i want an interview with the actor, playing Dahmer...
eBay has banned sales of Jeffrey Dahmer Halloween costumes after they received a massive popularity boost from the Netflix series on his life.
The online auction site banned the sale of “murderabilia,” in 2001.
A spokesperson for eBay told CBS MoneyWatch that it banned the sale of all Dahmer paraphernalia as it violates its “violence and violent criminals policy.”
MoneyWatch noted that “specifically, the policy prohibits listings that ‘promote or glorify violence or violent acts, or are associated with individuals who are notorious for committing violent acts,’ and is intended to promote safety while respecting the victims of violent crimes, according to the company.”
In Netflix’ “Dahmer-Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story,” the killer is portrayed by American Horror Story’s Evan Peters.
As the show skyrocketed in popularity, so did searches for Halloween costumes of the killer. However, the costume idea has been subject to severe backlash online by those claiming it is insensitive to the victims’ families.
Just a reminder since Halloween is coming up: don’t dress as anything racist and for the love of god PLEASE don’t dress up as Jeffrey dahmer like wtf
Shirley Hughes, mother of victim Tony Hughes, had said that she was heartbroken that people were dressing up as her son’s killer for Halloween. TMZ reports that she said “Dahmer was pure evil and doesn’t understand how the folks who choose to dress like him can sleep at night.”
Collectors of serial killer memorabilia have since built an eBay-style website called Murder Auction, where people can purchase art, artifacts, and general merchandise related to famous criminals and cults. There is currently a painting by notorious killer clown John Wayne Gacy listed for $175,000 on the site.
Dahmer was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of 17 boys and men in 1992 — but was beaten to death two years later.
Joe Kennedy, the Washington state high school football coach who lost his job in 2015 for praying on the field after games, will be reinstated by March 15, 2023.
The news comes after Kennedy’s Supreme Court victory in June that ruled 6-3 that the coach was within his constitutional rights when he prayed at midfield after games.
“Bremerton School District shall not interfere with or prohibit Kennedy from offering a prayer consistent with the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion,” the attorneys wrote in the filing, according to court records. Some details remain in discussion, with the filing stating, “The parties disagree on the specific wording of this portion of the injunction.”
The documents also note the “Bremerton School District cannot retaliate against or take any future adverse employment action against Kennedy for conduct that complies with the terms of the Court’s Order.”
In a filing on Tuesday by both sides involved in the case, court records were submitted to U.S. District Court for Western District of Washington Judge Robert Lasnik that state Kennedy would be reinstated to his previous position. Kennedy served as assistant coach of the Bremerton High School football team before the controversy surrounding his post-game prayers.
Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority ruling in the June decision seven years after the events.
“Here, a government entity sought to punish an individual for engaging in a brief, quiet, personal religious observance doubly protected by the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment. And the only meaningful justification the government offered for its reprisal rested on a mistaken view that it had a duty to ferret out and suppress religious observances even as it allows comparable secular speech,” ” Gorsuch wrote. “The Constitution neither mandates nor tolerates that kind of discrimination.”
Kennedy began serving as an assistant coach in 2008 and started the tradition of kneeling at the 50-yard line in prayer after each game. Some students voluntarily joined him at times.
The practice became an issue when a school administrator addressed the prayers in 2015, and Kennedy was placed on administrative leave.
Kennedy lost in both the district court and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court turned down the case in 2019, sending the case back to the District Court, which sided with the previous rulings.
After the 9th Circuit Court again ruled against Kennedy, his legal team, First Liberty Institute, and Kirkland & Ellis, resubmitted the case to the Supreme Court in 2021, and it was accepted.
“This is just so awesome. All I’ve ever wanted was to be back on the field with my guys,” Kennedy said after the court victory.
“I am incredibly grateful to the Supreme Court, my fantastic legal team, and everyone who has supported us,” he added. “I thank God for answering our prayers and sustaining my family through this long battle.”
Banks have started moving billions in cash backing Musk’s takeover of the far left social media giant.
JUST IN Banks have started to send $13 billion in cash backing Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, according to people familiar with the matter, WSJ reported
Elon Musk entered Twitter headquarters on Wednesday carrying a sink.
He is expected to take control of the social media giant by Friday.
On Thursday morning Elon Musk explained why he purchased Twitter and his plans for the platform.
Elon opened with this, in today’s tweet:
Elon Musk: There has been much speculation about why I bought Twitter and what I think about advertising. Most of it has been wrong.
The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important for the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence. There is currently a great danger that social media will splinter into far right wing and far left wing echo chambers that generate more hate and divide our society…
That is why I bought Twitter. I didn’t do it to make more money. I did it to try to help humanity, whom I love. And I do so with humility, recognizing that failuer in pursuing this goal, despite our best efforts, is a very real possibility.
Read Elon’s entire statement below.
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The left is going to lose it. They fear a level playing field.
Vice President Kamala Harris is spearheading a White House initiative to electrify the nation’s school buses, the administration announced Wednesday.
The project will leverage nearly $1 billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for rebates awarded to school districts which purchase electric school buses. According to a fact sheet, the Biden administration will eventually spend $5 billion on the program.
“School buses safely transport more than 25 million children every day across America,” the White House said. “However, diesel exhaust from buses produces particulate matter and other pollutants that can cause lung damage and aggravate asthma and other health problems in children. In addition, diesel exhaust exposure has been linked to increased school absences.”
The $913 million released by the first funding round divided among 2,463 electric buses implies an average cost of more than $370,000 per vehicle, which is twice as expensive as the typical diesel school bus, according to the Philadelphia School District, which added five new electric buses to its fleet earlier this year. Officials in the City of Brotherly Love expect annual fuel savings of roughly $5,000.
“When I think about what the experience should be for our children of going to school on the school bus, I think about the fact that it should be about maximizing that experience for them, understanding that this bus symbolizes so much about our collective investment in our future,” Harris said at an event in Seattle, Washington, unveiling the school bus program. “Because, of course, it is about our investment in our children, in their health, and in their education. And in that way, our electric school bus program really does represent an intersection of all those points, on top of the importance of investing in domestic manufacturing.”
The spending on electric school buses comes after the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress showed average reading scores for nine-year-olds plummeting five points and average mathematics scores dropping seven points. “This is the largest average score decline in reading since 1990, and the first ever score decline in mathematics,” according to a report from the National Center for Education Statistics.
Parental rights in education and academic fallout from government lockdowns, during which students across the nation were sent home to learn virtually for months on end, are forecast to play a key role in voter turnout and enthusiasm during the upcoming midterm elections. Roughly 74% of registered voters support school choice, according to a poll from RealClear Opinion Research.
The Inflation Reduction Act, which President Joe Biden signed two months ago, will allocate $430 billion in spending toward renewable energy programs. Among other measures, the law greenlit electric vehicle tax credits of $7,500 for new cars and $4,000 for used cars, as well as 30% tax credits for home solar energy systems, according to another fact sheet.
Critics of the White House energy agenda have noted that gasoline prices are surging as Biden advances renewable energy policies, even while leasing the lowest amount of federal land for oil drilling since the conclusion of World War II and nixing expansions to the Keystone XL pipeline project. Overall energy prices increased nearly 20% between September 2021 and September 2022, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Billionaire Elon Musk said Wednesday he was entering Twitter Inc.'s San Francisco office, days ahead of a court-ordered deadline to close his $44 billion deal for the social media platform.
young programmers think they matter, they do not. India is in waiting!
Twitter employees circulated a list of demands on Monday, calling on billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk to address their concerns when he completes his purchase of the social media platform.
According to a report published by Time Magazine, the letter comes in response to rumors that Musk planned to downsize by as much as 75% upon taking ownership of the company — and demanded, among other things, that Musk “preserve” the current employee headcount.
Directed to “Staff, Elon Musk, and Board of Directors,” the letter claims that a move to gut the platform’s staff would endanger the “public conversation” to a degree that they claimed was unacceptable.
“Elon Musk’s plan to lay off 75% of Twitter workers will hurt Twitter’s ability to serve the public conversation. A threat of this magnitude is reckless, undermines our users’ and customers’ trust in our platform, and is a transparent act of worker intimidation,” a draft of the letter read. “Twitter has significant effects on societies and communities across the globe. As we speak, Twitter is helping to uplift independent journalism in Ukraine and Iran, as well as powering social movements around the world.”
