A sign up page for the application TikTok is shown on a cell phone in front of a screen with logos for the company in Sydney, Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Australia had become the last of the Five Eyes security partners to ban the Chinese-owned TikTok ap from government devices. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
TikTok's threat to American data must be a top national security concern
TikTok recently admitted in a letter to me that the app’s source code can originate in China. This means there could be backdoors in the code that gives the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans’ private information. This is a major threat to our national security and to the data privacy of users.
Over the last several years, TikTok has taken young Americans, and the world, by storm. Yet what started as a platform for users to share short, light-hearted videos has rapidly transformed into a surveillance and data-stealing app manipulated by the CCP. Let me be clear: Americans using TikTok are putting themselves in harm's way. And allowing the CCP to continue having access to a data-mining app on our shores is a clear and present danger to our homeland security.
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, a Beijing-based company, has well-known ties to the CCP. This is a problem because there is no separation between the regime and corporations in communist China. This relationship is even worse for tech companies in the regime. According to China’s so-called national security laws, companies based in China are expected to turn their data over to the CCP when asked for it.
If that isn’t alarming enough, the red flags keep coming. Recently, the tech giant’s former head of engineering for U.S. operations claimed in a lawsuit that ByteDance has a “culture of lawlessness” and operates as a propaganda tool for the CCP. He also alleged that a committee of CCP officials oversees the company’s apps to track how core communist values are being advanced. According to this former executive, this committee has access to all of the company's data — even the data stored in the United States.
These concerns aren’t new. In a recent House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing, my colleagues pointed out there are no legitimate safeguards to ensure the People’s Republic of China isn’t using TikTok to spread CCP propaganda, spy on U.S. citizens, or collect our children’s data.
ByteDance is working overtime to convince lawmakers that it doesn’t work side by side with the CCP, but in reality, the two work hand in hand. ByteDance even tried changing the name of its subsidiaries to hide the CCP’s involvement in TikTok — but we aren’t falling for it.
This is a topic Democrats and Republicans can agree on. Neither side of the aisle wants to see the CCP manipulate our young people or put their privacy and data at risk. And we are all concerned about the risk TikTok presents to our national security.
Both FBI Director Christopher Wray and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines have expressed grave concern over the CCP’s ability to target American audiences, especially younger ones, with communist information campaigns. TikTok has millions of users all over America, and over 70% are under the age of 35. Part of TikTok’s user agreement allows access to users’ phone contacts. How many of your children is the CCP monitoring?
As the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, it is my job to ensure America’s cyber border is protected. That’s why I sent a letter to Shou Zi Chew, the CEO of TikTok, demanding to know more about where TikTok’s source code is developed, who in China has access to that code, and if there are any “back doors” to this code that would enable CCP officials to access the servers that house the data of Americans.
TikTok’s response to my letter confirmed my concerns. It stated that “TikTok has software engineers throughout the world, including the United States and China.” The letter went on to say that using “a global engineering workforce to write software code is not unusual.” While this might be the case, it isn’t good enough for me. We need assurances that engineers affiliated with the CCP will have no role in writing TikTok’s source code. Anything less than this is unacceptable.
That’s why I introduced my China Technology Transfer Control Act. This legislation addresses the CCP’s growing technological threat against our national security by limiting what technology we export to China. We need more legislation like this that takes the threat of the CCP seriously.
If the CCP has access to Americans’ private data through TikTok, Congress must know about it. My advice is to delete TikTok from your devices, and your children’s devices, as soon as possible. If stealing your family’s data isn’t enough of a threat, the data of service members, government workers, and first responders in your contacts should be.
Mark Green is a U.S. representative for Tennessee and serves as the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee and on the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees.
This March 17, 2014 photo shows a Wendy's single hamburger with cheese combo meal at a Wendy's restaurant in Pittsburgh. Wendy's reports quarterly earnings on Thursday, May 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Gene J. Puskar
Wendy's to experiment with having Google AI chatbot take drive-thru orders
Wendy's is working with Google to automate its drive-thru service, the latest example of generative artificial intelligence being incorporated into everyday life.
The fast food company will begin rolling out the AI-powered software in June at a Columbus, Ohio, restaurant as part of an experiment to see how the technology holds up under long lines and stress, according to the Wall Street Journal. The AI will be powered by Google's large language model, the software that powers the algorithm beneath the chatbot. The bot will be trained to sell Wendy's products and understand various relevant terms.
"It will be very conversational," Wendy's CEO Todd Penegor said. "You won't know you're talking to anybody but an employee."
While a conversation about ordering a cheeseburger may seem simple in principle, researchers note that the process will be pretty complicated for the program. "You may think driving by and speaking into a drive-through is an easy problem for AI, but it's actually one of the hardest," said Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian. This includes learning to process extra noise, such as music or children in the background. It will also need to know how to process changes in orders or the specifics that may come with them.
Penegor said that the AI chatbot is not related to Wendy's ongoing restructuring efforts and that he does not intend to replace workers with it. Rather, he hopes it will help the workers do their jobs better.
Wendy's is the latest business to be affected by the increasing use of AI in the corporate world. Companies such as IBM, Samsung, and Chegg have reported seeing their operations significantly affected by AI.
Missouri v. Biden was filed on May 5, 2022. Since it was initially filed, it has taken quite a trip through the court system. The complaint has been amended 3 times, with the most recent Amendment being to transform the case into a class suit—due to the overwhelming evidence of broad harm to the constitutional rights of all Americans. You can view the docket by using this link. Part 1 Part 2:
In one of the more immoral and heartbreaking exchanges, Meta let the government know that they heard their calls for more censorship. They decided that in response to White House pressure, they would remove content that, in their words, was “often true.” What content/groups/pages? That of the vaccine injured sharing their horrific stories and finding some community when everyone they needed for help refused to help or acknowledge them.
