The problem, wrote [Bill Ackman, billionaire US fund manager], was a former lawyer in his family office, whom he called by the pseudonym Ronda. She had rejected three months of severance and instead demanded two years’ pay — about $2 million — citing an unsafe workplace.
How does Ronda deserve US$2million from Bill?
The firm that manages Ackman’s personal fortune … has had high turnover and growing expenses. So Ackman installed his nephew, whom he’d previously stationed at a British watchmaker he controls, to investigate.
The nephew made a comment at a lunch about a woman looking young for her age, Ackman wrote. This and other comments were noted by the in-house attorney, who Ackman gave the pseudonym Ronda. When Ronda was later laid off with others at TABLE, she said the nephew’s comments demonstrated an unsafe work environment, and asked for the bigger severance package, he wrote.
In Ackman’s telling, Ronda is in the wrong, since she handled human resources at the time of the incident and she reported to a woman herself. Ronda might think she could demand $2 million when she had worked at the company for just 2½ years because he has been tending to one of his three adult daughters who is recovering from a brain hemorrhage, he said.
“Ronda also knew that publicity about supposed gender discrimination and a ‘hostile and unsafe work environment’ are not things that a CEO of a company about to go public wants to have released into the media,” Ackman wrote, a reference to his plan to take public his firm, Pershing Square, in the coming months….
“It strikes a chord with people,” said [west coast anti-DEI activist Robby Starbuck] in an interview discussing his own response. The founder of a company had directly sent him the post, he said. “There is a system that preys more on white males, because it’s like they are outside the victim hierarchy.” …
He clearly touched a nerve among the capitalist class. Elon Musk responded with encouragement 62 minutes later. …
“Destroy them!” Joe Lonsdale, a founder of Palantir, responded to Ackman’s story.
“Agreed,” wrote Donald Trump Jr., with three “100” emojis. “This nonsense has to stop.”
Most of us have to work for our money, but inquiring minds want to know: why only $2 million? Why not $10 million? Obviously Ronda deserves never having to work another day in her life, poor thing.
Since October 2025, 4,499 refugees were resettled in the US, according to the Refugee Processing Center. All, except three from Afghanistan, were South African.
In the last full fiscal year of the Biden administration, which started in October 2023, 125,000 people were accepted from 85 countries.
Last year, Trump halted all refugee admissions, including for applicants from warzones, but allowed Afrikaners, a white minority group he said was persecuted, to seek resettlement. South Africa objected to his characterisation.
In announcing the change, Trump said it would help strengthen national security and public safety. …
Just over a year ago, South Africa’s ambassador in the US, Ebrahim Rasool, was expelled after accusing Trump of “mobilising a supremacism” and trying to “project white victimhood as a dog whistle”.
Then, in the Oval Office in May, Trump confronted his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, where he claimed that white farmers in South Africa were targets of persecution and “genocide”.
GB News’ Alex Armstrong laid out the geopolitical map that American media refuses to draw: this war isn’t about toppling Iran. It’s about 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 — and America is winning on every front.
Start with oil. The Strait of Hormuz carries 𝟒𝟓% 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚’𝐬 𝐨𝐢𝐥 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲. Trump effectively captured Venezuela’s oil supply in January. … China is in the middle of a tariff negotiation with Trump — and suddenly its entire energy supply depends on American goodwill.
Then Europe. With Russian energy off the table and domestic energy hollowed out by the “𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘻𝘦𝘳𝘰,” Europe is becoming 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐢𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐚𝐬. Armstrong: “𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦, 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘨𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘰.”
Armstrong connected the dots to what the Pentagon calls 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 — Greenland through the Panama Canal, the entire Western Hemisphere secured as a self-sufficient American economic and security zone. “𝘕𝘰 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘯𝘰 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥, 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦-𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢.”
The most striking part was his warning for Britain: “𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺. 𝘞𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 60% 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘥. 𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘺. 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥.” …
Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has claimed Iran as the “definitive victors” in the war against the US and Israel in a statement read on Iranian state TV.
