The silence from @piersmorgan about terrorists in press vests in Gaza is deafening.
You want to get angry that Israel is killing “journalists?”
Guess what?! They’re not.
They’re killing terrorists in press vests. Piers should be the LOUDEST critic, yet he’s conspicuously quiet
Firefighters in Bendigo are highlighting serious concerns: a $2.4m fire station built years ago remains empty and unused, while crews operate from outdated facilities.
The community deserves properly equipped stations and adequate resources for safety.
Bendigo voters, this is your chance to have your say at the election.
Avi Lewis attacked Ayaan Hirsi Ali after she survived forced marriage, female genital mutilation and Islamist death threats
Rather than challenge Ayaan Hirsi Ali's experiences, Avi Lewis repeatedly mocked and dismissed a woman who survived female genital mutilation, escaped a forced marriage, and lived under armed protection after Islamist death threats.
Avi Lewis has built a reputation as a champion of marginalized voices, especially women and victims of oppression. But when faced with one of the world's most prominent critics of radical Islam, that commitment seemed to disappear.
In a resurfaced interview on On The Map from 2007, Lewis interviewed Somali-born author and activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a woman whose life story includes female genital mutilation, an arranged marriage, fleeing Somalia, and years under security protection after the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh following their collaboration criticizing the treatment of women under Islamist doctrine.
Lewis himself laid out much of that background in his introduction.
Lewis introduced Hirsi Ali as a "controversial author" associated with an "arch-conservative" institution before framing her as someone benefiting from anti-Islam sentiment.
Then the interview quickly turned combative. When Hirsi Ali argued that Islamic doctrines regarding women, obedience and violence required reform, Lewis pushed back by arguing she was portraying Islam as a monolith. But Hirsi Ali pushed back forcefully.
When Lewis attempted to compare Islamic legal systems with social debates inside Western democracies, Hirsi Ali distinguished between individual violence and state-backed systems:
"When abortion doctors in the United States were shot, the federal government reacted to it by going after the perpetrators, putting them on trial and jailing them. When in Iran two men went after a woman and a man holding hands and shot them, they were acquitted by the Supreme Court. That is the core difference."
She also rejected Lewis' attempts to equate Islamist doctrines with fringe Christian extremism:
"Never confuse Islamic Sharia and the Muslims who really mean it with those extremist Christians who live in the United States."
When Lewis challenged her rejection of the term "Islamophobia," Hirsi Ali again distinguished between criticizing ideas and attacking people:
"Islam is simply a set of beliefs and it's not Islamophobic to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy."
"It's not Islamophobic to point to those people who use the Quran and the Hadith to conduct war and to say this is being done in the name of your religion, do something about it."
Yet Lewis continued escalating the exchange with sarcasm. After Hirsi Ali defended liberal democracy and praised the freedoms she found in the West, Lewis mocked her views:
"Tell me which Muslim country, is there a school where they teach you these American clichés?"
Moments earlier, he had described her faith in American democracy as "delightful."
Hirsi Ali's reply may have been the sharpest moment of the interview:
"You grew up in freedom and you can spit on freedom because you don't know what it is not to have freedom."
The exchange raises an uncomfortable question for Lewis and his NDP supporters: Would he speak this way to other victims describing the ideology they believe harmed them?
Disagreeing with someone is one thing. Mocking a survivor while minimizing the worldview she says victimized her is another.
For someone who presents himself as a defender of oppressed voices, Lewis seemed unusually willing to dismiss one when her politics did not fit the script.
Australia’s sex discrimination commissioner has written a damage control op-ed after “PregnantManGate”, yet in all the supposed fairness she doesn’t address the fact her interpretation of the law gives men protections they don’t need while taking away protections women do need.
And that’s not anything remotely close to fair.
I challenge every single person who believes minors should be enabled and even encouraged to transition to read this first person testimony to the end.
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via @IWF https://t.co/3276o4tg8J
The Supreme Court has ruled that under UK law, trans people never had the rights people like you insisted they had. You misrepresented the law and cheered on the removal of women’s rights. Trans people have lost nothing except the mistaken belief you fostered.
I am on @SkyNewsAust with @DanicaDeGiorgio tonight at 8pm AEST pondering if Australia’s prime minister, @AlboMP, thinks men who claim to be women need pregnancy protections in law. Do tune in 🙋♀️
“There appears to be this organized plan to punish anyone in the country for not adhering to gender ideology. So is it worth fighting that? 100%. Because if we can’t look at a man & say that’s a man we literally don’t live in a free society.”
The Full Federal Court has handed down its judgement in Giggle v Tickle.
In a shock to women across the country - Sall Grover not only lost her appeal, the Court set aside the original finding of indirect discrimination and replaced it with direct discrimination, upholding Tickle's cross-appeal.
The damages were doubled from $10,000 to $20,000.
It’s important to note the Court expressly said it was only applying the Sex Discrimination Act as it is written- it is "not empowered to give effect to its own view" about whether that law is desirable.
In 2013, @JuliaGillard’s @AustralianLabor government amended the Sex Discrimination Act- stripping the meaning out of "man" and "woman" and adding gender identity as a protected attribute to be pitted against biological sex.
Today's outcome is proof of what those amendments have done: women are left with no meaningful rights or recognition under the Sex Discrimination Act - a bitter irony, given that protecting women was the very purpose of the Act under our commitment to CEDAW.
In my opinion, this is a verdict on the law, not on Sall. The judges found that the law - as that government amended it - left them no other conclusion.
These amendments must be repealed.
The Sex Discrimination Act must once again recognise biological reality and protect women's right to single-sex spaces.
What a dark and devastating day for Australian women and girls.
#RepealTheSDA2013 #IStandWithSallGrover
#GigglevTickle
#Auspol
Changes in 24 hours from taking Ivermectin.
Two Doctors. Researching the same drug.
One doing lab experiments on cells. The other observing patients in real time.
Lab based cell observations meets microbiome research.
And a real world case study.
Dr. Sabine Hazan: “Once you change something.. you give someone Vitamin C.. you give someone Ivermectin... you see the changes... our data showed that Ivermectin increases the Bifidobacteria within 24 hours”
Dr. Kylie Wagstaff: “It does exactly that.. in cells growing in a dish, in the laboratory... we’re able to stop the virus from replicating within about 24-48 hours”
Those two research ideas collide in a real world case study Dr. Hazan witnessed:
“One of my patients crashed... he’s on his way to the hospital... this was the rise of oxygen with giving Ivermectin”
Interestingly... Ivermectin is a fermented product of a bacteria “in the same group of microbes that share one thing in common as Bifidobacteria.”... which means that several mechanistic ideas give extra perspective on this Nobel Prize winning anti parasitic drug.
Is the microbiome or other pharmacokinetics at play here?