Zuckerberg’s
Investor Group Pushes for Pre-Election Amnesty
http://www.breitbart.com/2018-elections/2018/04/19/zuckerberg-lobby-joins-pre-election-amnesty-push/
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Silicon Valley investors, including Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg, are
joining the Koch network’s push for a quick amnesty that would also keep the
issue of cheap-labor immigration out of the November election.
But the push by Zuckerberg’s FWD.us investor group quickly hit a
roadblock Thursday when Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy denounced the
“discharge petition” amnesty plan, which is fronted by California GOP Rep. Jeff
Denham.
“I don’t believe discharge petitions are
the way to legislate,” McCarthy said to The Hill. “I don’t believe members
in the [GOP] conference believe that, either.”
McCarthy’s opposition — and the growing
pressure for a quick exit by retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan — opens up
room for GOP legislators to make the November election all about rising
wages vs. cheap-labor immigration. Numerous polls show that more
than 70 percent of
Americans want companies to hire Americans before importing more
cheap-labor immigrants, and numerous business groups say they need more
imported labor as wages begin to rise.
But a quick Zuckerberg amnesty would prevent
President Donald Trump or GOP leaders from running on an immigration reform
platform in November — and would also deflate economic pressure that is
delivering higher wages before the 2018 election. “It would
be the dumbest thing possible for Republicans to do coming election which they
already think they may lose — they would for sure lose with this,”
said Rosemary Jenks, the director of governmental affairs at NumbersUSA.
She continued:
I don’t think they will [shift to immigration,
but] … it would be a surefire way to keep the majority. People in Washington
talk about [election-winning] ’70 percent issues’ … [and] this is it, this is
the 70 percent issue.
Backed
by Zuckerberg’s FWD.us, Denham is collecting GOP signatures for a resolution
that would urge a so-called “Queen of the Hill” debate on the House floor.
In that very rare form of debate, legislators could
debate several alternative immigration bills, and the most popular
proposal would be sent to the Senate
Those
rules would almost guarantee a big win for Zuckerberg and his allies because
nearly all Democrats and many business-first Republicans — including many who
are retiring this year — will support a no-strings “Clean Dream Act” amnesty
for at least 1.8 million younger ‘DACA’ illegals.
Denham claims to have 50 GOP
legislators backing his resolution, but those GOP members have not signed
the needed “discharge petition” which allows 218 cooperating legislators to
force the debate despite opposition from the Speaker of the House. Many of Denham’s
supporters don’t recognize the impact of Denham’s plan, said Jenks, and “when they find out, they are not going to be happy and will
certainly not sign the discharge.”’
Denham’s
office did not respond to questions from Breitbart News.
McCarthy’s
quick opposition to Denham’s push is critical because he is the likely
replacement for exiting House Speaker Paul Ryan. Without McCarthy’s
support for the immigration push, few of the GOP legislators on Denham’s
resolution will sign the needed discharge petition — even though many will use
their support for the resolution to ingratiate themselves with their donors and
pro-amnesty voters.
Denham’s resolution is getting expensive
media support from the various donors who are working under cover of the Koch advocacy network,
which has at least 550 business donors.
On April 17. Daniel Garza, the president of the Koch-funded LIBRE
Initiative, told Business
Insider:
The
American people deserve a government that is effective and efficient in solving
our nation’s problems.
Congress
and the White House have spent a lot of time talking about DACA, but today our
elected officials have yet to approve a permanent legislative
solution. The Dreamers are among our best and brightest. They are
students, workers, and men and women risking their lives in the Armed
Forces. Washington must come together and approve a bipartisan solution
that provides certainty for Dreamers and security improvements along our
border.
Zuckerberg’s FWD.us advocacy group is also
providing direct support for the Denham push, and it touted Wednesday’s
press conference where Denham was flanked by a few other cheap-labor
Republicans — Texas Rep. Will Hurd, Colorado Rep. Mike Coffman and
California Rep. David Valadao – as
well as the Democratic head of the Hispanic ethnic lobby, new Mexico
Democrat Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham.
NOW and NEW: 50 Republicans join over
180 Republicans for the “Queen of the Hill” Rule to try to force a
debate/series of votes for Dreamers.
Zuckerberg’s FWD.us group was founded a by
a slew of information-technology investors
who gain from cheap white-collar labor.
The group has endorsed multiple bills and amnesties which
would raise the supply of white-collar labor and
also block Donald Trump’s populist “Buy American, Hire American” policies, all
of which will tend to raise Americans’ blue-collar wages and white-collar salaries.
