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Sony apologizes after 'Peter Rabbit' allergy scene drives SJW's into anaphylactic fits

Matt Vespa
Townhall
Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:34 UTC
Peter rabbit
You know we're not going to be okay are we? Remember that scene in Terminator II when a young John Connor sees two boys shooting each other with toy guns, looks to Arnold Schwarzenegger and says, "we're not going to make it, are we?"

"It's in your nature to destroy yourselves," replies the former California governor in his best-known role.

Of course, we were talking about the impending nuclear war in that film series. For us, I feel like the fears of nuclear war have greatly diminished, overtaken by the encroaching tyranny that seeks to not offending anyone.

Comment: It's astonishing that parents are up in arms over this fictional allergy scene when we hear barely a murmur over the sordid and widespread sexualization of children.

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Reports say UK police outsourcing digital forensics to unaccredited firms


RT
Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:31 UTC
Uk police line crime scene
© John Super / Agence France-Presse
Police forces across the UK are reportedly failing to meet a minimum quality standard for analyzing digital data, and have outsourced digital investigations to unaccredited private laboratories.

At least 15 police forces were found to have outsourced digital forensics work on mobile phones and computers to private firms, according to a report in the Guardian. Meanwhile, some 27 police forces failed to meet an October government deadline to bring their in-house laboratories up to minimum quality standard for digital analysis.

One private forensics firm, the Stoke-based Sytech, continued to have work sent to them by Greater Manchester Police, despite the firm being told to halt its operations following a failed inspection by the UK Accreditation Service, according to the newspaper. RT has contacted UKAS, Sytech and Greater Manchester Police for comment.

Comment: Oligarchs never miss a trick in the pursuit of profit.

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The wages of LIES: CNN to lay off dozens of employees after falling short on revenue projections


Breitbart
Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:08 UTC
Jeff Zucker
Joe Pompeo writes at Vanity Fair that CNN, led by its president Jeff Zucker, will soon lay off dozens of employees - mostly from "several high-profile digital initiatives" - after the left-wing news network failed to reach revenue targets.

From Vanity Fair:

[D]espite the so-called Trump Bump, CNN appears to be re-thinking at least some elements of its digital strategy. I've learned that CNN, a key property in AT&T's planned takeover of CNN's parent company, Time Warner, is targeting big savings on the digital side, with as many as 50 jobs around the globe scheduled to be eliminated this week, according to people familiar with the matter, who noted the exact number could still be in flux.

Comment: It's interesting that CNN has been hit the hardest on the internet, where CNN has been thoroughly exposed as a peddler of fake news.

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Jordan Peterson's battle against identity politics in academia could result in female college students coming to their senses


Love War & Sacrifice
Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:13 UTC
Peterson
"Why the hell are we subsidising revolution?" asked Jordan Peterson on the Joe Rogan show. The Professor's belief is that Women's Studies and related fields are intrinsically teaching Identity Politics. They indoctrinate students to group people up and turn them against each other and against civilised society as a whole.

Some Women's Studies professors even admit to seeing the programs in the same way. Breanne Fahs and Michael Karger of Arizona State University wrote a paper that called "to train students not only to master a body of knowledge but also to serve as symbolic 'viruses' that infect, unsettle, and disrupt traditional and entrenched fields." They went all on to call Women's Studies an "insurrectionary field," using stronger language even than the Dark Professor.

Well there are tentative signs that the Professors actions are having real world results. Especially in America the birthplace of the 'Women's Studies' meme.
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Dimwit California Attorney General threatens to sue if Trump administration places citizenship question on census

Awr Hawkins
Breitbart
Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:55 UTC
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is threatening to sue if the Trump administration includes a question regarding citizenship on the 2020 census.

The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that Becerra worries citizenship questions will dissuade some California residents from taking the census, thereby under-representing themselves and running the risk of a loss of federal funding for certain parts of the state.

Becerra is part of a coalition of 19 attorneys general who are fighting against inclusion of a citizenship. They sent a letter to U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Monday, in which Becerra described counting everyone, citizen or not, as a "sacred responsibility." He wrote:
What the Trump Administration is requesting is not just alarming, it is illegal. The Constitution requires that, every 10 years, we accurately count every person in our country, regardless of citizenship status. This is a sacred responsibility. It determines how many Congressional seats each state receives and how billions of dollars in federal funds are distributed. At the local level, it should also produce an accurate population count that our communities can rely on to identify the need for critical services such as disaster relief, infrastructure, public health, and police and fire protection.

Comment: Is this ultimately a matter of having an accurate Census or the ideological battle of how to deal with immigrants?

