The outage is compounding a public relations nightmare for Facebook as whistleblower Frances Haugen will testify to Congress on Tuesday. During a "60 Minutes" interview, Haugen, 37, a data scientist from Iowa, revealed herself as the whistleblower who filed complaints with law enforcement alleging that Facebook's own research shows its platform amplifies hate, misinformation, and political unrest — data that Facebook has hidden from the public. She plans to ask Congress to introduce new regulations against the social media giant.
Standing on the start-finish line of the famed Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama, an NBC Sports reporter was interviewing winning driver Brandon Brown, whose victory on Saturday marked his first win in NASCAR's top three divisions.
During the interview, fans in the grandstands began audibly chanting against President Joe Biden.
The Post had reported, in great detail, how it had physically obtained Hunter’s laptop. It had interviewed the owner of the Delaware computer shop where Hunter had abandoned his computer. It had Hunter’s signature on a receipt. The Post had on-the-record sources with intimate knowledge of Hunter’s interactions. And later, the emails were authenticated by forensic specialists.
Yet virtually the entire censorious journalistic establishment, with the help of tech giants, attempted to limit the story’s exposure by banning it outright, creating the impression that it didn’t meet proper journalistic standards or that it had been planted by Russian spooks.
"After successfully teaching 15 different finance, accounting, and law classes at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management to tens of thousands of students for 40 years without any incidents or complaints, lecturer Gordon Klein got suspended, canceled, pilloried, and banned from campus in the summer of 2020.
Gordon’s supposed misdeed was that herefused to change his standard race-neutral, non-discriminatory, color-blind grading policy at the request of one of his white students in June 2020 who requested racially preferential grading for black students in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis while in police custody (see Gordon’s email response here)...Read all!
global retreat and appeasement, which will ultimately lead to war, "...But from that situation, China understood that to take over Taiwan it needed to significantly improve its navy and air force, acquire defensible landing vessels, and find a way to kill the American aircraft carriers.
China has had 25 years to fix these problems and has done so by building very modern fighter planes (including the stealthy J-20) and nuclear bombers, landing ships such as the Type 075 Yushen Class large deck amphibious ships that can carry troops, helicopters, and armored vehicles, and carrier killer missiles. ...It isn’t clear at what point, using what strategies,
China would reach the conclusion it could successfully attack U.S. aircraft carriers.
Unfortunately, the same is true on the American side: it isn’t clear that the United States could stop a Chinese anti-carrier missile attack and we won’t really know until it happens.
...The current administration needs to turn around its policy approach of global retreat and appeasement, which will ultimately lead to war, and adopt a new strategy to deal with China before it is too late. Read all!
By increasing the IRS budget by $80 billion as part of its plan, the Biden administration hopes to squeeze an extra $700 billion out of taxpayers. And it gets worse. The bill contains a provision that would grant the IRS automatic access to nearly every American's bank account, without even the allegation of any financial irregularities. The plan would require banks to inform the IRS whenever an American makes a transaction of just $600 or more. Voters reject this invasion of their privacy by 73 percent. Just 18 percent think it's a good idea.
As a final insult, the Biden administration was overly rosy in its $3.5 trillion budget projection. The real price tag for taxpayers—excluding Biden's colossal infrastructure plan—will come in closer to $5.5 trillion.
"China Evergrande, once the country's second-largest real estate developer, is drowning in debt. Some 1.5 million people have put deposits on new homes that have yet to be built.
A collapse could be catastrophic.
Meanwhile, China is in the grip of a power crunch as a shortage of coal supplies, toughening emissions standards and strong demand from manufacturers and industry have pushed coal prices to record highs and triggered widespread curbs on usage."
After last week’s House vote that saw all but one Democrat, Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and no Republicans vote for the Women’s Health Protection Act, a bill that would establish a federal right to an abortion, the party that once claimed to stand for “the little guy”—the littlest being the unborn baby—has now hit the trifecta.
It has become the party of death, debt, and debauchery. Deception could be added, but that would require changing the metaphor to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
A federal judge appointed to his post in 2017 by then-President Donald Trump reportedly dropped a stunning truth bomb about the Jan. 6th rioters during a sentencing hearing Friday for convicted Jan. 6th rioter Danielle Doyle.
"U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden noted that prosecutors have been treating the Jan. 6th rioters who’d rioted for a single day significantly harsher than the Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters who’d rioted for an entire summer and longer.
The judge specifically “questioned why federal prosecutors had not brought more cases against those accused in 2020 summertime protests, reading out statistics on riot cases in the nation’s capital that were not prosecuted,” according to the Associated Press. He also accused the D.C. prosecutors who were present in his courtroom that day of having fallen prey to the same inconsistency. “I think the U.S. attorney would have more credibility if it was even-handed in its concern about riots and mobs in this city,” McFadden said.
...Meanwhile, many of the BLM/Antifa rioters from last year were seen harassing and/or assaulting bystanders, looting/vandalizing stores, setting fire to buildings, shutting down city traffic, etc...Read all.
