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In a recent piece on Amazon’s “Day One” blog, Amazon details some of the “[n]ew ways Alexa makes life simpler and more convenient” and “your home smarter and safer” all the while keeping your “family and friends connected, and bring[ing] your favorite entertainment to you, wherever you are.”
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The document also stated the Resource Management Plan Amendment (RMPA) was “prepared with input from interested agencies, organizations, and individuals,” and the public’s voice was a vital part of the decision-making process regarding any environmental concerns.
However, Clare Lakewood, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, criticized the Trump administration on Friday for its decision to open the public lands.
“This reckless move is the toxic convergence of Trump’s climate denial, loyalty to the oil industry and grudge against California,” she claimed.
“Turning over these spectacular wild places to dirty drilling and fracking will sicken Californians, harm endangered species and fuel climate chaos. We’ll fight tooth and nail to make sure it doesn’t happen.”
Reports said that during the Obama administration, environmentalists successfully blocked any efforts to open up new land for drilling.
However, Serena Baker, the agency’s regional office spokeswoman, said the decision is on track with President Trump’s agenda for increased development of fossil fuel resources and job creation.
“This plan supports the administration’s priority of promoting environmentally responsible energy development,” Baker concluded.
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BBC News reports that the Wikipedia page for Taiwan has become the grounds of an edit war between China and Taiwan, with China insisting that the area is a “province in the People’s Republic of China” while Taiwan claims that it is “a state in East Asia.” The edits have been made and changed repeatedly on the page, causing many digital devices such as iPhones to give conflicting answers as to whether or not the state of Taiwan existed.
Jamie Lin, a board member of Wikimedia Taiwan, stated: “This year is a very crazy year, a lot of Taiwanese Wikipedians have been attacked.” Many other Wikipedia pages have seen mass edit attempts in recent months, such as the page for the Hong Kong protests which has seen as many as 65 edits in the space of one day. The edits mainly related to whether those involved were “protesters” or “rioters.”
On the Mandarin version of Wikipedia, the article on the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre was edited to describe the event as “the June 4th incident” to “quell the counter-revolutionary riots.” The Dalai Lama is referred to as a Tibetan refugee on the English version while the Mandarin version calls him a Chinese exile.
Lin commented: “It’s control by the [Chinese] Government. That’s very terrible.” An investigation by BBC Click found almost 1600 edits across 22 politically sensitive articles designed to promote a controversial viewpoint or opinion. Jie Ding, an official from the China International Publishing Group, an organisation controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, argued in a paper that “there is a lack of systematic ordering and maintenance of contents about China’s major political discourse on Wikipedia.”
Ding’s paper urges the importance for Chinese citizens to “reflect our voices and opinions in the entry, so as to objectively and truly reflect the influence of Chinese path and Chinese thoughts on other countries and history.” Lokman Tsui, an assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, told BBC Click: “‘Telling China’s story’ is a concept that has gained huge traction over the past couple of years. They think that a lot of the perceptions people have of China abroad are really misunderstandings.”
Tsui told BBC Click: “It’s absolutely conceivable that people from the diaspora, patriotic Chinese, are editing these Wikipedia entries. But to say that is to ignore the larger structural coordinated strategy the government has to manipulate these platforms.”
Shirley Ze Yu, a visiting senior fellow at the LSE, commented on China’s mass edits of Wikipedia pages stating: “China is the second-largest economy in the world and is doing what any other country in this status would seek. Today China does owe the world a China story told by itself and from a Chinese perspective. I think it’s not only Chinese privilege, it’s really a responsibility”.
Wikipedia content moderators have often found themselves caught up in these political crossfires, with Lin stating: “Some have told us that their personal information has been sprayed [released], because they have different thoughts.” Some Taiwanese Wikipedians have also received threats as a result of their edits, one on the Wikimedia telegram Channel stated: “the policemen will enjoy your mother’s forensic report.”
