The Leftist Holy Trinity is a vengeful god

The "Sea Eagles" reference beolow is to the fact that some Polynesian football players refused to salute homosexuality.

It is amusing that a couple of writers below revive the old Margaret Mead myth that Polynesians were originally sexually permissive. Experienced anthropologist Derek Freeman debunked that long ago. The authors concerned skate over the fact that the very traditionally-minded Polynesian footballers today show no such permissiveness.

Everyone attributes that impermissiveness to their Christian faith. But how come few other Chritians are so adamant? The plain fact is that in the Pacific islands Christianity fused with traditional beliefs to create strongly-held convictions

As usual, Christians and conservatives are discriminated against in the name of "tolerance". Only a Leftist could make sense of that

The Manly Sea Eagles rainbow jersey saga represents the new ‘progressive’ Holy Trinity of diversity, inclusion, and equality with a steep social penalty for failing to toe the line.

Anyone declining to affirm this new godhead, even if remaining neutral, find themselves denounced as heretics and subjected to public shaming. Progressives claim to promote tolerance but hypocritically exclude those with different views or beliefs, including those who do not actively demonstrate allegiance to progressive orthodoxy.

Identity politics has been weaponised to divide the believers from the non-believers and manufacture divisions that create unnecessary polarisation within society.

The Australia of today is accepting, open-minded, and very far from the bastion of homophobia and transphobia that fringe rainbow activists would have you believe. In 2017, over 60 per cent of the population (myself included) voted in a plebiscite to approve changes to the Marriage Act 1961 allowing same-sex couples to marry. Same-sex couples now enjoy equal rights with heterosexual couples under the law, and many Australians have celebrated the joy of seeing loved ones able to marry their same-sex partners.

People with same-sex orientation are protected from discrimination under an array of federal and state laws. They also enjoy significant funding and support from all levels of government in addition to the private sector contributions.

Prominent LGBTQ+ charity ACON receives over $12 million annually from the New South Wales Minister for Health to promote their agenda, with an additional $12 million earmarked earlier this year specifically for the New South Wales LGBTQ+ Health Strategy including ‘gender-affirming care’. The City of Sydney is hosting World Pride in 2023, assisted by a generous grant of $500,000 from Lord Mayor Clover Moore. The annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (that has its roots in 1978 when gays and lesbians were shamefully subjected to police brutality and arrested on Oxford St simply for protesting for equal rights under the law) is now a fully corporatised, sponsored, ‘family-friendly’ televised event that is attended by politicians, businesses, and government departments. During Pride Month, the Sydney CBD and Town Hall are festooned with the ever-more inclusive ‘Progress’ flag. On Transgender Day of Remembrance, New South Wales Police fly the trans flag over their headquarters for a week. The taxpayer-funded ABC also has an entire platform, ABC Queer, dedicated to LGBTQ+ issues.

The battle for LGB rights has been won with the achievement of equality under the law, yet fringe activists operating under the ever-expanding LGBTQ+ rainbow umbrella are acting as if we are back in the dark ages of the 1970s when being gay or lesbian meant you could lose your job, be shunned by your community, excommunicated from your faith, denied healthcare or housing, lose custody of your children, be arrested, bashed, or even murdered.

Activist groups needed to pivot their ideology to continue to justify their oppression status, bloated taxpayer-funded budgets, and generous remuneration packages for professional activists.

Adding the T, I, Q, A, and the plus was a stroke of marketing genius as it created new ‘oppressed’ minorities to fight for. The legacy sympathy of the general public was capitalised upon, meaning that the previous acceptance of ordinary Australians for the legacy movement was no longer enough. Fringe activists using the rainbow as a cultural sword have morphed into an aggressive and retaliatory movement that denounces anyone as transphobes, homophobes, or bigots if they do not actively demonstrate allegiance to their ideological zealotry.

The demands of the LGBTQ+ movement know no bounds and they wield an inordinate amount of power in both public and private institutions through Diversity and Inclusion programs.