Leftists so want Islam to win against America and Israel. Who better to articulate that longing than better than Michael Moore (by Anna Young at The New York Post):
Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore torched the US as the “bad guys” in the war with Iran — while hailing the Middle Eastern nation as one of the world’s “greatest civilizations” … calling President Trump a “terrorist” for threatening a “holocaust” after the commander in chief warned Iran that its “whole civilization” would be wiped out if the nation failed to cut a ceasefire deal to open the Strait of Hormuz and end the six-week conflict.
“Our leaders and our media are stupid enough to keep asking questions like ‘why do they hate us?’ Hate us?! They don’t hate US! WE HATE THEM!” Moore raged on his Substack. …
Moore then blasted the US as the “only nation sick and violent enough” to use nuclear weapons, while bizarrely praising Tehran for building a diverse global power, advancing human rights, and leading the world on multiple fronts.
“Iran is the cradle of one of the greatest civilizations this planet has ever seen,” the “Fahrenheit 9/11” filmmaker wrote. …
Moore called on the US military to disobey “illegal” and “immoral” orders, urged Congress to impeach War Secretary Pete Hegseth, and demanded the 25th Amendment be invoked to remove Trump from office.
One Visigothic nobleman, Pelayo, refused to submit and retreated into Cantabrian mountains and started the Spanish Reconquista. The Reconquista was completed only in 1492, nearly 800 years after the refusal by Pelayo to submit to Islam. In those 800 years, mountains of Spain sheltered the Spanish patriots.
Stories of all freedom movements reveal this basic fact: the fighters need a base that cannot be overrun by the enemy. There the fighters arm, rearm, relax, recuperate after battles, store arms, and families remain safe.
Daily I think about Pelayo as the war with Islam comes closer all over the kafir [non-Muslim] world.
Technological advances gave kafirs the past 200 years of military superiority and hence unprecedented prosperity. … But the technology which kafirs have developed and are developing is also reaching Islam in real time. Missiles, drones, radars, and all the means of communication in the Muslim world now match what the technological superpowers, America and Israel, have. …
We can be sure that there is no mountain now where Pelayo can have his base. Reconquista will no longer be possible. …
Islam, on the other hand, goes the full distance in abolishing the abstract rules of conduct. It abolishes in their entirety the moral laws which made civilisation possible. It says that the property of non-Muslims can and must be seized, non-Muslims can and must be killed if they do not convert or pay jizya and non-Muslim women can be seized, raped and sex-enslaved. Every Muslim individual is authorised to do these things to kafirs; he doesn’t have to involve any court or tribunal. A Muslim doesn’t even need to be in a formal war. Any time, in any city or village, when he can, he should kill the kafir, loot his property, and sex-enslave his women. In doing so, he is not only acting in accordance with the moral laws of Islam, he is worshipping Allah. And so Islam produces civilisational deserts. …
Islam has made sure that everything about it — jihad, contradictions in the Qur’an, verses of war in it, its treatment of its own women, etc. — gets discussed but never the only thing that matters: its abolition of the laws of morality, the laws that converted bands of hunter-gatherers into the creators of the great civilisations which we see today. Now it increasingly appears that this discussion perhaps will never happen.
The Western elite has now taken upon itself the duty to ensure that nothing that Muslims do not approve can be spoken, written, broadcast or taught about Islam. They now employ the superlative might of the West to enforce Sharia, the legal code of Islam, that reduces all non-Muslims to the level below the domestic animals of Muslims: mute, without any legal protection of their persons, their women and their property.
And before Islam dehumanises non-Muslims, it kills the humanity in Muslims. The things that the girls in Rupert Lowe’s rape gang inquiry are describing were done to them, no human being, even a rapist, does to another human being. Only soulless zombies are capable of inflicting those horrors on five-year-old girls. And Islam always creates those soulless zombies. …
Civilisation can be destroyed within a decade or two. France was guillotining the Muslim ringleaders of grooming gangs as late as in 1977, but now it denies the US overfly facility when the US is fighting Islam (Iran).
