1 ADELAIDE INSTITUTE PO Box 3300 Norwood SA 5067 Online Australia ISSN 1440-9828 Mob: 61+401692057 Email: [email protected]Web: http://www.adelaideinstitute.org September 2019 No 1067 _______________________________________________________________ ********SPRING HAS SPRUNG******** The Solitary Reaper - William Wordsworth Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No Nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands: A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. Will no one tell me what she sings?— Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again? Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song could have no ending; I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending;— I listen'd, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. ------------------------------------------------------- William Wordsworth, 7 April 1770-23 April 1850, who rallied for "common speech" within poems and argued against the poetic biases of the period, wrote some of the most influential poetry in Western literature, including his most famous work, The Prelude, which is often considered to be the crowning achievement of English romanticism. * https://poets.org/poem/solitary-reaper ________________________________________________ Innate = racism: German scientists want to banish the word 'race' on political grounds UBER = like the Cukoo Bird: trickery, mimicry - thief - liar – killer - ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ UBER = Uber Technologies, Inc. is an American multinational transportation network company offering services that include peer-to-peer ridesharing, ride service hailing, food delivery, and a bicycle-sharing system. The company is based in San Francisco and has operations in over 785 metropolitan areas worldwide. ***************** CUCKOO BIRD: KILLER - THIEF – LIAR – TRICKERY – MIMICRY: The common cuckoo does not make a nest of its own, and they do not bring up their own young. Instead, the female lays her eggs in the nests of other birds. Each female cuckoo specialises in just one host species, and lays camouflaged eggs in that bird's nest. … Within a species the calls are remarkably consistent across the range, even in species with very large ranges. This suggests, along with the fact that many species are not raised by their true parents, that the calls of cuckoos are innate and not learnt. ******** ÜBER ALLES = Above All = First me/family/nation = Australia First/ America First ******** DEUTSCHLAND, DEUTSCHLAND ÜBER ALLES, ÜBER ALLES IN DER WELT Germany, Germany above all, above all in the world - FAMILY – PATRIOTISM – NATIONALISM *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIff7EB7pvc ___________________________________________________
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The Solitary Reaper - William Wordsworth Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound.
No Nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of travellers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands:
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard
In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides.
Will no one tell me what she sings?— Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago:
Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day?
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again?
Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang As if her song could have no ending;
I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending;—
I listen'd, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
------------------------------------------------------- William Wordsworth, 7 April 1770-23 April 1850, who rallied for "common speech" within poems and argued against the poetic biases of the period, wrote some of the most influential poetry in Western literature, including his most famous work, The Prelude, which is often considered to be the crowning achievement of English romanticism.
* https://poets.org/poem/solitary-reaper
________________________________________________ Innate = racism: German scientists want to banish the word 'race' on political grounds
UBER = like the Cukoo Bird: trickery, mimicry - thief - liar – killer -
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ UBER = Uber Technologies, Inc. is an American multinational transportation network company offering services that include peer-to-peer ridesharing, ride service hailing, food delivery, and a bicycle-sharing system. The company is based in San Francisco and has operations in over 785 metropolitan areas
worldwide.
***************** CUCKOO BIRD: KILLER - THIEF – LIAR – TRICKERY – MIMICRY: The common cuckoo does not make a nest of its own, and they do not bring up their own young. Instead, the female lays her eggs in the nests of other birds. Each female cuckoo specialises in just one host species, and lays camouflaged eggs in that bird's nest. … Within a species the calls are remarkably consistent across the range, even in species with very large ranges. This suggests, along with the fact that many species are not raised by their true parents, that the calls of
cuckoos are innate and not learnt. ********
ÜBER ALLES = Above All = First me/family/nation = Australia First/ America First ********
DEUTSCHLAND, DEUTSCHLAND ÜBER ALLES, ÜBER ALLES IN DER WELT Germany, Germany above all, above all in the world -
FAMILY – PATRIOTISM – NATIONALISM *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIff7EB7pvc
The lack of response by white Americans to their demonization as they decline as a percent of the population demonstrates their lack of concern with their fate.