Silicon Valley tech firms have regularly relied on Wikipedia to provide information to devices, often resulting in issues for the firms. In June of 2018, Google blamed “vandalism” at Wikipedia for inaccurate search results which claimed that the California GOP promoted Nazism.
Read more at BBC Click here.
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There will be NO EXCEPTIONS!
Brigitte Gabriel and Michelle Malkin
As reported yesterday…
The far left will not stop until ALL opposing voices are silenced and all of their political enemies are ruined.
Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, Freedom to assembly are under constant assault.
This past weekend Mar-a-Lago cancelled Michelle Malkin’s speech at the annual ACT for America banquet.
ACT for America, is a pro-American group who’s mission is to educate, engage, train, and mobilize citizens to ensure the safety and security of Americans against all threats foreign and domestic while preserving civil liberties guaranteed by the US Constitution.
ACT for America scheduled its annual banquet this year at Mar-a-Lago in November.
But that was before the SPLC and ADL caught wind of this.
The two radical groups pushed Mar-a-Lago to cancel the event.
Michelle Malkin: Mindless dissemination of false & defamatory labels must end, & I will do everything in my power to stop it–just as many of my friends & allies suing SPLC & CAIR have. I am a lover, not a hater, of my country.
— and apparently, not even Mar A Lago is a safe space. Here’s the real problem: The @splcenter & @CAIRNational seek to silence & eliminate political opponents by redefining criticism of their agenda & tactics as "hate." /2
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) October 7, 2019
Mindless dissemination of false & defamatory labels must end, & I will do everything in my power to stop it–just as many of my friends & allies suing SPLC & CAIR have. I am a lover, not a hater, of my country. /4
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) October 7, 2019
Guess where I’m NOT banned? Sacramento TOMORROW NIGHT AM1380 event at William Jessup University. See you there! ==> #openbordersinc @Regnery https://t.co/tOOMT69k2u
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) October 7, 2019
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On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear a case in which one side wants to usurp the role of Congress by redefining the word “sex” in federal law to mean “gender identity.” In R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Harris Funeral Homes, a fifth-generation family business serving grieving families in the Detroit area for over 100 years, is being targeted because an employee hired in 2007 as a funeral director who agreed to follow the company’s sex-specific dress code told the owner six years later that he would start presenting himself as a woman and dressing like one when dealing with grieving families.
The owner, Tom Rost, told the employee, Anthony Stephens, that he could not agree with Stephens’ plans, as that would mean Stephens would be sharing the women’s restroom with women from grieving families as well as one 80-year-old woman working at the funeral home. That triggered the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to sue Rost.
As The Alliance Defending Freedom, which is representing Rost and his wife, writes:
In 2016, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled in favor of Harris Funeral Homes. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit reversed, ruling that the federal government can force Rost and his business to allow a male funeral director who identifies as female to violate the business’s professional dress code—a dress code that is in accord with industry standard and federal law—by dressing as a woman when working with grieving families. This came six years after the employee agreed to follow the dress code at the time of hire.
The 6th Circuit’s decision redefined “sex” in Title VII to conflict with the word’s well-understood meaning when the law was enacted in 1964. Title VII is a federal law intended to ensure equal opportunities in employment, regardless of a person’s race, color, religion, national origin, or sex. Under the 6th Circuit’s ruling, employers cannot maintain sex-specific policies, including policies for overnight facilities, showers, restrooms, locker rooms, and employee dress.
Although the federal government now agrees with the funeral home, the American Civil Liberties Union is arguing on behalf of the former employee that the Supreme Court should rewrite the law.
ADF noted, “The EEOC’s own compliance manual says that a ‘dress code may require male employees to wear neckties at all times and female employees to wear skirts or dresses at all times.’”
ADF Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch, who served as Michigan’s solicitor general from 2011-13, stated, “Americans should be able to rely on what the law says. Redefining ‘sex’ to mean ‘gender identity’ creates chaos, is unfair to women and girls, and puts employers in difficult situations. Title VII and other civil rights laws, like Title IX, are in place to protect equal opportunities for women; changing ‘sex’ to mean ‘gender identity’ undermines that.”