In New South Wales, ACON uses their Pride in Diversity program to lobby for ubiquitous influence within organisations, corporations, and government departments. Organisations that have signed up to the scheme are ranked on ACON’s Australian Workplace Equality Index with trophies handed out at a glittering annual awards night. Points are earned for the index by the implementation of policies and procedures detailed in a lengthy compliance form that embeds an LGBTQ+ centric worldview.

Sport is not immune from this activism. ACON’s Pride in Sport program, launched in October 2020, saw the NRL sign on as one of the nine major sporting codes to get involved. This has resulted in the prioritisation of LGBTQ+ activism about above all other minority groups. It has also had the unexpected consequence (from the public’s perspective) of removing sex as the basis for sporting categories while granting access to facilities and resources on the basis of a self-declared gender identity. Women and girls are no longer assured of female-only teams, competitions, or change rooms.

Ian Roberts is an NRL champion who had the courage to ‘come out’ in the 1990s when the gay community was still suffering the aftershocks of the AIDS epidemic. It was a tumultuous time for Roberts, exacting a personal toll with some players and sections of the media refusing to accept him. Roberts was recently used as the spokesperson for the Manly Sea Eagles Pride jersey announcement. Reportedly, it was an initiative of the marketing department where the shock announcement was foisted on players without consultation and, apparently, without the knowledge or consensus of the Sea Eagles players, the team’s board, or major sponsors.

This tale should come as no surprise to those who are familiar with the modus operandi for institutional capture by Pride activists. Policies and campaigns are deliberately negotiated by stealth to avoid scrutiny or criticism, then presented as a fait accompli – a common tactic used to prevent the involvement of other stakeholders who may object. Arguably, little or no consideration is given to other minority groups.

There is no suggestion that the Manly Sea Eagles marketing department was lobbied by ACON’s Pride in Sport, but Roberts was a spokesperson for the Pride in Sport launch in 2020 when nine major Australian sporting codes, including the NRL, announced policies displacing biological sex as the characteristic for sporting categories in favour of self-declared gender identity.

Australia is a liberal democracy, and people are free to hold beliefs and practise religion without interference by the state, even if that includes offending those who believe in the LGBTQ+ orthodoxy.

Professor Peter Kurti said:

‘Religious discrimination bills that were presented in the last Parliament were not about upholding the right to religious freedom but rather provided an anti-discrimination framework that would protect religious people from discriminatory practises in public life.’

Kurti added:

‘In a modern society such as ours, such legislation really should not be necessary, however, Christians are being singled out for attack and vulnerable to discrimination.’

Other religious practises do not attract the same opprobrium when their followers make decisions based on the tenets of their faith. AFLW player Haneen Zreika, for example, did not attract the same level of vitriol when she declined to wear the Pride jersey due to her Muslim beliefs earlier this year.

According to professor Jioji Ravulo, the practise of the Christian religion in Pasifika culture is intertwined and indivisible from family and community. Prior to the arrival of Europeans, same-sex relationships were not shamed or othered, but regarded as ‘an expression of connecting socially and relationally with others’. The notion of fear and shame about homosexuality was imported into Pasifika culture by the colonisation of the West.

Kat Karena, a Maori woman of Rangitāne and Ngāti Kahungunu, Lesbian, and founder of LGB Defence said:

‘With many Polynesians, Christianity is a major part of family life and culture. If these Pacific Islanders choose family life and culture over sports, it’s their right of choice. It seems strange to me that Westerners are quick to cast slurs on those of a Polynesian culture who have had a longer history acceptance of homosexuality, than they.’

