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Amazon offers to help Biden administration with vaccine effort after sitting on the sidelines for a month

Chuck Ross
Daily Caller
Wed, 20 Jan 2021 17:27 UTC

Amazon offered to help the Biden administration on Wednesday, shortly after President Joe Biden was sworn into office, with efforts to distribute the coronavirus vaccine, a proposal that the tech giant had not submitted to the Trump administration in the month since the vaccine was approved for public use.

"As you begin your work leading the country out of COVID-19 crisis, Amazon stands ready to assist you in reaching your goal of vaccinating 100 million Americans in the first 100 days of your administration," Dave Clark, Amazon's senior vice president of world-wide operations, wrote in a letter to Biden, according to Axios.

"We are prepared to leverage our operations, information technology, and communications capabilities and expertise to assist your administration's vaccination efforts. Our scale allows us to make a meaningful impact immediately in the fight against COVID-19, and we stand ready to assist you in this effort," said Clark.

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'Where were you a month ago?' With Trump gone, Amazon greets Biden with offer to help speed up distribution of Covid-19 vaccines
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While many Americans cheered the offer, knowing Amazon's prowess as a global leader in distribution, the timing struck some as agonizing after watching US Covid-19 deaths spike above 4,000 a day earlier this month. The nation's accumulated death toll from the virus topped 400,000 on Tuesday.

Trump and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos have feuded since at least 2015, and Amazon political donors favor Democrats over Republicans by a wide margin. Just as US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi admittedly stalled Covid-19 relief legislation to avoid letting Trump look good - and just as Pfizer was accused of delaying news of its positive vaccine trial results until after Trump lost the November 3 election - Amazon may have had political reasons for timing its offer to Biden's inauguration, social media users suggested.
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Author and comedian Tim Young said Amazon was silent for weeks after US vaccinations began in mid-December, "because 'Orange Man bad' was more important than caring for fellow Americans."

A Twitter user known as RBPundit alleged that Amazon worked with the Trump administration task force on vaccine distribution to sort out the details of its plans to help, then waited for Biden's inauguration to announce its offer.

In its letter to Biden, the online retailer reiterated a request to move its 800,000 US employees up the priority list as early vaccine recipients and said it has made arrangements with a healthcare provider to administer inoculation shots to those workers on-site, at all of its facilities. "We are committed to assisting your administration's vaccination efforts as we work together to protect our employees and continue to provide essential services during the pandemic," Clark said.

While campaigning, Biden warned of a "dark winter" with a horrific rate of Covid-19 deaths, which he blamed on Trump. With Biden now installed as president, Amazon's offer to accelerate the vaccine rollout may be just part of a change in political tone around the virus.

"All of a sudden, Amazon offers their facilities for the vaccine," podcast host Brian Craig tweeted. "You will see Covid-19 disappear almost overnight. Just watch."

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Food strangeness happening around the world

Adapt 2030
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:40 UTC

Record demand from China for corn and wheat, Argentina suspends all wheat exports after stopping all corn exports a month ago. Russia begins a 50 Euro tax per ton on wheat exports as Tyson foods fines $221 million for chicken price fixing. Fish farm theft in Australia with the EU unable to find any soft wheat to export, crop losses becoming more visible.

Covid lockdowns leave one third of US small businesses (& almost HALF minority-owned businesses) unable to pay rent

RT
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:50 UTC

A third of American small business owners were unable to pay rent this month, a recent survey has found. Women and minority-owned businesses were hit particularly hard, and more sectors than ever are coming up short.

Fully one third of American small business owners were unable to pay rent for January, according to the survey published on Wednesday by Alignable showing the devastating economic impact of Covid-19 pandemic shutdowns has yet to be fully realized.

The financial strife wasn't evenly distributed - almost half of minority small business owners were unable to pay, and 35 percent of women small business owners couldn't make ends meet.

