Deepmind Can Predict the Molecular Future

Deepmind Can Predict the Molecular Future

Freedomist Editor December 22, 2021

DeepMind AI tackles one of chemistry’s most valuable techniques : Futurology

From www.reddit.com
2021-12-22 16:59:14
/u/soulpost
Excerpt:

A team led by scientists at the London-based artificial-intelligence company DeepMind has developed a machine-learning model that suggests a molecule’s characteristics by predicting the distribution of electrons within it. The approach, described in the 10 December issue of Science1, can calculate the properties of some molecules more accurately than existing techniques.

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US Sees 2.3 Percent Growth in Q3

Freedomist Editor December 22, 2021

U.S. economy grew at 2.3 per cent rate in Q3, up from earlier estimate

From www.cbc.ca
2021-12-22 17:12:43
The Associated Press
Excerpt:

The U.S. economy grew at a 2.3 per cent rate in the third quarter, slightly better than previously thought, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. But prospects for a solid rebound going forward are being clouded by the rapid spread of the latest variant of the coronavirus.

The third and final look at the performance of the gross domestic product, the nation’s total output of goods and services, was higher than last month’s estimate of 2.1 per cent growth.

The newfound strength came primarily from stronger consumer spending than what was previously thought, as well as businesses rebuilding their inventories more than initial estimates revealed.

The 2.3 per cent third quarter gain follows explosive growth that began the year as the country was emerging from the pandemic, at least economically. Growth soared to 6.3 per cent in the first quarter and 6.7 per cent in the second quarter. The emergence of the Delta variant in the summer was blamed for much of the third quarter…

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College to Discipline Fraternity for Daring to Hang Christmas Wreath

Freedomist Editor December 22, 2021

Emory University fraternity faces discipline for hanging Christmas wreath on door

From www.thecollegefix.com
2021-12-19 16:26:46
College Fix Staff
Excerpt:

An Emory University fraternity faces disciplinary measures after putting up a Christmas wreath on its front door.

Alpha Tau Omega received notification of its “violation” two weeks ago via an email from Assistant Director of Sorority and Fraternity Life Josh Gamse.

Gamse’s message noted the wreath was ATO’s second housing offense, and as such an “incident report” was sent to the Office of Student Conduct.

According to current Emory U. policy, “Exterior holiday decorations must not be installed or removed by students.” But ATO’s Davis Van Inwegen told Campus Reform this policy is new and that the fraternity “was not sufficiently informed” about it.

He said the first of ATO’s two “offenses” likely was the “inflatable polar bears” put up on a balcony around Thanksgiving.

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Manchin Bashes BBB and the DNC Brings Pitchforks to Meet Him

Freedomist Editor December 20, 2021

Joe Manchin’s decision to fell Biden’s Build Back Better Plan has led the MSM into war mode as they seek to assist the DNC in making Manchin pay for his treason to the party, which, to the DNC, is everything. Here is how the MSM on the left and the right are reporting on the news that Manchin is nixing the BBB as well as the stories now following Manchin since he made this announcement. White House issues blistering statement after Manchin, on Fox, says he’s a ‘no’ on BBB From www.dailykos.com 2021-12-20 14:02:21 Hunter Excerpt:

In a move that has the Biden White House coming very, very close to labeling him a liar, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin appeared on Fox News today to give what appeared to be a final shooting-down of Joe Biden’s ambitious domestic agenda, known as “Build Back Better.” “I’ve tried everything humanly possible. I can’t get there. This is a no,” Manchin told Fox.
Manchin’s new stance appears to have taken the White House by complete surprise. They quickly released a scathing statement calling Manchin out. “Senator Manchin’s comments this morning on FOX are at odds with his discussions this week with the President, with White House staff, and with his own public utterances,” writes Press Secretary Jen Psaki. “Weeks ago, Senator Manchin committed to the President, at his home in Wilmington, to support the Build Back Better framework that the President then subsequently announced. Senator Manchin pledged…

Read Full Article Manchin Takes Dead Aim at Biden’s Agenda From freebeacon.com 2021-12-20 10:00:27 Washington Free Beacon Editors Excerpt:

There’s an old Appalachian Christmas tradition in which children throw their wish lists into a fireplace in hopes fairies will bring the embers to Santa Claus. President Joe Biden may want to consider giving it a try after Senator Joe Manchin’s Sunday morning announcement that he’s gifting the White House a lump of West Virginia coal for Christmas: a “no” vote on the multitrillion-dollar “Build Back Better” plan. Not a year into his presidency, Biden’s domestic agenda is dead.

