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Politicians are praising Russell Brand's victims. Sammy Woodhouse suffered at the hands of one of the worst Rotherham Grooming Gangs. The Gang was reported to the police in 2002 by Home Office investigator Adele Weir. The police took no action against the gang but forced Ms Weir to go on a diversity course. Sammy applied for compensation in 2017 which was rejected until her lawyer stated the obvious. Those politicians are all lying, two tier, hypocritical scum. mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ro…
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WTF? @WhiteheadInst didn’t run a neutral evaluation of the event. They teamed up with Knouse and paid her legal bills. An absolute Cotton Mather style DEI witch-hunt @BillAckman
🚨 BOMBSHELL COURT EVIDENCE EXPOSES A SCANDAL OF SECRECY, DECEPTION CONCERNS, AND DOCUMENTED JOINT-DEFENSE COORDINATION INVOLVING KRISTIN KNOUSE, RUTH LEHMANN, THE WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE, AND HHMI IN THE DAVID M. SABATINI ORDEAL. A confidential financial settlement. Payments to Kristin Knouse and her lawyers. Legal protections extending to Ruth Lehmann. Documented joint-defense coordination. And an explicit provision restricting disclosure of the agreement to David Sabatini. 🔱 The ScienceGuardians™ Legal and Investigative Team has obtained the six-page settlement agreement filed in Massachusetts Superior Court on February 6, 2025. The document reveals consequential arrangements involving Kristin Knouse, the Whitehead Institute (@WhiteheadInst), the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI, @hhmi_science), and Whitehead Director and President Ruth Lehmann (@REMLehmann). These are not speculations. The provisions appear in the court-filed agreement itself. 🔴 1. Whitehead and HHMI agreed to pay Kristin Knouse and contribute to her legal defense. Section 1 establishes that Whitehead and HHMI agreed to jointly fund a settlement payment, including compensation to Knouse and a contribution toward her attorneys' fees and costs in connection with the Sabatini litigation. The financial amounts are redacted in the court-filed agreement, although we believe the total settlement may have reached SEVEN figures. How much money did Whitehead and HHMI actually commit to Knouse and her legal defense? The scientific community deserves full transparency regarding the financial scale of these arrangements and the institutional justification for such payments. 🔴 2. Ruth Lehmann's leadership was expressly covered by the legal releases. Section 2 establishes broad mutual releases between Knouse, Whitehead, and HHMI. Whitehead's release expressly includes its directors and senior administration, specifically naming Ruth Lehmann. These provisions were not limited to an informal understanding between Knouse and her former employer. They created formal contractual protections extending across the participating institutions and their leadership. 🔴 3. Knouse, Whitehead, and Lehmann agreed to continue their joint defense. Section 4 is particularly revealing. It expressly provides for continuing cooperation between Knouse and Whitehead, including its senior administration and Ruth Lehmann, concerning matters related to Sabatini's lawsuit. The agreement further states: “Whitehead and Dr. Knouse further agree to continue to work pursuant to their common interest and joint defense privilege in the context of the Sabatini Lawsuit.” Their lawyers were also expected to cooperate and share work where practicable. The document therefore establishes not only financial arrangements but also an explicit commitment to continued legal cooperation between Knouse and Whitehead's leadership. 🔴 4. The agreement expressly restricted disclosure to David Sabatini. Section 5 contains one of the document's most consequential provisions: “This Agreement shall not be provided to Dr. Sabatini unless required by law.” The same section establishes procedures allowing parties to seek protective orders in response to compulsory disclosure requests. A financial settlement and continuing joint-defense agreement, expressly restricted from disclosure to the very scientist who was litigating against these parties. The existence of this restriction demands serious examination of what was disclosed during litigation, when it was disclosed, and whether Sabatini received the information to which he was legally entitled. 