‘…”Accused is guilty’: Campus rape tribunals punish without proof
A former Amherst College student is just the latest in a long line of men whose lives have been turned upside-down after being accused of sexual assault in what they say were consensual encounters, punished in campus tribunals where, in some cases, critics say, they’re guilty even after proving their innocence.
The former student, whose name has not been made public, was expelled after his alleged victim, the roommate of his girlfriend, complained some 21 months after the incident and despite what evidence appears to show was consensual sex. As in many campus procedures which enforce school sanctions and not criminal law, only a finding that he was “more likely than not” guilty was necessary….’

‘The university accused of forcing a Nobel Prize winning scientist to resign over sexist comments is at the centre of a new row over freedom of expression.
University College London (UCL) already stands accused of being heavy-handed and pandering to a ‘baying witch-hunt’ on social media in its handling of the resignation of Sir Tim Hunt as a professor in its life sciences department, following remarks he made about women scientists.
Now further allegations have emerged after UCL shut down an exhibition highlighting the problems of sexual harassment and sexual violence suffered by its female students….
Perhaps we’re getting to the point where pandering to the various “victim” groups will collapse under it’s own pile of conflicting absurdities.

‘Man kills three after ploughing car into shoppers before getting out and stabbing bystanders
A man has killed at least three people and injured 34 in a murderous rampage after driving his car at 90mph straight into crowds of lunchtime shoppers in Austria before getting out and stabbing passers-by.

…..The attacker, who police say is Austrian of Bosnian descent
….Police said they had ruled out the possibility that it was an act of terrorism
….Josef Klamminger, National Police Director, said they could “absolutely rule out an extremist, religious or political background” to the attack, saying it was the act of a “lone wolf”.
…The provincial governor Hermann Schützenhöfer denounced the attack as a “heinous act” for which such there is “neither an explanation nor an excuse”.
“We have much to do to ensure cohesion in our community, which has clearly become difficult for many people,” he said…’

Latin made simple.

The Essential Hayek by Donald J. Boudreaux
Available as free pdf download HERE
With a forward by Václav Klaus:
‘….Hayek turned our attention to the slippery road that descends from a limited, and at first sight almost “innocent” government interventionism, to an illiberal and unfree system. Liberty was for Hayek the essential value of Western civilization without which other values cannot be realized…’

‘Meanwhile, in the Guardian:
[Arts Council] grants aren’t won down the pub by a dart competition where the bullseye’s a picture of the taxpayer’s face. Of course, I wish they were, because that would save the hours of work it takes to write a grant application. And I’m pretty good at darts.
So writes Zoë Coombs Marr, a writer, comedian and “theatre maker,” and a woman of profound humility, in a piece complaining about the “devastating effects” of modest alterations in taxpayer subsidy for Australia’s commercially unviable artists. Artists who, while unloved by the general public, are nonetheless deserving of money they haven’t earned. “I’m here to bust a few myths,” says Ms Marr. And so begins a sorrowful tale of how bloody hard it is to be an artist whose work is of little interest to the public, and how hard it is to screw other people’s earnings out of other people:…..’          David Thompson

‘How our touchy-feely feminised society creates young male killers’

‘Pope Francis has blamed the rich and powerful for placing the planet in unprecedented danger as he demanded urgent and concerted global action against climate change.
The Earth is rapidly being turned into “an immense pile of filth” by unbridled greed, he warned in a critique of the “sin” of environmental destruction.
In a landmark papal encyclical, addressed to “every person living on this planet”, he said there was a “solid scientific consensus” that mankind was at least mostly responsible for global warming.
The document, which will become part of the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, demanded the phasing out of fossil fuels and urged the world to find a way to pay for the transition to green energy, with the rich shouldering the burden.
…The encyclical was applauded by environmentalists, aid agencies, religious leaders and politicians led by Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary General…’
It looks to me like the U.N. and the New World Order gang have installed their own man in the Vatican.
Hopefully, the majority of decent Catholics will utterly repudiate this evil man and his bullshit encyclical.

UPDATE:      “There is something manic in this railing:”

‘TB Cover-Up? Over 80% of Western Cases Are Among Migrants
Austria’s government is continuing to cover up the names of schools suffering outbreaks of Tuberculosis (TB) in the name of community cohesion, even as a 14-year-old immigrant girl living in Tyrol is revealed to have been killed by the preventable disease…’
and
‘Invasion: Europe Facing Unprecedented Migrant Wave As 185,000 Land In Just Three Months..’

And that the NZ Herald would give space to this illogical drivel almost beggars belief.
‘Should the right to vote come with a maximum age limit?’