Manchin told Fox News, where he broke the news, that he “tried everything humanly possible” to get to “yes” on the legislation, but Biden wouldn’t take his eminently reasonable advice to spend less money at a time of skyrocketing inflation. The White House released an obnoxious, and obnoxiously long, statement shortly after Manchin’s Fox appearance, accusing him of reneging on his word. Such a temper tantrum is not what one expects with the self-proclaimed adults in charge.

Read Full Article Peevish Pelosi Vows ‘Build Back Better’ 2.0 After Manchin Sticks Fork in Socialist Monstrosity – RedState From redstate.com 2021-12-20 10:45:25 Excerpt:

Now that Joe Manchin has put the final nail in the coffin of the Democrats’ utopian scam, laughably misnomered “Build Back Better,” and the worst hissy fits have been hissed, Nancy Pelosi vowed late Sunday evening to revive the stinking carcass, slap some lipstick on it, and give it another shot. ASAP.

Once Manchin got infrastructure passed Build Back Better was doomed, even if Pelosi couldn’t admit it. https://t.co/xJy494n4D4
— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) December 19, 2021
“Dose of optimism”? No. Not even close. Act of desperation. Pelosi, while a peevish bitter wench, is not stupid. Far from it. She is fully aware that the Biden presidency is not only on the line; it is on life support.

Nancy Pelosi Provides A Dose Of Optimism On Build Back Better https://t.co/v80AWjvAK2 pic.twitter.com/VSVdtwPkHG
— 🌊 R Saddler (@Politics_PR) December 20, 2021
In a statement provided to PolticusUSA, the ever-peevish Pelosi once again lied her head off about BBB, spewing…

Read Full Article Scarborough: Angry Democrats Pushing Manchin Into Arms of GOP From www.newsbusters.org 2021-12-20 09:52:00 Mark Finkelstein Excerpt:

Go ahead, Jen Psaki. Put out a furious, Biden-approved statement, accusing Joe Manchin of failing to “honor his prior commitments,” of breaking his “promise,” of—not to put too fine a point on it—lying. Bernie Sanders: enjoy your moment of accusing Manchin of not having the “guts” to stand up to powerful special interests. And Ilhan Omar, bask in the rosy glow of calling Manchin’s reasons for opposing Build Back Better “bull—-.” The three of you, and the other Democrats who are lashing out at Manchin, see how you enjoy life with Mitch McConnell back in the Senate Majority-Leader saddle. That was Joe Scarborough’s warning to Democrats on Monday’s Morning Joe:
“I’m sure they were angry, I’m sure they felt betrayed. I’m sure they’re completely exasperated with trying to nail him down…I was taken by those attacks, and attacks by other Democrats, which seem to invite Joe Manchin to become a Republican.”
Scarborough cited the example of “Jumpin” Jim…

Read Full Article STUDY: Four Times the Nets BURIED Unhinged Leftists Bullying Manchin (and Sinema) From www.newsbusters.org 2021-12-20 10:00:00 Scott Whitlock Excerpt:

Joe Manchin on Sunday likely doomed Joe Biden’s massive $2 trillion spending plan and the media reaction was predictably hyperbolic. There were audible gasps on ABC when the news that he would vote no broke. The New York Times on Monday’s front page accused him of “deserting” the President. Incendiary talk by liberal journalists has been amplified by real-world bullying of Manchin and his fellow moderate Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. So the question must be asked: Do journalists care about the safety of Manchin and Sinema? For the last few months, the two centrists have endured an escalating series of incidents in which leftist protesters follow them, yell in bathrooms, and show up at their homes. What has the response from ABC, CBS and NBC been? They’ve mostly buried the abuse. From October through November, MRC analysts looked at coverage (or lack of coverage) of bullying against Manchin and Sinema. Here’s what we found.

