thelibertydaily--2020-12-14--“Brave New World” Prediction by Commie Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley ’ s brilliant mind foresaw the “ Great Reset ” in his 1933 book , “ Brave New World “ , and warned the world in a 1958 interview by Mike Wallace , ( the father of Fox ’ s Chris Wallace ) .
Aldous Huxley ’ s book imagined a totalitarian world order with a panopticon prison without walls .
The citizens are controlled using the drug “ Soma ” , a happy drug to keep everyone enslaved without questioning their condition .
The state provides for all basic needs , nothing is owned , and there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from birth to condition the new slaves to accept their role and their assigned status within the society .
A class system is enforced and genetically controlled through baby farms and population control .
The family does not exists , everyone belongs to everyone else , and there are no social bonds .
You are designed and conditioned for a role and status within the world order .
Religion does not exist , choice does not exist , freedom of thought does not exists .
The world is banal , without worth or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to create a human ant farm who ’ s purpose is to keep those in power at the top .
Psychologist B.F. Skinner also foresaw a dystopian world in his 1948 novel Walden Two , which proposed a society of “ good ” citizens through behavior modification—a system of rewards and punishments .
BF Skinner found that the most effective behavior conditioning program was achieved through a variable ratio schedule of rewards .
The target behavior is rewarded , on average , every five times the person does the behavior .
The reward @ @ @ @ @ @ @ give the reward the second time the behavior is performed , sometimes the sixth time , sometimes the third time .
It averages out to every five times , but the aim is to randomize the reward to deepen the effectiveness of the pleasure seeking behavior and reward potency .

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Aldous Huxley’s brilliant mind foresaw the “Great Reset” in his 1933 book, “Brave New World“, and warned the world in a 1958 interview by Mike Wallace , (the father of Fox’s Chris Wallace). Aldous Huxley’s book imagined a totalitarian world order with a panopticon prison without walls. The citizens are controlled using the drug “Soma”, a happy drug to keep everyone enslaved without questioning their condition.
The state provides for all basic needs, nothing is owned, and there is no privacy. Brainwashing is delivered from birth to condition the new slaves to accept their role and their assigned status within the society. A class system is enforced and genetically controlled through baby farms and population control. The family does not exists, everyone belongs to everyone else, and there are no social bonds.
You are designed and conditioned for a role and status within the world order. Religion does not exist, choice does not exist, freedom of thought does not exists. The world is banal, without worth or purpose, a hell on earth, to create a human ant farm who’s purpose is to keep those in power at the top.
Psychologist B.F. Skinner also foresaw a dystopian world in his 1948 novel Walden Two, which proposed a society of “good” citizens through behavior modification—a system of rewards and punishments. BF Skinner found that the most effective behavior conditioning program was achieved through a variable ratio schedule of rewards. The target behavior is rewarded, on average, every five times the person does the behavior. The reward is varied, so that sometimes you give the reward the second time the behavior is performed, sometimes the sixth time, sometimes the third time. It averages out to every five times, but the aim is to randomize the reward to deepen the effectiveness of the pleasure seeking behavior and reward potency.
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thelibertydaily--2020-12-14--Woke Olympics: Cleveland Indians are Changing Their Team Name to Appease the Marxist Mob

The Cleveland Indians will be bowing to pressure from mostly Caucasian social justice warriors over their “ racist ” nickname .
An announcement is expected as early as this week .
The NY Times reported the long-time Major League Baseball franchise will be following the Washington Football Team , formerly known as the Redskins , in pandering to demands by those who are easily offended by traditions .
That means Chief Wahoo , the iconic mascot for the team , will no longer be employed .
According to The Times : Following years of protests from fans and Native American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to change their team name , moving away from a moniker that has long been criticized as racist , three people familiar with the decision said Sunday .
The move follows a decision by the Washington Football Team of the N.F.L .
in July to stop using a name long considered a racial slur , and is part of a larger national conversation about race that magnified this year amid protests of systemic racism and police violence .
Cleveland could announce its plans as soon as this week , according to the three @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter .
What the article and social justice warriors forget to mention is that Native Americans generally do not care about the name or mascot of professional sports teams .
As I reported in July : These moves have been heralded as a result of “ heightened awareness and shifting cultural norms ” that make things once considered acceptable to suddenly be anathema in modern society .
But the truth is this : They ’ re flexing their social justice muscles to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to change anything they feel can be sold as racist .
It ’ s a farce that exemplifies the post-truth society they ’ re trying to build .
Between voter fraud cover-ups , Antifa antics , and COVID-19 lockdown hysteria , it ’ s easy to forget that social justice warriors are still on the warpath .
Wait , that term is supposed to be racist as well .
It ’ s so hard to keep up .
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The Cleveland Indians will be bowing to pressure from mostly Caucasian social justice warriors over their “racist” nickname. An announcement is expected as early as this week.
The NY Times reported the long-time Major League Baseball franchise will be following the Washington Football Team, formerly known as the Redskins, in pandering to demands by those who are easily offended by traditions. That means Chief Wahoo, the iconic mascot for the team, will no longer be employed. According to The Times:
Following years of protests from fans and Native American groups, the Cleveland Indians have decided to change their team name, moving away from a moniker that has long been criticized as racist, three people familiar with the decision said Sunday.
The move follows a decision by the Washington Football Team of the N.F.L. in July to stop using a name long considered a racial slur, and is part of a larger national conversation about race that magnified this year amid protests of systemic racism and police violence.
Cleveland could announce its plans as soon as this week, according to the three people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.
What the article and social justice warriors forget to mention is that Native Americans generally do not care about the name or mascot of professional sports teams. As I reported in July:
These moves have been heralded as a result of “heightened awareness and shifting cultural norms” that make things once considered acceptable to suddenly be anathema in modern society. But the truth is this: They’re flexing their social justice muscles to demonstrate how manufactured outrage can be channeled to change anything they feel can be sold as racist. It’s a farce that exemplifies the post-truth society they’re trying to build.
Between voter fraud cover-ups, Antifa antics, and COVID-19 lockdown hysteria, it’s easy to forget that social justice warriors are still on the warpath. Wait, that term is supposed to be racist as well. It’s so hard to keep up.
COVID-19 may take down an independent news outlet
Nobody said running a media site would be easy. We could use some help keeping this site afloat.
Colleagues have called me the worst fundraiser ever. My skills are squarely rooted on the journalistic side of running a news outlet. Paying the bills has never been my forte, but we’ve survived. We have ads on the site that help, but since the site’s inception this has been a labor of love that otherwise doesn’t bring in the level of revenue necessary to justify it.
When I left a nice, corporate career in 2017, I did so knowing I wouldn’t make nearly as much money. But what we do at NOQ Report to deliver the truth and fight the progressive mainstream media narrative that has plagued this nation is too important for me to sacrifice it for the sake of wealth. We know we’ll never make a ton of money this way, and we’re okay with that.
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thelibertydaily--2020-12-14--Shocking Video Emerges From NYC Cathedral Shooting: ‘Kill Me! Kill Me!’

Video has emerged that shows the moment an armed gunman was fatally shot by the NYPD on Sunday after he opened fire during a Christmas concert outside a church in New York City .
The video , which is about four minutes long , was posted on Facebook by a person who attended the outdoor concert with his family at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in Harlem .
In the video , the gunman , who was dressed in black , can be heard shouting , `` kill me , kill me , '' before he is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cathedral .
`` I figured that I should take a video of this thing that could have been far worse than just the shooter getting shot and killed , '' Steven Wilson , who posted the video , wrote .
He said he only recorded the video after he knew his family was safe .
NYPD SHOOT ARMED SUSPECT AT CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE DEVINE During the incident , at least one officer was seen taking cover behind some garbage cans , as he pleaded with the man to drop his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the first series of shots rang out , the suspect took cover behind a pillar in front of the church 's doors .
Another officer joined the officer behind the garbage cans , leading to more gunshots , as the suspect was seen coming out from behind cover , before retreating .
The fatal shots rang out soon after .
“ They got him , they got him , ” the man filming is heard saying after the suspect fell to the ground .
NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said police responded to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ affairs detective and a police officer in the vicinity , and a sergeant located at St. Luke 's Hospital also responded .
A total of 15 shots were fired at the gunman .
At least one of the shots struck the gunman in the head .
He was taken to the hospital in critical condition , and was later pronounced dead .
NYC HAS FREED THOUSANDS OF GUN SUSPECTS THIS YEAR AS SHOOTINGS SOAR : NYPD “ I can tell you from the preliminary body camera – and again , this is quick @ @ @ @ @ @ @ three officers acting heroically , sergeant , detective , and police officer , engaging an armed perpetrator , putting themselves in harm ’ s way to pull people that are literally hiding behind these poles behind me caught in the crossfire , ” Shea said .
“ So it is by the grace of God today that we don ’ t have anyone struck.
” Police recovered two semi-automatic firearms owned by the suspect at the scene .
In addition , police found a bag nearby believed to be owned by the suspect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gasoline , rope , wire , multiple knives , a Bible and tape .
Authorities are currently investigating the motive behind the incident .
The identity of the gunman , who Shea said is believed to have a `` lengthy criminal history , '' has not been released as police await fingerprint verification .
CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP The Christmas performance was the cathedral ’ s first public event since the coronavirus pandemic hit the Big Apple , according to the New York Post .