They also assured the White House they would limit message forwards on WhatsApp, gave detailed reports on censorship to government bureaucrats, and would censor “non-violative content, such as dissuading the choice to vaccinate in terms of personal or civil liberties,” and “concerns related to mistrust in institutions.”
Think about this for a second. The government—the people you “elected” to represent you—are having social media companies censor talk about your individual rights and criticism of them.
“We hear your call for us to do more, and as I said on the call, we are committed to working towards our shared goal,” said Facebook…
This after a triple punch of threats were lobbed at social media companies in mid-July 2021… By the next day, the Disinformation dozen, as was Alex Berenson, were de-platformed entirely.
This was in direct response to the public threats coming from authoritarian government actors.
Missouri v. Biden
The government argues that it never “forced” social platforms to do anything. However, even their argument against this proves the Plaintiff’s point that the government shouldn’t be *assisting* social media platforms with censorship activities against American citizens.
The government then argues that they’ve backed off of all of this—no more COVID censorship- that isn’t a problem anymore. However, they’ve moved on to OTHER topics based on evidence uncovered in the lawsuit—Climate change, “gendered disinformation,” abortion, and economic policy.
Virtually every single topic of national importance the government wants to gatekeep. They don’t want popular ideas and viewpoints gaining traction so that they can continue the charade that EVERYONE agrees with transitioning minors to the opposite gender; EVERYONE agrees that killing unborn babies is ok, especially after 20 weeks, etc., etc.
The culture war is emblazoned in EVERYTHING—it is a destabilization tool. Anyone who tells you NOT to consider it one of the most critical issues we are facing is unable to understand our true fight or knows and doesn’t care.
The Office of the Surgeon General under Murthy also coordinated with the White House. They ran a lot of their censorship through the Virality Project, but they also acted directly with socials in meetings, etc. Eric Waldo, the right hand of Murthy, was deposed in his stead—and it was damning. Eric Waldo was listed in the six pages of witnesses that the government let go or reassigned a few weeks ago.
The Surgeon General demanded a set of actions regarding censorship—and the platforms responded—under duress.
Murthy described disfavored viewpoints as “an imminent and insidious threat to our nation’s health” and said of social platforms, “We are asking them to consistently take action against misinformation super-spreaders on their platforms.”
This wasn’t “assisting,” which would also be illegal.
He also stated, “We can’t wait longer for them to take aggressive action because it’s costing people their lives.”
Again, what cost people their lives was the CENSORSHIP. They know this.
They literally threatened social media companies with legal and regulatory measures should they not police, remove, and censor Americans sharing health information they disapproved of.
The list of ways the government colluded with, threatened, and acted as an arm of social media companies when censoring speech is MILES long. Here is another example. Murthy/Waldo et al. reached out to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, AND GOOGLE with demands, and all companies responded with how they diligently complied in the face of regulatory retaliation.
Murthy even went so far as to put out an official RFI (Request for Information) to the social media companies demanding information on their censorship policies and how they were enforced and detailed information on disfavored speakers. This is unbelievable, but their hubris has gotten the best of them.
This brief is the detailed documentation of the partnership between these institutions and the private taxpayer-funded organizations they used to do their dirty work. Of particular interest here are the Virality Project and Stanford Internet Observatory—I am mentioned in the Twitter files due to an SIO report. They tried to dissect and discredit my legal analysis and failed.
Here we learn more about the tragic web of public/private partnerships executing this censorship enterprise. The government is trying to argue they closed up shop—again—but public testimony and other information obtained during discovery beg to differ.
And not to be outdone, of course, the CDC gets involved. It is the same laundry list of issues, every agency doing the same thing—censoring you for sharing your thoughts and information on social media. What I didn’t have on my “Censorship BINGO” card was the CENSUS BUREAU.
Understand—the purpose here wasn’t to provide the public with information for informed consent—the sole purpose—the ONLY purpose of this push was to stop “vaccine refusal.” They wanted EVERY SINGLE PERSON vaccinated. When Facebook asked the CDC for information regarding several posts on the platform, the CDC responded, “It appears that any of these could potentially cause vaccine refusal.” There isn’t talk of whether the posts were factually accurate—just talk of what they think the result of people READING those posts will be….
When Facebook asked the CDC for information regarding several posts on the platform, the CDC responded, “It appears that any of these could potentially cause vaccine refusal.”
There isn’t talk of whether the posts were factually accurate—just talk of what they think the result of people READING those posts will be….
The CDC even used the platform’s OWN TOOLS to report accounts for censorship. They had accounts and could log on to report things they wanted action taken on… How the government tried to weasel an explanation of this one?
“We no longer really meet with these platforms very much at all, judge.”
Here they discuss CISA and its “Switchboarding” activities, where multiple employees would simultaneously “intern” or vice versa with EIP and Stanford and take an active role in censorship via this “help desk.”
Missouri v. Biden
The government continuously tries to argue that all of this behavior has “stopped..” Except what we KNOW ABOUT only “stopped” after this groundbreaking lawsuit was filed…
Missouri v. Biden
The government also claims that CISA had nothing to do with the EIP (Election Integrity Project) – but through discovery in this case, we learned that the EIP was FORMED to be the “gap” between what the government could get away with after pushing the envelope, and what a private org could do.
The problem is the government can’t do through a private org what they can’t do officially.
Missouri v. Biden
Additionally, while they claim (again) they have shut all of this down, high-level CISA officially Brian Scully testified in a deposition that they have WIDENED their net to even conversations about the U.S. banking system, the war in Ukraine and racial justice.