Islam will take over the great surveillance state the Western elite is creating. The AI powered digital ID, the CCTVs, systems to monitor calls and social media. No Pelayo will be possible. Not in cities, not in mountains. Western technology will make sure that the West is no longer capable of organising Reconquista against Islam.
It may seem inconceivable to a sane mind, but the murderers, looters, rapists, enslavers and sex-enslavers will actually inherit the earth. They will not be able to maintain the technology superstate, but they would not even want to. They will just run it like Afghanistan. The only commodity traded will be nine-year-old girls.
But that will come about over centuries. They will not behead or force-convert kafirs immediately. They will keep them enslaved, as payers of jizya and suppliers of five-year-old girls to middle aged Muslim men. George Orwell and Aldous Huxley had very limited imagination as compared to what the world will be under Islam in reality.
It doesn’t have to be this way, but the Western Left supports Islam. “Islamophobe” has overtaken “racist” as the criticism a leftist fears most. It matters not that Islam spread by conquest and is the biggest colonizer on the planet (two billion people and rising), but our left decries “colonists” and supports Islam over native Westerners. History means nothing to today’s ignorant left.
Professor Jonathan A. C. Brown, chair of Islamic Civilization at Georgetown, posted the dismissive remark twice on X in response to users discussing a link between Islam and an escalating crisis of rape gangs in the United Kingdom, archived versions of the now-deleted posts show.
One post by Independent Member of Parliament Rupert Lowe reads: “There is a link between the rape gangs and one particular religion — we have seen it again and again and again at our inquiry. That religion is Islam. As a country, we must have the courage to face up to that fact.” Brown responded to Lowe’s post with “get over it.” …
Brown’s justification of rape and other horrific events in the name of Islam date back even further. In 2017, the Daily Caller reported on Brown openly supporting Islamic supremacism and defending slavery and rape.
Commenters:
There is something absurdly evil about saying “get over it” in context with gang rape, torture and murder for religious reasons. Something like this would never be said about any other group for lesser crimes.
Back in 2020, the AEMO [Australian Energy Market Operator] cost estimate for most of the transmission line projects was just $8.5bn. Renewables looked to be low-cost and very profitable. Now the transmission lines will cost at least $120bn but, as explained below, are more likely to explode beyond $200bn.
Add another $160bn for the wind and solar generators and we have a $350bn-plus project that is being financed with high-cost loans, which could boost the total 35-year outlay above $1 trillion. Australia’s current debt is around $940bn. …
Snowy 2.0 is coming in at 20 times the original cost estimate and the wider project is similar….
Disaster:
The government could argue that the funding for renewables is not really borrowings because it will be met by the consumers of power over 35 years.
But that would send power costs through the roof and make Australia an uneconomic destination for most activities.
Those currently bemoaning the cost of living are now set for a continuation of the disaster for at least three decades.
The designers of the chaos appear to delight in running their thousands of kilometres of cables and thousands of towers — that are about the height of Sydney Harbour Bridge pylons — through our best agricultural land. …
Political parties changing positions:
Earlier this week the ALP moved to remove its emissions target from its national policy — the first sign that some in the ALP have woken up to the fact that Energy Minister Chris Bowen has created a financial nightmare.
To their great credit, the Liberals, Nationals and One Nation are all now opposed to putting towers on agricultural land.
One Nation goes one step further and states that where towers are being put on agricultural land, developers must put the required money aside to pull the towers down.
All that because our ruling class refuses to do any due diligence on the climate models, and only hires scientists who agree with the carbon dioxide theory. Well yes, but look how money some people made in the renewables rollout! And how it enhanced the political power of the globalists! Too bad about the trash littering the Australian landscape and the high energy prices — a small price to pay for what is really important.
Andrew Forrest’s high-flying gold play, Greatland Resources, has had its wings clipped by the mysterious and elusive night parrot.