Video has emerged that shows the moment an armed gunman was fatally shot by the NYPD on Sunday after he opened fire during a Christmas concert outside a church in New York City.
The video, which is about four minutes long, was posted on Facebook by a person who attended the outdoor concert with his family at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in Harlem.
WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO
In the video, the gunman, who was dressed in black, can be heard shouting, "kill me, kill me," before he is fatally shot on the steps of the cathedral.
"I figured that I should take a video of this thing that could have been far worse than just the shooter getting shot and killed," Steven Wilson, who posted the video, wrote. He said he only recorded the video after he knew his family was safe.
NYPD SHOOT ARMED SUSPECT AT CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE DEVINE
During the incident, at least one officer was seen taking cover behind some garbage cans, as he pleaded with the man to drop his gun, the video shows.
After the first series of shots rang out, the suspect took cover behind a pillar in front of the church's doors.
Another officer joined the officer behind the garbage cans, leading to more gunshots, as the suspect was seen coming out from behind cover, before retreating.
The fatal shots rang out soon after.
“They got him, they got him,” the man filming is heard saying after the suspect fell to the ground.
NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said police responded to the scene quickly. There were a community affairs detective and a police officer in the vicinity, and a sergeant located at St. Luke's Hospital also responded. A total of 15 shots were fired at the gunman.
At least one of the shots struck the gunman in the head. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition, and was later pronounced dead.
NYC HAS FREED THOUSANDS OF GUN SUSPECTS THIS YEAR AS SHOOTINGS SOAR: NYPD
“I can tell you from the preliminary body camera – and again, this is quick – that we watched, you see three officers acting heroically, sergeant, detective, and police officer, engaging an armed perpetrator, putting themselves in harm’s way to pull people that are literally hiding behind these poles behind me caught in the crossfire,” Shea said. “So it is by the grace of God today that we don’t have anyone struck.”
Police recovered two semi-automatic firearms owned by the suspect at the scene. In addition, police found a bag nearby believed to be owned by the suspect, which contained a full can of gasoline, rope, wire, multiple knives, a Bible and tape.
Authorities are currently investigating the motive behind the incident. The identity of the gunman, who Shea said is believed to have a "lengthy criminal history," has not been released as police await fingerprint verification.
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The Christmas performance was the cathedral’s first public event since the coronavirus pandemic hit the Big Apple, according to the New York Post.
Fox News' Lucas Manfredi contributed to this report


thelibertydaily--2020-12-14--Chief Minister Busted Lying About Staggering Cost of Renewable Energy

Shamelessly promoting unreliable renewable energy is one thing , but barefaced lying about its cost , is quite another .
Wherever wind and solar make up any significant proportion of a power supply , retail power prices soon rocket .
Rising power prices are the guaranteed consequence of duplicating capital costs ; additional system costs – including the greater need for frequency control services ; running conventional generators inefficiently and switching to highly inefficient fast start gas and diesel generators to compensate for the total and totally unpredictable collapses in wind and solar output .
[ Note to Ed : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that sunset is fairly predictable ] .
Tacked on top of the wholesale price is the cost of the subsidies , tax credits , mandated wind and solar targets and guaranteed over the market contract prices .
All ultimately born by taxpayers and/or power consumers .
There is not a single case in the world where the increased penetration wind and solar has resulted in lower retail power prices .
Which makes the promises and claims made by the Northern Territory ’ s Labor government in the run-up to the August 2020 last @ @ @ @ @ @ @ When pitching his – all solar – renewable energy roadmap Labor leader , Michael Gunner went all in – asserting that his plan was guaranteed to reduce retail power prices .
As Amos Aikman details below , at the same time as Gunner was making his pitch to voters , he was sitting on a detailed report which concluded that Gunner ’ s plan would not only leave Territorians out of pocket , but was likely to leave them sweltering in the dark after sunset or during cloudy weather .
Consumers will have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will have to fork out at least $ 1bn extra if the Northern Territory is to meet Labor ’ s ambitious green energy target , according to modelling that contradicts politicians ’ claims the target will cost nothing .
The modelling was produced by the public utility Territory Generation and warns that reaching 50 per cent renewable power by 2030 will likely push up system costs by 20 to 30 per cent and leave about $ 1.9bn worth of prepurchased gas “ stranded ” .
“ Reaching the 50 per cent renewable target @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of $ 1.1bn to $ 1.3bn — $ 600 to $ 700m in new generation , $ 300m to $ 350m to augment the network … and $ 200m to $ 250m in battery storage , even assuming technology costs decline over time , ” a summary of the modelling says .
“ Capital costs will replace fuel costs as the key driver for electricity prices … if real retail electricity prices are maintained at the current level , the value of this investment … would be borne by the government through incremental @ @ @ @ @ @ @ summary was produced in June 2017 , shortly before Chief Minister Michael Gunner released his government ’ s Roadmap Renewables report .
It raises questions about whether he misled voters by claiming the 50 per cent target would be cost-neutral .
“ We see this very much as about substitution rather than additional costs … the cost of renewables is coming down , and so this provides a much smarter , better way of providing reliable and affordable electricity for Territorians , ” Mr Gunner said that November when asked to guarantee that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more .
“ The advice we ’ re getting from the renewables committee is that an investment in renewables will actually put downward pressure on household prices.
” The Securing the NT ’ s Energy Future report The Australian has obtained represents the first public airing of the government ’ s internal cost estimates .
The material is understood to have been circulated to ministers , and the government is believed to have several other reports also showing transitioning to 50 per cent green power will not be free .
Labor has fought @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its climate change mitigation plans .
The Territory Generation document endorses the government ’ s green energy push but warns it will inevitably be expensive and could also cause blackouts if mismanaged .
“ Depending on the approach that the NT government takes , a poorly co-ordinated transition to renewables might not reach the renewables target , or in the worst case could lead to significantly higher costs and system security issues , ” it says .
The government ’ s solar tsar , Alan Langworthy , warned in March that lousy preparation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ risk .
After an outage last month , he said the system was “ running on luck ” .
The Territory has only one source of renewable power , solar .
Increasing its penetration means duplicating generation capacity to cope with cloudy days and night-time .
“ Under the business-as-usual approach , uncoordinated small investments in solar generation will continue to contribute to overcapacity , negatively impact reliability and security … and put upward pressure on overall system costs , ” the report says .
“ The current supply contracts between TGEN and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ retailers to underwrite renewables investment that will actually increase total energy cost , strand TGEN assets and blur the traditional boundaries between generation and retail.
” Territory Generation did not respond to requests for comment on Thursday .
The Australian

