings a week?
If you don't believe in the tenets of Christian faith, why would you care about whether it teaches some people will go to a place you don't believe exists?
Those who suggest this is no longer just about a kick and clap football player and his employer are correct. This is a cultural war being played in AND BY the media. Go Fund Me were bullied into closing down the campaign after a concerted effort by the a small subset of the media. It will be interesting to see where the battle is fought next.
Next week on the Sunday Prow-ject, Lisa Wilkinson angrily confronts Harry Potter fans who claim she can't travel to Hogwarts.
Take it away, Waleed;
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Doing the Decent thing
Billy/ June 23, 2019 / Australia; Frontier Nation, Cultural Marxism, Free Speech, General, Hashtag Diversity, Legacy Press (c), Religion
Tom Decent seems to have decided to not selectively edit today;
GoFundMe's fine print says the crowdfunding site cannot be used for "campaigns we deem, in our sole discretion, to be in support of, or for the legal defense of alleged crimes associated with hate, violence, harassment, bullying, discrimination, terrorism, or intolerance of any kind relating to race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, sexual orientation or sex."
Here's my take on his previous attempt to steer the narrative.
There was a time when journalists used to at least attempt to offer their work as being without bias. I recall a time when they would be referred to as "reporters". That noun seems to be out of favour now.
It's absolutely fine to be an "activist", we all have causes we support, but it's highly disingenuous to pretend to be a "journalist" at the same time.
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Obsessive reporting
The Sydney Morning Herald isn't coping well with the thought that Israel Folau might have even the slightest chance of winning his legal action against The Australian Rugby Union Rugby Australia.
Reporter Tom Decent and his editors are particularly piqued that quite a few people are putting their money behind Folau in a Go Fund Me campaign:
Hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to controversial rugby union player Israel Folau will end up in the pockets of Rugby Australia if he loses a protracted legal battle against them.
Well, yes, that's how legal cost allocation tends to work once cases have been decided.
Rugby Australia chief executive Raelene Castle told Nine News last night she was surprised Folau, one of the highest paid athletes in Australian sport, would ask the general public for financial support.
Where "surprised" is a synonym for "shitting herself".
"From our perspective [GoFundMe] is a place where sick children get support, so certainly it is not a strategy we thought was appropriate," Ms Castle said. "They [donors] have seen what the money is going to be used for and they have to make their own decision."
No, I'm pretty sure it isn't just for sending bald kids to Orlando, with a huge range of causes from the deadly serious to the frivolous on there.
There's top level categories for people asking for donations for their weddings and holidays and jokers asking for beer money. For example, I've recently been following the progress of a couple who are having a fabulous time circumnavigating in a small yacht who are being funded by donations on the page.
Once Folau's GoFundMe page was activated just before midnight on Thursday, the money starting rolling in for the exiled Wallabies fullback who pleaded in a viral video for financial support to help stand up for religious freedom.
By 8pm yesterday, more than $410,000 had been sent his way as donors from all over the globe showed their support for an athlete prepared for the "fight of my life".
That's quite impressive, but don't expect any back slapping from the media as it doesn't fit their narrative. In fact….
However, questions have been raised about the wording of a disclaimer at the bottom of the fundraising page. It read: "In making this contribution I acknowledge that my contributions are made freely as a gift on the basis previously affirmed and that there will be no obligations on Israel Folau to do anything for me in recognition of the gift or to apply the funds in any particular way with respect to his legal action, and that I hold no expectation to receive anything in return for my contribution."
A basic search of the other requests for donations would show that's just standard for every request. In fact, every Go Fund Me campaign has the following default disclaimer as part of the platform's terms and conditions:
All Donations are at your own risk. When you make a Donation through the Services, it is your responsibility to understand how your money will be used. GoFundMe is not responsible for any offers, promises, rewards or promotions made or offered by Charities, Campaigns or Campaign Organisers. We do not and cannot verify the information that Campaign Organisers supply, nor do we represent or guarantee that the Donations will be used in accordance with any fundraising purpose prescribed by a Campaign Organiser or Charity or in accordance with applicable laws.