They are also worried Elon firing employees "will hurt Twitter’s ability to serve the public conversation."
The letter went on to claim that unless they were all assured that they would be allowed to keep their jobs and all of their benefits, Twitter would cease to exist.
“We cannot do our work in an environment of constant harassment and threats. Without our work, there is no Twitter,” they wrote. “We, the workers at Twitter, will not be intimidated … We will not stop serving the public conversation.”
Calling on Musk to “cease these negligent layoff threats,” they followed those statements with a list of concrete demands.
Under the heading “respect,” they said, “We demand leadership to respect the platform and the workers who maintain it by committing to preserving the current headcount.”
Under “safety,” they added, “We demand that leadership does not discriminate against workers on the basis of their race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or political beliefs. We also demand safety for workers on visas, who will be forced to leave the country they work in if they are laid off.”
Under “protection,” they demanded a commitment to preserve current benefits and allow for continued remote work — a topic Musk has already addressed at Tesla — as well as “fair” severance policies.
Under the last heading, “dignity,” they concluded, “We demand transparent, prompt and thoughtful communication around our working conditions. We demand to be treated with dignity, and to not be treated as mere pawns in a game played by billionaires.”
The authors promised not to make the signatures on the letter public “unless we have critical mass.”
“Please, God, please – let it be a landslide.” – Election Administrator’s Prayer
October 2022 – Nothing gives officials charged with administering elections nightmares like the prospect of a tied election. Every procedural mistake or election crime – no matter how widespread – will swell in importance and weigh on the American People’s collective faith in the process.
'used to be a fan, until he never helped, just talked. 'Enough of those people........
Dilbert creator Scott Adams was criticized for a prediction he made before the 2020 Election. It turns out that he was absolutely correct.
On July 1, 2020, the Wrap reported on a tweet that Dilbert creator Scott Adams made at the time. The tweet was out of line and laughable according to the report:
“Dilbert” creator Scott Adams made a fearful prediction about the 2020 presidential election on Twitter on Wednesday, telling his Republican followers that if Joe Biden is elected to the White House, “there’s a good chance you will be dead within the year.”
“Republicans will be hunted,” he wrote in a follow-up tweet, later adding, “Police will stand down.”
The comic strip creator has been outspoken about his political views both on Twitter and on his blog, where he previously endorsed Donald Trump for president in 2016 and accused the Hillary Clinton campaign of stoking “violence against police, violence against Trump supporters, and death threats to bloggers such as me.”
As actor James Urbaniak noted in response to Adams’ tweets, the threat of violence against Republican voters in response to Democratic electoral victories is a recurring theme in Adams’ political commentary.
Below are Scott Adams’s tweets and a response from the unknown actor “James Urbaniak” who no one has ever heard of.
Every election year at this time, @ScottAdamsSays rolls out his Democrats’ Reign of Terror shtick. From his blog, June 2016: “But Clinton supporters have convinced me – and here I am being 100% serious – that my safety is at risk if I am seen as supportive of Trump.” pic.twitter.com/GeOzIl9fuQ
Now two years later we know that Scott Adams was correct.
Republicans, some who attended the Jan 6 protests, and others like Steve Bannon or Roger Stone who didn’t attend the protests, are being hunted down by their government.
Many of the thousand or so individuals arrested for protesting the stolen 2020 election on Jan 6 and who did nothing wrong, had teams of FBI agents storm their homes. Many more are sitting in the DC Gulag now for almost two years on simple misdemeanor charges with no court dates set to this day.
** See American Gulag for a list of the defendants and victims from Jan 6.
Four Trump supporters were killed that day. Others committed suicide following the protests and government abuse. Innocent Republicans and Trump supporters were killed.
Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi threatened to punch President Trump on that day.
A 15-year-old boy collapsed and died in the middle of a restaurant over the weekend in the United Kingdom while out with his family and friends.
Liverpool Echo reports that the boy was at the Browns Restaurant Saturday in the Liverpool ONE on Paradise Street when he suddenly collapsed.
Members of the staff and others tended to him while paramedics were en route.
Once on scene, paramedics rushed him to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
“Emergency services were called to Browns Restaurant on Paradise Street at about 5.50pm following reports that a teenager, who was with family and friends had collapsed,” a Merseyside Police spokesperson said.
“A number of members of the public and staff at the restaurant had provided medical assistance prior to the emergency services attending,” police added. “The teenager was taken to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital where sadly he died a short time later.”
Police said that the death “is not believed to be suspicious, and a file is being prepared for the Coroner.”
“Next of kin have been spoken to and specialist officers are supporting the family at this tragic time,” police added.
The future of driving is electric — or so we’re told.
The Biden administration has pumped billions of dollars in subsidies into electric vehicle production over the past two years in the hopes that consumers will agree to help them phase out gas-powered vehicles. But the demand just isn’t there. Toyota’s executive vice president of sales Jack Holler tried to warn the government as much this past August, telling the Automotive Press Association that battery-electric vehicles are too expensive and impractical for the vast majority of consumers.
“For as much as people want to talk about EVs, the marketplace isn’t mature enough and ready enough ... at the level we would need to have mass movement,” he said. “The consumer isn’t demanding (EVs) at that level. The consumer is not screaming, ‘30% or 40% by tomorrow.’”
It’s not difficult to understand why. Electric vehicles are much more expensive than most gas-powered vehicles, with an average price tag of $66,000. Plus, they’re unsuitable for trips lasting longer than a few hours, as several drivers have discovered recently.
One such driver, Alan O’Hashi, shared his experience taking his electric Nissan Leaf on a road trip across the state of Wyoming. His trip from Cheyenne to Casper, which is about 178 miles, should have taken less than 2.5 hours. Instead, it took him 15 hours.
The second time he attempted the trip, he was able to cut the total time down to 11 hours.
“It was very difficult,” he told the Cowboy State Daily. “What I’ve learned from driving this thing is patience.”
There’s another lesson in O’Hashi’s experience for drivers thinking about jumping aboard the EV train: If your gas-powered car ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Just how big is Netflix pending ad-supported subscription plan? Greg Peters, the streamer’s chief operating officer and chief product officer in charge of rolling the less expensive plan, accounted for more than 40% of the initial time on the streamer’s Oct. 18 fiscal webcast answering questions about and other issues. The streamer will launch the … Continue reading "Greg Peters: Netflix’s Ad-Supported Subscription Plan Won’t Cannibalize Existing Subs"
Dylan Mulvaney, who was born male, is being peddled as a perfect example of girlhood.
This charade of men pretending they are really women just because they say they are is sadly becoming commonplace. But Mulvaney’s story is a little different than so many others. For one thing, national brands have gotten on board, pitching Mulvaney as an enthusiastic, bubbly spokesperson for the whole transgender community. They must have expected customers to applaud their progressive hipness with this move. Thankfully, that strategy is backfiring.
Most trans men profess to be women. Fully developed, fully evolved, and of course — fully endowed — adult human females. One high school shop teacher in Canada notably put safety risks and common decency aside to show off comically oversized breasts.
Not Dylan Mulvaney. The social media influencer insists upon being called a girl, not a woman. A whopping 8.3 million TikTok follower follow along to Mulvaney’s “Days of Girlhood” series, which includes so many moments of Mulvaney “discovering” the little-known details of “being a girl.”
Mulvaney is charismatic, upbeat, self-deprecating, and inquisitive, happy to admit to ignorance and look silly. The influencer dresses in short, swinging skirts and colorful matching separates, sometimes with accessories like plastic heart-shaped sunglasses.
Mulvaney prances around — quite literally — squealing like a stereotypical tween from a Hollywood movie. While so many other men who identify as trans go overboard with feminine features, Mulvaney is flat-chested and thin. This isn’t a mimicry of womanhood — it’s an imitation of girlhood.
There’s no denying that “Days of Girlhood” is a TikTok phenomenon. The viral videos have received almost 1 billion views across TikTok and Instagram, leading to Mulvaney earning the TikTok Trailblazer Award in 2022. And the influencer is trained in the fine art of acting. Per IMDb, Mulvaney started with play-acting by portraying Elder White in the “Book of Mormon” on Broadway after graduating from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
The TikTok star began creeping into the mainstream in September when Forbes invited Mulvaney to speak at their Women’s Conference. This move sparked outrage from conservatives and TERFs on the left, but it was nothing compared to the backlash in October following an Ulta Beauty campaign.
