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Amazon just locked a man out of his smart home for a week because a delivery driver reported him as a racist after mishearing something from the doorbell - the guy wasn't even at home

sorry dave hal 9000
This story sounds like it comes straight from a dystopian sci-fi novel.

A man found himself locked out of his smart house powered by Amazon because, while he wasn't home, an Amazon delivery driver mistakenly thought he heard a racist remark come from the man's doorbell, reported it to Amazon, and Amazon immediately locked down the account, locking the man out of his home.

Here's what the man accused of racism wrote on Medium:

Comment: Why would anyone pay for a service that could potentially lock them out of their homes? Even if the home owner had made a 'racist remark,' how can Amazon justify punishing customers for behavior they don't like? Last we checked, the innocent until proven guilty in a court of law still applies in the US. Amazon should be legally prosecuted for this.

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Car Black

And the workers shall not own cars: WEF plan to get rid of 75%

Psychopaths Forum
© WEF
Electric cars are not enough, they want no cars (for you)

Will taking a billion cars off the road change the climate or just make parking easier for WEF billionaires?

The conference-and-ski club for the uber rich has issued another white paper no one asked for. In it, the World Economic Forum that no one elected, says the world should redesign cities and reduce the number of cars to 500 million by 2050. Given that there are 1.5 billion cars around today and we're headed for 2 billion cars by then, this means thwarting the desires of 1.5 billion people. It won't be rich people who miss out.

It's not clear why anyone should anyone care about the pronouncements of the Ski Club for the Stars of Money — but their strange catch-phrases have a spooky way of being parroted by our elected politician-minions. The galaxy of money that orbits the Planet WEF presumably waves their $100 Trillion dollar weight around and tells politicians "nice career you have there". Who could argue with that?

The WEF world always looks disturbingly like a preschool cartoon.

Public Transport
The WEF White paper is titled: "The Urban Mobility Scorecard Tool: Benchmarking the Transition to Sustainable Urban Mobility"

Stock Down

Food prices in Italy soar past twice the rate of inflation

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© Luca Bruno—APA customer looks at packages of pasta on sale at a supermarket in Milan, Italy, June 8, 2023.
They have had enough after the cost of the staple of every Italian table soared by twice the rate of inflation. One consumer advocate group is calling for a weeklong national pasta strike starting June 22 after the Rome government held a crisis meeting last month and decided not to intervene on prices.

"The macaroni strike is to see if keeping pasta on the shelves will bring down the prices, in the great Anglo-Saxon tradition of boycotting goods," said Furio Truzzi, president of the group, Assoutenti. "The price of pasta is absolutely out of proportion with production costs."

Grocery prices have risen more sharply in Europe than in other advanced economies — from the U.S. to Japan — driven by higher energy and labor costs and the impact of Russia's war in Ukraine. That is even though costs for food commodities have fallen for months from record highs, including wheat for the flour used to make pasta.

Mr. Potato

'God is queer,' says German pastor

Quinton Caesar
© Instagram / @pastor_vanniekaapA photo of Pastor Quinton Caesar posted to his Instagram account on June 28, 2022
A German pastor has been mocked and condemned for delivering a sermon full of liberal catchphrases, including the assertion that the Christian god is "queer." Meanwhile, record numbers of Germans are leaving the church.

Speaking to attendees of the Evangelical Church Congress in Nuremberg on Sunday, Pastor Quinton Caesar declared that "now is the time to say" that "black lives always matter," that "God is queer," and that migrants must be welcomed to Europe, among other liberal affirmations.

While his speech was met with rapturous applause by the audience, Christians online were perplexed.
'God is Queer', declares pastor Quinton Caesar, who goes by she/her pronouns, at closing ceremony of the German Protestant Church Congress in Nuremberg. This comes months after Germany appointed its first federal Commissioner for Gender Diversity. pic.twitter.com/m8bRaROKQX

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) June 12, 2023
American Christian author Michael Sebastian described Caesar's speech as a "succinct description of all key points of the Regime religion." Conservative author Auron MacIntyre accused progressives like Caesar of "hollow[ing] out your religion and wear[ing] its skin like a trophy," while other commenters described the sermon as "disgusting," "heretical," and "Satanic."


Comment: What they're seeing is the effect of "queering" all of our institutions. Queering, which comes from queer theory (essentially a rejecting of everything normal and an affirmation of everything abnormal), is simply a synonym for ponerization. Psychopaths and other deviants are the ones doing the corrupting. And if you believe in Satan, he's right there egging them on.


USA

We're Not Finished

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© pxfuelThe Warrior
"You give me a piece of ground and a sword and I am going to take back this country with your help and the help of all the homeless Democrats and Republicans who are Americans first."
— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
If you're wondering why our country is lost in lunatic raptures of lawless Lawfare and futile MAGAry, it's because our economy has already collapsed, and our culture and politics with it downstream have also collapsed into spectacular degeneracy. It has already happened. Maybe you don't know it.

