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Thursday, September 13, 2018
‘Insidious’: John Kerry reportedly engaging in ‘rogue diplomacy’ with Iran, urging them to wait out Trump
Former Secretary of State John Kerry has been meeting secretly with Iranian officials without President Donald Trump’s permission for what some have termed “rogue diplomacy.”
NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 27: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at the United Nations April 27, 2015, in New York City. The two were meeting at the opening of a UN conference on a global anti-nuclear weapons treaty, attempting to make progress in talks on a long-term nuclear deal. (Photo by Jason DeCrow-Pool/Getty Images)
This “rogue diplomacy” has reportedly centered on the disastrous nuclear deal implemented by former President Barack Obama in 2015 that the current president withdrew America from earlier this year.
What remains unclear is what exactly Kerry has been telling the Iranians. According to intelligence officials who spoke with Fox News host Dana Perino, the former secretary of state has been telling them to wait out the Trump presidency.
When asked by Perino during an interview Wednesday whether this allegation holds merit, Kerry declined to offer a direct answer, instead saying, “Everybody in the world is sitting around talking about waiting out President Trump.”
What does it mean though to wait out the president? The belief by some, including conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh and Fox News contributor Ari Fleischer, is that Kerry has essentially been urging the Iranians to not work with Trump to iron out a real nuclear pact, the point being that it’d be beneficial to the mullahs in Iran if they’d wait for a Democrat to retake the White House.
“John Kerry … has been talking to the Iranians and has been telling them to hold the line, to wait out Donald Trump and his administration,” Limbaugh said Wednesday afternoon on his radio show. “Meaning: Any deal that you make with Trump is gonna be bad for you, the...
THE GOOGLE TAPE: Google Executives Applauded Employee’s Rant About ‘White Privilege’
The video is a full recording of Google’s first all-hands meeting following the 2016 election, featuring CEO Sundar Pichai, co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and several other Google executives. It can be watched in full below.
“Speaking to white men, there’s an opportunity right now to understand your privilege in this society. Take the opportunity to go through the bias-busting training, read about privilege, read about the real history of oppression in this country.”
The employee told his colleagues to “discuss the issues you are passionate about during Thanksgiving dinner and don’t back down and laugh it off when you hear the voice of oppression speak through metaphors, and...
The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #378
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Are the Terms "Illegal Alien" and "Criminal Alien" Hate Speech?
Twitter Ads censors Center's content
Washington, D.C. (September 12, 2018)
Yesterday, Twitter rejected four Center for Immigration Studies tweets for use in the Center's Twitter Ads campaign, alleging hateful content. (Several others were approved.) All four tweets use the statutory phrases "illegal alien" or "criminal alien", and all of the tweets referenced law enforcement, either at the border or in the interior. One of the tweets contained a powerful Daily Caller video showing illegal aliens in camouflage carrying large backpacks across the border unimpeded.
Twitter's only response to an inquiry about why promotion of the tweets was rejected: "We've reviewed your tweets and confirmed that it is ineligible to participate in the Twitter Ads program at this time based on our Hateful Content policy. Violating content includes, but is not limited to, that which is hate speech or advocacy against a protected group."
Organizations of all kinds pay Twitter to promote specific tweets in order to drive traffic to an organization's website. Twitter advertises that the ads "can get you more likes, amplify your message, and get more people talking about the things that matter to you most - your cause, project, business, or brand." This is exactly why the Center selected these specific tweets to be placed as ads.
At a July congressional hearing on social media filtering practices, House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte said that social media platforms need to “do a better job explaining how they make decisions to filter content and the rationale for why they do so."
We agree.
You judge: Do these tweets illustrate "hateful content", or is Twitter filtering content with a political bias?
Twitter's only response to an inquiry about why promotion of the tweets was rejected: "We've reviewed your tweets and confirmed that it is ineligible to participate in the Twitter Ads program at this time based on our Hateful Content policy. Violating content includes, but is not limited to, that which is hate speech or advocacy against a protected group."
Organizations of all kinds pay Twitter to promote specific tweets in order to drive traffic to an organization's website. Twitter advertises that the ads "can get you more likes, amplify your message, and get more people talking about the things that matter to you most - your cause, project, business, or brand." This is exactly why the Center selected these specific tweets to be placed as ads.
At a July congressional hearing on social media filtering practices, House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte said that social media platforms need to “do a better job explaining how they make decisions to filter content and the rationale for why they do so."
We agree.
You judge: Do these tweets illustrate "hateful content", or is Twitter filtering content with a political bias?
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