Friday 13th of June 2025

the evolutionary dynamics of democracy — a precis....

Mon, 29 Jul 2019  : "A lie is a lie is a lie," Whoopi Goldberg said. It was May 2nd, and she was on the set of "The View," the daytime talk show that she co-hosts. The subject was Attorney General William Barr, who had argued that the special counsel Robert Mueller's report was not as alarming as it seemed — endorsing Donald Trump's claim that there had been "no collusion, no obstruction" in the Russia case. Goldberg was incredulous. "Our parents taught us, if you lie, there are consequences," she said. "When are consequences coming back?"

Her guest, the attorney Alan Dershowitz, offered an answer that combined legal analysis and political handicapping. "They come back in November of 2020, when we all go to the polls and we vote against people that we think lied," he said. "But it would be a terrible thing" — he held up a finger for emphasis — "to criminalize lies."

Dershowitz is a frequent guest on shows like "The View"; for decades, he has been a frequent guest just about everywhere. If you are a television producer putting together a segment about a celebrated criminal case, Dershowitz is an ideal booking. Intellectually nimble and supremely confident, he is an emeritus professor at Harvard Law School but also an occasional reader (and subject) of the tabloids. Over the years, he has written thousands of newspaper articles, magazine columns, and Web posts. With help from research assistants, he has published three dozen books — including "The Best Defense," "Chutzpah," and "Sexual McCarthyism" — that recount his cases and advance his opinions.

https://www.sott.net/article/417625-The-Devils-Advocate-Alan-Dershowitz-Defender-of-Rapists-Pedophiles-And-Murderers

 

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Sun 28 Mar 2021 : Harvard University’s program for evolutionary dynamics is to close after an inquiry into ties between its director, Martin Nowak, and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

According to the university, the mathematics and biology professor violated several university policies through his contacts with Epstein, including giving the disgraced wealthy financier an office on campus which he visited more than 40 times between 2010 and 2018.

 

Epstein, 66, was charged with sex trafficking in 2019, shortly before he was found dead in his cell in the Metropolitan correctional center in New York. Epstein had faced an indictment accusing him of running a sex-trafficking ring of underage girls, some as young as 14.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/mar/27/harvard-closes-evolution-center-after-finding-connections-jeffrey-epstein

 

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Jan. 3, 2024 : Jeffrey Epstein’s former attorney and friend Alan Dershowitz defended the late multimillionaire sex offender’s associates, whose names will soon be released as part of a court ruling, saying: “None of us knew about his private life that he kept so secret.”

The one-time Harvard Law School professor said in an interview with NewsNation’s Leland Vittert Tuesday that no one should be automatically convicted in the court of public opinion simply for showing up on the Epstein list.

“You could judge them for having shown bad judgment, but you can’t conclude that any accusations against them are true without hearing the evidence,” the legal scholar argued.

More than 150 people with ties to the disgraced financier, previously known only as “John Does” and “Jane Does,” are expected to be unmasked for the first time in court records that a federal judge had ordered unsealed last month.

“There are some people who may be ashamed of the fact that they hung out with Epstein, but remember, a lot of people hung out with Epstein before he was convicted,” Dershowitz said.

The 85-year-old lawyer suggested that the judge who ordered the release of the names was “selective” in what she agreed to make public, which he maintained was “unfair.”

“I want everything out, every document, every piece of paper, half-truths or lies,” Dershowtiz told Vitters. “And I wanted them out for personal reasons because I know that they would prove what I’ve said from day one that I did nothing wrong.”

https://nypost.com/2024/01/03/news/alan-dershowitz-defends-associates-on-jeffrey-epsteins-list/

 

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 Monday, 08 January 2024 : 

By Shabbir Rizvi

The day is nearly upon us: the Israeli regime will face charges of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) later this week, thanks to a lawsuit brought in by the South African government.

The lawsuit invokes the Geneva Convention, which both South Africa and Israel are signatories of. 

