Friday, February 23, 2024

‘A Threat to Democracy’: J.D. Vance Calls to Break Up Google over Its Leftist Search Bias

 I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are hostile to people of faith and spirituality, demonize the police and protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, dragging us ever closer to undeclared nuclear war.                                             TULSI GABBARD


J.D. Vance is right: Google is a dangerous trust, and it needs to be busted

By Andrea Widburg

Google’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil.” Tellingly, in 2018, two years after Trump won the presidential election, at which time Google went into mourning, Google erased those words from its ethos. Now, it has a free hand to do evil and, staffed by malignant, leftist, narcissistic ideologues, it’s going full speed ahead. Most recently, it used Google’s Gemini AI program to erase whites from the world. J.D. Vance is right that Google is a dangerous trust that must be busted.

Although this is a site for the written word, sometimes spoken analyses, complete with visuals, do a better, more efficient job. When it comes to Gemini, the program through which Google fully exposes its hard-left Utopianism, you cannot do better than Matt Walsh’s presentations.

In this first video, he tracked down the self-loathing white woman (clearly a sponge-like repository for every D.I.E. trope taught in academia) who guides Gemini’s moral vision:

In this second video, in the opening monologue, Walsh clearly explains the secret behind Gemini’s results: It’s not that it tells its AI programming to favor results without whites. Instead, it secretly edits the user’s prompts to force outcomes that erase whites:

I strongly urge you to watch both videos to understand what’s happening.

If Google were just one among many tech companies, this wouldn’t matter too much but, as Walsh notes regarding Google’s wealth, it’s not. It’s significantly greater than that. Here are a few interesting statistics about Google making it clear that Google is the most powerful source of information in the world: It’s visited almost 90 billion times per month, generating about 8.5 billion searches per day, and accounts for almost 92% of the whole world’s searches.

It’s not just Google searches, of course. Google infiltrates everything because, frankly, its products are good. Androids, which are way cheaper than iPhones, operate on Google. Other omnipresent products include Gmail, Ads, YouTube, Shopping, Travel, Blogger, Calendar, Drive (Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc.), Analytics, Workspace, and more. And all of them are really good products with remarkably intuitive user interfaces and efficient backends.

These amazing products also collect endless data from us and, whenever possible, slant our acts and thinking in a Utopian leftist direction. (As a reminder, leftist Utopianism gave us the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, Naziism, Maoism, and the leftist hellscapes of Pol Pot’s Cambodia, Castro’s Cuba, and Chavez’s and Maduro’s Venezuela, to name but a few.) Indeed, we’ve long known that Google censors and slants search results, making it almost impossible to locate information on conservative-leaning sites.

Another interesting fact about Google is that its workforce, from the top down, is progressive. In 2020, 88% of its employees donated to Democrat candidates. (Netflix, by the way, had a 98% rate of Democrat donations, Apple had an 84% rate, and Facebook came in at “only” 77%.) This political worldview operates at a visceral level. Google employees are the kind of people who need therapy when their candidate loses an election.

Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) understands exactly what Google is. It’s a monopolistic trust that, through a variety of different products, operates with a single goal: To manipulate information to remake the American mind and American values:

More than 100 years ago, progressives, led by Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, busted trust. Now, progressives are the trusts, and they’re infinitely more dangerous than large oil companies were. The oil companies wanted to get rich, but Google wants to rule the world.

Image by Andrea Widburg.

‘A Threat to Democracy’: J.D. Vance Calls to Break Up Google over Its Leftist Search Bias

Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, asks a question during a Senate Special Committee on Aging hearin
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Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) on Friday called to break up Google, calling it a “progressive technology company” with “monopolistic control of information.”

Vance wrote, “Long overdue, but it’s time to break Google up. This matters far more than any other election integrity issue. The monopolistic control of information in our society resides with an explicitly progressive technology company.”

“In October and November, as millions of undecided voters consider their choice for president, they will go to Google and ask “Did Donald Trump say X?” “Is Biden too old to be president?” The results they see will be explicitly biased towards Democrats. A threat to democracy,” he continued.

Vance issued his call after journalist Tim Pool shared a report from AllSides, a media bias watchdog, discussing how Google News’s bias has only increased since the 2022 midterm elections.

“63% of articles came from media outlets AllSides rates as Lean Left or Left. Just 6% were from the right,” AllSides wrote.