Read Full Article Schumer Explicitly Points To Manchin As Cause Of ‘Frustration’ From talkingpointsmemo.com 2021-12-20 14:58:34 Kate Riga Excerpt:

In a new letter to Senate colleagues, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) fingered Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) as a cause of “deep discontent and frustration” but promised to at least force senators to vote on the record for both reconciliation and voting rights. “This session has also led to moments of deep discontent and frustration,” he wrote. “That frustration was evident in the past week as nearly all of us were disappointed by the decision to delay floor consideration of the Build Back Better Act because Senator Manchin could not come to an agreement with the president.” “However, neither that delay, nor other recent pronouncements, will deter us from continuing to try to find a way forward,” he added. In a Sunday interview that rocked the political world, Manchin appeared on Fox News to announce his opposition to the current version of the reconciliation bill. Manchin cited his usual smorgasbord of factors that have…

Read Full Article Stocks sink amid virus concerns, Manchin’s blow to Build Back Better From finance.yahoo.com 2021-12-20 15:33:07 Excerpt:

Stocks fell on Monday at the start of a holiday-shortened week of trading, with investors considering renewed virus-related restrictions overseas and prospects that a significant social policy bill may be scuttled. The S&P 500, Dow Nasdaq each dropped more than 1%. Treasury yields fell as investors piled into safe haven assets, and the benchmark 10-year yield held below 1.4%. The CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, spiked more than 20% to hover above 25. U.S. crude oil prices sank 3% to trade below $69 per barrel as restrictions mounted in Europe, stoking jitters around energy demand. Countries from Germany to Ireland imposed curfews or travel restrictions in recent days given the rapidly spreading new variant. And the Netherlands over the weekend announced a nationwide lockdown of non-essential stores, bars and restaurants until Jan. 14. As of this weekend, the Omicron variant had been reported in about 89 countries, with cases doubling every 1.5 to 3 days. Renewed fears over the…

Read Full Article Manchin Praises Himself For Not Giving in to “Pressure” from Dems on BBB Plan From www.politicususa.com 2021-12-20 16:20:48 Alan Ryland Excerpt:

Senator Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) hit back at Democrats, saying they had miscalculated in their efforts to court his vote on the Build Back Better plan, a landmark social spending bill that appears to have died in the Senate since he withdrew himself from negotiations. “They figured surely to God we can move one person. We surely can badger and beat one person up. Surely we can get enough protestors to make that person uncomfortable enough that they’ll just say, ‘OK I’ll vote for anything,’” he said during a radio interview with West Virginia MetroNews’ Hoppy Kercheval. “Well, guess what? I’m from West Virginia. I’m not from where they’re from and they can just beat the living crap out of people and think they’ll be submissive, period,” Manchin added. Manchin did not blame President Joe Biden for the failed negotiations. “They know the real reason, what happened. … It’s staff-driven. I understand it’s staff. It is…

Read Full Article Joe Manchin May Become an Independent From www.breitbart.com 2021-12-20 17:45:00 Wendell Husebø Excerpt:

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) may reportedly become an independent after the Biden administration on Sunday accused the senator of disloyalty.
Following Manchin’s vocal opposition to Biden’s $1.9 trillion Build Back Better bill, the White House accused Manchin of breaching “his commitments to the President.”

The accusation may result in Manchin becoming an independent, though he would still caucus with Democrats, Axios reported. Manchin is from West Virginia, a red state that Biden lost in 2020 by nearly 40 points. “I’m from West Virginia,” he said Monday. “I’m not from where they’re [Democrats] from, and they can just beat the living crap out of people and think they’ll be submissive, period.”
For months Joe Biden tried to work out a deal with Manchin to enact the spending package in the 50/50 split Senate. Manchin maintained throughout the negotiations he opposed major provisions in the package. In October, leaks indicated Manchin wanted to leave…

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Suspected Islamist Terrorist Captured at US-Mexico Border

Freedomist Editor December 20, 2021

Saudi Arabian ‘potential terrorist’ nabbed at US-Mexico border; Ties to ‘Yemeni subjects of interest, feds say

From www.foxnews.com
2021-12-20 15:54:05
Bill Melugin
Excerpt:

A “potential terrorist” with links to a number of “Yemeni subjects of interest” was captured in Arizona late last week after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. Border Patrol officials announced Monday.

