[Federalist] Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington rebuked Big Tech companies for using their power "to manipulate and harm our children," in a joint hearing with CEOs from Facebook, Twitter, and Google on Thursday.
"10 years ago — when I joined Big Tech platforms — I thought they would be a force for good. I thought they would help us build relationships and promote transparency in Congress," McMorris Rodgers said. "Today, Big Tech platforms are my biggest fear as a parent."
"You’ve broken my trust. Yes, because you’ve failed to promote the battle of ideas and free speech. Yes, because you censor political viewpoints you disagree with. Those polarizing actions matter for democracy," she said. "But, do you know what has convinced me Big Tech is a destructive force? It’s how you’ve abused your power to manipulate and harm our children."
This was likely nothing more than a staged Dog & Pony Show.
These Politicians tossed a pillow at them, when it should have been a brick-bat regarding censoring freedom of thought and speech.
Because they don't want the Social Media Elite on their backs come 2022 and 2024.
Unless Social Media reforms are put in place that protect Freedom of Civil and respectful speech from both the Social Media Elite and Government. Then Government and the SM Elite will control what is shared and what is "Good Thought" and "Good Information".
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When you know something might harm your children like drugs, alcohol or switchblade knives you do everything you can to keep those things out of your children's hands. They don't need smart phones, TV or computers. Make them play outside. When it's dark or raining and they have to come inside give them books, board games and puzzles.
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[Right Scoop] In Ohio, a teacher was recently axed over issues concerning the death of George Floyd.
As reported by The Columbus Dispatch, Bishop Ready High theology instructor Deborah DelPrince shared her thoughts on what caused George’s May 25th passing beneath the knee of Minnesota Officer Derek Chauvin.
According to Deborah — as expressed during a virtual class meeting on February 24th — it’s not so certain the man couldn’t breathe.
Deborah was remarking upon a student’s screen — it featured a photo of LeBron James sporting a shirt with the phrase "I can’t breathe."
She spoke the words that would put her out of work:
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Child #4 attended Catholic school near Bishop. Capitalism and Conservatism flourished while liberalism was tolerated. Good place for my kid. Seems like all employees were on short term contracts.
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How dare anyone question whether the guy with a lethal drug dose shoved up his behind asphyxiated!
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Floyd couldn't breathe because his lungs filled with fluid from the fatal fentanyl overdose. Too bad Floyd neglected to mention the drug overdose to the cops.
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Too bad Floyd neglected to mention the drug overdose to the cops.
If memory serves, he did tell the cops he had put fentanyl up his bunghole.
Don't quite recall the slang term he used. (not my scene, if you know what I mean)
[NYP] Bill Gates has predicted that the world will be "completely back to normal" from the COVID-19 pandemic by the end of 2022.
The Microsoft founder said the health crisis has been an "incredible tragedy," but one bright spot has been the arrival of vaccines.
"By the end of 2022 we should be basically completely back to normal," Gates said in an interview for Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza and television broadcaster TVN24.
His wife, Melinda Gates, also provided a similar timeline earlier this month when asked when she believed global herd immunity could be reached against the virus.
Noting that vaccines probably won’t reach developing countries "en masse" until the end of this year, she said that "it’ll be sometime in 2022."
"And boy, I think we’re all looking forward to that. There are a lot of people that are suffering, not just in the US but everywhere," Melinda said on CNBC.
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It's very rarely ever been 'normal'. Barbaric maybe with islands of calm that last until the neighbors decide to be true to their base human nature.
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Bill Gates’s foundation invested $40 million in CureVac, a German m-RNA vaccine developer back in 2015. Their Covid vaccine is now in stage 3 clinical testing; they’ve pre-sold 5 million doses to the Swiss government in anticipation of approval in a few months, but missed out on the American and British markets. So their interest is selling to the rest of the world...and incidentally increasing European and worldwide resilience to the next thing “accidentally” coming out of China.
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Bill Gates, known for delivering a shoddy product eventually made almost acceptable through constant upgrades. Might have been good enough for Windows but not for a Vaccine.
[Chairman's Blog via PJ] Gallup surveyed 33 nations in Latin America and the Caribbean and found that a whopping 27 percent of 450 million people wanted to leave home. Further, of those who wanted to leave their homes permanently, 35 percent, or 42 million people, wanted to emigrate to the U.S.
Chairman’s Blog:
Seekers of citizenship or asylum are watching to determine exactly when and how is the best time to make their move.
