LAURENCE TRIBE STEPS IN IT AGAIN: Harvard Legal Scholar Equates Pro-Life Position with White Supremacy.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
August 12, 2019
HEADLINES FROM 1968-2019 INCLUSIVE: The American Left Goes Increasingly Stalinist.
This clandestine approach to—or should we say sabotage of—the foundations of American life and politics didn’t begin with Trump. It began long ago, even before the Roosevelt years, and has ebbed and flowed since. This recent rise can be dated from 1991 when then Vermont congressman, now presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders helped found the Congressional Progressive Caucus along with Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and a few others. Sanders, at that point, was just back from spending his honeymoon in the Soviet Union.
Joining shortly thereafter was New York congressman Jerrold Nadler, now leading the impeachment chorus against Trump. Sanders, as almost everyone knows, was an avowed socialist, but so also, although it’s lesser known, was Nadler. The New York congressman was a member of several socialist organizations and was the one who convinced President Bill Clinton to commute—during his last days in office—Susan Rosenberg’s sentence.
In 1981, Rosenberg allegedly drove a getaway car for the left-wing terror groups the “Weather Underground” and “Black Liberation Army” after they had robbed a Brink’s truck, killing two policemen and a security guard in the process. Rosenberg got away, but they caught her three years later, this time unloading 740 pounds of explosives and an arsenal of weapons from a car. But 16 years later she had reformed enough for her to go free, according to Nadler.
Of course, there’s a bit of guilt-by-association here but, considering the endless impeachment accusations toward Trump by Nadler and others for nothing even approaching “high crimes and misdemeanors,” assuming they’re real at all, this use of Stalinist tactics must be exposed and ended.
Read the whole thing.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Jeffrey Epstein Totally Gets Vince Fostered.
Ever since the news broke on Saturday morning that convicted sex offender and potential Clinton embarrassment Jeffrey Epstein was found “suicided” in his jail cell the internet has been positively ablaze with weirdness.
Epstein may have been the most well-connected dangerous perv in history. The guy knew everybody. Presidents. Princes. Businessmen. Maybe even Oprah.
A guy with an acquaintances list like that can’t suddenly expire while incarcerated without speculation bombs exploding all over the place.
The whole thing stinks.
GOOD LUCK: I Tried Hiding From Silicon Valley in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets.
I had decades of digital exhaust to clean up. “Your data across different companies is being pulled together by data brokers and ad companies. If the government asked for it and spent some time correlating, it probably wouldn’t be that far off from what the Chinese government has,” says Rob Shavell, the co-founder of Abine Inc., a company in Cambridge, Mass. I signed up for Abine’s DeleteMe service, paying $129 a year for it to opt me out from databases run by brokers that sell my personally identifiable information. I gave DeleteMe all my current and previous home addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses, and it removed me from 33 public-records crawlers—database services with names like Intelius and Spokeo, plus a whole lot of yellow pages.
Pierre Valade, a French graduate of Stanford’s design school living in New York, designed the Jumbo app for the iPhone in April. I gave it permission to access my Twitter, Google, and Alexa accounts, and a cute cartoon elephant (he’s got a bad memory, unlike Big Tech) got to work scrubbing away my past. In 10 minutes, all my tweets older than a month vanished, as did all my Google searches and Alexa requests. Jumbo also adjusted more than 40 Facebook settings to protect my privacy, something I would’ve had to spend several hours figuring out. “Even me, on Facebook to design that feature, I got bored. It’s too much work,” Valade says. He’s trying to get Facebook Inc. to allow Jumbo users to erase their timelines all at once, but the company won’t give him the API to do that. “Do they have two PR strategies? One where they say to Congress and the Washington Post, ‘We’re good guys,’ and another where they’re not helping us build what we want?” he asks me. I don’t have an answer, because I’m avoiding Facebook. Also, because it didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Before I asked people which gadgets to buy, I had to make sure my digital trail was private and secure. I switched to the ad-blocking, non-data-recording Brave browser (headquartered, unfortunately, in San Francisco and, worse yet, run by Palo Alto native Brendan Eich, who co-founded Mozilla Corp. and created the JavaScript coding language). I abandoned Google, using the DuckDuckGo search engine from outside of Philadelphia because it doesn’t track me or customize my search results. I also started communicating via Signal, a free app that encrypts both ends of text and voice messages. I was surprised by how many messages I was glad to hide from posterity: one about a former co-worker who’s a drunk; another from someone who wanted to be expunged from my upcoming book. Then I realized that Signal is located in Mountain View, Calif.
