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More political garbage from Soros:
Soros Teams Up with Tech Billionaire Reid Hoffman to Launch New Media Company
Notorious left-wing Billionaire George Soros is now teaming up with tech billionaire Reid Hoffman to create a new media company with the goal of getting rid of what they believe is ‘misinformation’ in the media ecosystem.
“Good Information Inc. aims to fund and scale businesses that cut through echo chambers with fact-based information. As part of its mission, it plans to invest in local news companies,” Axios reported.
“We are disclosing our investors, because we believe — especially right now in this environment of mistrust — that transparency is really important,” McGowan told Axios, noting that investors Ken and Jen Duda and Incite Ventures are also involved in the project.
McGowan claimed the group could potentially invest in “entities across the political spectrum,” but history suggests it will refrain from helping conservatives as Hoffman and Soros are strong backers of liberal causes.
Soros’ most recent foray into politics was to help Gavin Newsom triumph in his recall election by donating one million dollars to an organization opposing the recall.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Yesterday I expressed my own views about what Jason Riley said in his subsequent Op Ed. We are on the same page in virtually every aspect of this issue.
Republicans Could Take Democrats to School
Critical race theory and Covid restrictions have turned education into a wedge issue for voters.
By Jason L. Riley
During a recent appearance on “The View,” former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice weighed in on the national debate over teaching racial propaganda to schoolchildren. In the process, she made a broader point about the mindset of a previous generation of black people when it came to dealing with racial adversity.
“My parents never thought I was going to grow up in a world without prejudice,” said Ms. Rice, a product of segregated Birmingham, Ala. “But they also told me, ‘That’s somebody else’s problem, not yours. You’re going to overcome it, and you are going to be anything you want to be.’ ” Ms. Rice said that blaming whites today for past racism strikes her as unproductive. You don’t help black kids by making “white kids feel guilty for being white.”
The contrast with the current woke approach to racial inequality is stark. In that earlier era, there was an expectation among blacks that advancement would take place despite racial barriers, that discrimination was no excuse for not trying. The generations that produced such civil-rights luminaries as Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King Jr. understood that whites had a role to play in changing a fundamentally racist system. Yet they also understood that blacks had a role to play, and they were willing to hold black people accountable for their behavior.
Many of today’s black leaders and activist scholars, by comparison, ask almost nothing of black people themselves. Instead, their focus is on the attitudes and behavior of whites, with blacks treated as helpless victims who are incapable of upward mobility until racism has been eliminated from society. The concept of personal responsibility, once considered a prerequisite for social advancement among black elites, is now almost taboo.
The introduction of progressive dogma into K-12 curricula has understandably produced a backlash among parents nationwide. Elements of the New York Times’s “1619 Project,” which posits that America is uniquely evil due to its slave past, have been adopted by thousands of school districts. Students and teachers are being segregated by race and ethnicity, and then shown slide presentations that describe “objectivity,” “individualism” and “the written word” as characteristics of white supremacy.
The pandemic has already left millions of families frustrated with the operation of the public schools and wary of mandates to mask and vaccinate kids. Many were surprised to learn that the politicians who kept schools closed by claiming to “follow the science” were really following directives from powerful teachers unions cynically using Covid as leverage to negotiate better pay and benefits for their members. One upshot has been flight from traditional public schools, where enrollment is off by more than a million students this year, and toward education alternatives. More students are attending private schools and religious schools, and home schooling has tripled. According to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, charter enrollment this year is up 7%, or nearly 240,000 students, the largest increase in half a decade.
What remains to be seen is whether the same parents who are currently agitating at school-board meetings will take their frustrations with them to the voting booth. Virginia will choose a new governor next week, and the Republican candidate, Glenn Youngkin, has been talking nonstop about education. Mr. Youngkin has made parental choice his signature issue ever since his Democratic opponent, Terry McAuliffe, let slip in a debate last month that “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
Mr. McAuliffe’s strategy, like that of other Democrats running this year, has been to turn his GOP opponent into a stand-in for Donald Trump. Given that Virginia hasn’t elected a Republican to statewide office in more than a decade, it might work. Still, Mr. Youngkin is wise to highlight an issue that is resonating everywhere, and other Republican candidates would be wise to follow his lead.
If the odd combination of Covid and critical race theory has turned education into a wedge issue for voters, Republicans should welcome the development. Public education is owned and operated by Democrats and the teachers unions that finance their political campaigns. The unions give next to nothing to conservative candidates or causes, so the GOP has zero to lose in declaring war on the National Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers and the liberal politicians who carry water for them, even when the union agenda undermines learning.
More parents are wising up to the damage that union control of public education hath wrought, and Republicans ought to embrace the opportunity to explain to voters why the best response—to everything from racial propaganda and incompetent education bureaucrats to mask mandates and learning gaps—is more school choice.
