Sunday, January 2, 2022
House of Representatives Votes to Eradicate Blasphemy Against Islam
The House of Representatives has passed a bill that seeks to eradicate blasphemy against Islam. The bill, H.R. 5665, is truly remarkable as it amounts to Congress making a law respecting the establishment of Islam and reducing the United States government into a tool of the world’s ayatollahs.
The actual text of the bill not only seeks to eradicate blasphemy against Islam around the world – and solely against Islam at that – but even requires the federal government to reorganize some portions of the State Department along the lines of an Islamic religious institution which will be responsible for interpreting the Quran. For example, the text of the bill mandates that “[t]he Secretary of State shall establish within the Department of State an Office” and the “purpose” of the office is described as “[m]onitoring and combating acts of Islamophobia and Islamophobic incitement that occur in foreign countries.” That is, the State Department is required to create an office that is a cross between George Orwell’s Big Brother and the Taliban.
The word ‘combat’ in the text of the law is problematic but fits in perfectly with the concept of waging violent jihad against the countries deemed to have committed blasphemy against Islam. Almost every dictionary defines the word primarily as an action pertaining to war. While the internet firm Google’s dictionary defines 'combat’ as “fighting between armed forces,” Cambridge Dictionary defines the word as “a fight, especially during a war.” According to Collins Dictionary, “combat is fighting that takes place in a war.” This is no hyperbole as the State Department has a long history of supporting Islamic terrorists such as Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and ISIS. Former Assistant Secretary of State, Robin Raphel, ran her office as though it were an outpost of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and she lost her security clearance when she was investigated for counterintelligence activities. Little wonder then that Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House, used the term “Rogue State Department” and President Donald Trump described the State Department as the “Deep State Department.”
The blasphemy law further requires the newly created office to be headed by a person appointed by the “President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate” and the person to be responsible for the “assessment and description of the nature and extent of acts of Islamophobia and Islamophobic incitement” and for determining if any utterances constitute “instances of propaganda” or “promote racial hatred or incite acts of violence against Muslim people.” Since the word ‘Islamophobia’ is not defined in the text of the legislation and words such as ‘hatred’ and ‘propaganda’ are subjective, the head of the newly created office will be ultimately responsible for interpreting the Quran and issuing legal opinions on whether statements made around the world amount to hatred or anti-Islamic propaganda under such interpretation.
In Islam, the person who interprets the Quran and issues legal opinions or edicts in the manner described by the new law is the Grand Mufti, and the opinions and edicts themselves are known as fatwas. Many of us are old enough to recall one of the most spine-chilling and famous fatwas issued by Ayatollah Khomeini against the author Salman Rushdie for committing blasphemy against Islam by writing his book, The Satanic Verses. Just as in the case of Ayatollah Khomeini, the Grand Mufti of the State Department too will have unlimited powers without any checks and balances, and neither the authority of the Mufti nor any fatwa issued by him can ever be challenged in a court of law. This is because the State Department’s opinions will be part of an annual report that is mandated by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 which “prohibits judicial review” of “agency actions taken under this Act.”
That kind of unlimited power might appear unconstitutional just as the blasphemy law along with its requirement that the State Department police the world and provide Halal certificates for free speech may appear unconstitutional, but those objections would not matter to dishonest judges. The courts most likely would rule that anyone who has filed a lawsuit challenging this law lacks standing as the law applies only to those outside the country and the person filing the lawsuit has not faced any injury. Therefore, even if the entire federal government were transformed into one big Islamic outfit with the sole purpose of using American resources to propagate Islam, American citizens can do nothing about it.
The entire purpose of the law, then, is to use the resources of the US government to arm-twist every other country into becoming a Sharia-compliant state. Ironically, the State Department would be responsible for squelching the freedom of expression in other countries and then publishing reports that complain about the lack of freedom of expression in...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Permanently Suspended from Twitter Over COVID 'Misinformation'
Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor has been issued a permanent suspension from Twitter over her "repeated violations" of the platform's COVID-19 misinformation policy, the company announced Sunday.
"We permanently suspended the account you referenced (@mtgreenee) for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy. We’ve been clear that, per our strike system for this policy, we will permanently suspend accounts for repeated violations of the policy," a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement.
The ban only applies to Greene's personal account. As of Sunday afternoon, her congressional Twitter account is still active.
In a statement published to Telegram, Greene claimed that the social media giant "can't handle the truth."
"Twitter is an enemy to America and can’t handle the truth," she said. "That’s fine, I’ll show America we don’t need them and it’s time to defeat our enemies."
Greene has been suspended from Twitter on a number of different occasions for violating the platform's COVID-19 misinformation policy.
In July, she was suspended from Twitter for 12 hours over two tweets claiming that the coronavirus was not dangerous for people under 65 years of age.
And in August, Greene received a week-long suspension for alleging that the vaccines did not aid in mitigating the spread of COVID. She said that "these vaccines are failing and do not reduce the spread of the virus & neither do masks."
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The eight biggest economic stories of 2021
From “meme stocks" and a ship wedged in the Suez Canal to spiraling inflation, economic news dominated much of 2021.
The year was also marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, which touched nearly every aspect of society as it spread and mutated. While 2020 will likely go down in the history books as the year the virus shut everything down and scientists scrambled to produce vaccines, 2021 will likely be remembered for all of the pandemic’s downstream effects.
Inflation
One of the most serious downstream effects of the coronavirus has been that of inflation. Consumer prices accelerated to 6.8% for the year ending November, the fastest pace of inflation in 39 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed this month.
The report for November marked the fourth consecutive month of the inflation rate increasing and was met by concern, even among those who have consistently claimed that inflation was merely a temporary phenomenon. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell recently conceded that it was time to retire the phrase “transitory,” which for months became ubiquitous with the central bank’s stance on the higher prices.
