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DeSantis unloads on Biden's student loan disaster: truck drivers paying for "gender studies" PhDs...


Revolver News
Thu, 25 Aug 2022 22:15 UTC
Moody/DeSantis
© Calvin Knight/The Ledger via APFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis • Attorney General Ashley Moody
Ron DeSantis is at it again:

He's absolutely right: the people who should be punished are not necessarily the debtors, but the universities. Defund them all. Let the debtors discharge their unpayable debts in bankruptcy.

Comment: More from New York Post:
Asserting that "an entire generation is now saddled with unsustainable debt," President Biden announced Wednesday that his administration would nix up to $20,000 in student loan debt held by borrowers who got federal Pell Grants and earn less than $125,000 individually or $250,000 as part of a household. The proposal would also erase $10,000 in debt for non-Pell Grant recipients.

The White House estimates that up to 20 million Americans could see their student loans completely written off as a result of the order.

The Republican also echoed other GOP critics of Biden's plan by saying it was unconstitutional and would likely face reversal in the courts.

"He does not have the constitutional authority to do this," DeSantis said. "He is relying on emergency powers because of COVID. Wait a minute. You got a gender studies degree five years ago and that has something to do with COVID?"

Critics of Biden's plan have argued that only Congress can relieve debtors of their student loans, a point argued by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) last year.

The White House says it has the authority to cancel debt under a 2003 law giving the Education Department broad authority to help student loan recipients in the event of a national emergency.
See also: Student loan relief seen costing billions and favoring top earners

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US government wants more non-white farmers


RT
Wed, 24 Aug 2022 19:01 UTC
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© Getty Images/Scott OlsonGlenn Morris is shown harvesting corn in October 2021 at his farm in Princeton, Indiana
President Joe Biden's administration is doling out $550 million for programs to help poor farmers and increase racial diversity in agricultural careers, adding to its previous "equity" outlays for food producers.

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced new funding on Wednesday, saying it aimed to help "underserved" producers access land, capital and markets and to train "the next diverse generation of agricultural professionals." The spending binge targets "farmers of color," meaning those with skin colors other than white.

The announcement follows a failed effort by the Biden administration to provide debt forgiveness to only non-white farmers through a March 2021 Covid-19 relief bill. A federal judge ruled in June 2021 that racially-based debt relief was unconstitutionally discriminatory.

A $739 billion tax and spending bill that Biden's Democratic Party pushed through Congress earlier this month enabled the USDA to take another crack at its diversity push, this time using broader language regarding eligibility to avoid court challenges. The spending package announced on Wednesday is part of the effort. The USDA also plans to offer a new debt-relief program for "economically distressed" farmers - not just those who are non-white - preferably by October, when a Covid-related moratorium on farm foreclosures is scheduled to end.

Comment: Geez! Food is food. Will stores be required to label 'this corn was provided by a farmer of color'?

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Twitter declined to remove sex video exploiting minors, according to lawsuit supported by powerful watchdog groups

Jeff Elder
San Francisco Examiner
Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:01 UTC
twitter HQ
© Jim Wilson/The New York TimesSan Francisco-based Twitter is facing a lawsuit related to a demand to take down a porn video that shows underage boys.
Child-safety advocates are blasting Twitter and lining up to support a lawsuit that alleges the social network declined to remove videos depicting the sexual exploitation of minors despite pleas from a victim and his family.

"It's child sexual abuse material. He was 13 years old and being extorted. What the hell is Twitter doing?" asked Hany Farid, a professor at the School of Information at UC Berkeley.

Farid, who has testified before Congress five times on issues of online safety and regulation, and others filed paperwork with a federal appellate court in San Francisco last week supporting the lawsuit.

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Court strikes down "quarantine camp" regulation in New York State

Bobbie Anne Flower Cox
Brownstone Institute
Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:01 UTC
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We have had a tremendous victory here in New York: a Supreme Court Judge has struck down Governor Kathy Hochul's forced quarantine regulation! On July 8, 2022, Judge Ronald Ploetz ruled that the "Isolation and Quarantine Procedures" regulation is unconstitutional and "violative of New York State law as promulgated and enacted, and therefore null, void and unenforceable as a matter of law."

Shockingly, Governor Hochul and Attorney General, Letitia James, plan to appeal the decision. Yes, that's right...the Governor and AG, both unabashedly support quarantine camps! One would think that this fact, in and of itself, would be disturbing enough but add to it the fact that they're both running for election this November, and you can see just how unconstitutionally brazen and wholly out-of-touch with New Yorkers each of these "leaders" is.

For anyone who missed my prior article on this horrific forced quarantine regime, the regulation truly shocks the conscience. Without exaggeration, it's something out of a dystopian horror movie. It gives the unelected bureaucrats in the Department of Health the power to pick and choose who they want to "detain," if they believe it's even possible you might have a communicable disease. They don't have to prove you're actually sick.

Comment: This is a great development. However, when everyone is gripped in fear over the next 'pandemic,' will the decisions made be as reasonable?

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Gender dysphoria is covered by disability law, federal court rules


NBC News
Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:36 UTC
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© Eric Gay / AP fileDemonstrators gather on the steps of the Texas State Capitol in Austin on May 20, 2021, to protest transgender-related legislation being considered in the Legislature.
The ruling could become a powerful tool to challenge legislation restricting access to medical care and other accommodations for transgender people, advocates say.

A federal ruling that gender dysphoria is covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act could help block conservative political efforts to restrict access to gender-affirming care, advocates and experts say.

A panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week became the first federal appellate court in the country to find that the 1990 landmark federal law protects transgender people who experience anguish and other symptoms as a result of the disparity between their assigned sex and their gender identity.

Comment: What ideologically possessed 'medical entities' have to say on the subject is neither here nor there. Common sense dictates that one should not allow children to make drastic irreversible decisions about their bodies and their health at such a young age. And the idea that the tax-payer should be footing the bill for this 'care,' is deplorable.

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Mark Zuckerberg tells Joe Rogan Facebook was wrong to ban The Post's Hunter Biden laptop story

Thomas Barrabi
New York Post
Thu, 25 Aug 2022 16:03 UTC
mark zuckerberg on joe rogan
© @PowerfulJREMark Zuckerberg defended Facebook’s handling of The Post’s report.
Mark Zuckerberg finally admitted on Thursday that Facebook dropped the ball when the company banned the sharing of The Post's exclusive report on Hunter Biden's laptop ahead of the 2020 election.

The billionaire CEO of Meta said he regretted Facebook's handling of the bombshell story during an appearance on "The Joe Rogan Experience" — but he still defended the process as "pretty reasonable."

Zuckerberg opened up about the controversial media suppression after the host pressed him to explain his views on how tech platforms should handle content moderation on sensitive subjects.

Comment: Given an FBI whistleblower just revealed that agents were specifically told not to investigate the Hunter Biden laptop, it's not surprising social media networks were, more or less, told to suppress the story. This was political maneuvering by a highly partisan agency, plain and simple.

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Caught red-handed: Facebook and Twitter delete pro-western bot networks - study


RT
Thu, 25 Aug 2022 03:47 UTC
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© AP / Jenny Kane
Data provided by the social media giants showed a web of linked accounts pushing pro-US and anti-Russia narratives.

Twitter and Facebook have deleted a network of suspicious accounts said to be involved in "covert influence operations" online, including efforts to promote "pro-Western" sentiment and demonize US adversaries, according to company data analyzed by researchers at Stanford University.

Partnering with social media analytics firm Graphika, the Stanford Internet Observatory issued a report on Wednesday outlining the alleged influence ops, citing datasets provided by both Twitter and Meta, Facebook's parent company.

Comment: Everyone knows that Western powers are manipulating social media, but it's nice to see them caught for it. This will likely get much press in the West, however. Keep in mind that a bunch of memes and videos tied originating in Russia (maybe) was enough to be deemed "interference" in the 2020 election. But it's OK when we do it.

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Justice Centre brings legal challenge against ArriveCAN and quarantine measures


JCCF
Wed, 24 Aug 2022 07:36 UTC
arrivecan
The Justice Centre filed a lawsuit today in the Federal Court of Canada, on behalf of 11 Canadians either fined for not using the ArriveCAN and/or ordered to quarantine for 14 days after returning home from abroad. The Applicants involved in this legal challenge have received fines of up to $8,500 each and been forced to disclose private medical information via ArriveCAN. The legal challenge seeks to strike down the mandatory use of ArriveCAN and declare unconstitutional the 14-day quarantine requirements for Canadians who refuse to use ArriveCAN when returning home.

ArriveCan was initially implemented in April 2020 to force Canadian citizens returning home to submit quarantine plans due to Covid. It was mandated for air travellers November 21, 2020. In February 2021, the federal government mandated ArriveCan for all land travellers, while the US-Canada land crossing was still closed. After the Covid vaccine rollouts, travellers were required to upload their vaccination certificates onto the ArriveCAN app.

Mr. Matthew Leccese, one of the applicants, went to the United States for 25 minutes to pick up some parts for his vehicle. Upon his return, the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) demanded that he submit his vaccination certificate via ArriveCAN. Mr. Leccese refused because he had privacy concerns with ArriveCAN, but offered to present his vaccination certificate. CBSA refused to accept his paper certificate and issued him a ticket for $7,210 for not using ArriveCAN.

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Journalists who challenge NATO narratives are now 'information terrorists'

Vanessa Beeley
beeley.substack.com
Tue, 23 Aug 2022 06:27 UTC
Nazis on Google Plus
Nazis congregate on Google Plus 2019.
A US state department sponsored round table on 'countering disinformation' was recently held at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine.
"Information terrorists should know that they will have to answer to the law as war criminals" Andrii Shapovalov
According to the press release - "NGOs, mass media and international experts" took part in the round table discussions. Delegates discussed 'disinformation methods' used in Ukraine and abroad. On the agenda was legal and state prevention of 'fakes and disinformation in the context of cyber security'.

Andrii Shapovalov, head of the Ukrainian Centre for Combatting Disinformation emphasized that those who 'deliberately spread disinformation are information terrorists'. Shapovalov recommended changes to the legislation to crack down on these terrorists - reminiscent of the pre-WW2 Nazi Germany suppression of media and information channels. Shapovalov determined that 'information terrorists should know that they will have to answer to the law as war criminals'.
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Intelligence operative confirms British gov't is targeting The Grayzone

Kit Klarenberg
The Grayzone
Wed, 24 Aug 2022 06:06 UTC
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A public call to ban The Grayzone by a UK Foreign Office veteran and psy-ops specialist confirms the malign intentions of British intelligence.

The Arvamusfestival (Opinion Festival) convened this August by the Estonian Foreign Ministry featured as its centerpiece an English-language panel on "how to deal with misinformation...in the interests of curbing its propagation."

During the discussion, a British state operative named Ross Burley descended into a rant about The Grayzone, demanding it be banned from YouTube on the baseless grounds that it is a "Russian propaganda outfit."

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