🔴 5. Whitehead and HHMI expressly denied liability while agreeing to the payments and releases. Section 6 characterizes the settlement as a compromise of disputed claims, intended to avoid further expense, and expressly disclaims any admission of liability. The absence of an admission does not erase the financial payments, mutual releases, continuing joint defense, or disclosure restriction documented in this agreement. ⚠️ Ruth Lehmann and Whitehead's leadership must answer for these arrangements. This court-filed document raises substantial questions about the financial and legal relationships among the individuals and institutions involved in Professor @DMSabatini's ordeal. 📑 EXAMINE THE ORIGINAL COURT EVIDENCE: All SIX pages of the settlement agreement are provided individually in high resolution in the thread below. Scroll down to examine the documented provisions firsthand. 🔱 ScienceGuardians™ Legal and Investigative Team MORE COURT EVIDENCE. MORE REVELATIONS. STAY TUNED. ⚠️ @SciGuardians 🔱
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I just checked. There were 3 lynchings in the county's history, all 130+ years ago: 1. George Peck - jailed for rape 2. John Dorsey - jailed for assault 3. Sid Randolph - jailed for murder
Montgomery County just held an event to raise awareness to the lynchings in their district The last lynching there was in 1896
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Cornell student paper blasted out names of alleged frat rapists - but scrubbed bylines of own writer accused of sex assaults trib.al/ZTdqK8q
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"I build 8-figure roofing companies," his social media profile brags. He wants to keep the margins for himself, and not pay American workers more. The entire industry is like this.
"I was a big part of the blue wave.." That's Lee Haight, president of RRCA (Roofing & Reconstruction Contractors of America) in Naples, Florida, defending his illegal immigrant crew from ICE and saying they're "necessary," not a burden on society. In the same video he complains the insurance company steered jobs to his competitors, then brags about an $85,000 stone-coated steel roof on the water and a claim he says could top $150,000. Cheap labor works out GREAT for the guy at the top. LMAO
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BREAKING: CNN director admits they only focus on the race of criminals when they are white, covers up when black assailants attack Asians
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Trump is right. It’s hard to deport someone who has worked hard for 15 years and broken no laws beyond entering the country illegally. I spent over a decade teaching in a community with many illegal immigrants and their children. I knew genuinely good people, wonderful families, and incredible kids. They weren't abstractions to me. They were people I cared about and wanted to see succeed. I understand the emotional difficulty of enforcing immigration law. I've experienced it firsthand. But there's a fundamental difference between judging an individual through the lens of personal experience and governing a nation through the rule of law. It's easy to make exceptions when we're confronted with a sympathetic story. We see a hardworking father, a devoted mother, or an innocent child, and naturally want to spare them hardship. But my personal feelings about those individuals cannot determine whether the law applies to them. Nor can anyone else's. And with immigration, the consequences extend far beyond any individual case. We're deciding who may enter our country, remain here, and become part of our national community. If those decisions are ultimately determined by who manages to get here and whose story moves us most, the consent of the governed becomes increasingly meaningless. The hardest cases are precisely when our principles matter most, because the entire purpose of having laws is to establish rules that transcend our individual sympathies, prejudices, and emotions. If enforcing the law depends on our sympathy for those who break it, we no longer have the rule of law. We have a collection of suggestions subject to the whims of our emotions.
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In amongst all the cheering that we have salved our national rape conscience by finding a rapist onto whom we can pin all our outrage and disgust, people miss the salient points about what this judgement and sentence will have on the justice system we all rely on. I’ll just detail Adils crime and sentence below and you make you own mind up… Adil Rashid (2012): Convicted of raping a 13-year-old; received 9 months after the judge accepted a defence that he “did not know” the act was wrong due to his background and upbringing. Justice isn’t blind. Her eyes are wide open.
