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WASHINGTON D.C. - After allegations of sexual assault stalled the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Jack Burkman, a D.C.-based lawyer and lobbyist, is offering a $25k reward for information on Kavanaugh's three accusers.
As rumors regarding the timing and potential of political motivation swirl, Burkman hopes to uncover the truth and supply the public with more details on this case.
"The stakes of these allegations are like no other," said Burkman. "Kavanaugh is an esteemed professional hoping to fulfill his duties in the highest judicial position available. This case deserves no stone left unturned out of fairness to all parties involved. There's too much at risk."
"Back in the heyday of the old Soviet Union, a phrase evolved to describe gullible western intellectuals who came to visit Russia and failed to notice the human and other costs of building a communist utopia. The phrase was "useful idiots" and it applied to a good many people who should have known better. I now propose a new, analogous term more appropriate for the age in which we live: useful hypocrites. That's you and me, folks, and it's how the masters of the digital universe see us. And they have pretty good reasons for seeing us that way. They hear us whingeing about privacy, security, surveillance, etc., but notice that despite our complaints and suspicions, we appear to do nothing about it. In other words, we say one thing and do another, which is as good a working definition of hypocrisy as one could hope for."-John Naughton, The Guardian"Who needs direct repression," asked philosopher Slavoj Zizek, "when one can convince the chicken to walk freely into the slaughterhouse?"
There are no corroborating witnesses. None. Of the "dozens" of classmates The New Yorker contacted, all either failed "to respond to interview requests . . . declined to comment, or said they did not attend or remember the party. Indeed, we learn late in the piece that the authors could not establish that Kavanaugh was even there.
The New Yorker, the tenth paragraph begins, "has not confirmed with other eyewitnesses that Kavanaugh was present at the party." The only "evidence" provided comes from a "classmate" who was not at the party, but is certain he heard about the incident, and from "another classmate" who thinks he heard about an incident that could vaguely resemble the one alleged, but doesn't know to whom it was done, or by whom. Or, as we would traditionally put it: The only proof provided is rumor.
Comment: Israel's pathological and relentless pursuit of Middle East hegemony (however covert) will ultimately lead to its own undoing. The tiny country's "existential fears" are being made manifest by its acts of colossal arrogance and belligerence.