ADF noted that changing sex discrimination to mean discrimination based on gender identity “undermines equal opportunities for women. Men identifying as women will take women’s places on athletics teams and the award podium, as recently happened at the Connecticut girls’ high school track finals where Selina Soule, Alanna Smith, and other female athletes were denied fair opportunity to compete. It jeopardizes bodily privacy rights of women by forcing organizations to open women’s shelters, locker rooms, restrooms, and showers to men who say they are women. For example, in Alaska, an Anchorage commission tried to force a women’s shelter to allow a man who identifies as female to sleep three feet from women who have been raped, trafficked, and abused.”
For a list of friend-of-the-court briefs supporting ADF and the Rosts, see here.
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“The endless and ridiculous wars are ENDING!” Trump wrote on Twitter. “We will be focused on the big picture, knowing we can always go back & BLAST!”
The president announced Monday that he will withdraw troops from Syria, allowing Turkey to fill the void left by the destruction of the Islamic State (ISIS).
Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley criticized the decision, as did Republican Sens. Mitt Romney and Lindsey Graham. They lamented that Trump was abandoning Kurdish allies who helped the United States destroy ISIS.
But Trump said he had a political mandate to withdraw.
“I was elected on getting out of these ridiculous endless wars, where our great Military functions as a policing operation to the benefit of people who don’t even like the USA,” Trump said.
Trump explained that Russia and China celebrated the ongoing American involvement in the Middle East, which sapped the strength of the United States.
“The two most unhappy countries at this move are Russia & China because they love seeing us bogged down, watching over a quagmire, & spending big dollars to do so,” Trump wrote. “When I took over, our Military was totally depleted. Now it is stronger than ever before.”
Trump said he would monitor the Turkish actions in Syria and punish them economically if they crossed American interests.
“As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off-limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!),” he said.
The president stated that it was up to Europe to handle the ISIS prisoners, which was part of the deal with Turkey.
“The U.S. has done far more than anyone could have ever expected, including the capture of 100% of the ISIS Caliphate,” he wrote. “It is time now for others in the region, some of great wealth, to protect their own territory.”
….down, watching over a quagmire, & spending big dollars to do so. When I took over, our Military was totally depleted. Now it is stronger than ever before. The endless and ridiculous wars are ENDING! We will be focused on the big picture, knowing we can always go back & BLAST!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 7, 2019
As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!). They must, with Europe and others, watch over…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 7, 2019
….the captured ISIS fighters and families. The U.S. has done far more than anyone could have ever expected, including the capture of 100% of the ISIS Caliphate. It is time now for others in the region, some of great wealth, to protect their own territory. THE USA IS GREAT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 7, 2019
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Here’s a novel question: We are all struggling with a cumbersome and expensive health care industry, trying to find ways to fix a broken system for Americans. Why on earth would we invite the rest of the world to access our system for free?
That was essentially the question pro-sovereignty figures in the Trump administration asked before they pushed for the new rule announced Friday to bar admission of those immigrants who show up at our hospitals without insurance or any way to pay out of pocket.
Section 212(a)(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) states that an individual seeking admission to the United States or seeking to adjust his status to permanent resident (obtaining a green card) is inadmissible if the individual “at the time of application for admission or adjustment of status, is likely at any time to become a public charge.” There is no greater public charge than someone coming here specifically to access our hospitals for immediate or long-term medical care without a means of paying for it. Either way, our doctors will always treat a patient seeking help, but the American taxpayer is stuck with the tab.
Therefore, the president issued a proclamation ordering that effective November 30, most immigrants seeking entry must be “covered by approved health insurance … within 30 days” of entry, or “possess … the financial resources to pay for reasonably foreseeable medical costs.” The criteria for what constitutes coverage are very loose. The applicant can hold any catastrophic plan or show the ability to pay out of pockets. This is not like an Obamacare mandate on immigrants; it’s simply to say that taxpayers must not be saddled with a substantial bill.