By Dr Paul Craig Roberts
It seems as if the West is dead in every way. The rule of law is dead throughout the West. Democracy is a scam. There is oligarchic rule. Everything is done for organized interest groups. Nothing is done for the people. Putin just declared: “West’s leading role is ending.” How right
he is.
The Brookings Institution is not a racist white supremacist outfit. It is a neoliberal/neoconservative “think tank.” One of its members, William H. Frey, has authored a report, “Less than Half of US Children Under 15 Are White, Census Shows,” based on the recently released 2018 US Census Bureau report. The information
in Frey’s article is fascinating. It shows a disappearing white population.
The number of white children, that is, the group of the next generation of parents, is not only declining relative to the populations of non-whites but also absolutely. During 2010-2018 the number of white children shrank
by 2.2 million. Overall, the white population of America has declined from 80 percent of the US population in
1980 to 60 percent in 2018.
The American middle class, which is largely white, bears the brunt of income taxation which means that white Americans bear the brunt of the cost of the welfare support systems. The white middle class also bears the
brunt through property taxes of the public school systems. Many middle class members pay again in private school tuition for the education of their children in safer and more ordered environments. The cost of university education is exorbitant. All of these costs are rising faster than middle class incomes, and this limits white procreation.
The decline of people of European descent as a percentage of the US population can only accelerate as the child-bearing ability of the white population
evaporates. The median age of Americans of European descent is 43.6 years. The median age of Hispanics is 29.5 years, and the median age of multiracial residents
of the US is 20.7 years. Over the past seven years, Americans of European descent experienced an excess of deaths over births.
Frey concludes his article:
“These demographic trends make plain that, as racially diverse younger generations become part of the labor force, tax base, and consumer base, the nation will need
to balance these groups’ distinct interests and needs in areas such as education, family services, and affordable housing with the health and social support requirements
of a large and faster growing older population that will be entering its post retirement years. Indeed, the youthful
‘minority white’ tipping point shown in the new census statistics needs to be duly noted. It has important implications for America’s future.”
This is the question that Frey quietly raises: “In Identity Politics America, where white people are demonized as victimizers and everyone else receives sympathy as their victims, where the Mexican-American head of New York
City public schools has announced his campaign to remove ‘toxic white values’ from the school curriculum, where the New York Times has committed to ‘reframing’ the United States as a racist white slave state, will the new majority composed of white people’s victims consent to giving up resources to provide Social Security and Medicare for people they have been brought up to
believe victimized them?”
The chances of such support are further negated by the diminishing numbers of the white voting population and by the decline of the US economy that is forcing the US
labor force into lowly paid domestic service jobs which are themselves threatened by robotics. Will a non-
European population struggling to make ends meet accept the taxation necessary for Social Security and Medicare for a demonized group of the population that they have been taught to hate? Identity Politics does not permit social cohesion.
Decades of unbroken massive inflows of third world immigrants have destroyed the “melting pot” and
produced in its place a tower of babel. Multicultural populations lack a common interest. They are the antithesis of a nation. Everywhere in the Western world the nations are expiring.
In 1973 John Raspail predicted the fate of European peoples in his novel, The Camp of the Saints. White
people are now living his novel.
It will be interesting to see if the growing Hispanic population displaces the shrinking white population as the group against which blacks will make claims for slavery reparations. Hispanics consist in part of Spanish and Portuguese ancestry, and the Spanish and Portuguese were colonial powers in the New World who
enslaved people. In a world of Identity Politics, will Hispanics replace white people as the victimizer?
It will also be interesting to see if the Israel lobby can put the same ring through the nose of the rising Hispanic/Asian majority as they have through the nose of the declining white majority. Can Hispanics and Asians be made to feel guilty about the holocaust and
persecution of Jews? Can their leaders, like white leaders, be bought into Israel’s service?
