Day: February 24, 2020

If Trump did try a quid pro quo with Julian Assange, let’s not react like we’ve been beaten with an apathy bat again

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

An attorney for Julian Assange told Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London on Wednesday that the WikiLeaks founder was offered a pardon by Donald Trump. This pardon came at a price: Trump allegedly wanted Assange to publicly deny Russia’s involvement in hacking and then leaking Democratic National Committee emails during the 2016 Presidential Election.
— Read on www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-assange-russia-hacking-quid-pro-quo-rohrabacher-election-apathy-a9347196.html

House subcommittee requests information from Ring about cooperation with police, local governments

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

A House subcommittee is asking Amazon’s home security outfit Ring for information about its partnerships with city governments and local police departments as well as its data protection policy.

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), who chairs the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, expressed concerns in a letter to Amazon about reports that Ring cooperates with the local entities to promote its surveillance tools and has agreements with some cities to provide discounts on their products to residents in exchange for city subsidies. He also said he was alarmed by reports that Ring “tightly controls” what is said about them in public and mandates prior approval of any statement. 
— Read on thehill.com/policy/technology/483671-house-subcommittee-requests-information-from-ring-about-cooperation-with

Illinois village opposes Amazon distribution center that would add 1,500 jobs

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Amazon’s plan to build a mega-fulfillment center in a suburban Illinois city is drawing protest from the mayor.
— Read on www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/illinois-amazon-jobs-bolingbrook

Wait?!?! I want to see more people like this guy!!! A real conservative populist, unlike Trump?! Don’t tell me Trump is populist until he supports a living wage!!

“The pro-Trump, pro-business Claar maintained Amazon knew his opposition to its proposal but decided to go ahead anyway.”

Auschwitz Museum upset at scene in Amazon series ‘Hunters’

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)2 Comments

He said the museum is always willing to provide factual advice to anyone studying or working on Auschwitz history. More than 2 million people a year visit the site with its historic barracks, the ruins of the gas chambers and a monument to the victims.

“Hunters” is about a postwar hunt in New York for Nazi war criminals. It includes a scene where Auschwitz inmates are figures in a chess game and are killed when they are taken off the chessboard.

“This is false. There was no such thing,” Sawicki said.
— Read on www.abc27.com/news/entertainment/auschwitz-museum-upset-at-scene-in-amazon-series-hunters/

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Identity Politics: Nihilism, Ego & Distraction

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Why is all this happening? Why are Western countries so obsessed with “sexual identities”?

The answer is simple: because those who are obsessed with their own bodies, desires, identities and endless “rights”, have hardly any time left to think about the rest of the world.

And vice versa: those who are passionately fighting for a better world, building people-oriented societies, sacrificing their own comfort and personal benefits; those individuals often have no time, or very little time, to think about the nuances of their sexuality. For them, sexuality is simply part of their life; often powerful and important, but it is definitely not their center of gravity, not their very essence.

And precisely this kind of optimistic, unselfish mindset is extremely dangerous for the survival of Western regimes, and the Empire itself.
— Read on off-guardian.org/2020/01/20/identity-politics-nihilism-ego-distraction/