The environmental watchdog in Western Australia has recommended strict conditions to protect the endangered parrot as Greatland seeks to build the Havieron underground gold and copper mine to complement its existing Telfer operations.
The conditions are based on three audio recordings of what might be the night parrot over what has been a five-year approval process. No one has seen a night parrot anywhere near the site, including environmental scientists hired by Greatland. …
It is now Australia’s third biggest gold miner with a market capitalisation around $10.2bn, behind Northern Star and Evolution Mining. …
In the case of the Telfer-Havieron envelope, EPA recommendations released on Wednesday include a ban on night-time haulage and other conditions to protect the parrot, including speed limits and “fauna spotters”.
Greatland may also have to re-route its haul road to avoid areas considered potential parrot habitat.
The EPA also recommends 300m buffer zones around anything that could be a night parrot roosting site, and similar measures to protect greater bilby burrows. …
An EPA report on Telfer-Havieron said the species was recorded on three occasions with “two confirmed calls at one location, and one unconfirmed call at a different location” based on information from consultants hired by Greatland. …
Gold, currently fourth, is on track to overtake LNG and coal to become Australia’s second most valuable export after iron ore.
Rio Tinto too:
Rio slashed its planned footprint for Winu – dubbed the “copper whopper” when discovered in 2017 – last year after shock evidence that one of the world’s rarest birds might reside in the area.
Audio monitoring carried out on behalf of Rio detected the call of what experts later identified as that of a lone night parrot in mid-2024. No one in the monitoring team saw the night parrot and no calls were picked up in the previous 2500 nights of monitoring.
So, our ruling class is happy to degrade Australia’s exports for a bird that may or may not exist, but it is completely different when it comes to their renewables and their mythological role in changing future weather. (Follow the money?)
Iran is waging the forever war. By Tim Black at spiked.
The obstacles to a lasting peace go far deeper than arguments over the terms of the ceasefire and Tehran’s ridiculous wishlist.
Their roots lie in the continued existence of the Islamic Republic itself, which is constitutionally committed to ‘ensuring the continuation of the [Islamic] revolution at home and abroad’. For it is this Islamist mission that has led the Iranian regime to wage a bloody, decades-long shadow war on Israel, using proxy armies and terror groups across the Middle East and beyond.
After all, this current war didn’t really begin on 28 February this year. It started in earnest on 7 October 2023, when Hamas — an Islamic Republic proxy — invaded what it calls the ‘Zionist entity’ and slaughtered and raped hundreds of Israeli Jews. The joint US-Israeli war in Iran is merely the latest and most explosive phase of a conflict that erupted two-and-a-half years ago. In fact, you could argue that the seeds of this conflict were sown with the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the birth of the Islamic Republic itself. For as long as the Islamic Republic persists, at least in its current form, achieving a lasting resolution to this conflict looks unlikely. …
Iran’s leaders may claim to have inflicted an ‘undeniable, historical and crushing defeat’ on the US and Israel – a claim echoed by the West’s anti-Trump media and degenerate bourgeois left. …
As it stands, survival is enough for this wretched, parasitic regime. The supreme leader and his Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps remain in power, and their vicious proxy armies, from Hamas and Hezbollah to the Houthis and various Iraqi Shia militias, are still active. For as long as this remains the case, then the Iranian threat to the Middle East’s security persists. The war may be paused, but the Islamist regime that’s driving it is still holding on.
This is one of the grim ironies of the US-Israeli military operation. When it was launched, Trump talked grandly of Iranians’ ‘hour of freedom being at hand’. Yet far from heralding the Iranian people’s liberation, the war has likely supercharged their repression. Reports suggest that the Iranian government has been busily using the cover of war to execute protesters and opponents.
The only hope for a more peaceful future lies with the Iranian people. For all the military power of America and Israel, only the Iranians themselves can take their country back from the Islamist thugs squatting over them.
The war will only end when Iran is liberated from Islam, or Islam conquers the US. Until then, there are only ceasefires.