Google’s leftist bias not only includes Google News, it also impacts its search.

AllSides noted, “For search terms like “abortion” and “election,” results were also mostly from Lean Left outlets. Outlets on the right never accounted for more than 12% of results, except for the term “.”

Vance is not the only person to note Google’s progressive bias.

Tesla CEO and X/Twitter owner Elon Musk said Google is running “insane racist, anti-civilizational programming,” which was exhibited in the tech giant’s AI fiasco.

“I’m glad that Google overplayed their hand with their AI image generation, as it made their insane racist, anti-civilizational programming clear to all,” Musk wrote Thursday.

Google’s AI platform, Gemini, engendered backlash after its AI image generator created politically correct but historically inaccurate images in response to user prompts.

“The problem is not just Google Gemini, it’s Google search too,” Musk said in response to the New York Post‘s Douglas Murray‘s “Google’s push to lecture us on diversity goes beyond AI.”

Sharing an example, Musk wrote, “I just typed in a Google query on my phone and the top two choices are pro censorship!”

Sean Moran is a policy reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SeanMoran3.

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WALL STREET LOOTS - A LOOK AT BIG INSURANCE AND THEIR NATIONWIDE PLUNDERING - Report: Skyrocketing Home Insurance Rates May Trigger Exodus from Ten U.S. States

 

Report: Skyrocketing Home Insurance Rates May Trigger Exodus from Ten U.S. States

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AMY FURR

Americans working toward having a place of their own are now apparently facing higher home insurance premiums.

A report from the insurance comparison website called Insurify said the price tag for home insurance on a property valued at $300,000 increased 12 percent in 2023 to approximately $1,770 a year, Fox Business reported Friday.

The outlet said home insurance is even more pricey for people living in states where they regularly experience severe weather because those areas are deemed high risk, and insurance companies do not see a way to benefit.

“A growing number of insurance companies are opting to leave states like California and Florida, driving prices even higher for homeowners,” the Fox article read.

It then listed states where people can expect to pay the highest home insurance premiums: Florida, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Texas, Kansas, Georgia, Nebraska, Massachusetts, New York, and Colorado.

Meanwhile, Bankrate reported Thursday, “The average cost of homeowners insurance in the U.S. is $1,759 per year for $250,000 in dwelling coverage”:

While inflation has slowed down, insurance rates are reactionary. The cost of home insurance is still increasing due to the impact inflation has had on the previous losses experienced by the insurance company, the elevated cost of building materials and the future risk posed by extreme weather.

In January, researchers said that in 2022, a record half of people in the United States who were renting a place to live used a significant portion of their income to pay for rent and utilities, according to Breitbart News.

It is important to note that the housing market in December received an unexpected boost from falling interest rates, Breitbart News reported, noting that sales could grow throughout 2024.

“Pending home sales rose 8.3 percent last month, the National Association of Realtors said Friday,” the outlet stated, adding, “This was the biggest jump since the ‘flight from the cities’ housing rush in 2020 when pending home sales shot up 14.9 percent in June.”

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JOE BIDEN - FOLKS, THE ECONOMY IS DOING GREAT! THE RICH ARE GETTING RICH AND ILLEGALS ARE GETTING YOUR JOBS AND BANKSTERS ARE WRITING THEIR BAILOUTS AS WE SPEAKBank Failures Are Coming, Prepare Immediately For This

DEMOCRATS ARE THE BANKSTER SPEECH FEE ($500K) BRIBES SUCKERS FOR BOTTOMLESS BAILOUTS.

SVB WAS ENTIRELY BAILED OUT DUE TO THE FACT THAT OBAMA, CLINTON AND INSIDE TRADER NANCY PELOSI WAS ON THE BANK'S BOARD. 

WATCH IT HAPPEN AGAIN! 

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VIDEO OF SAN FRANCISCO UNDER DEMOCRATS - every store is CLOSED on mission st San Francisco

 AND TO THINK, GAVIN NEWSOM SAYS HE WILL BE PRESIDENT!


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Model Corinna Kopf Thanks Joe Biden, Gavin Newsom After Her Home was Burglarized

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ALANA MASTRANGELO

OnlyFans model and Fortnite gamer Corinna Kopf took a shot at President Joe Biden and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) after her house was reportedly ransacked by burglars in the Democrat-controlled city of Los Angeles.

