Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #8
Thursday, August 26, 2021
Heritage Foundation Rejects Six-Figure Donations from Google, Facebook
The Heritage Foundation, one of the oldest and most prominent conservative think tanks in Washington, made the decision to turn down donations from Big Tech moguls like Google and Facebook because of their recent censorship of conservatives.
Foundation president Kay C. James sent letters to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai explaining that the foundation could “not in good conscience accept money” from companies that actively seek to silence conservative voices.
But, these weren’t just any donations.
Heritage turned down a whopping $225,000 donation from Google and even returned a $150,000 donation from Facebook in October 2020. Notably, however, these pale in comparison to the much larger donations previously made: $1.55 million from Google and $275,000 from Facebook.
James reiterated to the Big Tech giants that her organization is assisting Congress to revise antitrust laws, which protect companies from liability for content published on their platforms, according to the Epoch Times.
“Heritage is in the midst of reviewing these proposals, and the last thing we need is for anyone to think that our conclusions have in any way been influenced by a relatively small donation from your company.”
In her letter to Zuckerberg, James cited some recent incidents of censorship.
“The Heritage Foundation has all too often fallen victim to Facebook’s double standard. Referrals to our Daily Signal news site, for example, have plunged from 600,000 sessions in July to a mere 105,000 so far in Oct.,” she wrote.
To Google’s CEO, she wrote that the company has too often censored the foundation’s videos.
“Most recently, you added a prominent label to our election integrity video that was clearly meant to cast doubt on the credibility of our well-sourced claims about the risks of voting by mail,” she said. “You’ve in effect handed discriminatory authority to a group that is biased against our views on election fraud.
Similarly, Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), who has been critical of Big Tech in recent months, decided to stop accepting donations from Big Tech companies as well.
“As the lead republican on the antitrust subcommittee working to hold Big Tech accountable for their anti-competitive and monopolistic behavior, I cannot continue to accept campaign donations from Facebook, Google or Amazon,” Buck said in a statement to Fox News.
He added that starting Thursday, he will “no longer accept any money from these companies.”In a tweet, he commended the Heritage Foundation for taking action:
You Don’t Need To Go To Kabul To See The End Of American Order. It’s Right Here Among Us
In many of our major cities, gangs of masked thugs and criminals do what they please -- and our far-better-armed police aren't allowed to stop it.
The nation’s attention these past two weeks has focused nearly exclusively on Kabul, and rightly so given that the city has become the scene of the largest hostage situation in American history and a vivid image of the decline of Pax Americana abroad.
But Americans don’t need to travel 7,500 miles to get a first-hand glimpse of the end of American order. In many of our own country’s major cities, gangs of masked thugs and criminals do what they please — and our far-better-armed police aren’t allowed to stop them and protect the rest of us.
Take one August Sunday in Portland, Oregon, where two days ago political gangs roamed freely, beating people, including women, and even opening fire downtown. Meanwhile the police, who have been threatened with government action if they intervene, were nowhere to be seen.
The breakdown of law and order was crafted in the offices of politicians, and its results are as immediate as they are sickening: A beautiful port city is now a frequent host to pitched battles between masked and helmeted left- and right-wing mobs spanning across city blocks; paintballs, pepper spray, fireworks, and beatings in broad daylight; and while innocent civilians flee the violence under a cloudy gray sky, the only sounds audible are of rioting — with nary a police siren in the distance.
It’s long not been safe to be a reporter in Portland: Just Sunday, Antifa targeted independent journalist and photographer Maranie Staab. “You f-cking endangered people by flying to f-cking Colombia and endangering everyone by opening them up to COVID, you little slut,” one masked and armored man screamed at Staab, referring to her June reporting on violence in South America.
Minutes later, Antifa members pepper-sprayed her, knocked her to the ground, and reportedly broke her phone and damaged her camera, yelling, “How many times do we have to f-cking tell you?”
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REVEALED: Oregon Democrat Governor Kate Brown Has Long-Standing Ties To Chinese Communist Influence Groups.
Oregon Governor Kate Brown has participated in events sponsored by Chinese Communist Party propaganda groups flagged by the U.S. State Department for “directly and malignly influenc[ing]” American officials, The National Pulse can reveal.
