COMMUNIST FRONT CORPORATION: Huawei’s ability to eavesdrop on Dutch mobile users is a wake-up call for the telecoms industry.

Chinese technology provider Huawei was recently accused of being able to monitor all calls made using Dutch mobile operator KPN. The revelations are from a secret 2010 report made by consultancy firm Capgemini, which KPN commissioned to evaluate the risks of working with Huawei infrastructure.

While the full report on the issue has not been made public, journalists reporting on the story have outlined specific concerns that Huawei personnel in the Netherlands and China had access to security-essential parts of KPN’s network – including the call data of millions of Dutch citizens – and that a lack of records meant KPN couldn’t establish how often this happened.

It’s easy to say how this happened. They f****** up, they trusted China.

SYSTEMIC RACISM: U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee workshop helps participants to ‘confront whiteness.’

WHY SPACEX IS EATING NASA’S LUNCH: Building A Space-Based ISP.

“There are requirements that make software engineers sweat. Massive distribution to thousands of nodes. High reliability and availability. Multiple distinct platforms. Rapid network growth. his is the world SpaceX’s Starlink program, which has set a goal to provide high-speed broadband internet to locations where access has been unreliable, expensive, or completely unavailable.”

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: CIA Breaks Up ISIS Plot To Use Incorrect Pronouns.

IT’LL BE TOUGH TO SPIN THIS ONE AS WORKPLACE VIOLENCE: Three Bystanders Shot in Broad Daylight in Times Square by a Man Named Farrakhan Muhammad.

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY HAS A PROBLEM: NY Supreme Court judge overturns suspension of Syracuse fraternity, says they ‘did nothing wrong.’

A New York State Supreme Court judge has reversed Syracuse University’s suspension of a fraternity who was initially punished because a guest yelled a racial slur after being at the fraternity house.

According to Syracuse.com, when the fraternity, Alpha Chi Rho, was suspended in 2019, the chancellor for Syracuse University, Kent Syverud said that “substantial evidence” existed which proved that members and guests of the fraternity engaged in racist activities.

Initially, the Syracuse University Appeals Board reversed the decision to suspend the fraternity, but their ruling was invalidated by E. Dolan Evanovich, SU’s senior vice president of enrollment and the student experience.

However, New York Supreme Court Judge Scott DelConte said in his opinion that Syverud was wrong, and Alpha Chi Rho “did nothing wrong.”

“The record is clear: Alpha Chi Rho did nothing wrong,” DelConte wrote in his opinion.

According to DelConte, only one person yelled a racial slur, and that person was not a member of the fraternity, but rather someone who was a guest of a member at the fraternity on the day he made the racial slur. In addition, the remark occurred off-campus.

As I say, there’s something seriously wrong with the administration at Syracuse, which has featured a series of absurd decisions on race- and sex-related issues.

WITH GAS SHORTAGES APPEARING DUE TO PIPELINE SHUTDOWNS, Gretchen Whitmer shuts down another pipeline.

CRISIS BY DESIGN: White House official fesses up that Biden admin ‘had a plan from the beginning’ on migrant surge. “ It appears that the plan was to allow the flood of illegal border crossings and get the migrants to sponsors or family members as soon as possible. Tobar also mentioned that the ‘plan is working.’”

Instapundit readers have been aware of this for months.

A BITTER REMINDER OF THE CARTER YEARS: Gas Stations Run Dry as Pipeline Races to Recover From Hacking.

SCIENCE! CDC Limits Review of Vaccinated but Infected; Draws Concern.

HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS (CONT’D): Is Anheuser-Busch Drunk? The Beer Behemoth Is Forcing the Woke ‘Gender Unicorn’ on Its Employees.

MORE ANTI-ASIAN DISCRIMINATION: As Predicted, Boston “Zip Code Quota Plan” For Elite Public Schools Reduced Asian and White Admissions, Raised Black and Latino.

FIGHT THE POWER: NCLA Petitions Supreme Court to Hear Case on Massachusetts Gov. Baker’s Pandemic Orders Barring Free Assembly. “NCLA represents local entrepreneurs, church pastors, and a private school headmaster, who are opposed to the Commonwealth’s arbitrary and discriminatory restrictions on their rights to peaceably assemble and to receive due process. Baker has issued 67 executive orders related to the pandemic, some 40 of which implicate the assembly or due process rights of NCLA’s clients.”

