Apparent Mass Purge of Twitter Accounts | NTD | Video: 4 Minutes 30 Seconds
Some Twitter users are reporting a mass purge of accounts. One of the users who apparently got caught up in this was Jake Denton, a research associate at the Heritage Foundation.
China Dismisses ‘Fabricated’ Virus Leak Theory Revived by Report | Bloomberg
China lashed out at a report about a lab in the city of Wuhan where the coronavirus first appeared, saying it was driven by politics in the US.
“US politicians are rehashing the lab-leak theory to smear China in disregard of facts,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said Monday at a regular press briefing in Beijing. “Such acts are driven by ill-intentions. This will only hamper science-based origins tracing and undermine international anti-Covid cooperation.”
The Asian nation has “made it clear on multiple occasions that the lab-leak theory from Wuhan is nothing but a lie fabricated by anti-China forces for political purposes and it has nothing to do with science,” he said.
Vanity Fair and the investigative news outlet ProPublica published an article on Friday that alleged that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was more troubled than previously known. It also says Chinese President Xi Jinping may have been briefed on problems at the facility in November 2019, months before the virus was first detected in Wuhan.
Zhao sidestepped a question about Xi and the lab at the press briefing.
China Dismisses ‘Fabricated’ Virus Leak Theory Revived by Report | Bloomberg
Commentary: Elon Musk Is a Much-Needed Insult to the Coddled Consensus Class That Is Ruining America | Georgia Star News
by Rober Kimball
“The Bird is Freed!”
That’s what Elon Musk tweeted upon the consummation of his bid to buy Twitter. ’Twas a consummation devoutly to be wished. Why? For one thing, as Musk later tweeted, henceforth comedy once again will now be “legal on Twitter.”
Musk’s acquisition of Twitter for more money than you or I can really contemplate ($44 billion) lit the punditocracy ablaze. On the Left there was, as St. Matthew (13:42) put it in another context, abundant “fletus et stridor dentium,” “wailing and gnashing of teeth.” On the Right, there were cheers and not a little “Schadenfreude,” which is German for “serves you right, knucklehead.” The Right also went in for some creative trolling.
The dominant narrative, on the Left anyway, is that Musk’s acquisition of Twitter represents a conservative takeover of the social media giant. Twitter had been a brash and scrappy upstart, you see, and now it has been “colonized” by the rich and powerful. . . .
That’s the idea, anyway. You can practically hear the Nabobs of the Narrative holding their breath while they wait to see if the public buys it.
Their public will, of course. But how about the rest of us?
The New York Times gave fastidious expression to this canard in a story headlined “Twitter, Once a Threat to Titans, Now Belongs to One.” A “threat to titans,” eh? What do you suppose that means? The Times explains in its subhead. “A decade ago, the social media platform was a tool for rebels and those challenging authority. But over time, the powerful learned how to use it for their own goals.”
In order to appreciate how funny this is, you can start with CNN’s story about the pile of money paid to the executives that Musk, in his first order of business, fired on Thursday. It is a large pile. According to CNN, Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s former CEO, Ned Segal (former CFO), and Vijaya Gadde (former Chief Legal Officer) will walk away with nearly $200 million. (I pause so that you, along with many others, can savor the word “former.”)
Gadde, by the way, was not only paid many millions of dollars a year but was also instrumental in engineering the expulsion of Donald Trump, then the president of the United States, from the platform.
The idea that Twitter was a challenge to the establishment before the advent of Musk is almost as wrong as the idea that Musk is conservative and that he aims to transform Twitter into a a bastion of Trumpesque MAGA (or, to quote Joe Biden’s focus group, “ultra-MAGA”) sentiment.
As Musk has repeatedly stressed, his aim is to open Twitter to a wide range of political viewpoints, Left as well Right, “progressive” as well as conservative. By removing the top executives, Musk merely removed a hose spewing intolerance camouflaged as inarguable virtue. Marinated in that sentiment, many of Twitter’s 7,500 employees doubtless have absorbed the mantra that “free speech” means “speech I agree with.” In the run up to Musk’s takeover of Twitter, rumors were rife that he planned to fire “75 percent” of the workforce. Musk later denied that, but everyone expects him to put the company on a serious diet.