A truly Orwellian censorship MONSTER operating under the flimsy excuse of protecting “national security” and the “safety” of Americans. If you aren’t sufficiently outraged yet, you should be.
Missouri v. Biden
Jen Easterly, head of CISA, said the following—this is a direct quote—it is “really, really dangerous if people get to pick their own facts.”
She wanted to organize CISA to act as the coordination point for ALL agencies—hence the disinformation governance board that was “disbanded.”
Missouri v. Biden
The following section is a DEEP DIVE into the nation’s largest LAW ENFORCEMENT agency which is now acting, as @Real_SteveFriend said, as an “intelligence agency with LE powers.”
DEEP DIVE INTO FBI
We will now delve into the FBI’s role in widespread domestic censorship. The FBI tries to hide behind the guise of “fighting back against foreign information warfare” as it censors Americans. They engage in mass flagging operations, sharing tactical information with platforms, such as IP addresses, email accounts, website domain names, and file hash values. The accounts “flagged” are targeted by the FBI for “account takedowns.”
The FBI uses an encrypted app called “Teleporter” to communicate with social media companies. They send censorship lists 1-5 times a month (likely more, IMO.) Each one of those lists could contain hundreds of accounts for censorship. The FBI demands that seven major social media platforms report back to them on what action they have taken on the targeted accounts. Sounds kosher.
The FBI doesn’t care who gets swept up in its censorship of supposedly “foreign” accounts. I started the #ReleaseTheMemo hashtag, and they pretended I and all of you were Russian. The FBI made platforms take down a supposedly Russian “Secure the Border” post, a pro-second-amendment post, and a Black Matters post. All of the million “likes” on these posts were an act of 1st amendment expression. They also had platforms block a supposedly Russian website hosting journalists—many American journalists.
The FBI also runs a “Command Post” around Election Day that specifically flags domestic “disinformation” for removal. The FBI has a 50% success rate of getting content removed from platforms, as per evidence produced in this case.
Here, FBI Agent Elvis Chan, who the government fought to keep from being deposed, testified that there was no basis for thinking there were any impending “Hack and Leak” operations coming from Russia- but it didn’t stop them from using that to stop the Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 election. They banned journalists and entire newspapers at the behest of the FBI.
The government STRONGLY leans on the congressional testimony of Yoel Roth about the Biden laptop story—but his testimony actually corroborates the Plaintiff’s pleadings—the FBI pressured Twitter and other social media companies to remove the Hunter Biden laptop story and ban anyone who shared it. Orwellian.
Back to the “#ReleaseTheMemo” incident—@mtaibbi exposed this during the #TwitterFiles: There was NO indication that this was something nefarious and foreign in nature- but that didn’t stop leftist politicians from writing threatening letters to Twitter about the hashtag. But at the time, Twitter’s Global Policy Communications Chief Emily Horne wrote privately that this hashtag and a related hashtag “appear to be organically trending” and that Twitter “ha[s] not seen any indications that the accounts engaging in this activity for either hashtag are predominately Russian, or that Russian accounts are driving the engagement. The vast majority of what we’re seeing here … appears to be organic in nature.”
The rest of this filing is a legal argument- and it is super interesting. Just understand that everything you have read here AND MORE will be in front of a judge tomorrow as he hears arguments on whether or not he should grant a temporary injunction.
This is the ultimate remedy sought in the case: I look forward to hearing the oral argument tomorrow, but what I am most looking forward to is the judge’s questions…. He takes no nonsense, and it will likely be very entertaining…
Members of the Walter Johnson High School debate team in Bethesda, Maryland, take part in an American tradition in 2005. (Nikki Kahn via Getty Images)
My four years on a high school debate team in Broward County, Florida, taught me to challenge ideas, question assumptions, and think outside the box. It also helped me overcome a terrible childhood stutter. And I wasn’t half-bad: I placed ninth my first time at the National Speech & Debate Association (NSDA) nationals, sixth at the Harvard national, and was runner-up at the Emory national.
After college, between 2017 and 2019, I coached a debate team at an underprivileged high school in Miami. There, I witnessed the pillars of high school debate start to crumble. Since then, the decline has continued, from a competition that rewards evidence and reasoning to one that punishes students for what they say and how they say it.
First, some background. Imagine a high school sophomore on the debate team. She’s been given her topic about a month in advance, but she won’t know who her judge is until hours before her debate round. During that time squeeze—perhaps she’ll pace the halls as I did at the 2012 national tournament in Indianapolis—she’ll scroll on her phone to look up her judge’s name on Tabroom, a public database maintained by the NSDA. That’s where judges post “paradigms,” which explain what they look for during a debate. If a judge prefers competitors not “spread”—speak a mile a minute—debaters will moderate their pace. If a judge emphasizes “impacts”—the reasons why an argument matters—debaters adjust accordingly.
But let’s say when the high school sophomore clicks Tabroom she sees that her judge is Lila Lavender, the 2019 national debate champion, whose paradigm reads, “Before anything else, including being a debate judge, I am a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist. . . . I cannot check the revolutionary proletarian science at the door when I’m judging. . . . I will no longer evaluate and thus never vote for rightest capitalist-imperialist positions/arguments. . . . Examples of arguments of this nature are as follows: fascism good, capitalism good, imperialist war good, neoliberalism good, defenses of US or otherwise bourgeois nationalism, Zionism or normalizing Israel, colonialism good, US white fascist policing good, etc.”
How does that sophomore feel as she walks into her debate round? How will knowing that information about the judge change the way she makes her case?