So much more at the link, it’s disturbing.
FLASHBACK: Hotel Googlefornia. “Hill did literally everything an internet-connected human being can do to disconnect themselves from Google. But you don’t have to be a Google customer in order to have the company garner 100,000 little bits of data about you every single week. Or as Hill herself says, ‘Google, like Amazon, is woven deeply into the infrastructure of online services and other companies’ offerings, which is frustrating to all the connected devices in my house’.”
Tear gas was used after multiple warnings and MTR announcements that the station was closed and trains would not be stopping at Kwai Fong, except for additional ones arranged to pick up people already inside.
A man in protest gear was seen lying on the platform, with blood running from his nose, while other protesters were helping him. Video footage also showed a stationary train at a platform with people still inside.
There was more trouble later at Tai Koo station, with riot police charging inside to grab protesters who had been moving from one station to another.
Michael Yon reports:
Total panic mode. China wants to invade Hong Kong so badly. They make that clear. They already have troops stationed here. Just down the road.
They also know that the world reaction can be severe and the economic and political fallout can end the CCP just as similar reactions ended the USSR.
Yon is updating his Facebook fan page almost constantly.
ALSO ANOTHER DAY ENDING IN Y: Another Splendiferous, Gafftastic Day for Joe Biden.
August 9, 2019
NEWS YOU CAN USE: 5 Best Browser Extensions For Protecting Your Privacy Online.
THERE HE GOES AGAIN: Joe Biden Says ‘We Choose Truth Over Facts.’
Biden is just taking his cues from the Montagnard wing of his party.
SOCIALISM MEANS CARING: Let fat people die to save NHS money, says Michael Buerk.
READINESS: U.S. Air Force gets F-35A fighter airborne five hours after delivery. “The accomplishment means that, if necessary, the Air Force can take an F-35 fresh from production line immediately into combat, officials said.”
GIVE ME YOUR VOTE, HATERS: Buttigieg Says ‘Systemic racism is a white problem.’
THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE REASONS: 121 migrants have been stranded at sea for 8 days. Europe won’t offer safe harbor.
THE WEEKEND AFTER THAT, ANTIFA BUSINESS AS USUAL: Portland Mayor Says He Won’t Tolerate Street Violence Next Weekend.
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY: The ‘Death Race 2000’ Edition. “Florida Man Undresses in Front of Cop on Busy Street, Gets Dressed Again at Gunpoint.”
THIS IS THE SAME GERMANY WHICH SHUT DOWN ALL ITS ZERO-CARBON NUCLEAR PLANTS: Germany may introduce ‘meat tax’ to protect the environment.
Currently meat in the country has a reduced tax rate of seven per cent but the Social Democrat party and the Greens are arguing that this should increase to the standard 19 per cent, with additional revenue spent on improving animal welfare.
“I am in favour of abolishing the VAT reduction for meat and earmarking it for more animal welfare,” Friedrich Ostendorf, agricultural policy spokesperson for the Greens told The Local website.
He said it mad “no sense” that meat was taxed at seven per cent while oat milk is taxed at 19 per cent.
It doesn’t make any sense. Isn’t the existence of oat milk punishment enough for those who have to drink it?
HMM: Radiation spike reported after rocket engine explosion during Russian missile test. “It came two days after 16,500 people were forced to flee their homes when massive blasts rocked an arms depot in Siberia.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Crazy Joe the Wonder Veep Friday. “Biden’s greatest gift to American conservatives is that his unbridled tongue can’t help but bare the souls of our leftists. They may have the media forever spinning and covering for them, but Joey Scranton can waltz in and unveil their true intentions with the greatest of ease.”