Torpedo the Traitorous America Competes Act

Our overlords in the Beltway Swamp depend on you not paying attention. COVID-19 was a weapon of mass distraction for the past two years. Ukraine is the new shiny toy.

Put down their bread. Take your eyes off their circuses. Pay attention.

In the bought-off halls of Congress right now, Senate and House collaborators are preparing to send legislation to President Joe Biden that will open the floodgates to more foreign tech workers, wealthy foreign investors and foreign students — while our own homegrown American tech workforce, American business owners and American STEM graduates are still reeling from pandemic disruptions and displacements. The Senate passed the $250 billion U.S. Innovation and Competition Act last June. The House passed a similar measure, the $350 billion America Competes Act, last month. Biden wielded his State of the Union address to push for reconciliation of the two bills so he can commence another massive giveaway to foreign and domestic special interests.

The just-approved House bill would create a new visa category on top of the dozens of alphabet-soup visas already in existence. According to the open-borders, big business-backed American Action Forum, the “W” visa program will benefit three groups of foreign nationals: “W-1, entrepreneurs with ownership interest in a start-up; W-2, essential employees of a start-up; and W-3, W-1 and W-2 holders’ spouses and children.” Based on dubious “job creation” criteria similar to the fraud-riddled EB-5 investor visa program, if the foreigners’ startups are “successful,” the W visa holders could soon join the already overwhelming annual tide of 1 million green card winners who take up jobs in the U.S. and are then eligible for citizenship.

Only in the Swamp can a bill handing out citizenship for sale to the highest bidders be marketed as a way to help America “compete.”

Then there’s the poison pill for Americans studying in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM). The House bill would lift the cap on immigrant visas for foreign nationals and their entire immediate families if they have doctoral degrees in STEM fields. Silicon Valley lobbyists will claim (as they have disingenuously argued for the past three decades) that there is a catastrophic shortage of high-skilled, high-tech labor.

Here are the facts, straight from the U.S. government: “Among the 50 million employed college graduates ages 25 to 64 in 2019, 37% reported a bachelor’s degree in science or engineering but only 14% worked in a STEM occupation,” according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2019 American Community Survey one-year estimates. “This translates into less than a third (28%) of STEM-educated workers actually working in a STEM job.”

I repeat again and again and again in the face of the America Last lies: There is no American tech worker shortage.

Other provisions of the House bill would grant amnesty and work permits to illegal aliens and refugees from Hong Kong, and “special immigrant visas” to 5,000 “high-skilled” Hong Kong residents for up to five fiscal years for a total of 25,000 new green card holders flooding the American tech workforce.

Only in the Swamp can legislation that busts open the cheap foreign labor pipeline and undermines native American STEM graduates be sold as a vehicle for increasing American...

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1619 Project founder complains that study proving liberal intolerance is being used to 'bolster claims of liberal intolerance'

"The problem [of] this survey is how it’s being used to bolster claims of liberal intolerance," Hannah-Jones opined.

Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times questioned the data brought forward by the free speech group FIRE because it validates the concerns about self-censorship that white people have, in addition to minorities.


"But the problem this survey is how it's being used to bolster claims of liberal intolerance," Hannah-Jones claims.

To decode what Hannah-Jones is trying to say: she seems to believe white people and minorities can’t both have this problem mutually. To her it’s one or the other.

The reality of what the fire blog post points out is that students in the "white," "black," "hispanic," and "Asian" blocs experience LESS feelings of self-censorship from their multiracial and American Indian counterparts.
FIRE's analysis of the data reads: "According to the survey, one in five [b]lack students report self-censoring 'fairly' or 'very' often, as do almost one in give Hispanic (18%) and Asian (17%) students. These percentages are higher for multiracial students (22%), American Indian students (25%), and students who identified their race/ethnicity as 'Something else' (32%). when it came to sexuality, students identifying as heterosexual/straight or as 'something else' self-censored most often."...

Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #286

 

Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #285

It's Time To Kill This Big Fat Biden Lie Once And For All...

If Google, Facebook, Twitter, and the rest of the Big Tech bullies insist on stopping “misinformation,” why aren’t they censoring President Joe Biden for his repeated flagrant lie about the economy? You know, the one where he claims we were in a state of crisis when he came into office, from which he and his $2 trillion “American Rescue Plan” saved us.

Biden says it over and over again. Here’s a sampling over the past year:

“We’ve turned the tide on a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. And families are beginning to be able to breathe just a little bit easier.”

“Look, when we came to office, we knew we were facing a once-in-a-century pandemic and a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.”
“When I was sworn in as president, the nation was struggling to pull out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.”

