Major victory in US Supreme Court but will it translate into action, and Columbia U occupation and more: Links 1 for April 23rd, 2024

1. Some good news, and news that is effectively a test of the overall effect actual laws have in the practical world

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The US Supreme Court’s ruling that a St. Louis police sergeant can sue over a job transfer she claims was discriminatory lays the foundation for legal action against employers who push discrimination against white people in job hiring, work assignment and promotion.

That’s right, those “diversity-preferred” job postings, the practice of passing over whites for promotions, discriminatory job transfers, pushing unfair diversity trainings, etc…all of these are now legally actionable.

The ruling was championed by human rights groups as “an enormous win for workers,” but has lawyers for companies like Disney warning that it could have a chilling effect on employers’ diversity initiatives. Disney’s “Pale and Male is Stale” policy is a prime example.

Disney has allegedly used it to drive out white animators by giving them the worst assignments, even though they them have the most experience, skill, and seniority, in order to make the job humiliating enough that they quit…which many of them have done.

The same companies argue that there is ‘good discrimination’ and “bad discrimination’, that white people should be purposely disadvantaged to pave the way for diversity. The lawyers stated that the decision will ‘complicate’ DEI programs and limit their ability to discriminate against white men.

The Supreme Court torpedoed these claims, re-asserting that everyone is equal in the eyes of the law. Further, the court has established a relatively ‘low standard’ for bringing discrimination cases. The victim need not suffer ‘actual harm’. An employee only must show “some harm” under the terms of their employment, AND that harm need not be “material,” “substantial” or “serious.”

The decision makes it much easier for workers to sue over discriminatory practices. This is a big win for equality!

From what we have all seen in the last 10 to 20 years, ways of creating the effect the revolutionaries want still dominate no matter what the law actually says, or even what the courts determine. Nothing demonstrates that better than Covid-regs which broke every fundamental law of individual rights in Western nations. At some point, the courts may decide that these things are in contrast to first principles as happened here. But in practice, it just takes a visit from ANTIFA or the FBI or whatever gang of thugs the state needs to enforce policies, the effects of which are what was desired all along.

An example of that would be Trudeau’s statement about the chants now permeating all the communist-Palestinian protests across Canada.

This should offend all of us for multiple reasons.

The first of which is that he caused the problem by importing all these Muslims, frankly very possibly to cause this exact problem, and if not this exact problem, to cause problems that would result in idiots on our side demanding the state take more power to regulate speech. This has to be understood in the broader contest of all the efforts Trudeau has taken to quell criticism of Islam as a doctrine. Not even of Muslims as people but to discuss the nature of Islam as a philosophy and an organizing principle of a people in a light contrary to the ethics of the West, while not a crime, has criminal like consequences. They will destroy you for “Islamophobia”. You will be on police watch lists. You may not be charged with a criminal offence, but your life will be negatively affected.

And if you read the thread under his ludicrous statement, you will see he has people on “our side” demanding the state take action. Which is exactly the position he wants to be in, whether he does anything about it or not.

Secondly, he will continue to import these people with these attitudes, and criticism of that will be suppressed by the state, exactly as is demanded by the UN Migration Compact. Which makes his statement tactical and with less than no actual meaning, but more of a kind of lubricant to make it easy to continue to enact the exact same policies that got us here, and to make them worse. He wants to destroy the Nation State, which he has said he thinks is a very old idea. He wants to use Islam as a way of dismantling Canada and its values and culture. And its going to work because he puts Canadians in a position where they actually ask him to do it.

2. Below is an excellent example of how what the law says, means about nothing in practical terms. A Jewish Prof. at Columbia University had his access card cancelled because he questioned whether or not Hamas is a terrorist group. Meaning he felt that it is.

The Police of course, appear to have no actual direction. So they will go with the revolution since that is now the path of least resistance.

More on this story later in a dedicated post.

3. Alex Berenson: The lawfare against Donald Trump hits new heights today

This morning, I reread New York state’s 34-count felony indictment of Donald Trump – and the indictment’s accompanying “statement of facts.” I wanted to be sure the case was as bizarre as I remembered.

It was worse.

Donald Trump’s first criminal trial officially began today with opening statements in a lower Manhattan courthouse. That dry statement is true, as far as it goes. But it does not begin to capture the miscarriage of justice unfolding before our eyes – or the profound consequences it will have, whatever its outcome.

Yet the elite media has gone along with the charade, just as it did in the insane New York state civil trial of Trump that ended two months ago. Reporters have covered both cases as if they were normal uses of prosecutorial power, rather than explaining what is really happening in them and how bleeding-edge aggressive are the legal theories underlying them.

In the civil case, this meant articles that referred endlessly to the “fraud” Trump had committed while rarely stating clearly that he fully repaid the loans made to him and that the banks that made them did not consider themselves defrauded.

But what is happening in the criminal case is worse, because Trump faces the real possibility of prison time if he is convicted.

The media frequently refers to the case as a “hush money” trial, because it involves $130,000 in payments that Michael Cohen, a one-time lawyer for Trump, made to the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels in 2016 after Daniels threatened to expose an affair she had with Trump.

Please read the rest at Berenson’s Substack. Also if there are any Americans who read this site, could you please leave a comment as to the meaning and purpose of the first two amendments on the bill of rights? Thank you.

4. PM Orbán’s warning to Europe: ‘World wars are never called world wars in the beginning

(Gotta say, a lot of people spent a great deal of time and money to get a world war going. They don’t happen on their own you know! So congrats I guess to all the men and women who for decades now, have been working three shifts to undermine every single attribute that has made civilization work, to make humanity more free, more prosperous, more healthy and maybe headed for the stars someday. Instead, we are headed back to an existence of lies we will be forced to repeat and accept, disease, toxins, and authoritarian dictatorships by people so remote, we wouldn’t know who to write an angry letter to if we were even allowed to own pen and paper.)

“This vortex of war could drag Europe down”

Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán has issued a new warning about rising tensions in Europe, saying that world wars are never called world wars in the beginning, noting that the First and Second World Wars were initiated by a series of smaller conflicts.

“Brussels is playing with fire. What it is doing is an act of temptation. World wars are never called world wars in the beginning. The Third Balkan War, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the partition of Poland, and the end was a world war twice over,” he warned.

Tensions are rising in Europe, Orbán said in a post on his Facebook page on Sunday, pointing out that the mood on the continent is one of war, and that politics is dominated by the logic of war.

“The NATO secretary-general wants to set up a NATO-Ukraine mission. European leaders have already fallen into war, they see this war as their own war and are fighting it as their own war,” he said.

“At first, it was only about sending helmets. Then sanctions, but not on energy producers! Then, yes, on those too. Then, came the arms shipments. First firearms, then tanks, then planes, and then financial aid. More and more, tens of billions. Now, we’re somewhere around a 100 billion — in euros. Money, supplies, weapons, but the situation is not getting better, it’s getting worse,” the prime minister said.

PLEASE read the rest at source. Its only a couple more paragraphs.

5. Mark Carney is putting himself in the spotlight all of a sudden. I wonder why. He appears to be, as we all knew he would, selling himself as a fiscal conservative when he himself in his book Values, explains his role models are Marx, Engles and Lenin.

Is it just me? Or does this sound like a campaign speech?

Thank you all for checking out this site.

So far I have listened to 26 minutes of this and while it certainly could be better condensed and less redundant, its interesting and informative and solid evidence of important but initially seemingly outlandish claims are given. If you have household chores to do, this is great in the background.