Karena went on to add:

‘And it wasn’t so long ago, it was the waving of the crosses and demands by their forefathers to kowtow. Nothing’s changed, now people are waving rainbow symbols instead of crosses and behind all of it is still about compliance over choice. I know that NRL signed up to ACON’s Pride In Sport’s compliance audit. Under that rainbow audit most club players and members aren’t aware that public marketing of LGBQTIA is not a choice, as well as allowing males in women’s changing rooms is not a choice for clubs, allowing me in women’s sports, celebrating the many days of LGBQTIA, are not choices either under that audit. As a gay woman those are my reasons to reject Pride in Sport’s rainbow agenda, it’s not good for women, culture, or freedom of choice.’

To their credit, Manly coach Des Hasler and the Manly Sea Eagles acknowledged that they had made a mistake in being insensitive to the culture and religion of the Manly Seven, although it came too late for the games against St George Illawarra Dragons, where the benching of those key players resulted in a 20-6 loss.

Australians overwhelmingly support LGB rights and are entirely comfortable with people of same-sex orientations, but the forced teaming of LGB with the T and the mandatory demonstrations of allegiance are creating a backlash. It is no longer possible to accept the existence of difference in our multicultural society. The Pride flag has morphed from representing gays and lesbians into a catchall Progressive banner which now includes self-declared Woke identities – trans, queer, intersex, asexual, questioning, two-spirit, and any of the multitude of gender identities to be found in social media bios or on Tik Tok.

Rainbow activists profess to represent the most vulnerable and oppressed. Yet the refusal of the Manly Seven – Pasifika men of faith – to acquiesce to activist demands drew abuse, and they were sidelined. The hopes of Sea Eagles fans may have been dashed for the season, demonstrating to us all that LGBTQ+ activists are not the exemplars of diversity, inclusion, and equality that they claim to be. Rather, they are nothing more than authoritarians draped in rainbows and glitter.

https://spectator.com.au/2022/08/the-progressive-holy-trinity-is-far-from-divine/

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It was once called the “ticket” out of lockdowns but now Australians are being urged to uninstall this app

Australia’s privacy chief will investigate whether the $21 million CovidSafe app, once sold as being Australians’ “ticket” out of lockdowns, is no longer collecting information from its users.

Australians with the app still installed are also expected to receive “push notifications and SMS texts” to encourage them to uninstall what is now widely seen as a white elephant.

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner announced plans to investigate the app on Monday, after incoming Health Minister Mark Butler formally announced the end of the app in August, saying the former government had “wasted more than $21 million of taxpayers’ money” on it.

Following its launch, in April 2020, the contentious app identified just two Covid-19 cases that weren’t identified by manual contact tracers, as well as 17 close contacts.

That is despite more than $10 million spent to develop the app, $7 million on advertising it, and $4 million on its upkeep and staffing.

The CovidSafe app was officially shuttered on August 16, and the OAIC said it must now stop collecting data from its users, and must no longer appear in app stores.

All the data it collected must also be deleted, it said, and users must be told this has occurred.

“The OAIC will undertake an assessment to provide assurance that the CovidSafe app information management requirements have been met,” the organisation said in a statement.

Commissioner Angelene Falk is also tasked with ensuring all app data collected by the app is deleted from the National CovidSafe Data Store.

Users do not have to do anything to do anything to ensure their private information is deleted, but will be encouraged to uninstall the defunct app.

https://www.couriermail.com.au/technology/online/covidsafe-app-privacy-investigation-launched-after-21-million-app-officially-shut-down/news-story/a7f521916a638c4ed7ab376cd9e178a2

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I've just been DENIED entry to NZ

Avi Yemini, Rebel News

I've just been advised by New Zealand immigration that they are DENYING ME ENTRY into Wellington to report on what's happening in the country.

When I went to check-in, Qantas told me that my passport had been FLAGGED and after an hour with an NZ immigration officer, I was advised that she wasn't going to let me board.

Why, you might ask?

She told me that she was going to use the authority given to her by the Immigration Act to stop me from boarding the plane because she cited a recent FABRICATED, wildly INACCURATE and UNSUBSTANTIATED news article a New Zealand newspaper wrote about me.

