It does not seem like American tech firms are on the side of America. They’re all lined up for Hillary Clinton and against the nationalist candidate Donald Trump. They all want more foreign visas so they can displace American workers with foreigners.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Major technology companies including Facebook, Google and Twitter are urging Congress to support a plan for the U.S. government to cede control of the internet’s technical management to the global community, they said in a joint letter dated on Tuesday.
The U.S. Commerce Department has primary oversight of the internet’s management, largely because it was invented in the United States. Some Republican lawmakers are trying to block the handover to global stakeholders, which include businesses, tech experts and public interest advocates, saying it could stifle online freedom by giving voting rights to authoritarian governments.
The years-long plan to transfer oversight of the nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, is scheduled to occur on Oct. 1 unless Congress votes to block the handover. The California-based corporation operates the database for domain names such as .com and .net and their corresponding numeric addresses that allow computers to connect.
In the Sept. 13 letter, a copy of which had been reviewed by Reuters before it was sent, the technology companies said it was “imperative” that Congress does not delay the transition.
“A global, interoperable and stable Internet is essential for our economic and national security, and we remain committed to completing the nearly twenty year transition to the multi stakeholder model that will best serve U.S. interests,” the letter said.
Other signatories include Amazon, Cloudflare, Yahoo and several technology trade organizations.
Former presidential hopeful Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who leads the opposition against the handover, will hold a congressional hearing on Wednesday to review the transition, which he has criticized as a “giveaway of our internet freedom.”
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I love it how the American media describe Hillary’s Sunday collapse as a “stumble.” The British papers have better coverage.
Daily Mail: Photos showing a mysterious woman appearing to check Hillary Clinton’s pulse just before she collapsed Sunday have sparked rumors about Clinton’s ‘undercover nurse’.
The photos show a woman in a dark blue dress seemingly checking the candidate’s pulse, and asking her to squeeze her fingers before she was rushed away from the Ground Zero 9/11 commemoration.
Now Twitter is alight with rumors that someone is keeping tabs on Clinton’s health at all times, and that the candidate may even be suffering neurological damage.
Clinton collapsed outside her SUV during Sunday’s 9/11 memorial service in New York and was rushed to her daughter’s apartment.
Although the collapse was initially written off as ‘overheating’ by the Clinton camp, her doctor, Lisa Bardack, later confirmed that she had been diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday.
But photographs of Clinton being walked to the SUV appear to show her being tended to by a woman in a blue dress, whom many believe is a nurse.
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She seems like the most powerful writer in the world these days as she has Donald Trump’s ear. Jews in the media hate her, but they can’t stop her.
Glenn Thrush writes: Last month, when a pivoting Trump suggested that there might be a “softening” of his career-defining immigration plan, the polemicist, author and cable news stalwart responded with a Twitter rebuke. And that, according to people in Trump’s orbit, helped convince the candidate that he couldn’t flip-flop without losing his base…
Late last year, when Trump was tearing through the Republican field with his immigration message, Coulter kept up a lively correspondence with Conway’s predecessor Corey Lewandowski to offer criticism (she hated Trump’s sneering comments about women’s appearances, especially his slap at Ted Cruz’s wife Heidi, which caused her to call him “mental”) – and to make sure he wouldn’t sell out.
“I was worried, the first few weeks after he announced, and — I haven’t told the other people this — I would email in a point or two now and then, and whatever. Whenever I would email Corey, whatever, ‘Stop re-tweeting ugly photos of opponents’ wives,’ or whatever it was, what the final point was [was] always, ‘Don’t let him back down on immigration,’” she said.
“And Corey was getting a little exasperated with me and kept saying, ‘He’s not backing down,’” she added. “Then he came out for the Muslim ban on my birthday, Dec. 8, my best birthday gift ever. I finally emailed Corey and said, OK, I think he’s not backing down.’”…
“Different cultures have different predilections for different kinds of crime,” she said, sitting in an Upper East Side hotel room with a panoramic view of Manhattan, a beehive of diversity and bastion of liberalism. “We are used to our own criminals. For example, our criminals tend to be stupid. They leave their DNA all over the crime scene. Now we’re getting people where — or cultures where criminality is a way of life. It’s every — even the smart people are criminals, and you have these massive Medicare frauds, massive Medicaid frauds.”