Worst hit among the 10 sectors tracked by the survey were restaurants and bars - a whopping 57 percent of which failed to make rent for January. Yoga studios, retail stores, massage and beauty salons, and gyms were among the other markets most severely hit. The economic fallout has broadened significantly since November, when only beauty salons, restaurants and bars had a rent delinquency rate of over 40 percent.

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Judge says Amazon won't have to restore Parler web service

Matt O'Brien
The Washington Times
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 06:47 UTC

Amazon won't be forced to immediately restore web service to Parler after a federal judge ruled Thursday against a plea to reinstate the fast-growing social media app, which is favored by followers of former President Donald Trump.

U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein in Seattle said she wasn't dismissing Parler's "substantive underlying claims" against Amazon, but said it had fallen short in demonstrating the need for an injunction forcing it back online.

Amazon kicked Parler off its web-hosting service on Jan. 11. In court filings, it said the suspension was a "last resort" to block Parler from harboring violent plans to disrupt the presidential transition.

The Seattle tech giant said Parler had shown an "unwillingness and inability" to remove a slew of dangerous posts that called for the rape, torture and assassination of politicians, tech executives and many others.

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UK says Big Tech is "manipulating lives" launches investigation into its algorithms

Didi Rankovic
Reclaim The Net
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 23:39 UTC

Yet another probe into Big Tech's suspected foul practices that might be harming users and consumers has been initiated - this time in the UK, by the country's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

The investigation is rather narrowly focused on the way algorithms employed by Google, Facebook and Amazon work, and the way they may influence - or, as the announcement put it, "potentially manipulate" - the way people shop, work, live, and even think, in terms of current events.

The controversy is old news to those who've been paying attention to it - for example, it's been a good while since anybody's seen organically ranked, instead of algorithmically sorted and personally-targeted search results in Google. But it's now coming to the fore in a series of regulatory initiatives in different countries, likely spooked by the sheer amount of unaccountable power these giants obviously wield even in their country of origin.

The UK investigation will look into different ways these companies potentially manipulate the lives of UK residents: Google and Facebook, for instance, are suspected of rigging their feeds in a way that determines what news their users see.

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Biden inauguration draws dystopian fiction comparisons: Lady Gaga outfit gives off 'Hunger Games' vibe

RT
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 23:06 UTC

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© thehungergames.fandom.com / screenshot; Reuters / Kevin Lamarque
(L) A replica Mockingjay pin; (R) Lady Gaga sings the national anthem during the inauguration of Joe Biden in Washington, DC, January 20, 2021.

President Joe Biden's inauguration ceremony has triggered countless comparisons to 'The Hunger Games,' as viewers found eerie parallels to the sci-fi flick, whose dystopian themes are a far cry from the new POTUS' "unity" message.

While pop star Lady Gaga helped to kick off Biden's swearing-in on Wednesday afternoon with a performance of the national anthem, observers appeared more enthralled with her oversized broach. Netizens immediately likened the pin to the iconic 'Mockingjay' of Hunger Games fame - the symbol of the film's fictitious rebellion against the despotic 'Capitol.'

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Twitter embroiled in new child porn scandal: Lawsuit claims Twitter defends sick content, says it doesn't 'violate policies'

Jack Hadfield
National File
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 21:20 UTC

Twitter has been hit with yet another child porn scandal, with a new lawsuit claiming that they refused to take illegal content down because it didn't "violate policies."

The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in a federal court in California, related to the case of a 17-year-old from Florida, only identified as John Doe, who when he was between 13 and 14, had sexual images and videos of him widely distributed on Twitter. Sex traffickers posing as a 16-year-old female classmate blackmailed him to share nude content.

After initially exchanging nude content, the victim was then forced to share more, otherwise the material would be shared with his "parents, coach, pastor," and others, the traffickers threatened. Doe first complied under duress, the lawsuit notes, but then managed to block the traffickers. However, at some point in 2019, the child porn was then shared to Twitter from two accounts that were known to share this material.