Both sides are making last-minute preparations to put together their legal teams to represent them at the Haque-based court, which is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations.

It is important to note that the ICJ is a civil tribunal that hears disputes between its members and not a criminal tribunal. Its rulings could lead to isolation, and cause political, economic and social harm. 

To cut it short, an ICJ ruling that Israel is committing genocide spells absolute disaster for the apartheid regime. It comes at a time when the death toll in Gaza tops 23,000, about half of them being children. 

There is not only a multitude of compelling, video evidence of Israeli war crimes being brought to the table. There are also statements of Israeli officials themselves using genocidal language that South African legal counsel intends to bring to the court. 

With this evidence being brought to court, Israeli legal strategy will be largely resorting to three things: obfuscating the context and implications of Israel's official statements, using wartime rules of engagement in order to justify its genocidal actions, and lastly, challenging the Geneva Convention definition of genocide as it applies to the ongoing aggression on Gaza.

For such a tall order, US and Israeli media have reported that Alan Dershowitz has been personally brought in by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to represent his regime at the ICJ. 

The name Dershowitz should sound familiar: he has taken on a multitude of high-profile cases, defending and advising seemingly the worst of the worst: convicted sex offender and child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, former US president Donald Trump, Hollywood producer and sexual offender Harvey Weinstein, and many more comprising the hall of infamy.

He has been a noted Harvard law professor for several decades, known for his ability to use gray areas within the US law to secure bargains and diminish the severity of an accusation. 

Multiple Epstein witnesses accused Dershowitz of being someone who engaged in pedophilia and rape with a girl trafficked by Epstein, an American sex offender who died in August 2019.

Ironically, shortly after news broke out of Israel has chosen Dershowitz as its representative at ICJ, newly released and highly controversial documents known as the “Epstein Papers” further solidified the claim of Dershowitz raping an underage girl multiple times.

Dershowitz first met Epstein in 1996, placing him with Epstein during the same time and location as the human trafficking and abuse charges Epstein faced.

Epstein died in prison four years ago awaiting his day in court for conspiracy and record falsification charges. Many have speculated that his death, ruled a suicide, was under suspicious circumstances. 

The documents released last week also mention Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Stephen Hawking, and other powerful Western socio-political figures meeting with Epstein on his plush island, or in other settings that included the presence of trafficked minors.

Dershowitz has claimed innocence while acknowledging the newly surfaced court evidence implicating him in sex crimes with Epstein.

Doubling down, Dershowitz went on a livestream where he addressed the evidence, which he dismissed as false allegations, and interestingly changed the subject completely to Hamas and Israel, without commenting on his potential appearance in the UN court to defend the Netanyahu regime.

Since then, Dershowitz has gone on the offensive and kept the media limelight close to him, maintaining his innocence despite the damning evidence against him that has piled up over the years.

Clearly, Dershowitz is a man with a lot of baggage on him - and the worst kind. But, birds of a feather flock together as they say, and the Israeli link to Epstein and Dershowitz also seems to grow deeper by the day. 

Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s primary business partner throughout the years, is also a convicted sex offender and human trafficker, who is serving 20 years on multiple charges related to her criminal activities with Epstein.

Maxwell’s father was Robert Maxwell, a British MP and media mogul, who was given a state funeral in Israel. Robert Maxwell was suspected of being a spy for the Israeli Mossad agency.

Both the Maxwells and Epstein are also suspected of running an elaborate blackmail operation on behalf of Mossad - entrapping famous and powerful figures using evidence of them committing rape and pedophilia - in order to make them puppets for the Israeli regime. 

It adds up that Dershowitz would then be a name floated by Israeli officials - particularly Netanyahu - for defending Israel in a high-profile case with serious implications.

For much of Dershowitz’s career, he has been a staunch defender of the Zionist regime. Dershowitz also advocated for delisting Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), an anti-Iran terror cult, as a terrorist group in the US and has had an anti-Iranian orientation to his political beliefs. 