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Top 20 des sorties les plus abjectes de l'intelligentsia de gauche française. Ceux qui nous ont fait la morale pendant cinquante ans. Aragon, 1931. Il écrit un poème à la gloire de la Guépéou, la police politique de Staline. La machine qui remplira le Goulag. Sartre, 1954, de retour d'URSS : « La liberté de critique est totale en URSS. » Pendant que les camps tournent à plein régime. Sartre, 1961 : « Tout anticommuniste est un chien. » Le ton du débat intellectuel français pour trente ans. Simone de Beauvoir, 1957, La Longue Marche. Un portrait enchanté de la Chine de Mao, juste avant le Grand Bond en avant et ses dizaines de millions de morts de faim. Paul Éluard, 1950. André Breton lui demande d'intervenir pour leur ami Záviš Kalandra, condamné à mort dans un procès stalinien à Prague. Éluard refuse publiquement. Kalandra est pendu. Philippe Sollers et la revue Tel Quel, 1974. Voyage en Chine en pleine Révolution culturelle, retour en extase maoïste. Sartre, préface des Damnés de la terre, 1961. Abattre un Européen, explique-t-il, c'est faire d'une pierre deux coups : un oppresseur et un opprimé disparaissent, il reste un homme mort et un homme libre. Sartre, 1972, après la prise d'otages des JO de Munich et le massacre des athlètes israéliens : le terrorisme serait la seule arme des opprimés. Sartre, 1974, rend visite à Andreas Baader en prison. Jean Genet, en 1977, publie dans Le Monde un texte de soutien à la Fraction Armée rouge. Sartre, 1973, interview à Actuel : un régime révolutionnaire doit se débarrasser de ceux qui le menacent, et il ne voit pas d'autre moyen que la mort. Alain Badiou, Le Monde, janvier 1979 : « Kampuchéa vaincra ! » Un texte de soutien aux Khmers rouges, qui viennent d'exterminer près d'un quart de la population cambodgienne. Michel Foucault, 1978. Il part en Iran et s'enthousiasme dans la presse italienne pour la « spiritualité politique » de la révolution de Khomeini. René Schérer, L'Émile perverti, 1974. Un philosophe de Paris VIII théorise la « libération » sexuelle de l'enfant contre l'éducation. Schérer et Guy Hocquenghem, Co-ire, 1976. Une revue entière consacrée à l'enfant « désirant ». Publiée, diffusée, discutée comme de la pensée sérieuse. Gabriel Matzneff, Les Moins de seize ans, 1974. Publié par un grand éditeur, chroniqué, célébré. En 1990 chez Pivot, il raconte, le plateau rit. Seule Denise Bombardier ose se lever. Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Le Grand Bazar, 1975, puis à Apostrophes en 1982. Il décrit des jeux sexuels avec des enfants de crèche. Il dira plus tard que c'était de la provocation et que rien n'a eu lieu. Personne sur le plateau ne bronche. Foucault, 1978, sur France Culture, dans un débat intitulé « La loi de la pudeur ». Il plaide contre la majorité sexuelle et refuse de présumer qu'un enfant ne peut pas consentir. Mai 1977. Lettre ouverte à la commission de révision du Code pénal pour abroger les lois sur les relations sexuelles avec les moins de 15 ans. Signée notamment par Foucault, Deleuze, Barthes, Derrida, Althusser. Janvier 1977. Le Monde, puis Libération, publient une tribune pour défendre trois hommes poursuivis pour relations sexuelles avec des mineurs de moins de 15 ans. Une soixantaine de signatures du gratin intellectuel de l'époque. Jack Lang, des décennies plus tard : « C'était une connerie. » Libération, le journal cofondé par Sartre. Il ouvre ses colonnes aux militants pédophiles, publie des petites annonces d'adultes cherchant des enfants, et en 1979 une pétition pour défendre un homme arrêté pour des relations avec des fillettes de 6 à 12 ans. Ces gens ont dirigé la vie intellectuelle française. Ils ont formé nos profs, écrit nos manuels, tenu nos rédactions. Et ils nous ont expliqué pendant cinquante ans où était le bien.