Or will people accustomed to the privilege of victim status themselves have the confidence to reject that they owe obligations to other victims?
Dr Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. The article was first published by the author’s website -- https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/. Dr. Roberts has granted permission to Press TV to republish his articles. (The views expressed in this article do not necessarily
reflect those of Press TV.) *https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/09/07/605570/The-end-of-white-America-and-Israel-lobby
The Takeover By Whitney Webb - September 06th, 2019
How an insider job is planned – it began with New
Zealand Prime Minister Adern who advocates not
mentioning the perpetrator’s name – keeping it secret -
Was used to initiate such a program of silence the other
western democratic head of states.
How the CIA, Mossad
and “the Epstein
Network” are
Exploiting Mass
Shootings to Create an
Orwellian Nightmare.
Feature photo | Graphic by Claudio Cabrera
Following another catastrophic mass shooting or crisis event, Orwellian “solutions” are set to be foisted on a frightened American public by the very network connected, not only to Jeffrey Epstein, but to a litany of crimes and a frightening history of plans to crush internal dissent in the United States.
Following the arrest and subsequent death in prison
of alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a
little-known Israeli tech company began to receive
increased publicity, but for all the wrong reasons.
Not long after Epstein’s arrest, and his relationships
and finances came under scrutiny, it was revealed
that the Israeli company Carbyne911 had received
substantial funding from Jeffrey Epstein as well as
Epstein’s close associate and former Prime Minister
of Israel Ehud Barak, and Silicon Valley venture
capitalist and prominent Trump backer Peter Thiel.
Carbyne911, or simply Carbyne, develops call-
handling and identification capabilities for
emergency response services in countries around
the world, including the United States, where it has
already been implemented in several U.S. counties
and has partnered with major U.S. tech companies
like Google. It specifically markets its product as a
way of mitigating mass shootings in the United
States without having to change existing U.S. gun
laws.
Yet, Carbyne is no ordinary tech company, as it is
deeply connected to the elite Israeli military
intelligence division, Unit 8200, whose “alumni”
often go on to create tech companies — Carbyne
among them — that frequently maintain their ties
to Israeli intelligence and, according to Israeli
media reports and former employees, often “blur
the line” between their service to Israel’s
defense/intelligence apparatus and their
commercial activity. As this report will reveal,
Carbyne is but one of several Israeli tech
companies marketing themselves as a technological
solution to mass shootings that has direct ties to
Israeli intelligence agencies.
In each case, these companies’ products are built
in such a way that they can easily be used to
illegally surveil the governments, institutions and
civilians that use them, a troubling fact given Unit
8200’s documented prowess in surveillance as a
means of obtaining blackmail and Israel’s history of
using tech companies to aggressively spy on the
U.S. government. This is further compounded by
the fact that Unit 8200-linked tech companies have
previously received U.S. government contracts to
place “backdoors” into the U.S.’ entire
telecommunications system as well as into the
popular products of major American tech
companies including Google, Microsoft and
Facebook, many of whose key managers and
executives are now former Unit 8200 officers.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has
made it no secret that placing Unit 8200 members
in top positions in multinational tech companies is a
“deliberate policy” meant to ensure Israel’s role as
the dominant global “cyber power”, while also
combating non-violent boycott movements
targeting Israel’s violations of international law and
stifling the United Nations’ criticisms of Israeli
government policy and military operations abroad.
As Jeffrey Epstein’s links to intelligence in both the
United States and Israel — the subject of a recent
four-part series exclusive to MintPress — began to
be revealed in full, his financing of Carbyne came
under scrutiny, particularly for the company’s deep
ties to Israeli intelligence as well as to certain
Americans with known connections to U.S.
intelligence. Ehud Barak’s own role as both
financier and chairman of Carbyne has also added
to that concern, given his long history of
involvement in covert intelligence operations for
Israel and his long-standing ties to Israeli military
intelligence.