The 21-year-old man was apprehended Thursday night entering the U.S. from Mexico through Yuma, Arizona, according to a tweet from Yuma Sector Chief Patrol Agent Chris T. Clem. He appears to have been wearing a jacket emblazoned with an American flag patch and another that stated: “Central Oneida County Volunteer.”

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Did China Stop Rain from Falling on Their Parade?

Freedomist Editor December 10, 2021

China news: Chinese officials ‘changed WEATHER to prevent rain falling on parade | World | News

From www.express.co.uk
2021-12-06 17:11:00

Excerpt:

The celebrations were led by President Xi on July 1 at Tiananmen Square. However, to stop any rain falling on the parade, researchers at Tsinghua University found that the clouds above were laced with chemicals to reduce air pollution and guarantee clear skies.

After doing this, the rain was induced by the chemicals the night before.

The research paper said: “Results show that emergency measures played an important role in improving the air quality.

“The artificial rain on the night of June 30 bettered the air quality on July 1, but the role played by pollution reduction was primary.”

“The reason behind this phenomenon was the ‘gradual’ emergency measures, and the nearer the event drew, the stricter the measures became.”

The researchers continued: “Given that the artificial rain was the only disruptive event during the period, we can believe the sudden fall in the PM2.5 density was caused by the artificial rainfall.”

US Chief of space operations David Thompson recently…

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Metaverse Gets First City, Seoul

Freedomist Editor December 10, 2021

The first city to enter Mark Zuckerberg’s metverse is Seoul, South Korea.

Seoul becomes first major city to join the metaverse

From metro.co.uk
2021-12-06 12:39:09
Anugraha Sundaravelu
Excerpt:

Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon attends an event as an avatar in a metaverse, in a demonstration of the city’s plans (Credit: Seoul City Government)

Facebook bet big on the metaverse by changing its name to Meta and now Seoul has become the first city to buy in on the hype.

Seoul is the first local government in Korea to develop a comprehensive long-term plan for a metaverse. The city plans to establish a platform for ‘contactless communication’ by the end of 2022.

‘The fourth industrial revolution, and the explosion of the “untact” culture during corona, demand a change in the way we deliver public service by building a Metaverse Seoul platform,’ said the virtual avatar of Mayor Oh Se-hoon, during a September announcement.

The project is a part of Mayor Oh’s 10-year plan to position Seoul as a global hub for emerging technology. The metaverse project is estimated to cost nearly $34 million over five years.

The project has been tentatively named ‘Metaverse…

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How the Media Reported the End of Jack

Freedomist Editor November 30, 2021

The Big Bad Jack is dead. He committed resignation Hari Kari. Jack Dorsey is no more at Twitter, and the media would have you believe it was mostly a non-event, with little in the way of sensationalist headlines coming our way, and little controversy being offered regarding the new CEO, the current CFO and tech whiz kid turned tech whiz middle-aged guy, Parag Agrawal.

The news was trickled out at first, with headlines like this from the New York Times, teasing the resignation.

Jack Dorsey Expected to Step Down as C.E.O. of Twitter

From www.nytimes.com
2021-11-29 21:15:48

Excerpt:

In March 2020, Elliott Management struck a deal with Silver Lake, one of Silicon Valley’s biggest investors in technology companies, that allowed Mr. Dorsey to remain at Twitter. The deal also gave Jesse Cohn, the Elliott executive who oversaw the Twitter campaign, a seat on Twitter’s board. Mr. Cohn joined a five-member committee that led a review of Twitter’s C.E.O. succession planning.

Last November, that committee completed its review, saying that it had “updated the C.E.O. succession plan in line with best practices,” according to a regulatory filing, laying a path for the transition. Twitter’s stock began to climb, and in February, Mr. Dorsey announced an ambitious plan to double Twitter’s revenue by the end of 2023. The company also sped up its product pace, releasing new features like audio chat, newsletters, tipping and other updates.

Elliott’s Mr. Cohn stepped down from Twitter’s board in June.

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Seeing the writing in the wall after that evaluation, apparently, Dorsey decided a self-yeet was the best approach, so he did the appropriate, self-preserving thing and exited stage extreme far left to the point that it becomes far right.

Having left the stage, the media decides to ponder on the metaphysical ramifications of a King walking away at the height of his power.