In February, FWD.us joined with many other business groups to help the Senate
block Trump’s popular immigration reforms.
Since Trump’s election, the FWD.us group
has used the relatively few college-grad ‘DACA’
illegals to shift the political focus from Trump’s very popular
wages-for-Americans pitch. That diversionary tactic has worked, partly because
most establishment reporters prefer to focus on the concerns of foreign
migrants rather than the concerns of fellow Americans.
However, Republicans are facing a
tough 2018 election and may decide to pick up the issue up the
popular issue of immigration and wages, especially if McCarthy replacesHouse Speaker
Paul Ryan before the
election.
That shift to wages and immigration is
made likelier by the spreading benefits of Trump’s anti-amnesty policies which
is delivering higher wages and overtime to
many employees, including black bakers in
Chicago, Latino restaurant workers in
Monterey, Calif., disabled people in
Missouri, high-schoolers, the construction industry, Superbowl workers,
the garment industry,
and workers employed at small businesses.
Higher wages are strongly resisted by
business groups, partly because they threaten to lower investors’ returns and stock values on
Wall Street, including the founders of
FWD.us.
Zuckerberg’s group has funded polls which tout
the supposed popularity of immigration. These “Nation of Immigrants”
polls pressure Americans to say they welcome migrants.
In contrast, polls which ask people to
pick a priority, or to
decide which options are fair, show that
voters in the polling booth put a high priority on
helping their families and fellow nationals get
decent jobs in a high-tech, high-immigration, low-wage economy.
Also, a series of 2018 polls and surveys
show that GOP voters believe the immigration issue is far more important than
celebrating tax cuts.
Four
million Americans turn 18 each year and begin looking for good jobs in the free
market. But the federal government inflates the supply of new labor by annually
accepting roughly 1.1 million new legal immigrants, by providing
work-permits to roughly 3 million resident foreigners, and by doing little to
block the employment of roughly 8 million illegal immigrants.
The Washington-imposed economic policy of
economic growth via mass-immigration shifts wealth from young people towards
older people, it floods the
market with foreign labor, spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for
manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees. It
also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps,
reduces high-tech investment,
increases state and local tax burdens,
hurts kids’ schools and college education,
pushes Americans away from high-tech careers,
and sidelines at least 5 million marginalized Americans and
their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions.
THE BILLIONAIRE
CLASS WAGES WAR ON AMERICA!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/09/bill-gates-zuckerberg-jeff-bezos.html
"GOP estb. is using
the $5 billion border-wall fight to hide up to four blue/white-
collar cheap-labor
programs in lame-duck DHS budget. Donors are worried that
salaries are too
damn high, & estb. media does not want to know."
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Report: Google Engineer Advocates Burying Breitbart, Conservative Sites to ‘Reverse Things’ in 2020
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A recent report claims that Google employees internally discussed burying search results for conservative media outlets like Breitbart News and The Daily Caller. One Google engineer made his intentions clear by commenting, “let’s make sure that we reverse things in four years.”
A recent report from The Daily Caller claims that employees at tech giant Google discussed burying conservative media, including Breitbart and the Daily Caller, within the company’s search results. The article claims that employees referred to both news outlets as “opinion blogs” and discussed de-ranking the websites within Google’s search results in an attempt to “make sure that we reverse things in four years.”
The Daily Caller alleges that according to leaked internal emails, Google employees expressed their dismay at Hillary Clinton’s loss in the 2016 presidential elections and discussed ways to prevent President Trump winning a second term. Google engineer Scott Byer wrote in an email correspondence dated Nov. 9, 2016: “This was an election of false equivalencies, and Google, sadly, had a hand in it.”
Byers further referred to both Breitbart News and The Daily Caller stating: “How many times did you see the Election now card with items from opinion blogs (Breitbart, Daily Caller) elevated next to legitimate news organizations? That’s something that can and should be fixed.” He continued stating: “I think we have a responsibility to expose the quality and truthfulness of sources – because not doing so hides real information under loud noises.”
Byers stated: “Beyond that, let’s concentrate on teaching critical thinking. A little bit of that would go a long way. Let’s make sure that we reverse things in four years – demographics will be on our side.” Some of Byers colleagues reportedly expressed issues with manipulating search results so blatantly and offered alternative solutions, one engineer named Uri Dekel admitted that he was a Clinton supporter but still did not agree with manually altering search results.
“Thinking that Breitbart, Drudge, etc. are not ‘legitimate news sources’ is contrary to the beliefs of a major portion of our user base is partially what got us to this mess. MSNBC is not more legit than Drudge just because Rachel Maddow may be more educated / less deplorable / closer to our views, than, say Sean Hannity,” Dekel wrote.