On vit dans un monde où presque toutes les valeurs ont été retournées. Ce n'est pas un accident. C'est le résultat d'un projet intellectuel précis, porté par une génération précise, avec des obsessions très particulières. Pendant cinquante ans, une poignée d'intellectuels de gauche a façonné la France. L'école, l'université, les rédactions, l'édition, le cinéma, une partie de la magistrature. Tout est passé entre leurs mains. Ils ont formé les profs qui ont formé nos profs. Ils ont écrit les livres qu'on nous a fait lire. Ils ont décidé de ce qui était respectable et de ce qui ne l'était pas. Et qu'y avait-il sous la surface ? D'abord le communisme. Sartre qui revient de Moscou en expliquant que la liberté de critique y est totale. Des normaliens qui encensent Mao pendant que des millions de Chinois meurent. Une intelligentsia entière qui préfère avoir tort avec Sartre que raison avec Aron. Ensuite, le projet de tout déconstruire. La famille, la nation, l'autorité, la transmission, la norme, la vérité elle-même. Tout devait être soupçonné, tout devait être renversé, puisque tout n'était que domination. Et puis il y a ce que personne n'aime rappeler. En 1977, Le Monde et Libération publient une tribune pour défendre des hommes poursuivis pour des relations sexuelles avec des enfants de moins de 15 ans, signée par une partie du gratin intellectuel de l'époque. En 1979, Libération publie une nouvelle pétition pour défendre un homme arrêté pour des relations avec des fillettes de 6 à 12 ans. On parlait de « libérer » la sexualité des enfants. On invitait à la télévision des écrivains qui racontaient leurs actes dans leurs livres. Et on applaudissait. Ce n'était pas une marge. C'était le centre. C'était le camp du bien. Voilà le sous-jacent sur lequel on a construit l'Occident moderne. Une matrice qui a appris à des générations entières à mépriser ce qu'elles avaient reçu, à se haïr elles-mêmes, et à confondre la transgression avec le progrès. Aujourd'hui, on vit encore sous cette coupe. Mais ça craque. Ça craque partout. Parce qu'une civilisation ne peut pas tenir indéfiniment sur une idéologie qui nie le réel. Les fondations ne tiennent plus, et tout le monde le sent, même ceux qui refusent encore de le dire. Dans quelques décennies, on regardera cette période comme l'une des plus honteuses de l'histoire intellectuelle française. On se demandera comment des gens qui se croyaient l'avant-garde morale de l'humanité ont pu défendre le goulag, Mao et l'indéfendable sur les enfants, tout en donnant des leçons au reste du monde. Et on se souviendra de ceux qui avaient raison trop tôt. Camus. Aron. Ceux qui ont payé leur lucidité de leur réputation. L'histoire finit toujours par trier. Elle est en train de le faire.
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The Atlantic blames @HarmeetKDhillon for the “destruction” of the DOJ’s civil rights division on the grounds that 70% of the Biden-era lawyers who worked there quit during her tenure. What The Atlantic does not tell you is that Dhillon’s predecessor was progressive activist Kristen Clarke, an extremely controversial Biden appointment who, prior to joining the DOJ, was best known for antisemitism. She famously invited the author of a hate tract called “The Jewish Question” to speak on the Harvard campus under the auspices of the Black Student Union. At DOJ, Clarke used the Civil Rights division to force state and local governments to adopt illegal DEI programs and dismantle policing and criminal justice enforcement. She was the threat of government legal action pushing the adoption of the most noxious woke policies during the Biden era. She did immense damage to the DOJ and the country, she forced the adoption of unpopular and ineffective policies and she filled her department with ideologues, activists and diversity hires who do not belong anywhere near the levers of power. The transformation of the Civil Rights Division and the removal of Kristen Clarke’s loyalists is one of the biggest accomplishments of the Trump administration. Dhillon is a hero and has done a great service to her country.
