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Another Whistleblower Suicide: The Immediate and Unquestioned State Narrative of Philip Haney’s Death

Via Lew Rockwell.com

The latest so-called “suicide,” which has all the markings of a planned assassination, is that of Philip Haney. Haney was a whistleblower, and one of the founders of Homeland Security. He was a true insider that had evidence, and wrote about it in his book, “See Something, Say Nothing,” about the Obama administration’s orders to destroy the raw material that had been collected concerning Islamic terrorist groups. As reported by Philip Haney in The Hill in 2016:

“I was ordered by my superiors at the Department of Homeland Security to delete or modify several hundred records of individuals tied to designated Islamist terror groups like Hamas from the important federal database, the Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS). These types of records are the basis for any ability to “connect dots.”  Every day, DHS Customs and Border Protection officers watch entering and exiting many individuals associated with known terrorist affiliations, then look for patterns. Enforcing a political scrubbing of records of Muslims greatly affected our ability to do that. Even worse, going forward, my colleagues and I were prohibited from entering pertinent information into the database.”

Philip Haney was, according to those that knew him, a very happy man, had just recently gotten engaged to be married, and was attempting to publish a follow-up to his tell-all book. But do I know for a fact that he did not commit suicide? Of course not, but I will still be labeled as a “conspiracy nut” for even questioning this story. But those that yell “conspiracy theory,” are to be mistrusted at the outset, because that CIA manufactured label and those that scream it at the top of their lungs, are not worthy of any attention, and in fact, should be ignored as irrelevant boobs. They are always a danger to the truth, for just seeking knowledge is considered improper in their minds in this age of extreme propaganda. Since I believe nothing and question everything, my fate as a supposed conspiracy theorist is set in stone, but seeking the truth is always the primary goal of honest reporting, something sadly lacking in this country today.

When Haney was killed, most of the mainstream press ignored it for days, and still have not been critical of the state narrative of suicide. While all the major mainstream press outlets, especially those of the leftist persuasion, were basically silent about his death, the alternative media was not. Here is a man that had a massive amount of information that was detrimental to Obama and his administration, and he was prepared to expose even more in a new book. After he announced this, and announced his engagement and impending marriage, he turns up dead with a gunshot wound to the chest, not a normal manner of committing suicide. This has all the markings of a murder, not a suicide, and should be pursued until the truth is verified. So far, nothing of value has been reported about this matter, and as I wrote earlier this week:

Read the entire article HERE.

The Media’s Deafening Silence on Mike Bloomberg’s Ties to Epstein and Other Criminals

By Whitney Webb

Billionaire “Democratic” candidate Mike Bloomberg has ties to Leslie Wexner, Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffery Epstein among other notables like the recently convicted Harvey Weinstein

After his late jump into the Democratic primary and, as critics argue, purchasing his way into the primary debates, former Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg has received mixed coverage from corporate media, with many negative critiques of the current presidential contender’s history, conduct and connections.

Yet, despite efforts by other campaigns and more progressive-leaning media outlets to dampen Bloomberg’s chances at the nomination, one clear weakness of Bloomberg’s has thus far evaded meaningful media coverage: his ties to key players in the Epstein scandal, including Leslie Wexner, Ghislaine Maxwell and even Jeffrey Epstein himself.

Silence among outlets that largely oppose Bloomberg’s candidacy regarding his connections to Epstein and those in his close social orbit is odd, especially when reporting on an individual’s connections to the intelligence-linked pedophile are a sure-fire way to generate considerable negative attention and fodder for rival campaigns. This is particularly striking given that the numerous accusations that Bloomberg has long stoked a toxic culture of sexual harassment at his company, resulting in no small number of non-disclosure agreements over the years, have received some media attention. Yet, the fact that many of Bloomberg’s close friends have been accused of far, far worse has received hardly any coverage by comparison.

Read the entire article HERE. Also, check out Webb’s great series on Epstein, the criminal underworld and the Deep State HERE.

The new burger chef makes $3 an hour and never goes home. (It’s a robot)

Via The LA Times

In a test kitchen in a corner building in downtown Pasadena, Flippy the robot grabbed a fryer basket full of chicken fingers, plunged it into hot oil — its sensors told it exactly how hot — then lifted, drained and dumped maximally tender tenders into a waiting hopper.

A few feet away, another Flippy eyed a beef patty sizzling on a griddle. With its camera eyes feeding pixels to a machine vision brain, it waited until the beef hit the right shade of brown, then smoothly slipped its spatula hand under the burger and plopped it onto a tray.

The product of decades of research in robotics and machine learning, Flippy represents a synthesis of motors, sensors, chips and processing power that wasn’t possible until recently.

Now, Flippy’s success — and the success of the company that built it, Miso Robotics — depends on simple math and a controversial hypothesis of how robots can transform the service economy. Costing less to employ than a minimum-wage worker, Flippy is built to slip in right alongside humans on the fast-food line.

