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RNC to drop $250k to help California GOP with Newsom recall campaign

Ari Hoffman
The Post Millennial
Fri, 12 Feb 2021 17:13 UTC
Gavin Newsom
California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom
The Republican National Committee (RNC) is about to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to assist in the effort to recall California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom. According to Politico, the RNC will donate $250,000 to the recall effort. Together with the California Republican Party, the RNC will also invest in text banking and a digital effort to encourage voters to sign the petition and drive voter turnout for the recall.

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel told Politico in a statement Thursday,
"Governor Newsom's authoritarian measures, blatant overreach and complete mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic have proven that he is woefully unqualified to lead the state of California. It is time the people use their constitutional recourse to remove him from power."
The multi million dollar effort began as a response to Newsom's handling of the coronavirus pandemic and gained momentum after Newsom ordered a second lockdown in response to a surge in COVID cases, while the Governor was discovered unmasked, indoors at a fancy Napa Valley restaurant for a birthday dinner for a lobbyist which he attended with members of the California medical advisory committee. Newsom's orders closed businesses around the Golden State but left an exemption for Hollywood production to continue.

Comment: It's not just Newsom's handling of the scamdemic, but his wholesale embrace of radical leftist policies that has Californians up in arms:

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Mastercard will let merchants accept payments in crypto this year

Danny Nelson
Coindesk
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 09:09 UTC
Mastercard
© Shutterstock46 million consumers are seeking £14bn in damages over payment fees after Mastercard lost bid to block claim
Mastercard (MA) is planning to give merchants the option to receive payments in cryptocurrency later this year.

According to a source familiar with the matter, the functionality will see Mastercard customers' digital currency payments settled in crypto at participating merchants, a first for the financial giant. The company has not yet disclosed which digital currencies it intends to support, or where.

The details shed new light on CEO Michael Miebach's Q4 pledge to integrate digital currency payments "directly on our network" in a move the new chief, helming his first earnings call on Jan. 28, said will provide maximal flexibility to customers and merchants alike.

Previously, Mastercard supported limited cryptocurrency transactions through its cryptocard partners Wirex and Uphold. But those programs only cover payment, not settlement; the coins are converted to fiat currency well before reaching the merchant.

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Israeli rabbi, Iranian cleric both claim Covid-19 vaccine 'can make people gay'

Tom Batchelor
Independent
Sun, 17 Jan 2021 13:27 UTC
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© (AFP via Getty Images)An Israeli senior citizen receives her second Pfizer Covid vaccine at the Maccabi Health Services drive-in vaccination center, in the northern coastal city of Haifa
An ultra-Orthodox rabbi has told his followers to avoid getting a Covid vaccine because it can "make them gay".

Israeli media reported that Rabbi Daniel Asor, who has amassed a large online following, also claimed inoculation efforts were part of a "global malicious government" trying to "establish a new world order".


Comment: Notably, Catholic, Christian and Greek Orthodox leaders have voiced similar concerns.


While his claim of a link between the vaccine and homosexuality is factually incorrect, it also contradicts statements from leading orthodox rabbis who have called on their followers to come forward for a coronavirus jab.

Comment: The Daily Mail reports on the Iranian cleric:
An Iranian cleric has claimed that the Covid-19 vaccine turns people gay.

Ayatollah Abbas Tabrizian made the claims on messaging platform Telegram, where he has almost 210,000 followers, The Jerusalem Post reported.

According to the publication, Tabrizian wrote on the platform: 'Don't go near those who have had the COVID vaccine. They have become homosexuals.'
Tabrizian
Ayatollah Abbas Tabrizian made the claims on messaging platform Telegram, where he has almost 210,000 followers
Ayatollah Abbas Tabrizian made the claims on messaging platform Telegram, where he has almost 210,000 followers

Prominent LGBTQ campaigner Peter Tatchell said the claims were 'demonizing' both the vaccine and the gay community.

'Ayatollah Tabrizian combines scientific ignorance with a crude appeal to homophobia,' he said.

Iranian dissident Sheina Vojoudi said: 'Like other clerics in the regime, also Tabrizian relates all the shortages [shortcomings] to sexuality.

'The clerics in Iran are suffering from lack of knowledge and humanity. Actually, his goal of spreading nonsense is to try to scare people [out] of getting vaccinated, while the leader of the regime and other officials got Pfizer, and they don't provide it for the people with the excuse that they don't trust the West.'

The controversial figure has made several claims about Western medicine. In January last year, video was shared of him burning an American scientific textbook, claiming that Islamic medicine made such books 'irrelevant'.

Homosexuality is punishable by execution in Iran.

It is thought that thousands of gays have been executed in the country since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

In 2019, Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javid Zarif told German broadcaster Deutsche Welle: 'Our society has moral principles.

'And we live according to these principles. These are moral principles concerning the behavior of people in general. And that means that the law is respected and the law is obeyed,'
There are other reasons, founded in science, for, where possible, avoiding the experimental coronavirus vaccines. And there is evidence that coronavirus affects the brain: Also check out SOTT radio's: Objective:Health - Protecting Yourself Against Vaccine Side Effects

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TikTok sale to Oracle and Walmart put on ice 'indefinitely'

J. Fingas
Engadget
Wed, 10 Feb 2021 00:01 UTC
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© Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
A new president means a reevaluation of priorities.