Traditionally, high school students would have encountered a judge like former West Point debater Henry Smith, whose paradigm asks students to “focus on clarity over speed” and reminds them that “every argument should explain exactly how [they] win the debate.”
In the past few years, however, judges with paradigms tainted by politics and ideology are becoming common. Debate judge Shubham Gupta’s paradigm reads, “If you are discussing immigrants in a round and describe the person as ‘illegal,’ I will immediately stop the round, give you the loss with low speaks”—low speaker points—“give you a stern lecture, and then talk to your coach. . . . I will not have you making the debate space unsafe.”
Debate Judge Kriti Sharma concurs: under her list of “Things That Will Cause You To Automatically Lose,” number three is “Referring to immigrants as ‘illegal.’ ”
Should a high school student automatically lose and be publicly humiliated for using a term that’s not only ubiquitous in media and politics, but accurate?
Once students have been exposed to enough of these partisan paradigms, they internalize that point of view and adjust their arguments going forward. That’s why you rarely see students present arguments in favor of capitalism, defending Israel, or challenging affirmative action. Most students choose not to fight this coercion. They see it as a necessary evil that’s required to win debates and secure the accolades, scholarships, and college acceptance letters that can come with winning.
On paper, the NSDA rejects what Lavender, Gupta, and Sharma are doing. Its rules state, “Judges should decide the round as it is debated, not based on their personal beliefs.” Founded in 1925, the NSDA chooses the debate topics and facilitates hundreds of tournaments, including the annual national tournament, starting June 11 in Arizona, where six thousand students from across the country will compete. (The NSDA did not respond to emails and phone calls asking for comment before this story went to press.)
A random scroll through Tabroom reveals there are still sane judges out there. “I have been a trial lawyer for 25 years,” reads Amanda Marshall’s paradigm. “I like clash, quality evidence from qualified sources, comparative analysis, and crystallization in last rebuttals. Don’t take anything for granted. You have to explain your arguments, why your evidence is compelling, and how the arguments weigh in the round. It’s your job to persuade me and communicate your positions in a way that is effective—that is how you will win my ballot. I don’t like whining, personal attacks, dominance, aggression, and disrespect. I do appreciate professionalism, kindness, and integrity.”
Or this paradigm, from debate judge Steven Macartney: “My favorite debates are rigorous, but friendly. I actually appreciate when one debater accepts one of their opponent’s arguments as valid, but still persuades me that they should win the round. I will make my decision based on who is the most persuasive, but persuading me will be done by showing with evidence that one side upholds their value and criterion better than the other side. In order to do this, a debater must speak slowly and clearly enough for me to hear and understand the arguments.”
Unfortunately for students and their parents, there are countless judges at tournaments across the country whose biased paradigms disqualify them from being impartial adjudicators of debate. From “I will drop America First framing in a heartbeat,” to “I will listen to conservative-leaning arguments, but be careful,” judges are making it clear they are not only tilting the debate in a left-wing direction, they will also penalize students who don’t adhere to their ideology.
In the past year, Lindsey Shrodek has judged over 120 students at tournaments in Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey. The NSDA has certified her with its “Cultural Competency” badge, which indicates she has completed a brief online training module in evaluating students with consideration for their identity and cultural background. Until last month, Shrodek’s paradigm told debaters, “[I]f you are white, don’t run arguments with impacts that primarily affect POC [people of color]. These arguments should belong to the communities they affect.” Recently, her paradigm was updated to eliminate that quote. When I asked Shrodek why, she told me she didn’t “eliminate the idea itself,” and that she “doesn’t know if it’s exactly my place to say what arguments will or won’t make marginalized communities feel unsafe in the debate space.”
I disagree. In debate, “unsafe” conversations should be encouraged, even celebrated. How better for young people from all backgrounds to bridge the divides that tear us apart, and to discover what unites them? The debate I knew taught me to think and learn and care about issues that affected people different from me.
We’ve come a long way from the 2004 Democratic National Convention, when an obscure state senator from Illinois named Barack Obama said, “If there’s a child on the south side of Chicago who can’t read, that matters to me, even if it’s not my child. . . . If there’s an Arab American family being rounded up without the benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties. It’s that fundamental belief—I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper—that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family.”
Twenty years ago, the NSDA I knew encouraged me to think and speak about how policies and issues impacted different communities. Not anymore.
One judge gives people of color priority in her debates. In general, students voluntarily, and mutually, disclose their evidence to their opponents before the debate round, as both teams benefit from spending more time with the other team’s evidence. But X Braithwaite, who’s judged 169 debate rounds with 340 students, has her own disclosure policy in her paradigm, which uses a racial epithet: “1. N****s don’t have to disclose to you. 2. Disclose to n****s.”
This is racial discrimination, of course: If you’re black, you get to keep your evidence to yourself and have a competitive advantage. If you’re not black, you must disclose all of your evidence to your opponent and accept a competitive disadvantage. Students who win under this rubric may view their victory as flawed, as if their win isn’t a reflection of their hard work. Those who lose may view this as the singular reason for their loss, even if it wasn’t. Students suffer and so do the sportsmanship and camaraderie that high school debate was once known for.
It’s not just that certain arguments are no longer welcome; it’s also the students who make those arguments. At the 2018 NSDA National Tournament in Fort Lauderdale, a student was publicly ridiculed by peers for making conservative arguments. She later posted an “Open Letter From A Deplorable Shitbag” on Reddit, which read, “To the judge(s) and student(s) wearing the “fuck trump” shirt(s), Tears stream down my face as I write this. I have never felt so hurt in my entire life. I really did not appreciate your words towards me after the round. I did not appreciate the spectators/competitors wearing shirts with matching sentiment with you following me to my next rounds. . . . I understand I speak fast sometimes, and that I often unknowingly use words that offend certain groups of people. . . . Also, I am sorry that my attire did not fit your standards. I know about the stain on my shirt, but it really is all I had.”