Another funder of Carbyne, Peter Thiel, has his own
company that, like Carbyne, is set to profit from
the Trump administration’s proposed hi-tech
solutions to mass shootings. Indeed, after the
recent shooting in El Paso, Texas, President Trump
— who received political donations from and has
been advised by Thiel following his election —
asked tech companies to “detect mass shooters
before they strike,” a service already perfected by
Thiel’s company Palantir, which has developed
“pre-crime software” already in use throughout the
country. Palantir is also a contractor for the U.S.
intelligence community and also has a branch
based in Israel.
Perhaps most disturbing of all, whatever
technological solution is adopted by the Trump
administration, it is set to use a controversial
database first developed as part of a secretive U.S.
government program that involved notorious Iran-
Contra figures like Oliver North as a means of
tracking and flagging potential American dissidents
to “mental health” issues in the form of a “brain-
machine interface” as part of its N3 program. That
program, according to reports, involves
“noninvasive and ‘minutely’ invasive neural
interfaces to both read and write into the brain,”
help distance soldiers “from the emotional guilt of
warfare” by “clouding their perception” and “to
program artificial memories of fear, desire, and
experiences directly into the brain.” Though N3 is
intended to improve the prowess of American
soldiers, it is also set to be used as a means of
pursuing DARPA’s Systems-Based Neurotechnology
for Emerging Therapies (SUBNETS) project, which
aims to “to develop a tiny, implanted chip in the
skull to treat psychiatric disorders such as anxiety,
PTSD and major depression.”
Given that HARPA’s lead scientific adviser is Dr. Geoffrey Ling, former director and founder of DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office (BTO), which “merges biology,
engineering, and computer science to harness the power of natural systems for national security,” it seems likely that DARPA’s neurological-focused research programs,
like SUBNETS and N3, would be folded into HARPA’s portfolio, making the proposed agency’s approach to mental health very questionable indeed.
Aside from the dystopian nature of both DARPA and potentially HARPA’s approach to mental health, there is grave cause for concern regarding the Trump administration’s moves to address U.S. mass shooting
events by implementing pre-crime technology based on artificial intelligence, data-mining and mass surveillance,
technologies already laying in wait thanks to companies like Palantir and numerous Israeli tech start-ups led by
former Unit 8200 officers.
With companies like Carbyne — with its ties to both the Trump administration and to Israeli intelligence — and
the Mossad-linked Gabriel also marketing themselves as “technological” solutions to mass shootings while also doubling as covert tools for mass data collection and extraction, the end result is a massive surveillance
system so complete and so dystopian that even George Orwell himself could not have predicted it.
Following another catastrophic mass shooting or crisis event, aggressive efforts will likely follow to foist these “solutions” on a frightened American public by the very network connected, not only to Jeffrey Epstein, but to a litany of crimes and a frightening history of plans to
crush internal dissent and would-be dissenters in the United States.
Whitney Webb is a MintPress News journalist based in
Chile. She has contributed to several independent media outlets including Global Research, EcoWatch, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She has made several radio and television appearances and is the 2019 winner of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism.
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Pell’s supporters Edition No. 267 August 24 – 30, 2019
As the Victorian Court of Appeal affirms the cardinal’s guilt, he retains dogged support from many in the conservative establishment. By Richard Cooke.
In an age when even amateur broadcasters can attain professional production values, few telecasts still look as
spartan as a real-life court proceeding. In prelude, the live feed from the Victorian Supreme Court presented only three empty seats, a state seal and a test soundtrack of tinkling piano music. As the judges filled those seats, the court website became inundated with viewers and crashed. Once restored, the video sometimes chopped or slowed under the weight of this
absent audience. Chief Justice Anne Ferguson’s delivery of the summary was halting as well – The Saturday Paper’s legal correspondent, Richard Ackland, tweeted that she brought “all the drama of a dead wombat to reading a summary of one of the most important criminal judgments of the year” – but this dour diction was, in its
way, more compelling than a mannered performance might have been. The ruling Ferguson delivered was brief, clear and surprising – George Pell’s appeal on child sexual assault charges had failed.