But even more so than loyalty to the Israeli regime (whether forced or not), Dershowitz is remorseless in his practice. Dershowitz routinely uses his X (formerly Twitter) account to challenge the age of consent laws and obfuscate laws and the contexts they can be applied to, in response to the allegations against him for raping a minor trafficked by Epstein.

Netanyahu is likely looking for the same brand of defense, rather than offense, from Dershowitz. 

Dershowitz was able to secure a plea deal for Epstein in 2008 on the crime of procuring a minor for prostitution- despite the damning evidence against him - to be knocked down to just 13 months.

He also advised the high-profile OJ Simpson defense in the 90s, which led to a ‘not guilty’ verdict in two charges of first-degree murder against Simpson.

Dershowitz’s ability to exploit gray areas within US criminal and constitutional law has given him multiple, high-profile cases that many would hesitate to consider touching. 

In his own words, “The job of a criminal defense attorney is to try to get the best possible deal.”

Diluting the charges against Israel in this context could be the difference between global isolation and normalization by UN court standards. 

If Israel moves forward with Dershowitz - a suspected pedophile and rapist - that would illustrate the desperation of the regime to water down or deflect the charges of genocide it is facing in the ICJ.

Dershowitz has not always been successful, but the fact that his name is on a shortlist shows that the embattled Israeli regime premier is in a critical situation - while also revealing just how deep the Dershowitz-Epstein connection goes with Israel. 

However, if Israel does not move forward with Dershowitz, considering the amount of baggage on him, Dershowitz is still someone that many should pay attention to.

His close association with the Zionist regime and his direct involvement in sex trafficking crimes may reveal the extent of criminality Israeli intelligence is willing to go to keep major figures in their pockets. 

Shabbir Rizvi is a Chicago-based political analyst with a focus on US internal security and foreign policy.

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/01/08/717835/Why-Pedophile-Alan-Dershowitz-Israel-Genocide-Defense-ICJ

 

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11 Jun 2025

Alan Dershowitz "I'm In DANGER!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6k1Vg8ye2Q

 

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Evolutionary dynamics is the study of the mathematical principles according to which biological organisms as well as cultural ideas evolve and evolved.[1] This is mostly achieved through the mathematical discipline of population genetics, along with evolutionary game theory. Most population genetics considers changes in the frequencies of alleles at a small number of geneloci. When infinitesimal effects at a large number of gene loci are considered, one derives quantitative genetics. Traditional population genetic models deal with alleles and genotypes, and are frequently stochastic. In evolutionary game theory, developed first by John Maynard Smith, evolutionary biology concepts may take a deterministic mathematical form, with selection acting directly on inherited phenotypes. These same models can be applied to studying the evolution of human preferences and ideologies. Many variants on these models have been developed, which incorporate weak selection, mutual population structure, stochasticity, etc. These models have relevance also to the generation and maintenance of tissues in mammals, since an understanding of tissue cell kinetics, architecture, and development from adult stem cells has important implications for aging and cancer.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_dynamics?ysclid=mbsfhove5n517695633

 

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Universities business model under huge strain, ergo censorship

   by Claire Parfitt

 

Thousands of jobs are on the chopping block at universities across the country, with many freezing new hires, putting a hold on casual contracts or proposing redundancies, while muzzling students and staff, says Claire Parfitt.

The higher education sector is crumbling under the weight of its broken business and governance models.

Just last week, Macquarie University has taken an axe to its arts, science and engineering programs. It has been clear for a long time that the sector relies financially on exploiting international students, stealing wages from already poorly paid casual academics, squeezing staff by intensifying workloads, and pandering to investors for commercially viable research.

The only viable future for quality higher education and research requires significantly more public funding. But how could one possibly make a case for expanding taxpayer dollars to these craven institutions in the current climate of repression?

Publicly-funded universities must be accountable to their staff, students and the communities in which they are embedded. Australian universities have consistently failed this test during the current genocide against Palestinians.

