Thursday, February 15, 2024

Wow

UN incompetence or corruption, what's the difference.

UNRWA supplied electricity to Hamas tunnel under UN Gaza headquarters

Certainly not all in the UN hierarchy knew of connection, but some sure as heck did.  This is consistent with the generally anti-Israeli position of the United Nations.

Biden & Amazon Suppressed Book Sales

My guess is that not much pressure was necessary, it is, after all, the end of the pool that Bezos swims in. 

Biden Regime Pressured Amazon to Suppress Books It Didn’t Like

Copied direct from the article:

Signal reports that the Biden team saw no apparent difference between targeting books on Amazon and any other forms of social media censorship that it was pushing.   

Andrew Slavitt, then a senior adviser on Biden’s COVID-19 response team, had previously asked, “Who can we talk to about the high levels of propaganda and misinformation and disinformation [on] Amazon?”

And by “talk to”, they meant get rid of.

The resulting compromise instead settled for shadow banning the books.

In this discussion, a staffer noted that “we did enable Do Not Promote for anti-vax books whose primary purpose is to persuade readers vaccines are unsafe or ineffective on 3/9, and will review additional handling options for these books with you, [redacted], and [redacted] on 3/19.” 

That March 9 decision to change Amazon’s algorithm to avoid promoting “anti-vax books” appears to have happened after the meeting with White House staff.

Who were the people names that were redacted?  

Another example of the left secretly doing what they accuse the right of being guilty of.  In Florida, DeSantis is pilloried for keeping adult content out of elementary schools, accused of being a book burner, all the while no such restrictions are applied to the adult marketplace. Conversely the Biden administration sneaks surreptitiously affecting the book market to diminish the sales of countering opinions. 

Both, in a way are restricting speech.  One legally and in keeping with indecency decisions, the other dishonest as hell.

Saturday, February 10, 2024

Citizens Should Be Citizens First

But they are not.
Politicians suck up to whatever group carries the most votes.
Dearborn Mayor Claims Exposing Hamas Support is ‘Islamophobic’
In this case the mayor of Dearborn might actually support the murderous xbastards, he might just be kissing the ass of the people who support the murderous bastards.  
In the end, what's the difference?
Politicians still suck, and there are a lot at folks out here that have really fucked up attitudes.  
It is ironic that a president characterized citizens on the right as "bitterly clinging to their guns and religion", but when citizens on the left support the start of a war because religious alignment, they receive emotional support.