Everyone also expects him to make big changes in the way the company oversees “content” on Twitter. Musk is the very incarnation of a man in a hurry. His firing of Agrawal, Sega, and Gadde happened before his name could be painted on the door to his office. So did his immediate deployment of software engineers from Tesla to review Twitter source code.
But on issues of general policy he seems to be moving more deliberately. Twitter distinguished itself by its intolerance of views that challenged the dominant progressive narrative on everything from the presidency of Donald Trump, Hunter Biden’s laptop (really, a subset of Twitter’s Trump allergy), “climate change,” BLM, and various approved forms of “progressive” sexual pathology. Trespassing upon any of those orthodoxies could get you suspended, “shadow banned,” or banned outright.
That will change, but not all at once. Soon after taking over, Musk announced (on Twitter, bien sur) that the company would be “forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints. No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.”
There are, I think, two major things to bear in mind about Musk’s takeover of Twitter. One is that, although he is not himself a conservative, the fact that he supports a robust view of free speech in which a wide variety of opinions are not only tolerated but encouraged means that he will be regarded as an existential threat by the progressive establishment.
That establishment is right to regard him as a threat. For its guardians require strict conformity in dispensing their twisted gospel of “diversity” if they are to maintain their power and perquisites. Open the door just a little, let just a little sunlight in, and pow! The magic spell that made it seem OK to say that men are women, that “climate change” is a threat to humanity, that COVID is a peril on the same plane as the Black Death, or that BLM and Antifa were justified in burning down our cities—suddenly that spell is broken, and so is the hold over the narrative that these new guardians of conformity had enforced.
The second thing to bear in mind is that the establishment will not sit idly by as Elon Musk challenges their narrative. Everything about Musk is an insult to the coddled, low-testosterone consensus that has been ruining America this last decade through the promulgation of its dependency agenda. It is no accident, as the Marxists say, that even as Musk pushes ahead with his reformation of Twitter, the coercive busybodies of the state have begun making minatory noises about “investigating” Musk. Thus we read that Tesla is under federal investigation over autopilot claims.
Expect more of that. Beatings will continue until morale improves. As Glenn Reynolds put it at Instapundit, “The Bureaucracy Mobilizes Against A Threat.” Were the midterms not just around the corner, I might be worried about this coalescing threat against Elon Musk. But come November 9, the clock will be ticking against that sclerotic, freedom-hating consensus. The bird is freed, and we will be too. Fiat Musk!
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Roger Kimball is editor and publisher of The New Criterion and the president and publisher of Encounter Books.
Photo “Elon Musk Dreaming of a Brighter Future” by Steve Jurvetson. CC BY 2.0.
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What Voters Need to Know About Crime: Progressive DAs Rebuilding the Police | The Nation Speaks
Crime is rising across the United States, and voters are taking notice. According to the latest polls, it’s become a major election issue with midterms right around the corner. Parker Thayer at the Capital Research Center has been documenting the millions of dollars billionaires like George Soros and Dustin Moskovitz are spending on progressive candidates, particularly for district attorney. He explains the impact that’s having across the country.
Then, in America Q&A, we ask if crime is an issue that motivates you to vote.
Next, Rob O’Donnell, retired NYPD detective and Pipe Hitter Foundation board member, gives us law enforcement’s perspective on the deep consequences after years of “defund the police” rhetoric.
Finally, in our second America Q&A, we ask: Do you feel you have enough time to spend with your family?
