While many big tech political funders are highly visible, others manage to push their agendas while retaining much lower profiles. Laurene Powell Jobs is one example. The widow of Steve Jobs has managed to stay off the tip of the tongue, while funding endeavors that have huge political influence and objectives. Breitbart Editor-In-Chief Alex Marlow...
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SEARCH & BUY: GOOGLE & AMAZON BATTLE FOR DOMINANCE
Google has announced a partnership with Shopify to build out an enhanced platform that may look and feel quite a bit like shopping on Amazon. It signals an intent to challenge Amazon’s online retail dominance. Google won’t hold inventory. But the company will leverage its huge taps into data and analytics to power a platform...
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HOUSE VOTES FOR PERMANENT MILITARY OCCUPATION IN DC
Dozens of deaths and billions in property damage during BLM and Antifa riots in 2020 were celebrated by Washington Democrats as “mostly peaceful protests.” But when a comparative light whiff of the protest whirlwind came to their door on 6 January 2021, it was a different narrative: insurrection. Democrats who downplayed violence and destruction affecting...
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ADL LABELS “ANTI-ANTIFA” AS HATE SPEECH
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) burnished its creds as a leftist front group with a new advisory labeling criticism of Antifa as “hate speech.” A page on the ADL’s site conflated critiques of Antifa with “white supremacy.” The page included an anti-Antifa graphic that is supposed to be verboten because they say so: The ADL’s advisory...
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HOW TO AVOID A PHYSICAL ALTERATION
By Bradley J. Steiner, AmericanCombato.com The attitude I encourage all students of self-defense to adopt is that, on no account, will they “agree to fight” with anyone, over anything. They will most assuredly take immediate and decisive action in self- defense should someone initiate violence against them – and, of course, they should – but...
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TOO FAT? TAKE THIS PILL, NOT THAT ONE
About 13 percent of the world’s adults, and 20 percent of children, are obese, according to the WHO, with obesity causing 8 percent of human deaths annually. The cost of caring for obese people, from treating diabetes and heart disease to replacing knees, coupled with value of productivity lost to the global economy, is estimated...
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NEW PROTEIN TEST GAUGES ALZHEIMER’S RISK
The only truly reliable test for Alzheimer’s is to put slices of your brain under a microscope. By then, you’re dead. Now researchers at Johns Hopkins University have identified 38 proteins that signal dementia years in advance of any symptoms if their levels are elevated in the blood. Before this study, these proteins had not...
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HYDROGEN: AIRPLANES’ FUEL OF THE FUTURE?
As carmakers opt increasingly for batteries, hopes for hydrogen as an inexhaustible clean fuel are looking up – literally: the gas could be the perfect fuel for emissions-free airplanes. NASA, Airbus, and startups such as Pipistrel and Eviation have lofted concept planes running on electrons in hopes of creating electric aircraft to meet the industry’s...
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LOTTERIES, JUNK FOOD & A COVID VAX
From enticing poor Mexican villagers with bribes to offering entries in high-stakes lotteries in Ohio, government authorities around the world are using unprecedented methods to persuade people to get vaxxed. Companies are joining in as well. Resistance to COVID vaccines isn’t just a “white conservative” phenomenon, though the media has tried to portray it as...
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CDC CHANGES TESTING TO ERASE “BREAKTHROUGH” CASES
A few weeks ago, the CDC quietly revised testing interpretations to effectively eliminate mild “breakthrough” cases of COVID showing up on tests for vaccinated people. The change involves the way the CDC calculates positive cases based on PCR test “cycle thresholds.” Kit Knightly at offgardian.org reported on what the CDC change does, and he noted...