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MSM celebrates Washington, DC's military occupation

Michael Tracey
mtracey.medium.com
Tue, 19 Jan 2021 21:05 UTC

Military rolls out in Washington for Biden's inauguration

Downtown Washington, DC is currently under what essentially amounts to military occupation. Streets are locked down, guarded by Army vehicles and blocked off by huge, garish checkpoints. Vehicular traffic is limited to motorists who can show papers demonstrating that, as one Guardsman told me, they are conducting "legitimate business." (Apparently this includes Uber drivers and food delivery workers.) According to official estimates, 25,000 military personnel are now deployed to the area — on top of countless federal, state, and local law enforcement agents. Troops roam around carrying rifles with no ammo loaded. If you can manage to navigate on foot to the perimeter of the National Mall, you encounter an enormous fencing apparatus, complete with barbed wire.

Question: does anyone with a media job find this situation to be worthy of some further inquiry? Or in other words, worthy of questioning the premise of why such an extravagantly intensive military presence is allegedly necessary? Is it proportionate to the scale of the purported threat? Has the nature of the threat itself — whatever that might be, exactly — been adequately probed to determine whether it is grounded in reality? Already a bunch of purported threats initially trumpeted across the media with the usual five-alarm-five hysteria have dissipated in short order, so there is perhaps some reason for doubt in that regard.

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Simone Gold, who advocated hydroxychloroquine as a remedy for coronavirus, arrested in connection to US Capitol 'riot'

Patriot Daily Press
Wed, 20 Jan 2021 20:57 UTC

The left-wing media is having a heyday with the news that America's Frontline Doctors head Dr. Simone Gold was arrested for having appeared at the United States Capitol on Jan. 6.

Dr. Gold was present with her megaphone to deliver a speech about the dangers and ineffectiveness of Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines, urging listeners to instead take advantage of safe, effective and inexpensive remedies like hydroxychloroquine (HCQ).

Believing the Capitol to have been open to the public, she says, Dr. Gold, who runs a clinic in Los Angeles, entered the building and stayed neatly within the velvet ropes of the rotunda as she warned those around her not to fall for the Chinese virus vaccine hoax.

Because she was merely seen at the so-called "insurrection," Dr. Gold is being treated like a "domestic terrorist." Two others who were with her, 52-year-old Gina Bisignano and 37-year-old John Strand, are also facing charges simply because of their presence at Donald Trump's Stop the Steal rally.

Day One: Biden obliterates women's sports, reinstates rule allowing transgender students to use 'preferred' bathrooms

Cristina Laila
The Gateway Pundit
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 20:36 UTC

© AP Photo/Dallas Morning News/Jae S. Lee
In this Friday, Feb. 16, 2018 photo, Euless Trinity’s Mack Beggs, top, wrestles Lewisville’s Elyse Nelson in the second round of the 110-pound girls division during the 6A Region II wrestling meet at Allen High School in Allen, Texas.

Joe Biden obliterated women's sports on the first day of his presidency.

Biden also reinstated the rule allowing transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms according to their "gender identity."

In other words, a biological male can now waltz into a bathroom and locker room to watch your teenage daughter change into gym clothes.

Any learning institution that receives federal funding must admit biological males to women's teams, women's scholarships etc.

Comment: So Biden has overruled the will of individual states. Not a dictator though.

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Society's Child

Amazon offers to help Biden administration with vaccine effort after sitting on the sidelines for a month

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Food strangeness happening around the world

Covid lockdowns leave one third of US small businesses (& almost HALF minority-owned businesses) unable to pay rent

Judge says Amazon won't have to restore Parler web service

UK says Big Tech is "manipulating lives" launches investigation into its algorithms

Biden inauguration draws dystopian fiction comparisons: Lady Gaga outfit gives off 'Hunger Games' vibe

Twitter embroiled in new child porn scandal: Lawsuit claims Twitter defends sick content, says it doesn't 'violate policies'

MSM celebrates Washington, DC's military occupation

Simone Gold, who advocated hydroxychloroquine as a remedy for coronavirus, arrested in connection to US Capitol 'riot'

Day One: Biden obliterates women's sports, reinstates rule allowing transgender students to use 'preferred' bathrooms

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