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Liberals are losing their minds over Elon Musk


Jonathanturley.org
Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:00 UTC
Elon Musk
Below is my column in The Hill on the Musk mania now sweeping over the media with pundits and politicians unleashing unhinged attacks on the billionaire. In an Age of Rage, Musk is now eclipsing Donald Trump as Public Enemy No. 1. It began with his stance against censorship.

Here is the column:

This week, Elton John publicly renounced the Rocket Man — no, not the 1972 song, but Elon Musk, whom he called an "a**hole" in an awards ceremony.

Sir Elton, 77, is only the latest among celebrities and pundits to denounce Musk for his support of former president Donald Trump and his opposition to censorship. Musk-mania is so overwhelming that some are calling for his arrest, deportation and debarment from federal contracts.

This week, the California Coastal Commission rejected a request from the Air Force for additional launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base. It is not because the military agency did not need the launches. It was not because the nation and the community would not benefit from them. Rather, it was reportedly because, according to one commissioner, Musk has "aggressively injected himself into the presidential race."
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Top Oregon official put on leave by DEI trainer for allegedly prioritizing 'qualified' job candidates over 'gender identity'

James Reinl
The Daily Mail
Fri, 11 Oct 2024 14:13 UTC
Megan Donecker dei
© LinkInDonecker describes herself as an 'accomplice to marginalized communities' who lives with her wife, Jai, an adopted nine-year-old, and two cats.
The employee faulted her boss for looking 'beyond gender identity' to find the candidate 'most qualified for the job'

A pink-haired DEI trainer has slammed Oregon's forestry department for hiring on the basic of merit rather than identity.

Megan Donecker filed a complaint about her former boss Mike Shaw and moaned about him telling her that he sought the 'candidates most qualified for the job.'

DEI advocates like Donecker say hiring should be done through an 'intersectional lens' whereby applications from people of marginalized backgrounds are given greater weight.

Shaw, who earns $192,000-a-year as deputy head of Oregon's Department of Forestry, has been put on leave over Donecker's complaint.
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Science, the humanities, and postmodernist poison

Russ Gonnering
Brownstone Institute
Fri, 11 Oct 2024 00:00 UTC
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At a recent Brownstone authors meeting, Brownstone Fellow Thomas Harrington made a penetrating observation of one of the distinctive differences between Science and The Humanities. I look forward to a deeper examination of this topic by him as this brief comment will not do justice to it. In brief, he emphasized that Science largely deals with a reductive process whereas the Humanities are concerned with a constructive process.

This difference was explored in a fascinating forum from 10 years ago at MIT. The comment from Alan Lightman was especially telling:
Both the sciences and the humanities seek understanding and truth, he said, but the truths they seek are distinct from one another. Scientific truth is external, while humanistic truth lies within human beings — who are by nature ambiguous.
The interplay between Truth and Ambiguity seems central to the topic.

But there is, or at least there was, an alternative to the binary choice of reduction or construction. The rise of Complexity Theory carried with it the prospect of bridging the gap between reduction and construction, and recognizing the simultaneous existence and complementary qualities of both "truth" and "ambiguity."
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Pathetic: CBS News journalists have 'preproduction process' to run questions by internal 'Race and Culture' unit

Brian Flood
Fox News
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 19:39 UTC
Tony Dokoupil CNS news
© Getty Images; Screenshot/CBS NewsTony Dokoupil, CBS Mornings host, was criticized by CBS News leadership for his interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates.
CBS unit ensures 'all stories have the proper context, tone and intention'

CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil reportedly found himself in hot water for asking questions at a recent controversial interview that were not cleared by the network's Race and Culture unit.

The saga began last week when Dokoupil interviewed author Ta-Nehisi Coates about his anti-Israel book, The Message, which describes in part his travels "to Palestine, where he sees with devastating clarity how easily we are misled by nationalist narratives." The Jewish CBS News anchor irked liberal colleagues by bluntly stating that it read like something you would find in "the backpack of an extremist," and pressing Coates on whether he believes Israel has the right to exist.

Backlash has been swift, with high-level media moguls such as Paramount Global chair Shari Redstone defending Dokoupil while some of his own colleagues objected to the interview. Puck media reporter Dylan Byers called it a "fast-metastasizing, five-alarm s--tshow" that has polarized CBS News.

Comment: The CBS insider's quote says it all.

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Leaked emails show Blue Cross Blue Shield NC coordinated directly with NC Democrat gov to stifle relief aid to western NC

Noel Fritsch
National File
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:16 UTC
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© National File
BCBS made almost $600 Million in profit in 2021 They're donating 2.5 million to western NC.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBS NC) intentionally worked to slow down the Helene response in western North Carolina, according to leaked emails obtained by National File. BCBS NC directed its employees to only work with the Red Cross and one other Government related relief effort in the wake of Hurricane Helene's devastation of 25 counties in the western part of the state.

Emails and social media posts from Tunde Sotunde and Cheryl Parquet confirm the BCBS response was directly coordinated with the office of Democrat Governor Roy Cooper.

Parquet's job title raises questions about whether BCBS believes it has any responsibility to the residents of western North Carolina.

You can see the emails here.