Shamelessly promoting unreliable renewable energy is one thing, but barefaced lying about its cost, is quite another.
Wherever wind and solar make up any significant proportion of a power supply, retail power prices soon rocket.
Rising power prices are the guaranteed consequence of duplicating capital costs; additional system costs – including the greater need for frequency control services; running conventional generators inefficiently and switching to highly inefficient fast start gas and diesel generators to compensate for the total and totally unpredictable collapses in wind and solar output. [Note to Ed: you should correct that to point out that sunset is fairly predictable].
Tacked on top of the wholesale price is the cost of the subsidies, tax credits, mandated wind and solar targets and guaranteed over the market contract prices. All ultimately born by taxpayers and/or power consumers.
There is not a single case in the world where the increased penetration of wind and solar has resulted in lower retail power prices.
Which makes the promises and claims made by the Northern Territory’s Labor government in the run-up to the August 2020 election look all the more courageous.
When pitching his – all solar – renewable energy roadmap Labor leader, Michael Gunner went all in – asserting that his plan was guaranteed to reduce retail power prices.
As Amos Aikman details below, at the same time as Gunner was making his pitch to voters, he was sitting on a detailed report which concluded that Gunner’s plan would not only leave Territorians out of pocket, but was likely to leave them sweltering in the dark after sunset or during cloudy weather.
Energy report reveals Labor knew about renewables cost
The Australian
Amos Aikman
10 December 2020
Consumers will have to pay higher electricity bills and taxpayers will have to fork out at least $1bn extra if the Northern Territory is to meet Labor’s ambitious green energy target, according to modelling that contradicts politicians’ claims the target will cost nothing.
The modelling was produced by the public utility Territory Generation and warns that reaching 50 per cent renewable power by 2030 will likely push up system costs by 20 to 30 per cent and leave about $1.9bn worth of prepurchased gas “stranded”.
“Reaching the 50 per cent renewable target by 2030 will require a total investment of $1.1bn to $1.3bn — $600 to $700m in new generation, $300m to $350m to augment the network … and $200m to $250m in battery storage, even assuming technology costs decline over time,” a summary of the modelling says.
“Capital costs will replace fuel costs as the key driver for electricity prices … if real retail electricity prices are maintained at the current level, the value of this investment … would be borne by the government through incremental CSO (subsidy) payments.”
The summary was produced in June 2017, shortly before Chief Minister Michael Gunner released his government’s Roadmap Renewables report. It raises questions about whether he misled voters by claiming the 50 per cent target would be cost-neutral.
“We see this very much as about substitution rather than additional costs … the cost of renewables is coming down, and so this provides a much smarter, better way of providing reliable and affordable electricity for Territorians,” Mr Gunner said that November when asked to guarantee that the policy would not cost a dollar more.
“The advice we’re getting from the renewables committee is that an investment in renewables will actually put downward pressure on household prices.”
The Securing the NT’s Energy Future report The Australian has obtained represents the first public airing of the government’s internal cost estimates.
The material is understood to have been circulated to ministers, and the government is believed to have several other reports also showing transitioning to 50 per cent green power will not be free.
Labor has fought hard to hide the true costs of its climate change mitigation plans.
The Territory Generation document endorses the government’s green energy push but warns it will inevitably be expensive and could also cause blackouts if mismanaged.
“Depending on the approach that the NT government takes, a poorly co-ordinated transition to renewables might not reach the renewables target, or in the worst case could lead to significantly higher costs and system security issues,” it says.
The government’s solar tsar, Alan Langworthy, warned in March that lousy preparation was already putting the electricity network at risk. After an outage last month, he said the system was “running on luck”.
The Territory has only one source of renewable power, solar. Increasing its penetration means duplicating generation capacity to cope with cloudy days and night-time.
“Under the business-as-usual approach, uncoordinated small investments in solar generation will continue to contribute to overcapacity, negatively impact reliability and security … and put upward pressure on overall system costs,” the report says.
“The current supply contracts between TGEN and retailers have led to distorted incentives for retailers to underwrite renewables investment that will actually increase total energy cost, strand TGEN assets and blur the traditional boundaries between generation and retail.”
Territory Generation did not respond to requests for comment on Thursday.
The Australian


thelibertydaily--2020-12-14--On This Day: 28 Die in Sandy Hook School Massacre

Dec. 14 ( UPI ) -- On this date in history : In 1287 , more than 50,000 people died in a flood caused by the collapse of the Zuider Zee dike in the Netherlands .
In 1799 , George Washington , war for independence military leader and first president of the United States , died at his Mount Vernon home in Virginia .
In 1819 , Alabama became the 22nd state in the United States .
In 1911 , Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach the South Pole .
The world would have to wait @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Amundsen 's triumphant feat .
In 1972 , Apollo 17 commander Eugene Cernan re-entered the lunar lander -- the last man to walk on the moon .
In 1988 , the United States announced the start of a `` substantive dialogue '' with the Palestine Liberation Organization for the first time .
In 1989 , Andrei Sakharov , father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb , dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner for defending human rights , died at age 68 .
In 1995 , the signing of a peace treaty at a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina .
In 2005 , Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the Holocaust was a `` myth '' and called for Israel to be moved to Europe or North America .
In 2006 , the official British police investigation into the 1997 death of Princess Diana in a Paris car crash concluded that it was an accident and no conspiracy or foul play was involved .
In 2012 , a gunman killed 27 people , including 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown , Conn. , then killed himself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Adam Lanza , 20 , killed his mother before going to the school .
In 2017 , the Federal Communications Commission repealed Obama-era net neutrality rules , loosening regulations on Internet service providers .

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thelibertydaily--2020-12-14--Marjorie Taylor Greene Tells Sen. Rand Paul ‘We’d Love to Have You on Board’ For Electoral College V

Marjorie Taylor Greene Tells Sen. Rand Paul ‘We’d Love to Have You on Board’ For Electoral College Vote Challenge

As we ’ ve reported , Georgia Congresswoman-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene has been joined by multiple Congressmen who plan to challenge the Electoral College vote certification on January 6th , assuming that it is for Joe Biden .
On Thursday , CNN reported that Kentucky Senator Rand Paul told them that he is not ruling out joining a member of the House to object and challenge election results at the joint meeting .
They quoted Paul as saying , “ We ’ re still looking at all the legal stuff that ’ s happening with the legal cases and we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ ve seen all the legal challenges.
” Greene responded to the news by tagging Paul in a tweet and stating , “ We ’ d love to have you on board !
” The Epoch Times reported that Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson recently told reporters that he ’ s leaving the option open as well .
CBS News ran an article recently which pointed out that in the 2017 joint session confirming President Trump ’ s electoral college victory , Democratic House members , led by Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ results , only to be foiled by then-Vice President Biden .
Massachusetts House Rep. Jim McGovern objected to Alabama ’ s results on the grounds that its electors were not lawfully certified and mentioned the debunked Russia hoax as an additional reason .
“ Especially given the confirmed and illegal activities engaged by the government of Russia , designed to interfere with our election and widespread violations of the voting rights act that unlawfully suppressed thousands of votes in the state of Alabama , ” McGovern said .
Biden asked if its written @ @ @ @ @ @ @ member of the House and Senate and responded , “ In that case the objection can not be entertained , ” when McGovern confirmed that he did not have a senator ’ s support for the challenge , which prompted applause from Republican lawmakers .
Several other Democratic lawmakers lodged unsuccessful objections at the time because they , too , did not meet the two-chamber requirement .
“ It is over , ” Biden said to Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal after she could not produce a senator ’ s signature , drawing a standing @ @ @ @

As we’ve reported, Georgia Congresswoman-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene has been joined by multiple Congressmen who plan to challenge the Electoral College vote certification on January 6th, assuming that it is for Joe Biden.
On Thursday, CNN reported that Kentucky Senator Rand Paul told them that he is not ruling out joining a member of the House to object and challenge election results at the joint meeting.
They quoted Paul as saying, “We’re still looking at all the legal stuff that’s happening with the legal cases and we’ll make our decision after we’ve seen all the legal challenges.”
Greene responded to the news by tagging Paul in a tweet and stating, “We’d love to have you on board!”
We'd love to have you on board, @RandPaul!https://t.co/ZXUVs8bYEx — Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) December 13, 2020
The Epoch Times reported that Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson recently told reporters that he’s leaving the option open as well.
CBS News ran an article recently which pointed out that in the 2017 joint session confirming President Trump’s electoral college victory, Democratic House members, led by Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas and Barbara Lee of California, challenged the results, only to be foiled by then-Vice President Biden.
Massachusetts House Rep. Jim McGovern objected to Alabama’s results on the grounds that its electors were not lawfully certified and mentioned the debunked Russia hoax as an additional reason.
“Especially given the confirmed and illegal activities engaged by the government of Russia, designed to interfere with our election and widespread violations of the voting rights act that unlawfully suppressed thousands of votes in the state of Alabama,” McGovern said.
Biden asked if its written form had been signed by both a member of the House and Senate and responded, “In that case the objection cannot be entertained,” when McGovern confirmed that he did not have a senator’s support for the challenge, which prompted applause from Republican lawmakers.
Several other Democratic lawmakers lodged unsuccessful objections at the time because they, too, did not meet the two-chamber requirement.
“It is over,” Biden said to Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal after she could not produce a senator’s signature, drawing a standing ovation from Republicans.


thelibertydaily--2020-12-14--How the Left Is Using the Coronavirus to Make the World a Twisted Dystopia