The unearthed Chinese Communist Party links follow Oregon Democrats calling for the cancellation of an upcoming event featuring The National Pulse’s Raheem Kassam and Natalie Winters due to the site’s promotion of “China-centric conspiracy theories” and “toxic beliefs.”
The Oregon Democratic Party is attempting to ban China-focused news reporters while one of the party’s most high-profile members – Governor Kate Brown – recently established links with one of the regime’s chief influence groups abroad.
Brown, in fact, has a long history of collaboration with groups tied to Beijing’s United Front Work Department.
Propaganda 101.
China’s billion-dollar “United Front” effort aims to “to co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party” and “influence foreign governments to take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing’s preferred policies,” according to the federal U.S.-China Security and Economic Review Commission. United Front groups such as the China United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF) have used tactics including free trips to China to garner “favorable coverage” from mainstream media outlets according to Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) filings.
Scarcely a “China-centric conspiracy theory” as the Oregon Democratic Party insist.
Brown also has deep ties to the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), dubbed the “public face” of the United Front and “avowedly an arm of the party-state.” The U.S. State Department has even described the CPAFFC as seeking to “directly and malignly influence” U.S. state and local leaders.
Brown attended the group’s 2015 China-U.S.Governors Forum, an event the State Department has singled out for its subversive influence on U.S. politics:
“CPAFFC’s actions have undermined the Governors Forum’s original well-intentioned purpose.”As the CPAFFC recounts, Brown emphasized that “Oregon hopes to enhance cooperation with China” at the event, which counted Chinese Communist Pary leader Xi Jinping as its top speaker. Following the forum, Brown was one of six governors to ink a deal with Beijing to collaborate on...
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Taliban Opens Chain Of U.S. Army Surplus Stores
KABUL—Now that Allah has seen fit to bless the Taliban with bountiful weapons and equipment from the U.S. Military, terrorists around Afghanistan have built an already thriving chain of U.S. Army Surplus stores.
"We need weapons to kill and subjugate the Afghan people under Sharia Law, but there's just too much gear here!" said local Taliban leader Bob Muhammed. "There's, like, billions of dollars and 20 years worth of weaponry around here, and now I can build a thriving business out of selling my wares to other terrorist folk who happen to pass through! Allah be praised!"
Although the merchandise will not be available to the general public (for obvious reasons), Muhammed's Army Surplus will feature a full selection of deadly weaponry, ammunition, combat boots, MREs, helmets, hashish, and whatever else a soldier of Allah may need.
If successful, Bob Muhammed hopes to open more stores in Iraq and Syria.
The U.S. Government has taken note as new store locations open up for future drone pilot...
American Teens Trapped by Taliban Soldiers Have 48 Hours to Escape Before Biden Abandons Them: Report
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| These are not the High School Students that the Biden Administration has abandoned. |
According to numerous reports from right- and left-leaning news sources, the Biden administration is pulling all troops out of Afghanistan in roughly 48 hours.
Any Americans left behind may have to fend for themselves.
And, as of now, those left behind reportedly include a group of roughly two dozen high school students from the Cajon Valley Union School District in El Cajon, California.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the 24 students and 16 parents accompanying them are among the thousands of individuals left in Afghanistan.
President Joe Biden’s hasty, reckless troop withdrawal has left thousands of Americans stranded in the country and unable to enter the Kabul airport thanks to various Taliban blockades surrounding the area.
These very blockades are preventing families from escaping the country, according to the Times’ report.
Cajon Valley School Board President Tamara Otero said many families from her district have tickets to fly home but are “not able to get to the airport.”
“The biggest concern is that the Taliban closed the airport,” Otero said, according to the Times. “We are so worried about our students that are stuck there. We’ll do the best we can to get them out.”
While other countries — such as France and the U.K. — are sending in special forces troops to rescue their own citizens trapped outside the airport, the Biden administration has chosen to negotiate with the Taliban, apparently to no avail.
Terrorists are allegedly blocking American high school students from leaving Afghanistan and our commander-in-chief isn’t...
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