Month: January 2021

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Parler CEO John Matze told Reuters on Wednesday that the social networking site may never come back online, due to extensive blacklisting by tech companies. Parler has been shut down since early morning on Monday after Amazon Web Services terminated their hosting agreement with the company.

Users of Parler were encouraged on Tuesday when the company announced that it had signed up for hosting with Epik; however, a subsequently-released statement from Epik indicated that Epik had not actually agreed to host the platform, and seemed to indicate that Parler had simply signed up for domain registration services like any other company is allowed to do.

When asked by Reuters on Wednesday when users might expect the site to return to operation, Matze responded, "It could be never. We don’t know yet."

"It’s hard to keep track of how many people are telling us that we can no longer do business with them," Matze continued.

Matze stated that the ideal solution would be for Parler to return to Amazon. Parler has filed suit against Amazon, and is seeking a judicial order requiring AWS to resume hosting services. Amazon has stated that the lawsuit has no merit and that it plans to aggressively contest the suit.

Beyond being removed from AWS’s hosting service and removed from the Apple and Google Play stores, Matze revealed that Parler has seen their contracts with numerous other essential providers terminated in the wake of the violent demonstrations in Washington, D.C., on January 6th. According to Matze, Parler can no longer process payments with Stripe or American Express, has had its Scylla Enterprise database taken offline, and has even had its employees and volunteers kicked off Slack, preventing them from communicating with each other.

Earlier Wednesday, Matze stated that he had also been the recipient of numerous death threats since the events of January 6th, and that many of his employees had requested time off work because of fears for their safety.

Big tech companies have cut ties with Parler over allegations that the platform did not do enough to curtail posts that encouraged or incited violence, or that enabled individuals who were plotting violent acts to coordinate their activities. Parler has stated, in its defense, that it does have policies that prohibit such posts, but that the rapid growth of the site has made it difficult for its existing staff to police.

In an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday, Matze claimed that Parler was given "no warning" of the possibility of this action; however, documents filed by Amazon in response to Parler’s lawsuit appear to show multiple communications from AWS to Parler warning them that if posts calling for violence were not removed, they faced termination of their hosting agreement. A spokesperson for Google also claimed that the company repeatedly warned Parler executives throughout 2020 that failure to moderate the platform could lead to being removed from the Google Play store.

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On January 4, Democrat members of the House of Representatives, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) adopted a new set of rules pertaining to the use of gender-neutral language, including pronouns and references to “father,” “son,” “mother” or “daughter.” The vote was strictly along party lines, 217-206. But on Wednesday, Pelosi used this language […]

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Wednesday afternoon during the second Trump impeachment vote, CNN’s The Lead and State of the Union co-host Jake Tapper lobbed a disgusting and vile attack on Republican Congressman Brian Mast (FL) for voting against impeachment, doubting whether the Army veteran and double-amputee was truly committed to upholding and defending the Constitution and American democracy.
Tapper interrupted State of the Union co-host Dana Bash as she was making a point about direct evidence the U.S. Capitol insurrectionists were taking cues from President Trump to insist: “Congressman Brian Mast, a Republican from Florida, who lost his legs, by the way, fighting for democracy abroad, although I don’t know what his — I don’t know about his commitment to it here in the United States. He said, did anybody say that? Yeah, we heard them.”
 