“It is fair to say that his case has divided the community,” said Ferguson, and so it divided the court. There were three grounds of appeal. One was that the
defence had been unable to submit an animation, since nicknamed “the Pac-Man video”, purporting to show that
the offending inside St Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne,
was impossible. This was dismissed unanimously.
So, too, was concern that Pell’s not guilty plea had been entered via video link only, and not in the presence of
the jury. But on the most important question, of whether an “unsafe verdict” had been delivered, there was dissent. Justice Weinberg felt the evidence of the complainant, upon which the case hinged, was not satisfactory enough to preclude reasonable doubt. His colleagues disagreed. They found “A”, as he was called in the summary, was “not a liar, was not a fantasist and
was a witness of the truth”. It was reasonable for the jury to believe him.
The microphones recorded only silence from the gallery, and it was possible to forget the rest of those present: the press and lawyers, the survivors and supporters, and Cardinal Pell himself – he is not yet Mr Pell – who had
arrived to court in a prison van, and would leave by the same means. Depending on their vantage point, court reporters said Pell “barely reacted” to the ruling, was “gripping the dock with his left hand and looking down at the floor”, looked “destroyed” or merely pursed his lips. Abuse survivors thanked the Lord for a decision many thought even more consequential than the cardinal’s
earlier guilty verdict.
Media and legal circles had tipped a different result, partly because of matters of law, and partly because of a cruder calculus – that elite power is so seldom brought to lasting accountability. There might yet be another appeal to the High Court by special leave, but “A”, or Witness J as he is better known, has already run an unusually long
and vigorous gauntlet. He waited many years to speak to police, only doing so when the other choirboy abused by
Pell died of a heroin overdose. It was at his former schoolfriend’s funeral that he decided to seek justice. As other cases prepared against Pell fell away, it was his
that proceeded to trial. The first jury was unable to deliver a verdict. The second believed his version of events over the cardinal’s. Now two Supreme Court justices have made the same determination.
Ferguson stressed the court’s decision was not a mere matter of law: it was a matter of fact. The judges had consulted the same evidence as the jury, so they could decide whether those 12 citizens were in a position to render a safe verdict. The Court of Appeal had reviewed many hours of video testimony and cross-examination and visited the sacristy and the corridor where the
offending took place. In particular, they closely examined vestments identical to the ones Pell was wearing on the date of the crimes. These items of clothing had also been available to the jury, and the defence had imbued them
with almost otherworldly qualities, pretending they were impervious to shifting or parting by human hands once
donned. Not surprisingly, both the jury and judges discovered that these garments were entirely ordinary, not de facto chastity belts.
But the defence was only doing what it could, and after the verdict was upheld, Witness J had a statement delivered, via a representative, in which he was magnanimous. Few witnesses cross-examined by a silk
who costs $20,000 a day are thankful for the experience. Witness J is an exception. “I am glad he has had the best legal representation that money can buy,” the statement said of Pell’s team. “There are a lot of checks and balances in the criminal justice system and the appeals process is one of them.” Witness J also reserved some misgivings for “commentators” and “punditries”. His
words for Pell’s defenders outside the courtroom could have been unkinder still. Some lay Catholics will not believe the verdict, but some lay Catholics once decided a Coogee fence post contained a divine presence: the ordinary faithful should not be judged too harshly. Those “commentators” are less deserving of mercy.
