Pater Krak

Truth seeker. Free speech absolutist. Anti-tribalist. Virtue signal hater. Sceptic.

[Pippa B 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🚜 ❤️ 🇺🇸 @pippaisright]

🇬🇧 British man was removed from the train station by police for playing the PUBLIC PIANO (instructed by 2 Muslim security guards)

[Mark Hubbard. @MarkHubbard33]

Islam is joyless. Previous to this vid an Islamic police/security man told the guy playing the PUBLIC PIANO in the station that music was harem he must stop playing.

If Islam won't let the public play on the public piano in the train station, why is there a public piano there? Someone should have told the Islamic policeman to fuck off (right out of the UK preferably). This is ridiculous ... if you look at the prior vids leading up to this nonsnse.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Every time I try to make a comment on traditional British values being overruled, I am barred from doing so

This has happened so much that I assume my comments are being deliberately censored

I would not have thought this was possible in this country

[Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons]

There is something deeply disturbing about the fact that the man entrusted with Britain’s national security is married to a journalist who has publicly questioned the testimony of Israeli rape victims, pooh-poohed solidarity with Israel the day after October 7 and apparently supported a proscribed terror group.
Jonathan Powell, Keir Starmer’s national security adviser, occupies one of the most sensitive positions in government. He is privy to Britain’s deepest intelligence secrets, helps shape our response to terrorism and advises the prime minister on matters of war and peace. His wife, Sarah Helm, is entitled to her own political opinions, however grotesque. But her social media posts cannot be dismissed as a family matter.
Astonishingly, just as those questions are coming under scrutiny, Helm has chosen to wade into another highly sensitive controversy about British tradition, Gaza subversion and antisemitism. In her head, this must be an expression of courageous defiance. Glory to the Mater! To everybody else, it is a danger to our national security.
New post. Read here: https://t.co/qgtjTKYPmw

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

I am absolutely bloody furious.

The High Court has struck down the Government’s restrictions on new puberty blocker prescriptions for children with gender dysphoria. PATHA is celebrating that they can continue to pump drugs into children that have known lifelong impacts including setting them on a path to sterilisation.

Mark my words this WILL be a medical scandal.

It is outrageous that the courts have intervened when the Government is simply seeking proper safeguards for vulnerable children.

Look overseas! Governments and health authorities have been pulling back from the insanity that has seen activists controlling the narrative and strong arming institutions. In New Zealand our courts want the deranged to run the asylum.

Britain’s LABOUR Government made restrictions on puberty blockers indefinite due to unacceptable safety risk. Wes Streeting understood that children’s healthcare requires evidence, however loudly campaigners shouted at him.

In America, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s restrictions on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors. Another decisive rejection of the idea that governments must simply defer to the organisations promoting these treatments.

And the organisations NEED scrutiny. WPATH and NZ’s version PATHA are without credibility and should not have remotely the influence they have enjoyed.

Documents from US litigation raise serious questions about political influence over WPATH’s supposedly authoritative standards. Justice Clarence Thomas discussed those revelations in his separate Skrmetti opinion, including pressure to remove minimum ages from treatment guidelines. Seriously it is worth reading that opinion.

The Cass Review also found that WPATH’s guidelines lacked rigour and transparency in their development.

After all that, we should have no confidence in WPATH as an impartial authority. And PATHA winning a judicial review does not magically establish the safety and effectiveness of the treatments it champions. They are a dysfunctional band of activists and it is embarrassing that they are taken seriously.

Read what this judgment actually says. The judge accepted that Simeon Brown had a rational basis for restricting puberty blockers and he rejected the allegation that Brown was simply advancing NZ First’s “anti-woke” agenda.

The restrictions fell because of consultation failures and the judge’s conclusion that the prohibition on new prescriptions was disproportionate and unlawfully discriminatory.

I obviously utterly disagree with that conclusion. The uncertainty surrounding these treatments is why precaution should be exercised.

The Government must address the legal issues, consider its appeal options and establish safeguards that can withstand challenge. This cannot be where this ends. Our children are too important. And these are the most vulnerable children. Research shows that among kids who are given puberty blockers autism, previous sexual abuse, and other mental health disorders are prevalent.

The ruling arrives 17 days before the election. People can draw their own conclusions about that timing.