Let us remember, this King took the reins of this machine back in 2015, after one ouster in 2008. What he brought with him was security, and safety, and safety, and security, and a safety and security team led by moon-beamed children who had little regard or care for concepts such as the rights of individuals to express their own beliefs.

Dorsey oversaw the dismantling of what Twitter became after his first ouster, after 2008, a secured place for dissidents to exchange information. Nothing highlighted this more than #greenelection, the hashtag that raged on Twitter in 2010 during the Iran Green Revolution that tragically failed. I was there for that, and Twitter was once the wonderful wild west of expression.

Dorsey saw to it that the adults were once again treated like children, and that Twitter would become nothing but a machine of DNC Inc, a subsidiary of CCP Inc, though one hoping one day to usurp its benefactor.

Now that he’s left, the tech nerd will ride in and free the weird and the offensive once again.,

Jack Dorsey goes Square—leaving Twitter at a time of his choosing

From www.economist.com
2021-11-30 00:00:00

Excerpt:

“THE COMPANY IS ready to move on from its founders,” explained Jack Dorsey, chief executive of Twitter, a distributor of short messages, as he announced on November 29th that he would step down and hand the reins to the firm’s chief technology officer, Parag Agrawal. “About time,” was the grumpy reaction of more than one stockmarket analyst, many of whom had long criticised Mr Dorsey for spreading himself too thinly by running both Twitter and Square, a fast-growing fintech company which he will continue to head. (The chairman of The Economist’s parent company is a director of Square.)

Yet the timing makes sense. Over the past several years Mr Dorsey has pushed through changes at the company that only a founder could (he launched the company with several friends in 2006, was ousted as chief executive in 2008 and took over again in 2015). Now Mr Agrawal will build on the foundations Jack built.

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Dorsey’s “Finally Time for me to Leave” became a part of many headlines reporting this story, the kind of benign phrase that sanitizes the world’s biggest nerd school hall monitor ever created. Jack Dorsey probed the digital halls looking to turn people in for school violations, even inventing many of his own to catch more people.

But what you get here is a glass of artisanal water, a noble nothing, the stoic CEO who walked away from world power.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Steps Down: ‘Finally Time For Me To Leave’ – Forbes – Video Link

From www.forbes.com
2021-11-29 18:08:00

Excerpt:

Twitter CEO and cofounder Jack Dorsey has stepped down as the chief executive, the social media platform announced Monday morning, with Dorsey saying he decided to leave because Twitter is “ready to move on from its founders.”

Video Link

Here, we can spoil the headline that follows, the reason he is resigning is because it is time for Jack to move on.

Jack Dorsey: Why is Jack Dorsey resigning as Twitter CEO? Who will replace Dorsey and what’s his net worth?

From www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com
2021-11-29 18:06:39

Excerpt:

Twitter stock spiked by 11% in value on the last 24 hours on Monday (29 November) following reports that Twitter co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) Jack Dorsey would be stepping down from his position at the company.

Dorsey has steered the company through controversies such as the platform’s decision to ban former US President Donald Trump from Twitter after the 6 January riots at the Capital and his refusal to accept his loss in the 2020 US Presidential Election.

But the former Twitter CEO confirmed reports this afternoon, announcing his immediate resignation after 15 years at the platform on Monday afternoon.

….According to Bloomberg Billionaire’s Index, Dorsey is worth roughly $12.3 billion (£9.25bn) as the co-founder of Twitter and Square, Inc…..

In Jack Dorsey’s resignation email sent to Twitter employees this afternoon, Dorsey requested that Chief Technology Officer of Parag Agrawal take over as Twitter CEO – saying his trust in Agrawal as new CEO was “bone deep”…..

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Finally we are introduced to the successor, Parag himself, the tech nerd turned world leader. Whole nations quake at the censorship decisions this man is set to decide to favor. Will he keep going DNC-cringe-woke or will he find sanity and turn back towards the Bill of Rights?

Methinks Woketarianizm will still reign on Twitter, whose very power is born from its ‘willingness’ to censor American Presidents, so no politician is safe from the power of Parag, the new leader of the unfree world (ok, so I might be laying it a tiny tad thick, but, in spirit, I am spot on, friends, spot on).

Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal will replace Jack Dorsey as CEO

From www.cnbc.com
2021-11-29 14:20:17

Excerpt:

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is stepping down as chief of the social media company, effective immediately. Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s chief technology officer, will take over the helm, the company said Monday.

Shares of Twitter closed down 2.74% on the day.

Dorsey, 45, was serving as both the CEO of Twitter and Square, his digital payments company. Dorsey will remain a member of the board until his term expires at the 2022 meeting of stockholders, the company said. Salesforce President and COO Bret Taylor will become the chairman of the board, succeeding Patrick Pichette, a former Google executive, who will remain on the board as chair of the audit committee.

“I’ve decided to leave Twitter because I believe the company is ready to move on from its founders,” Dorsey said in a statement, though he didn’t provide any additional detail on why he decided to resign.

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Dorsey says a whole lot of nothing in his departure, but Crypto folks love the news. One Crypto wiz is convinced the new tech nerd CEO, the most powerful man in the unfree world, will suddenly turn Twitter towards Bitcoin again. Methinks Twitter will one day soon produce its own crap coin to join the pile of crap coins, so Bitcoin is still not going to be welcome there.

Jack Dorsey Resigning as CEO of Twitter Is Bullish for Crypto, Says Fundstrat – News Bitcoin News

From news.bitcoin.com
2021-11-30 15:37:27

Excerpt:

Twitter now has a new chief executive officer after Jack Dorsey resigned Monday. Dorsey, who is still the CEO of Square Inc., previously said that he wants to focus on bitcoin. Fundstrat Global Advisors’ managing director and head of research explained why Dorsey’s departure from Twitter is bullish for crypto.

Jack Dorsey announced Monday that he has resigned from Twitter. In his letter to the Twitter team, the former CEO explained that it was his decision to leave. Parag Agrawal, who served as Twitter’s chief technology officer, is the new CEO. Dorsey is still the CEO of Square Inc., which is currently working on several bitcoin projects.

Tom Lee, managing partner and head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors, believes that Dorsey’s resignation from Twitter is bullish for the crypto market. In an interview with CNBC Monday, he was asked what Dorsey’s exit from Twitter means for the bitcoin and cryptocurrency…

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What you can expect from the new tech nerd lord of the unfree world is more aggressive monetization, more aggressive pursuit of corporate buying to expand Twitter’s range of products, so that one day we will choose between having all of our life’s needs met through Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, and TikTok. We’ll have Twitter Ice Cream, Twitter Cars, Amazon Pizzas, etc, etc, etc. Wait, we already have Amazon Pizzas.

Expect more expansion in monetization and acquisition, but little change in their DNC inc implementation of woketarianizm, though some tweaks might be offered to World Leaders in an effort to not encourage more states from developing their own Twitters, free from the tyranny of Parag The Tech Nerd, the Leader of the Unfree World.