The beauty store behemoth released a podcast episode called “The Beauty of Girlhood with Dylan Mulvaney” which included the influencer discussing girlhood and motherhood with host and “gender-fluid” hairdresser David Lopez.
“I can find love, I know I can still be a performer, I know I can have a family — I wanna be a mom one day, and I absolutely can,” Mulvaney said in a clip of the episode promoted by Ulta, as The Daily Wire originally reported. “And that’s why the narrative still has a long way to go, because, when I was grieving ‘Boy Dylan,’ I didn’t even know those things were accessible to me.”
‘There’s much shame, so much stigma. I had this idea of trans-people and it was weird because I knew I was trans yet had transphobia of myself,” Mulvaney continued.
Ulta probably didn’t expect the clip to be received so negatively despite the fact that the majority of their customers are women. They turned off comments on the YouTube video and issued a blanket reply for naysayers.
“We believe beauty is for everyone,” VP of PR Eileen Ziesemer said in a statement. “And while we recognize some conversations we host will challenge perspectives and opinions, we believe constructive dialogue is one important way to move beauty forward.”
Despite their efforts to escape criticism, the hashtag #boycottulta was trending all day after the video dropped. Irate customers insisted that Mulvaney’s caricatured version of a girl was offensive to them, akin to a white actor wearing blackface.
Ulta hid replies and blocked Twitter users with fervor in the hours following the video drop. But the hits kept coming.
“So you’d have a white man in blackface advertise your products then?” one user shared in a now-hidden reply. “Is that respecting everyone? Because it sure looks like a slap in the face to your primarily female customer base to have this insulting caricature of womanhood represent you. I won’t shop with you again.”
“Dylan seems desperate to monetize sh**. Not sure why Ulta would go on board. He is a doing a mockery of women. Won’t be spending another dime with you,” another wrote.
Conservative author and podcast host Allie Beth Stuckey wrote, “‘I want to be a mother one day, and I absolutely can.’ No, you cannot. You can buy all the eggs, rent all the wombs, and wear all the makeup you want, but you cannot be a mother. And that’s ok. Accept who you are and don’t try to be something you can’t.”
“Silencing and erasing women is a weird flex from a company built because of women,” Chad Prather agreed.
Many users pointed out some of Mulvaney’s more controversial TikTok videos, including one where the influencer referred to a vagina as a “Barbie pouch.”
“Day 75 of being girl – I’ve been carrying around tampons and pads for the past two months but I’ve never actually opened one up, so let’s do it. Woohoo!” Mulvaney gushes in the clip.
“I thought the letters stood for small, medium and large based on the size of your ‘Barbie pouch’ but after Googling I found out it’s actually the level of your flow.”
The influencer was allegedly offered a partnership with Tampax based on that video, which racked up 1.8 million views.
Then there’s Mulvaney’s first video of the series, called “Day one of being a girl.”
“Day one of being a girl and I have already cried three times, I wrote a scathing email that I did not send, I ordered dresses online that I couldn’t afford, and then when someone asked me how I was I said, ‘I’m fine!’ I wasn’t fine. How’d I do ladies? Good? Girl power!”
These are two fine examples of Mulvaney’s surface-level perception of being a girl. Most videos are heavy on stereotypes, with the influencer flaunting “girlhood” as revolving around what Mulvaney is wearing, eating, or freaking out over. In one clip, the TikTok user goes shopping for Barbie dolls. In another, Mulvaney shrieks and runs away from a bug while wearing “hiking heels” and exploring nature.
Many women who were once girls are pushing back against Mulvaney’s overdone girl act, especially now that the former Broadways star is being promoted by Ulta. It’s a tiny glimmer of sanity in a world that appears to have gone mad.
The idea is to get a better sense of what happens in the brains of living people—something that is notoriously difficult to do. For the last decade or so, scientists have been studying lab-grown clumps of brain cells called organoids. The new study shows that these organoids start to look much more like functional human brain cells when they are implanted into the brain of a baby rat.
A few months after they’d been implanted, the human cells made up around a sixth of the rats’ brains and appeared to have a role in controlling the animals’ behavior. Which invites the question: Are these animals still 100% rat?
It’s a tricky one. The scientists behind the work argue that there’s nothing really human about these rats. Throughout the study, the team examined the rats to see if those with human cells were any smarter, or experienced more suffering, than rats that didn’t receive organoid transplants. They found no sign of human traits or behaviors.
But the whole point of implanting human cells is to get some insight into what happens in the human brain. So there’s a trade-off here. Essentially, the animals need to represent what happens in humans without becoming too human themselves. And if the rats don’t show any human behaviors, can they really tell us that much about human disease?
“The question is: What percentage of animal cells would be needed in the brain to reduce animal behavior and see a different type of behavior?” asks Jeantine Lunshof, a philosopher and ethicist at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.
This raises another question. What would it take for us to accept that an animal is no longer a typical member of its own species? Many of the discussions on this topic focus on moral status. Most people would agree that humans have a greater moral status than other animals—and that it is not acceptable to treat people the same way we treat animals, whether for research or in other contexts.
It can be difficult to pinpoint exactly what it is about us that makes us special, but the consensus is that it has something to do with our brains, which are larger and more complex than those of other animals. It is our brains that allow us to think, feel, dream, rationalize, form social bonds, plan our futures, and, more generally, experience consciousness and self-awareness. Could rodents with human brain cells have these same experiences?
It’s an important question for bioethicists like Julian Koplin at Monash University in Victoria, Australia. “If we’re talking about humanizing the brains of non-human animals … by introducing human brain organoids and allowing them to integrate into the animal brain,” he says, “I think we do need to start thinking about whether this could have any follow-on effect for the moral status of the research animal.”
In the current study, the answer appears to be no. But that doesn’t mean we won’t see “humanized” or “enhanced” rats in future, according to Koplin and other bioethicists who specialize in this field.
We need to tread carefully.
In this study, scientists put human brain organoids into a region of the rats’ brains that helps them sense their environment. But there’s no reason they couldn’t put the same organoids into regions that play a role in cognition or consciousness—which might make cognitive enhancement more likely.
Then there’s the question of how much of the rat’s brain is made up of human cells. Transplanting bigger organoids might mean that the rat is technically “more human” at the cellular level—but that’s not what’s important. What matters is how, if at all, its mental state changes.
The mental changes aren’t just about how “human” the rats’ mental states become, either. “You might have an animal that thinks in a very different way to we do, but is acutely susceptible to suffering, or is really intelligent in ways that are not familiar to us as humans,” says Koplin.
So far, we’ve focused on rats. But what would happen if the organoids were put into baby monkeys instead? Non-human primates have brains that look and work much more like ours, so they’d be better models for studying human disease. But “it does raise the possibility that you will create a humanized primate,” says Julian Savulescu, a bioethicist at the National University of Singapore.
Savulescu is also concerned about cloning. The cells that make up organoids contain a person’s DNA. What would happen if a large chunk of a monkey’s brain were made up of cells with an individual’s genetic code?
“If you were to introduce an advanced organoid into a developing primate, you may well essentially create a clone of an existing person,” he says. “Not only would it be humanized—it would be a clone of somebody that’s already in existence.” This would be the very bottom of an ethical slippery slope, says Savulescu.
There are a lot of questions here, and few definitive answers. No one really knows how to measure moral status, or the point at which animals with human cells become special—or even some kind of new animal.
But it provides plenty of food for thought. To read more, check out these articles from Tech Review’s archive:
In this piece from 2016, Antonio Regalado describes researchers’ attempts to grow human organs in pigs and sheep. The aim here is to create new organs for people who need transplants.
A few years later, that same biologist went on to create embryos that are part human and part monkey, as reported by El País. Antonio explained why the research was so controversial.
In this recent piece, Hannah Thomasy explores eight technologies that are helping us understand the mysteries of the human brain and how we form memories.
And you can read more about how our brains make our minds in this piece from Lisa Feldman Barrett, which was featured in last year’s Mind issue.
