People returning from the DNC are reporting testing positive for Covid. Relevant note: the CDC has confirmed that recent vaccination is a risk factor for Covid and Democrats do love those Covid shots. We’re not saying that those things are causal but…are they?
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Israel has been playing Internet whack-a-mole, trying to get leaked content taken down since April. As Israeli newspaper Haaretz put it, they are trying “to censor the Internet.”
In April, a hack exposed “tens of thousands of classified files and sensitive emails.” Publicly, Israel downplayed the data, saying that “these are just old documents from an outdated system and no ministry network was actually penetrated.” Even so, Israel has spent a lot of time and energy trying to keep this information from spreading.
What are they trying to hide?
According to Haaretz, “The data speaks for itself: According to official numbers provided by Israel, the Justice Ministry has sent Facebook over 40,000 successful requests to remove ‘illegal content.’ These are not pro-or-anti-Israel posts, but rather content that is illegal by Western standards. Even TikTok has taken down over 20,000 posts flagged by Israel. On Telegram, that number is just over 1,300.”
Israel has worked with any friendly Western government and social network that it can but is having a harder time with content hosted on Russian platforms. Even journalists have been targeted and accounts removed. From Haaretz: “According to a number of sources, the removal of the page shows the dangers and limitations of Israel’s takedown policy, which, casting a wide net against the leaks, risks deploying increasingly harsh censorship mechanisms that harm journalism, many times based on leaked information.”
How long can they resist the open spread of information and how far will they go? And more importantly, does this have anything to do with the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov in France this weekend? (See next story.)
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The founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, has been arrested in France because French authorities say that Telegram has “insufficient moderation” and is “widely used by criminals.”
WhatsApp is also widely used by criminals and perverts. So is Facebook. And Twitter. Why aren’t these founders arrested for content hosted on their platforms? Could it have anything to do with the hosting of leaked Israeli documents from the previous story?
According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Telegram has been the least responsive to taking down leaked documents from the Israeli Justice Ministry. Facebook has removed over 40,000 posts, TikTok has removed over 20,000. But Telegram only removed 1,300 at the behest of the Israeli government.
Durov is a Russian-born citizen of Russia but he also has had French citizenship since 2021. According to RT: “Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Moscow has sent an official note to Paris with a demand for consular access to Telegram’s founder. ‘But he [Durov] has French citizenship, which France perceives as precedential,’ she told RIA-Novosti news agency.”
Many are saying that the U.S. had a hand in this. Would it surprise you if they did?
1. That is how many seasons the Star Wars spinoff show called The Acolyte had and will ever have because it has been canceled. People hated it and called it woke.
25 pence. That is how much Scotland wants to charge for every takeaway cup sold. They are calling it the “latte levy.”
$500 million. That is the approximate value of all of Oprah Winfrey’s homes and yet she says she has been the victim of racism and sexism in her life. Imagine what she’d have if she hadn’t been such a victim to all of that!
Non-U.S. citizens can get $30,000 for a down payment to buy a home in Oregon. Native-born Americans need not apply.
This comes from a group called Hacienda Community Development Corporation in Portland. They are taxpayer funded which means that taxpayers will pay to give non-citizens down payments for homes that citizens themselves are ineligible for.
Republican Oregon state Rep. Ed Diehl said this about the program: “American citizens in Oregon are struggling to find and buy a home. We have a severe housing shortage in this state. I am appalled that the hard-earned, limited tax dollars of Oregonians are being used to prioritize home ownership for certain non-US citizens. Oregon can’t end this state-sponsored discrimination soon enough.”
California is about to pass a similar program but instead of giving migrants money, they are allowing them to buy homes through special loans that require $0 down and 0% interest. Two million illegals will qualify for the program.
Remember when no-cost and low-cost loans crashed the economy in 2008?
Does British Prime Minister Keir Starmer hate British people? It sure seems like he does.
He warned this week that there is a “rot deep in the heart” of Britain and that he is about to enforce laws that will make things worse before they get better. That’s ominous.
Starmer says that he has inherited “not just an economic black hole but a societal black hole.” So what does he suggest be done? “You have to overhaul the entire thing.”
To do this, he has proposed increasing taxes on an already-struggling population and has warned that he is not afraid to make even more unpopular decisions.
One such example is that teachers in the U.K. will now be trained to be “anti-racists,” which is racists. Their guidance is now to challenge “whiteness” in their lessons, according to The Telegraph. Is whiteness a part of that rot that the Prime Minister hates so much?
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Larry the Cat is trending because the cat that lives in and around the British Prime Minister’s office at 10 Downing Street is said to be about to die and the government is planning to announce the cat’s passing.
Harrison Burton is trending because he won the NASCAR Cup Series in Daytona this weekend.