“thank you gavin newsom, honorable mention to joe biden,” Kopf wrote in a social media post, sharing footage of fellow model Abigail Ratchford’s LA home being robbed after her own house was invaded by burglars.

Police told TMZ that Kopf’s Los Angeles home was burglarized last week by thieves who smashed through glass to get inside the house. the model was out of town when it happened, but received a notification on her phone that someone had broken in.

The burglars were gone by the time law enforcement arrived at the scene. It remains unclear what was stolen, as authorities told TMZ at the time of publishing that Kopf still needed to go through her belongings to see if anything is missing.

Meanwhile, police are reviewing video from Kopf’s home and trying to see if there was more footage taken around the neighborhood. The case is still under investigation and there have not yet been any arrests.

Last month, fellow model Abigail Ratchford also had her Los Angeles home invaded, but unlike Kopf, the model was still inside her house when three men broke into it, according to a report by TMZ.

The men, who smashed through a large window in the backyard and got into the house, ended up running away without stealing anything, as they appeared to have become frightened over the sounds of the alarm that went off.

The incident was also caught on Ratchford’s surveillance video.

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HERE COME THE SPIES! - Chinese Illegal Immigrants Crossing US Border at Record Pace

The Spy Balloon Is Back



Millions HIT Across the Nation! FBI Warns, Texas open Border Just Sacrificed the U.S.


AND JOE BIDEN WANTS TO MAKE SURE EACH AND EVERYONE OF THE INVADERS ARE REGISTERED TO VOTE DEMOCRAT FOR MORE!

Chinese Illegal Immigrants Crossing US Border at Record Pace

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The number of Chinese nationals illegally crossing the U.S. southern border has soared, with 452 detained near San Diego just between Saturday and Monday, customs officials told Fox News. 

Under the Biden administration, encounters with Chinese illegal immigrants surged to over 24,000 in fiscal year 2023 from only 450 two years earlier, marking a 5,200 percent jump. Since the start of fiscal year 2024 in October, the U.S. Border Patrol has already apprehended over 18,750 Chinese migrants at the southern border by the end of January, on track to outpace the 2023 numbers, the outlet reported. 

"That is a very scary prospect. We know that China does not like us. We know that we are in the crosshairs of China," Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, told Fox News. "And they are exporting so many people to our country, and you have to really fear about that." Judd also noted that most of the Chinese detainees are adult males of military age. 

In September, a group of Republican senators wrote a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas about the surge in Chinese citizens illegally entering the United States. "There have been numerous documented instances of Chinese nationals, at the direction of the CCP, engaging in espionage, stealing military and economic secrets," they said. 

"We cannot allow the CCP to undermine law and order here on U.S. soil," the senators added, "whether it's funneling fentanyl into our communities, stealing our intellectual property, setting up CCP spy police stations across the country, infiltrating our public school curriculum, or flying a massive spy balloon through our heartland."

Last week the Republican-led House impeached Mayorkas for his handling of the migrant crisis. The Democratic-controlled Senate is highly unlikely to vote to affirm the impeachment and oust Mayorkas. 

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 ASK YOURSELF WHY 94% OF THE RICH WANT JOJO REELECTED?

At the 2024 Forum, the global aristocracy vowed to ramp up censorship of dissenting opinion.  If they can successfully implement broad-based censorship of those with whom they disagree, there is no hope for the rest of us to throw off our shackles.  Period.  That is why the American Founders wrote — and enshrined — the First Amendment to the Constitution.

The elites versus the rest of us

By Eric Utter

The elites view radical, violent protest movements — and the groups that foster them, such as Black Lives Matter — with extraordinary tolerance and charity.  But when a true populist movement arises, and white, working-class Christians get uppity and threaten to vote for someone like a Donald Trump, they go into full “snit” mode and look down their noses in horror and approbation at the great unwashed.

Brexit, too, was an example of the elites being caught with their pants down.  They simply couldn’t believe that many folks would challenge the wisdom they so generously espoused from atop their political thrones.  With staggering and sickening hubris, these elites characterized Trump’s rise and Britain’s E.U. exit as “illegitimate,” “irrational,” and unforgivable effrontery — a revolt against “experts’” authority.  (To quote the “Church Lady” from the old Saturday Night Live skit: “Well, isn’t that special?”  It’s well past time these bureaucratic bedsores took one on the chin.)