During my time as a coach, I saw many students lose interest and quit. They’d had enough of being told what they could and couldn’t say. A black student I coached was told by the debate judge that he would have won his round if he hadn’t condemned Black Lives Matter.
In 2019, I gave up on the NSDA and formed a new debate league, Incubate Debate. To judge debates, we recruit elected officials, members of the armed forces, business executives, faith-based leaders, and others. At the eighteen no-cost tournaments we’ve hosted this year, thousands of students have come together to debate, have fun, and learn from each other.
Think back to that high school sophomore who’s nervously pacing before an NSDA debate. Before she enters her round, she reads her judge’s paradigm and says to herself, “I’m going to lose.” Her loss won’t be because her argument lacked evidence or support. Her argument simply doesn’t conform to her judge’s ideology. Imagine her disappointment and hopelessness, imagine her weeks of research and rehearsal. She never had a shot.
EDITOR’S NOTE: One day after this story published, the NSDA released a statement on Twitter, stating in part: “Our judge training materials in partnership with the National Federation of State High School Associations provide best practices for adjudicating speech and debate, such as ‘Judges should decide the round as it is debated, not based on their personal beliefs.’...Tabroom.com is a project of the National Speech & Debate Association, and its purpose is to provide a tournament management system for debate and speech tournaments worldwide. The 47,000 judge paradigms housed therein represent the opinions and viewpoints of the individual paradigm authors. Schools or other organizations that use Tabroom.com to hire judges are free to evaluate those paradigms before engaging their services.”
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Scientists in Hong Kong and mainland China say their TJ-FlyingFish prototype can land on water, dive up to 3 metres and stay underwater for 40 minutes.
According to one of the world’s most respected authorities on autism, all, or nearly all, of the world’s top 100 scientists in the autism field know that vaccines are the primary driver behind the autism crisis in America. They just aren’t allowed to talk about it in public. If they did that, they would lose their funding, their job, and be the subject of intimidation techniques from their peers. So they keep quiet and nobody knows what they really think.
Did you know that there are large pediatric practices in America located in high autism areas that have ZERO kids with autism for 25 years running? Normally, we’d simply study what these practices have in common that are different from their peers. It’s called “copying what works.” Showcasing these best practices would dramatically improve the health of kids in the US and reverse the staggering rise in autism rates which are now nearly 5% of people under 40 (per my survey of 10,000 kids).
If these “best practices” were adopted and encouraged by the CDC, FDA, and NIH, we’d be the healthiest nation on earth and autism rates would drop to insignificant levels.
The reasons there are no studies examining these best practices include:
Almost nobody knows these practices exist and who they are. They keep a low profile. Otherwise, the health authorities would shut them down.
A common key strategy used in these practices is to avoid vaccination entirely and avoid the use of acetaminophen entirely. The drug companies would not allow a study like this to be published. The journal wouldn’t believe it either; it’s so counter narrative.
Another key strategy is if giving a vaccine (which no one should ever do), give them one at a time rather than multiple vaccines at once. If they admitted this, the CDC credibility would go way down.
Clinical outcomes simply don’t matter; what does matter is doing what you are told.
If it became known that the CDC, FDA, and NIH have been giving advice that have made Americans chronically ill for decades, it would tarnish their reputation and nobody would trust them in the future.
The bottom line is that the experts know how to solve the chronic disease crisis in America, but they are not allowed to talk about it. And even if they did, no one would listen or believe them. They would be labeled as liars and misinformation spreaders. Trust me, I know a little something about that.
In my case, I’m not afraid of having my medical license revoked because I don’t have a medical license. And I’m not afraid of any reputational damage because I’m already disrespected by the mainstream community and banned for life on Wikipedia, LinkedIn, Medium, and so on. Google rates me as the world’s #1 misinformation superspreader. Most of my former friends won’t talk to me. So I have nothing to lose!
I will fund a study to identify the common unique practices of clinics with superior health outcomes (including zero autism). And I’m also going to fund a robust statistical analysis on my survey data to prove that it shows a causal link between vaccines and a variety of chronic diseases in a way that is impervious to attack.
The bottom line is that the mainstream medical community and CDC will never do these studies. And if they did, they’d never publicly release the underlying data.
They know the data is bad. If they thought the data supported their policies, they’d make the public health data public for everyone to analyze. They aren’t doing that. Have you noticed?
But I will do these studies and release the data. And America will finally learn the truth about the incalculable damage that the CDC, FDA, and NIH have done.
For example, here is a summary of the data I collected from the parents of 10,000 kids. It shows clearly that the more vaccines a child receives, the greater the chance that the child is diagnosed with a permanent neurological disorder. It’s unambiguous. Anyone can replicate the survey. In fact, my results were similar to other studies. But nobody wants to touch it or fact check it. Isn’t that interesting?
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On May 19, 2023, I did a survey of parents who described the health challenges of their kids. The data showed a huge signal that vaccines in general increase your likelihood of various chronic diseases including autism. For autism, ADHD, food allergies, etc. it was a 5X signal; for autoimmune diseases, the risk was elevated by around 25X. More on the results in a subsequent article.
I called up my friend Dr. James Lyons-Weiler. James is an expert on autism; he read over 2,000 autism papers and wrote a highly-rated book about it: The Environmental and Genetic Causes of Autism. He told me that he believed at the time he wrote the book that if you could eliminate vaccines from the US, the rate of autism would drop by around 4X. In other words, vaccines are the single largest factor causing autism. Knowing what he knows now, he’d have declined all vaccines and would never have vaccinated his kids.