Australia’s conservative organs have almost all embraced a mythology, by turns unhinged and incoherent, that seeks to turn Pell from an offender into a martyr. Before the summary was even publicly available, columnists were filing stories that decried a miscarriage of justice. This followed a pattern established long before the guilty verdict. In The Australian, John Ferguson indulged his
talent for melodrama by suggesting Anne Ferguson had delivered a “death sentence”. Did Pell’s condemners not
know the door of the sacristy was unlocked? The appeal judges noted that other similar cases of abuses had occurred in places that carried a high risk of discovery. Did they not know the robes were heavy? The judges had, of course, tried them on. Did they not know Pell had
never been accused before? In fact, accusations have followed him his whole career – the church itself had already conducted a 2002 investigation into groping claims.
Still they harped on about the cardinal’s role in the Melbourne Response, a “world-first innovation” in the
Catholic Church’s response to child abuse. Pell was establishing it at almost the exact time he was raping choirboys. Was it really conceivable he should be leading the charge against child abuse, and committing it at the
same time? Well, yes. Among survivor groups, the Response quickly became notorious for its mean-
spiritedness and tight-fistedness. It spent substantially more on lawyers than it did on compensation. While fighting a claim made by an abused altar boy, John Ellis,
the church made a novel and successful legal argument to limit payouts – as a legal entity it does not exist, and so cannot be sued. The Melbourne Response was not a good-faith effort to deal with child abuse in the church: it
simulated action, while stymieing it at the same time. It also gave an abuser a smokescreen.
It was the same institutions that turned the conservative
establishment Catholic and incubated an unparalleled
epidemic of child sexual abuse. As power grew, so did
abuse, abetted by a deference to authority and the rites
of tradition.
In the world of Pell’s defenders, it is not the church that has conducted biased investigations, but the police. And the venom ordinarily aimed at offenders is instead
directed at the journalists who reported on them. A
conspiracy theory combines the two. After the appeal, an anonymous poster on the libertarian blog Catallaxy Files wrote that “the degree of joint enterprise by Victoria Police and the ABC is not known at this time”, calling them “conjoined twins”. The theory goes that the police, exhibiting a previously unexhibited anti-Catholic animus,
trawled for victims, and then the ABC, through 7.30 reporter Louise Milligan, brain-poisoned the jury. No proof or evidence of this “enterprise” is offered or required: the conviction of the cardinal is by itself proof positive. Even this theory is more reality-based than that favoured by Quadrant, though, where Keith Windschuttle is blaming the whole episode on American-based
reporting by Rolling Stone magazine.
There is a temptation to write off such sentiments as
skunk spray emitted in self-defence, but these are not isolated ideologues. A more finessed version of the same – “What we have witnessed is a combined effort by much of the media, including Australia’s public broadcaster, and elements of Victoria’s law enforcement agency, to
systematically blacken the name of someone before he went to trial” – has been offered by the vice-chancellor of the Australian Catholic University, Greg Craven. Craven instructed his staff not to comment on the trial until all avenues of appeal had been exhausted, then provided a personal character reference for Pell and authored a
post-conviction column in The Catholic Weekly headlined “Poisoning the well of justice”. The Pell Centre at the ACU’s Ballarat campus retains its name, and the staff muzzle remains in place.
Like many of his ilk, Craven cannot restrict himself to a single epithet when referencing Milligan’s book, Cardinal. It is a “hopelessly biased, ill-written, ungrammatical and
poorly proof-read volume”. In the time since the book was commissioned by Melbourne University Press, the university’s chancellor, Allan Myers, QC, derided MUP’s tendency to publish “airport trash”, opening a rift with the MUP board that saw four of its directors resign in January. Myers had previously represented Pell as counsel.
Even by the low and gendered standards of Australian public life, the attacks on Milligan, the only journalist to meet and interview Witness J, have been extraordinary. The book resulted in Milligan herself being cross-examined for six-and-a-half hours, during which Pell’s
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counsel, Robert Richter, suggested she had flirted with an accuser during an interview. “I think it is an
absolutely sexist assertion,” she responded.