This “revolt” is anything but irrational.  In America, the white working class has suffered through declining marriage rates, stagnant — or worse — wage rates...and even declining life expectancy. They see illegal aliens and robots taking jobs away from them while their values are denigrated on a daily basis.  They see the elites’ attempt to take their firearms away from them at the same time as they strive to import more and more aliens into their communities, some from terrorist hotbeds.  Their eyes widen as the powers that be force-feed them transgender bathrooms and mock Christianity while embracing Islam as a “religion of peace.”  They bust their butts and pay their taxes...and are rewarded by being called “hicks” and racists and homophobes, even as they see more and more people being given a free ride, courtesy of the government they partially pay for.

They know they are not the aggressors, but the aggrieved.  They are not the predators, but the prey.  They have a big target on their backs, and they are finally, logically, reasonably, getting tired of it.

The elites don’t care.  They know the end result of their own policies.  They carefully pander to every type of minority, as these groups will be the majority in the very near future, and likely an overwhelming majority not that long after that.  In a twisted political dance, the “tolerant” elitists are already boldly discriminating against a bare majority...in order to prove to the large minority that they won’t discriminate against them!

Far too many unelected, bureaucratic pencil-pushers in Washington and Brussels have been granted nearly complete control over those they are supposedly to serve, due to the cravenness of their elected “bosses.”  These duplicitous diplomats and sanctimonious “servants” sneer self-righteously at those who they derisively say cling to their God and their guns, as they arouse themselves by marinating in their own supposed superiority.

The West and its signature values of limited representative government, respect for the individual, free will, free markets, discipline, work ethic, and reasoned faith led the world out of the Dark Ages.  Bizarrely and remarkably, the truth of the matter is that elites in the Western media, government, entertainment, and academia are now revolting against the same values that changed the world so much for the better.  Progressive?

In America, the Biden administration is putting the kibosh on gas stoves and, now, all new liquid natural gas export approvals, ostensibly to fight climate change — but, some believe, more likely just to piss off political opponents.  Mindbogglingly, various Western governments are essentially declaring war on farmers, or at least farming, again purportedly to combat global warming.  So what will 8 billion people eat?  The elites say, “Let them eat bugs!”  Indeed, you will eat ze bugs...and be happy!  The globalists at the WEF have taken it upon themselves to plan our subjugation.  In a sort of reverse Genesis, these would-be deities seek to save the earth from humanity.  At the 2024 Forum, the global aristocracy vowed to ramp up censorship of dissenting opinion.  If they can successfully implement broad-based censorship of those with whom they disagree, there is no hope for the rest of us to throw off our shackles.  Period.  That is why the American Founders wrote — and enshrined — the First Amendment to the Constitution.

The elites believe they know what’s best for everyone else, and the planet at large.  But in reality, they are far more concerned with what’s best for them — and their image as virtue-signaling champions of a supposedly utopian future.  It is up to us to ensure that their assault on logic, morality, and sanity does not succeed — no matter the consequences.  

Image: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center via Flickr, CC BY 2.0 (cropped).

Yet during the years under Joe Biden, the plight of the poor working class, and now the middle class too, has worsened day by day, with little public noise being made about our survival—the “elites” have gobbled up the wealth once held by we, the people.

THERE IS NO GREATER DANGER TO AMERICA THAN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY

Why Are Our Basic Needs Being Ignored?

By Victoria White Berger

We are told that the poor will always be with us. That’s an historical, empirical fact, as well as a biblical one.

Yet during the years under Joe Biden, the plight of the poor working class, and now the middle class too, has worsened day by day, with little public noise being made about our survival—the “elites” have gobbled up the wealth once held by we, the people.

Wednesday morning, The Wall Street Journal broke cover on the issue of food prices:

It’s Been 30 Years Since Food Ate Up This Much of Your Income

Ongoing high costs lead food manufacturers and restaurants to keep prices elevated.

The expression “kitchen table issues” speaks to a crucial, massive voting bloc, yet coverage of these concerns is relegated to the back burner in pre-election “news.” A ludicrously self-important female entertainer, or a failing female presidential, un-nominated candidate are apparently more apropos to the American people than whether they eat and/or have a roof over their heads.

Over the past many months, much journalism has been making a lot of noise about cultural, or nominally political issues. Yet in that period, inflation continued its alarming pace and the people who are “just Americans” suffered increasingly. From Forbes:

In January, core CPI inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, was up 0.4% on a monthly basis and 3.9% from a year ago. Economists had projected a 3.7% annual gain.