PETITION : No to mandatory contact tracing and government surveillance for the coronavirus !
Sign the petition here .
September 11 , 2020 ( LifeSiteNews ) — If you were living in a dystopia , how would you even know it ?
The current situation certainly raises the question , as we experience unprecedented restrictions on individual freedom adopted in response to the Chinese coronavirus , coupled with left-wing riots that undermine the legitimacy of America ’ s core institutions .
It ’ s becoming clear that these social changes are dystopian , not merely because they are harmful and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ replace the American way of life with a new social order rooted in utopian visions .
In a January 2019 essay on the overuse of the word “ dystopia ” in American political discourse , Miami University of Ohio professor Ryan J. Barilleaux wrote that the defining features of an actual dystopia are “ social regimentation , dehumanization , abuse of technology , state terror , a new class of rulers , propaganda instead of truth , inevitable totalitarianism , and the tragedy of the individual.
” “ When combined , these features @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wrote Barilleaux .
“ Dystopia is what results from the attempt to create utopia , ” he explained .
“ Consider the society of Brave New World , which is horrible precisely to the extent that the World State was designed to be exactly as it is.
” This year ’ s warp-speed cultural transformation has brought about all of Barilleaux ’ s hallmarks of a dystopia .
The utopia today ’ s bureaucrats and elitists are striving toward is a global , communistic police state .
This police state is sold to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as a safe , virus-free society .
Who wouldn ’ t want that ?
Its architects admit that they won ’ t stop at a vaccine .
“ We will not , we can not go back to the way things were , ” World Health Organization ( WHO ) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said August 21 .
Nonsensical “ virus prevention ” measures — forcing people to wear masks alone outside , curfews suggesting that the virus is more deadly at night than during the day — are priming the public to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ control and surveillance .
The social regimentation of our new COVID world is ritualistic and religious .
Hand-washing , staying physically away from others , walking only in certain directions at the grocery store , and not socializing are sacrosanct practices .
Snitch lines , bizarre rules about which doors students can use , all-online classes but no cancelation of room and board fees , “ testing pods , ” and COVID “ symptom-tracker ” apps are all part of the American college experience now .
So are “ social distancing ” rules @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and parties .
Will this mean the death of hook-up culture ?
Will “ virtual ” sex and more pornography simply fill its gap ?
Or will sexual license trump Wuhan virus prevention measures , just as Antifa and BLM riots have been exempt from the supposedly anti-coronavirus standards now applied to churches ?
Dehumanization and the tragedy of the individual Face masks , now required in public or to enter businesses in many places , are one of the most obvious mechanisms of dehumanization .
Other people are now faceless potential virus-carriers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Enforcing limited or no social gatherings also dehumanizes the population .
Humans are social creatures .
Can existence be joyful , meaningful , and fulfilling if human contact is as severely limited as it has been ordered to be ?
The crushing discouragement of family life is not only dehumanizing , but also one of the coronavirus power-grab ’ s greatest contributions to the tragedy of the individual .
Today ’ s suffering individual is best exemplified by Shelley Luther , the Texas beauty salon–owner arrested and jailed for opening her business .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ time by apologizing for being “ selfish ” and paying a fine , but she refused to “ bend the knee , ” as her lawyer put it .
For every fighting Shelley Luther , how many Americans are there who simply gave up their dreams of running a small business because the coronavirus and its accompanying restrictions robbed them of all ambition and hope ?
Big tech and liberal establishment media censor any news that counters the narrative that the coronavirus — which the vast , vast majority of healthy people survive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the century .
A press conference by the pro-hydroxychloroquine America ’ s Frontline Doctors group was infamously scrubbed from social media despite its massive support , even from President Trump .
At the beginning of the lockdown , authorities in the United Kingdom used drones to capture footage of and subsequently shame people who were exercising .
A “ social distancing ” robot dog — which looked eerily like a machine from Black Mirror — prowled a Singapore park telling people to stay apart .
In Kentucky , supposedly virus-positive individuals have even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Police in Victoria , Australia have been granted authority to enter homes without a warrant to carry out “ spot checks.
” The combination of 21st-century technology and petty , power-hungry bureaucrats ( as my grandmother astutely put it , “ some people like to exercise what little authority they have ” ) has created a perfect storm .
And terror isn ’ t coming only from the state : tech companies voluntarily pick up the slack for government incompetence .
“ [ D ] ystopia empowers a new class of rulers and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the power of the regime , ” wrote Barilleaux .
“ Dystopian regimes employ propaganda ( ‘ Freedom is Slavery , ’ ‘ Community , Identity , Stability , ’ ‘ Workers of the world , unite !
’ ) to mislead the populace and state terror ( disappearances , reeducation camps , gulags , the Thought Police , the Firemen of Fahrenheit 451 ) to enforce conformity.
” Our new class of rulers are “ public health experts.
” Many of these people say there are an infinite number of genders , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the womb with a beating heart is just a “ clump of cells , ” and children should be able to attempt to “ change ” their sex .
They are now the ones whose interpretations of data and projections ( projections being guesses ) are infallible .
Questioning them is to deny science , a cardinal sin .
The coronavirus outbreak has produced a host of creepy “ war is peace ” phrases such as “ staying apart keeps us together ” and “ social distancing.
” Actually , staying apart @ @ @ @ @ @ @ far as possible from other people isn ’ t social ... it ’ s anti-social .
This has never been about a virus For today ’ s revolutionaries , this was never about any virus ; rather , it is about a crisis that can be used to usher in a new world order , a “ new normal , ” where human beings live in fear and under constant surveillance by an all-powerful regime .
In this atomized , isolated state , the populace is easier to control , and the supposedly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about .
However , nothing in history is inevitable .
Dystopias are created only by and through the consent of those who stand by and say nothing while their liberties are taken .
Americans mustn ’ t give tyrants a single inch .
The time to fight is now , before it ’ s too late .

PETITION: No to mandatory contact tracing and government surveillance for the coronavirus! Sign the petition here.
September 11, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — If you were living in a dystopia, how would you even know it?
The current situation certainly raises the question, as we experience unprecedented restrictions on individual freedom adopted in response to the Chinese coronavirus, coupled with left-wing riots that undermine the legitimacy of America’s core institutions. It’s becoming clear that these social changes are dystopian, not merely because they are harmful and coercive, but because they seek to replace the American way of life with a new social order rooted in utopian visions.
In a January 2019 essay on the overuse of the word “dystopia” in American political discourse, Miami University of Ohio professor Ryan J. Barilleaux wrote that the defining features of an actual dystopia are “social regimentation, dehumanization, abuse of technology, state terror, a new class of rulers, propaganda instead of truth, inevitable totalitarianism, and the tragedy of the individual.”
“When combined, these features sketch the map of dystopia,” wrote Barilleaux.
“Dystopia is what results from the attempt to create utopia,” he explained. “Consider the society of Brave New World, which is horrible precisely to the extent that the World State was designed to be exactly as it is.”
This year’s warp-speed cultural transformation has brought about all of Barilleaux’s hallmarks of a dystopia. The utopia today’s bureaucrats and elitists are striving toward is a global, communistic police state. This police state is sold to ordinary people not as that, but as a safe, virus-free society. Who wouldn’t want that?
Its architects admit that they won’t stop at a vaccine. “We will not, we cannot go back to the way things were,” World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said August 21.
Nonsensical “virus prevention” measures — forcing people to wear masks alone outside, curfews suggesting that the virus is more deadly at night than during the day — are priming the public to submit to increasingly arbitrary forms of government control and surveillance.
Social regimentation
The social regimentation of our new COVID world is ritualistic and religious. Hand-washing, staying physically away from others, walking only in certain directions at the grocery store, and not socializing are sacrosanct practices.
Snitch lines, bizarre rules about which doors students can use, all-online classes but no cancelation of room and board fees, “testing pods,” and COVID “symptom-tracker” apps are all part of the American college experience now.
So are “social distancing” rules limiting human contact, dorm visits, and parties. Will this mean the death of hook-up culture? Will “virtual” sex and more pornography simply fill its gap? Or will sexual license trump Wuhan virus prevention measures, just as Antifa and BLM riots have been exempt from the supposedly anti-coronavirus standards now applied to churches?
Dehumanization and the tragedy of the individual
Face masks, now required in public or to enter businesses in many places, are one of the most obvious mechanisms of dehumanization. Other people are now faceless potential virus-carriers to be avoided at all costs.
Enforcing limited or no social gatherings also dehumanizes the population. Humans are social creatures. Can existence be joyful, meaningful, and fulfilling if human contact is as severely limited as it has been ordered to be?
The crushing discouragement of family life is not only dehumanizing, but also one of the coronavirus power-grab’s greatest contributions to the tragedy of the individual.
As Barilleaux explained:
The ultimate result of dystopia can be seen in the tragedy of an individual. In dystopian stories and novels, the [protagonist] (such as John the Savage or Winston Smith) is crushed — or nearly so — as a way to make clear just how brutal the prevailing order is. In the real dystopias of modernity, individuals come to symbolize the oppression of the regime: the survivors of Hitler’s death camps, figures such as Andrei Sakharov and Alexander Solzhenitsyn, or Otto Warmbier, the American student who died from mistreatment while in North Korean custody.
Today’s suffering individual is best exemplified by Shelley Luther, the Texas beauty salon–owner arrested and jailed for opening her business. A judge said she could avoid jail time by apologizing for being “selfish” and paying a fine, but she refused to “bend the knee,” as her lawyer put it.
For every fighting Shelley Luther, how many Americans are there who simply gave up their dreams of running a small business because the coronavirus and its accompanying restrictions robbed them of all ambition and hope?
Abuse of technology and state terror
Big tech and liberal establishment media censor any news that counters the narrative that the coronavirus — which the vast, vast majority of healthy people survive — is the most serious disease of the century.
A press conference by the pro-hydroxychloroquine America’s Frontline Doctors group was infamously scrubbed from social media despite its massive support, even from President Trump.
At the beginning of the lockdown, authorities in the United Kingdom used drones to capture footage of and subsequently shame people who were exercising. A “social distancing” robot dog — which looked eerily like a machine from Black Mirror — prowled a Singapore park telling people to stay apart.
In Kentucky, supposedly virus-positive individuals have even been fitted with electronic ankle monitors.
Unmasked Utah kindergarteners now face misdemeanor charges.
Police in Victoria, Australia have been granted authority to enter homes without a warrant to carry out “spot checks.”
The combination of 21st-century technology and petty, power-hungry bureaucrats (as my grandmother astutely put it, “some people like to exercise what little authority they have”) has created a perfect storm. And terror isn’t coming only from the state: tech companies voluntarily pick up the slack for government incompetence.
A new class of rulers
“[D]ystopia empowers a new class of rulers and uses propaganda and state terror to maintain the power of the regime,” wrote Barilleaux. “Dystopian regimes employ propaganda (‘Freedom is Slavery,’ ‘Community, Identity, Stability,’ ‘Workers of the world, unite!’) to mislead the populace and state terror (disappearances, reeducation camps, gulags, the Thought Police, the Firemen of Fahrenheit 451) to enforce conformity.”
Our new class of rulers are “public health experts.” Many of these people say there are an infinite number of genders, men can get pregnant, a human in the womb with a beating heart is just a “clump of cells,” and children should be able to attempt to “change” their sex.
They are now the ones whose interpretations of data and projections (projections being guesses) are infallible. Questioning them is to deny science, a cardinal sin.
Propaganda instead of truth
The coronavirus outbreak has produced a host of creepy “war is peace” phrases such as “staying apart keeps us together” and “social distancing.”
Actually, staying apart…keeps us apart. Staying as far as possible from other people isn’t social…it’s anti-social.
This has never been about a virus
For today’s revolutionaries, this was never about any virus; rather, it is about a crisis that can be used to usher in a new world order, a “new normal,” where human beings live in fear and under constant surveillance by an all-powerful regime.
In this atomized, isolated state, the populace is easier to control, and the supposedly “virus-free” utopia can be brought about.
However, nothing in history is inevitable. Dystopias are created only by and through the consent of those who stand by and say nothing while their liberties are taken. Americans mustn’t give tyrants a single inch. The time to fight is now, before it’s too late.
Follow Claire As a journalist and editor for LifeSiteNews, Claire Chretien has written more than 1,500 articles about abortion, human dignity, bioethics, the Catholic Church, politics, and related topics. Claire holds a bachelor’s degree from The University of Alabama. It was there that she first became involved in pro-life activism.
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thelibertydaily--2020-12-14--Guy Fieri Raised $21.5M for Restaurant Workers, Praised for Doing ‘More Than Congress’

