FACEBOOK REMOVES Posts About Americans Who Stood Up For National Anthem…Tell Users They Look Like “Spam” To Them * 100PercentFedUp.com

FACEBOOK REMOVES Posts About Americans Who Stood Up For National Anthem…Tell Users They Look Like “Spam” To Them * 100PercentFedUp.com:

Yesterday, it was announced that Facebook would begin secretly ranking the personal pages of Facebook users. The rankings would be based on how “untrustworthy” the users are. Doesn’t this sound a bit like something you’d expect to hear about in communist China?
According to The Independent, Facebook is using an array of information to decide whether its users should be believed when they say something wrong is happening on the site.
Users will not know that their behavior is being ranked, the company appeared to suggest. But the ranking themselves are important: they decide whether an account is reliable enough to be believed when it reports a page or a story, helping decide whether it should be taken down straight away.

Chinese Communist Party Funds Washington Think Tanks

Chinese Communist Party Funds Washington Think Tanks
"China's Communist Party is intensifying covert influence operations in the United States that include 

• funding Washington think tanks and 
• coercing Chinese Americans, 

according to a congressional commission report.
The influence operations are conducted by the United Front Work Department, a Central Committee organ that employs tens of thousands of operatives who seek to use both overt and covert operations to promote Communist Party policies.
The Party's United Front strategy includes paying several Washington think tanks with the goal influencing their actions and adopting positions that support Beijing's policies.
...In addition to Johns Hopkins, other think tanks linked to China and influential in American policy circles include the 

• Brookings Institution, 
• Atlantic Council, 
• Center for American Progress, 
• EastWest Institute, 
• Carter Center, and the 
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace..."

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Appeals Court Affirms Denial Of Richard Sander's Request To Access California Bar Data To Study Racial Implications Of Bar Passage Rates

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Appeals Court Affirms Denial Of Richard Sander's Request To Access California Bar Data To Study Racial Implications Of Bar Passage Rates

Following up on my previous posts (links below):  the California Court of Appeals on Thursday affirmed the trial court's denial of UCLA Prof Richard Sander's request to access California bar admissions data to study the racial implications of bar passage rates...

Appellants and petitioners Richard Sander and the First Amendment Coalition(Petitioners) challenge the trial court’s denial of their petition for writ of mandate seeking to obtain information from the State Bar of California’s bar admissions database. 

Specifically, Petitioners seek individually unidentifiable records for all applicants to the California Bar Examination from 1972 to 2008 in the following categories: race or ethnicity, law school, transfer status, year of law school graduation, law school and undergraduate GPA, LSAT scores, and performance on the bar examination. 

Making these records available to the public in a manner that protects the applicants’ privacy and anonymity, they believe, will allow researchers to study the potential relationship between preferential admissions programs in higher education and a gap in bar passage rates between racial and ethnic groups..."
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Is It Illegal to Say 'Women Don't Have Penises' in UK? Police Investigate, Mayor Gets Involved

Is It Illegal to Say 'Women Don't Have Penises' in UK? Police Investigate, Mayor Gets Involved:
"A group of women are facing potential police investigation for stating "women do not have penises" as debate over gender identity issues intensifies in the United Kingdom.
The Liverpool ReSisters, a group of feminists in Liverpool, England, resisting transgender ideology, have been printing and distributing small stickers of pink penises with the words "women don't have penises."
And recent social media postings of their efforts drew the attention of police and the city mayor, who have indicated that an investigation is possible.
The group noted in a press release Sunday that their stickers are a creative way of arguing against "self-identification" — allowing people to self-declare their sex without a medical diagnosis...
...In response, the Mercyside police department confirmed they were aware of the stickers and said "enquiries are being made."
Likewise, Joe Anderson, Liverpool's mayor, said: "I am not aware of the group, we will remove stickers and work with the Police to identify those responsible. 
Remember though, Liverpool takes #PRIDE in its diversity and history of fighting for equality for all, we love all our Trans residents and all our LGBT community."...
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Bill Clinton Got His Supreme Court Pick While Under Investigation. Trump Should Get His.

Bill Clinton Got His Supreme Court Pick While Under Investigation. Trump Should Get His.:

Back in July, some Senate Democrats started demanding that the confirmation process for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh be delayed until after the Mueller investigation is finished.
None of them, however, explained the connection between the two.
Now, after Michael Cohen’s guilty plea and Paul Manafort’s conviction stemming from the Mueller investigation, they are at it again. They make no more sense today than they did a month ago, especially given that some of those senators have openly opposed Kavanaugh from the get-go.
As I wrote in July, President Bill Clinton was under criminal investigation in 1993 when he nominated Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The Senate voted 96-3 to confirm her nomination just 42 days later.

The 1930s – The Decade Arctic Alarmists Forgot! | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

The 1930s – The Decade Arctic Alarmists Forgot! | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
"Further to recent posts on the Arctic, No Tricks Zone posted a relevant graph yesterday, showing historical Arctic sea ice  extent trends.

It is based on a reconstruction by Alekseev et al in 2016:

 

http://notrickszone.com/2018/08/24/arctic-summer-sea-ice-growth-trend-extends-another-year-greenland-summer-one-of-coldest-in-30-years/

It shows how meaningless it is to compare current levels with 1979, which both NSIDC and DMI do..."

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History for August 27

History for August 27 - On-This-Day.com
George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770, Margaret Hungerford 1850 - Author ("Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder"), Theodore Dreiser 1871 - Novelist, journalist


Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) 1908 - 36th President of the United States, Ira Levin 1929 - Writer ("Rosemary's Baby," "The Stepford Wives"), Paul "Pee-wee Herman" Reubens 1952 - Actor ("Pee Wee's Playhouse")


1859 - The first oil well was successfully drilled in the U.S. by Colonel Edwin L. Drake near Titusville, PA.


1894 - The Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. The provision within for a graduated income tax was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.


1921 - The owner of Acme Packing Company bought a pro football team for Green Bay, WI. J.E. Clair paid tribute to those who worked in his plant by naming the team the Green Bay Packers. (NFL)


1996 - California Governor Pete Wilson signed an order that would halt state benefits to illegal immigrants.

New Report Shows US, Not Countries Promoting Climate Change Activism, Reducing Emissions the Most

New Report Shows US, Not Countries Promoting Climate Change Activism, Reducing Emissions the Most:

Take a wild guess what country is reducing its greenhouse gas emissions the most? Canada? Britain? France? India? Germany? Japan? No, no, no, no, no, and no.
The answer to that question is the United States of America. Wow! How can that be? This must be a misprint. Fake news. America never signed the Kyoto Protocol some two decades ago. We never enacted a carbon tax. We don’t have a cap-and-trade carbon emission program. That environmental villain Donald Trump pulled America out of the Paris climate accord that was signed by almost the entire rest of the civilized world.