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Universities follow the politics, not the science

Daniel Nuccio
Brownstone Institute
Thu, 17 Mar 2022 10:29 UTC
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At the start of 2022, both Rachel Fulton Brown, an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago, and Donald J. Boudreaux, an economics professor at George Mason University, fed up with the draconian dictats and bureaucratic overreach of their respective institutions, published letters openly calling out their universities for their intellectual and moral failures in how they responded to the Covid pandemic.

Fulton Brown's letter to UChicago president, Paul Alivisatos, and provost, Ka Yee C. Lee, lamented her school's failure to lead the charge against fashionable Covid mitigation policies, while exhorting the institution to change course, celebrate those who exhibited the courage to "stand for SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY over POLITICAL GRANDSTANDING," and acknowledge they have "students intelligent enough to see through the gaslighting and fear to the real questions we should be asking about what it means to be a great school."

Boudreaux's memo to GMU president, Gregory Washington, highlighted the intellectual bankruptcy and logical inconsistencies of GMU's then newly announced booster mandate, specifically addressing GMU's failure to acknowledge natural immunity, the fact that Covid vaccination does not stop the spread of the virus, and that members of the GMU community still freely interacted with the unvaccinated and unboosted off-campus.
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CBC's Rosemary Barton will talk "mean tweets" on university journalism panel

Elie Cantin-Nantel
True North
Sat, 19 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
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The University of Ottawa's Centre for Law Technology, and Society is hosting a panel on Tuesday called "Journalists Facing Mean Tweets: What It Means for Our Democracy," featuring CBC's Rosemary Barton.


Comment: Perhaps foremost in journalists minds for this conference, might be the agreed upon understanding that unregulated people are "extremely dangerous to our themselves and democracy," with an eye on keeping it safe for those 'handlers' that benefit from the many deceptions of our reality (historical, social, economic, geopolitical and climate... ).



Panellists will also include Mississauga-based journalist Fatima Syed and Aboriginal People's Television Network (APTN) producer Mark Blackburn.

The event will be a live recording of associate professor Elizabeth Dubois's podcast, "The Wonks and War Rooms."


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DeSantis signs bill requiring school curriculum transparency in Florida

Bethany Blankley
Just the News
Fri, 25 Mar 2022 07:08 UTC
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© Palm Coast ObserverFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law Friday that requires Florida school districts to be transparent in the selection of instructional materials, including library and reading materials.

As a part of the "Year of the Parent," a commitment DeSantis has made to prioritize parental rights, DeSantis signed HB 1467, which includes several protections for parents, such as requiring school districts to allow parents to review all books in the school library, all required classroom book lists, and any instructional materials teachers use. He explained:
"In Florida, our parents have every right to be involved in their child's education. We are not going to let politicians deny parents the right to know what is being taught in our schools. I'm proud to sign this legislation that ensures curriculum transparency."
Senate President Wilton Simpson said:
"While teachers, school administrators, and school board members have a tremendous amount of authority over what and how our kids are taught in school, at the end of the day, parents - not schools - are responsible for raising children. Florida parents are seeking greater involvement in many aspects of our education system, and this legislation speaks to that effort. The books our kids are reading in schools need to have proper vetting."
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Indian broadcaster rips YouTube for bias in blocking its channel


RT
Sat, 26 Mar 2022 08:43 UTC
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WION accused the video-sharing website of only "telling half the story" of the Ukrainian conflict.

New Delhi-based English-language news channel WION said it had been barred from posting videos on YouTube for several days, blaming the platform for seeking to thwart objective coverage of the conflict in Ukraine.

A "total block" had been imposed on Tuesday, and no new clips had appeared on its usually busy channel - which has more than five million subscribers - for the next three days.

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Microsoft is using illegal bribes in the Middle East and Africa. Why is the SEC turning a blind eye?

Yasser Elabd
Lioness
Sat, 26 Mar 2022 18:34 UTC
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After paying fines for violations in Hungary and South Africa, Microsoft agreed to stop the practice — but I have evidence that I believe shows they continue to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act elsewhere.

I was recruited by Microsoft in 1998, and I helped bring the company's products throughout the Middle East and Africa for the next 20 years. I was successful and received many promotions. But eventually, I noticed something strange: many employees younger than me, in lower positions, were driving luxury cars and purchasing homes sometimes worth millions of dollars. For my part, I could not afford to buy a home, let alone anything else luxurious, despite my career success. I wondered, naively, whether these colleagues had families with money — but if so, why would they be working on a Microsoft sales team?