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Redic waved his middle finger in the face of the victim and slapped him, declaring “That’s what I know.” It was a telling moment. What he knows is rage. Like many in today’s siloed media environment, he became irate when confronted with an opposing view and turned to violence. jonathanturley.org/2026/11/0…
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A judge bullies a lawyer she thinks is white, but is actually Latino, calling him a “chad” and “Mr. Social Media, Main Character Chad, White Hero, Savior, Loves to Help Black People Be An Ally.” The percentage of unhinged educated people one encounters these days is disconcerting. This account goes on and on. She doesn’t think she was out of line.
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In @DMSabatini’s own words, published in my interview with him for @PirateWires: “They wanted me to suffer, they wanted pain, and they did it. They were very explicit in what they wanted. Thankfully, they wrote it all down, so that’s what the jury saw.” I think that’s the simplest answer to your question. Now, I don’t want to put words in David Sabatini’s mouth, but, speaking for myself, I would go one step further and say that what happened to him was about a culture that elevates mediocrity at the expense of excellence, especially male genius; a culture that is suspicious of the concept of excellence altogether. Beyond that, rather than understanding that the men (and women—but less relevant to this conversation) who are gifted with genius are what once made academia great, academia assumed, rather circularly, that it great because it was academia. Total Goodheart’s Law vindication. Academic bureaucrats (including faculty with the spirit of bureaucrats) believed, and still largely believe, that individual academics are replacable, that anyone is as good as anyone else, that certain groups (white, male) need to be knocked down a peg and others promoted, independent of merit. And I think that’s ultimately why Sabatini made such a perfect target. Many of the text conversations from MIT/Whitehead that he references that came out during the court proceedings show how so much of this was motivated by a sense that, no, not “just anyone” could be David Sabatini, not “just anyone” could do the work he did, or create the pipeline of scientists he did, and that’s why he had to be taken down, the most dubious grounds would suffice so that those taking him down could prove they did it. People like him in the academy exist as a perpetual reminder that some people, in research as in life, simply operate at a different level, and many academics and especially blank slatist bureaucrats simply can’t tolerate that.
The part I don’t fully understand is why did they hate this guy so much ? Just jealousy at his success? Spurned lovers ? Guys of his stature in science are typically untouchable within their fiefdoms. Was he blocking grant money from others ?
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Beaucoup de débat sur ma vidéo sur Hitler. Je ne recule pas. Je vais expliquer d'où je parle. Pour moi, la couche zéro de toute idéologie, c'est l'économie. Pas les discours, pas les drapeaux, pas les uniformes. La question de base est toujours la même : qui décide de ce qui est produit, à quel prix, par qui, et qui garde le fruit du travail ? Il n'y a que deux grandes réponses. Le capitalisme : la propriété est privée, les prix émergent de millions d'échanges libres, chacun décide quoi produire, quoi acheter, où investir. Personne ne pilote l'ensemble. L'ordre émerge d'en bas. Le collectivisme : un pouvoir central décide à la place des individus au nom d'un intérêt supérieur. La classe chez Marx, la nation chez d'autres, la planète aujourd'hui. Le mot change, la mécanique reste : l'individu est subordonné au collectif, et l'État décide de ce qui est "utile". Maintenant, regardez ce qu'a fait Hitler. Pas ce qu'il disait de lui-même, ce qu'il a fait. Son parti s'appelle le Parti national-socialiste des travailleurs allemands. Son programme de 1920 réclame la suppression des revenus obtenus sans travail, la nationalisation des trusts, la participation aux bénéfices des grandes entreprises, l'expropriation de terres sans indemnité