 
Bash replied: “Yes. The answer is yes. Yes.”
Over the years, Tapper has built a reputation as an unabashed supporter of the troops, including being a generous donor to veterans causes and having penned The Outpost (which was adapted into a movie).
As my colleague Nick Fondacaro tweeted, perhaps Tapper “has completed his transformation” into his hero Edward R. Murrow by turning on America’s finest.
Prior to that ugly attack, Tapper outlined what he viewed as “four groups of [House] Republicans” as voting began (click “expand”)
[T]here are basically four groups of Republicans. One is the seven that we know of. There might be more, who are voting to impeach, who were just so appalled that even, if you look at the list of them, they’re — some of them are quite conservative, are just absolutely appalled. Then there’s a second group of people who say he should be held accountable but do not favor impeachment for various reasons. And I think you can say these are principled Republicans. Congresswoman Mace, Congressman Roy of Texas. They have a principled reason for opposing impeachment but do understand that President Trump did what he did. Then there’s the third group which is, unfortunately for the country, most of the house Republican caucus, which is the what about caucus? They’re out there saying, well, what about this rally that got violent in Portland or what about literally one of them said there were negative hashtags about President Trump on Twitter. Literally, Congressman Moore, a freshman from Alabama said that. I couldn’t believe it. What about it? Someone actually cited Sara Sanders being turned away by a restaurant. People, there were people killed in the capitol by a terrorist assault by President Trump’s supporters. Who cares about a hash tag? 
Anyway, and then there’s the fourth group and that group is a group of one person: the House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy. The House Republican leader, who said today that Joe Biden was legitimate, that it was not the American way to say he’s not legitimate and we need to work together, as if Kevin McCarthy has not been fueling these lies, spreading these lies. It makes you wonder. He knows when he goes on Fox we can see him, right? He literally put out a tweet in November after the election, “far from over, Republicans will not back down from this battle.” Two days after the election, McCarthy said on Fox, President Trump won this election, so everyone who is listening, do not be quiet. We cannot allow this to happen before our very eyes. I’m sorry, Kevin, but we all saw you say that. You can’t pretend now that you didn’t let the genie out of the bottle. 
Bash fretted that many “fed the lies and enabled the lies of the President” for two months “that the election was stolen” and yet, no one apologized for their outlandish and unrealistic promises.
“But the other thing that I think is really, really important is the fact that we have video, and I was just watching it as they were starting this vote, of the people who were storming the Capitol saying the President told us to come here. That is happening. I mean, that is video. There’s video of this. It is just exhibit A of the reams of evidence that we have,” Bash added.
Following Tapper’s vile attack on Mast, left-wing political correspondent Abby Phillip piled on:
And yet, if you listen to Republicans today on Capitol Hill, you would think that the victim of this entire situation is the President himself. That they have created this whole myth of President Trump being constantly victimized by the system and being unfairly punished in his final seven days in office. And just completely, in many cases, ignoring the reality of what actually happened last week, which is completely different from anything that this country has seen in decades, perhaps even hundreds of years. There is a sense, I think, you know, among Republicans, the vast majority of Republicans. I think we should be clear about this. So far, we have seven Republicans who said they will vote on this. We’re watching that number tick up.
Of course, Tapper refused to apologize or even acknowledge his appalling attack that, if it were uttered about a liberal military veteran on Fox News, he would be calling for that person’s swift firing and shaming. 
At 4:19 p.m. Eastern, Tapper lectured Republicans (such as the supposedly traitorous Mast) for not having displayed “basic decency” and “integrity” that House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY).
However, Tapper did offer an apology on-air and on Twitter during his hour-plus of impeachment coverage, but it was for mispronouncing the last name of Congressman Peter Meijer (R-MI).
Just take note, NewsBusters readers. Tapper thought it was more important to apologize for mispronouncing someone’s last name than to a legless Army veteran for questioning whether he believes in defending our constitutional republic.
Due to the live, rolling coverage of the impeachment vote, there were no commercial breaks. But to learn more about the MRC’s Conservatives Fight Back page, go here.
To see the relevant MSNBC transcript from January 13, click “expand.”
CNN’s The Lead
January 13, 2021
3:54 p.m. Eastern
JAKE TAPPER: Seven Republicans that we know of right now. Most senior among them, Congresswoman Liz Cheney, the daughter of the former vice president. She is the House Conference Chair, has — basically she’s third in line there in the house Republican leadership. And I have to say, Dana and Abby, listening to all these speeches, what struck me is that there are basically four groups of Republicans. One is the seven that we know of. There might be more, who are voting to impeach, who were just so appalled that even, if you look at the list of them, they’re — some of them are quite conservative, are just absolutely appalled. Then there’s a second group of people who say he should be held accountable but do not favor impeachment for various reasons. And I think you can say these are principled Republicans. Congresswoman Mace, Congressman Roy of Texas. They have a principled reason for opposing impeachment but do understand that President Trump did what he did. Then there’s the third group which is, unfortunately for the country, most of the house Republican caucus, which is the what about caucus? They’re out there saying, well, what about this rally that got violent in Portland or what about literally one of them said there were negative hashtags about President Trump on Twitter. Literally, Congressman Moore, a freshman from Alabama said that. I couldn’t believe it. What about it? Someone actually cited Sara Sanders being turned away by a restaurant. People, there were people killed in the capitol by a terrorist assault by President Trump’s supporters. Who cares about a hash tag? Anyway, and then there’s the fourth group and that group is a group of one person: the House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy. The House Republican leader, who said today that Joe Biden was legitimate, that it was not the American way to say he’s not legitimate and we need to work together, as if Kevin McCarthy has not been fueling these lies, spreading these lies. It makes you wonder. He knows when he goes on Fox we can see him, right? He literally put out a tweet in November after the election, “far from over, Republicans will not back down from this battle.” Two days after the election, McCarthy said on Fox, President Trump won this election, so everyone who is listening, do not be quiet. We cannot allow this to happen before our very eyes. I’m sorry, Kevin, but we all saw you say that. You can’t pretend now that you didn’t let the genie out of the bottle. 
DANA BASH: Yeah. I mean, the thing that was missing from every one of those categories that you just laid out there is something that is really basic, which is those who did say that the election was stolen, those who propagated that, those who fed the lies and enabled the lies of the president. I’m sorry, I made a mistake and —
TAPPER: Not one of them. 
BASH:  — we heard that from nobody. Nobody. And that’s, frankly, that’s reprehensible, especially given the fact that they all know better. I — it’s impossible —
TAPPER: I don’t know that that’s true. 
BASH: It’s impossible for me to believe —
TAPPER: Do you think the QAnon caucus knows better? 
BASH: — yeah, they do. I think they know the reality. I think they know the truth. I think that they, in their heart of hearts, understand that when the secretaries of state in swing states like Georgia or Pennsylvania or Arizona say this election wasn’t stolen, and it was free and fair and honest, that that actually is the truth and, you know, maybe I am giving them too much credit in following logic. But just even one basic example is they’re not challenging the elections of the Republicans who won the House seats in those states. But the other thing that I think is really, really important is the fact that we have video, and I was just watching it as they were starting this vote, of the people who were storming the Capitol saying the President told us to come here. 
TAPPER [LAUGHING]: Right. 
BASH: That is happening. I mean, that is video. There’s video of this. It is just exhibit A of the reams of evidence that we have. There’s one other thing I wanted to share —
TAPPER: — just one other thing. That’s relevant — What you’re saying is relevant because Congressman Brian Mast, a Republican from Florida, who lost his legs, by the way, fighting for democracy abroad, although I don’t know what his — I don’t know about his commitment to it here in the United States. He said, did anybody say that? 
BASH: Yes.
TAPPER: Yeah, we heard them. 
                                                