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Here too I am in synch with he lead Op Ed in today's WSJ. Biden's AG 's "garland" give's off a stench.
About Those Domestic-Terrorist Parents
Merrick Garland should rescind his misguided school boards memo.
By The Editorial Board
It took a few weeks, but the National School Boards Association has apologized for sending a letter to President Biden suggesting that “threats and acts of violence” at school board meetings might be “domestic terrorism.” The NSBA now admits there was “no justification for some of the language included in the letter,” which could have parents investigated under the Patriot Act for trying to influence what their children are taught.
The retraction comes after tremendous blowback. First came parents at school board meetings with T-shirts saying “Parents are not domestic terrorists.” Then 21 state school board associations distanced themselves from the letter. The Ohio, Missouri and Pennsylvania state associations cut ties altogether.
It turns out that when Chip Slaven, the NSBA interim executive director and CEO, and president Viola Garcia sent the letter, they did so without consulting their own board. But according to one of Mr. Slaven’s emails, they did work with White House staff.
The NSBA has owned up to its mistake, but what about the Biden Administration? Days after the NSBA letter was sent, Attorney General Merrick Garland directed the FBI and U.S. Attorneys to intervene—without spelling out the federal authority or hard evidence for what the AG called a “disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence.” This directive still stands.
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona announced on Oct. 13 that he appointed Ms. Garcia to the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the standardized tests known as “the Nation’s Report Card.” This appointment stands too, even after Ms. Garcia’s organization had to apologize for her letter.
Time for Mr. Garland to formally rescind his memo, calling off the FBI, and for Mr. Cardona to consider the message he is sending by elevating Ms. Garcia after she’s shown such poor, partisan judgment.
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A tongue in cheek satire about Greta sent by a friend and fellow memo reader.
WHAT A GAS....LIFE WITHOUT PETROLEUM
One crisp winter morning in Sweden, a cute little girl named Greta woke up to a perfect world, one where there were no petroleum products ruining the earth. She tossed aside her cotton sheet and wool blanket and stepped out onto a dirt floor covered with willow bark that had been pulverized with rocks. “What’s this?” she asked. “Pulverized willow bark,” replied her fairy godmother.
“What happened to the carpet?” she asked. “The carpet was nylon, which is made from butadiene and hydrogen cyanide, both made from petroleum,” came the response.
Greta smiled, acknowledging that adjustments are necessary to save the planet, and moved to the sink to brush her teeth where instead of a toothbrush, she found a willow, mangled on one end to expose wood fibre bristles.
“Your old toothbrush?” noted her godmother, “Also nylon.”
“Where’s the water?” asked Greta. “Down the road in the canal,” replied her godmother, ‘Just make sure you avoid water with cholera in it.” “Why’s there no running water?” Greta asked, becoming a little peevish.
“Well,” said her godmother, who happened to teach engineering at MIT, “Where do we begin?” There followed a long monologue about how sink valves need elastomer seats and how copper pipes contain copper, which has to be mined and how it’s impossible to make all-electric earth-moving equipment with no gear lubrication or tires and how ore has to be smelted to a make metal, and that’s tough to do with only electricity as a source of heat, and even if you use only electricity, the wires need insulation, which is petroleum-based, and though most of Sweden’s energy is produced in an environmentally friendly way because of hydro and nuclear, if you do a mass and energy balance around the whole system, you still need lots of petroleum products like lubricants and nylon and rubber for tires and asphalt for filling potholes and wax and iPhone plastic and elastic to hold your underwear up while operating a copper smelting furnace and . . .
“What’s for breakfast?” interjected Greta, whose head was hurting. "Fresh, range-fed chicken eggs,” replied her godmother. “Raw.”“How so, raw?” inquired Greta.
“Well, . . .” And once again, Greta was told about the need for petroleum products like transformer oil and scores of petroleum products essential for producing metals for frying pans and in the end was educated about how you can’t have a petroleum-free world and then cook eggs. Unless you rip your front fence up and start a fire and carefully cook your egg in an orange peel like you do in Boy Scouts. Not that you can find oranges in Sweden anymore.
“But I want poached eggs like my Aunt Tilda makes,” lamented Greta. “Tilda died this morning,” the godmother explained. “Bacterial pneumonia.” “What?!” interjected Greta. “No one dies of bacterial pneumonia! We have penicillin.”
“Not anymore,” explained godmother “The production of penicillin requires chemical extraction using isobutyl acetate, which, if you know your organic chemistry, is petroleum-based. Lots of people are dying, which is problematic because there’s not any easy way of disposing of the bodies since backhoes need hydraulic oil and crematoriums can’t really burn many bodies using as fuel Swedish fences and furniture, which are rapidly disappearing - being used on the black market for roasting eggs and staying warm.”