UPDATE: Watch Full Documentary Through Tuesday, November 1 | The Most Suppressed Book Of Our Generation Is Now A Documentary | The Real Anthony Fauci Part 1 and 2
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Robert Kennedy Jr On The Megyn Kelly Show | Video: 1 Hour 52 Minutes
Although Robert Kennedy, Jr. still holds some views on liberalism that do not apply to today’s world, because so-called liberals and progressives are anything but what can be termed “Classical Liberals”, his breadth of understanding of many of the problems facing our society today is well thought out. The usual anti-Trump rhetoric remains, which is required if he wants to continue to speak to any Establishment Liberals in the circles he frequents. This is an unfortunate reality for all liberals in today’s world. It is, however, tempered with the understanding that President Trump and the American people are actually trying to solve the issues of everyday life.
She Believed The Talk Until She Noticed The Walk | “Leaving the Democratic Party” | The Tulsi Gabbard Show | Video: 28 Minutes 33 Seconds
Tulsi Gabbard is like many of us who have left the Democrat Party. We believed the propaganda and thought that the party had changed and was no longer embued with racism and warmongering. Some of us even thought that the Vietnam War was created by Republicans and not Democrats. Nothing could be further from the truth.
For so-called Progressives, “Lyndon Johnson could have been remembered as one of the most outstanding of American presidents. His Great Society programs to tackle poverty and the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act were socially progressive measures carried out during a period of economic expansion and increased prosperity. Instead his time in office is mostly associated with deepening American involvement in the war in Vietnam which ultimately proved futile. Its legacy was 58,220 American soldiers dead, a huge drain on the nation’s finances, social polarisation and the tarnishing of the reputation of the United States.” Open History Society
What is interesting is that, depending on your measuring stick, those programs have been an utter failure. Of importance here is that it was sold as another “war”. War now, war tomorrow, war all the time and on all fronts. If we believe in peace, we cannot in good conscience remain in the party of the Ku Klux Klan, the party of Jim Crow Laws, the party of Tammany Hall, seditious infiltration of a corrupt FBI, race baiting, and Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Below is the full video of Tulsi Gabbard explaining her journey in and out of the Democrat party.
How Do You Spell Warmonger? M-I-L-L-E-Y? | General Mark Milley warns cadets graduating from West Point to prepare for a global war | Daily Mail UK
May 22, 2022
General Mark Milley warns cadets graduating from West Point to prepare for a global war between superpowers fighting with robotic tanks, ships and planes as brutal Ukraine war continues
- Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, challenged cadets to prepare to fight future wars that may look little like the wars of today
- During his address, Milley, the US most senior Armed Forces officers, told grads to prepare for brewing conflict with burgeoning superpowers China and Russia
- ‘The world you are being commissioned into has the potential for a significant international conflict between great powers,’ Milley, 63, said
- The US, he said, can no longer sit idle as a military powerhouse, as the two nations continue to show both growth a desire for global conquest
The Nostalgia The Left Has For Bolshevism And Communist Russia Is Quite Revealing | “Show Me The Man, and I’ll Show You The Crime.” | Lavrentiy Beria
It is a common red herring for the Democrat Establishment to consistently proclaim Stalin never said, “Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.” Stalin did not. Instead, the man Stalin called his “Himmler” did.
Lavrentiy Beria, the most ruthless and longest-serving secret police chief in Joseph Stalin’s reign of terror in Russia and Eastern Europe, bragged that he could prove criminal conduct on anyone, even the innocent.
“Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” was Beria’s infamous boast. He served as deputy premier from 1941 until Stalin’s death in 1953, supervising the expansion of the gulags and other secret detention facilities for political prisoners. He became part of a post-Stalin, short-lived ruling troika until he was executed for treason after Nikita Khrushchev’s coup d’etat in 1953.
Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime | The Oxford Eagle
Most Americans cannot help but believe that a Bolshevik Revolution is taking place right in front of their eyes when they look at the current state of Washington, D.C. Calls for violence from the highest levels, including the current occupants of the White House, are common:
Biden expects you to believe that Kamala Harris was promoting the bail fund for Minneapolis rioters to free gun-toting Trump supporters. At least 13 members of Biden’s campaign staff donated to that same bail fund, as did a collection of left-wing celebrities.