Food Network host Guy Fieri worked to raise more than $ 21.5 million in seven weeks to help unemployed restaurant workers , prompting many to praise him for `` doing more than Congress '' to assist struggling hospitality employees during the pandemic .
The longtime TV host of Diners , Drive-Ins and Dives made personal pleas with large corporate sponsors , including PepsiCo , Uber Eats and Moët Hennessy USA , to support his Restaurant Employee Relief Fund .
Fieri started the fund on March 27 as the COVID-19 pandemic was rapidly spreading through the U.S. and much of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than 43,000 restaurant workers `` who have suffered financially due to the COVID-19 health and economic crisis , '' particularly through $ 500 grants to restaurant workers in every state .
Fieri and the relief fund were able to raise $ 21.5 million between March and August , a representative with The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation told Newsweek Tuesday .
Fieri 's philanthropic efforts to help hurting hospitality workers in the past seven weeks has prompted many to highlight Congress ' failure to pass any major pandemic relief in the past seven @ @ @ @ @ @ @ led many social media responses over the weekend in labeling Fieri a `` ridiculously good human who walks it like he talks it . ''
`` .
@ GuyFieri has raised more than $ 21.5 million in seven weeks to assist unemployed restaurant workers .
Shame on every single one of our government 'leaders ' who have failed them .
God bless the 'Fundraiser of Flavortown , ' '' tweeted Janice Dean , senior meteorologist at Fox News .
Eighty percent of the grant recipients reported making less than $ 50,000 annually in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pandemic .
`` Who would 've thought that as 2020 comes to an end , we 'd be praising Dolly Parton & Guy Fieri for doing what the government could n't or would n't , '' reads another top tweet from Joanie Reb .
Parton , the iconic country singer , was commended last month for making personal donations toward a coronavirus vaccine .
Restaurant workers are facing increasingly dire prospects as establishments throughout much of the country try to balance winterizing efforts alongside strict distancing precautions indoors and outdoors .
The latest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 4 showed employment in leisure and hospitality is down by 3.4 million jobs since February .
About 17,000 jobs in `` food services and drinking places '' were cut in November alone .
Many of those left unemployed are hoping Congress can pass the $ 120 billion Restaurants Act , which would help fund independent restaurants and bars with fewer than 20 physical locations .
Fieri on Sunday expressed his support for the California Restaurant Association 's lawsuit against the state 's outdoor dining ban .
A judge on Wednesday ordered the Los @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scientific evidence that corroborates the ban .
`` We got ta keep Flavortown open for biz ! ''
Fieri tweeted .
`` Guy Fieri has raised $ 21.5 million for unemployed restaurant workers , which means Guy Fieri has done more for unemployed restaurant workers than Congress has in the last 8 months , '' tweeted author Dan Price , heaping more praise on the philanthropic Food Network host .
The Food Network is set to release a documentary , Restaurant Hustle 2020 , which Fieri worked on as an executive producer .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ follows four chefs—Maneet Chauhan , Antonia Lofaso , Christian Petroni , and Marcus Samuelsson—as they navigate the challenges of being restaurateurs amid the coronavirus pandemic .
`` I 've traveled coast to coast visiting thousands of restaurants across the country on Diners , Drive-Ins and Dives , and after all the time on the road , it 's clear that restaurants are the heart and soul of their communities , '' Fieri said in a statement released through the Discovery Channel last week .
`` When the COVID-19 pandemic hit , the impact @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Restaurant Hustle 2020 : All On The Line provides a real and intimate first-hand look into the lives of four top restaurateurs [ as they ] navigate through it all . ''
Many major cities including New York and Los Angeles are under threat from government officials of entering a total shutdown of indoor dining next week .
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday that if hospitalization capacity hits 90 percent within three weeks for any of the state 's 10 regions , he will completely shut down all nonessential businesses .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ pandemic relief funding since the CARES Act back in March .
Washington lawmakers from both parties accuse the other side of failing to make adequate concessions to help the country 's millions of unemployed workers as well as small businesses .
Newsweek reached out to the Restaurant Employee Relief Fund and Fieri 's public relations team Tuesday afternoon , but comment was not available by the time of publishing .