It might be argued that, by putting the disclaimer on his page, Folau is being more open and honest than everyone else who prefers to let it languish behind a hyperlink.
Still, it's nice of Tom Decent to draw everyone's attention to this. Great public service there, Tom; Woodward and Bernstein will be proud of you.
When contacted by the Herald, a spokesperson for Folau declined to comment on the wording of the disclaimer or what the 30-year-old's plans were if the money raised was surplus to his legal fees.
Frankly, if I were advising the Folau team, I'd suggest they treat any contact from the Sydney Morning Herald as one made in bad faith, based on all the bias they've already demonstrated.
Tom is lucky they still answer his calls to even say, "no comment" or something a little more robustly Anglo Saxon.
While it is expected Folau will use the cash for his upcoming challenge, the $3 million goal he set far exceeds the usual expectations for such a legal bill. One barrister labelled the price tag "outrageous".
A barrister so brave that they didn't want to be named? Surely there's an opportunity for the shy and anonymous lawyer to get his/her/zher name out there to offer to under-bid the incumbent legal team?
RA chief executive Raelene Castle (right) said she was surprised one of the highest paid athletes in Australian sport would ask the public for financial support.
Well, if he's being overpaid by so much, who's fault is that Raelene?
Law Council of Australia president Arthur Moses warned that the thousands of individuals who donated anywhere from $5 to as much as $10,000 yesterday might not realise exactly where their money is going.
Again, it's great that the public are being made aware of the Ts&Cs of the Go Fund Me website all of a sudden. Interesting that Moses wasn't leading his people across the sea to safety for all other campaigns.
"The issue of crowdfunding and its application to litigation opens up a veritable can of worms for the legal profession and the courts," Mr Moses said. "This an issue which the legal profession and the courts must grapple with if this practice continues to increase.
Hold the front page; "lawyer finds a problem to be solved by lawyers".
"A security for costs order is an order that requires a litigant to deposit money into a secured account. This means that if the case is dismissed or the litigation fails, this money would be used to pay legal expenses of the opposing side.
"There are also questions around what occurs with remaining funds if the money is not used in its totality. Is it returned to those who donated or to the person who collected the funds?"
Yes, we've covered that already. Read the terms and conditions, Moses.
It's a donation with no guarantee.
Yet knowing this, people have still freely donated half a million dollars already? That's got to hurt.
There were also suggestions Folau's GoFundMe advertisement breached the site's rules, which states that users may not attempt to raise money for, "for the legal defence of … intolerance of any kind relating to race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, sex, gender or gender identity, or serious disabilities or diseases".
Suggestions from whom? The Sydney Morning Herald sportsdesk or someone more qualified in analysing the terms of service for a website?
Actually, this is a brilliant example of fake news. The clause partially quoted above is part of a list of inappropriate causes. Have a look at what Tom deliberately cut out and replaced with some dots:
8. campaigns we deem, at our sole discretion, to be in support of, or for the legal defence of alleged crimes associated with hate, violence, harassment, bullying, discrimination, terrorism or intolerance of any kind relating to race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, sex, gender or gender identity or serious disabilities or diseases;
In other words it's entirely at the website's discretion and they are concerned with not getting involved in criminal cases, which this isn't.
Selective editing, Tom? For shame, Tom Decent, for shame.
It doesn't matter which side of the debate you support, there's no excuse for deliberate selective editing to fraudulently bolster your side.
Also, whipping up a non-story about terms and conditions applicable to every campaign for donations as if they were unique to Folau is a clear form of journalistic fraud.
It must be quite a life burden to have a surname such as "Decent" to live up to.
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Offence trolling
Billy/ June 17, 2019 June 17, 2019 / Australia; Frontier Nation, Cultural Marxism, Free Speech, General, Identity Politics, Legacy Press (c), Religion, Transgender Regret Industry (c)
The evil and cruel Israel Folau has been up to his old tricks of being mean to people again, like the awful Christian he is:
Where and when was this "attack"?
Israel Folau has launched another attack on gay people and also criticised young people being allowed to change gender during a sermon at his Sydney church.