The order is yet another way of simply enforcing existing public charge laws that were supported by both parties throughout our history. It will not affect those who were already granted immigrant visas, only those seeking them after the effective date. It also exempts children of U.S. citizens seeking entry, children under 18 coming here alone, or parents of immigrants who are sponsored.
Of course, according to the Left, everything is about race. “While Trump wants to use health care as a weapon to advance a racist and xenophobic agenda, we are going to guarantee health care to all and we’re going to win,” whined Bernie Sanders in a tweet Saturday morning.
Now, almost every Democrat candidate supports taxpayer-subsidized health care and insurance for illegal aliens too. As conservative health care expert Chris Jacobs observed, just last generation, none other than Hillary Clinton opposed offering free health care coverage to illegal aliens because “we do not want to do anything to encourage more illegal immigration into this country.” She noted in her testimony before Congress in 1993 that “too many people come in for medical care, as it is. We certainly don’t want them having the same benefits that American citizens are entitled to have.”
This sentiment was expressed in the text of the welfare reform legislation of 1996, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 (PRWOA), which was signed into law by her husband: “It is a compelling government interest to remove the incentive for illegal immigration provided by the availability of public benefits.”
The Trump administration would be wise to disseminate the clip of Hillary widely and expand the health care proclamation to the most obvious culprits: illegal immigrants. While this order targets those seeking free health care through the visa system, why should those who crash our border we any better off?
Yet over the past year, thousands upon thousands have come to our border for the express purpose of seeking health care. The American people have the right to know how much is being spent on health care for illegal aliens at our border. Agents have taken 21,000 sick or injured illegal aliens to the hospital from January through July, consuming 250,000 agent man-hours. What is the tab of that, and who is paying for it?
Using a formula from Steven Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), it’s estimated that the lifetime cost of just this year’s flow of illegal immigrants could easily top $150 billion. But the health care costs are often immediate. Many of the illegal aliens who flooded the border came for expensive long-term medical treatments, not just triage for dehydration resulting from the perilous journey north.
In August, Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow for CIS, visited the border and was told by agents that many are coming for long-term treatments. “What they told me is that probably half to two-thirds of everyone that they apprehend those families, family units are going to the emergency room, into the hospital, are getting full treatment, from cardiovascular assessments, MRIs, and X-rays,” reported Bensman on my podcast at the time.
Ultimately, taxpayers are covering this through DHS’ budget with funds that should be used for homeland security and protecting Americans from all those who infiltrate and never get caught. I’ve also heard from border agents that, upon interviewing illegal aliens at the border, they found more of them coming for health care, especially pregnant women, but also those seeking long-term care for ailments such as AIDS. Astoundingly, some illegal aliens are now suing ICE because they don’t like the quality of the medical care!
Much of this will be ameliorated through the administration’s other reforms at the border, but still, there is no reason this public charge rule on health care shouldn’t apply just as rigorously to border-crashers. This new order invokes sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the INA, which give the president full authority to suspend or regulate any immigration of any sort to any place of entry when he deems it in the national interest. I’m glad the administration has finally discovered this authority, but the president should use it more broadly at the actual land border as well.
Our legal immigration and visa system is definitely broken, but nothing matches the fiscal cost of illegal immigration.
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The liberal media are ready to redefine social media platforms as something only they can use freely. Harvard Kennedy School’s Joan Donovan and Data and Society head Danah Boyd wrote in a white paper that tech companies were responsible for a “new wave of hate groups.”
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Business Insider reports that Facebook’s newest messaging app, Threads, is designed to be used as a private messaging app only for a user’s closest friends. But, the app requests a massive amount of user data in order to operate. The app was announced on Thursday as a companion messaging app to image-sharing platform Instagram and lets you send messages and status updates only to people that have been designed as “Close Friends” on the platform.