But this is another reason it is so important to back the current Government. Simeon Brown has been prepared to take this on, and I’m backing him to keep going.

Luxon’s answer during the leadership debate was wishy washy but Simeon has been solid and NZ First have been too. We need the Coalition back in to continue this fight.

The alternative barely bears thinking about. I half expect Labour and their gang to come up with the bright idea to make puberty blockers available at school tuck shops.

(That is sarcasm, by the way.)

My serious point is that children deserve adults willing to challenge crazes, demand proper evidence, and withstand the abuse that follows. I am willing to be one of those adults. I reckon Simeon is too. Are you?

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

It is incredibly devastating to the psyche when the cancel mob comes for you

In your darkest hour, the true heroes and villains in your life will emerge with clarity. The villains will outnumber the heroes, overwhelmingly, and you will despair.

At times you will feel as though that knowledge was purchased by the loss of illusions that you’d rather have kept, but in time, those departures reveal themselves as a kind of necessary clearing. You can rebuild a new life and it may not be as glamorous, but it will be pure of heart.

[i/o @avidseries]

It's all so tiresome. Public service advertisements in the UK have replaced their usual "safe" villain (the middle-aged white male) with a member of a group that's even less likely to engage in antisocial mobile phone behavior on public transportation: The East Asian female.

[🗣 Free Speech Union ✊ @NZFreeSpeech]

“Unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth.”

Jacinda Ardern said that in March 2020, telling New Zealanders to dismiss what they were reading on social media.

Now Chris Hipkins has pledged a “Digital Duty of Care” law and a new online regulator with the power to fine platforms that don’t protect Kiwis from “harmful content.”

Platforms get fined for leaving something up but not for taking content down. They’ll do the maths, and contested political opinion will be the first thing to go, as someone, somewhere, will deem it "harmful". The regulator won’t need to delete a single post itself.

So who at the regulator decides what counts as harmful?

[🗣 Free Speech Union ✊ @NZFreeSpeech]

Cath is appealing the Tribunal’s decision and challenging her dismissal. You can back her here: https://t.co/N8yIWkt7AB

Promoted by Free Speech Union, PO Box 91811, Victoria Street West, Auckland 1142

[🗣 Free Speech Union ✊ @NZFreeSpeech]

In August, a King’s Counsel asked the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal to strike off mental health nurse Cath Simpson over posts on her personal X account.

She fought it, with the Free Speech Union in her corner.

Big mistake, apparently. 🧵1/10

[Arynne Wexler @ArynneWexler]

An audience member left me a gift anonymously at one of my shows this weekend, and I hope this message finds them.

Inside the box was an antiquity coin minted in Judea during the First Jewish Revolt against Rome, nearly 2,000 years ago.

Inscribed in ancient Paleo-Hebrew are the words “Harut Zion” — “The Freedom of Zion.”

[It came from Zak’s Antiquities in Jerusalem, a place familiar to anyone who grew up loving the Land of Israel and bringing small pieces of history back home.]

The Zealots deliberately used the script of their ancestors, dating back to the time of King David, to assert their claim to Jewish sovereignty in their own land.

Two thousand years later we keep those same words, that same struggle, and that same land.

One of the great privileges of being on tour has been knowing the people on the other side of the audience. No comment on Instagram could replace laughing with you in person.

To whoever gifted me this thoughtful piece of history, thank you.

עם ישראל חי

[Jason Locasale @LocasaleLab]

Science magazine’s account is riddled with inaccurate and misleading reporting.

Start with the verdict.

The jury awarded David $500,000 for defamation, $3.2M for interference with contractual relationships in a category explicitly naming MIT et al., and $2.3M for interference with prospective professional relationships. It rejected Knouse’s claims of sexual harassment, hostile workplace and educational environments, and retaliation.

These are findings in a court of law, not competing opinions to balance against the losing side’s disappointment.

Of the $6M awarded, $5.5M concerned interference with David’s professional relationships. Science obscures the connection to MIT et al. and the administrators whose actions inflicted those losses.

Causation was central to what David had to prove. In “but for” legalistic terminology, the losses would not have occurred without the conduct at issue. If David would have suffered the same losses anyway because of a culture survey, an investigation, or anything else independent of Knouse’s conduct, those losses could not be attributed to her interference or her words. Science never examines that implication. MIT et al.’s actions on based Knouse's behavior were how allegations became lost employment, a lost laboratory, and a lost career.