In addition to finding a solution for the thousands of migrants currently at the border, let’s include the bigger, harder question — what about all of those who would like to come? What is the message to them?
What is the 10-year plan?
330 million U.S. citizens are wondering. So are 42 million Latin Americans.
This is an instance where our hearts are getting in the way of our heads. We like to think of America as a welcoming oasis for the poor and downtrodden of the world. Otherwise, what’s the Statue of Liberty for?
But the reality is far less romantic. Billions of people around the world could be considered "poor and downtrodden" as well as oppressed, persecuted, and hunted. They live in hovels in some countries, corrugated tin houses in others. Many don’t even have homes. Or enough to eat. Or clean water to drink.
Simply put, we can’t save them all.
These potential migrants don’t see the U.S. as a racist, oppressor state — an inconvenient fact that is never mentioned by BLM and the rainbow of racial rights groups that drone on and on about "white privilege," and "systemic racism." Why do they want to come?
Perhaps it’s for clean water. Maybe it’s because a generous government will feed them and clothe them and house them. More likely, they want to wake up in the morning and not feel like they’re taking their lives in their hands just by walking out the door.
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Just got to find another reclassification that the left loves so much to reinvent colonialism. Then we can ship out tons of useless bureaucrats that can kill their time running other people's lives in scenic and exotic locations. No need to come here, we'll go there.
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Mexico's left-wing president supported Trump and criticized Biden. He knows it's the corrupt elitists in Mexico and the US who want to kick out Central America & Mexico's desperately poor and dump them on the US. He wants to raise standards for his own country's workers by reforming Mexico's hideously corrupt politics and labor markets.
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This is why my plan for taking over South America would work so well. And yes, when I was working at the refinery with a huge number of people from South America and Mexico, I put it to them and they all agreed.
Take the top part of Mexico, offer them the chance to become a US Territory and eventually a state. Clear out the cartels and corrupt local and state government there, and slowly work on converting them to be part of the US. Minimum 10-15 years as a US territory. Then just slowly work your way south.
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Take the top part of Mexico, offer them the chance to become a US Territory and eventually a state. Clear out the cartels and corrupt local and state government there
Can we clear out the cartels, gangs and corrupt government from California first? As a proof of concept.
{Breitbart] President Biden’s choice of Linda Thomas-Greenfield as U.N. Ambassador is a disaster for persecuted Christians according to an article Thursday in the Christian Post.
Writer Hedieh Mirahmadi, a counter-terrorism expert and a convert from Islam to Christianity, declares that "Christian persecution may reach our own shores" if Thomas-Greenfield’s first official speech is an indicator of things to come.
In her address to the U.N. General Assembly last Friday, Thomas-Greenfield stumped for the Black Lives Matter movement and railed against systemic racism, insisting that "we need to dismantle white supremacy at every turn."
"Racism is the problem of the racist. And it is the problem of the society that produces the racist. And in today’s world, that is every society," she asserted.
"And in so many of our communities and countries, racism is endemic," she continued. "It’s built in, like a rot in a frame. And it remains, and it festers, and it spreads because many of those in charge allow it to. Others look away and pretend it’s not there. But like a cancer, if ignored, it grows."
Praising the 1619 Project, Thomas-Greenfield asserted that "slavery is the original sin of America. It’s weaved white supremacy and black inferiority into our founding documents and principles."
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An absolutely salacious story. There is a wide body of evidence readily available which clearly supports the calming, sensibility, and effectiveness that can be brought to any issue or agency by the appointment of Wacandan affirmative action females. Please someone, delete this article at once.
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Thomas-Greenfield served in the State Dept during the Obama admin.
If confirmed she will presumably have to carry out US Policy rather than make policy but in the Harris-Biden Admin who really knows what that even means.
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[Conservative Tree House] Glenn Greenwald has a great breakdown of a letter submitted by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) about the political weaponization of the intelligence community. For those who have tracked this issue Greenwald’s article is well worth the read.
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A decade or so late? Actually, a quarter century late. One could see the handwriting on the wall when the CIA had to be pulled kicking and screaming into the hated Reagan's war on narcotics trafficking.
[American Thinker] It is time to leave Illinois. It's not the three feet of snow; the corruption and tax increases; or even that my city, Evanston, voted in 2019 to award reparations. The tipping point is that my alderman, the lone reasonable, fiscally responsible voice on the city council, was trounced in our city primary election.