This explains why medical practices that avoid vaccination (combined with other healthy practices) have near zero rates of autism (0 in 500 kids vs. around 25 in 500 in the surrounding community). So that’s a 5-sigma event which means either the practice is super lucky (way less than 1 in 1 million), or they are doing something right.
The staggering growth of autism
Do you see a problem? The Vaccine Injury Act was passed in 1986 that protected the drug companies from liability. Check out the graph. And it isn’t genetics because genes don’t change that fast. It wasn’t a change in the definition of autism either (DSM-III-R): that would show as a step function, and level off asymptotically.
This is just in California:
Autism rates (California)
As you can see, when acetaminophen use tapers off, the autism rates decrease:
The pediatric practice with “off the charts” health outcomes eschews the use of all vaccines, vitamin-K shots, and acetaminophen. No acetaminophen period. Ever.
Why didn’t my doctor tell me about this?
You never hear about these practices because the doctors know that if they talk about it publicly, they will have their license to practice medicine revoked for life.
The most stunning thing James told me in our call today is that after he wrote the book, he was contacted by one of the most senior scientists in the autism field who told him straight up:
“We all know vaccines cause autism. We just aren’t allowed to talk about it.”
James told me if you got the top 100 autism scientists in a room and they took a poll that could not be traced back to them as to whether vaccines were the major driver of autism, the vote would either be 100% YES, or very close to that.
Bottom line: Neither the doctors nor the scientists are allowed to question the narrative. This is why healthcare is so messed up today.
Did you know that Congress knows vaccines cause autism?
In 2004, I testified at a Congressional reform and oversight committee meeting about new developments in treating autism. Everyone was excited about what would happen next because we were hoping for legislation that would give autistic children access to off label treatments. There are no off-label treatments, but 3rd party payers don’t cover off label as a rule.
A sober congressional aide pulled me aside and told me the inconvenient truth. Every person in the upper tier in government already knew vaccines cause autism and were never going to do anything about it. There would be no legislation with the words autism and treatment found together.
Because I am a recently retired teacher. These parents have technology, and they have “ receipts” !!! One parent showed me VIDEO of her son at a young age, speaking, clearly intelligibly and way beyond his years (mom was an eye surgeon, dad, multiple doctorates in IT)! ... The next day after vaccines he lost ALL speech, gross motor and fine motor we’re extremely diminished = SEVERE Autism!!! They were devastated!! I heard similar stories from all my parents!!! Autism is 100% EPIDEMIC!!! Well the car I am currently consulting Catholic schools in Vietnam. What is the rate of autism they are saying currently??? ONE in 10
Did you know that SIDS is caused by vaccination? They are not allowed to talk about that either!
They gaslight parents into believing SIDS is caused by a baby sleeping on their stomach.
Are you kidding me?!?!?!
Let’s examine how silly that is. Babies have been around for …. How many years now?? It’s around 192,000 years.
It wasn’t until 1969 that SIDS was significant enough to merit a name.
It wasn’t until 25 years later that in1994, NICHD launched the "Back to Sleep" campaign.
In my survey there were 7 cases of SIDS. In two cases, the reporter didn't remember the timing. Leaving 5 cases. 3 of the 5 were within 1 week of a shot. 1 of those 3 cases of SIDS was immediately after the shot. So data is consistent with the bulk happening right after the shot. If someone else has access to a larger dataset, I'd love to see it! This is just a quick sanity check with small numbers. It doesn’t “prove” anything but it is consistent with the hypothesis of harm.
I’m drafting a separate article about SIDS. There is no question it is caused by vaccines. I verified the data directly myself and found the same association that the papers wrote about.
SIDS is also vaccine dependent. Some vaccines have a higher rate than others. This is crystal clear from the VAERS data.
You’d have to be very blind not to see causality here. If you don’t see the causality, you should probably not be in medicine.
I’ll be expanding on this in my next post dedicated to SIDS.
How can hundreds of papers in the medical journals that claim vaccines don’t cause autism or SIDS be wrong? Is science that corrupt?!?!
In a word, yes. I never would have believed this myself two years ago.
But look at COVID. All those safe and effective studies? They were all wrong! All the papers showing it reduced the rate of infection: wrong. These vaccines have nearly no adverse events and no deaths if you read the papers. If you read the post-marketing VSD study on the COVID vaccines, you’ll see your all-cause mortality is cut in half after the shot. In short, nearly all the papers showing harm seem to either never get accepted or are retracted for reasons that don’t satisfy the COPE guidelines.
And these people still have never acknowledged a death from the mRNA vaccine yet in the US.
What makes me different
What makes me different is that I’m not afraid to speak out and tell people the truth.
I’m also not afraid to ask for data transparency when no one else will.
Next steps
The survey I did shows very clearly what is really going on.
But in order to be able to publish this in a medical journal in a way that will survive calls for retraction, we have to do about 3 months worth of analysis on the data. James Lyons-Weiler will be doing this. This is his forte. He knows all the ways to block the data to make the analysis bulletproof. I agreed to fund James for the next three months to do that.
If you’d like to play a role in supporting this research, please consider becoming a paid subscriber to my Substack if you are not already a paying subscriber.
The autism rate among those under 40 years old is close to 5%. This is a train wreck. There are only a small handful of researchers who were brave enough to write papers and fortunate enough to get them published. The more we can add confirmatory studies like this that are relatively “bulletproof,” the harder it will be for doctors to cling to their belief systems.