Off-the-shelf robot arms have plunged in price in recent years, from more than $100,000 in 2016, when Miso Robotics first launched, to less than $10,000 today, with cheaper models coming in the near future.

As a result, Miso can offer Flippys to fast-food restaurant owners for an estimated $2,000 per month on a subscription basis, breaking down to about $3 per hour. (The actual cost will depend on customers’ specific needs). A human doing the same job costs $4,000 to $10,000 or more a month, depending on a restaurant’s hours and the local minimum wage. And robots never call in sick.

Read the entire article HERE.

How ‘White Fragility’ Theory Turns Classrooms Into Race-Charged Power Struggles

Via The Federalist

White fragility theory is counterproductive and divisive. White teachers should not be discounted, bullied, or shut down during anti-bias trainings in schools.

On Feb. 28, 2020, Dr. Robin DiAngelo delivers the keynote speech at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education in Atlanta, Georgia. DiAngelo has become “perhaps the country’s most visible expert in anti-bias training.” She is also the author of a best-selling book on “why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism.”

The answer, she says, is “white fragility,” defined as “a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.” This “racial stress” is the direct result of “implicit bias,” which runs so strong in white people that it is a core reason racism persists in America. This claim is based on a worldview, advanced by an increasingly influential field called Whiteness Studies, that racism is inseparable from the reign of Whiteness.

Whiteness is seen as a central pillar of society. What is Whiteness? It is hard to say, but the basic idea is that all the institutions of society are “white”—made by white people, ruled by white people, and kept in place by white people to make sure that white people continue to benefit from “white privilege.” These institutions are infected by white supremacy, a result of the long arc of racism in American history. Whiteness works through implicit bias, which refers to a whole range of unconscious behaviors, speech, and beliefs that keep white supremacy in place.

It should not be surprising that many white people are not convinced. If so, DiAngelo says, they are experiencing “racial stress,” which gets in the way of dismantling Whiteness. In other words, they are exhibiting white fragility. It turns out, however, that white people have good reason to be skeptical.

Read the entire article HERE.

38% of beer drinkers refuse to buy Corona ‘under any circumstances’ because of coronavirus, poll finds

Via The Blaze

A new poll commissioned by 5W Public Relations found that the image of the popular Mexican beer brand Corona might be taking a hit as Americans could be confusing it with the similarly named coronavirus — or COVID-19 — disease.

According to a news release shared by the large PR firm, 38% of beer-drinking Americans indicated they would not buy Corona beer “under any circumstances now.”

However, among Americans who already drink Corona regularly, only 4% said they would stop consuming it, while 14% responded they would stop ordering it in public venues, such as bars and restaurants.

‘There is no question that Corona beer is suffering because of coronavirus’
Still, it appears as though negative news headlines related to the virus are affecting how Americans view the beer brand, despite the fact that there is no relationship between Corona beer and the coronavirus.

“There is no question that Corona beer is suffering because of the coronavirus. Could one imagine walking into a bar and saying ‘Hey, can I have a Corona?’ or ‘Pass me A Corona,'” 5W’s founder and CEO Ronn Torossian said. ”

Read the entire article HERE.

Study Reveals Most Millennials Don’t Have Kids Because Their Parents Can’t Afford It

Via The Babylon Bee

U.S.—A new study from JAMA Pediatrics found that most millennials choose not to have kids because their parents just can’t afford it right now.

The study followed 900 millennials nationwide, just under half of which had full-time jobs. 90 percent were completely reliant on their parents for financial support, and three-quarters of these financially dependent adults want to have children someday.

There’s only one problem: parents of millennials can’t afford to support both their children, and their grandchildren anymore. This troubling reality has been stressing out millennials from coast to coast. Unfortunately, many boomer parents had children without preparing themselves financially to raise multiple generations and spend more and more money the older they got. Now their millenial children are paying the price for their lack of foresight.

“I just can’t take it anymore,” said Gretchen Hillerman, a millennial from southern California. “It’s like, I know I’m fit to raise a child, I just can’t afford it,” she complained during an interview at a local Starbucks. “Apparently my parents can’t afford it either. College was, like, super expensive, and they’re still paying off my student loan. I wish my mom would just get a second job or something.” Gretchen says she had big plans to not reveal the child’s gender and to name them something nonbinary like Threshgar.

Gretchen studied Gender Non-Binary Statistics at Northridge, but dropped out after six years in the program. Her parents said they helped her every night with homework, but it didn’t seem to improve her performance.

While many of today’s Gen X and Boomer parents strongly desire grandchildren, they say they just can’t imagine supporting more children on top of all the concert tickets, Starbucks, European vacations, seafaring voyages around the world, the latest iPhone, dolphin rides, avocado toast, battery-powered sports cars, and VR headsets.

“You also have to take retirement into account,” said Gretchen’s father Ron Hillerman. “I mean my daughter’s retirement. I already cashed mine out to pay for her forty-day vegan yoga hot spring hike in India.”

Check out all of the Bee’s great takes on politics and culture HERE.

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