pour l'utilité commune. Et un principe qui résume tout : l'intérêt général avant l'intérêt particulier. Une fois au pouvoir : En 1933, les syndicats libres sont dissous et remplacés par le Front allemand du travail, un organisme du parti qui encadre ouvriers ET patrons. La même année, l'État s'arroge le droit de forcer les entreprises à se regrouper en cartels. Toute l'agriculture passe sous le Reichsnährstand, qui fixe prix, quotas et circuits de vente. La loi sur les fermes héréditaires interdit à des centaines de milliers de paysans de vendre ou d'hypothéquer leur propre terre. En 1934, le "Nouveau Plan" de Schacht impose le contrôle des changes : il faut une autorisation pour importer. Les dividendes sont plafonnés, l'excédent part en emprunts d'État. En 1935, le livret de travail devient obligatoire. L'État sait où vous travaillez et peut vous empêcher d'en changer. En 1936, Hitler confie à Göring le Plan de quatre ans, avec un objectif explicite : une économie prête pour la guerre en quatre ans. Le 26 novembre 1936, le commissaire aux prix interdit toute hausse de prix sans autorisation. Le mécanisme des prix, le cœur même du marché, est éteint par décret. En 1937, les industriels de la Ruhr refusent d'investir dans un minerai de fer non rentable. Réponse de l'État : il crée sa propre aciérie géante, les Reichswerke Hermann Göring. En 1938, l'État peut réquisitionner un travailleur et l'affecter à un poste. Et pour ceux qui disent non ? Hugo Junkers, pionnier de l'aviation, refuse de se plier. On le force à céder son entreprise, il finit en résidence surveillée. Le message envoyé à tous les autres patrons est limpide. Alors oui, les usines avaient encore un propriétaire sur le papier. Mais quand vous ne fixez ni vos prix, ni vos salaires, ni vos investissements, ni vos importations, ni vos dividendes, et que l'État peut vous prendre votre boîte si vous refusez, vous n'êtes pas propriétaire. Vous êtes gérant pour le compte de l'État. Mises appelait ça le socialisme de modèle allemand : on garde l'étiquette de la propriété privée, on retire tout ce qui en fait une propriété. Maintenant, le "oui mais les historiens disent que le nazisme, c'est l'extrême droite". Deux choses. D'abord, historiens et économistes ne mesurent pas la même chose. Le clivage gauche-droite vient de la place des députés dans l'Assemblée de 1789. Les historiens classent le nazisme à l'extrême droite sur le nationalisme, le racisme, l'anticommunisme, l'alliance avec une partie des élites. Sur ces points, ils ont raison. Moi, je pose une autre question : qui contrôle l'économie ? Et la réponse, c'est l'État, pas le marché. Les deux constats ne s'excluent pas. Hayek l'écrivait déjà en 1944, dans un chapitre intitulé "Les racines socialistes du nazisme". Ensuite, un diplôme n'est pas un argument. Le manuel d'économie le plus influent du XXe siècle, celui de Paul Samuelson, prix Nobel, a annoncé pendant des décennies que le PIB soviétique allait rattraper celui des États-Unis. Dans l'édition de 1989, il présentait encore l'économie soviétique comme la preuve qu'une économie planifiée peut fonctionner, et même prospérer. Deux ans avant l'effondrement de l'URSS. Des générations d'économistes diplômés ont appris ça. Les titres n'immunisent pas contre les biais idéologiques. Lisez les décrets, regardez les dates, faites-vous votre propre avis. Au fond, il y a deux visions du monde. La première : la liberté, la propriété, la création de valeur. Des individus qui essaient, échouent, recommencent, échangent, et un ordre qui émerge sans que personne ne l'ait dessiné. La seconde : la planification. Quelqu'un, quelque part, sait mieux que vous ce que vous devez produire, consommer, gagner, au nom d'un objectif supérieur. Plan quinquennal soviétique, Plan de quatre ans nazi. Rouge ou brun, la mécanique est la même. Seul change le collectif qu'on invoque : la classe ou la race. Je ne dis pas que chaque plan mène au pire. Je dis que chaque plan part de la même idée : que vos choix comptent moins que l'objectif de celui qui planifie. Alors la prochaine fois que vous entendez quelqu'un parler de "plan", qu'il soit industriel, national ou écologique, posez-vous une seule question : qui décide à ma place, et qu'est-ce qu'on va me retirer pour que le plan tienne ?