Comment: Further per National File:



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FEMA: Disaster relief no longer about emergency response, it's about 'disaster equity'


American Greatness
Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:00 UTC
hurricane wreckage
© Mario Tama/Getty ImagesDamaged buildings in North Carolina in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is supposed to be the government's premier emergency relief organization in times of disaster, like the situation now faced by victims of Hurricane Helene's aftermath in North Carolina and Tennessee.

But according to the FEMA website, the agency now places higher priority on instituting Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity guidelines than on easing the suffering of Americans displaced by disaster.

Among the goals listed in FEMA's strategic plan are to:


What does that look like in action?

Comment: The dead, dying, homeless, helpless and forsaken American victims thank you.

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NYC seeks 14,000 hotel rooms for migrants through 2025 - with each one costing $352 per night

Dominic Yeatman
Daily Mail
Wed, 09 Oct 2024 23:21 UTC
Migrants
© AlamyMore than 200K migrants arrived since start of 2022 • Cost/ $5.76B by end of next year
Beleaguered New York Mayor Eric Adams has been told to get a grip as the bill for housing the city's migrants soars towards $2.3 billion. City Hall is warning that 14,000 hotel rooms will be needed until at least the end of next year when the total cost of providing for the new arrivals will reach a staggering $5.76 billion.

More than 200,000 migrants have arrived in the city since the start of 2022, many bussed north by GOP governors determined to make Democrat cities share the burden of the crisis on the southern border.

More than 150 hotels are still being used to house the influx at an average cost of $352 a room each night. 'The taxpayers can't pay for this indefinitely,' Nicole Gelinas of the Manhattan Institute think tank told the NY Post. 'We should stop using hotels as shelters by the end of the year.' The figures emerged as the City began looking for a contractor to ensure it secured the thousands of rooms needed going forward.

The agency announced:
"The New York City Department of Homeless Services is seeking to continue the City Sanctuary Facility program by procuring a vendor who can assist in acquiring the use of large scale commercial hotels and hotel management services to help address the current emergency."

Comment: Perhaps Kamala Harris would like to contribute to the housing costs and upkeep of her guests.

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While 'fighting for democratic values,' Zelensky seeks to squash any dissenting voices

Liz Heflin
REMIX
Thu, 10 Oct 2024 09:10 UTC
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© Efrem Lukatsky/APRadio Vesti employee and portraits of Pavel Sheremet killed in car bomb • October 8, 2024 • Kyiv, Ukraine
The Ukraińska Pravda website is accusing the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of "long-term and systemic pressure" on journalists, saying that representatives of the authorities in Kyiv cannot talk to the portal's journalists. It also makes clear that they will be making sure the international public knows about the situation.

The office of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky is putting pressure on the business to bring about the termination of advertising cooperation with the editorial office of the service. The portal's statement reads:
"We draw the attention of our colleagues, partners and international organizations to the long-term and systematic pressure exerted by the Presidential Office on the editorial office and individual journalists of Ukrayinska Pravda. We would like to remind you that the values ​​of Ukrayinska Pravda since its establishment in 2000 have been editorial independence, objectivity and the ability to speak the truth."
The journalists stressed that the behavior of the Ukrainian authorities is "exceptionally outrageous" during the aggression from Russia.
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Best of the Web: Free Speech 101: Americans need a refresher course on our most fundamental right

Betsy McCaughey
New York Post
Sat, 12 Oct 2024 20:20 UTC
Bill of Rights
© Associated PressThe Bill of Rights is printed in Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump's "God Bless the USA" Bible in Washington on Oct. 8, 2024.
The most consequential issue on the ballot this November is the fate of free speech.

At Donald Trump's campaign rally Saturday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk leaped on the stage and urged the nation to support the former president as the free-speech candidate.

It's "the bedrock of democracy," Musk proclaimed — as he warned that "the other side wants to take away your freedom of speech."

That's true: Kamala Harris and Tim Walz want government and its proxies to muzzle us, limiting what we can post on social media and censoring whatever government functionaries deem "misinformation" or "hate" — and a disturbingly large number of Americans say they agree.
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Escobar: Could Palestine be the catalyst for an Islamic Renaissance?

Pepe Escobar
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sat, 12 Oct 2024 18:09 UTC
Professor Marandi
Of all the countless analyses across the lands of Islam about the profound significance of fateful Al-Toofan (Al-Aqsa Flood) on October 7, 2023, this one stands out: a cycle of conferences in Istanbul earlier this week, including October 7, titled Palestine: the Lynchpin of Civilizational Renaissance, linked to the Kuala Lumpur Forum for Thought and Civilization.

Call it a Malaysia-Turkiye partnership: Southeast Asia meets West Asia, a graphic illustration of the multi-nodal world that will be congregating in less than two weeks in Kazan, capital of Muslim Russia, for the long -awaited BRICS summit under the Russian presidency. Significantly, the centrality of Gaza was not debated in Doha, Riyadh, or Abu Dhabi, all of which would have unlimited funds to host such discussions.

Istanbul was a unique opportunity to compare insights by Osama Hamdan, representing the whole Palestinian Resistance; Numan Kurtulmus, the speaker of the Turkish Parliament; Hamas top diplomat Khaled Meshaal, speaking from Doha on the "strategic victory" of the Resistance. And all that compounded by a strong message by Dr. Mahathir Mohammad, former Malaysian Prime Minister and president of the Kuala Lumpur Forum.
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