Food Network host Guy Fieri worked to raise more than $21.5 million in seven weeks to help unemployed restaurant workers, prompting many to praise him for "doing more than Congress" to assist struggling hospitality employees during the pandemic.
The longtime TV host of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives made personal pleas with large corporate sponsors, including PepsiCo, Uber Eats and Moët Hennessy USA, to support his Restaurant Employee Relief Fund. Fieri started the fund on March 27 as the COVID-19 pandemic was rapidly spreading through the U.S. and much of the world. The group has helped more than 43,000 restaurant workers "who have suffered financially due to the COVID-19 health and economic crisis," particularly through $500 grants to restaurant workers in every state.
Fieri and the relief fund were able to raise $21.5 million between March and August, a representative with The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation told Newsweek Tuesday.
Fieri's philanthropic efforts to help hurting hospitality workers in the past seven weeks has prompted many to highlight Congress' failure to pass any major pandemic relief in the past seven months. Comedian and actor Patton Oswalt led many social media responses over the weekend in labeling Fieri a "ridiculously good human who walks it like he talks it."
".@GuyFieri has raised more than $21.5 million in seven weeks to assist unemployed restaurant workers. Shame on every single one of our government 'leaders' who have failed them. God bless the 'Fundraiser of Flavortown,'" tweeted Janice Dean, senior meteorologist at Fox News.
Eighty percent of the grant recipients reported making less than $50,000 annually in the restaurant industry prior to the coronavirus pandemic.
"Who would've thought that as 2020 comes to an end, we'd be praising Dolly Parton & Guy Fieri for doing what the government couldn't or wouldn't," reads another top tweet from Joanie Reb. Parton, the iconic country singer, was commended last month for making personal donations toward a coronavirus vaccine.
Restaurant workers are facing increasingly dire prospects as establishments throughout much of the country try to balance winterizing efforts alongside strict distancing precautions indoors and outdoors. The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report on December 4 showed employment in leisure and hospitality is down by 3.4 million jobs since February. About 17,000 jobs in "food services and drinking places" were cut in November alone. Many of those left unemployed are hoping Congress can pass the $120 billion Restaurants Act, which would help fund independent restaurants and bars with fewer than 20 physical locations.
Fieri on Sunday expressed his support for the California Restaurant Association's lawsuit against the state's outdoor dining ban. A judge on Wednesday ordered the Los Angeles County public health department to provide scientific evidence that corroborates the ban. "We gotta keep Flavortown open for biz!" Fieri tweeted.
"Guy Fieri has raised $21.5 million for unemployed restaurant workers, which means Guy Fieri has done more for unemployed restaurant workers than Congress has in the last 8 months," tweeted author Dan Price, heaping more praise on the philanthropic Food Network host.
The Food Network is set to release a documentary, Restaurant Hustle 2020, which Fieri worked on as an executive producer. Premiering on December 27, the film follows four chefs—Maneet Chauhan, Antonia Lofaso, Christian Petroni, and Marcus Samuelsson—as they navigate the challenges of being restaurateurs amid the coronavirus pandemic.
"I've traveled coast to coast visiting thousands of restaurants across the country on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, and after all the time on the road, it's clear that restaurants are the heart and soul of their communities," Fieri said in a statement released through the Discovery Channel last week. "When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the impact on the restaurant industry was immediate. Restaurant Hustle 2020: All On The Line provides a real and intimate first-hand look into the lives of four top restaurateurs [as they] navigate through it all."
Many major cities including New York and Los Angeles are under threat from government officials of entering a total shutdown of indoor dining next week. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday that if hospitalization capacity hits 90 percent within three weeks for any of the state's 10 regions, he will completely shut down all nonessential businesses.
Congress has failed to pass any major pandemic relief funding since the CARES Act back in March. Washington lawmakers from both parties accuse the other side of failing to make adequate concessions to help the country's millions of unemployed workers as well as small businesses.
Newsweek reached out to the Restaurant Employee Relief Fund and Fieri's public relations team Tuesday afternoon, but comment was not available by the time of publishing.


thelibertydaily--2020-12-14--How Media Bias and ‘Woke Identity’ Have Infiltrated Newsrooms

It is no secret that the media leans left .
From the ways in which journalists choose to report on critical issues , to the questions they decide to ask political leaders on different sides of the aisle , media bias is undeniable .
CNN contributor Mary Katherine Ham and Fox News contributor and radio host Guy Benson are co-authors of “ End of Discussion : How the Left ’ s Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate , Manipulates Voters , and Makes America Less Free ( and Fun ) .
” Last week , they assessed the media at The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s Club Meeting .
Today , we share their perspectives on The Daily Signal Podcast .
Listen to the podcast below or read the lightly edited transcript .
Rob Bluey : Can you reflect back on 2020 and share what you think are some of the most egregious examples of media bias ?
Mary Katharine Ham : Oh , Rob , there ’ s so many to choose from .
It ’ s hard to say .
I think one that stood out to me and that is a pattern that has repeated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the different way in which protests on the left are covered vs. protests on the right .
And you saw this diametric juxtaposed to each other this summer with protests against lockdowns on the right , mostly , and then protests on the other side , [ Black Lives Matter ] , criminal justice reform .
The argument when the lockdown protests happened at the very beginning of summer was these people are endangering the entire country .
I mean , just being out here , even driving your car in a circle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a problem , right ?
And then the other side protested and suddenly the sacrosanct First Amendment , right to gather and profess one ’ s grievances and peaceably assemble , was a-OK and not a danger to anyone .
All I wished was that maybe we could just recognize this as a First Amendment right that shouldn ’ t be socially shamed selectively , depending on which side you like .
So that was annoying .
Bluey : That ’ s a good example .
Guy , how about you ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ s all so tough .
I did see a tweet from an MSNBC anchor this week where she was celebrating the fact that [ former Vice President ] Joe Biden declined to answer a question .
So I guess he was asked if he had met with [ Senate Majority Leader ] Mitch McConnell yet , and he wouldn ’ t say so .
And she ’ s like , “ How refreshing that he didn ’ t lie , he just stonewalled us.
” Benson : May I have another ?
This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ look like .
Again , the media is going to go back into sort of vacation/hibernation mode .
I think what I ’ ve seen this year on media bias that has actually concerned me more than anything—beyond just the media overall supporting Democrats , being Democrats , helping Democrats—is the internal machinations within newsrooms where journalistic fundamentals are now being subsumed by woke identity .
And we saw it , I think the most prominent example that some people at home might remember was [ Sen. ] Tom Cotton in The New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people ended up being demoted or fired from their positions for allowing a sitting senator to write words in The New York Times supporting a position that a majority of Americans agreed with , mind you .
That was a high-profile one .
Another one that I would just bring to your attention was in Philadelphia where the executive editor of the largest newspaper in Philadelphia was thrown out of his position because he approved a headline that was about the destruction of property during all the riots and the headline was , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was deemed so egregiously offensive that this man who had been at the paper for 20 years , had led them to a Pulitzer Prize , was hounded out of his position after these Zoom meetings where staffers were crying and rending their garments and saying that they felt physically unsafe at the newspaper .
And we ’ re seeing now facts—who , what , where , when , and why—if they conflict with certain high pieties of the woke left , that is what now controls , especially the younger elements of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to break out inside newsrooms , and in some cases the no journalism side is winning .
So that goes far beyond just right , left , conservative , liberal , it ’ s within like this intra-left fight and the pro-factual side in some key cases is losing .
Bluey : This is one of the reasons I think that many conservatives have gravitated to create their own outlets like we have at The Heritage Foundation with The Daily Signal .
Both of you have been involved in conservative media for many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the state of media today and what conservatives can do to either fight back against what we ’ re seeing in newsrooms , or maybe take an alternative approach altogether ?
Ham : From my point of view , when you ’ re in a mainstream media outlet , as I am , conformity just is a problem .
And if you have a bunch of people in your circle who all believe the same thing , then you are going to be more inclined to cover things from that point of view @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more inclined to sort of bend to pressure , should all the people who are in your peer group and agree with you say , “ Well , you ’ re a bad person if you think this particular thing.
” I ’ m happy to be that person on every panel , that ’ s my specialty .
But I do think the diversity of thought in any group on a college campus , in your family , in your community , being able to have those discussions is really important .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ was noting , it ’ s beyond just sort of a left-leaning disposition .
There is a progression here into sort of a demand that everyone emote on the same level about an issue .
I have been in situations where I ’ m just trying to analyze an issue and that is taken as opposition to a point of view .
When in fact I ’ m just analyzing the politics of the situation , because I ’ m not emoting in the way that is demanded .
And I think that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we can ’ t all , not only believe the same thing , but believe it at the same pitch , or else we are just all the same person .
And that is not a fair treatment of any news story , or I don ’ t think a mature and professional way to approach it , but that is increasingly what I see .
Benson : I mean , I think that for those of us who are on the center right in journalism or the commentary business , we ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some of the slack , as we did for eight years under [ President ] Barack Obama .
Under a Biden administration , much of the press , I mean , it ’ s sort of remarkable to see , Mary Katharine , like the tone of some of this coverage where it ’ s just relief , right ?
There ’ s this cathartic coverage of like , “ Oh , finally , the good people are back in charge.
” Ham : “ Isn ’ t it nice to cover someone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fantastic.
” Benson : It ’ s just like , “ Our people are back in , we can finally take a nap.
” And I think that they intend to do that .
They ’ ll go through the motions and do some coverage .
I know The New York Times has a few stories about potential conflicts of interest in the incoming potential Cabinet and lefties are going bonkers that they ’ re even writing those stories because you ’ re not supposed to say or write anything that hurts the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But in terms of accountability , I think it ’ s back to a different posture for the right-leaning media .
And I think our North Star has to be telling the truth , telling the truth when it is a pleasant truth for people on our side , telling the truth when it ’ s a less pleasant truth for people on our own side , because to the extent that many , many , many Americans , millions of them , live in their own cocoons and only hear their truth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lefty thing , to be like , “ My truth is this.
” Benson : And I think our job is to help shine a light on and expound upon and expose the truth .
Bluey : It ’ s so true .
I mean , it ’ s one of those things that when we started The Daily Signal way back when , six years ago , we made sure— Benson : Has it been six years ?
Bluey : Six years .
We made sure that that was one of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mary Katharine , since you brought up CNN and your position there , I want to ask you , at a time when so many conservatives have tuned out CNN , why do you think it ’ s important to have a conservative voice still there ?
And what ’ s it like behind the scenes ?
What can you share with our audience today ?
Ham : I mean , having a voice [ at CNN ] is why I do the job and it ’ s why I ’ ve always @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that my career has shown—it was when I started it in my mid-20s , arguing with Bill O ’ Reilly of all people—that I have never shied away from an argument .
I like debate .
I enjoy it .
I don ’ t want to be somewhere where everyone agrees with me .
As I was just saying , I love to go to college campuses .
You could say , I like a hostile room .
I like to win over a hostile room .
And so I— Benson : Should @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
You ’ re wrong .
Ham : That would be perfect .
It ’ d be fantastic if you ’ re meaner than me right now .
So , I like going into the situations .
I have to do it every night when I put my kids to bed , they ’ re very hostile .
Don ’ t want to give in at all .
Benson : Especially one of them .
Ham : But I do think it ’ s worthwhile to communicate with different audiences .
And I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and I loved working there .
And then it ’ s funny , there are some people who think that I just haven ’ t worked for the last five years because they never changed the channel .
Ham : Oh no , no , I didn ’ t just take a hiatus , I ’ ve just been somewhere else .
But I do think it ’ s worth reaching a different audience .
And as I joke , like , I went from Fox to CNN and then I was a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hate mail is so diverse , it comes from so many directions , but I do think it is worthwhile .
And I like to sort of , if I can , mess with people ’ s bubbles a little bit , and to the extent that I ’ m able to do that in that place , even when it ’ s tough and when I can speak some truth sometimes when I feel like it ’ s flying by some people , I enjoy the opportunity to do that .
Bluey @ @ @ @ @ @ @ d be remiss if I didn ’ t ask you about Fox News , because there were also some conservatives who were tuning out Fox , going to places like Newsmax .
What ’ s your message to them who , they may not necessarily agree with all of the actions on Election Night , calling Arizona early , but you have a successful program there , you ’ ve had a lot of success over the years .
What ’ s your message that you want to share with them tonight ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ think we ’ re conservatives , we believe in competition , right ?
And so we ’ re not afraid of competition at Fox .
We welcome competition .
I remember when Fox was growing and becoming huge early on , CNN , like Larry King , it ’ s like in a football game where you put bulletin board material up of like how you were dismissed or dissed by the other team or someone in the media .
Larry King said some very dismissive things about like , “ Oh , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hannity ?
” Like , “ We ’ re going to eat their lunch.
” And then obviously that— Benson : Didn ’ t work out so well for them over the longer term .
So I think it would be a mistake for anyone at Fox to assume that we are entitled to any audience and that they shouldn ’ t ever go anywhere else .
I would say that I ’ m extremely proud to work at Fox .
I think that we do a really extraordinary job .
I see @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , people are frustrated .
You see some stuff out there like , “ Oh , it ’ s indistinguishable from CNN now.
” I ’ m like , fact check , like in the 8 p.m. hour , if you can ’ t tell the difference between Tucker Carlson and Chris Cuomo , then I don ’ t know what to tell you , right ?
But we have some very strong opinion voices who do not shy away from telling you exactly how they feel .
We also have a really @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sometimes what the news people are reporting is not simpatico with what many of our viewers and opinion people believe .
And trying to thread that needle is an interesting balance .
I sort of straddle those two worlds at Fox , but I think we ’ re working through it and we ’ ll see what shakes out over the next couple of weeks , but we ’ re extremely grateful for everyone who ’ s watched us for years and we hope they will continue to watch us for years to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we care about the country .
Rob Bluey : Competition is a good thing—it makes us all better .
I want to thank both of you .
Mary Katharine is a Heritage Foundation alum , Guy is a longtime friend of the organization .
We appreciate the work that you do to bring credibility and integrity to the media .
Thank you both .