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Imagine being working/middle class & struggling to pay exorbitant property taxes for THIS:👇🤨
City of Austin gave $65,275 to a company called “Radical Humaning” run by an anti-police activist who calls herself “unapologetically black, queer, fat & brilliant.” Nakia Winfield is an antiracism trainer and “political social worker” who examines power through an “anti-oppressive lens.” In 2020 she co-wrote something that backed the movement to defund or abolish police. The city contract was for a “partner summit” and a “leadership retreat,” and it was originally listed at $28,000 and somehow more than doubled.
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Noam Chomsky, the "Father of modern linguistics," looked at evidence of industrial-scale murder and decided the real problem was Western media bias. By 1977, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge had already killed roughly 1.7 million Cambodians through execution, forced starvation, and slave labor. Chomsky, writing with Edward Herman in "Distortions at Fourth Hand," treated survivor testimony and refugee accounts as State Department fabrications, preferring the far lower body counts published in sympathetic leftist sources. The intellectual gymnastics required to reach that conclusion were extraordinary. Chomsky dismissed Father Ponchaud's firsthand reporting, questioned Francois Ponchaud's credibility directly, and leaned on a 1977 State Department document to suggest deaths numbered in the thousands, not hundreds of thousands. He applied maximum skepticism to anti-communist sources and near-zero skepticism to anything that cut against American foreign policy narratives. The methodology was selective to the point of being fraudulent. Chomsky was not a fringe figure typing in a basement. He held an MIT professorship and commanded enormous intellectual authority among Western leftists. When he cast doubt on Cambodian atrocity reports, journalists and academics listened. Real people died while influential intellectuals debated whether their deaths were sufficiently well-sourced. Collectivist ideology requires enemies to function. When the Khmer Rouge built their agrarian utopia by emptying Phnom Penh at gunpoint and executing anyone wearing glasses, Chomsky's instinct was to protect the ideological project by attacking the messengers. Ideology over corpses.
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For those that haven't been following the Tommy Robinson story... it's INSANE he was convicted of anything. Back in August 2024 Tommy is on a family holiday in Cyprus posting about the riots, and the Daily Mail decides this is so important it sends a reporter and a photographer all the way to the island to find him, and according to Tommy they even took a photograph of his ex-wife, and then the story goes up and, as he told the jury, within hours people online were posting the name of the hotel he was staying at and telling others to head there, with his kids right there, so his family had to move to a different part of the hotel after he spoke to security, and he ended up leaving the hotel altogether... ...and so what does Tommy do? He does the exact same thing back to them. He finds out who wrote it, he hires investigators to locate them, he goes public with it and accuses one of the journalists of “doxxing my children’s location”, he rings one of them up and basically asks whether it would be OK if he did to them what they had done to him, which is literally the whole point, he’s holding up a mirror, and he told the court all he wanted was to question them on camera, the way reporters door-step people every single day, and that it was an attempt to bring the Daily Mail to the table, and even the prosecutor admitted none of it contained direct threats of violence, and yet the people who flew to another country to find him at his hotel are pretending they are the victims, and the man who found where they live and asked them how it feels is the criminal, and the jury couldn’t even agree, it was 10 to 2, and he’s going to be sentenced on December 16 for doing to the Daily Mail exactly what the Daily Mail did to him first, and we’re all supposed to just nod along like this makes perfect sense!!!!!!! It's PURE INSANITY!!!!!!!
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In the past week alone, Muslims have: 1. Slaughtered 9 Christians during a funeral in Jordan. 2. Beheaded 40 Christians in Nigeria with machetes. 3. Massacred 60 Christians in Ethiopia and burned down their homes. They didn’t get even 1% of the media coverage Gaza gets.
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Islamists are literally beheading Christians in Nigeria.. I wonder why the activists who care so much about innocent people dying rarely talk about this..
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915,676