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Google on trial (again): Internal documents show internet giant used exclusivity deals to maintain ad empire

Ryan Barwick
Marketing Brew
Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:59 UTC
Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai
© Justin Sullivan/GettyGoogle and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai
Google's publisher ad tech was only as strong as the advertisers those publishers got access to — but those publishers knew they couldn't get them anywhere else.

In internal Google documents released on Day 7 of the United States vs. Google trial Tuesday, company employees worried that if Google's ad exchange for publishers, AdX, lost exclusivity to Google's advertisers, "many publishers would terminate their AdX relationship in favor of their preferred vendors."

The memo, which weighed the benefits of opening up ad inventory to third parties, was released in a tranche of documents introduced Tuesday, and reinforced the DOJ's argument that Google unfairly tied its two ad-tech businesses together to maintain a monopoly on the industry.
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Best of the Web: We Must Never Forget 9-9-21

A Midwestern Doctor
The Forgotten Side of Medicine
Tue, 10 Sep 2024 21:38 UTC
biden fall texas graduation ceremony
© Brendan Smialowski/Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden is helped up after falling during the graduation ceremony at the U.S. Air Force Academy in El Paso County, Colorado, on June 1, 2023.
This revised article is being sent out today since many of believe it is critical to bring public awareness to the three year anniversary of Biden's abhorrent vaccine mandates.

How Biden's Mandates Devastated America and His Presidency

Recently, a rather extraordinary turn of events happened. The sitting president was forced to drop out of his re-election campaign because his cognitive impairment was undeniably exposed to the country through a presidential debate and his party then turned against him. I and many others hold the opinion that over the last 3 years, Biden experienced cognitive and neurological decline, that this decline perfectly paralleled his zealous endorsement of the COVID vaccines, and that causality can be established since that same decline has been seen in many others following COVID vaccination (especially older adults with pre-existing cognitive impairment).

On 9/9/21, Biden gave one of the most divisive speeches in American history. There he announced his illegal workforce mandate (which was later struck down by the Supreme Court), repeated a series of known lies about the COVID vaccine and repeatedly attempted to incite hatred against the unvaccinated. Since the entire conference was 27 minutes long (which made it too long to watch), I spent a while trimming it down to the key points. The primary reason I made this article was to highlight this video, so please consider watching it (and take note of how much more lucid and coherent he was just three years ago).
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Dollars

Ohio Governor DeWine's personal dealings in Haiti raises concerns about potential conflict of interest

Eireann Van Natta
The Daily Caller
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:02 UTC
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine haiti conflict of interest
© Wikimedia/Public/U.S. Air Force photo by Ken LaRockOhio Governor Mike DeWine
Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has faced a series of conflicts of interests on key issues in his state, including with the ongoing Haitian migrant crisis affecting Springfield.

DeWine recently pledged support to Springfield to assist with the influx in Haitian migrants, according to Spectrum News. Over a period of years, DeWine and his wife have developed extensive ties to a charity in Haiti.

The charity was established in honor of Becky DeWine, their daughter who died in a car accident. The DeWine Family Foundation Inc. gave a $400,000 grant to the group "Hands Together" to fund a school in Haiti, according to the foundation's 990 form that was filed in 2023.

Comment: At nearly all Springfield City Council meetings, frustrated citizens have emphasized that THEY weren't consulted about moving the equivalent of a third of the city's population into their neighborhoods.




Apparently the council members aren't concerned:




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Light switch

Kuwait to freeze bank accounts of residents who resist biometric fingerprinting

Rhoda Wilson
The Expose
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 00:00 UTC
kuwait biometrics
Kuwait is mandating a biometric registration process for citizens and expatriates. Those who fail to register their fingerprints by the set deadlines will face consequences such as suspended government services and frozen bank accounts.

It is claimed that the reasons for enforcing the registration of digital biometrics are to enhance security and address dual nationality issues. However, this initiative aligns with global trends in biometrics and the sharing of our data with selected agencies.

It's no coincidence that at the same time, the United Nations is pushing for a Global Digital Compact to be adopted by 193 countries so it can play a significant role in the global governance of artificial intelligence, the Internet, digital public goods and digital infrastructure.

Kuwait is preparing to suspend government services for people who fail to register their fingerprints by the set deadlines, 30 September 2024, for Kuwaitis and 30 December 2024, for expatriates
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Gingerbread

Emasculation Nation

Raw Egg Nationalist
American Greatness
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:00 UTC
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Now, testosterone decline is not only acknowledged by the Democrat Party; it's to be welcomed. It's essential to forging their new America.

At last month's Democratic National Convention, men lined up to have themselves sterilized outside the conference center. You probably heard. So-called "reproductive rights" were one of the key issues of the Convention, which also had a giant inflatable IUD stationed close to the entrance, just in case attendees were in any doubt.

Planned Parenthood took an RV to the Convention and set up a mobile clinic in a parking lot nearby. On Monday, the first day of proceedings, it offered free vasectomies, and then abortions the next day.

Luis Ayala was one of ten men who had himself sterilized that Monday. "Ayala is 28 and works as an electrician," NPR explained. "His wife saw a social media post about a free reproductive health clinic Planned Parenthood was sponsoring in Chicago during the Democratic convention and suggested that he sign up."

I know we — and by "we," I mean "I" — like to say the leftist vision of politics is one of emasculation, but really, it's a bit on the nose, isn't it? Vasectomies at the Democratic National Convention — really!?
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Hotels in China start to ban EVs and electric scooters from underground parking lots

Jo Nova
joannenova.com.au
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:59 UTC
Luton airport carpark fire
© joannenova.com.auLest we forget, the Luton airport carpark fire October 2023.
We know it's coming. One day, sometime there will be a skyscraper inferno started by an EV or a scooter and made so much worse because there were other EV's in the basement carpark.

