France Fines One Of Its Presidential Candidates for Hate Speech

France Fines One Of Its Presidential Candidates for Hate Speech

Mark Clouse January 18, 2022

Eric Zemmour: Far-right candidate found guilty of hate speech – BBC News

From www.bbc.com
2022-01-17 13:34:19

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Far-right French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour has been fined €10,000 (£8,350) by a Paris court for hate speech.

The case was launched over a TV appearance, where he described unaccompanied migrant children as “thieves”, “rapists” and “murderers”.

Former broadcaster Zemmour is known for his anti-Islam and anti-immigration views.

His lawyer said he would appeal against the court’s decision.

Reacting to the verdict on social media, Zemmour complained that his freedom of speech was being restricted, and said there was an “urgent need to drive ideology out of the courts”.

He made the comments in September 2020 on the CNews television channel, where he used to work as a pundit.

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Google and Facebook Face Lawsuit over Alleged Online Ad Collusion

Ivo Fysic January 17, 2022

14 States Attorney General have joined in antitrust lawsuit aimed at two of the great war machines of ecumenical leftism, Facebook and Google. The companies are alleged to have colluded to assure the ad market remains uncompetitive and the prices remain favorable for them.

Google and Facebook CEOs colluded in online-ad sales scheme, unredacted antitrust lawsuit alleges

From www.marketwatch.com
2022-01-15 00:18:00

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Chief executives of the parent companies of Google and Facebook colluded to manipulate online advertising sales under a 2018 scheme nicknamed Jedi Blue and signed off on it, state attorneys general allege in newly unredacted filings.

The filings are part of a lawsuit filed in December 2020 by 14 state attorneys general led by Texas AG Ken Paxton, which charges Google parent Alphabet Inc.
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with “anticompetitive conduct.” Sections of the complaint that focused on interactions with Facebook parent Meta Inc.
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along with other details, had been redacted previously, but most redactions were removed Friday after an earlier ruling in the case and showed top leaders of the two companies agreeing to work together.

“Google understood the severity of the threat to its position if Facebook were to enter the market and support header bidding,”…

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AI to Track How Dissent Grows on Twitter

Freedomist Editor January 17, 2022

Billionaires and their corporate toys are using artificial intelligence and deep learning machines to attempt to re-engineer humanity to be more obedient to them, as well as being less competetive. Researchers from Europe are attempting to use AI to analyzie tweets about vaccines and climate change to learn how to identify sources of dissent and shut it down. Of course the researchers didn’t say such things outright, but, in essense, this is how we read a project such as this. Researchers claim to just be attempting to understand how opinions form, how ideas spread, but they’re essentially seeking to map out the structures of dissent itself.

Researchers use AI to analyze tweets debating vaccination and climate change

From phys.org
2022-01-17 09:06:08

Excerpt:

Using artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have found that between 2007 and 2016 online sentiments around climate change were uniform, but this was not the case with vaccination.

Climate change and vaccinations might share many of the same social and environmental elements, but that doesn’t mean the debates are divided along the same demographics.

A research team from the University of Waterloo and the University of Guelph trained a machine-learning algorithm to analyze a massive number of tweets about climate change and vaccination.

The researchers found that climate change sentiment was overwhelmingly on the pro side of those that believe climate change is because of human activity and requires action. There was also a significant amount of interaction between users with opposite sentiments about climate change.

However, in the snapshot of the timeframe of the dataset, vaccine sentiment was nowhere near so uniform. In fact, only some 15 or 20 percent of users expressed a clearly pro-vaccine sentiment, while around 70 percent expressed no strong sentiment. Perhaps more importantly, individuals and entire online communities with differing sentiments toward vaccination interacted much less than the climate change debate.

“It is an open question whether these differences in user sentiment and social media echo chambers concerning vaccines created the conditions for highly polarized vaccine sentiment when the COVID-19 vaccines began to roll out,” said Chris Bauch, professor of applied mathematics at the University of Waterloo. “If we were to do the same study today with data from the past…

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Boston’s Christian Flag Ban Gets SCOTUS Hearing

Paul Collier January 17, 2022

The city of Boston allows all ranges of political expression to be used in its row of flags on City Hall. The flagpole regularly features flags ‘celebrating’ diversity and civic engagement, and has included LGBTQ flags and other Leftist cause celebs. The appearance of a Christian flag to represent the Chrtistians of the city, however, is not approved. The case is now going before the Supreme Court, who must decide if the non-Constitutional standard of ‘separation of church and state’ is to be used to exclude Christians from being represented as being part of a diverse community or not.