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This should end well: Delaware students can now choose their own race

Barbara Kay
National Post
Tue, 13 Feb 2018 21:45 UTC
Are they really going there? Yes, they apparently are. Too late for Rachel Dolezal, alas. Dolezal identifies as 'transracial' a belief that would have been affirmed if she were a Delaware student today
Rachel Dolezal
© Anthony Quintano/NBC News/AP
Rachel Dolezal, a former leader of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) in the United States, has white parents but identifies as being transracial. She is seen on the set of NBC's Today show on June 16, 2015.
The state of Delaware is poised to adopt what is known as "Regulation 225." Approved both by the Delaware State Education Association and Gov. John Carney, Regulation 225 would safeguard children's "protected characteristics," such as gender, age, race, sexual orientation and gender identity. Section 7.4(1) of 225's Prohibition of Discrimination Code states, "All students enrolled in a Delaware public school may self-identify gender or race, which is maintained in the school."

Gender isn't news. But race? Are they really going there? Yes, they apparently are.
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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says Facebook should 'get back to baby pictures'

Joan E. Solsman
CNET
Mon, 12 Feb 2018 11:55 UTC
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki
© Noam Galai/FilmMagic for YouTube
YouTube, led by CEO Susan Wojcicki, has been criticized for struggling to control offensive content on its service.


YouTube may be derided as full of cat videos, but as Facebook pushes aggressively into YouTube's video turf, Susan Wojcicki says it should stick to baby pics.

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki won't divulge her biggest fear about competing with Facebook, but she will give them some free advice.

"They should get back to baby pictures," Wojcicki said Monday at the Code Media conference in Huntington Beach, California. (By the way, Facebook's already aiming in that direction.)

Video has been an obsession for Facebook, as it tries to swipe the most advertising dollars migrating off television before YouTube can get them. Facebook has been aggressively advancing the number of clips and live streams that bubble up to the top of your News Feed and has rolled out a central hub for TV-like programming called Watch.

"You always have to take competition seriously. You don't win by looking backwards; you win by looking at your customers and looking forward," she said.

Comment:
Wojcicki said Monday that drawing a line about what's appropriate to exist on YouTube is sensitive because "on one side is censorship and the other is too much freedom of speech."
The problem is that it is companies like YouTube/Google, Facebook and Twitter who decide where that line is to be drawn - and there are so many ways in which censorship can be enforced.

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Princeton professor uses 'n-word,' student shouts 'f-you' - 'Free speech' class cancelled

Adam Rubenstein
The Weekly Standard
Mon, 12 Feb 2018 11:26 UTC
Princeton University campus
© Mark Makela for The New York Times

Students at Princeton learn a lesson about how free speech works at the modern university.

"Anthropology 212: Cultural Freedoms: Hate Speech, Blasphemy, and Pornography," a course on freedom of expression at Princeton University has been "reluctantly" cancelled, Professor Lawrence Rosen informed his students in an email obtained by THE WEEKLY STANDARD. Rosen's email, sent at 2:07 p.m. on February 12, went on to say "I think it only fair that you be free, before too much of the semester has passed, to move ahead in another course of your choosing."

Comment: Judging by the information on this article, it sounds like Prof. Rosen was trying to make his students think with his question about the 'n-word' - he was obviously not going on a racist offensive! His remark about using the word 'if he thinks it's necessary' should be read under the same light. But alas, these days people are offended at the drop of a hat, and rational thinking and discussion be damned.

Jordan Peterson on freedom of speech:



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Russian financial sector ready to move beyond using SWIFT for money transfers


RT
Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:18 UTC
Moscow
© Maxim Shemetov / Reuters
Russian financial institutions and firms are ready to work without SWIFT's interbank cash transfer services, according to Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich.

"Certainly, it is unpleasant, as it will prove a stumbling block for companies and banks, and will slow down work. It will be inevitable to deploy some aged technologies for information transfer and calculations. However, the companies are technically and psychologically ready for the shutdown as this threat was repeatedly voiced," Dvorkovich said, as quoted by TASS.

He added that the measure may have a negative impact on corporations working in the US and Europe.
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Watch how fake news spreads with PR firm release of crackpot Russia-Brexit report


RT
Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:26 UTC
anti-brexit protests
© Hannah McKay / Reuters
Anti-Brexit protesters demonstrate opposite the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain, January 16, 2018.
The release of a report that claims Russian media outlets RT and Sputnik were a major influence on the outcome of the Brexit vote has unwittingly allowed people to see exactly how "fake news" is formed and spread on Twitter.

The self-funded report was produced by PR firm 89up, a lobbying firm that runs communications for pro-EU pressure group 'Best for Britain,' which is part-funded by billionaire George Soros.

At the time of writing, 89up had removed the slide-show presentation linked to the report from its site. While the agency promised more information would be released in the coming days, it has been pointed out that the initial release contained no statistical evidence in the form of tweets or articles to back up the claims being made. Twitter itself has said that it cannot find evidence of Russian Brexit meddling.
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