Texas Swings for Roe v Wade

Freedomist Editor November 30, 2021

After Texas passed one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation, the abortion rights activists have been coming for Texas, and many of their corporate, media, and state compatriots have joined in that assault. The push is to create a climate where even questioning the morality of abortion could end up leaving you blacklisted on their social access cards.
As abortion rights activists become more and more militant, to no one’s surprise the prolife crowd is coming back more determined than ever to make abortion illegal across the land. Rather than intimidating and silencing the prolife, they’ve made them more determined than ever to end abortion once and for all.
As sure as one side is of their moral right, so too is the other of theirs, and the divide is unbreachable. The old method of settling the greys, the spaces where our Bill of Rights do not clearly define how we should approach such an exchange of potential action, through the courts, through legislation, through elections, seems to be going out the window, and the ‘left’ fired the first existential shots that made it clear to the prolife, that there could be no compromise.
You accept the full abortion program, from beginning to end. You don’t question the morality. You don’t dare support laws restricting it. If you do, you get suspended from your social access card. Your life is to scratch the dirt in the underground, a shadow of what you might be if you lived in a land that did not use violence to silence dissent.
The response is not fear, however, as the now-DNC-normal-once-radical-left is soon to find out, it’s more determination, and less compromise in return should the ‘right’ win back power from the ‘left,’ now fat in their cups and feeling invincible in their current overwhelming concentration of power.
Texas is a symbol of that defiance, but also of the further breakdown of any hope of these divides ever finding common ground again. Texas is making abortion as existentially threatened and abortion rights activists have been making being prolife an existentially threatened position in society.
The cost of supporting or not supporting abortion is high in America after Texas. It’s no longer a one-sided affair.
I predict Roe v Wade may not be overturned so much as limits clearly defined for states to operate within, if they address Roe at all, as some of the issues involved in the Texas abortion law go beyond abortion rights or unborn rights questions alone, and, while I won’t get into those particulars right here, there are elements that, I would suggest, should be concerning for Americans, be the for or against the right to abort. These vulnerabilities could ultimately be what does this law in (and I predict it will be shut down, at least in the enforcement part of the law).
I predict the court will sidestep the Roe v Wade question altogether and leave it to Texas to write a law that doesn’t violate numerous other Bills of Rights of citizens (as I predict the court will find, but, again, based on the enforcement part of the law, not on the issue of restricting abortion itself).
One of the underlying problems of enforcing an abortion ban is how suspected abortions are reported in the first place. Here, I believe, is where the Texas Law might run into more than enough legal troubles to render it a non-law, a declaration with no teeth. This problem, of how to create a reporting mechanism that doesn’t give the state powers it is most assuredly sure to extend beyond mere abortion investigating.
Whatever your belief regarding abortion, the issues around it are complex, and they deserve a hearing for we the people to listen to, to take part in, to form, through a caucus-type process to form something as close to a consensual national spirit regarding abortion. For myself, I am decidedly pro life, and unapologetically so, but we live in a Democratic Republic, limited by a Constitution, by a Bill of Rights.
Within that pluralistic frame, it is consensus we should seek with such a difficult issue as abortion, in a land populated by people of diverse views. We have no real consensus even fundamentally in faith, let alone politics, or even in ethics at this point. But we have the Bill of Rights, and around this a diverse people can ‘progress’ towards a greater total fulfilment of the idea that all humans are individually sacred but integrally dependent. We start with the sacredness of the individual before we design our human zoos. We will not negotiate on this matter.
In order to be that place for these diverse peoples, we must give consensual exchange a chance to give this nation a shared understanding, in overwhelming aggregate, of our Bill of Rights standards as they apply to such a difficult issue as abortion. I hope, I pray, and I even believe, that, in the end, in a spirit of reason, a spirit of logic, a spirit of symbolic understanding, a spirit of faith understanding, we as a nation find a way to end abortion in this land without creating horror from our effort to end it.
This is the key, to end one horror without causing others. If we don’t take everyone seriously, we will surely cause horror no matter what we decide to do.

Texas Asks Supreme Court To ‘Reconsider’ Roe V. Wade If It Takes Up Abortion Law Case

From www.forbes.com
2021-10-21 07:00:00

Excerpt:

Texas’ attorney general asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to deny the Biden administration’s request to reimpose a lower court injunction against the the state’s controversial abortion law as litigation over it proceeds—but argued in a court filing that if the justices take up the case, they should also consider more broadly whether to overturn the court’s precedent on abortion entirely.

Texas AG Ken Paxton filed a response to the U.S. Department of Justice’s request for the Supreme Court to block an appeals court order that keeps the abortion law in effect, which would stop Texas’ Senate Bill 8 (SB 8) from being enforced while the litigation plays out.

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Iconic CBS Studio Center Up for Sale for $1.85 Bil

Freedomist Editor November 30, 2021

ViacomCBS To Sell CBS Studio Center For $1.85 Billion – Deadline

From deadline.com
2021-11-30 14:13:59
jillg366
Excerpt:

ViacomCBS continues to shed non-core assets, announcing Tuesday a definitive agreement to divest the CBS Studio Center and associated businesses to the partnership of Hackman Capital Partners and Square Mile Capital Management for $1.85 billion.

The company said the transaction was the result of a widely marketed sale process, which attracted interest from a number of buyers for the Los Angeles studio lot. The property sits on a 55-gross-acre site in Studio City and consists of over 1 million square feet of space, including 22 stages, production office and support buildings, third-party tenant offices, a purpose-built broadcast center and filmable backlot locations.

“This sale is part of an ongoing optimization of ViacomCBS’ real estate and operations portfolio and will allow the company to re-deploy capital to strategic growth priorities, including streaming,” said CFO Naveen Chopra.

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