Lack of transparency

At the University of Sydney, like many others, staff and students have overwhelmingly voted in favour of greater transparency about the institution’s complicity in Israel’s war crimes, particularly given its relationship with military contractor Thales. They have also called for an academic boycott of Israeli institutions in line with the Palestinian civil society campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions – aka the BDS movement.

Students advocated for these demands with a months-long encampment on the University’s lawns in mid-2024. A settlement to end the encampment was premised on the University’s commitment to review its investments in relation to human rights abuses and the rights of Indigenous peoples in particular. Submissions were made by collectives of staff, by the NTEU, by the Jewish Council of Australia and the Sydney Peace Foundation, among others. To date, this working group has issued no response.

Management’s lack of commitment to this investment review is further demonstrated in its absence from the 2024 Annual Report, released end of May.

What the finances do reveal, though, is that the University is deeply reliant on investment and philanthropic income (2024: $599.5m) to support its daily operations—making it even more important for the University to investigate and report on its exposure to grave human rights abuses related to Israel’s war crimes, crimes against humanity, apartheid practices, and its illegal occupation of Palestinian land.

For example, the University holds almost $5B in “other financial assets” in a range of investments including equities, bonds and externally managed funds, the proceeds of which are largely used to support the core activities of teaching and research. At least $959m of these funds are specifically tied to scholarships, prizes and research projects (Note 15, Annual Report, p106-7).

Muzzling free speech

Instead of being accountable to staff, students and the community, the University has imposed draconian limits on political expression, protest and communication. This includes the imposition of the Campus Access Policy, which was widely condemned (letter by Sydney Law School academicsNSW Council for Civil Liberties).

This week, the Vice Chancellor has issued another suite of repressive policies pertaining to communication between staff, public comment, and posting promotional material. The adoption by Universities Australia of a new definition of antisemitism, opposed by a meeting of Sydney University staff in May, is exacerbating this crushing climate of fear and intimidation against those expressing support for Palestinians.

Many staff and students are already subject to disciplinary proceedings in this authoritarian environment. One international student and asylum seeker feared deportation to danger due to disciplinary investigations for writing “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free” on a whiteboard.

Staff and students are routinely prevented from communicating with one another about the genocide; from making announcements about protests; from wearing items such as keffiyeh on university grounds; from posting thoughtful and respectful observations on shared online noticeboards;

even from discussing the genocide and associated allegations of war crimes in classes about human rights, humanitarian law and politics.

Genocide whitewash

Meanwhile, the University has further whitewashed the genocide by hosting members of the Israeli military for an event in April, and awarding a leading apologist for the Israeli state with an honorary doctorate in May 2025, while also withdrawing its patronage of the Sydney Peace Prize after 27 years. This year’s prize is awarded to Navi Pillay for a career dedicated to accountability for crimes against humanity, including in Navi’s role as Chair of the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

Management’s preferred approach to addressing demands for accountability is to ‘build a civic campus’ with its ‘Campus Collaboration’ project, which it describes as an effort to ‘invigorate campus life and foster a culture of thoughtful disagreement’ (Annual Report 2025, p43).

Yet the initiative does so on a dishonest and ahistorical basis, failing to recognise decades of brutal colonial violence against Palestinian people and its devastating acceleration since October 2023.

We deserve a university system that provides high-quality education, supported by research in the public interest, to meet the enormous social, economic, and ecological challenges we face in Australia and around the world. The broken model of extracting extortionate fees from students, intensifying workloads for staff, paying exorbitant salaries to corporate managers, depending upon financial investments and commercial research partners,

compromises the university as an institution.

But if we are to demand that universities be properly funded by the state, those institutions must be meaningfully accountable to the communities in which they are embedded rather than to the corporate interests funding lucrative military research, powerful media empires and rogue states like Israel.

https://michaelwest.com.au/universities-business-model-under-huge-strain-ergo-censorship/

 

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         Gus Leonisky

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elon's guilt?.....

Elon Musk The REAL Name In The Epstein Files

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_KXs032jRU

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

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