Illinois has been in a steady decline, but there are now "new and improved" reasons to leave the state. In the last month, Governor J.B. Pritzker signed one of the most aggressively anti-police crime bills in the country, and the state adopted the most progressive, anti-intellectual education bill in the country.
Illinois H.B. 3653 removes the handcuffs from criminals and puts them on the police. Its anti-law enforcement measures include:
lowering the standards for cash bail, resulting in far fewer pre-trial detentions;
banning chokeholds and changing "use of force" standards;
limiting and requiring protection of vulnerable people during searches;
allowing unsworn anonymous complaints as a permanent part of an officer's misconduct file; and
controlling the certification and de-certification of law enforcement.
Police families' frustrations are felt in their dinner conversations about drug-dealers flushing evidence in the toilet while cops knock to announce their searches and the now weekly social media posts announcing the death or injury of police co-workers. Normally welcome warmer weather just means more crime along with an explosion of car-jackings and robberies in broad daylight. The irony of the un-self-aware family (whose basement-dwelling, drug-dealing son has inspired two drive-by shootings) moving because the neighborhood is "too dangerous" is not lost on my neighbors who no longer have to police the block themselves.
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And that state is soooooo in debt (which the Dems in D.C. are all so willing to bail out). There is no redeeming quality about the state of Illinois.
[Jpost] - For the past two years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s detractors have claimed that if he would only get out of the way — resign, retire or expire — the problem of electoral impasse would instantly be solved. Some background that I highly recommend - proportional representation, and its consequences, is not very familiar to most Americans.
...THIS BRINGS us to the current apparent stalemate, which the final vote count might break. Still, the so-called "tie" between the blocs, with question marks about Naftali Bennett’s Yamina Party and Ra’am, headed by Mansour Abbas, is a fallacy. Unlike in past elections, pollsters have not been scanning the political map from Left to Right. Instead, their charts divide the pie into pro-Netanyahu vs. anti-Netanyahu slices.
In other words, the parties’ stances on the crucial issues (i.e. vaccines, the Abraham Accords, the Iranian threat or Jerusalem-Washington relations) have taken a back seat to their view of Netanyahu personally. And since members of the anybody-but-Bibi side have nothing in common other than a shared hostility to Netanyahu, it can’t be considered a camp in any sense of the word. If Bibi were to say "I've accomplished that no other Israeli PM could even dream off, and that's what I get - f*ck you, I'm retiring!" They won't be able to form a government
The pro-Netanyahu bloc is a different story. In the first place, Likud is still far larger than other party, including Yesh Atid, the second in line. Beyond that, those nearly certain to stick by Netanyahu — United Torah Judaism, Shas and Religious Zionism — share certain fundamentals.
If an impasse follows the final tally, it will be due not to an ideological split in the country, but to those on the Right who wish to get Netanyahu out of the way. Liberman remains so steadfast in his antipathy that his party is no longer considered any sort of potential coalition partner with Likud.
In his place is Gideon Sa’ar, a longtime Likud member who ran and lost against Netanyahu in the party primaries. Sa’ar, who formed the New Hope Party and took a few other disgruntled Likud politicians with him, says that there is no way he’ll support Netanyahu. Gideon Sa’ar is a lifelong professional politician - IMO, the only question here is how much is his price.
Though Bennett has been clear that he wishes to replace Netanyahu rather than serve as a minister in a Likud-led government, it’s possible that he’ll be persuaded to change his mind.
In the event that he doesn’t, and if Netanyahu is unable to garner outside support from Ra’am or obtain defectors from other parties, the most likely scenario is a fifth election. The chances of an anybody-but-Bibi coalition being forged seem slim to nil at this juncture. Calling it a "government of change" doesn’t alter that reality.
WHETHER ONE accepts the premise that Israel’s longest-serving prime minister is at fault for the electoral deadlock, the assertion that his absence would make all the difference is revealing. For one thing, it is an acknowledgment of his formidability.
...There’s no doubt that he’s responsible for much of the resentment on the part of Liberman, Bennett and Sa’ar, each of whom at one point was in his inner circle. Netanyahu’s biggest flaws are his mistreatment of loyalists and refusal to cultivate an heir.
Nevertheless, he’s still standing, thanks to the public who gave the party he heads the most votes. To expect him to bow out "for the good" of the very country whose populace handed him more mandates than any of his contenders is ludicrous.
