Society's Child
David Haskell tried to promote freedom of expression at Canada's Wilfrid Laurier University by working from the inside, with little to show for it.
Now the journalism professor wants to promote campus freedom of expression from the outside, as a member of Parliament.
Haskell is running for office as a candidate of the People's Party of Canada, formed less than a year ago by a disgruntled ex-Conservative Party member.
If you doubt this, just consider what just happened to a 79-year-old woman in Ohio named Nancy Segula. When her neighbor moved away, he left a couple cats behind, and they became very hungry. So Segula would feed them and care for them, because she didn't want them to suffer. Well, eventually one of her neighbors found out about this, and the animal warden was called...
Journalist Andy Ngo was attacked and left with a brain hemorrhage while reporting at an Antifa rally June 29. Rose City Antifa released a statement July 3 celebrating the attack and explaining how Ngo and "the far-right mob were stopped, physically." The actions by Antifa were cited as a means of "community defense," according to the statement.
"On June 29, 2019, Andy Ngo tried a repeat of his actions on May 1, 2019- to film the actions of armed men on a mission to attack activists, to be used for propaganda purposes," Rose City Antifa's statement read. "As on May Day, this past weekend he and the far-right mob were stopped, physically."
Thunberg shot to fame for organizing school walkouts against climate change last year. A series of talks lamenting her generation's impending doom have since made her the poster child for a strange, apocalyptic brand of environmentalism, with British lawmakers nodding along to her declaration that "we probably don't even have a future anymore" in April, and the world's power-brokers listening intently to her exhortation that they should "feel the fear I feel every day," made at the World Economic Forum in Davos several months earlier.
She offers only one path to salvation: an immediate halt to all carbon emissions - there can be no compromise.
Denis Rebrikov wants to use CRISPR to create more gene-edited babies — and he already knows who their parents might be.
In June, the Russian biologist told Nature he planned to gene-edit human embryos and then bring them to term. To date, only one person — Chinese scientist He Jiankui — has ever openly produced gene-edited babies, with the claim that the edits would prevent the babies from inheriting their fathers' HIV.
On Thursday, Rebrikov told New Scientist he has five pairs of Russian parents eager to let him gene-edit their embryos for a different and socially loaded reason: to prevent the offspring from inheriting their parents' deafness.
Rebrikov told New Scientist that each parent interested in his study is deaf due to mutations in their GJB2 gene. When two people with those mutations reproduce, the child is guaranteed to be born deaf.
By using CRISPR to edit one copy of the GJB2 gene in a fertilized embryo, Rebrikov believes he'll be able to grant the parents' wishes to have a biological child that isn't deaf.
Comment: He believes it will work. That's a far cry from actually working considering they still can't get it exactly right with plants.
Titled Dynamo: Dynamic Multichannel Modeling of Misinformation, the project is headed up by UCSB professor William Wang. Wang specializes in "natural language processing," the subsect of artificial intelligence dealing with a computer's ability to process human language.
Using this type of analysis, Wang and his team have set out to create a means of analyzing text in social media posts and online articles to reveal information about their origins, as well as individuals who are sharing them. Wang's research will be used to create tools that identify the ideologies, motivations, intended audiences, and affiliations of those sharing information online, according to a UCSB news release.
This information will then be used to determine if a post is "misleading," "clickbait," or whether or not it comes from what UCSB terms "established' news sites.
Comment: Yet another AI tool that will in the end be used for censorship masked as protecting the public from 'misinformation'. See also:
- Political cartoons next on the chopping block as newspapers worry about 'offending' readers
- 'Fake news' a bigger threat than terrorism, poll finds - but what exactly is it?
- Orwellian Media: Censorship happens in the blink of an eye
- New Google Algorithm is Live: News Aggregators Will Be Punished
We aim for equality every day: equal time working, equal time parenting. Time together. Time apart.
But today it felt like I was holding the world together by myself.
I'm trying to tell him how hard it was, looking for appreciation, looking for a promise that he'll help me get more me time tomorrow.
He's not hearing me: He's defending. He's explaining. He's excusing. He's rationalizing.
I take a deep breath, measure my words, make sure this comes out as an "I statement":
"I feel unappreciated and alone.""Well, you're choosing to feel those things."
Clearly, we need some help communicating.
I came across some relationship advice claiming to fix everything.
A whole new frame for seeing the world:
What has happened — what is happening — to the geographical entity we call the United States, to its people, to its culture? Does it not seem like the country is coming apart at the seams, in just about everything, from its once-established moral base in a more or less historic Christian framework to its very vision of reality, of what is real and what is not?
Millions of "woke" social justice progressives now control the Democratic Party and most of our media; they dominate our entertainment and sports industries; they push for open borders and what amounts to "population replacement" of natives by illegal aliens; and they have a stranglehold on the near entirety of our educational system, from the primary grades to our colleges.
Rabbi Avigdor Nebenzahl, a prominent Israeli theologist who, until recently, served as the chief rabbi of the Old City of Jerusalem, has brought forth a rather sensitive religious matter as he called for the building of the Third Temple on the Temple Mount - one of the holiest sites in the world for Muslims, Christians and Jews, Breaking Israel News reports.
According to the media outlet, Nebenzahl stated that "we must do everything in our power to build the Temple," insisting that there's never been any sort of religious ruling that would tell the Jews to wait for the Temple to "fall from the sky."
Comment: It's notable which religions are calling for the end of days and how closely they're aligned with nations evidently attempting to bring that about:
- From Holocaust To Armageddon
- Judaism and Christianity - Two Thousand Years of Lies - 60 Years of State Terrorism
- Rabbi tells Israel to prepare for Biblical end-of-days war 'at any time'
- 'End of days' signaled by birth of red heifer in Israel (thanks to fanatical breeding program) say Hebrew scholars
- Russian Orthodox Patriarch: End Times coming, so don't get all revolutionary!
- Book Review: The Invention of the Jewish People
- The Truth Perspective: Match Made in Heaven: The Surprising Similarities Between Radical Islam and Talmudic Judaism
- The Truth Perspective: How to Numb Your Conscience with Totalitarian Religion
- Procter & Gamble reported Tuesday that it wrote down the value of its Gillette brand by $8 billion.
- Executives attributed the write-down to currency devaluations and lower shaving frequency.
- The consumer products giant has also faced increased competition from disruptors like Dollar Shave Club and Harry's.
P&G reported an impairment charge of $8.0 billion in the fiscal fourth quarter, resulting in a net loss of $5.24 billion. The one-time, noncash charge was to adjust the carrying values of Gillette's goodwill and intangible assets.
Comment: Notice how this report neglected to mention how Gillete's new feminist advertising campaign might have had something to do with men choosing not to buy products from companies that tell them they are toxic! But, yeah, blame beards!















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