Yet Science tells readers the verdict “has no direct impact on the conclusions of Whitehead’s probe.” That framing ignores the causal connection established by the interference and defamation findings and treats the institutional investigation as insulated from the verdict.

Science also returns to allegations of a sexualized or “toxic” environment as something David merely denies. Knouse sued him over those allegations. The verdict form explicitly asks whether she proved a sexually hostile workplace or educational environment. The jury answered no to both.

Recycling those allegations while giving the losing attorney space to attack the jury’s competence protects the institutional narrative from scrutiny. Allegations retain their authority. The verdict becomes an inconvenient opinion.

MIT et al. exercised the power that destroyed David’s career. Science should scrutinize their actions with the same aggression it directed at him. Institutional prestige is not evidence, and “independent investigation” is not a magic phrase that makes the verdict disappear.

[Enes Kanter FREEDOM @EnesFreedom]

🚨 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF AMERICA, THE MOMENT YOU’VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR!

The @WNBA has officially responded!

IS THE #WNBA TRANSPHOBIC?

Apparently, the WNBA still can’t define what a WOMAN is, but they’re absolutely certain they know what a MAN is!

How convenient!

WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert has declared that I am a man.

Who gave her the authority to decide who I am?

Who gets to define my identity?

And how can the WNBA determine who is a man without explaining what qualifies someone as a woman?

Is the WNBA denying people the right to define their own gender identity?

You can’t have it both ways!

America, read this letter for yourselves.

THE WNBA HAS SOME EXPLAINING TO DO!

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

These inconsistencies need to be called out. It is overwhelmingly extreme left activists committing political violence around the world and it is bananas that leftists continue to behave as if it is the other way around.

[Suit and tie @Suitandtie9999]

Serious questions need to be asked regarding a contract previously awarded to an organisation run by a sitting Labour MP’s wife.

OIA documents now confirm that Oranga Tamariki (OT) awarded a nearly $5 million, three-year contract to the Manukau Urban Māori Authority (MUMA), the organisation led by Tania Rangiheuea, wife of senior Labour MP Willie Jackson, without even receiving a business case.

OT treated a thank-you letter from Rangiheuea as the “business case” but the letter was thanking then CEO, Chappie Te Kani, for the offer of funding he had already made.

When asked under the OIA for any record of that offer, OT said it could not find one and refused the request under section 18(e) because the document does not exist or cannot be found.

It gets worse. OT’s own funding team was bypassed and the deal was agreed at CEO level, only afterwards did staff raise concerns about budget double counting and social worker rates that did not match existing contracts.

The budget was only “indicative” because MUMA had not even reviewed the files, it had no beds for half the youth and there was no competitive process.

The only performance “KPIs” listed are simply:
“Provide some recent examples of results being achieved with clients, in particular improving outcomes for tamariki Mãori and their whänau (eg changes in skills, knowledge, attitude, behaviour, or circumstances). If relevant, use a case study.” - there are no targets or measurable outcomes listed for a multi million dollar taxpayer funded contract.

This is a no-bid, high-value contract awarded to an organisation led by a Labour MP’s wife, with no locatable starting offer or business case, no proper funding review, soft narrative reporting, no targets, baselines, or verifiable outcomes and budget problems spotted only after the decision to award the contract had been made.

This is particularly concerning as both Chris Hipkins and Willie Jackson are now promoting significant devolution of services to Māori, which will mean even less oversight.

[i/o research @iointelresearch]

New from David's Reich's lab: "In the past ten millennia [in Europe], we find that many hundreds of alleles have been affected by strong directional selection," including those influencing human intelligence.

https://t.co/GRv4rBOnF4

[i/o @avidseries]

The goodthinky position in academia for decades, as expressed Marxist biologist and "antiracist" Stephen Jay Gould: "There’s been no biological change in humans in 40,000 or 50,000 years. Everything we call culture and civilization we’ve built with the same body and brain.”

[Pippa B 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🚜 ❤️ 🇺🇸 @pippaisright]

Mohammad the security guard stops the music on the London public piano (Allah says music is Haram)

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Please watch this

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

The newest painting in the Louvre. “The Girl with the Suicidal Empathy.” Oil on canvas. Go see it while the Louvre is still standing.