Israel’s parliamentary democracy is not based on the direct election of the prime minister; it requires the creation of a coalition. If no party is successful at the endeavor, a new election has to be held. Perhaps it’s time to start reforming the system, rather than blaming Bibi for working it to his advantage Wrong, wrong, wrong!
(a) We tried it - it didn't work.
(b) The biggest strength of parliamentary system with proportional representation, is the need to form a coalition. And coalition negotiation prevent anyone like (name your "favorite" POTUS) becoming chief executive.
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That would never work in the US, we'd end up in a shooting war with ourselves fast. But it does seem to work well for Israel. I've always had more fear of the US abandoning Israel than Israel's own government selling out and bowing to the Jihadi's.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The Great Terror of the Stalin era descended upon the Soviet people as the price for a prosperous future. The question that a bystander poses, however, when he sees people in supermarkets fighting over a bag of sugar or baby formulas would go as: What is the slogan and project forcing the Lebanese to endure this? How would "Christian rights" be of benefit if there are no more Christians or Moslems in Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... ? What are the rewards that the ruling clique hopes to reap after the country becomes a pile of sand? Does the presidency of the republic deserve this price?
Does anyone care about the pain and anguish of those who cannot find a free bed in a hospital or medicine in a pharmacy? Does the increasing suicide rate of desperate young people- who can’t immigrate out of the country after having their future stolen from them- mean anything to those with a rigid sectarian mindset? Will the resistance’s weapons, which killed the people of Madaya, Yabroud, and al-Qusayr, console the mothers who can’t transfer money to their children living in limbo abroad because the banks are preventing her from doing so? What is the purpose of all this? Rather what are the politicians, bankers, and blood merchants hoping to gain from the destruction of this miserable country? Indeed, will Lebanon’s ruins and ashes allow for their greedy and depraved deals?
The current dark state of affairs could lead us to forget that we are not mere hostages of small politicians, and nor are we cards to be played in an insane region; it leaves us forgetting that before anything else, we are human beings who have struggled to retrieve our dignity from our occupiers and their clients for a long time. This is what stands between us and death. Thus, it is urgent that we document the crimes that the clique clinging to power is committing against the Lebanese, just as writers and researchers have documented the horrors of the Nakba and the Holocaust. Otherwise, we would leave room for forgers, opportunists and parasites to shape them.
While the popular movement was forcefully put down through sectarian mobs, silencers and bags filled with Ammonium Nitrate that destroyed Beirut, this doesn’t mean that shaping memories and history should be vacated in favor of the narrative of the alliance clinging to power and their lies and fabrications. From the depth of our graves and the gutters of our poverty, with our empty stomachs, we must not forget the names and faces of the members of this repulsive, criminal alliance. They caused the afflictions that people of this country do not deserve, leaving them living under conditions that make the most violent mostly peaceful phases of the civil war seem like a picnic when juxtaposed with the current state of affairs.
We must memorize their lines, dogmatism and their manipulation of simple people’s feelings, inciting them to hate, kill and steal, with rhetoric adorned with claims of virtue, reform and purity. We hope that the day we denounce their arrogance and depravity to their faces is not far off; we will remind them of how they misled their citizens and crushed them under the weight of corruption, fear and poverty.
These generations might not be lucky enough to see the day. It seems that there is no escaping the formulation of the story of the darkest of days that had been brought upon the country by belligerent mobs and mercenaries to whom the country unfortunately submitted to, as the majority preferred the cave to the breeze of freedom. It is the story of a crime whose victims haplessly and silently watch themselves being led to their demise after their hands and feet were made heavy with chains of hate and fear. This story will be the Lebanese of the present’s contribution to the history of human savagery and man’s viciousness toward his fellow man.
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If one has read Alvin Toffler, they will know that his Wave Theory is the half-baked justification and his 'prophecies' the motivation behind the compulsion of the globalLeft to destroy everything our fathers have built.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Federalist] Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington rebuked Big Tech companies for using their power "to manipulate and harm our children," in a joint hearing with CEOs from Facebook, Twitter, and Google on Thursday. 
[Right Scoop] In Ohio, a teacher was recently axed over issues concerning the death of George Floyd.
[NYP] Bill Gates has predicted that the world will be "completely back to normal" from the COVID-19 pandemic by the end of 2022.
[Chairman's Blog via PJ] Gallup surveyed 33 nations in Latin America and the Caribbean and found that a whopping 27 percent of 450 million people wanted to leave home. Further, of those who wanted to leave their homes permanently, 35 percent, or 42 million people, wanted to emigrate to the U.S.
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