Yes every white country at the same time exponentially increased how many violent third worlders they let in.
And yes these countries all at once started teaching children their ancestors were uniquely evil while portraying every nonwhite group as eternal victims who only ever contributed positively.
And yes they all simultaneously pushed the idea that any expression of white in-group preference or pride was inherently supremacist and dangerous.
And yes they all celebrated and funded every other ethnic group’s identity organizations and pride events.
And yes every major political party in these unrelated countries openly endorsed or quietly facilitated more nonwhite immigration.
And yes they all said it was out of moral progress or economic necessity or demographic inevitability.
And yes they all at the same time began labeling any politician or party that tried to slow or reverse the flow as far right or extremist or threat to democracy even when those parties were polling 40% among native voters.
And yes the intelligence agencies in these countries all started treating native critics of mass migration as bigger domestic terrorism threats than the actual imported gangs and jihadist networks.
And yes the banking system and payment processors all at the same time began deplatforming and financially crippling anyone who spoke too plainly about the pattern.
And yes legacy media coordinated identical smear campaigns against anyone who noticed.
And yes all at the same time fertility among the native white populations collapsed.
And yes this was encouraged through cultural messaging and economic pressure and delayed family formation and pharmaceutical and surgical interventions representing liberation while all the same countries imported replacement-level amounts of third worlders with higher birth rates.
And yes they were immediately fast tracked to citizenship.
And yes in all these countries at the same time welfare systems were reoriented to subsidize the invaders more generously than struggling native families which created observably tiered outcomes that were blamed on systemic racism when white people noticed.
And yes all of these countries at the same time experienced violent crime spikes and sexual predation scandals and fraud and welfare strain and cultural erosion.
And yes when that became impossible to hide every single one of these countries responded with more censorship and more gaslighting and more “diversity is our strength” slogans and more blaming the native population for not embracing the transformation fast enough and more acceleration of the policies that caused the problems.
And yes all these countries at the same time made it functionally illegal to dissent to this.
And yes they all deployed the same hate speech laws and online content bans and deplatforming pressure and extremism watchlists to silence natives who objected.
And yes in every country the native population was told to adapt and lower their standards and to accept erosion of their safety and traditions and future under the banner of tolerance and inclusion that always didn’t extend to their own group interests.
No:
But NO: despite this precisely repeating across every white country at the same time with no exceptions and no natural divergence you must accept this is all just a spontaneous and completely unrelated convergence of policy and culture across dozens of sovereign nations with no central directive or shared blueprint or common architects.
And NO it’s certainly nothing that can’t be reversed through ordinary electoral politics within the same system that enforced this entire transformation at every step.
There is no reason to ask who or why. It’s all a coincidence. We can vote our way out of this.
An advert in Denmark shows a White Danish couple hugging on the sofa
An “expert” shows up out of nowhere and tells them not to date each other because it’s basically “inbreeding” for whites to have babies with other whites
He says they should have kids with non-Whites instead
An advert in Denmark shows a White Danish couple hugging on the sofa
An “expert” shows up out of nowhere and tells them not to date each other because it’s basically “inbreeding” for whites to have babies with other whites
Ben Roberts-Smith, Australia’s most decorated living soldier, was arrested at Sydney Airport and charged with five counts of war-crime murder over the killing of unarmed Afghan civilians while deployed in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2012.
Ben Roberts-Smith, Australia’s most decorated living soldier, was arrested at Sydney Airport and charged with five counts of war-crime murder over the killing of unarmed Afghan civilians while deployed in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2012 https://t.co/Hmxo47kS9Npic.twitter.com/xbFmENELPU
He won a Victoria Cross, the equivalent of a Medal of Honor, for killing Taliban. Now, two decades later, he’s arrested for killing Taliban. …
Something is really bothering me about the Ben Roberts-Smith case. …
On one hand, this prosecution stinks of liberal bias.