I put the thought out of mind as Microsoft's business in the Middle East and Africa boomed. I established contracts in the public sector in Ghana, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Qatar, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, and many other countries. I sold licensing and solutions to Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health, Ministry of the Interior, and National Guard. The Sub-Saharan Africa team I built generated $1 million in 2002; a year later, our revenue was over $15 million. This is, of course, a tiny amount compared to the $4 billion Microsoft now banks in the region, with its near monopoly.

Comment: They say a company reflects the personality of its founder:

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Utah latest state to ban transgender athletes in girls sports


New York Post
Sat, 26 Mar 2022 17:24 UTC
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© Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesLia Thomas (centre top) demonstrates why transgender males should not be permitted to compete in women's sports
Utah lawmakers voted Friday to override GOP Gov. Spencer Cox's veto of legislation banning transgender youth athletes from playing on girls' teams — a move that comes amid a nationwide culture war over transgender issues.

Before the veto, the ban received support from a majority of Utah lawmakers but fell short of the two-thirds needed to override it. Its sponsors on Friday successfully flipped 10 Republicans in the House and five in the Senate who had previously voted against the proposal.

Cox was the second GOP governor this week to overrule lawmakers on a sports-participation ban, and his veto letter drew national attention with a poignant argument that such laws target vulnerable kids who already have high rates of suicide attempts. Business leaders are sounding the alarm that it could have a multimillion-dollar economic impact for the state, including the possible loss of the NBA All-Star Game next year.
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MSNBC piece claims 'Health & Fitness' is new gateway drug to the far-right

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Fri, 25 Mar 2022 17:51 UTC
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Bemoans how "solidarity, heroism, and brotherhood" are linked with physical training.

MSNBC published an article claiming that shadowy people on the Telegram messenger service are recruiting far-right acolytes by talking about health and fitness.

Yes, really.

Comment: That last comment hits the nail on the head. If physical health and exercise are now correlated with right-wing ideology, who wouldn't want to be right-wing? And what does that make left-wing?



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Reject Ketanji Brown Jackson for SCOTUS

Josh Hammer
Newsweek
Fri, 25 Mar 2022 19:39 UTC
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© Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesMARCH 23: While being questioned by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill March 23, 2022 in Washington, DC.
The issue with Ketanji Brown Jackson, the 51-year-old federal appellate judge who is our senile president's Supreme Court nominee, is not necessarily her on-paper qualifications. By most traditional metrics, she is "qualified": She has served as both a district court and appellate court judge, served as vice chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, formerly clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer (the man she has been nominated to replace) and is a double-Harvard alum. In terms of "objective" criteria, this is an impressive resume.

Instead, the issue with Judge Jackson is that she is a left-wing ideologue who, if successfully confirmed by the Senate, will devote the next few decades endeavoring to move the Supreme Court far to the left. All relevant indications are that she will approach her job not like her (slightly) more pragmatic former boss, but like a leftist activist — in the mode of her possible future colleague, the midwit partisan flack Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Comment: Amen. When (and why?) did Newsweek, of all the MSM rags, become a bastion of reason and common sense?

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Safe streets require the political will to punish crime

Austin Stone
American Greatness
Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:00 UTC
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As this crime wave rages, Republicans must ignore the false promise of a soft-on-crime utopia.

"Let's not abandon our streets," Joe Biden lectured in his State of the Union last week. But his weak overtures to law and order in the speech rang hollow, as his administration — and just about every other career politician in Washington — sinks deeper into the quagmire of so-called "criminal justice reform." This soft-on-crime movement is led by activists who don't care about public safety at all.

After years of crime reduction, American cities have become even more dangerous than they were in the 1980s. Murders are up, along with carjackings, robberies, shoplifting, public violence, and vandalism. Some progressives have tried to manipulate statistics and "contextualize" the recent crime surge, but Americans aren't buying it. We know a policy failure when it's staring us in the face.
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China grounds Boeing 737s after deadly crash


RT
Fri, 25 Mar 2022 16:21 UTC
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The same type of aircraft was involved in this week's accident that killed 132 people

China Eastern Airlines and its subsidiaries have temporarily grounded 223 Boeing 737-800 aircraft, the company's spokesperson Liu Xiaodong said in a press conference on Thursday, according to CNN.

On Monday, China Eastern Airlines flight 5735 crashed in a remote, mountainous region in the south of the country as it flew from Kunming to Guangzhou. The flight had 132 people on board - 123 passengers and nine crew. No survivors had been found after three days of search efforts, Chinese investigators said on Wednesday.

The grounded aircraft are undergoing safety inspection and maintenance to ensure that they are safe to fly, Liu said. The airline launched a sweeping safety overhaul after the accident, the spokesman added.

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