Economists are divided about what is the main driving force behind the higher costs, which is thought to be a mix of pandemic-related problems, such as pent-up demand clashing with labor shortages and supply chain disruptions, and federal policies, including the Fed keeping interest rates near zero and trillions in federal stimulus spending.
Supply chain problems
Tied closely to inflationary pressure is the situation with the country's, and the world’s, frayed supply chains. Images from the West Coast in 2021 showed dozens of massive cargo ships laden with goods and waiting idly to be unloaded as backlogs grew worse . Port officials blamed a lack of truckers, truckers blamed slow offloading at the ports, and still others blamed President Joe Biden.
Workers have been tough to come by for many industries across the country. The lack of labor directly affected the supply chain situation in 2021 as the need to offload and transport goods outstripped businesses' capabilities.
In order to help try to loosen the snarls, Biden announced that the Port of Los Angeles, mired in delays and backlogs, would begin operating on a 24/7 basis . Several companies, such as FedEx and UPS, also announced they would scale up operations in the lead-up to the holiday season. The administration hopes that supply chains will begin to return to normal sometime next year, although that fate is unknown, given uncertainty surrounding new strains of COVID-19, such as the omicron variant that recently emerged.
The Great Resignation
The labor shortages behind the supply chain problems have been blamed by some economists on the “ Great Resignation .” Workers, many feeling burned out and tired after months of working during the pandemic, have begun reevaluating what they want out of life and are changing jobs.
The Department of Labor recently found that the number of people quitting their jobs is the third highest on record, with some 4.2 million workers quitting in October, down from a record of 4.4 million the month before.
It’s a workers’ job market as employers struggle to hold on to and hire new employees. Many employers have been forced to boost wages and benefits and offer unique incentives such as signing bonuses in order to stay competitive. In addition to wages, an overwhelming number of workers that adjusted to remote work want to stay that way, something that has transformed the U.S. employment landscape, perhaps permanently.
Bitcoin hits new records
As many people became habituated to working from home in 2021, their investment habits also shifted. Cryptocurrencies exploded in popularity this year, with many new investors using their government-issued stimulus checks to play around in the markets.
Bitcoin, the flagship cryptocurrency, bounded from less than $30,000 at the end of December 2020 to nearly $65,000 months later in April. After retreating from its summit over news of Chinese regulation, Bitcoin once again rallied to a fresh record high of $69,000 in November as some investors considered it as a form of inflation hedge. It also became more mainstream with large firms taking interest and the country of El Salvador even adopting it as legal tender .
Bitcoin wasn’t alone in its meteoric rise. Ethereum and other major digital assets also saw massive growth in 2021 and minor “meme” coins such as Dogecoin, which was hawked by Tesla founder Elon Musk, springing from obscurity at $0.004 last December to $0.74 earlier in the year.
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Crypto ‘cloud wars’ have a winner, and it’s not Bitcoin Last year brought many surprises to the cryptocurrency market, including a new leader
The 2021 performance of all three major cryptocurrency media darlings – Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and Shiba Inu – was overshadowed by Ether, which surged over 400% this year.
While the others were grabbing headlines, Ether was securing market attention, it seems. As of Friday, December 31, it was up 410%, according to Coinbase data, trading around $3,730 per coin. While it is much less than Bitcoin, it is still far ahead of any other cryptocurrency on the market, including Twitter favorites Shiba Inu and Dogecoin.
Though still the globe’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, Bitcoin in comparison added only 60% this year to date, swinging back and forth throughout the year from near $30,000 per coin low in mid-summer to a new record high of almost $69,000 in November. It finished the year in the green, but below the anticipated $50,000 benchmark.
Although some analysts claim Ether’s native blockchain – Ethereum – has become too expensive in terms of transaction fees, others believe it has a bright future, especially after the platform rolled out its fee-improving ETH 2.0 upgrade in August.
According to Kevin Owocki, co-founder of Gitcoin, Ethereum aspires to become a “blockchain of blockchains,” which could mean more good news for Ether in the coming year.
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‘What a joke’: Cruz blasts CNN claim that media ‘isn’t lying,’ says mistakes ‘skew 100% in one direction’
CNN is facing fierce criticism from the public, in addition to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, for having invited a guest on air to claim that the establishment press doesn’t routinely lie to the American people.
The guest was Mara Schiavocampo, a so-called journalist with a history of complaining about “white woman syndrome” and dismissing Hamas’ sometimes deadly rockets attacks on Israel. She appeared last Sunday on purported media critic Brian Stelter’s weekend program, “Reliable Sources.”
As part of the show’s “media mailbag” segment, Schiavocampo was asked why the media screws up so often. She responded by attributing these incessant slip-ups to honest mistakes and claimed it’s a “misconception” to believe the media are purposefully being deceitful or outright lying.
“So the single biggest misconception is that we are lying. There is a lot of media mistrust. I hear this all the time. And here’s what I would love to correct about that misperception. We are human. We make mistakes. So most often when someone says to me the media is lying and they point to an example, what they’re pointing to is an example of a mistake, not an intentional lie,” she said.
“We do not have malicious intent. Most journalists, by and large, take great pride in getting things right. And it’s tremendously shameful to make a mistake, and [we] own up to it very quickly. So if you do see a mistake, it’s generally the result of human error. You’re moving too fast, bad sources, too many cooks in the kitchen. You know, you’re playing a game with telephone.”
Yet nobody at CNN nor virtually any other establishment outlet has displayed an iota of shame over their extremely flawed reporting on Nick Sandman and Kyle Rittenhouse. The reporting on Sandmann was so bad and defamatory that he managed to compel several establishment networks, including CNN, into accepting court settlements.
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