90 Miles From Tyranny

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Google Censors Emails Critical of Red China’s Concentration Camps. NBA Prohibits Protest

"Several attendees reported that their personal emails to friends were getting blocked, based on their political content."

At a recent gathering of conservative academics and intellectuals, the Philadelphia Society, I heard from multiple people some deeply disturbing news. The censorship of electronic media has gone beyond social media platforms. Several attendees reported that their personal emails to friends were getting blocked, based on their political content. It sounded crazy to me. I couldn’t imagine how any company could justify that.

It doesn’t sound crazy anymore. Google’s Gmail tried to prevent this Stream story you’re reading right now from ever existing.
Was it the FBI? The NBA? Or Just Straight-Up Red China?

I was planning to interview Stream contributor Jason Jones about a recent piece of human rights trolling he engaged in, with exiled Uyghur Prime Minister Salih Hudayar. So I emailed them both the questions. But Jason’s answers didn’t come back to me. So I phoned him. He reported that his email server had been rejecting all his messages on certain subjects, and refusing to send out the photos appearing with this column.

Was it just a bug? No, it was a feature, his service informed him:

What Was Google So Scared Of?

Doesn’t that act of blatant censorship of legal, peaceful free speech make you wonder what Google was trying to silence? It’s the interview below:

Dancing days are here again

As the autumn evenings slow

I got my flower, I got my power

I got a woman who knows

Yeah, I'm a back door man

I'm a back door man

The men don't know

But the little girl understand

Hey, all you people that tryin' to sleep

I'm out to make it with my midnight creep, yeah

'Cause I'm a back door man

4 Facts to Know About Democrat Election Lawyer Marc Elias

Lawyer Marc Elias has in some ways been the Democrats’ Forrest Gump of election controversies, showing up in the most high profile election cases of the past two decades.

Elias’ involvement spans the improbable Senate victory of comedian Al Franken in 2008 to litigation both before and after the 2020 election.

The lawyer’s reputation may have been the reason a spokesperson for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe suggested the campaign “try to kill” a Fox News story that the campaign paid $53,000 to hire Elias, said Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation.

“I would suspect the reason they wanted to kill the story is that Marc Elias’ clients are often candidates that lost elections, and no candidate wants to give the impression they are worried about losing,” von Spakovsky told The Daily Signal.

McAuliffe, a Democrat who was Virginia governor from 2014 to 2018, faces Republican Glenn Youngkin on Tuesday in seeking the position again.

Here are four things to know about Elias, 52, and his role as a top election lawyer for Democrats.

1. Flipping Elections, or Trying to Do So

Elias helped turn a few Democrats who appeared to have lost on election night into winners.

He was not part of the legal fight over Florida’s electoral votes in the disputed...

Foreign News Media Laughs at Joe Biden: He 'Needs a Retirement Home and a Warm Bowl of Soup'

As President Joe Biden continues to make public blunders nearly every time he speaks, the United States is losing respect on the world stage. In order to see this happen in real time, you just need to turn on a foreign news channel.

Last week on Sky News Australia, Rita Panahi was hosting “The Friday Showdown.” On the show, she jokingly dubbed one of her segments “What in God’s name is Joe Biden trying to say?”

Panahi went on to show two videos of bizarre blunders that occurred just last week.

First, Biden said during a speech about infrastructure that a computer spoke to him.

Later in the week, Biden slurred his words to the point they were indiscernible while speaking at a campaign event for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe.

After showing the clips, Panahi gave her own take on Biden, and she did not pull any punches.

“This man needs a retirement home and a warm bowl of soup, not access to the nuclear codes,” she said. “When he’s not making a fool of himself misreading auto-cues, Biden is making utterly incomprehensible decisions that further weaken the...

Quercetin has been in the news lately, particularly as one of many potential therapeutics that might have some benefit in the prevention or treatment of COVID infection. Is there anything to this?

Big media and the medical establishment are quick to pounce on any “unapproved” potential therapeutics that haven’t gone through large prospective randomized clinical trials and don’t have the seal of FDA approval. Even FDA approval is not enough if the medications are being used off-label as in the case of hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin. Decades ago, both were deemed safe and effective by the FDA and approved for human use, although not for COVID or similar viral infections as COVID didn’t even exist when the FDA approved these medications.

Today there is a peculiar hostility toward these medications, both of which are on the list of the World Health Organization’s essential medicines. A Fox News host told viewers that hydroxychloroquine “will kill you” and the FDA told its Twitter followers that ivermectin is for horses and cows and to stop using it. This must have been shocking news to millions around the world who take these medications, some for many years, in the U.S. prescribed by a physician, and elsewhere in the world readily available over the counter.

I am not advocating for or against these drugs, instead referring interested readers to other sources of information on the science and potential benefits of these medications in our fight against COVID. Quercetin appears to be the third in this line of potential therapeutics, not yet being called horse paste, but if history is a guide, it may soon be maligned as dog and cat medicine, the same of which can be said for many drugs taken by humans but also used in animals.

What is quercetin? It’s described as “a pigment” which may lead CNN or Fox News to equate its use to drinking paint. Technically it is a flavonoid, “a group of plant metabolites thought to provide health benefits through cell signaling pathways and antioxidant effects. These molecules are found in a variety of fruits and vegetables.”

These compounds have several health benefits including reducing the risk of heart disease, cancer, and degenerative brain disorders through anti-inflammatory effects as a free radical scavenger. While present in fruits, vegetables, and green tea, it is also available as a non-prescription supplement in capsule or powder form.

Quercetin, like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin are zinc ionophores, facilitating the entry of zinc into cells where it interferes with viral replication, potentially suppressing...