Out of thousands of potential war crimes cases the social justice warrior police chief could have pursued, she picked THE most decorated soldier on the entire continent. That isn’t justice. That’s a public humiliation ritual.
On the other hand, I do believe actual war criminals should stand trial regardless of rank or honors. And I know what’s coming: “John, Roberts-Smith already lost the 2023 defamation case. Justice Besanko found he committed the murders.”
Yes. On the balance of probabilities. 51 percent. That’s the civil standard. Criminal conviction requires 99 percent.
The same fragile evidence that barely cleared a coin flip is now supposed to send a man to prison for life. …
The Roberts-Smith allegations are 20 years old. And here’s what the Brereton Inquiry, for all its 510 witnesses and four years of work, could never get:
No crime scene access. The Taliban didn’t let investigators into Uruzgan.
No Afghan witnesses interviewed.
No secured scene.
No blood-spatter analysis.
No DNA
No autopsies.
No recovered bodies.
No weapons tied to victims.
The investigators themselves admitted they “lacked access to Afghan crime scenes and were missing the physical evidence that would normally anchor a murder prosecution.”
So what’s left? Memory. Twenty-year-old memory from men in the fog of war.
The science is unambiguous. Countless research studies confirms memory is reconstructive: later suggestion, media exposure, and repeated questioning distort it. This is the textbook misinformation effect.
Confidence and accuracy decouple within months, let alone decades. Studies on soldiers who suffer PTSD show the gaps get even larger.
I admittedly don’t know 🇦🇺 law but US courts admit decades-old testimony but warn juries it is inherently fragile, not scientific proof. Australia is treating it as load-bearing concrete.
The media says “20 former soldiers testified against him.” Fine. Was all their testimony actually against him? How clear was it? Did 20 people watch him murder a civilian in broad daylight? And even if they did, you still have to prove the dead man wasn’t Taliban. In Uruzgan. In 2009. Without a body. …
And here’s the question nobody in Canberra wants asked: Why is the trigger-puller in the dock while the officers who wrote the rules of engagement, approved the missions, and signed the after-action reports keep their pensions?
The Victoria Cross winner hangs. The chain of command walks. Past “War crime” cases with more hard evidence remain “unsolved”.
That isn’t accountability. That’s a scapegoat ritual.
You do not get a Victoria Cross just for killing. You get it for extraordinary gallantry, valour, self-sacrifice & devotion to duty in the presence of the enemy.
And here is what Australia just told every soldier watching: the reward for a VC is fame which will make you a target for future show trials built on 20-year-old memories, prosecuted by a police chief with no combat but more ribbons on her uniform than you.
If murder can be proven without hard evidence decades later, that isn’t justice even if he is guilty. Proof of guilt matters.
That’s a Marxist humiliation ceremony leading to national strategic disarmament by lawfare.
Much hinges on the “definition” of civilian, and who gets to do the defining.
I’m old enough to remember how Morant and Handcock became folk heroes in Australia.
This time though, it isn’t the British who are going after Diggers, it is their own government.
Also of note, the incident involving Morant et al took place in 1901. The trial took place just a few months later in 1902. During the trial, Boer forces attacked Pietersburg where the trial took place. Morant and the others were released, issued arms, and helped defend the town against the attack. There were denied a plea of condonation and were returned to confinement. The trail was finished in Feb. 1902, with Morant and Handcock were executed 18 hours later.
What is this generation doing?
It is 2026. The accused, who happens to be the most decorated Australian living veteran, was arrested for accusations dating back 16 and more years ago.
This isn’t justice in any way shape or form. This is something else altogether.
If he were to be charged, it should have been a decade and a half ago, at the latest.
They’ve already bankrupted him last year with legal fees in a defamation trial where he has been asked to pay $30 million dollars (Australian) in legal fees.
Any decent Australian can only regard the arrest of a Victoria Cross recipient as a sad day for Australia on so many levels.
