Day: November 20, 2020

Parler Makes Play for Conservatives Mad at Facebook, Twitter

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Parler Makes Play for Conservatives Mad at Facebook, Twitter

Ms. Mercer said in a separate post that she and Mr. Matze “started Parler to provide a neutral platform for free speech, as our founders intended.” She said the effort is an answer to what she called the “ever increasing tyranny and hubris of our tech overlords.”

But they do censor:

Just Like Every Other Platform, Parler Will Take Down Content And Face Impossible Content Moderation Choices

Parler CEO Says He’ll Ban Users for Posting Bad Words, Dicks, Boobs, or Poop

Hundreds of Companies That Got Stimulus Aid Have Failed

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

About 300 companies that received as much as half a billion dollars in pandemic-related government loans have filed for bankruptcy, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of government data and court filings.

Many of the companies, which employ a total of about 23,400 workers, say the funds from the Paycheck Protection Program weren’t enough to keep them going as the coronavirus and lack of additional stimulus payments weighed on their businesses.

Hundreds of Companies That Got Stimulus Aid Have Failed

Trump Tax Write-Offs Are Ensnared in 2 New York Fraud Investigations

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Trump Tax Write-Offs Are Ensnared in 2 New York Fraud Investigations

Ms. Trump was an executive officer of the Trump companies that made the payments, meaning she appears to have been treated as a consultant while also working for the company. While companies can deduct professional fees, the Internal Revenue Service requires that consulting arrangements be market-based and reasonable, as well as “ordinary and necessary” to running a business.

What Biden owes the Palestinians

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

What Biden owes the Palestinians

Fortunately, there are promising signs that Biden will take a very different approach from his predecessor. Resolution 2334 passed because U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration, then in its final days, decided not to veto it. The order came from Susan Rice, Obama’s national security adviser at the time, who is now said to be on Biden’s short list for secretary of state.

Of course, Biden himself was vice president in the Obama administration, and in 2014, he told Netanyahu, “I don’t agree with a damn thing you say.” Other projected Biden administration appointees — including incoming chief of staff Ron Klain — all oppose illegal Israeli settlement activity.

President Trump is seeking a recount in two Wisconsin counties, but what he’s really doing is preparing for a lawsuit.

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

President Trump is seeking a recount in two Wisconsin counties, but what he’s really doing is preparing for a lawsuit.

The recount petition he filed Wednesday asked to throw out broad swaths of votes in the state’s two most Democratic areas — something the county clerks there are sure to reject.

I hope that the Disabled and Military Personal, overseas, realize that he’s trying to invalidate their votes, for him, as well! They vote by absentee ballot! There’s no difference between mail-in ballots and absentee ballots!

The Israel Lobby’s ‘QME’ Scam

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The Israel Lobby’s ‘QME’ Scam

Symington & Glenn now reside in the Arms Export Control Act and require the president to notify Congress of any proposed US foreign aid to a known rogue nuclear state. Rather than comply with the law, the last four Presidents instead caved in to Israeli and its US lobby’s pressure not to uphold that particular section of the AECA. Presidents Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump instead executed secret letters promising not to do so as reported by Adam Entous in The New Yorker. The National Archives refuses to release two of these letters. After a successful lawsuit was filed in 2011 to release damning US government information about Israel’s nuclear weapons production facilities, President Barack Obama even passed a 2012 gag order called WNP-136 forbidding any further releases. That has limited any informed debate about Israel, nonproliferation and related policies such as QME. Other legislation promoted by AIPAC, such as sections within S.2583, now mandate that the US withhold IAEA funding if the leading state sponsor of Middle East nuclear proliferation is ever “denied its right to participate in the Agency.”