Supreme Court to hear First Amendment dispute over Christian flag

From www.usatoday.com
2022-01-17 10:01:26

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WASHINGTON – For years the city of Boston rotated dozens of flags on a pole outside City Hall to celebrate veterans, paramedics, sports teams and LGBTQ pride as part of what it describes as an effort to promote diversity and civic engagement.

But when a group applied in 2017 to hoist a “Christian flag” up the 83-foot pole, city officials said it wouldn’t fly. The blue-and-white flag, with a red Latin cross in one corner, would violate the long-held principle of separation of church and state, they said.

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Navy Seals Get Vax Reprieve

Paul Collier January 17, 2022

US Navy Seals won their day in court and will presumably have more days in court as the ruling by a Federal District Judge granting them the right to reject the military vaccine mandate on religious grounds is sure to be appealed and sure to end up in the Supreme Court.

Navy SEALs win religious exemption case

From www.usatoday.com
2022-01-17 10:25:58

Excerpt:

“There is no COVID-19 exception to the First Amendment,” wrote U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor. His words, directed to the United States Navy, should remind all Americans – and especially those in positions of authority – that the Constitution refuses to bend to authoritarian impulses.

Earlier this month, O’Connor issued a preliminary injunction against the U.S. Navy, preventing it from taking any further action against the 35 Navy SEALs and Special Warfare service members represented by the First Liberty Institute. It also provides hope for the thousands of members of the military who bravely raised religious objections to receiving the vaccine knowing full well their fates had long been sealed.

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Are These the Proteins that Lead to Life?

Parker Davis January 17, 2022

Scientists believe they may have found the basic proteins that might have led to the creation of life, if you believe the spontaneous life theory as opposed to some form of design theory.

Scientists discovered proteins that could responsible for the origins of life

From www.techexplorist.com
2022-01-17 07:44:15

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How did life appear on our planet?

A new study by the Rutgers scientists addressed these most profoundly unanswered questions in biology. Scientists have discovered the structures of proteins that could be leading players in the origins of life in the primordial soup of ancient Earth.

They determined the properties that defined life and concluded that anything alive needed to collect and use energy from sources such as the Sun or hydrothermal vents.

As proteins carry out most biological activities, scientists hence decided to explore the combination of the two- that is, proteins that bind metals.

The study’s lead author Yana Bromberg, a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, said, “We compared all existing protein structures that bind metals to establish any common features, based on the premise that these shared features were present in ancestral proteins and were diversified and passed down to create the range of…

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Paint Your House Warm or Cold with New Smart Roof Coating

Freedomist Editor January 17, 2022

Berkely Labs are developing a smart roof coating that is allegedly going to be able to keep your house warm in the winter and cool in the summer, with no energy needed, assuming you live in a relatively temperate zone (some results might vary).

New smart-roof coating keeps homes warm in winter and cool in summer

From www.inceptivemind.com
2022-01-17 08:30:08

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Berkeley Lab engineers have developed an all-season smart roof coating that keeps homes warm during the winter and cool during the summer without consuming natural gas or electricity. The all-season roof coating automatically switches from keeping you cool to warm, depending on outdoor air temperature.

The problem with many cool-roof systems currently on the market is that they continue to radiate heat in the winter, which drives up heating costs, explained Junqiao Wu, a faculty scientist who led the study. “Our new material – called a temperature-adaptive radiative coating (TARC) – can enable energy savings by automatically turning off the radiative cooling in the winter, overcoming the problem of overcooling,” he said.