Yet somehow it brings a smirk to the faces of the worst of humanity — the most pathetic, contemptible, grossly snivelling leftists in our society. …
The bottom line is they’ve been brainwashed to hate Australia and hate our military — yet the very freedoms and prosperity they enjoy wouldn’t exist if it weren’t those things.
The DEI police chief who arrested Australia’s most decorated soldier for ‘war crimes’ has twice as many medals as Australia’s most decorated soldier.
Ben Roberts Smith represents the Ancien Regime. As a straight white Christian Anglo Australian war hero, he epitomises the oppressor class and is by definition a counter revolutionary and an ‘enemy of the people’ etc.
The arrest of Ben Roberts-Smith has already become much more than a criminal proceeding.
It’s a political, cultural and institutional test, and the speed with which public figures rushed into their preferred camps highlights this. …
Much of the country has already split behind two rival instincts that are now hardening almost beyond persuasion. Even Elon Musk weighed in on social media overnight. …
[Pauline Hanson] casts Roberts-Smith not as a defendant facing grave charges, but as a symbol of a broader betrayal — a decorated soldier cast aside by timid elites and agenda driven journalists. Even abandoned by the state itself and its institutions, once they took from him what they wanted. …
Greens senator David Shoebridge posted a screenshot of an article about the arrests, simply writing ‘Good’ alongside it.
$300 million was spent on the investigation of Roberts-Smith.
Color me skeptical. I’ve no doubt that Ben Roberts-Smith was sometimes uncouth and certainly not woke, and a rough man when required. But he was a very effective soldier — just the sort of man the woke lefties hate.
Look at the photos above. Who would you want on your team — him or her?
Let’s start at the beginning. On 12th February, 2009, two Australian commandos on a night operation were fired upon by an Afghan in the doorway of his mud hut. Not wanting to be killed by an Afghan with an AK-47, the commandos threw grenades through the door of the mud hut to kill the insurgent. The grenades also killed half a dozen members of the insurgent’s family. A year later the Director of Military Prosecutions, a Brigadier Lyn McDade, brought charges against the commandos for defending themselves. The charges were dismissed by more senior military staff with a better grip on reality. The episode revealed Brigadier McDade to be a self-absorbed, useless person.
In early 2016, the then head of Australian special operations suspended operations and invited everyone under his command to write to him personally, and advise him of any unacceptable behaviour they had witnessed or conducted. He received 209 letters that contained no evidence of criminal behaviour.
Then things deteriorated. In March, 2016 the then head of the army, now chief of defence General Angus Campbell, commissioned a secret report on SAS culture from a Canberra sociologist, Dr Samantha Crompvoets.
Dr Samantha Crompvoets (from “Does the ACT have Australia’s most parent-friendly company?”). Nice head tilt.
Members of the SAS, past and present, were encouraged to contact Dr Crompvoets anonymously and tell tales of what went on in the regiment. Some of the lurid tales were included in her report as fact. For example:
The inquiry has found that there is credible information that junior soldiers were required by the patrol commanders to shoot a prisoner, in order to achieve that solider’s first kill, in a practice that was known as ‘blooding’. ‘Throwdowns would be placed with the body, and a ‘cover story’ was created for the purposes of operational reporting and to deflect scrutiny. This was reinforced with a code of silence.’
As several thousand Australian troops have rotated through Afghanistan, you would expect at least several hundred of those to have undergone the ‘blooding’ initiation. But strangely the just-released Brereton report doesn’t cite a single, individual case.
Another SAS practice cited by the Crompvoets report and repeated in the Brereton report is that:
‘after squirters (runners) were dealt with, Special Forces would then cordon off a whole village, taking men and boys to guesthouses, which are typically on the edge of a village. There they would be tied up and tortured by Special Forces, sometimes for days. When the Special Forces left, the men and boys would be found dead: shot in the head or blindfolded and with throats slit.