In his State of the Union, Biden claimed that his “American Rescue Plan” was one of the “few pieces of legislation” to have “done more at a critical moment in our history to lift us out of a crisis.”

This is a lie. A big fat lie. A big fat Biden-sized lie.

If President Donald Trump were to repeatedly claim a phony economic crisis, the media would preface each statement with “Trump’s false claim that …” – if they were feeling generous. Instead, they give Biden a pass.

So, even though we have said it in this space many times before, it’s time to spell it out as plainly as we can:

The country was not in an economic crisis, or a crisis of any kind, when Biden took office.

It is a crisis now, however, thanks to what Biden has done since taking office.

Here are the facts.

On the day Biden signed his “American Rescue Plan” into law, the COVID-lockdown recession had been over for more than a year.

The National Bureau of Economic Research, which is the official scorekeeper of downturns and recoveries, says that the 2020 recession lasted all of – wait for it – eight weeks. It was, in fact, the shortest recession in modern history. It started in February 2020 and was over by April 2020.

The recession was also completely avoidable since it was caused by the catastrophically ill-informed and wrongheaded decision by governments, enacted in a panic and with no empirical support, to force the economy into a lockdown to “flatten the curve” on COVID outbreaks. We know that, based on scientific studies done since, these lockdowns were worse than doing nothing.

As university researchers who did a “meta analysis” of studies on the effectiveness of lockdowns concluded, “Lockdowns have had little to no public health effects,” adding that “they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.”

This once-in-a-generation mistake threw the then-booming economy into a tailspin, tossed millions out of work, and sparked trillions in deficit-financed spending to spare the country a worse fate.

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But once cooler heads prevailed and businesses reopened, the economy rebounded much faster than the experts had expected. The consensus view on jobs, for example, was that unemployment would still be around 10% by the end of 2020. It dropped to 6.7% by November and was falling fast. The jobless rate would have come down faster still if Democrats hadn’t insisted on ridiculously large unemployment “bonuses” as part of Trump’s COVID bills, which kept millions out of the labor market.

Meanwhile, GDP growth in the third quarter of 2020 was a jaw-dropping 33.8%, followed by a 4.5% gain in Q4. At the start of 2021, the typically pessimistic Congressional Budget Office forecast real GDP growth for the year would be close to 5%, which would have been the biggest annual gain since 1999. That was assuming nothing Biden proposed was enacted.

And in the month Biden took office, the GDP had recovered all the ground it had lost from the COVID recession, according to the monthly figures by Macroeconomic Advisors. It was $21.92 trillion in February 2020, plunged to $18.5 trillion by April 2020, and topped $22 trillion by January 2021. (See the nearby chart.)

To call this situation a crisis is a lie. A blatant lie. A big fat blatant lie. A big fat blatant Biden lie.

So why does Biden do it? And why doesn’t the army of media fact-checkers and the self-appointed Big Tech misinformation police call him on...

Government of Canada confirms Fully Vaccinated account for 7 in every 10 Covid-19 Deaths over past month despite accounting for just 5 in every 10 Cases

The Government of Canada has confirmed that triple and double vaccinated Canadians are responsible for the vast majority of Covid-19 hospitalisations and deaths to have occurred in the latest wave of the virus to rip through the country, calling into question the validity of the Draconian restrictions that have been placed on the unvaccinated population.

Quebec Premier Francois Legault announced in January 2021 that he planned to charge adults not vaccinated against coronavirus a “health contribution” fee. The amount to be charged was not revealed but Legault said at the time that the fee would be “significant”.

“Those who refuse to get the shot bring a financial burden to hospital staff and Quebecers,” said the Premier of Quebec.

Thankfully the Premier has since dropped the plans to unfairly tax the vaccinated, probably due to the will and determination of the truckers protest that took place in the capital Ottawa against Covid-19 injection mandates. But this gives you an idea of the mindset of the leaders in the country, and what unvaccinated Candians are unjustly having to go through.

But there could be another reason why the Premier decided to drop the plans to fine the public for not submitting to an experimental injection, and that could be, as hard as it is to believe, that he actually looked at the official data and realised it’s the fully vaccinated population who are the biggest financial burden to hospital staff and Canadians in general. Because that’s precisely what official Government of Canada data shows.

The Government of Canada publish a daily COVID-19 epidemiology update, and the daily report contains data on Covid-19 cases, hospitalisations and deaths by vaccination status which instead of being updated daily, seem to be updated as and when the Government of Canada pleases.

It appears they haven’t wished to publish an update on these specific figures for a while now because the most recent data only covers up to 13th Feb 22. (see figure 5, number)...

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The 90 Miles Mystery Video: Nyctophilia Edition #954

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The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #1654

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.

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