Right, so if you didn't go to his church on that particular Sunday for that particular service, you wouldn't have heard this recent "attack" then?
It's so good of the media to give this egregious behaviour the wider publicity it deserves and otherwise wouldn't have received. I'm sure gay and transgender people are extremely grateful for being offered this service.
What did the hateful Folau preach to his sheep this time?
The former rugby union star described homosexuality as a sin and claimed the devil was behind primary school children being allowed to decide if they wanted to change gender.
Ok, so in line with the teachings of Christianity, Islam and Judaism then, or, in other words, what about two thirds of the world's population believes?
Not exactly flat earth dogma, is it?
The statements that homosexuality is a sin and the devil is behind primary school age children "transitioning" genders are presented as being equivalent in their logic and level of outrage.
Perhaps we might not agree Lucifer's hand is to be found behind "Mermaids", but it doesn't mean encouraging the proliferation of transgender children is biologically or morally correct either.
Here's a fun thought experiment;
You've got tickets to see the last ever Rolling Stones' concert and your babysitter just cancelled. It's too late to ask any friends or family but both sets of neighbours have said they would help out. Do you ask the Folaus or the Salkilds?
By the way, a quick stalk through Emma's social media suggests she's pulled back a little on the "my son is a girl" bullshit and, in fact seems to have completely ceased from boasting mentioning it. Almost as if, I dunno, it was a phase she projected on the poor fucker. One assumes the lad and his dad are somewhat relieved no genitals were mutilated in the meanwhile.
It's obvious that Israel Folau has been found guilty of wrongthink and, from now on, will be subject to this type of offence trolling.
Literally nobody would have known about the content of his sermon last weekend if the media hadn't sought it out and presented it to the world. I've not been to Folau's church but I suspect it doesn't meet in a football stadium.
If a gay or transgender person is feeling any negative emotions today as a result of reading the reporting of his sermon, who is to blame?
Folau is being consistent to his beliefs. These beliefs are shared by billions of other people. If you agree he should be hounded out of his employment and to continue to be subject to scrutiny over the details of his religion, perhaps you should also consider where this leads and who the spotlight shines on next.
(We tried to contact Peter Fitzsimons for comment but he was unavailable)
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Sheep are concerned by the dimensions of the pasture, wolves aren't
Billy/ June 12, 2019 June 12, 2019 / Australia; Frontier Nation, Free Speech, Legacy Press (c)
Oh, this is just exquisite:
Australians are among the world's most likely to share dodgy articles online at a time when almost half of Generation Z uses social media as their main news source and Google's YouTube surges in popularity.
Says who?
Oh, The Digital News Report by the University of Canberra's News and Media Research Centre.
The University of Canberra has a News and Media Research Centre?
When you get the call to evacuate Planet Golgafrincham, be very worried if you're assigned a berth on the same Ark as anyone from that faculty.
This quote by Dr. Fisher is unintentionally hilarious:
"But consistently over the five years it also very much does depend on the source of news you use and those who rely on traditional – offline platforms, TV, newspapers – they have higher trust in news generally than people who rely on online sources," she said. "That hasn't shifted."
Admittedly, without bothering to look at the same data as Dr. Fisher, I'd like to offer an alternate assessment and conclusion:
People who actively seek out information from diverse sources become very cynical towards the uniform reporting of the legacy media.
One wonders whether the good Doctor Fisher and her students have ever heard of Plato's Allegory of the Cave?
Wouldn't it be just so beautifully ironic if they hadn't?
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Allah enjoys a cold beer too
Billy/ June 10, 2019 June 10, 2019 / Free Speech, General, Jihad
On a hot day, a palate-cleansing cold beer can be quite refreshing. I don't suppose that's the explanation for this though;
Terrorists linked to Iran were caught stockpiling tonnes of explosive materials on the outskirts of London in a secret British bomb factory, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.
Radicals linked to Hizbollah, the Lebanese militant group, stashed thousands of disposable ice packs containing ammonium nitrate – a common ingredient in homemade bombs.
Hizbollah. The "party of Allah".
Lovely people, I'm sure. It probably means nothing important that they have a picture of an AK47 on their offical flag.