From around the web
Could an algorithm help people who choose to end their own lives? The founder of this nonprofit thinks so. (MIT Technology Review)
Monkeypox cases have been declining for a couple of months now. But there are several ways things could play out from here. (Nature)
Covid boosters have been approved for children as young as five in the US. (Reuters)
Long covid is an enduring problem. Almost half of those who get sick with covid still haven’t fully recovered months later. (New York Times)
Watch this game of Pong. And then realize that it is being played by brain cells in a dish. (Neuron)
Some news stories have recently made a splash in the headlines related to election integrity, specifically those concerning voting machines and election-related electronic data. Two stories seem to be grabbing the most attention. The first started in June when the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a “status update” report warning about voting machine vulnerabilities. The other came earlier this month with the arrest of Eugene Yu—founder and CEO of the software company, Konnech—by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. He was arrested on charges of illegally warehousing U.S. poll workers’ personal, confidential information on servers located in China.
What is odd is the timing of these stories—dropping just months or even weeks before the 2022 midterm elections. After all, corporate media, government officials, and the Left have spent the last two years accusing the Right and Trump supporters of being dangerous “conspiracy theorists” and “election deniers” for raising such concerns in the wake of the 2020 presidential election chaos. Those same people are now having to pretend it never happened or backtrack—most laughably highlighted when the Pee Tape conspiracy rag—The New York Times—had to “circle back” and “beclown” itself in less than 24 hours.
That aged well … Pulitzer-worthy
The timing of this has conservatives looking around wondering, “What’s going on?” Why would the ‘cabal’ collectively take these actions and humiliate themselves—and why now? Our very own Tracy Beanz asked some of the same questions during her recent interview with Joe Pags.
“[I] t’s the one thing that seriously has me scratching my head. Why? It’s very weird. Why [Los Angeles] and why [L.A. District Attorney George Gascón]. It’s just weird. Usually, they don’t prosecute crimes, so it makes no sense.” ~Tracy Beanz on The Joe Pags Show (Oct. 6, 2022)
After some consideration, allow us to present a theory: You are watching a Disinformation Campaign unfolding in real-time.
The purpose? To misdirect election integrity efforts away from where they will have the most impact—namely, enforcing safeguards related to mail-in ballots. And more specifically, Signature Match Checks.
As Adam Carter detailed as far back as December 2020 in The Washington Pundit (TWP), there appeared to be a well-coordinated disinformation campaign during the 2020 presidential election. He later elaborated on it further in a four-part exposé. As per this theory, the objective was to focus attention on voting machines and electronic hacking issues and away from the issues related to mass mail-in balloting that would famously later be exposed in Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary ‘2000 Mules’.
Before going any further, we must be crystal clear on one point. We do not believe voting machines are safe. The authors of this column advocate for in-person, same-day voting, on paper ballots with Voter ID, and limited exceptions for absentee voting—i.e., a ballot is requested by application from a constitutionally qualified voter with cause (military personnel, invalids, etc.). Get rid of voting machines in elections entirely.
Congressman Devin Nunes speaking to Buck Sexton on Hill TV ‘Rising’ in July 2018 about the dangers of electronic voting systems
This is a personal opinion, but we believe voting machines have been designed to be hacked—with various built-in backdoors—because the U.S. Intelligence Community wants to be able to use them to steal elections in other countries. And as we have seen in every election cycle since at least 2016—U.S. Intel has no qualms about interfering in U.S. elections on behalf of their preferred candidates. So they would not even think twice about using electronic manipulation to change the outcome of the 2022 midterm elections if they felt they could get away with it.
But would they give us a heads-up by allowing CISA to issue the warning in June if that was their plan? That is highly unlikely. If there is a political scheme underway—and U.S. Intel is involved—the most logical explanation is that it is part of a psychological operation (or “PsyOp”) to divert attention away from the real problem.
“Release the Kraken”: Are they Running the Same Playbook Again?
With the benefit of hindsight, we now have a better picture of what happened during the 2020 “election fortification.” Pollster Richard “People’s Pundit” Baris, former Director of Data and Strategy for the Trump campaign Matt Braynard, and longtime election lawyer Robert Barnes have all analyzed precinct-level data and come to the same conclusion—voting machine manipulation cannot explain the outcome of the 2020 election. There is no significant statistical difference in “Biden overvote” between counties using voting machines and those without. The counties that show excess Biden votes correlate to the ones that saw an unusual surge in mail-in ballots. They stole it the old-fashioned way. They stuffed the ballot box with fraudulent mail-in ballots. But they needed to distract us long enough to get away with it because:
Spoiler Alert – If A Dead Person Votes, The Signature Ain’t Gonna Match
Listen to Baris & Barnes in an episode of What Are the Odds? from early December 2020. Drop boxes? Nursing homes? This segment could substitute as a trailer for 2000 Mules and what it exposed nearly two years later.
Unlike other disinformation campaigns we have witnessed, such as those associated with the Global Covid-19 Pandemic Response and the Jan 6th Capitol Hill Riot, it was complex with multifaceted objectives. Those behind the scheme were able to plant the seeds for the campaign ahead of time—including infiltrating the camps of well-meaning conservative influencers. Electronic voting machine hacking is actually a Democrat conspiracy theory used to accuse Republicans of stealing elections and to undermine their legitimacy dating as far back as at least 2004. So those running the operation knew there would be endless rabbit holes to send Trump supporters looking down, but would ultimately amount to nothing because they’re the ones that made it up in the first place.
Trailer for the HBO documentary ‘Hacking Democracy’ when Democrats and the corporate media accused the campaign of Pres. George W. Bush of rigging voting machines to steal the state of Ohio and the 2004 presidential election from Sen. John Kerry
The two primary objectives of the scheme were:
A. Divert the attention of Trump’s supporters, independent journalists, and grassroots researchers to crowdsource information away from issues related to mail-in ballots, dirty voter rolls, etc. (or what we will refer to as “2000 Mules issues”) and focus on issues related to voting machines, electronic hacking, etc. (i.e., “Kraken issues”).
B. Get the information related to the Kraken issues mixed together with the more legitimate 2000 Mules issues to give judges political cover to avoid having to do their job and intervene. Likewise, it was mixed together to discredit any idea of election malfeasance in the minds of normies as “conspiracy theories” to keep public pressure from mounting and run-out-the-clock until the election could be certified for Joe Biden.
There was a common pattern in the 2020 election contest lawsuits. Judges (many of them Trump-appointed) in their decisions would harp on Kraken issues presented in the legal briefs (or in the news), gloss over or completely ignore the 2000 Mules issues, then dismiss the case on some bogus “lack of standing” grounds—never allowing evidence to be presented or case heard on the merits.
That’s how they stole it and got away with it.
So are they doing it again? Suddenly conservative social media and free speech platforms are once again filled with posts about voting machines, hacking, and election data as 2000 Mules fades from the news cycle. The Konnech story does not involve vote count data. Still, it hits on a lot of the same themes—electronic data, cybersecurity, foreign interference by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), etc.
Former CISA Director Chris Krebs recently added fuel to the fire with his own Twitter thread. He was presumably commenting on the arrest of Eugene Yu and highlighted recent alerts from both CISA and the FBI. President Trump famously was forced to fire Krebs after declaring the 2020 election was the “most secure in American history”—despite widespread reports of irregularities or any meaningful investigation.
Krebs again stresses how “safe & secure” America’s election infrastructure is and how it’s unlikely to be hacked. This is an interesting declaration from the man who oversaw CISA when during that time, the SolarWinds hack went undetected for months—the largest such cyberattack in U.S. history.
Krebs seems to hit on another theme that might indicate an added component to the new 2022 PsyOp—the Left’s obsession with “threats against poll workers.” This seems to be the same tactic the Biden administration used to gin up hysteria about overblown “threats against school board members” to label PTA parents—outraged by Critical Race Theory and Transgender Ideology being taught to their children in school—as “domestic terrorists” to justify siccing the politically weaponized FBI on them. The latest hype about threats to poll workers seems to be meant to counteract the Precinct Strategy—most notably promoted by Steve Bannon—that has the Left (and establishment right) in complete meltdown.
The obvious intention is to paint America First patriots—volunteering as poll workers or election observers—as “election deniers” and “radicalized insider threats” to intimidate them—and use them as a justification to exclude them from the process of safeguarding elections.
It is interesting to note Eugene Yu was arrested for storing the private information of election workers across the country on servers readily accessible by the CCP. This seems to align perfectly with the Left’s narrative on the topic. It also gives the FBI the pretext it needs to open up a counterintelligence investigation related to poll workers and begin spying on whoever they wish—which could explain the reason and timing of the story.