Slow down. All of the Medicaid cheats I grew up with in Brooklyn were Russians, I tell her. And Bernie Madoff, who was born here, ripped off more cash than a million Mexicans. Oh, and I note out the window the black track of Second Avenue, uncoiling into the misty recesses of Lower Manhattan, to point out that in the old days native Protestant New Yorkers used to say the same nasty things about those grubby, throat-cutting Irishmen, Sicilians, Chinese and Jews…
She first met Trump years ago (she can’t quite remember when) and wasn’t especially impressed. “We had had lunch once, and I probably thought of him — until that magnificent Mexican rapist speech — in the way a lot of the Never-Trumpers do,” Coulter said. “He seemed like a — I don’t know, boorish vulgarian. I never really thought about him. I’ve never seen The Apprentice. I don’t get up early enough to listen to Howard Stern. So, you know, I’d see the headlines. I knew that Marla Maples thought it was the best sex she had ever had.”
But all that changed for Coulter when Trump made immigration the centerpiece of his campaign: “And, you know, now, wow, was I wrong.”
Which brings us back to the election. She is very confident Trump will win. And when he wins, she said, he will build the wall and crack down on undocumented immigrants, and damn all that talk of moderating his position. “I’m getting to the point that I’m not sure I trust Jeff Sessions,” she said of the deeply conservative Alabama Republican senator who has suggested, ever so gingerly, that Trump might have to modify his stance to garner greater popular support.
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I am sure Donald Trump has much of the con man in him. Most great persuaders do.
F.M. Alexander, the developer of what is now known as the Alexander Technique, had many qualities of the con man but he really did have the golden brick.
I expect politicians and real estate developers to lie, deceive and double-deal.
Trump is pragmatic. Hitler had a messianic vision.
I can’t think of any parallel to Donald Trump. As for Hitler, he was like Caesar, Mohammed and Napoleon.
One was a psychopath who believed his raving rants. The other is a con man.
Before their recent meeting — and I suspect a few times after — Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. He wasn’t the first to do so, even in his own country. Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, has also compared Trump to Hitler. Cher has compared Trump to Hitler. Abraham Foxman, former national director of the Anti-Defamation League, has compared Trump to Hitler (although in fairness, that’s kind of his whole brand). Even Glenn Beck compared Trump to Hitler. We’ll no doubt hear it again many times before this election is over, and, to be honest, it’s a comparison that bothers me for two reasons.
I am a Jew — a New York Writer Liberal Jew, the scariest Jew of all — and from a very young age, I was taught about an unimaginable horror called the Holocaust and about an evil man named Adolf Hitler. The elderly man who sat beside me every Saturday morning in synagogue was a Holocaust survivor, and his elderly wife was a Holocaust survivor, as well. And so the first reason the comparison of Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler bothers me is not because it belittles the deaths of millions of innocents, but because, frankly, it belittles Adolf Hitler.
Hitler believed Jews were the cause of every problem. He believed extermination was the solution. He believed that the “Spear of Destiny,” the spear the Romans used to poke Jesus on the cross, would give him magical powers. He had an elaborately developed, hideous, deplorable theory of how things worked, and he believed in it deeply.
Trump doesn’t.
Hitler was a psychopath. Trump is just a con man.
Hitler had some opinions, he had some plans. They were monstrous and evil, and reason enough for even an avowed atheist to consider the existence of Satan. But I don’t recall Hitler flip-flopping. I don’t see him saying one morning, “I’m going to invade Poland,” and then “softening” his stance that afternoon after meeting with Sean Hannity. He didn’t decide to kill the Jews, then change his mind when his new campaign manager arrived. “I said the kill the Jew — singular, one Jew, not all the Jews. Just the bad ones.” Hitler was a megalomaniacal psychopath who should burn in Hell for eternity… who actually believed in something.
There’s a difference. Trump is a two-bit con man. He’s playing the fools.
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I can’t wait for Trump’s enemies to get it good and hard.
Washington Post: Last week wasn’t a good one for Gary Johnson. In fact, the Libertarian presidential nominee who stunned the political world with a single, dizzying question — “What is Aleppo?” — had the worst week in Washington, according to Chris Cillizza.
Yet Johnson still managed to earn the endorsement over the weekend of the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal. That’s notable because it is a) Johnson’s second endorsement by a daily newspaper and represented b) more daily newspaper endorsements than Donald Trump has collected so far in the general election. The Republican nominee, as of this writing, has zero.
