Govts are spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications; Soft Totalitarianism Comes Washington...more

Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications - US senator 

Wyden's letter cited a "tip" as the source of the information about the surveillance. His staff did not elaborate on the tip, but a source familiar with the matter confirmed that both foreign and U.S. government agencies have been asking Apple and Google for metadata related to push notifications to, for example, help tie anonymous users of messaging apps to specific Apple or Google accounts.

The source declined to identify the foreign governments involved in making the requests but described them as democracies allied to the United States.

The source said they did not know how long such information had been gathered in that way.

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Soft Totalitarianism Comes Washington... The deeper meaning of the elite university presidents' testimony   I am amazed, and pleased, by the incredible fallout from the Congressional testimony given by the presidents of Harvard, Penn (both Ivies) and MIT. As you will have heard or read, these college presidents disgraced themselves by struggling to answer basic questions about anti-Semitism on campus, and their race policies, in the wake of the Hamas atrocity. It has revealed what blithering anti-white racists these people are, and the institutions they run are. Jews got caught in this because they are white — and are considered by the left to be “oppressors”. The clips are everywhere, and they are devastating...

...If you start pulling the thread, you’ll see that this is exactly how soft totalitarianism works. “Soft” because there are no government agents standing over them with guns to their heads forcing them to act on this profoundly illiberal, racist ideology — but it is totalitarianism nonetheless. Many have pointed out that what the three prominent university presidents say — that even offensive speech must be protected — is not necessarily wrong, but that they have all been staggering hypocrites about applying the rule. If a student or professor states that sex is biological and binary, it’s the guillotine for that thought criminal (seriously, this happened at Harvard).

But if a mob of pro-Hamas campus demonstrators calls for genocide? Is that hate speech? “It depends on the context.”

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Hamas’ Child Hostages...The ancient horrors have returned.  The ancient horrors – the horrors Israelis thought would never happen again – have returned and the weight of that realization is just beginning to sink in.

When Palestinians gloated before October 7 that they want “to finish what Hitler started,” liberals in the West and in Israel just shrugged their shoulders.

Today, leftists in Israel, at least, know that Hamas means it.

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'Must protect myself': Israelis arm themselves in wake of Hamas attack  In the nearly two months since Hamas slaughtered about 1,200 people in southern Israel, the country’s National Security Ministry has received about 255,000 gun license applications — 20,000 of which have been approved, Haaretz reported. 

Just three days after the attack, the demand for gun licenses was so high that the ministry had to allocate 60 additional staffers to process all the requests, the outlet noted.

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Over 12,000 Migrant Encounters on Tuesday Sets 'Single Day Total Ever Recorded'  No words. The border crossings were only going to go up. The border patrol has seen at least 10,000 people a day, almost daily.

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What Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Doing to the Navy? All the attention to DEI has become an obsession and has been institutionalized. It is a system based on a belief with no actual evidence that diversity improves performance or readiness. We know this is so because diversity advocates operate behind closed doors and will not allow anyone in who wants to ask questions regarding this emphasis and what the emphasis is doing to our readiness. Navy leadership preaches DEI without supplying any evidence that DEI is objectively making the Navy better, stronger, and more ready. The opposite is true.

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How Were the Universities Lost? The Ivy league and their kindred so-called elite campuses may soon go the way of Disney and Bud Light   But the erosion is already occurring—and accelerating.

At the present rate, a Stanford law degree, a Harvard political science major, or a Yale social science BA will soon scare off employers and the general public at large.

These certificates will signify not proof of humility, knowledge, and decency, but rather undeserved self-importance, vacuousness, and fanaticism—and all to be avoided rather than courted.

No White Faculty Allowed...At the University of Washington, civil rights laws have not stopped blatant racial discrimination in faculty hiring.  The University of Washington’s investigation exposes how pervasive racial discrimination is on American campuses. The federal and state governments must root out this illegal racial discrimination. If they refuse, then the University of Washington’s how-to manual for racial discrimination will effectively function as civil rights law.

Teachers are quitting in droves because they're scared of student violence — and a lack of punishment   “General behavior issues have become a bigger challenge in the job,” Colin Sharkey, executive director of the Association of American Educators, told The Post. “It preceded the pandemic, but it certainly accelerated because of the pandemic. It is a serious problem, and it’s threatening the number and quality of educators that we’re able to retain.”

Nearly half of public education employees who left the profession last year resigned, and a third of teachers say they’re likely to leave their job in the next two years.

More and more are citing unruly students and a lack of meaningful discipline as administrators favor restorative justice — a soft-handed approach of mediation — over old-school punishments like suspension and detention.

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New Zealand Whistleblower Claims Public Health Data Shows COVID Vaccines ‘Are Killing People’   Barry Young​, a whistleblower from New Zealand’s public health agency, Te Whatu Ora, leaked the information to tech entrepreneur Steve Kirsch, a prominent vaccine critic, on November 9. In an interview explaining his motives, Young said the data shows that the COVID jab “is a killer’ and is causing a “river of tears.”

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 The Fall of Minneapolis 

'The Fall of Minneapolis'—the Documentary About How the Democrats Lied to Gut Our Nation