At the moment companies are fined $100,000 in Australia for failing to include high fire danger warning labels on kids beach towels, but it's no problem if children sleep in a tower above a carpark full of EVs.

But after a spate of fires in China, Hotels there are starting to ask customers with EVs to park in open areas outside the building.
China bans electric vehicles from underground carparks

by Jamie Seidel, News.com

... Chinese hotels and property managers have begun to ban all electric vehicles - scooters, e-bikes, family cars or commercial vans - from their undercroft car parks.

"Hotels and other buildings in Hangzhou, Ningbo, Xiaoshan and other places in Zhejiang have banned electric vehicles from entering underground garages for safety reasons, sparking heated discussions," Chinese online dissident "Mr Li is not your teacher" reported in a post to X (which is banned in China) in September.

Local news reports that property owners were spurred into action after 11 intense battery fires in Zhejiang's capital, Hangzhou, in May of this year.

"Based on the characteristics of electric vehicle fires and our hotel's firefighting capabilities, we think it safer not to allow them into the underground garage," RFA quotes one five-star hotel owner as stating.

"A lot of basement parking lots are designed with low ceilings, meaning that fire trucks can't get inside."
Some will point to studies that claim gas powered cars catch fire 20 or 30 times as often, but old cars are riskier and these studies don't appear to control for age. (Can anyone find one that does?) And if one EV sets fire to 1,200 cars, hypothetically, say, at an airport terminal, we have to wonder whether the incident adds more "fire deaths" to the petrol car scorecard rather than the EV tally at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
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Eye 1

Are elites planning to use AI to 'deprogram' so-called conspiracy theorists?

Jacob Bruns
Headline USA
Fri, 13 Sep 2024 00:00 UTC
The Ludovico Technique from 'A Clockwork Orange'
© Alexander Antonopoulos via YouTubeThe Ludovico Technique from 'A Clockwork Orange'
This is really exciting. It seemed like it worked and it worked quite broadly...'

Might the New World Order use biased, pre-manipulated artificial intelligence programs to try to "deprogram" those with unpopular opinions by persuading them that their logic does not compute?

A recent study on that subject underwritten by the John Templeton Foundation might give so-called conspiracy theorists one more thing to be paranoid about, according to Popular Science.

Critics have already sounded the alarm that leftist radicals in Silicon Valley and elsewhere were manipulating the algorithms used to train AI so that it automatically defaulted to anti-conservative biases.

The next step may be programming any verboten viewpoints into the realm of "conspiracy theory," then having powerful computers challenge human users to a battle of logic that inevitably is stacked against them with cherrypicked data.

Comment: Watch the following to get a sense of how one might mitigate the effects of "certain facts" (ie. usually lies and obfuscations), and help maintain a perspective on truth that is already being discouraged and ran roughshod by those with an agenda:



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Warning

Age of Rage: 26M Americans believe political violence is justified

Jonathan Turley
jonathanturley.org.
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:00 UTC
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A poll released by the University of Chicago via the Chicago Project on Security and Threats offers a chilling account of the growing radicalism in America, particularly after the second foiled assassination attempt of former president Donald Trump, the poll found that 26 million Americans believe "the use of force" is justified to keep Trump from regaining the presidency.

As discussed in my book, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage, we have seen an increasing level of rage rhetoric in our political system. For some, violent language can become violent action. There is a normalization that can occur as extreme actions become more acceptable to more and more citizens:
"We are living in an age of rage. It permeates every aspect of our society and politics. Rage is liberating, even addictive. It allows us to say and do things that we would ordinarily avoid, even denounce in others. Rage is often found at the farthest extreme of reason. For those who agree with the underlying message, it is righteous and passionate. For those who disagree, it is dangerous and destabilizing."
With the unrelenting claims of President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and others that democracy is about to die in America, some now feel a license to commit criminal acts in the name of "saving democracy."
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Eye 1

Ukrainian agent killed in Russia - FSB (VIDEO)


RT
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 08:09 UTC
Gun of the eliminated agent
© The FSB
A Russian national allegedly working for Kiev was reportedly attempting to plant an explosive in Sverdlovsk Region.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has reported that it has eliminated a Ukrainian operative who was attempting to carry out an attack on a senior employee of a defense enterprise in Sverdlovsk Region.

In a statement released on Tuesday, the FSB claimed that the suspect, a Russian national born in 1984, was acting as an agent of Kiev's Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) and was a member of a Ukrainian nationalist terrorist organization.

According to the report, the unnamed suspect's handlers in Kiev instructed him in making an improvised explosive device (IED), which he intended to use to blow up the car of a senior defense enterprise employee.
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Eye 2

Best of the Web: 29 unmarked mass graves from Israel's genocide identified thus far in Gaza, the majority are unrecorded


Euromed Monitor
Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:03 UTC
mass graves gaza

Comment: A larger version of the graphic can be found here.


Thousands of families continue to bury their children in random mass graves, a phenomenon brought on by over 11 months of systematic killings of Palestinians by Israel in every Gaza Strip governorate. The situation is worsening as a result of the Israeli occupation army's constant targeting of people who attempt to enter these makeshift cemeteries to bury their loved ones.

Euro-Med Monitor has released an infographic design that shows the locations and dates of approximately 30 randomly established mass graves in the northern, central, and southern governorates of Gaza, containing roughly 3,000 dead victims of Israel's genocide in the enclave. The graphic also depicts 120 random mass graves in which three or more people are buried, and which were established in the Gaza Strip between now and last October.

Comment: Conservative estimates from experts put the number of massacred Palestinians since Israel's escalation of its genocide at around 100,000 - and so it seems there are many, many more dead yet to be put to rest: 70% of Palestinians killed by Israel are women and children, Gaza government data reveals

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