Idiocy Knows No Bounds

Ukraine [ministry's] plans for women to march in high heels spark [justified] outrage: 

Plans by Ukraine's defence ministry to have female soldiers march in high heels instead of army boots in a parade next month have caused angry reactions. Iryna Gerashchenko, an opposition member of parliament, said it was sexism, not equality.

Imaginary Coups easier than Staging a Coup

 21-7-2 Lukashenko orders Belarusian borders closed because of [presumably imaginary] "planned coup".

Belarus has closed its border with Ukraine, claiming that arms are being smuggled into the country. President Alexander Lukashenko claims it is part of an attempt by outside powers to overthrow his authoritarian regime.

Lukashenko claimed - without providing proof - that his security services had uncovered a foreign-backed terrorist sleeper cells plotting to oust him from power. He alleged the weapons were being shipped to terrorist cells funded by Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine and the US. [Funny that his chief worry - Russia - is not mentioned.]

"A huge amount of weapons is coming from Ukraine to Belarus. That's why I ordered border-security forces to fully close the border with Ukraine," Lukashenko said, at a ceremony marking the country's 30 years of independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

[Yeah, yeah, and you have a bridge to sell. As though Ukraine is not busy enough holding Russia's invasion in check.]

Miscarriage of "Justice" on a technicality

It is past time to remove the Statute of Limitations on sexual assault.

The psychological impacts of historical sexual assault, particularly childhood sexual abuse, often prevent victims/survivors from speaking up for years or decades. Because perpetrators typically continue to offend, society is not served by protecting perpetrators at the cost of subsequent victims.

[Sexual Assailant] Bill Cosby freed after top Pennsylvania court overturns sex conviction [on a technicality]: 

US comedian Bill Cosby has left prison hours after his sexual assault conviction was overturned by Pennsylvania's Supreme Court. The judges said there had been a "process violation" by the prosecution but admitted their ruling was unusual. "Process violation"?= Cosby's lawyers had made an agreement with a previous state prosecutor that he would not be charged in the case.

Cosby, 83, had served more than two years of a three to 10-year sentence at a state prison near Philadelphia. In 2018 he was found guilty of drugging and molesting ex-basketball player Andrea Constand. Dozens of women had publically accused him of sexual assault, although he was only tried criminally for the incident against Andrea Constand. His conviction in 2018 was widely seen as a landmark moment in the #MeToo movement.

In some societies "maleness" manifests as a mental disorder

The man allegedly seized a knife and stabbed and killed a saleswoman and two more women in the store. He then injured five other women and a child [presumably female] on the street and in a bank.

The three people killed in the knife attack in the German city of Würzburg on Friday were all women, police say. The 24-year-old suspect, a Somali immigrant, grabbed a knife from the kitchen section of a department store, attacking several inside. He then lashed out at people outside.

Police say the suspect was possibly psychologically unstable [Ya don't say!] and may have held extremist Islamist beliefs. [Religion per se does not create aggression-prone personality disorders. However, those with aggression-prone personality disorders (typically male) are often attracted to religionism.]

Disgusting Protectors of Rapists

 https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-57485617

2005 Disgusting Ockers at Cronulla

.Cronulla Riots: triggers, aftermath, and lasting impact on Australia > .

One Sunday in December 2005, five thousand Australians gathered at Cronulla, singing and waving the national flag as they "reclaimed" the beach. Fuelled by drink, the crowd became a mob, hunting down and beating anyone who looked Middle Eastern.

That night and the next, carloads of hundreds of young men of Middle Eastern descent headed for the beach suburbs to launch similarly random and savage acts of revenge.
The shocking TV images flashed across the world. At home, Australia's ugliness was disowned as "un-Australian". Political leaders called it a problem of law and order rather than racism.

So what should Australians make of the Cronulla explosion? Was it a nation-defining event that should sound the alarm about growing racial division? Or was it something less, a turf war, or a clash of tribes that some have likened to the '60s rumbles between rockers and surfers?

Four Corners looked for answers not from social commentators but from the participants - the young Anglos who joined the seething mob at Cronulla on 11 December, the Middle Eastern men who took part in revenge attacks, and the police who were stuck in the middle.

The 2005 Cronulla riots were race riots in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. They began in the beachside suburb of Cronulla on 11 December and spread over the next few nights to additional suburbs.

The riots were triggered by an event the previous Sunday, when an altercation turned physical between a group of youths of Middle-Eastern appearance (referred to as "Lebanese" or "Lebos" by their opponents) and Anglo-Australian lifeguards on the beach. Following the reporting of this event by the tabloid media and "shock jocks" on local radio, a racially motivated gathering was organised for the following weekend.

A crowd gathered at Cronulla on the morning of Sunday, 11 December, and, by midday, approximately 5,000 people had gathered near the beach. The police eventually intervened. Violence spread to other southern suburbs of Sydney, where assaults occurred, including two stabbings and attacks on ambulances and police officers. Travel warnings for Australia were issued by some countries but were later removed.

The riots were widely condemned by local, state and federal members of parliament, police, local community leaders, and residents of Cronulla and adjacent areas. A large number of arrests were made over the subsequent months, from both the initial riot on 11 December and the retaliations over the subsequent nights. Some media were criticised and well-known radio personality Alan Jones was formally censured and fined for his broadcasts during that week.

The Australia First Party, in particular its youth wing the Patriotic Youth League, were involved in the riots.

Ignoring the Subjugated 50%, As Usual

How equality slipped away: For 97 per cent of human history, all people had about the same power and access to goods. How did inequality ratchet up?

All people includes women and children. When exactly have women and children ever had "about the same power and access to goods"?

Certainly not during written history.

https://aeon.co/essays/for-97-of-human-history-equality-was-the-norm-what-happened .