Democrats Know the Importance of Signatures. Republicans… Not So Much.
In the wake of the hotly contested 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, President George W. Bush formed the Commission on Federal Election Reform—a bipartisan commission headed by former President Jimmy Carter (D-GA) and former Secretary of State James A. Baker III (R-TX). The commission was tasked with making recommendations to the newly formed Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to “explore how to maximize both ballot access and ballot integrity.”
In 2005, the commission issued the Carter-Baker Report. The report addressed the 2004 allegations of voting machine manipulation in Ohio but still stated:
“Absentee ballots [i.e., mail-in ballots] remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.”
The report went on to elaborate on the reasons. The ballots could be mailed to the wrong address or otherwise stolen (ex., if mailed to large apartment complexes or nursing homes). Voters could be coerced through blackmail, intimidation, or threats outside secured polling locations. The ballots could also be purchased or votes bribed due to the lack of secrecy in the voting booth. This represented the most significant risk of fraud and abuse by third-party organizations, campaigns, or political activists. Hmm… kind of sounds like we’ve heard that someplace before.
Screenshot from the Carter-Baker Report by the Commission on Federal Election Reform (2005)
Given the inherent risks, the commission made proposals to mitigate potential fraud. While not a perfect solution, the commission recommended each state build a Voter Information Database to capture digital images of each voter’s signature from sources like driver’s license renewals or Voter ID applications. The signature on the mail-in ballot envelope could then be compared with the digital signature images from the individual’s database Voter File to ensure they matched—verifying at least the voter who was issued the ballot was, in fact, the person who cast it.
Screenshot from the Carter-Baker Report by the Commission on Federal Election Reform (2005)
In May 2021, election attorney Robert Barnes gave a speech for Hillsdale College. He discussed the history of Signature Matches in elections and his experiences representing President Trump during the 2020 election challenges in Georgia.
Before the 2020 election, signature match was the basis for nearly every major election challenge. Yet somehow—beginning in 2020 and beyond—it has become an afterthought; well, at least for Republicans. President Barack Obama famously won his first-ever election to the Illinois state senate in 1996 by getting every single one of his primary opponents stricken from the ballot using—wait for it—signature matches. Obama would years later—during the 2008 Democratic Primaries—go on MSNBC. In an interview with Chris Matthews, when asked about a proposed mail-in primary in Florida, Obama stressed the need for strict signature match enforcement to prevent the Hillary Clinton campaign from using mail-in ballot fraud to steal away a victory. Democrats are good at stealing elections and preventing them from being stolen.
Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón
Just recently, Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón—the same man behind the arrest of Eugene Yu—dodged the same fate as his San Francisco counterpart and fellow Soros-backed D.A., Chesa Boudin. Gascón avoided his own recall effort using—wait for it—signature matches. The Recall Campaign is currently suing the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder to overturn the rulings. Still, Gascón was able to get almost 30% of the signatures on his recall petition thrown out due to signature matches or eligibility. Well, ain’t that a coinkydink?
So Democrats are well aware of the importance of this issue. Marc Elias is the attorney behind the funding and creation of the Steele Dossier in 2016 on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign. He was also still a partner at the high-powered, Democratic party-linked law firm Perkins Coie throughout the 2020 campaign and election contest lawsuits on behalf of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Elias was the key legal driving force behind the Democrat’s effort to expand mail-in balloting and weaken election integrity laws—most notably signature-matching laws.
Marc Elias and a screenshot from his April 2020 op-ed in The Atlantic – ‘How to Fix Our Voting Rules Before November’Kanye West embracing President Trump during an October 2018 Oval Office meeting
The Democrat’s concern to “protect voters” and prevent “inadvertently disenfranchising” them seemed to be somewhat selective in 2020 (unsurprisingly). Kanye West—who has been in the news himself recently—launched his own bid for the presidency during the 2020 election. Democratic attorneys managed to get him removed from the ballot in many key states using—wait for it—signatures matching. They even went so far as to put him under criminal investigation, claiming he had used fraudulent means to obtain signatures for his ballot petitions. Had Kanye remained on the ballot—and given Biden’s razor-thin margin of victory in multiple key swing states—he likely would have siphoned off enough of the black vote from Biden, and Donald Trump would be sitting in the Oval Office today (with even more of a margin of victory.)
Democrats show no sign of letting up, either. Just recently, they got five candidates booted out of the GOP primary ballot for Michigan governor—including former Detroit Police Chief James Craig, who at times held a commanding lead in polls over Democratic incumbent Gretchen Whitmer—using … you know what’s coming … signature matches.
And the list goes on and on and on.
How To #StopTheSteal
In a typical election cycle, mail-in ballots get rejected based on signature verification at a rate of 1-2%. The rejection rate of people using mail-in voting for the first time jumps to anywhere from 5%-10%. And that is under normal circumstances. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse, many states chose to adopt mass mail-in voting procedures on-the-fly in the 2020 election—often in violation of the laws set by their state legislatures. So the natural assumption would be to see those rejection rates skyrocket—with large swathes of the electorate attempting to vote by mail for the first time and with little time to be educated on the procedures. Well, did they? What do you think?
From the November 2020 Newsmax article ‘Ballot Rejection Rates Historically Low in Key Battlegrounds
Signature verification rejection rates plummeted across the country—often down to fractions of 1% in many of the key swing states. Given Biden’s razor-thin margins of victory and his astronomical share of the mail-in vote—if the rejection rates had been anywhere close to their historical norms, President Trump would have likely carried all six of the closely contested states that were certified for Joe Biden (AZ, GA, MI, PA, NV, & WI) and possibly a few more.
Yet despite all these problems, we still have not managed to get a single match audit in any state for the 2020 election—Zero for 50. Only once was anything resembling a signature match audit allowed; in a December 2020 case—Ward v. Jackson et al.—in Maricopa County, Arizona, of all places.
Arizona Superior Court Judge Randall Warner allowed each side to examine a sample of 100 mail-in ballot envelopes. The Democrats’ expert in the case found an 11% error rate—that extrapolated over the entire population would represent 30 times Biden’s margin of victory.
When the Full Forensic Audit of Maricopa County was conducted later in the Summer of 2021, a full signature match audit was not included. Auditors were only able to gain access to electronic images of mail-in ballot envelopes late in the process, but not the Voter Files to compare the signatures.
Summary of results from Dr. Shiva’s (EchoMail) report included in the Arizona Audit Report
Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai was enlisted to do a quick review of the ballot images. But with only a short window of time, he could still find numerous issues and anomalies that alone represented nearly twice Biden’s margin of victory in Arizona.
Keep in mind these issues are where the signature was so bad or should have been otherwise rejected outright and not even valid enough to qualify for a signature match check. As both Trump election lawyers Jenna Ellis and Robert Barnes have stated in interviews, Democrat’s high-powered attorneys like Perkins Coie’s main area of focus during the 2020 election contest lawsuits was signature match issues.
See, that’s how a disinformation campaign works; get your opposition to commit most of their resources where it will do the least good and have the least impact.
Gee … who could’ve seen that one coming?Screenshot of the Oct. 14, 2022, Politico article ‘The voting machine hacking threat you probably haven’t heard about.’
Just before UDC went to press with this story Politico of all places, dropped an article about voting machine hacking. The absurdly named article “The voting machine hacking threat you probably haven’t heard about” warns about the risks cellular modems pose to election system networks—making them vulnerable to outsider hacking. This is the type of article that would have been labeled “election denialism” and used to get independent media organizations banished off the internet for “spreading dangerous disinformation” at any point over the last two years. Politico is hardly a MAGA-friendly publication. Would they drop this article out of fear foreign interference or electronic hacking might be used to prevent America First Republican candidates from being elected? Highly doubtful. So why drop it now?
This seems to be additional evidence of an accelerating PsyOp to focus attention away from mail-in ballots and onto voting machines. And it appears corporate media is—once again—happy to play their part.
The scheme seems to have two objectives. First is to intimidate or exclude as many America First patriots as possible by labeling them “dangerous insider threats” to thin out the ranks. The second is to get as many of the remaining volunteers distracted and focused on issues unlikely to be the source of election malfeasance.