The key to the technology is a strange compound called vanadium dioxide (VO2). In 2017, Wu and his research team discovered that electrons in vanadium dioxide behave like metal to electricity but an insulator to heat. Below about 67 degrees Celsius,…

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VA AG Guns for Loudon County Rape Protectors

Parker Davis January 17, 2022

The newly elected Virginia Attorney General, Jason Miyars, is coming out swinging against the very school district that may have led to his victory, and the victory of the GOP in general in the 2021 election. Loudon County School District is alleged to have covered up incidents of rape in their school to protect the school from scrutiny. Allegedly, the rapes happened by individuals where let out early from juvenile arrest after being charged with violent crimes like rape. The individuals were allowed admittance to the schools, with no notice (as required by law) to the parents about their admittance. The school protected the rapists to protect their politically-motivated (leftist) program.

New Virginia AG Launches Probe Into Loudoun Schools Assault Cover-Ups

From thefederalist.com
2022-01-16 13:34:45
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Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced on Saturday that his office has opened an investigation into Loudoun County Public Schools for covering up multiple allegations of sexual assaults dating back several years. The announcement came hours after Miyares was sworn into office alongside Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears.

“Loudoun County Public Schools covered up a sexual assault on school grounds for political gain, leading to an additional assault of a young girl,” he said in a statement. “Virginians have dealt with the horrific aftermath of these scandals, without understanding how or why they were able to happen. Virginians deserve answers – they want transparency and accountability.”

As a candidate, I promised to investigate the scandals at the Virginia Parole Board and Loudoun County Schools.

As Attorney General, I am proud to say that the process has begun and the investigations are officially open. pic.twitter.com/02wvO85wbI

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Cells Can Choose When to Die

Parker Davis January 17, 2022

A new study has revealed that cells which appear to be going through Pyroptosis, cell death, has the power to reverse the process and continue on living. The revelation is helping scientists understand the nature of cell death, hoping to use this knowledge, in part, to effectively trigger cancer cell death in targeted ways.

A new study reveals that cells may be able to back out of self-destruction

From www.popsci.com
2022-01-16 08:00:00
Shi En Kim
Excerpt:

Cells can die in many ways, but one fate is particularly grisly. Pyroptosis occurs when a cell dies by detonating, typically in response to an infection. In a fiery swan song, a pyroptotic cell sacrifices itself to flood surviving compatriots with its last supply of danger-signaling chemicals called cytokines. The cell’s death is quick and messy, but it’s for the greater good.

“It happens quite abruptly,” says Gary Mo, a bioengineer at the University of Illinois, Chicago. “The cells will literally pop.”

Scientists had previously thought that pyroptosis is a one-way street—once set in motion, the decision can’t be reversed. In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, Mo and his team found that a cell has an inbuilt mechanism to revoke pyroptosis, allowing it to die another day. The insights from the discoveries could clue researchers in on how pyroptosis can be regulated, be it to kill off cancer cells in a patient, or to…

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Canada Thinks Critical Thinking is Racist? That’s What It Seems….

Mark Clouse January 17, 2022

Canada appears concerned that one of their junior high schools chose to assign students with the task of providing reasons for supporting immigration and reasons for not supporting immigration. In the mind of a leftist (and Canada has gone full Tankie Left at this point), all immigration is good immigration and no nation-state could possibly have any reason to regulate or control immigration from anywhere (other than European nations) other than being racist. Now the government is looking into this exercise in critical thinking and considering deeming critical thinking racist (that last part might be made up, but, in essense, that’s what’s happening here).

‘Racist’ junior high immigration assignment has advocates calling for curriculum change

From www.cbc.ca
2022-01-17 09:30:00

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Anti-racism advocates and a university professor are calling an assignment handed out at a junior high school in St. John’s “racist” and say it could result in bullying and discrimination.

A textbook assignment that was sent to CBC News by a concerned parent asked students to write down two reasons why immigrants and refugees should be allowed into the country — and two reasons why they should not be.

The textbook provides a list of reasons why immigrants and refugees should be allowed in the country; for example, “Canada is a big country with room for many more people” and “Immigrants provide new ideas and skills.”

Delores Mullings, a professor of social work at Memorial University, says she’s concerned with the textbook’s suggestions for opposing migration: newcomers “may take jobs away from resident Canadians,” and “Some immigrants draw on social welfare programs and services,” according to the textbook.

Students were asked to use these graphs to debate why immigrants should or should not be allowed into Canada. (Name withheld)