Apple to again skip US congressional hearing on Chinese influence in tech

Apple has for the second time declined to attend a U.S. congressional hearing that would have scrutinized its relationship with China as part of a larger investigation into tech privacy and security.
— Read on appleinsider.com/articles/20/02/24/apple-to-again-skip-us-congressional-hearing-on-chinese-influence-in-tech

Fixed it! 😉

Apple’s willingness to kowtow to Donald Trump is often viewed as antithetical to its well-groomed image as a bastion of human rights, data privacy and free speech. 

Wrong uniforms, again, but in Hong Kong this time?!

The ones without stripes are most likely protesters! Notice how unprofessional they are? Standing there, with unpressed uniforms, on their phones? They’re only standing next to the actual police officer to look legit in the filming. Don’t forget that the U.S. Senators, Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley visited this past weekend, as well!

It happened in Venezuela, as well. The military personnel who “turned” on Maduro and were in Peru. Their uniforms were the old ones. Even Venezuelans realized it.

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Peter Thiel backed pro-Kobach dark money group, sources say | The Kansas City Star

Billionaire Peter Thiel helped fund the dark money group that backed Kansas Republican Kris Kobach in 2018, sources said. Thiel also contributed to Missouri Senator Josh Hawley’s political rise.
— Read on www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article235516452.html

In a 2009 essay for the Cato Institute, he argued that democracy and liberty are incompatible, blaming the decline of U.S. democracy partly on women gaining the right to vote in 1920.