Media Hides Secret in $3.5 Trillion Spending Bill "There’s one piece of the $3.5 trillion spending bill that the media is unlikely to tell you about—their bailout. The massive, bloated $3.5 billion spending bill has so much pork that fiscal hawks could eat it for weeks. One piece that hasn’t received much attention yet is a special journalism “tax credit” equal to 50% of the salary of each journalist—up to $50,000 per journalist annually. Yes, that’s correct, your tax dollars would be paying 50% of the salary of many journalists, whether you like their reporting or not"...Read all!!!!!
"We’ve been watching a growing phenomenon over the past few weeks that started at college football games – the chant “F**k Joe Biden!” ...But over the past few weeks, it’s branched out to other events as well, including anti-mandate protests. It even made it to the fans at the Mets versus Yankees game, even into the broadcast booth...
...Definitely the one that wins the prize for highest visibility with worst media attempt to cover it up was the NBC reaction at the NASCAR Xfinity race at Talladega.
...But when he was interviewed in a live interview by NBC, there came the chant again.
Listen at the desperate effort of the reporter to spin what the crowd is chanting.
The reporter tries to spin the chant as “Let’s go, Brandon.” Um, no, not even close. It’s pretty clear what it is. But she did her best to cover it....Read all.
Border Patrol’s horse patrol unit in Del Rio, Texas, is “alive and well,” operating daily despite a White House claim that mounted agents had been pulled from their saddles following false abuse allegations, two officials told the Washington Examiner.
Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz told federal law enforcement officials this week that agents assigned to the equestrian unit in the Del Rio region are “still operating despite the alleged ban Biden officials imposed,” according to a senior U.S. border official.
2. Chart of the Day II (above). Following a long-term historical reality, high school boys have greater math aptitude and out-perform high school girls on the Math SAT, especially for the highest test scores. In 2021, 153 boys scored 700-800 for every 100 girls. Not. Even. Close. This statistically significant gender math difference suggests, that despite the ongoing efforts and diversion of millions of dollars in funding, it may be impossible to ever “close the gender gap” for degrees in engineering and computer science as so many universities seemed determined to futilely achieve.
Sorry for exposing the statistical falsehood that “there just aren’t any gender differences anymore in math aptitude.”...Read all.
1648 - The first volunteer fire department was established in New York by Peter Stuyvesant.
1895 - The first U.S. Open golf tournament took place in Newport, RI.
1927 - The first actual work of carving began on Mount Rushmore.
1931 - The comic strip "Dick Tracy" made its debut in the Detroit Daily Mirror. The strip was created by Chester Gould.
1957 - "Leave it to Beaver" debuted on CBS-TV.
1957 - The Soviet Union launched Sputnik I into orbit around the Earth. Sputnik was the first manmade satellite to enter space. Sputnik I fell out of orbit on January 4, 1958
1993 - Dozens of Somalis dragged an American soldier through the streets of Mogadishu. A videotape showed Michael Durant being taken prisoner by Somali militants.
The researcher, Shi Zhengli, is a prominent virologist at the Wuhan lab, which is facing international scrutiny over concerns that risky coronavirus research performed there may be linked to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The commentary, published by Emerging Microbes & Infections in February 2020, was titled, "No credible evidence supporting claims of the laboratory engineering of SARS-CoV-2." The paper was written by Shan-Lu Liu, Linda J. Saif, Susan R. Weiss, and Lishan Su.
"Broadcaster Calvin Robinson says “the average person” in the United Kingdom is “quite sick and tired” of hearing about climate change and net-zero.
...“So, I think if people really want to make a difference, they need to be lobbying China.
“Why are we hearing Greta Thunberg tell us how horrible we are and why is COP26 such a big deal when China’s pumping out so much CO2 than the rest of the world combined?”
Report: Americans Being “Shamed” Into Getting Vaccinated by CDC Callers "A woman who received a phone call from the CDC’s National Immunization Surveys (NIS) claims she was told she wasn’t on the federal agency’s ‘vaxxed list’ and was subsequently “shamed” and “pressured” into getting the jab. ...According to this branch of the CDC, “The National Immunization Surveys (NIS) are a group of telephone surveys sponsored and conducted by CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD).” ...If the details of the call Foley related are true, the CDC does actually have a list of people who have and haven’t been vaccinated and is hiding that fact from the American public.
The Senate voted on Thursday to confirm President Joe Biden’s controversial nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Tracy Stone-Manning, in a 50–45 vote along party lines.
Stone-Manning’s affiliation with ecoterrorists and her role in a tree spiking plot from three decades ago resurfaced in June during her nomination process, resulting in a wave of objections to her nomination to lead the BLM, the agency overseeing vast swaths of federal land in mostly western states.
China has had 25 years to fix these problems and has done so by building very modern fighter planes (including the stealthy J-20) and nuclear bombers, landing ships such as the Type 075 Yushen Class large deck amphibious ships that can carry troops, helicopters, and armored vehicles, and carrier killer missiles.
The judge specifically “questioned why federal prosecutors had not brought more cases against those accused in 2020 summertime protests, reading out statistics on riot cases in the nation’s capital that were not prosecuted,” according to the Associated Press.
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