Is California the new China?; Iceland braces for an imminent volcanic eruption...more

Is California the new China? 

The fifty-six-year-old [Gavin Newsom] recently announced the creation of California’s new “Cradle-to-Career” (C2C) system. According to this official statement, the system will integrate “over 1 billion data points — providing unprecedented insight and transparency,” ostensibly “to improve career outcomes for millions of Californians.” C2C’s integration of data, notes the statement, “will provide the public, researchers and lawmakers unprecedented insight that could improve education and quality of life for millions of Californians.”

But it could also make citizens’ lives many times worse. After all, these data points, like oil from the ground, must be extracted.

Which brings us back to China’s “social credit system.” By integrating a multitude of data points, the CCP monitors, manipulates and modifies the behaviors of its 1.4 billion citizens.

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The West Gelds Itself 

No institutions have contributed more to ”the bubbling cauldron of artifice and self-delusion” than the Western press, and this week the Fourth estate’s hands are bloody.

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American Elementary School Reportedly Scraps Veterans Day Assembly, Replaces It with UN-Sponsored 'Day of Tolerance'   Benjamin Rush Elementary in Redmond decided to forgo the annual Veterans Day assembly, according to Jason Rantz of KTTH-AM in Seattle.

Instead, school officials thought they’d replace it with something more current and, by way of their actions, important.

Benjamin Rush Elementary in Redmond decided to forgo the annual Veterans Day assembly, according to Jason Rantz of KTTH-AM in Seattle.

Instead, school officials thought they’d replace it with something more current and, by way of their actions, important.

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South Africa: White-Owned Farms No Longer Allowed to Export to EU, UK   The Marxist South African government has found a new way to rob white farmers of their land: Now farms that are considered “too white” will no longer be allowed to export to Great Britain or the European Union, according to the South African government. This means famous South African vineyards and other agricultural exporters will need at least 50% black ownership, a corrupt scheme which has made ANC leaders like Ex-President Jacob Zuma and President Cyril Ramaphosa multi-millionaires.

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Iceland braces for an imminent volcanic eruption after more than 2,000 earthquakes...town of Grindavik could be obliterated  Thousands have been told to evacuate Grindavik as a precautionary measure, while a magma tunnel stretches below the surface. If an eruption occurs in or close to the town the consequences will be devastating, volcanologist Armann Hoskuldsson warned.

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U.S. Court of Appeals Overturns EPA's Ban on Important Organophosphate Insecticide   In lifting the ban, the Eighth Circuit panel recalled that “Chlorpyrifos has played a large role in American agriculture for more than half a century.”

By 2017, just four years before the EPA banned its use, the ruling says “it was the most widely used conventional insecticide in the country… Its popularity was unparalleled because it stops harmful insects like caterpillars, beetles, and moths in their tracks without damaging crops.”

…The 8th Circuit decision also pointed out chlorpyrifos safety record.

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2 LA charter school teachers removed for teaching 1st graders about 'genocide in Palestine' in class at synagogue   “After the lesson, one of the teachers proudly shared on Instagram, and I quote, ‘LOL but I did a lesson on the genocide in Palestine today w my first graders…,’” Schuldenfrie said. “The teacher went on to boast: ‘My fav was a kid who was like ‘What if they just gave the land back to Palestine and find somewhere else to live.” 

The teacher added a heart emoji to the end of the post, he added.