In addition to those closely-watched numbers:

  • Food prices were up 0.4% month-over-month and 2.6% compared to a year ago.

  • Shelter costs continue to rise, gaining 0.6% compared to December and 6% compared to January 2023.

  • Energy prices were down 0.9% on a monthly basis and are down 4.6% over the past 12 months. January marked the eleventh consecutive month energy prices have declined on an annual basis.

  • Gasoline prices were down 3.3% month-over-month and down 6.4% compared to a year ago.

While energy and gasoline are reported as slightly down (by less than 1% year-to-year), food and shelter costs continue to rise. This is bad news for both groceries and your mortgage interest if you hold a mortgage:

Skyler Weinand, chief investment officer at Regan Capital, says the hot January inflation report may push the first FOMC rate cut back to the second half of 2024.

‘Getting to the Fed’s magical 2% inflation target may prove more difficult than expected and result in elevated interest rates for a longer period of time,’ Weinland says.

‘We expect the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates two or three times in 2024, which is much less than the six rate cuts that the market expects.’

Yet contrary to the demands of reality, the Biden administration’s response to the American food crisis is bureaucratic, indirect, highly speculative, and federally self-enriching:

Biden-Harris Administration Releases Draft National Strategy to Reduce Food Loss and Waste

EPA, USDA, and FDA announce steps to reduce waste and increase recycling of organics to reduce climate pollution, save families and businesses money, and support a circular economy for all.

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released the ‘Draft National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics’ as part of President Biden’s whole-of-government approach to tackle climate change and promote a circular economy.

What does this actually mean? It means more government spending on programmatic/political grants. It means that the politicization of food continues as more actually go hungry. NPR reported that hunger has hit children the hardest:

The report [USDA, 2022] found that 44.2 million people lived in households that had difficulty getting enough food to feed everyone in 2022, up from 33.8 million people the year prior. Those families include more than 13 million children experiencing food insecurity, a jump of nearly 45 percent from 2021 (emphasis added).

The “circular economy” federal folderol is in essence, a recycling of the United Nations’ stale political priorities; it’s a “climate change” issue with a hefty price tag.

And what about shelter? The data on the homeless is actually just as bad:

  • In 2022, counts of individuals (421,392 people) and chronically homeless individuals (127,768) reached record highs in the history of data collection [emphasis added].

  • Unsheltered rates are also trending upward, impacting most racial, ethnic, and gender subgroups.

Here’s this, from Reuters:

Rising rents push US inflation higher; rate cuts still expected in 2024

U.S. consumer prices rose more than expected in January amid a surge in the cost of rental housing, but the pick-up in inflation did not change expectations the Federal Reserve will start cutting interest rates in the first half of this year.

The increase in prices reported by the Labor Department on Tuesday was the largest in four months and occurred against the backdrop of labor market strength and economic resilience. But January is typically a strong month for inflation readings as businesses push through prices increases at the start of the year, which some economists believed were not completely addressed by the model used by the government to strip out seasonal fluctuations from the data [emphasis added].

Although federal COVID legislation prevented foreclosures and “supported” (read, “delayed-the- pain-for”) mortgage holders up into 2022, foreclosures are now on the rise:

U.S. Foreclosure Activity Shows Continued Rise In Third Quarter [2023], Approaching Levels Seen Before Pandemic

The Biden response to our citizens’ basic survival now is one of (firstly) political posturing, as well as expanding welfare—hence manufacturing more government dependence across the demographic board (excepting our voracious Feds and the elite, of course). However, the grotesque failures of the welfare state—dating back at least to FDR, and evidenced by the collapse of families and family farms, and attacks on Christian charity (bulwarks for national survival)—are clearly advancing in plain sight. The expansive funneling of our precious national survival resources to benefit on-going illegal immigration, now in full leftist swing, more than threatens our livelihoods today. After trillions of dollars spent on welfare programs, we the people are poorer than ever.

The political ghosting of Americans’ basic needs is more than obvious—in the verifiable absence of the discussion from the mainstream, and in the policies put forth by the prevailing regime, and this needs no substantiation. Expect to eat less, and watch the roof over your head. And, pity the poor, especially the working poor, who are once again taking the back seat—on everything.

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