For every election observer watching each voting machine terminal like a hawk, that’s one not watching the backdoor when the mail van pulls up—loaded with boxes of “late arriving ballots.” While they take the time to learn to read computer code or understand advanced calculus to figure out “the algorithm,”; they’re in the next room pulling suitcases full of ballots from underneath tables and furiously running them through the counting machines. Or most importantly, we do not have a representative observing the election day signature match verification process.
“So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak.
You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended.
The spot where we intend to fight must not be made known.
Hence that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend.
In war, practice deception, and you will succeed.”
~ Passages from ‘The Art of War’ by Sun Tzu
Now, the purpose of this column is not to “black pill” you. The Left can get away with these games on signatures because conservatives are largely unaware of the issue, and we believe that is by design. Hence, the reason for the disinformation campaign is to focus on voting machines. Again, we are not saying voting machines are safe. We are not even saying they could not attempt to use electronic hacking to manipulate results now or in the future. What we are saying is that’s not how they are currently stealing elections. And it’s not all that difficult to stop. Attention just needs to be brought to this issue, and we must allocate resources appropriately to safeguard against it.
As was seen in 2000 Mules, Democrats rely on dirty voter rolls. They have perfected the art of identifying registered voters who are unlikely to cast a ballot themselves in any given election—whether they have died, moved away, are not politically active, etc. Almost all the ballots used in these ballot-stuffing schemes are not being filled out or signed by the registered voter. Therefore, a strict signature check will likely catch most fraudulent ballots and make it nearly impossible for Democrats to steal an election using the same method.
Pollster Richard “People’s Pundit” Baris and Trump election attorney Robert Barnes explaining how Democrats likely stole the election from President Trump in an episode of ‘What Are the Odds?’ in early December 2020
Almost every jurisdiction requires mail-in ballots received early to be securely stored and unopened until election day. So all mail-in ballots are canvassed, opened, and counted at the same time regardless of how many days of early voting are allowed beforehand. The most crucial moment is the ballot canvassing on election day. This is when the name, information, and signature on the outside of the ballot envelope are checked in the Voter File to verify the ballot has been received from an eligible, constitutionally qualified voter and the signatures match. If the information on the ballot envelope fails any portion of the canvass, the envelope is set aside—with the ballot still inside—and remains uncounted.
If the information on the ballot envelope is verified, it is then opened, and the ballot is separated and placed in the stack to be counted. Due to federal laws requiring the Secret Ballot (also called the Australian Ballot), there is no way to go back and determine which envelope and ballot were originally paired together. If problems with the mail-in envelopes and/or signatures are later found, there is no means to go back and determine what ballots need to be excluded—or what the correct vote tallies should have been. If the ballots in dispute exceed the winning candidate’s margin of victory, the election becomes irredeemably compromised. The only remedy at that point is for courts (or state legislatures in the case of a presidential election) to step in and provide relief. And as we’ve seen, that is a tough mountain to climb.
Democrats used the COVID-19 pandemic precautions as an excuse to exclude election observers from the Right to meaningfully observe the canvassing and counting of the ballots in 2020. That will not be the case this time around. A slew of subsequent election-related lawsuits has made it clear standing on the other side of an auditorium holding a pair of binoculars does not constitute “meaningfully observation.”
America First election observers must demand the right to meaningfully observe every step of the ballot canvassing and counting process and make timely objections—not just leave it to local election officials. Jurisdictions should already have the right to observe and raise objections codified into law. If the state or local GOP committees are not making plans or refuse, then candidates themselves have the right to place their own representatives to observe each step of the process. You should reach out and ensure these plans are well ahead of election day.
Every mail-in ballot cast in the 2022 election and all elections beyond should have an America First representative observing and agree the signatures do, in fact, match or raise an objection and have the ballot set aside. Keep the fraudulent ballots from winding up in the vote count in the first place.
In the event of a disputed election, the Republican base should demand an immediate, full signature match audit. You don’t need electron microscopes, five and a half months, or 6 million dollars. That is completely impractical in an election contest situation when you only have weeks at most to seek remedy. Signature matches are simple to do; bank tellers and grocery store clerks do it every single day. That’s why your signature is printed on your driver’s license, and you are asked to sign the back of your credit card. A signature match audit can be conducted in a matter of days—if not hours—at minimal expense and will quickly expose any ballot stuffing scheme.
Don’t fall for the ruse of voting machines and electronic hacking. Once the mail-in ballot stuffing schemes are stopped, and enough America First candidates are elected to office, we can begin to change the laws. We can end mass mail-in balloting and get electronic voting systems removed from our elections entirely.
if trump truthed this on truthsocial, why are the pictures linking to shittster ?
Donald Trump encouraged his supporters to abandon Joe O'Dea after the GOP Senate nominee said he would 'actively campaign against' the former president.
that woman is Gold. She is the most believable person in ALL of the 2020 fraud arena. 2nd would be Pat Byrne, 3rd, Tore Maras....... They will win awards someday.
Gregg Phillips and Catherine Engelbrecht
Yesterday, the Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson reported on TrueTheVote being referred to the FBI by the RINO Attorney General and once US Senate hopeful Mark “nunchucks” Brnovich.
In his letter, Brnovich stated he is “providing the referenced information…for review and potential further action as it relates to potential violations of the Internal Revenue Code by True The Vote.”
Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.
What’s strange is that FOX News reported on AG Brnovich’s letter on Friday, but, as both Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips confirmed, FOX News never reached out to True The Vote for comment on these defamatory and (somehow) criminal referrals made by the Attorney General’s Office in Arizona.
But at least Fox News finally acknowledged #2000Mules something they refused to report on and blacklisted for months!
While FOX News may not be interested in reporting balanced news, TGP is. We reached out to True The Vote on Saturday and they responded publicly on their website:
In TTV’s official response, they note the following order of events:
“True The Vote’s first meeting with the AZ AG’s team was on June 3, 2021.”
“After no response, True The Vote followed up by filing a complaint with the State of Arizona on March 28, 2022 and followed up with multiple meetings with state investigators.”
True The Vote “…later learned that these investigators violated the confidentiality that should have been afforded to informants in an ongoing criminal investigation, by the AG’s office releasing to media the identity of private citizens who had provided information.
“True the Vote lawyers sent a letter affirming these facts to the Arizona AG’s office on June 14th, 2022, and referring them to federal law enforcement, as True the Vote no longer trusted the state office.”
“As was stated in their March 2022 complaint, the data used by True the Vote is available to any law enforcement agency which issues a lawful subpoena for the data.“
“True the Vote has documentary recordsof correspondence with the State of Arizona and the FBI, detailing the evidence and its limitations. Had the Arizona AG’s office been serious in their investigation of True the Vote’s information, they would have had no need to send a letter to the FBI and simultaneously transform it into a press release to cover up their own failings.”
“Just as in the Konnech matter, sunlight is the best disinfectant.”
The last line is referring to True The Vote’s “The Pit” event last August in Arizona, where Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips released information on the Konnech corporation. While citizen journalists seeking the truth found some incredible facts surrounding Konnech, such as Kanekoa, who has been on top of this since “The Pit”, the Mockingbird media has generally written this off as “conspiracy theory”, much like “The Big Lie.” In fact, the day before Konnech CEO Eugene Yu was arrested for allegedly storing data on Chinese servers, “Fact checker phenomenon” Stuart Thompson of The New York Times had called all those such as Kanekoa doing actual research “a group of election deniers.” The article still remains published to this day on the Fake New York Times website.
True The Vote’s credibility shot through the roof with a story as wild as a Michigan-based elections company storing personally identifiable information (PII) on servers in China. As Phillips and Engelbrecht told us at “The Pit”, the FBI initially was cooperating in the investigation. But then, all of the sudden, the scope of the investigation shifted and True The Vote became the subject of the investigation rather than helping with it. This appears to be deja vu now with the Arizona AG’s office, where they investigate the investigators instead of the crime.
Meanwhile, do-nothing Mark Brnovich’s credibility is shot, as evidenced by his distant 3rd place finish (17.7%) in the 2022 Primary behind Trump endorsed Blake Masters (40.2%) and Jim Lamon (28.1%).