In unrelated news, the great de-platforming and de-monetising of non-Left voices on social media continues, with Stephen Crowder being the latest to feel the wrath of the tech company censorship.
Meanwhile, this account is deemed fine;
Presumably Hasanein died of an excess of Photoshop?
Anyway, there's always a silver lining in every cloud, his lad gets free haircuts until he's 16 years old or when he's fitted with his first suicide vest, whichever is sooner.
You do have to love the Lóréal sheet as a nice touch, "…because you're worth it".
Jokingly referring to someone who describes themselves as "queer" by that name 7 times over the course of a 12 month period is beyond the pale and will see you thrown down the memory hole.
Being a organisation that actively targets the only functioning democracy in the Middle East, waging wars and planning terrorist attacks, and chucking gays off buildings? All good, apparently.
How interesting.
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Free speech for me, but not for thee
Billy/ June 8, 2019 June 8, 2019 / Australia; Frontier Nation, Free Speech, General, Legacy Press (c)
Those readers not familiar with Australia's iteration of Common Law might be surprised freedom of speech is not enshrined in the Australian Constitution.
Precedent case law is not particularly helpful either to those believing we should be free to say what's on our mind, limited only by the restriction of not inciting violence.
In fact, Federal legislation takes things even further in the opposite direction, with clause 18.C of the 1975 Racial Discrimination Act legislating against "offensive behaviour" based on "race, colour or national or ethnic origin". Note, religion isn't currently in that list.
There are further restrictions in State laws, this being the NSW example. The term "vilify" is used a lot in these versions of free speech restrictive laws.
"Vilify" isn't a verb we tend to use much in our everyday lives, so our common understanding of its definition might be a little shaky. The Victorian version of free speech restriction law defines it as conduct that 'incites hatred, serious contempt, revulsion or severe ridicule'.
…which is, frankly, a blank cheque for any politically-motivated judge presiding over a case. "Severe ridicule", for example, could be used to describe most comedy, particularly political satire. And what's the standard separating "severe" from simply "mild" ridicule?
Note also how the standard for the definition is the reaction in other people. Most laws have a punishment for your direct actions, yet this legislation punishes for possible future actions of others as a reaction to your action.
We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto.
Further evidence that this is not the place to look for brave defence and defenders of the freedom of speech is depressingly simple to find. Examples;
Queen'sland University students hounded by the press for Facebook comments they didn't write.
Foreign entertainers Milo Yianopolous, Gavin McInnes and political activist Tommy Robinson banned from entering the country because of their speech.
Clearly we are playing in a different ball game to the USA's First Amendment. A different sport on a different planet, in fact.
However, our brave journalistic class are currently twisting their pinafores in angst and distress over a recent raid of the state broadcaster by the Federal police following publication of leaked classified information.
Let me just run that by you again; the government police are investigating the government news agency.
Oh look, a squirrel!
Here were are though, in 2019, finally seeing our brave media types getting behind a moral cause they are prepared to die in a ditch defending.
Slow hand clap "Well played sir, well played".
Geoffrey Robinson probably makes the best fist of explaining why the raid was on shaky moral ground, why it wouldn't happen in the USA and UK and a defence of the media's right to publish military secrets but, frankly, he completely fails to mention all the reasons we've arrived here in the first place, such as the media and legal professions' failure to defend the little erosions of free speech over the years.
By trying to invent a right to "not be offended", we've reduced the right of free speech, the consequences of which are playing out every day as hate speech laws are subjectively enforced. How else can they be enforced but subjectively, when the definition of "offence" is such a personal one?
Defending free speech is pretty virtueless if you only ever defend the speech with which you agree.
There is no Morality Olympics Gold Medal for only speaking up when your team is attacked. Nobel Peace Prizes aren't usually as easy as Obama's was to attain.
I have two questions to all those in the media who suddenly think free speech is important;
1. Where the fuck have you been for the last few decades? And,
2. Do you really think fighting for your right to publish illegally-leaked military secrets is going to be the best test case to take to appeal to reverse free speech restrictions, compared to say, defending some camp clown who writes hurty tweets on the internet?
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