The business model is broken. We're a shadow of the industrial economy that won a great war and enjoyed a boisterous peace. You can't replace ball bearing factories with theme parks and hedge funds. Sorry. The full faith and credit of the USA is not embodied in those frivolities, so our money is losing its mojo fast.

But get this: we will go on. This is not the end of the world or the end of history. It is the end of an era. Believe it or not, the economy will fix itself, it just won't be what it was in 1957. It won't be what the techno-supremacists think, either. (You need a dependable electric grid to run all those server farms and the apps they serve, and the AI supposedly looming.) It will fix itself because when things fail, as they are doing now, a lot of opportunities will open up to do things differently, even very differently.

Fire

Ukraine War Day #474: American hubris burns on the plains of Zaporozhie

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© UnknownTanks for the Memories: Destroyed Western AFU armoured vehicles
Dear Readers:
"Disillusionment, confusion, shock, panic — this is how one must describe the West's reaction to the first days of the long-awaited Ukrainian counteroffensive..."
Pundit Vladimir Kornilov goes on to point out that the Ukrainians did exactly what they were told to do, and performed exactly as they were trained: A blitzkrieg consisting of a de-miner followed by Western tanks. With this technology, they were assured that they could punch their way to Crimea within a week.

Weeks before the "blitzkrieg", this was exactly how media talking heads such as David Petraeus described the upcoming victory. "Everything will be decided in the course of 72-96 hours," Petraeus assured those American philistines who still watch TV. But then, when the blitzkrieg failed miserably and left literally billions of dollars of Western technology burning on the plains of Zaporozhie, Western pundits made a swift turn and blamed the clueless Ukrainians: "Why would they just bunch up their tanks like that?" Why? Because that was how they were trained. Because it's the only way to cross a mine field. Because these same Western idiots had assured their clients that their sapper machines were the best, their tanks were the best, their electronic warfare was the best; the Russians would just fold and run away at the sight of these magnificent machines...

Stormtrooper

Desperate: Army, Air Force recruit immigrants with promise of rapid citizenship

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© The MilitaryImmigrant military recruits
Desperate to overcome recruiting shortfalls, the US Army and Air Force are making a major push to recruit immigrants, using the enticement of citizenship granted in a matter of weeks.

The Marine Corps is the only branch that's on track to make its 2023 recruiting goal. The Army is coming off its worst recruiting performance in decades, and its surveys have determined that young Americans' fear of death and mental illness are the biggest reasons they won't sign up. On top of that, it's estimated that only 23% of 17- to 24-year-olds meet physical, mental and moral requirements for Army service without obtaining a waiver.

The dismal situation has the Army and Air Force setting its sights on legal immigrants, luring them with not only the standard pitches about training and education benefits, but also with the promise of taking a major shortcut to American citizenship.

Handcuffs

Flashback Five things they don't tell you about slavery

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© Michael A. McCoy/ReutersSign commemorating the arrival of the first Africans at Chesapeake Bay in Hampton, Va., August 24, 2019.
It didn't begin or end in the United States.

The same people most obsessed with slavery seem to have little interest in the full scope of its history.

There has been an effort for decades now — although with new momentum lately, as exemplified by the New York Times' 1619 project — to identify the United States and its founding with slavery.

To the extent that this campaign excavates uncomfortable truths about our history and underlines the central role of African Americans in our nation, it is welcome. But it is often intended to undermine the legitimacy of America itself by effacing what makes it distinctive and good.

Yes, slavery and racial prejudice were our great original sins. It would have been better if we had, like the British, been leaders against the slave trade and for abolition (the representation of slaveholders in Congress and the rise of King Cotton forestalled this). But we didn't invent slavery, even in its race-based form.

Headphones

Russian region recognizes Ukrainian as official language

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© Sputnik / Aleksey MaishevPeople line a queue at a local government office in Kherson Region, February 28, 2023.
A local government decree in Kherson has also ruled that Crimean Tatar can be used in official communication.

The governor of Russia's Kherson Region has announced that Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar can be used as official languages in the region, alongside Russian. Commenting on Sunday, Vladimir Saldo said Russian citizens have the right to "the free choice of language in communication, upbringing, culture, and art."

"Safeguarding people's cultural, spiritual, and historical values" is among the priorities for the government in Kherson Region and more broadly across Russia, Saldo said in a Telegram post, where he published the text of his decree on the use of official languages.

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Attention

More than 46 killed in DR Congo attack

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© ALEXIS HUGUET / AFPCommanders of the armed group URDPC/CODECO walk through the village of Linga in Ituri province, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Armed men slaughtered 46 people with knives and firearms, and burned others in their homes in Ituri, local authorities say.

Militants attacked a camp for displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province early on Monday, killing at least 46 people.

Local authorities blamed the Lala camp attack on the Cooperative for the Development of the Congo (CODECO) group, a militia operating in the violence-ridden east of the country.