It is no secret that the media leans left. From the ways in which journalists choose to report on critical issues, to the questions they decide to ask political leaders on different sides of the aisle, media bias is undeniable.
CNN contributor Mary Katherine Ham and Fox News contributor and radio host Guy Benson are co-authors of “End of Discussion: How the Left’s Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (and Fun).” Last week, they assessed the media at The Heritage Foundation’s annual President’s Club Meeting. Today, we share their perspectives on The Daily Signal Podcast.
Listen to the podcast below or read the lightly edited transcript.
Rob Bluey: Can you reflect back on 2020 and share what you think are some of the most egregious examples of media bias?
Mary Katharine Ham: Oh, Rob, there’s so many to choose from. It’s hard to say.
I think one that stood out to me and that is a pattern that has repeated itself throughout my career in journalism is the different way in which protests on the left are covered vs. protests on the right.
And you saw this diametric juxtaposed to each other this summer with protests against lockdowns on the right, mostly, and then protests on the other side, [Black Lives Matter], criminal justice reform.
The argument when the lockdown protests happened at the very beginning of summer was these people are endangering the entire country. I mean, just being out here, even driving your car in a circle around city hall and honking your horn is a problem, right?
And then the other side protested and suddenly the sacrosanct First Amendment, right to gather and profess one’s grievances and peaceably assemble, was a-OK and not a danger to anyone.
All I wished was that maybe we could just recognize this as a First Amendment right that shouldn’t be socially shamed selectively, depending on which side you like. So that was annoying.
Bluey: That’s a good example. Guy, how about you?
Guy Benson: Oh, it’s all so tough. I did see a tweet from an MSNBC anchor this week where she was celebrating the fact that [former Vice President] Joe Biden declined to answer a question.
So I guess he was asked if he had met with [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell yet, and he wouldn’t say so. And she’s like, “How refreshing that he didn’t lie, he just stonewalled us.”
Ham: Thank you, sir.
Benson: May I have another? This is what four years are going to look like. Again, the media is going to go back into sort of vacation/hibernation mode.
I think what I’ve seen this year on media bias that has actually concerned me more than anything—beyond just the media overall supporting Democrats, being Democrats, helping Democrats—is the internal machinations within newsrooms where journalistic fundamentals are now being subsumed by woke identity.
And we saw it, I think the most prominent example that some people at home might remember was [Sen.] Tom Cotton in The New York Times and that whole mess where people ended up being demoted or fired from their positions for allowing a sitting senator to write words in The New York Times supporting a position that a majority of Americans agreed with, mind you. That was a high-profile one.
Another one that I would just bring to your attention was in Philadelphia where the executive editor of the largest newspaper in Philadelphia was thrown out of his position because he approved a headline that was about the destruction of property during all the riots and the headline was, “Buildings Matter, Too.”
This was deemed so egregiously offensive that this man who had been at the paper for 20 years, had led them to a Pulitzer Prize, was hounded out of his position after these Zoom meetings where staffers were crying and rending their garments and saying that they felt physically unsafe at the newspaper.
And we’re seeing now facts—who, what, where, when, and why—if they conflict with certain high pieties of the woke left, that is what now controls, especially the younger elements of newsrooms.
These civil wars are trying to break out inside newsrooms, and in some cases the no journalism side is winning. So that goes far beyond just right, left, conservative, liberal, it’s within like this intra-left fight and the pro-factual side in some key cases is losing.
Bluey: This is one of the reasons I think that many conservatives have gravitated to create their own outlets like we have at The Heritage Foundation with The Daily Signal.
Both of you have been involved in conservative media for many years. What is your view on the state of media today and what conservatives can do to either fight back against what we’re seeing in newsrooms, or maybe take an alternative approach altogether?
Ham: From my point of view, when you’re in a mainstream media outlet, as I am, conformity just is a problem.
And if you have a bunch of people in your circle who all believe the same thing, then you are going to be more inclined to cover things from that point of view and, as Guy was saying, more inclined to sort of bend to pressure, should all the people who are in your peer group and agree with you say, “Well, you’re a bad person if you think this particular thing.”
I’m happy to be that person on every panel, that’s my specialty. But I do think the diversity of thought in any group on a college campus, in your family, in your community, being able to have those discussions is really important. And we have advanced, as Guy was noting, it’s beyond just sort of a left-leaning disposition.
There is a progression here into sort of a demand that everyone emote on the same level about an issue.
I have been in situations where I’m just trying to analyze an issue and that is taken as opposition to a point of view. When in fact I’m just analyzing the politics of the situation, because I’m not emoting in the way that is demanded.
And I think that demand is poison within media coverage because we can’t all, not only believe the same thing, but believe it at the same pitch, or else we are just all the same person. And that is not a fair treatment of any news story, or I don’t think a mature and professional way to approach it, but that is increasingly what I see.
Bluey: Guy?
Benson: I mean, I think that for those of us who are on the center right in journalism or the commentary business, we’re going to have to pick up some of the slack, as we did for eight years under [President] Barack Obama.
Under a Biden administration, much of the press, I mean, it’s sort of remarkable to see, Mary Katharine, like the tone of some of this coverage where it’s just relief, right? There’s this cathartic coverage of like, “Oh, finally, the good people are back in charge.”
Ham: “Isn’t it nice to cover someone we like, guys? This is fantastic.”
Benson: It’s just like, “Our people are back in, we can finally take a nap.” And I think that they intend to do that.
They’ll go through the motions and do some coverage. I know The New York Times has a few stories about potential conflicts of interest in the incoming potential Cabinet and lefties are going bonkers that they’re even writing those stories because you’re not supposed to say or write anything that hurts the tribe, at all, ever.
But in terms of accountability, I think it’s back to a different posture for the right-leaning media. And I think our North Star has to be telling the truth, telling the truth when it is a pleasant truth for people on our side, telling the truth when it’s a less pleasant truth for people on our own side, because to the extent that many, many, many Americans, millions of them, live in their own cocoons and only hear their truth, that’s sort of a lefty thing, to be like, “My truth is this.”
Ham: “We’re all adapting.”
Benson: No, there’s the truth.
Ham: Yes.
Benson: And I think our job is to help shine a light on and expound upon and expose the truth.
Bluey: It’s so true. I mean, it’s one of those things that when we started The Daily Signal way back when, six years ago, we made sure—
Benson: Has it been six years?
Bluey: Six years. We made sure that that was one of the guiding principles for us.
Now, Mary Katharine, since you brought up CNN and your position there, I want to ask you, at a time when so many conservatives have tuned out CNN, why do you think it’s important to have a conservative voice still there? And what’s it like behind the scenes? What can you share with our audience today?
Ham: I mean, having a voice [at CNN] is why I do the job and it’s why I’ve always done the job. And I hope that my career has shown—it was when I started it in my mid-20s, arguing with Bill O’Reilly of all people—that I have never shied away from an argument.
I like debate. I enjoy it. I don’t want to be somewhere where everyone agrees with me. As I was just saying, I love to go to college campuses. You could say, I like a hostile room. I like to win over a hostile room. And so I—
Benson: Should I be mean to you right now? You’re wrong.
Ham: That would be perfect. It’d be fantastic if you’re meaner than me right now.
So, I like going into the situations. I have to do it every night when I put my kids to bed, they’re very hostile. Don’t want to give in at all.
Benson: Especially one of them.
Ham: But I do think it’s worthwhile to communicate with different audiences. And I was at Fox for a long time and I loved working there. And then it’s funny, there are some people who think that I just haven’t worked for the last five years because they never changed the channel.
Bluey: Sure.
Ham: Oh no, no, I didn’t just take a hiatus, I’ve just been somewhere else. But I do think it’s worth reaching a different audience. And as I joke, like, I went from Fox to CNN and then I was a Trump critical conservative on CNN. My hate mail is so diverse, it comes from so many directions, but I do think it is worthwhile.
And I like to sort of, if I can, mess with people’s bubbles a little bit, and to the extent that I’m able to do that in that place, even when it’s tough and when I can speak some truth sometimes when I feel like it’s flying by some people, I enjoy the opportunity to do that.
Bluey: Well, Guy, I’d be remiss if I didn’t ask you about Fox News, because there were also some conservatives who were tuning out Fox, going to places like Newsmax.
What’s your message to them who, they may not necessarily agree with all of the actions on Election Night, calling Arizona early, but you have a successful program there, you’ve had a lot of success over the years. What’s your message that you want to share with them tonight?
Benson: First of all, I think we’re conservatives, we believe in competition, right? And so we’re not afraid of competition at Fox. We welcome competition.
I remember when Fox was growing and becoming huge early on, CNN, like Larry King, it’s like in a football game where you put bulletin board material up of like how you were dismissed or dissed by the other team or someone in the media. Larry King said some very dismissive things about like, “Oh, these upstarts, whose [Sean] Hannity?” Like, “We’re going to eat their lunch.” And then obviously that—
Bluey: Look what happened.
Benson: Didn’t work out so well for them over the longer term. So I think it would be a mistake for anyone at Fox to assume that we are entitled to any audience and that they shouldn’t ever go anywhere else. I would say that I’m extremely proud to work at Fox. I think that we do a really extraordinary job.
I see some people are—look, people are heated, people are frustrated. You see some stuff out there like, “Oh, it’s indistinguishable from CNN now.” I’m like, fact check, like in the 8 p.m. hour, if you can’t tell the difference between Tucker Carlson and Chris Cuomo, then I don’t know what to tell you, right?
But we have some very strong opinion voices who do not shy away from telling you exactly how they feel.
We also have a really robust news-gathering operation and organization. And sometimes what the news people are reporting is not simpatico with what many of our viewers and opinion people believe. And trying to thread that needle is an interesting balance.
I sort of straddle those two worlds at Fox, but I think we’re working through it and we’ll see what shakes out over the next couple of weeks, but we’re extremely grateful for everyone who’s watched us for years and we hope they will continue to watch us for years to come because we work really hard and we care about the country.
Rob Bluey: Competition is a good thing—it makes us all better. I want to thank both of you. Mary Katharine is a Heritage Foundation alum, Guy is a longtime friend of the organization. We appreciate the work that you do to bring credibility and integrity to the media. Thank you both.