TikTok's December 4th sale deadline came and went with no real response from the outgoing Trump administration, and it appears President Biden isn't in a rush to finalize the deal. Wall Street Journal sources understand TikTok's forced sale to Oracle and Walmart has been put on hold "indefinitely" as Biden reviews past efforts to handle security risks from Chinese technology companies. Officials haven't ruled out a sale, but it would likely be under different terms and might not happen at all.

The social media giant is reportedly still talking to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS) about resolving concerns, and that an alternative to a sale might involve sending data to a "trusted" third party to prevent the Chinese government from obtaining Americans' info. That might be preferable — Chinese laws would prevent TikTok parent ByteDance from exporting the algorithms the social network uses to recommend videos.

Comment: See also:

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More than 40% of Britons in poor health or struggling financially amid pandemic, says UK regulator

Huw Jones
Reuters
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 11:10 UTC
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© REUTERS/Henry Nicholls/FilesPeople shop at a market stalls, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in east London, Britain, January 23, 2021.
More than 40 percent of Britons are struggling financially or suffering poor health, a sharp increase from last year driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, Britain's Financial Conduct Authority said on Thursday.

The FCA said there are now 27.7 million adults in Britain affected by low financial resilience, poor health or other recent negative life events, up from 24 million in February 2020, a month before the country went into its first lockdown to fight the pandemic. Britain's total population is 67 million.

Having just one of the characteristics puts a consumer at greater risk of harm, the FCA said in the latest findings of its regular Financial Lives survey.

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Attention

SPLC removes Black Separatist listing on hate map: 'Black dissent isn't black violence'

Mia Cathell
The Post Millennial
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 22:27 UTC
SPLC Hate map
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has removed the Black Separatist listing on its extensive hate map to underscore that white supremacist extremism is "the most dangerous threat to national security" while Black Separatism is "rooted in valid concerns about how federal and state institutions treat Black people."

"We're collapsing the Black Separatist listing on our hate map," the SPLC's official Twitter account tweeted on Monday. "Black separatism was born out of valid anger against very real historical and systemic oppression."


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Man fatally shoots married couple, then self following snow disposal argument, officials Say


CBS Philly
Tue, 02 Feb 2021 08:05 UTC
murder suicide
Authorities in Luzerne County say a shooting apparently stemming from an argument over snow disposal during Monday's storm left two people dead. The suspect was later found dead at his home.

Officials said the gunfire occurred just before 9 a.m. Monday in Plains Township.

Neighbors told WHTM-TV that they heard about a dozen shots.

Comment: Video of the incident can be found here, but BE WARNED: GRAPHIC CONTENT.

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QAnon conspiracy theory claims COVID vaccines will turn you gay or trans

Josh Milton
Pink News
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 00:01 UTC
QAnon vaccine protest
© JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty ImagesA woman with a QAnon shirt stands among an anti-vaccination protest.
In the latest conspiracy theory cranked out from the depths of QAnon, the view that COVID-19 vaccines will turn you gay or trans.

And yes, it is time for us to all eject ourselves into the sun. Humanity is cancelled.

BBC reporter Shayan Sardarizadeh uploaded screenshots from the right-wing social media platform Telegram of QAnon supporters spewing a debased, unscientific theory that, er, vaccines cause people to be LGBT+.
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Evil Rays

Read the column the New York Times didn't want you to read

Bret Stephens
New York Post
Sat, 12 Dec 2020 01:47 UTC
Bret Stephens
© Getty ImagesBret Stephens told New York Times colleagues his column was killed by publisher A.G. Sulzberger.
Last weekend, New York Times columnist Bret Stephens wrote a piece criticizing the rationale behind the forced ouster of Times reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr., but it was never published. Stephens told colleagues the column was killed by publisher A.G. Sulzberger. Since then, the piece has circulated among Times staffers and others — and it was from one of them, not Stephens himself, that The Post obtained it. We publish his spiked column here in full.
Every serious moral philosophy, every decent legal system and every ethical organization cares deeply about intention.

It is the difference between murder and manslaughter. It is an aggravating or extenuating factor in judicial settings. It is a cardinal consideration in pardons (or at least it was until Donald Trump got in on the act). It's an elementary aspect of parenting, friendship, courtship and marriage.

A hallmark of injustice is indifference to intention. Most of what is cruel, intolerant, stupid and misjudged in life stems from that indifference. Read accounts about life in repressive societies — I'd recommend Vaclav Havel's "Power of the Powerless" and Nien Cheng's "Life and Death in Shanghai" — and what strikes you first is how deeply the regimes care about outward conformity, and how little for personal intention.
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Attention

Twitter suspends accounts of Project Veritas, James O'Keefe

Noah David Alter Toronto
The Post Millennial
Fri, 12 Feb 2021 07:16 UTC
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Update: James O'Keefe has responded to the suspension in a new video, stating that he will appeal the suspension and claiming that Twitter is applying a double standard to PV's journalism:


The account of Project Veritas has been suspended from Twitter as of Thursday, and the investigative outlet's founder, James O'Keefe, also had his account restricted.
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