Summary
It’s not like we don’t know what the major drivers of a large number of chronic diseases are in America today. Some doctors do know. They are just not allowed to talk about it.
Making it safe for doctors and scientists to be able to speak the truth without intimidation is a much harder problem and that may take decades to solve.
So our best move is simply to educate the public directly. The more evidence we can get published in medical journals, the easier it will be to educate the public ASAP on the truth about the harms of vaccines and other drugs.
confine ALL drones to stay above public roads! PERIOD.
The Biden administration said Tuesday it has formed an interagency team to develop a national strategy on advanced air mobility efforts like flying taxis.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, left, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman arrive to the White House for a meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris on artificial intelligence, Thursday, May 4, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Evan Vucci/AP
OpenAI CEO warns Senate that GPT-4 will 'entirely automate away some jobs'
Altman said, however, that the software would eventually create new jobs "that we believe will be much better." The CEO appeared alongside IBM Chief Privacy and Trust Officer Christina Montgomery and New York University professor Gary Marcus at a hearing to comment on their recommendations for legislative regulations.
Altman recommended in his initial testimony that rules should be imposed on AI "above a crucial threshold of capabilities" and that companies should be subject to a “combination of licensing or registration requirements” for the release of advanced models.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: How Hollywood Made Russian Collusion Hoax a Million Times Worse. “Night after night, joke after joke, late-night satirists pummeled President Trump for allegedly stealing the election. When, in reality, Clinton’s dirty trick proved one for the ages. Some of the biggest stars in the industry rallied, over and again, to push the false narrative.”
A months-old Miller Lite video with a feminist message is going viral as Bud Light continues to hurt from the fallout it received from its partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
Anheuser-Busch and Bud Light have been subject to a crusade from figures on the Right who have led a financially crippling boycott of the iconic beer brand since Mulvaney, dressed as Audrey Hepburn from Breakfast at Tiffany’s, appeared with a custom Bud Light can on April 1.
Titled “Bad $#!T to Good $#!T,” the video announces an initiative from Miller Lite to transform previous sexist beer advertising into fertilizer that female brewers will use to grow hops.
Comedian Ilana Glazer features in the video, which debuted for Women’s History Month, and opens up about how Miller Lite is on a mission to make up for beer not always doing “right by women.”
“Here’s a little-known fact, women were among the very first to brew beer ever. From Mesopotamia to the Middle Ages to Colonial America, women were the ones doing the brewing,” Glazer informs the public. “Centuries later, how did the industry pay homage to the founding mothers of beer? They put us in bikinis.”
As the video continues, Glazer walks through a room of beer ads featuring scantly clad women and declares all the material “s***.”
As James Lileks memorably wrote in early Screedblog, “If art contains shit, we should take it at its word.” The same holds true with commercials — especially about light beer.
i would think mobieye and others would pay to install "helper devices" along popular trouble-spots. I dont know what exactly, but helper-electronics/beacons to raise their stock price!
Future production Porsches will use an advanced sensor suite from Mobileye, the two companies announced on Tuesday. Called "SuperVision," it uses a mix of cameras and radar sensors and will enable a range of advanced driver-assistance systems (better known as ADAS) in coming models, including functions like hands-free traffic jam assists.
You may be familiar with Mobileye from its relationship with Tesla; the electric vehicle maker was one of its many customers for vision-based ADAS systems, which Tesla then started tweaking to turn into Autopilot. That relationship ended in a high-profile spat in 2016, with the Israeli technology company accusing Tesla of being cavalier with safety—a reasonable accusation in light of the many open federal safety investigations into Tesla's driver assists.
so robots can talk with seniors. As long as they have big tits. (cant help myself)
Artificial intelligence could replace 80 percent of human jobs in the coming years -- but that's a good thing, says US-Brazilian researcher Ben Goertzel, a leading AI guru.Mathematician, cognitive scientist and famed robot-creator Goertzel, 56, is founder and chief...
Senator James Lankford (R-OK) wants better oversight of foreign purchases of agricultural land. He also wishes to limit access to U.S. farmland, especially in his home state, where such purchases are growing exponentially. In a bi-partisan bill, Lankford and Senators Jim Risch (R-ID), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Michael Bennet (D-CO) co-sponsored a bill called the Security and Oversight of International Landholdings (SOIL) Act. Lankford hopes “to provide oversight and transparency of purchases of U.S. agricultural land that threaten national security,” according to his March 30 press release. Lankford originally introduced the bill in 2022.
Chinese organized crime taking over rural Oklahoma , buying thousands of acres of land and turning them into illegal marijuana farms with links to sex and labor trafficking , prostitution rings and homicides – The Reality Of Legal Medical Marijuana @NewsNationpic.twitter.com/3h8RGvfbOe
— Jorge Ventura Media (@VenturaReport) May 4, 2023
Bennet says it is time to stop allowing foreign nationals access to American farmland and precious resources. “For too long, Washington has allowed foreign adversaries like China and Russia to buy up American farmland and its precious water resources while our family farmers and economies became collateral damage. For the sake of American growers, farmers, and ranchers, we need to modernize and strengthen our tools to evaluate the risk of these foreign purchases on our supply chains and our national security,” Bennet stated in the press release.
Lankford warned of the Chinese’s exponential growth in land purchases on the Senate floor on March 28. In 2020, the Chinese owned 194,179 acres in the U.S. In 2021, the Chinese bought 383,935 acres, almost doubling their ownership of American land. Lankford wants to close federal loopholes that permit foreign entities to get federal agriculture subsidies here in the U.S. For example, right now, if China were to invest in a land holding of 10 acres or less, disclosure is not required. That could be a problem if those 10 acres happen to surround critical American infrastructure.