thelibertydaily--2020-12-15--Fake News Cover-up: The New York Times Still Hasn’t Covered Eric Swalwell’s Communist Chinese Spy Sc

Fake News Cover-up: The New York Times Still Hasn’t Covered Eric Swalwell’s Communist Chinese Spy Scandal

The New York Times has yet to cover the growing controversy surrounding Rep. Eric Swalwell , D-Calif. , and his relationship with an alleged Chinese spy .
Early last week , Axios published a bombshell report that a woman named Fang Fang , aka Christine Fang , forged ties with Swalwell while he was a city council member in Dublin , Calif .
According to the report , Fang helped fundraise for Swalwell 's 2014 reelection campaign and placed an intern in his office .
Fang reportedly forged other ties with Democratic politicians , even engaging in sexual relations with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reportedly cut ties with Fang in 2015 after the FBI gave him a defensive briefing .
The Times , which won a Pulitzer Prize for its reporting on the Russia investigation that pushed the collusion narrative between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin , has yet to touch the Swalwell story , according to search results on the paper 's website .
The paper did not immediately respond to Fox News ' request for comment .
Swalwell , who repeatedly made claims about President Trump being a Russian `` agent , '' has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his personal ties to Fang , leaving the question of whether he had sexual relations with the alleged Chinese spy open-ended .
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Since the Axios story broke , there have been growing calls from GOP lawmakers for Swalwell to step down as a member of the House Intelligence Committee .
Despite the escalating controversy , there has been minimal coverage from the mainstream media .
Both CNN and MSNBC have dedicated no more than five minutes to the story during the entire week .
On @ @ @ @ @ @ @ roughly two minutes covering the Chinese espionage on `` Good Morning America , '' while CBS and NBC have completely avoided the subject .

The New York Times has yet to cover the growing controversy surrounding Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., and his relationship with an alleged Chinese spy.
Early last week, Axios published a bombshell report that a woman named Fang Fang, aka Christine Fang, forged ties with Swalwell while he was a city council member in Dublin, Calif. According to the report, Fang helped fundraise for Swalwell's 2014 reelection campaign and placed an intern in his office. Fang reportedly forged other ties with Democratic politicians, even engaging in sexual relations with at least two Midwestern mayors.
Swalwell reportedly cut ties with Fang in 2015 after the FBI gave him a defensive briefing.
The Times, which won a Pulitzer Prize for its reporting on the Russia investigation that pushed the collusion narrative between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, has yet to touch the Swalwell story, according to search results on the paper's website.
SWALWELL EXTENDS SILENCE ON INTERACTIONS WITH SUSPECTED CHINESE SPY
The paper did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.
Swalwell, who repeatedly made claims about President Trump being a Russian "agent," has repeatedly refused to explain the extent of his personal ties to Fang, leaving the question of whether he had sexual relations with the alleged Chinese spy open-ended.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Since the Axios story broke, there have been growing calls from GOP lawmakers for Swalwell to step down as a member of the House Intelligence Committee. Despite the escalating controversy, there has been minimal coverage from the mainstream media.
Both CNN and MSNBC have dedicated no more than five minutes to the story during the entire week. On the broadcast networks, only ABC spent roughly two minutes covering the Chinese espionage on "Good Morning America," while CBS and NBC have completely avoided the subject.