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about time!!!!! 'reading the Peter Navarro book. Really good read. He doesn't hold back naming names. Explains why 2020 AZ was a payback against trump
The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to lift a rule that prevented TV stations in the same media market from merging unless there are eight competing stations in the area. Under the change, media companies will be allowed to own more TV and radio stations in a specific media market. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Andrew Harnik
FCC expected to ban Huawei and ZTE equipment on national security grounds
The regulatory agency has been circulating a draft order among its commissioners that would ban new equipment sales from the China-affiliated Huawei and ZTE on security grounds, according to Axios. Researchers have warned for years that the devices could compromise security, and the Trump administration took steps to regulate the companies.
The order will still need to be voted on by the agency's four commissioners. It would be the first time the agency has moved to ban an electronics company on national security grounds.
The order will also determine the scope of a ban on the sale of video surveillance equipment provided by Chinese companies such as Hytera Communications Corporation, Hikvision, and Dahua Technology Company.
The ban is not retroactive, which means companies can continue selling Huawei or ZTE products that the FCC had previously approved. New models that would require FCC approval would be banned.
The agency voted to designate Huawei and ZTE as national security threats in 2020, making it impossible for them to be purchased with federal funding. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr pushed in March 2021 for the agency to close the "Huawei loophole," which allowed the equipment to be purchased with private funding.
Biden administration officials probed the company in the last year over fears that the company's telecom equipment was recording military drills or the readiness state of military sites.
how will that get him laid? He will regret trying to play Elon...... Like he has any clue how to run Parler.
Kanye West or “Ye” is purchasing Parler social media platform.
Ye is the richest black man in history. He was recently blocked by JPMorgan Chase from using their banking services for something he said in an interview. Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Media and Democrats are determined to control speech in America today. They resort to tactics used by previous deadly regimes like the Soviet Union, China and Nazi Germany.
Parlement Technologies announced today that it has entered into an agreement in principle to sell Parler, the world’s pioneering uncancelable free speech platform, to Ye (formerly known as Kanye West). Ye has become the richest Black man in history through music and apparel and is taking a bold stance against his recent censorship from Big Tech, using his far-reaching talents to further lead the fight to create a truly non-cancelable environment.
“In a world where conservative opinions are considered to be controversial we have to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves,” says Ye.
The proposed acquisition will assure Parler a future role in creating an uncancelable ecosystem where all voices are welcome. Ye can be found on Parler here.
Parlement Technologies CEO George Farmer welcomes Ye as a compatriot in the fight for free speech. “This deal will change the world, and change the way the world thinks about free speech. Ye is making a groundbreaking move into the free speech media space and will never have to fear being removed from social media again. Once again, Ye proves that he is one step ahead of the legacy media narrative. Parlement will be honored to help him achieve his goals.”
Under the terms of their agreement in principle, the parties intend to enter into a definitive purchase agreement and expect to close during the fourth quarter of 2022. The terms of the proposed transaction would include ongoing technical support from Parlement and the use of private cloud services via Parlement’s private cloud and data center infrastructure.
His utterances no different from any other utterance. I dont see the big deal.
In America, there was once a thing called free speech.
Today a jury reached a verdict in the Alex Jones case and ordered the conservative author and TV host to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to the Sandy Hook families for something he said in 2014.
Jones was ordered to pay $965 million to the families. Good Lord!
Jones allegedly owes $229 million to just the first three plaintiffs, all family members of Sandy Hook victims.
Breaking: Absolutely astronomical figures in this InfoWars lawsuit out of Connecticut.
Alex Jones owes $229 million to just the first three plaintiffs, all family members of Sandy Hook victims.
This is a travesty. Jone is not a killer. He was wrong on a report.
So, will the fake news channels ever be forced to pay for their COVID reporting that killed tens of thousands?
Alex Jones must pay $965 million in damages to numerous families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting for falsely claiming they were actors who faked the tragedy, a Connecticut jury said on Wednesday, marking the second multimillion-dollar verdict against the conspiracy theorist in just over two months.
The verdict came after three weeks of testimony in a state court in Waterbury, Connecticut, not far from where a gunman killed 20 children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012. Jones claimed for years that the massacre was staged as part of a government plot to take away Americans’ guns.
In August, another jury found that Jones and his company must pay $49.3 million to Sandy Hook parents in a similar case in Austin, Texas, where the headquarters of Jones’ Infowars conspiracy theory website is located.
Lawyers for families of eight Sandy Hook victims during closing arguments in Connecticut last week said Jones cashed in for years on lies about the shooting, which drove traffic to his Infowars website and boosted sales of its various products.
You may remember the kind of horrifyingly ironic incident in which a nurse who received one of the first public COVID jabs passed out shortly after getting the shot:
greatest lie is "2020 election steal", not this BS. Looks like a grab for misinformation.
The Daily Wire’s Candace Owens on Thursday dropped the official trailer for her hotly anticipated documentary, “The Greatest Lie Ever Sold,” which becomes available for streaming this Wednesday.
The BLM exposé takes a deep-dive into the multi-million dollar “grift” of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation and its former Executive Director Patrisse Cullors and offers “the true story” behind the life and death of George Floyd with never-before-seen interviews from insiders and experts.
“Riots, violence, and biblical heresy — that is the true story behind the George Floyd story,” the “Candace” host says in the documentary. “You look around you, and you see what is left — a story that made its way around the world. Do you see $90 million invested in this community? Where did that money go?”
If you’re not already a member, you can sign up here and gain access to Owens’ new documentary — as well as lots of other content, including feature films, original series, video podcasts, and other documentaries, like the Matt Walsh hit “What is a Woman?”
The explosive documentary has already garnered attention from one of the biggest cultural figures in the country, billionaire rapper Kanye “Ye” West.
Last week, West promoted a clip of Owens’ “Greatest Lie Ever Sold” on his Instagram, where the fashion designer has a stunning 18.1 million followers. He also posted that Black Lives Matter is a “scam,” a message completely in-line with what the documentary promises to uncover.
Daily Wire cofounder Ben Shapiro, too, has called the film “shocking and groundbreaking.”
“Black Lives Matter as an organization was, in fact, a scam, which is why Candace Owens is bringing out a brand-new documentary,” Shapiro said on his radio show last week. “I’ve seen it. It is shocking and groundbreaking, and it’s typical Candace.”
debate Johns Hopkins on the finding. Enough of this one-sided shit.
Florida State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo courageously announced on October 7 what could be a game-changing nationwide precedent in policy for the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. Based on an analysis by the Florida Department of Health, Ladapo made Florida the first state in the country to recommend “against males aged 18 to 39 from receiving mRNA COVID-19 vaccines,” adding that “those with preexisting cardiac conditions, such as myocarditis and pericarditis, should take particular caution when making this decision.” Sadly, to date, he is the only high-ranking health official with the courage to authorize and “evaluate the risks of all-cause and cardiac-related mortality following COVID-19 vaccination.”
Ladapo Guidance/State Surgeon General of Florida/October 7, 2022
Dr. Ladapo is eminently qualified to speak on data-driven public health decisions. He earned his undergraduate degree from Wake Forest in Chemistry and then completed both his medical degree and his Ph.D. in health policy at Harvard University. At Harvard, Ladapo conducted studies similar to the one performed by the Florida Health department. Ladapo says he learned to rigorously apply the kinds of “statistics, biostatistics, and economic analysis” that ultimately showed the alarming relationship between the mRNA vaccines and early death among younger males.
On Monday, Ladapo spoke with War Room host Steve Bannon about the analysis and how profoundly “corrupt the CDC and the public health establishment” have been in their refusal to show or act on the data they have had for at least “six months to a year ago.” In fact, on October 18, 2021, UncoverDC reported on a significant peer-reviewed study on the link between the mRNA vaccines and myocarditis in younger men that was “temporarily removed” by the CDC. VigiAccess—the WHO global database of reported potential drug side effects—has referenced cardiac events from the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines since at least the fall of 2021, if not before. So has the U.S.-based VAERS database. Undoubtedly, the CDC and our public health establishment have had this data for a long time. Both have seemingly done everything in their power to obfuscate and/or actively refute any information that might undermine administering the vaccines to as many people as possible.