That passage implies that there should be a lot of villages in which only the women and girls survived a visit from Australian special forces. Such atrocities of that magnitude should be easy to track down but oddly the Brereton report does not include a single instance. …
The soldiers Dr Crompvoets was interviewing knew what she was about. They gave her what she wanted to hear, like Margaret Mead in Samoa. Old army lags can be quite entertaining and would have competed with each other to make up the most far-fetched stories for her report.
The fact that General Campbell swallowed the Crompvoets tales and Major General Brereton repeated them as fact in his report tells us that both these men are complete idiots. Normally that would be enough to dismiss the Brereton report as useless garbage, but it does give us an insight into the preoccupations of Australia’s high command.
The report says that the warrior culture in the SAS is a bad thing and that soldiers should be more caring and sharing. …
The senior officers of the ADF are jealous of the SAS because the SAS get most of the medals for gallantry. The person they hate most is Ben Roberts-Smith, because he earned both the Victoria Cross and the Medal for Gallantry by conspicuous acts of bravery. Relations between the Army and Mr Roberts-Smith started deteriorating years ago. …
Neither General Campbell or his pet fantasist Major General Brereton have seen combat, while Mr Roberts-Smith has wiped out multiple enemy machine gun positions in an afternoon. I know who I would believe.
The Federal Police will be given the job of prosecuting the servicemen mentioned in the Brereton report, but the effort will go the way of the McDade prosecutions. They will be dropped for lack of evidence [not dropped, as it turns out] because mostly they are complete fabrications.
* Term from the Vietnam era: Rear Echelon Mother Fuckers
We are watching 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫-𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝟗𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬. No president has attempted to fundamentally restructure the nature of American government since FDR’s New Deal in the mid-1930s. Trump is doing it — and the left is losing its mind because it’s working.
The scoreboard is hard to argue with.
Trump closed the border — something critics said couldn’t be done.
Over 𝟔𝟕𝟓,𝟎𝟎𝟎 illegal aliens have been deported, more than 400,000 of them charged with or convicted of crimes, and an estimated 𝟐.𝟐 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 have self-deported (Department of Homeland Security).
He declared war on DEI and is winning.
He barred biological males from women’s sports with full public support.
Universities are now rushing to cut deals — agreeing to stop gouging the federal government on grant surcharges exceeding 40-50%, to follow Supreme Court rulings on race-based preferences, and to restore free speech on campus.
Abroad, Iran no longer poses an immediate nuclear threat.
H-z-b, H-m-s, and the Houthis are in disarray or severely degraded.
There’s progress on Ukraine.
And the economic doomsayers? Wrong across the board….
In term one, [Trump] was surrounded by people who thought they knew better — Rex Tillerson, Jim Mattis, Bill Barr, the anonymous op-ed writers — all either blocking or reinterpreting the MAGA agenda from within. This time, the team is aligned. And instead of treating progressive overreach as a set of individual policy disputes, Trump is going after 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟. That’s the part the left really can’t stomach.
PBS and NPR — defunded.
Cable and network news — facing court ramifications when they lie and defame.
Universities — hit with fines, endowment taxes, and scrutiny over a $𝟏.𝟕 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 student loan program, campus segregation in dorms and graduation ceremonies, and discriminatory hiring practices.
The Department of Education itself is being questioned.
And the foundational progressive assumption — that residency equals eventual citizenship — is being dismantled. If you came here illegally, you face deportation, even without a violent criminal record. …
The left holds power even when it doesn’t control a single branch of government. It does this through 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 — even though its actual constituency is only about 40% on most issues.
Trump is the first president to recognize that fighting the policies without dismantling the power structure that produces them is a losing game. …
𝐕𝐃𝐇: The Left’s anger is proof that the counter-revolution is working
Victor Davis Hanson opens with a claim that sounds hyperbolic until he backs it up: we are watching 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫-𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧… pic.twitter.com/6gXd3bnYF6
If Trump takes away enough of their nice government jobs, NGO funds, and easy government income (including fraud), “team left” will dissolve because it won’t be worth joining for the benefits. The parasites will have to dream up new schemes.