This represents only a fraction of Greta’s day, a day without microphones to exclaim into and a day without much food, and a day without carbon-fibre boats to sail in, but a day that will save the planet.
Tune in tomorrow when Greta needs a root canal and learns how Novocain is synthesized and her electric car is dead.###
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Today seemed to be the day when everything I read and those listened to were in agreement with my views.
This is a recap of what Ms. Coates had to say:
Taiwan:
She believes the Chinese see a window, at the time before the 2022 election, to make a move on Taiwan believing t if the Democrats lose to the Republicans the window will narrow. She also stated the Chinese see Biden as feckless, confused and weak. Japan also has to be concerned, were China to move against Taiwan, as to America's position.
She believes the Chinese see a window, at the time before the 2022 election, to make a move on Taiwan believing t if the Democrats lose to the Republicans the window will narrow. She also stated the Chinese see Biden as feckless, confused and weak. Japan also has to be concerned, were China to move against Taiwan, as to America's position.
Energy:
Biden's willingness to stand down regarding Europe's acceptance to and dependence upon The North Stream Pipeline 2 was disheartening. Europe may not be physically prepared to receive American gas, save for Poland, but Putin is proving he is prepared to use his leverage because the pipelines are at 60% capacity usage and Europe is likely to have a cold winter.
Furthermore, American energy producers are reluctant to expand production in view of potential negative consequences pertaining to the attitude of the administration notwithstanding the fact that, at today's prices, any expansion would be enormously profitable.
Finally, Carter's decision, towards the end of his term in office, stating America would protect open sea traffic (Hormus Doctrine) allows China to acquire oil from Iran. Circumstances that favored such policy are no longer as pressing as then because we have sufficient energy production for our own needs and have no reason to support a circumstance where Iran 's coffers are fed by their supplying China's energy needs.
Abraham Accords:
Coates was involved and is disheartened that Biden and Blinken have cooled to Israel and the benefits that have accrued as a result of The Accords. Distancing ourselves from The Saudis is likely to push them into the arms of Iran and Iran has shown, in the past, that are willing to attack Saudi infrastructure. She also pointed out what is going on in Sudan could spill over and impact Morocco. and this would further diminish our ability to influence what is important to our interests in that region.
She decried Biden's our pulling Patriot Missiles out of Saudi as senseless.
Potential Iranian Nuclear Test:
She fears Western Democracies have totally failed to predict the actions of adversaries and may well do so again should Iran test a nuclear device. Like China, she believes Iran's new leadership has a similar opinion of Biden and will become more aggressive.
Anti-Semitism:
She spoke about Kamala's passivity and nodding of her head when a radical spoke recently and dismissed the genocidal incidence at Babin Yar. ( Babyn Yar or Babin Yar; Russian: Бабий Яр, Babiy Yar) is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and a site of massacres carried out by Nazi Germany's forces during its campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II. The first and best documented of the massacres took place on 29–30 September 1941, killing approximately 33,771 Jews. )
She has no solution to the scourge and rise in anti-Semitism other than to say it must be met, it must and not allowed to fall below the radar. Coates concluded by saying she did not understand why many American Jews failed to link Israel with America's and their own national security.
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This is a great review of what is going on. Biden is not in the driver’s seat. He is begging for a role so he can take credit. As I wrote before Saudi Arabia is not demanding the division of Jerusalem as Biden wants.
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Democratic Leaders' Shocking Silence Over Attacks on Israel by Fellow Dem
By Douglas Schoen and Andrew Stein
(OCTOBER 26, 2021 / NEW YORK POST) We’ve often sounded alarms over fellow Democrats who demonize Israel. But lately, even our party’s establishment and its leaders have become complicit in the consequences — by failing to denounce these attacks. Voters need to demand that top officials from both parties speak up loudly.
Such attacks put Jews in tangible danger and threaten the United States’ and Israel’s national security, given that Israel is our closest ally and the only stable democracy in the Middle East.
The harshest rhetoric emanates from the party’s progressives. Yet the Democratic establishment increasingly seems OK with it. Even Vice President Kamala Harris, one of the most powerful Democrats, actually applauded a student who accused Israel of “ethnic genocide,” saying that the young woman’s “truth should not be suppressed.”
It’s shocking: The claim of “ethnic genocide” is patently false, and it’s used as a rallying cry by extremists who seek Israel’s destruction. It also plays into a vile, twisted anti-Semitic stereotype that the Jewish state — and by extension, the Jewish people — are oppressors. For Harris to have endorsed that is more than alarming.
And she’s hardly alone. Indeed, anti-Israel sentiment has even infiltrated U.S. policymaking, sending an even louder message and carrying real consequences for Israel.
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