NEW FOR 2021, THE INTERSECTIONAL SPUDS MCKENZIE: Is Anheuser-Busch Drunk? The Beer Behemoth Is Forcing the Woke ‘Gender Unicorn’ on Its Employees.

INDEED: Antony Blinken Continues to Lecture the World on Values His Administration Aggressively Violates.

AND SCOFF THEY SHOULD: Tax Practitioners Scoff At Janet Yellen’s Comment That ‘The IRS Has Put On A Masterclass In How The Machinery Of Government Should Work.’

ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK:Combined capital gains tax rate in New York would hit 54.3% under Biden plan.

To be fair, Biden’s tax plan is punitive (and won’t raise the projected revenue) no matter where you live.

VIDEO: AZ GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward Exposes The Big Lie Behind Maricopa County Refusing to Permit Review of Router System During Ballot Audit.

FROM BACK WHEN IT WAS PATRIOTIC TO QUESTION ELECTION RESULTS: Liberal Media Scream: Six more years of ‘Stacey Abrams for president.’

FAUCI MUST ANSWER FOR HIS ROLE IN WUHAN’S COVID LAB:

There are now more connections emerging from the Wuhan Institute that should be explored further. These connections involve the United States government, the National Institutes of Health and Dr Anthony Fauci — and he should have to explain them before Congress.

These questions could of course pose complications to the mainstream media storyline that Fauci is a great hero, a man lionized, even fetishized by the political left for being the antithesis to then-president Donald Trump. If the NIH and Anthony Fauci played any role in financing or assisting the Wuhan Institute, including outsourcing the study of BSL-4 novel coronaviruses, the good doctor should have to answer for it.

To boil things down: the United States was outsourcing the study of novel coronaviruses to a group called EcoHealth Alliance, a group which according to NPR was doing the bulk of collection of coronavirus samples from bats and transferring those samples and research to the Wuhan Institute.

The original grant money provided to EcoHealth was $3.7 million, $76,000 of which was slated for the Wuhan Institute. This funding was approved with the backing of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the agency that Anthony Fauci heads, according to Newsweek.

That contract was canceled in April 2020. Those grants were approved by the National Institute of Health. According to a blockbuster piece in New Yorkmagazine, one of the first outlets to take the lab leak hypothesis seriously, EcoHealth Alliance ‘has channeled money from the National Institutes of Health to Shi Zhengli’s laboratory in Wuhan, allowing the lab to carry on recombinant research into diseases of bats and humans’.

Related: Report: Chinese paper discussed weaponization of SARS coronaviruses in 2015.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Pathetically Biased CNN’s Ratings Are In Free Fall. “Let’s be clear: CNN didn’t do any journalism during the Trump years. It was a televised tantrum that went on for four years. When Trump was in office, the vitriol being spewed about him on CNN worked well for its numbers. While the MSM hacks are all still letting Trump live rent-free in their heads, the audience apparently doesn’t care anymore.”

THE WEAPONIZATION OF FOOTNOTES: Cancelling Citations. “This weaponization of footnotes will not be limited to slavery. Journals will continue to impose more control over scholarship to pursue inclusion. Professor Brian Leiter writes about a referee report from a philosophy journal. The ‘very first comment’ criticized the author for not citing diverse authors.”

‘THE DROP CNN IS EXPERIENCING IS PROFOUND:’ CNN’s ratings drop from January is stunning.

See also: The death of the Bill Clinton-obsessive American Spectator after Clinton left office.

SOHRAB AHMARI: Woke-ism will swallow our kids unless we restore the West’s great traditions.

Which is an uphill battle when our institutions are mostly controlled by people who hate the West’s great traditions.

JAMES ROBBINS: Racial equity is important, but it doesn’t trump the right to excel: Students of color need the opportunity to succeed, not a false sense of equivalence.

Much of what’s being sold as “equity” now is just a sub rosa way of discriminating against Asian students.