Israel is the most racist State on Earth, where the sub-human status of the outgroup is an accepted fact. No society is immune to atrocity. Every tribe commits heinous crimes of callous brutality. But nowhere else is this malignancy so normalised.
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1. Teach Them That Urgency Is a Warning Sign
Manipulation almost always comes with a clock.
"Decide now." "If you wait, it's too late." "Just say yes quickly."
Teach your child:
Composed by John Dowland, set by Mr. Willoughbye (in Clement Matchett's virginal book), performed on a muselaar built by Anne & Ian Tucker in 2002 after the Ruckers instrument on display at the Musical Instruments Museum (MIM) in Brussels.
Gerald Posnerโs course: How to Write a Nonfiction Bestseller, is available now.
In this course, @geraldposner walks through the research and writing behind his major works on subjects ranging from Nazi war criminals to organized crime, political assassinations, and powerful institutions. Using each book as a case study, he breaks down investigative techniques like tracking hard-to-access documents, building source relationships, and shaping complex material into clear narrative form.
Key lessons include choosing subjects driven by curiosity, maintaining objectivity under pressure, and persisting through resistance. Overall, the course shows how strong nonfiction is built: by following evidence, navigating complexity, and turning rigorous reporting into clear, responsible storytelling.
I am taking the General Medical Council to the High Court.
If you are a British barrister and you want to take this on, please get in touch.
The video below was recorded before the second IOT (24โ26 November 2025), which suspended my medical licence for 15 months.
Very sad news from Italy. Carlo Ginzburg the micro-historian died. He produced some of the most interesting work on supernatural belief systems. Here translation of obituary from Repubblica.
Carlo Ginzburg has died, aged 87: the great historian and theorist of โmicrohistoryโ. The son of Leone Ginzburg and the writer Natalia Ginzburg, he was famous throughout the world for his research on witchcraft and popular beliefs.
He was born in Turin in 1939. Professor emeritus at the Scuola Normale in Pisa, where he had studied, he had also taught from the 1970s onward at the University of Bologna and at the American universities of Harvard, Yale, Princeton and California, UCLA.
In the 1960s, while studying documents in the Archiepiscopal Archive of Udine, Ginzburg discovered a pagan cult widespread in Friuli in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Its members were a kind of shamanic healer, accused of heresy by the Inquisition, and known as the โbenandantiโ. This became the title of his first book, published in 1966, in which he traced the origins of this peasant cult back to older beliefs widespread in central Europe. The group of Friulian peasants who became the object of the historianโs research claimed that they fought in dreams against witches in order to ensure the fertility of the fields.
I benandanti, published by Einaudi, became an example of Ginzburgโs approach to microhistory: a research method that concentrates on particular cases which sometimes escape grand history, by combing through judicial records, correspondence, registers and diaries.
Another model of this approach is found in another of Ginzburgโs books, The Cheese and the Worms โ Il formaggio e i vermi, Einaudi, 1976 โ in which the historian tells the story of the miller Menocchio, a sixteenth-century miller tried by the Inquisition.
In another Einaudi book, Ecstasies โ Storia notturna, 1989 โ Ginzburg returned to the theme of the infernal sabbath and to the myths and beliefs connected with witchcraft, always beginning from specific documents such as trial testimonies.
Ginzburgโs method turns the historian into a kind of detective who works from an evidential paradigm. In 1991 The Judge and the Historian appeared, in which Ginzburg re-examined the papers from the trial concerning the murder of Commissioner Calabresi, focusing on the relationship between evidence and truth. The book was written in the wake of Adriano Sofriโs conviction, and advanced arguments intended to demonstrate his innocence. It was first published by Einaudi, then republished twenty years later by Quodlibet.
These are the books, mostly published in the second part of his life, in which Ginzburg concentrated on the history of political thought, questions of historical method, and the relationship between truth and falsehood. He wrote about the historianโs difficulty in maintaining the right distance from what he studies, without adhering to a single perspective, and about how similar difficulties can arise in many other contexts.
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Your Report Cyber Receipt - CIRS-202@#@$@$@
Subject: Formal Complaint โ Coordinated Cyber Bullying, Harassment, Identity Theft & Possible Impersonation of Commonwealth Agencies
Dear Sir/Madam,
I wish to lodge a formal complaint regarding serious and ongoing cyber bullying, harassment, and identity theft directed at me, my partner, and my minor son in connection with our regular live podcast.
Summary of incidents:
For several weeks we have been subjected to a sustained campaign of abuse in the live chat and via email. The comments are highly offensive, threatening, and appear designed to force us to stop broadcasting.
The attacks have escalated from targeting me personally to also targeting my partner.
We received an email that purported to come from ASIO (ending in https://t.co/taflz67tlu or similar). It occurred in the week prior to the current escalation. (Could be false of course, but then they are impersonating ASIO)
Separately, an individual claiming to be a former Australian Signals Directorate employee contacted us stating that the tactics being used (coordinated abuse, attempts to silence the show, and impersonation) are consistent with known government โtrollingโ operations.
Multiple other Australian podcasters have now reached out to me confirming they are facing the exact same pattern of harassment. This suggests a possible coordinated effort rather than random trolling.
Attachments: Screenshots of abusive comments
Copies of harassing emails (including the cloned sonโs name email)
Email headers where available
I request a formal investigation into: The identity theft of my sonโs name and email
The origin of the abusive emails and live-chat accounts (IP addresses, device information, etc.)
Possible impersonation of Australian government agencies (ASIO / Signals Directorate)
Whether this forms part of a wider coordinated campaign against Australian content creators
As law-abiding Australians exercising our right to free speech, we should not be subjected to this level of organised intimidation. I am available at any time for further information or to provide additional evidence.
I look forward to your prompt acknowledgment and advice on the next steps.
Thank you for your assistance in this serious matter.
Yours sincerely,
Michael Gray Griffith
@Victoria_Rixon Thing called the English Civil War. The exemption of parliamentarians from these laws is fundamental to the separation of powers and the supremacy of Parliament.
๐ฅ๐จDEVELOPING: This young man named Frankie Lowery is going viral for his cinematic voice yet again. He started trending on X after my post in May despite already having an Instagram audience, his views have been going up and he has been gaining a loyal fan base since.