Methodology and Results of Florida’s Analysis
The analysis in Florida linked data from “Florida’s reportable disease repository (Merlin), Florida State Health Online Tracking System (FLSHOTS), and death records data from vital statistics.” The analysis used is a “self-controlled case series (SCCS) method adapted to evaluate death as the outcome.” Ladapo explained:
“All the method does is, it says, okay, we’re going to take an exposure. In this case, we’re talking COVID-19 vaccines, and we’re gonna take an outcome that we care about. And in this case, we’re talking death. And we’re going to look at people who have both of them, and we’re gonna see if the deaths, and we used a six-month period—we’re going to see if the deaths occur kind of randomly across that six-month period or whether they are clustered around the exposure. So really simple, right? And the intuition is that if something is related to an exposure, so in this case, we’re looking at death. So death is related to an exposure. You would expect that the deaths would be sort of cluster of concentrated in the timeline near the exposure. But if it’s unrelated, then the deaths would happen anytime across the timeline you’re looking at.”
Astonishingly, the analysis, which looked at the overall population, found an unmistakable relationship between the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and death among males 19-39 years old. Alarmingly, Ladapo stated the analysis “found that there was an 84% increase in the relative incidence, essentially the risk over a 28-day period after the vaccines in young men, men between 18 and 39 years old, so 84%. Enormous! Just huge effect on their risk of having a cardiac death. And that was the major finding.” He also shared that there was a “reduction in overall mortality with the COVID-19 vaccines and people over 60, which is consistent with some countries like Denmark who steered away from recommending the vaccine for younger people. They instead only recommended it for older people, which of course, is not what is happening in this country from the CDC.”
Ladapo posted a Twitter thread in answer to some of the “more substantive critiques” of his analysis while embracing the discussion that was stimulated as a result of his announcement. As of Monday, no one from the CDC had contacted Ladapo or anyone in his office about his analysis.
#1. "Diagnosis codes for cardiac-related deaths are imperfect."
Yes! But that is true for every subgroup we examined. Only in young men was the risk extremely high, and it was also increased in older men.
As reported by UncoverDC just two weeks ago, Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a highly influential cardiologist in the U.K., pleaded with the worldwide community to remove the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines from the market. He had been a fervent believer in the vaccine, but after the sudden death of his “very fit and well father” in July of 2021, he began to look more critically at the jabs and their side effects. He published what he believes to be his most critical and rigorous research on the mRNA vaccines. His study found, among other things, an “increased risk of heart attacks from a mechanism of increasing inflammation around the coronary arteries,” which was also confirmed by a whistleblower and other researchers in the field.
CDC and Big Tech Collude to Hide Life-Saving Information on the Jabs
Within hours of Ladapo’s October 7 Tweet announcing his analysis, the Twitter Gestapo removed the post because it “violated the Twitter rules.” After much public outcry, the post was reinstated.
Today, we released an analysis on COVID-19 mRNA vaccines the public needs to be aware of. This analysis showed an increased risk of cardiac-related death among men 18-39. FL will not be silent on the truth.
Just a day before, the courageous Dr. Peter McCullough was removed from Twitter for his wrong-think on the subject of the COVID-19 vaccines. In the video below, based on a red wave in the upcoming mid-terms, McCullough actively encourages the hypothetical newly elected Republican majority to investigate the “government operation that created SARS-CoV-2and the spike protein.” His account remains suspended from Twitter.
Twitter banned Dr. Peter McCullough on 10/6 for a well-researched video about myocarditis in children was the final straw for the Twitter tyrants. VAERS side effects are massively underreported. Here's what they don't want you to see.https://t.co/OTFGrvb0Pt
It is truly mind-boggling that our own government and Big Tech have and are actively colluding to hide life-saving information from Americans by censoring and suspending respected medical experts on social media. It has become abundantly clear that it is not “science” that dictates policy and guidance. Rather, it is the self-preservation and monetary enrichment of those in the government and pharmaceutical companies who have most benefited from pushing these experimental mRNA vaccines.
Frankly, as Ladapo reminded in his War Room interview, the CDC should have authorized their own studies and analyses of the potential harms of the COVID-19 jabs months ago when incidents of “cardiac-related death among men” began to appear. For many months now, objectively-minded scientists, epidemiologists, and physicians have been sounding the alarm on the dangers of mRNA shots.
Still, despite the data, the numerous studies, and anecdotal evidence of the potential lethality of the jabs, our government, and Anthony Fauci continue to pressure Americans to continue to receive boosters, even for children and young people who are almost completely unaffected by the COVID-19 virus. All-cause mortality in highly vaccinated countries has sky-rocketed in 2021 and 2022. Athletes also seem to be dying from cardiac events in record numbers.
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The suppression of data and other information has made it enormously difficult for the general public to accurately assess the dangers of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. To that very point, Ladapo explained his own experience with the many ambivalent responses to his own attempts to gauge public understanding about the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines. On Tucker Carlson’s October 10 show, Ladapo stated the following:
“I have talked to people, and there’s been so much confusion, as you know, over the past few years that people have trouble sometimes even identifying when something has so clearly crossed the line. So I ask people sometimes who are still, you know, hemming and hawing about this. If with this vaccine, it had been known two years ago or so that this vaccine would increase cardiac deaths in young men by 84%, would they have approved it? The obvious answer is ‘No. You would never give something to someone who was young and healthy—that can increase their risk of dying from sudden cardiac death by 84%!’ But people—often their response is, ‘Well, you know, I don’t know. COVID is pretty bad.’ Yes, COVID can be terrible, but we don’t give people medications that kill them! This isn’t going away. This is real, and it is incredibly important.”
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paypal will hold your money, preventing you from filing your taxes!
Several users have reported that PayPal won’t let them close their accounts and instead directed them to contact customer support., that only tells you how bad the situation is.
The Gateway Pundit reported on Saturday that PayPal will begin fining users $2,500 directly from their accounts if they are found to be spreading “misinformation” in its newly updated policy.
On September 26th, the financial service announced some changes to certain agreements.
Starting November 3, 2022, PayPal is expanding the existing list of prohibited activities to include the sending, posting, or publication of messages, content, or materials under its Acceptable Use Policy.
“Violation of this Acceptable Use Policy constitutes a violation of the PayPal User Agreement and may subject you to damages, including liquidated damages of $2,500.00 U.S. dollars per violation, which may be debited directly from your PayPal account(s) as outlined in the User Agreement,” said PayPal.
Users will be subject to a financial penalty if they violate the revised policy in any way, including by spreading false information, engaging in discrimination against the LGBTQ community, posing a risk to user safety and well being, and so on.
The former President of PayPal, David Marcus, blasted the policy — calling it “insanity” because “a private company now gets to decide to take your money if you say something they disagree with.” Elon Musk agreed with his comment.
After major backlash, PayPal reversed course and said they will not be fining people $2,500 for spreading ‘misinformation.’
“An AUP notice recently went out in error that included incorrect information. PayPal is not fining people for misinformation and this language was never intended to be inserted in our policy. Our team is working to correct our policy pages. We’re sorry for the confusion this has caused,” said PayPal.
Several public figures have advocated for a boycott of PayPal over the company’s Orwellian “misinformation” policy, and some have already done so.
Dinesh D’Souza tweeted: “Stop using PayPal and look for alternatives. They were ready to steal $2500 of your money on the pretext that you have the wrong opinions. Sick bastards! They only backed down because they got busted. Let’s bust them some more so the lesson really sinks in!”
Stop using PayPal and look for alternatives. They were ready to steal $2500 of your money on the pretext that you have the wrong opinions. Sick bastards! They only backed down because they got busted. Let’s bust them some more so the lesson really sinks in!
Rep. Lauren Boebert: “Remember that the only reason PayPal won’t be fining people $2,500 for “misinformation” is because we spoke up, boycotted them and cancelled our accounts. Do not silently be a player in the game of cancel culture. Fight back.”
Remember that the only reason PayPal won’t be fining people $2,500 for “misinformation” is because we spoke up, boycotted them and cancelled our accounts.
Do not silently be a player in the game of cancel culture. Fight back.
#TRENDING: | Fallout mounting across social media platforms including Twitter with #BankruptPaypal now trending in response to PayPal’s recent policy change and subsequent walk back. https://t.co/yCrysUD5PJ
Another said, “Looks like they’ve disabled Account Closure over at Paypal to prevent customers exiting their platform. No doubt there’ll be the usual corporate-speak on “temporary technical issue” inbound.”
Candace Owens urged her followers to make sure they also delete their data when closing their PayPal accounts.
@AskPayPal your process currently makes me confirm my identity by texting me a passcode. When I enter the passcode it says that my identity has been verified and then sends me back to the beginning of the process again.
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