BASH: The answer is yes. Yes. And, you know, anybody out there, I’ll retweet the tweet so that everybody sees the video. But also just on a more personal — first-person level, somebody at CNN, one of our colleagues was out there a week ago at the Capitol, plain clothed. A lot of people were having trouble getting cell service. This colleague of ours was looking at his phone and so they all swarmed him and what they were saying was is, what is he saying, meaning the President? Where does he want us to go? What does he want us to do? They were taking direction from the President, looking for direction from the President. And they had gotten it at that rally and, you know, two months prior to that and they were continuing to look for him and to him. And that is so telling and so chilling. 
ABBY PHILLIP: And yet, if you listen to Republicans today on capitol hill, you would think that the victim of this entire situation is the President himself. That they have created this whole myth of President Trump being constantly victimized by the system and being unfairly punished in his final seven days in office. And just completely, in many cases, ignoring the reality of what actually happened last week, which is completely different from anything that this country has seen in decades, perhaps even hundreds of years. There is a sense, I think, you know, among Republicans, the vast majority of Republicans. I think we should be clear about this. So far, we have seven Republicans who said they will vote on this. We’re watching that number tick up.
(….)
4:19 p.m. Eastern
TAPPER: She is a very conservative Republican, and she reminds us in her statement, Jamie, this isn’t about politics. This is about just plain decency and in her statement and her position, she has more integrity and courage than McCarthy, Scalise, and most of the House Republican leadership combined.