You can even read for yourself what they wrote. It's a complete hit job without any real basis in TRUTH.

No wonder I've had so many New Zealanders ask me to come over and report on what's going on. Their media cannot be trusted to get the basics right.

We've already instructed lawyers in New Zealand to appeal this incredibly unjust decision. I'm not going to let this stop Rebel News from telling the other side of the story about what's happening in NZ.

Jacinda Ardern clearly doesn't want any reporting outside her tightly-controlled New Zealand media apparatus

https://www.rebelnews.com/avi_yemini_denied_entry_to_new_zealand

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Avoiding plastics and using a reusable coffee cup to save the environment? Maybe you've been duped

He has got it that Greenie claims are mostly a scam but he exonerates governments, Green politicians and grant-hungry adademics. Bizarrely, he blames big busines

Melbourne author Jeff Sparrow argues that, when it comes to environmental impacts, big corporations have engineered a sense of individual responsibility – to distract from their own.

"One of the reasons why we feel so despairing about the [climate] situation that we're in is that we are made to feel that we are the problem," Sparrow tells ABC RN's Big Ideas.

"We're told we consume too much, we're too greedy, we're too lazy, we surround ourselves with disposable plastics and we're spoiling the planet."

Humans can even be seen as at fault "merely by existing", he says. "Sometimes the argument extends to suggesting that humans are kind of a plague … infesting nature and bring[ing] ruination on the planet."

There are experts, such as environmental scientist Professor Ian Lowe, who argue for limiting the number of children we have, for environmental reasons.

Sparrow disagrees. "If we are the problem, then there's nothing we can do other than just make things worse," he says.

The CSIRO has put adapting to climate change at the top of what it identifies as the seven mega trends that will determine our fate. We need to be "leaner, cleaner and greener", it says.

Sparrow argues that it can't be left up to individuals to make that happen. History offers clues as to why.

"To start to think about what solutions might be available, it's really crucial that we understand where the problem came from and who was responsible," says Sparrow, who explores this topic in his latest book, Crimes Against Nature.

Take the term 'carbon footprint'. You've almost certainly used it, but do you know where it comes from?

The familiar notion, that we should consider how much carbon we are individually responsible for, was dreamt up as a marketing strategy, Sparrow says.

"This [carbon footprint concept] was actually cooked up by a PR company that was employed by BP as part of a campaign to rebadge itself once people became concerned about climate change.

"By getting people to look at their own individual responsibility for climate change, it meant that people stopped focusing on corporate responsibility. And so, rather than looking at BP's part in this horrific damage to the environment, people started thinking … 'What am I doing?'"

The world's scientists declare climate change is now a threat to human wellbeing, warning we are about to miss the window to "secure a liveable and sustainable future for all".

While corporations have such widespread impact – BP, for example, manages around 19,000 gas and oil stations worldwide – Sparrow believes than an individual approach at carbon reduction is ineffective.

He points to an MIT study that demonstrated Americans couldn't reduce their own carbon footprint as carbon pollution was embedded in American society as a whole.

The idea that we can reduce carbon emissions as individuals creates a "crippling demoralisation", Sparrow says. People seeking to reduce their personal carbon footprint "set themselves a task that they cannot possibly fulfil".

"It's good that people want to be part of the solution, but we have to think of what real solutions might look like and not just cripple ourselves with individualised guilt that doesn't make any difference."

Another example of individual responsibility gone awry is in recycling, according to Sparrow.

It was recently revealed that significant amounts of home recycling is ending up in landfill.

Yet individuals are instructed to conscientiously recycle – for example, by checking the numbers of the bottoms of containers, and taking soft plastics back to the supermarket.

Sparrow argues it's misspent energy.

"Not only are we being distracted from the real issues, but we are learning to interiorise this sense that it's our fault. It's not the government's fault. It's not the corporations' fault," he says. "I think that is incredibly destructive."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-22/jeff-sparrow-big-ideas-corporations-environment-responsibility/101318704

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