Democrats own the violence and riots in their cities | Washington Examiner
The persecutions of anyone not aligning with the Democrat Establishment’s ideology through COVID-19 misinformation on vaccine effectiveness and injuries, lockdowns, professional and legal persecutions of highly decorated medical professionals and scientists, the push for gender confusion, riots, and discredited conspiracy theories and impeachments have sent the left into a strange paranoia about who they see around them everyday:
One of the single most bizarre products of the modern-day left is its insatiable appetite for conspiracy theories. They flatly refuse to debate policy anymore, choosing instead to baselessly accuse their political opponents legitimate policy concerns and conscription as being the fruit of the poison tree planted in some nefarious conspiracy theory. Indeed, there is an entire cottage industry in the left-wing media built around “finding” and “exposing” conspiracy theories on the right. I almost feel badly for some of these intrepid left-wing journalists who spend their days scouring through the Facebook posts of grandmas and deep-diving into Telegram channels of anonymous frogs. Imagine dropping a $100K at J-school only to be relegated to the Q Anon beat.
According to the left, every single person in the country who holds and/or promotes conservative policy positions or even just votes for a Republican is actually part of an underground network of conspiracy theorists.
The Left’s Obsession with ‘Conspiracy Theories’ | Human Events
Unfortunately, by stoking this paranoia, it has continued to keep alive the natural fire of racism and xenophia inherent in the Democrat Party. After all, the Democrat Party is the party of the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow Laws, Tammany Hall, seditious infiltration of a corrupt FBI, race baiting, and Trump Derangement Syndrome. It’s gotten so bad that the transcription of the leaked audio recording of Los Angeles Council members, all Democrats, had the New York Times correct itself, as follows:
Correction:
Oct. 12, 2022An earlier version of this article misstated what Nury Martinez called Oaxacan immigrants living in Koreatown. She called them “little short dark people,” not “short little dark people.”
Here’s what was said on the leaked recording of L.A. City Council members. | New York Times
Good to know.
If The Left Can’t Cheat Enough, They Can’t Win | So They Accuse You Of Cheating When They Lose | Video: 4 Minutes 53 Seconds
The Left will always accuse you of their crimes. Even with all of the media promoting fake news against Donald Trump and the usual shenanigans of the Democrat Party, Trump still won the election in 2016. The Democrats did not cheat enough, so they ramped it up for Election 2020. Tech oligarchs literally banned people from social media. The entrenched Establisment sicced the FBI on American citizens and came up with Russian collusion conspiracies, Ukrainian conspiracies, riots, and out and out lawlessness. And now they say challenging elections is wrong. . . because they cheated enough during election 2020.
Below Is Foundational Information On Some Of The Issues With Big Tech
'Google’s China rapproachment has been spearheaded by Pichai, Google’s current CEO, a 46-year-old Indian-American who took the helm in October 2015. At a June 2016 conference in southern California, Pichai made his intentions clear. “I care about servicing users globally in every corner. Google is for everyone,” he said. “We want to be in China serving Chinese users.”' Google Employees have been warning us about China and Google under Pichai, for years. The censorship chickens have been coming home to roost ever since. Say hello to Dragonfly.
DRAGONFLY HAS COME TO AMERICA
Wondering Why Censorship Has Increased In America? Dragonfly, Censorship Through Algorithms and Human Surveillance, Has Landed Across All Platforms. “Many of us accepted employment at Google with the company’s values in mind, including its previous position on Chinese censorship and surveillance, and an understanding that Google was a company willing to place its values above its profits. After a year of disappointments including Project Maven, Dragonfly, and Google’s support for abusers, we no longer believe this is the case. This is why we’re taking a stand.”
FACEBOOK USERS ARE 'DUMB FUCKS'
~ Mark Zuckerberg
'In another exchange leaked to Silicon Alley Insider, Zuckerberg explained to a friend that his control of Facebook gave him access to any information he wanted on any Harvard student:
Zuck: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard
Zuck: just ask
Zuck: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns
Friend: what!? how’d you manage that one?
Zuck: people just submitted it
Zuck: i don’t know why
Zuck: they “trust me”
Zuck: dumb fucks'