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Friday, January 31, 2020
The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #883
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.
Thursday, January 30, 2020
MINISTRY OF TRUTH: Elizabeth Warren Wants to Criminalize Online Speech Under the Banner of “Disinformation”
2020 Democrat hopeful Elizabeth Warren released a plan on Wednesday, January 29, 2020 to fight “disinformation” and hold tech companies liable for their actions.
She cited the 2016 election, when disinformation campaigns allegedly took place on social media, as the main reason behind revealing this plan. “Disinformation and online foreign interference erode our democracy, and Donald Trump has invited both,” Warren tweeted on Wednesday. “Anyone who seeks to challenge and defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 election must be fully prepared to take this on – and I’ve got a plan to do it.”
Disinformation and online foreign interference erode our democracy, and Donald Trump has invited both. Anyone who seeks to challenge and defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 election must be fully prepared to take this on—and I've got a plan to do it. elizabethwarren.com/plans/fighting…
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Warren’s proposal on fighting disinformation consists of holding big tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google responsible for disseminating misinformation with the aim of suppressing voter turnout.
“I will push for new laws that impose tough civil and criminal penalties for knowingly disseminating this kind of information, which has the explicit purpose of undermining the...
Trump's USMCA is not just biggest deal ever—it's an international game changer
The deal is an unequivocal win for America and will help Canada and Mexico over the long run
As a candidate, Donald Trump called NAFTA the “worst trade deal ever” and vowed its replacement. On Wednesday, he fulfilled that promise, signing the new USMCA trade pact covering North America.
The deal is Trump’s biggest yet—in fact the biggest in history. It covers $1.4 trillion in annual U.S. trade volume—nearly twice as much as the recent deal with China. And most important, it covers nearly four times as much in U.S. exports: some $663 billion in exported goods and services, which will grow as a result of the deal.
Trump’s achievement won overwhelming support from Republicans and Democrats in an otherwise divided Congress.
The deal is an unequivocal win for America and will help Canada and Mexico over the long run. It puts an end to unfair Canadian tariffs that amounted to nearly 300 percent in some cases, thus creating a level playing field for American farmers and ranchers.
It requires Mexico to increase wages for automotive and related manufacturing jobs which removes incentives for exporting U.S. jobs and sneaking around environmental standards.
By limiting the ability of foreigners to circumvent U.S. courts in resolving disputes, the pact restores fairness and the U.S. sovereignty that was lost under NAFTA.
For disputes between governments, it creates a resolution mechanism separate from the failed World Trade Organization.
USMCA also creates a new standard for protecting intellectual property and digital trade, which is likely to be included in other trade deals. That means fairness for high-growth industries in which America leads...
‘Floating protection systems’ against illegal immigrants
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| Migrants crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos, January 2016. Wikipedia |
Greece has announced further measures to keep illegal immigrants away from its own coasts. The Ministry of Defense wants to make it more difficult for migrants with “floating protection systems” to get ashore.
ATHENS: On Wednesday, according to a report by the AFP news agency, the ministry published a tender for the installation of appropriate countermeasures to be used in an emergency against illegal migrants heading to Greece with boats. Specifically, it is about the use of “barriers or networks” with a length of three kilometers each.
According to the Greek authorities, these should protrude half a meter from the water and be provided with flashing lights. The total cost is therefore around half a million euros.
There had recently been mass protests against the flood of asylum seekers in the Greek islands. According to the Ministry of Civil Protection, 7 200 asylum seekers currently live among 6 500 locals in Samos. There are currently around 42 000 immigrants on the islands of Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Kos and Leros.
Last autumn , Greece tightened its asylum policy under the new conservative government. Among other things, Athens has been sending 30 rejected asylum seekers back to Turkey every day since the beginning of...
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