However, Threads asks for a significant amount of data from users showing that Facebook’s desire to collect as much personal information as possible has not been deterred by its numerous privacy scandals in recent months. Business Insider found that Facebook’s new Threads app requests:
If given access, Threads can collect a large amount of personal data that could be used to form an in-depth profile of users. It is unclear if such information could be used to inform Facebook’s ad-targeting system. Facebook has attempted to rebrand itself as a “privacy-focused” firm following its many data scandals such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal which left 80 million of the platform users’ personal data vulnerable.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently defended the company’s plans to encrypt its messaging services, making it so that the company would not have access to user’s chat logs. But now, the United States, Britain, and Australia have signed an open letter requesting that the firm suspend these plans as it could have a negative effect on the fight against child exploitation and terrorism.
Speaking on a livestream during the company’s weekly internal Q&A session, Zuckerberg announced he was aware this could be an issue and acknowledged that encryption would reduce the number of tools available to fight the problem. Zuckerberg stated: “When we were deciding whether to go to end-to-end encryption across the different apps, this was one of the things that just weighed the most heavily on me.”
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently defended the company’s plans to encrypt its messaging services, making it so that the company would not have access to user’s chat logs. But now, the United States, Britain, and Australia have signed an open letter requesting that the firm suspend these plans as it could have a negative effect on the fight against child exploitation and terrorism.
Speaking on a livestream during the company’s weekly internal Q&A session, Zuckerberg announced he was aware this could be an issue and acknowledged that encryption would reduce the number of tools available to fight the problem. Zuckerberg stated: “When we were deciding whether to go to end-to-end encryption across the different apps, this was one of the things that just weighed the most heavily on me.”
Users that want to try Facebook’s new Threads app without providing that much information to the firm can do so, but it will undermine of the apps key features called “auto-status” which automatically tells friends what you’re up to by detecting movement and activity. The app will state “at the gym” when it detects a user is working out or ” at the beach” when a user is located close to the ocean.
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The most recent USDA data shows that 2,543,924 households stopped receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits— the program in charge of food stamps— between the end of Trump’s first full month in office and July 2019.
As of July 2019, the most current data available, 18,393,979 households and 36,285,397 individuals have participated in the nation’s food stamp program.
But USDA officials said those numbers are “preliminary” due to the 2018 government shutdown, which affected food stamp administration at the beginning of 2019.
Although the numbers are preliminary, individuals and households on food stamps had consistently declined since 2013 under the Obama administration when enrollment reached its peak in U.S. history.
After 2013, SNAP enrollment plunged once state legislatures passed laws requiring food stamp recipients to work, attend school, volunteer, or participate in job training for at least 20 hours per week to receive benefits.
The downward trend has continued under Trump and reached historic lows throughout his presidency.
Breitbart News reported in July the number of individuals partaking in the nation’s food stamp program reached its lowest enrollment for the first time in ten years— and two years within former President Barack Obama’s first term in office, with 35,993,281 individuals taking part in SNAP.
Trump has signified he wants food stamp enrollment to go down even more, telling Breitbart News in a March Oval Office interview that he does not want immigrants coming to the U.S. to be dependent on food stamps.
“I don’t want to have anyone coming in that’s on welfare,” Trump told Breitbart News in March.
The Trump administration has started to make good on Trump’s promise to reduce food stamp enrollment, recently releasing several policies that would close loopholes for those taking advantage of the nation’s food stamp program.
The USDA issued a proposal in July that would close a “loophole” allowing 3.1 million people who already receive benefits from a non-cash welfare program to receive food stamps through SNAP.
The Trump administration also released a “public charge rule” in August which would deny green cards to immigrants or make it harder for them to obtain them if they have a history of using welfare benefits such as food stamps. The final version of the rule is set to go into effect on October 15, according to the federal register.
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