Dekel further stated that despite being a Hillary supporter, the media went easy on the Democratic candidate which hurt her election chances in the end: “I follow a lot of right wing folks on social networks you could tell something was brewing. We laughed off Drudge’s Instant Polls and all that stuff, but in the end, people go to those sources because they believe that the media doesn’t do it’s job. I’m a Hillary supporter and let’s admit it, the media avoided dealing with the hard questions and issues, which didn’t pay off. By ranking ‘legitimacy’ you’ll just introduce more conspiracy theories,” Dekel stated.
Byers then accused Breitbart News of publishing fake news but, of course, provided no evidence for this claim: “Too many times, Breitbart is just echoing a demonstrably made up story,” Byer stated. “That happens at MSNBC, too. I don’t want a political judgment. The desire is to break the myth feedback loop, the false equivalency, instead of the current amplification of it.”
David Besbris, the vice president of engineering at Google, commented on the exchange stating: “We’re working on providing users with context around stories so that they can know the bigger picture. We can play a role in providing the full story and educate them about all sides. This doesn’t have to be filtering and can be useful to everyone.”
A Google spokesperson assured The Daily Caller that this conversation did not lead to Google actively manipulating search results, stating: “This post shows that far from suppressing Breitbart and Daily Caller, we surfaced these sites regularly in our products. Furthermore, it shows that we value providing people with the full view on stories from a variety of sources. Google has never manipulated its search results or modified any of its products to promote a particular political ideology. Our processes and policies do not allow for any manipulation of search results to promote political ideologies.”
This chain of emails discussing the practice of suppressing certain websites does add credence to previous claims that Google manipulated search results for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election, a topic that Breitbart News has covered extensively.
A report from Dr. Robert Epstein published in 2016 showed that Google appeared to favor positive autocomplete search results relating to Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election, even when search terms critical of Clinton were actually more popular at the time.
Epstein’s report revealed that Google manipulated search results related to Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election that had the potential to “shift as many as 3 million votes” according to Epstein.
Epstein along with his colleagues at the American Institute for Behavioral Research (AIBRT) became interested in a video published by Matt Lieberman of Sourcefed which claimed that Google searches suppressed negative information about Hillary Clinton while other search engines such as Bing and Yahoo showed accurate results.
Epstein and AIBRT tested hundreds of different search terms related to the 2016 election, using Yahoo and Bing search as a control. Epstein’s report stated:
It is somewhat difficult to get the Google search bar to suggest negative searches related to Mrs. Clinton or to make any Clinton-related suggestions when one types a negative search term. Bing and Yahoo, on the other hand, often show a number of negative suggestions in response to the same search terms. Bing and Yahoo seem to be showing us what people are actually searching for; Google is showing us something else — but what, and for what purpose?As for Google Trends, as Lieberman reported, Google indeed withholds negative search terms for Mrs. Clinton even when such terms show high popularity in Trends. We have also found that Google often suggests positive search terms for Mrs. Clinton even when such terms are nearly invisible in Trends. The widely held belief, reinforced by Google’s own documentation, that Google’s search suggestions are based on “what other people are searching for” seems to be untrue in many instances.Google tries to explain away such findings by saying its search bar is programmed to avoid suggesting searches that portray people in a negative light. As far as we can tell, this claim is false; Google suppresses negative suggestions selectively, not across the board. It is easy to get autocomplete to suggest negative searches related to prominent people, one of whom happens to be Mrs. Clinton’s opponent.
Epstein then hypothesized that Google directly altered search results in an attempt to influence the 2016 election:
Without whistleblowers or warrants, no one can prove Google executives are using digital shenanigans to influence elections, but I don’t see how we can rule out that possibility. There is nothing illegal about manipulating people using search suggestions and search rankings — quite the contrary, in fact — and it makes good financial sense for a company to use every legal means at its disposal to support its preferred candidates.
President Trump himself speculated in September that Google and Facebook are working to affect election outcomes. When asked if he felt that there was a possibility social media companies may influence elections, the President stated: “I think they already have. I mean the true interference in the last election was that — if you look at all, virtually all of those companies are super liberal companies in favor of Hillary Clinton,” he added.
President Trump continued to state: “Maybe I did a better job because I’m good with the Twitter and I’m good at social media, but the truth is they were all on Hillary Clinton’s side, and if you look at what was going on with Facebook and with Google and all of it, they were very much on her side.” Google has been linked to Hillary Clinton on multiple occasions in the past, Breitbart News summarized the politician’s connection to the tech giant here.
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