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Democrats in Congress, along with a few Republicans, have officially impeached President Trump for the second time. Throughout America’s entire nearly 250-year history, Congress had only impeached a president twice. In the span of just over a year, under one president, that number has been doubled. There are several good reasons to oppose this impeachment […]

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Putting law-abiding citizens on government lists has been and always will be a bad idea. Despite this, Spain is compiling a register of every citizen who refuses to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. That list will be shared with other European Union nations, according to BBC News. Spain’s Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, announced the…

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South Carolina Catholic Priest Jeffrey Kirby recently told his parishioners that any Catholics who voted for Joe Biden should be ashamed of themselves. “Some of you, I know, voted for someone who is now going to suffer and persecute the church for the next four years. That on top of the fact that he supports…

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China Scrubs Critical Wuhan Lab Data; Deletes 300 Studies – Including Research By ‘Batwoman’

The Chinese government has come under fresh scrutiny over accusations that officials scrubbed crucial online data about the Wuhan Institute of Virology – the controversial laboratory suspected of being the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to the Daily Mail, "hundreds of pages of information" spanning over 300 studies conducted by WIV have been wiped from a database, including some which discuss passing diseases from animals to humans – which were published online by the state-run National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and are no longer available.

The deletion of key evidence has reignited fears that China is trying to whitewash the investigation into the origins of the virus.

It comes after President Xi Jinping last week blocked investigators from the World Health Organisation entering the country in a move that drew international condemnation. Meanwhile, state media outlets have published hundreds of stories claiming that the virus did not even originate in the city of Wuhan.

As part of the NSFC’s purge of online studies, it has deleted all reference to those carried out by Shi Zhengli, the Wuhan-based virologist who has earned the nickname Batwoman for her trips to gather samples in bat caves.

Studies key to any investigation into the source of the virus, including one into the risk of cross-species infection from bats with Sars-like coronaviruses, and another looking at human pathogens carried by bats, have also disappeared. –Daily Mail

Zhengli came under fire in 2015 over her controversial ‘gain-of-function’ research creating chimeric bat viruses designed to infect humans (but suggesting that an emergent coronavirus that’s over 96% similar to a bat coronavirus could have escaped from Zhengli’s lab is a conspiracy theory).

According to former UK Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith – a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, the revelations are yet another example of a Chinese coverup.

"China is clearly trying to hide the evidence," he said, adding "It is vital that there is a thorough investigation into what happened but China seems to be doing all it can to stop that happening. We don’t know what was going on in that laboratory. It may well be the case that they played around with bat coronaviruses and made some kind of mistake. Unless China opens itself up to scrutiny, the world will assume they have something to hide."

The Mail notes that this isn’t the first time the WIV has been accused of suppressing critical evidence regarding the origins of the virus.

Days before the WHO was alerted to the outbreak of Sars-like pneumonia cases in Wuhan in December 2019, the Wuhan Institute of Virology began altering its database of viral pathogens.

The Wildlife-borne Viral Pathogen Database was unique because it included information on virus variants in other wild animals.

Among the changes, which experts believe were made to throw investigators off the scent, keywords such as ‘wildlife’ or ‘wild animals’ were deleted.

The title was changed from Wildlife-borne Viral Pathogen Database to Bat And Rodent-borne Viral Pathogen Database. The term ‘wild animal’ was replaced with ‘bat and rodent’ or ‘bat and rat’. –Daily Mail

Notably, the alteration occurred two days before a gene sequencing lab was reportedly ordered by the Health and Medical Commission of Hubei Province to destroy samples of the new disease and withhold information.

According to the report, the alterations – conducted on the evening of Dec. 30 – were substantial, and occurred the day before the CCP notified the World Health Organization about the outbreak of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan.

The primary database contact is none other than Zhengli – who was in Shanghai for a conference in late 2019 when she was summoned back to Wuhan to deal with the outbreak which had been detected in two pneumonia patients. While on the overnight train back to Wuhan, the database was altered.

"It looks like a rushed, inconsistent effort to disassociate the project from the outbreak by ­rebranding it," according to the UK intelligence analyst who discovered the alterations. "It’s a strange thing to do within hours of being informed of a novel-coronavirus outbreak."

"If the WIV had found the missing link between bat virus RaTG13 and SARS-CoV-2 [the coronavirus that causes COVID-19] from an animal vector, it would have been in Shi’s database," he added.

Purged records and destroyed samples don’t exactly instill confidence.

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Sun, 01/10/2021 – 14:45

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