“Without a doubt this is the toughest story I have ever done,” Milligan later told the ABC. “This is a person who
had immense political and cultural power so taking that on is enormous and very, very stressful… Being at the centre of this storm, it doesn’t get any harder than that as a journalist.” Echoing this duress, the reporter who
broke the story of the Pell police investigation in the Herald Sun, Lucie Morris-Marr, said the effort had “nearly destroyed” her, and that she had been through “hell”. Andrew Bolt, her own paper’s columnist, tried to undermine her scoop by falsely claiming it had originated with a police leak, a “leak” that was subsequently referred to an anti-corruption investigation. Morris-Marr
made an internal complaint about the Bolt column and claims News Corp responded by pushing her out. Just months after she produced a world-first exclusive, Morris-Marr was told there was “no money” left for her
contract.
Pell himself was a columnist for The Sunday Telegraph,
and a friend of News’s proprietor, Rupert Murdoch. There have been suggestions this close relationship may have prompted Bolt’s about-face on the cardinal, which had once been far more critical. When Pell gave evidence about the Ballarat paedophile Gerald Ridsdale to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Bolt wrote that the testimony would “stain
his reputation forever” and that Pell would be remembered as “the priest who went by the book, not the heart”. Bolt then changed his mind and conducted an exclusive interview with Pell on Sky News. This is not evidence of an enterprise, however, and as so often with the Murdoch empire, no direct instruction is required. It is more indicative of the changing cultural and religious
currents at the heart of conservatism, without which the reaction to the Pell case cannot be understood.
“ ‘Catholicism’ is now a dirty word in Australia,” wrote
Paul Collins in the National Catholic Reporter, “and as in most Anglophone countries there’s deep-seated sectarian bigotry against Catholics which surfaces in times like these.” But for anyone familiar with Australian history, it was the diminishing of sectarian bigotry that was noteworthy. The old divisions that had defined other famous Australian legal matters, such as the divorce case
of the Test cricketer Arthur Coningham, who attended court armed with a revolver and the support of the Orange Order, were gone. So was any Protestant crowing. Only the trial’s title kept a vestige of the old animosity between Windsor and Rome: George Pell v The
Queen.
As late as 1950, publications as anodyne as The Methodist called the battle between Catholicism and Protestantism in Australia an unceasing “war”, that would continue “as long as men are even partially free, and as long as they retain an interest in the vital things of the Christian faith”. By the 1970s, the war was virtually over, the two sects declaring an ecumenical truce to combat
secularism and socialism. Australia also took a different direction from the United States in this mid-century
period. There, legal challenges enforced increasing secularisation of the publicly funded school system. Here,
by contrast, the state began funding Catholic institutions in earnest. Controversies over the Eucharist and the order of precedence feel antiquated now, but the
ambivalence, scepticism and outright hostility that greeted the foundation institutions, such as the ACU, have lodged in folk memory.
After centuries as a bullied minority, Catholicism now has
more adherents in Australia than Anglicanism, and the ruling Liberal Party has changed its predilections, from culturally Protestant into culturally Catholic. These reversals were once unthinkable, and the conservative Catholic ascendancy is at the core of the Pell response. Because it was the same institutions, operating in the same mode of fresh ambition, that turned the
conservative establishment Catholic and simultaneously incubated an unparalleled epidemic of child sexual abuse. As power grew, so did abuse, abetted by a deference to authority and the rites of tradition.
This is why Pell’s conviction has been so humiliating not only for the church, but also for the Australian
conservative establishment more generally. Often Pell is referred to as “the third-highest ranked priest in the Vatican”, but this overlooks the prelates’ place in international right-wing hierarchy. He joins a select few Australians to attain a level of first-rank international success. In the political realm, only Rupert Murdoch matches him, and they have the simpatico relations of
two men meeting in the middle – in the Murdoch papers, Pell broke with church doctrine on global warming; Murdoch, the grandson of a Presbyterian minister, was awarded a papal knighthood for his “unblemished character”. Both Murdoch and his close friend Robert Thomson, the chief executive of News Corp, are not Catholic converts but they are raising their children as
Catholics.