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Chaim Amalek writes: As a Jew, I get a Hollywood Studio, and a Bank, plus BOTH US citizenship AND dual citizenship (wink wink) in an ethnostate of my own. Take that, White Goyim!
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The above is a riff on thecunt’s LGBTQ speech from Friday, in which she labeled Trump’s supporters a “basket of deplorables” (aka normal, sexually dimorphic Americans).
“You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the ‘basket of deplorables.’ They’re racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it,” Clinton said.
Hillary recites a moral panic laundry list of -isms and -phobias & ends with “you name it”. That coda is very telling. As an id-blurt it reveals that Hillary and her ilk don’t really feel the moral urgency of their frightwords as much as they use them as weapons to intimidate their cucked-up enemies into a cowardly submission.
Thecunt, whether she understands it or not, enunciated the tenets of the Left’s new Secularism faith. The Seven Deplorable Sins are a guide to how the typical shitlib measures a person’s worth, because everyone needs a religion, even shitlibs who have discarded Christian Puritanism for “enlightened” atheism. The religious compulsion is an evolved trait in humans; all that differs across generations is how it’s expressed.
Compare and cuntrast with the Seven Deadly Sins of traditional Christianity:
Lust
Gluttony
Greed
Sloth
Wrath
Envy
Pride
The difference? The Seven Deplorable Sins of Secularism are affronts to the high priests. The Seven Deadly Sins of Christianity are affronts to God and self.
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* As far as the nature of Clinton’s affliction, I’m torn between three choices:
1) Something cardiac related. The fainting sort of makes sense with this, and some think Hillary is wearing a defibrillator vest or has an implanted defibrillator.
2) Alcohol. One of the reports described her as ‘combative’ at the 9/11 ceremony. Maybe she showed up badly hung over. This sorta makes sense if you think the anonymous party elders floating the idea of a replacement at this stage are horrified at the idea of an alcoholic President.
3) Something neurological as an outside choice. Permanent damage from the concussion, maybe.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s other stuff, such as her wearing a foley catheter. Really, her wardrobe raises enormous questions. Even Madeline Albright, who is a hefty gal, dressed better. Hillary is one step short of wearing mu-mus.
* Wall Street would pour money on Miranda as a nonwhite (but don’t give up your tanning salon subscription, Lin-Manuel) who loves Wall Street.
Silicon Valley and Wall Street like Cory Booker for similar reasons.
The more I think about this, the more Miranda seems like a dream candidate for the Democrats in 12 to 24 years. Of all the entertainer celebrities, who is more likely to be a strong nuts and bolts politician than a guy who has helped out his dad in managing campaigns? And who else is as good at glamorizing political history? I brought up Affleck, since “Argo” was intended to help Jimmy Carter’s reputation. But what Miranda has done for Alexander Hamilton’s Q Score is amazing.
The guy is a writer and a performer. Everybody in New York loves this guy.
If he continues to compose blockbuster Broadway hits, I’m sure he’ll stick to entertainment. But what if his next couple of shows aren’t as well-received? He’s already set for life from royalties from Hamilton when it becomes a high school musical staple. Maybe when he’s 45 he gets interested in the family business of politics?
One issue is that it’s hard to get elected to the Senate from New York because there are so many celebrities, including out of towners like Hillary and RFK who want to be Senator from New York.
I was thinking Ben Affleck could make a decent Ronald Reagan of the left candidate some day, especially with Jennifer Garner as his potential First Lady — beautiful, likable, 3 kids, and from West Virginia, the most authentically American of all the states. But then …
I praise the 49ers for winning 28-0, but I refuse to take them seriously.
Few teams in the NFL exist at the 49ers level or below, a level that does not admit the light of day. The Niners lucked out in playing one of those teams. The team lower than them is the Los Angeles Rams, so bad L.A. should send them back to St. Loo…
The Rams have no quarterback. Oh, they have a guy, Case Keenum, but he is not worth discussing. The Rams also have Jared Goff from Cal, the first player taken in this year’s draft. The Rams gave up lots of draft picks for Goff, setting them back for years. But Goff did not dress for the game. Couldn’t beat out Keenum who is not worth discussing.
So, I praise the Niners for winning, even though the game was among the worst in the annals of sport, and totally unwatchable. The Rams and Niners actually prepared for this one? But I refuse to take them seriously.
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