Lankford says his bill will also address the growing national security threat from foreign entities who buy land on the outskirts of American military bases. In addition, he sees increased interest in the purchase of land that surrounds critical infrastructure and telecom. The SOIL Act would require a “mandatory review of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) for agricultural land.” Lankford believes Americans should know much more about “why, where, how much, and what’s the purpose of” these land purchases by foreign entities, especially from countries like China.
Lankford’s recommended review would fall into two categories. One, he would look at the countries looking to buy land, and two, he wants to investigate non-market economies that wish to purchase U.S. land. Lankford explains the “non-market economy” is “an economy that is run by the government, not by private business. Again China would fall squarely into this as a communist nation. You cannot run an investment business, you cannot run, especially a foreign entity, outside of China without it running through the Communist Party in China. So they’re a non-market economy.”
Lankford says Chinese criminal organizations have moved into his state “in mass numbers.” Lankford continued, “The year after marijuana was legalized in my state for ‘medical purposes,’ we had more land sales to foreign entities in Oklahoma than any other state in America as Chinese criminal organizations and Mexican cartels immediately moved in to be able to set up shop in distribution nationwide.”
Ten years ago, “321,000 acres in Oklahoma were owned by a foreign entity,” according to Lankford. Now he says foreign entities own 1.67 million acres. The growth of the medical marijuana industry in Oklahoma is attracting foreign criminal organizations bringing “human trafficking, forced labor, and money laundering” to the state. Oklahoma voters approved the legalization of medical marijuana in 2018.
Oklahoma Being Negatively Transformed by Marijuana
The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (OBNDD) has identified about 2000 fraudulent medical marijuana licenses in Oklahoma. Oklahoma, which overwhelmingly rejected legalizing recreational marijuana in March, has over 7,000 licensed marijuana grows. OBNDD Spokesman, Mark Woodward, says that “those working at illegal cultivation sites are often foreign nationals” associated with violent criminal organizations.
Growing operations and dispensaries have grown so fast that the governor signed a measure that set a two-year moratorium on new medical marijuana grower, dispensary, and processor licenses in the state. The moratorium began on August 1, 2022, and ends in August 2024. Oklahoma has more than 12,000 marijuana-related businesses.
Notably, Lankford believes his state voted against legalizing recreational marijuana partly because voters see that “childhood use of marijuana has increased in the past five years. In 2022, nationally, 8 percent of 8th graders, 20 percent of 10th graders, and 31 percent of high school seniors reported using marijuana in the past 12 months.” A 2022 study shows “long-term THC use has been associated with the development of psychosis and significant neuropsychiatric dysfunction. Cannabis use in childhood is particularly detrimental as it is a period of crucial brain development and impairs acute neuropsychological functioning.”
Marijuana also attracts criminal cartels, according to Lankford. In November, four people were killed “execution style” at a Kingfisher County marijuana farm in northwestern Oklahoma. Wu Chen, age 45, was connected with the shootings and was later arrested in Florida on November 22, 2022. Chen held 5 people hostage and eventually executed 4 of them.
According to meaww.com, Assistant District Attorney Austin Murrey’s affidavit on the executions stated, “Eyewitnesses to the murders testified that (Wu) demanded $300,000 be handed over to him by other employees of the marijuana operation, as a return of a portion of his ‘investment’ in the enterprise,” All of those targeted by Chen were Chinese nationals. Quirong Lin, Chen He Chun, Chen He Qiang, and Fang Hui Lee were dead when the authorities arrived. A fifth person, Yi Fei Lin, was shot twice but survived.
Chinese Proposal for Agricultural Plant Near North Dakota Air Force Base Shot Down
On January 27, Andrew Hunter, an assistant secretary of the Department of the Air Force, sent a letter to North Dakota Senator John Hoeven referencing a proposal from Fufeng Group to build a large corn milling processing plant 12 miles from the Grand Forks Air Force Base. Hunter stated the Department “unambiguously concluded” the proposed project “presents a significant threat to national security with both near-and long-term risks of significant impacts to our operations in the area.” The plans were ultimately dropped.
The incident in North Dakota is part of why the Treasury Department’s Office of Investment Security is looking to propose a rule change requiring foreign citizens and companies to get “U.S. government approval to buy property within 100 miles (160 kilometers) of eight military bases.”
“Foreign citizens and companies would need U.S. government approval to buy property within 100 miles of eight military bases, under a proposed rule change that follows a Chinese firm’s attempt to build a plant near an Air Force base in North Dakota.” https://t.co/nQo3Ity77v
Individual states are also looking at measures to curtail foreign purchases of agricultural land. In Texas, Senate Bill 147 “would ban the purchase of “real property” by citizens from China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea, even if they are in the country legally on certain visas.” The bill is currently awaiting review by the Texas House of Representatives. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott says he will sign it if it comes to his desk.
A bill is filed in Texas legislature to ban citizens, governments & entities of China, Iran, North Korea & Russia from purchasing land in Texas.
I will sign it.
This follows a law I signed banning those countries from threatening our infrastructure.
looking at rape victims sometimes gives you a "shes sub par" reaction. BUT, what you are seeing is the result of HORRIBLE intimation which creates that "sub par look".. Look at prison women officials. They become ugly to ward off advances. I hope Biden goes down for this.
The president has denied allegations of the assault since Reade came forward in 2020 about it.
Americans don't have rule of law when their institutions are corrupted against them.
Depressed Americans shouldn't count on Big Pharma to engineer a magic pill for every problem.
Even after massive layoffs, Twitter has a persistent personnel problem bogging down the platform's user experience.