These changes cannot be reversed or apologised for. They can only be double or tripled down on, and in some quarters the accusations register only as a new retelling of an old canard: that the Roman church is riddled with sex crimes, refuses to succumb to secular law and
operates schools for nefarious purposes. Accountability, like truth, will take time to sink in. Those charges are defended against almost reflexively, and with new allies.
But the facts, when stated, are stark. George Pell’s Wikipedia entry now begins like this: “George Pell AC (born 8 June 1941) is an Australian convicted
child sex offender and prelate of the Catholic Church”. The most imminent
edit is the removal of that “AC”.
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Richard Cooke is a contributing editor to The Monthly, and the Mumbrella Publish Award Columnist of the Year.
__________________________________________________ The following illustrates how democratic Germany treats its Nationalist Holocaust Questioners, but remember Germany still does not have a PEACE TREATY that would end WWII hostilities, and is thus technically still at war with major and minor global national players.
September 1, 1939 - Outbreak of World War II On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland from the west; two days later, France and Britain declared
war on Germany, beginning World War II. On September 17, Soviet troops invaded Poland from the east. =============================================================
Ursula Haverbeck, 90, and Horst Mahler, 83, sit in prison for denying the “Holocaust”, i.e. denying the existence of the homicidal gas chambers; the actual law rejects “Holocaust” as a legal term and defines §130 as “defaming the memory of the dead”. Note, only the non-German dead are to be remembered while Germany’s Bundeskanzler floods Germany & Europe with criminal invaders who receive free housing/welfare benefits, thereby fulfilling ther European Union’s imperative to turn the continent into a multi-cultural entity, i.e. the racial European
Sixteen-year-old Swedish eco-campaigner Greta Thunberg is currently on her way across the Atlantic ocean on a zero-carbon
yacht, headed for New York to address the United Nations regarding climate change policy. But the two-week voyage that's been widely-hailed for its environmentally-friendly mode of travel has now fallen under scrutiny, as it has been revealed that carbon-guzzling trans-Atlantic flights will be utilized by the boat's crew for the round trip.
What are the details? Miss Thunberg has garnered international attention for environmental initiatives, and was even nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in March. She told The New York Times ahead of her journey across the ocean on the boat Maliza II, "By doing this it also shows how impossible it is today to live sustainable. That, in order to travel with zero emissions, that we have to sail like this across the Atlantic Ocean." Apparently, it's even more impossible to travel without a carbon footprint than some might have imagined. The Times of London revealed Friday that Thunberg's solar-powered yacht trip "may generate more emissions than it saves because of flights taken by the crew."
The Times reported that two sailors will be flying into New York to man the 60-foot vessel back to Europe, and two of the crew members currently on the yacht may fly home. According to a spokeswoman for Team Mazila, "We added the trip to New York City at very short notice, and as a result two people need to fly over to the U.S. in order to bring the boat back," the Daily Mail reported. "The world has not yet found a way to make it possible to cross an ocean without a carbon footprint."
Anything else? Thunberg has been campaigning for all countries to "cut emissions in line with the Paris climate accord," CBS News reported. When the teenager was asked if she would be open to meeting with President Donald Trump during her visit to the U.S., she said, "Why should I waste time talking to him when he, of course, is not going to listen to me?" * https://www.theblaze.com/news/swedish-teens-zero-carbon-yacht-trip-to-new-york-is-not-so-green-after-all
The Preying Kosher Headmistress, Malka Leifer, protected by Israel - Inside insular Jewish community where headmistress Malka Leifer allegedly preyed on girls - *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqJAh5wvWEg Undercover in Israel in secret operation to expose alleged paedophile principal Malka Leifer –
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izoBoQ-6zac Eva Herman, May 24, 2019: Blutgericht Europa - Karl der Große als Ursache des Untergangs von Deutschland und Europa:* https://www.amazon.de/Blutgericht-Eur... * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5OEUFs3uxo