Fwd: Daniel Greenfield's article: When the Google Dream Died

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Daniel Greenfield's article: When the Google Dream Died

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When the Google Dream Died Posted: 13 Oct 2018 07:09 PM PDT Google is throwing itself a hell of a 20th birthday party. And everyone is bringing the gifts. While the dot com giant puts up celebratory doodles and shows off its original garage headquarters, Attorney General Sessions had already convened 14 state attorney generals to discuss censorship, privacy issues and antitrust issues involving, among other tech monopolies, the cutesy corporation. Few meetings between Sessions and AGs well to the left, like California's Xavier Becerra, would have gone as well as this, but big tech monopolies were already controversial on the left, now they're also being unfriended by Republicans. There's a growing consensus that they're just too big and powerful. Google's August search market share in America stood at 84%. That means it defines the internet. Its secretive algorithms determine what people see when they search. It can unilaterally redefine an issue, such as when it shifted the search results for "Jihad" away from counterterrorist sites to favor Islamist and pro-Islamist media sites. It shapes how political leaders, including President Trump, are seen, and manufactures an ongoing consensus by simply choosing one set of results over another. (During the election, its search engine provided more positive results for Democrats than Republicans.) And then there are the constant privacy scandals. Even as Google is trying to celebrate its anniversary, it's under fire for automatically signing Gmail users into its Chrome browser (which is a key link in its chain of monopolies meant to lock users into its search engine). After the outcry, Google, as usual, offered a partial retreat. The scandal is fairly typical of Google which runs on privacy violations and monopolistic abuses. Before Google was rigging search results for political reasons, it was rigging them to favor its products. Search for "mail" and the first result won't be the post office, it won't even be mail.com which actually predated Google by a few years, it will be Google's own Gmail. And that's how it always works. Google searches drive users to Google products. And Google products drive users to Google Search. Its monopolistic vision of the future is of an Internet of Things, a smart home run on Google with eternally watchful smart speakers in every room of your house, processing your questions through Google, and sending every conversation in your house back along its servers to be analyzed by machine learning to better target you with ads on your smart fridge. And then it really will be Google's world. Or Amazon's world. America's political and cultural elites already live in one world or the other. But despite the wide range of both companies, many Americans are unhappy with the power and control they wield over their lives. And so the utopia in which Google is your home, your car, your clothes, your entertainment and your life, may never arrive. The company has more power, but also more enemies, than ever before. Even as Google aspires to run the world, investing in a variety of moonshot businesses, from self-driving cars (Waymo) to delivering internet by balloon (Loon) through Alphabet, its mothership company, its core business, search, that delivers most of its revenue through ads, is stagnating. While Google dreams of answering your questions before you ask them using machine learning and voice search, it's doing a terrible job of answering them when you do ask of them. Like all monopolies, its product is mediocre. Google Search was retuned for mobile search by making every search trending. Search for "Supreme Court", and Google will deluge you with Kavanaugh hysteria and assorted lefty media background pieces delegitimizing a "Republican" Supreme Court from FDR's day to modern times. This isn't just a monopolistic abuse of power for purely partisan purposes; it's also a poor product. Trending stories are friendlier to mobile users who have less time and patience for extended queries. It's also simpler to deliver inaccurate results that fit the needs of the lowest common denominator user, who types in Supreme Court to see stories about Kavanaugh, than to deliver actual accurate results. And Google is rigging search results to browbeat sites into orienting entirely toward mobile. Just as it will, before too long, dumb down search even further, to aid its voice search ambitions. Turning search into a lowest common denominator exercise isn't about serving users, but about securing Google's hold on the future. And, in ways both great and petty (like forcibly logging users into its browser), it isn't shy about herding its user products like sheep into its digital products. Naked political bias was meant to cover Google's silicon fundament from its greatest political threat. Republican administrations have offered little threat to the big tech companies. It was largely the left that was actively agitating for breaking them up or limiting their power. And Google focused on the left. (In last year's major Google scandal, former Google exec chairman Eric Schmidt allegedly convinced the New America Foundation, a lefty think tank, to purge Open Markets for its criticism of Google.) And then President Trump showed up. The famous video of Google's elites mourning Trump's victory isn't just political bias. As the firing of James Damore showed us, lefty political intolerance is baked into Google's political culture. And anyone at Google who wanted Trump to win has to keep quiet and leak videos. But President Hillary Clinton would have also been really good for Google's business interests. Eric Schmidt, who once responded to Google privacy concerns by sneering, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place", was a close Hillary ally. His "Notes for a 2016 Democratic Campaign" sent to Hillary's people proposed a $1.5 billion operation that would create "a single record for a voter that aggregates all that is known about them." Schmidt was applying the Google ethos to the Hillary Clinton campaign. The unspoken back end of the pitch is that privacy violations can be harnessed for the good of powerful political interests. (The manufactured scandal over Cambridge Analytica's Facebook scraping never touched the truly epic dot com privacy violators on the left.) Google's vision of the end of privacy could be very good for President Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. So why regulate it? That's what Google elites were really mourning after Election Day. They weren't just crying because their lefty political movement lost, but because the vision of a Clinton-Google alliance running the country was lost. President Trump has warned Google that it can't expect to abuse its powers and avoid scrutiny. And the leading figures on the Democrat side are less promising for Google than Eric Schmidt's pal. Google was ranked as the single biggest employer of Bernie Sanders donors, and its search results were accused of favoring Sanders. As the Washington Post noted, "nine of his top 10 results were rated "very pro" in the analysis". Google's current top 10 for Trump, by contrast, includes a bonkers New York Mag conspiracy screed, "What If Trump Has Been a Russian Asset Since 1987?" (In 1988, Bernie Sanders was honeymooning in the USSR, but Google doesn't think that's worth including in Bernie's top 10.) And while Bernie Sanders has been relentlessly attacking Amazon, a major Google rival, he has been fairly silent about Google. Meanwhile the Washington Post, owned by Amazon's boss, has been critical of Bernie. But that doesn't make him a reliable or ideal ally in Google's war for the future. Meanwhile Google faces the threat of Trump. A conventional non-populist Republican would have posed little threat to Google's business interests. Elites love Google because of its shiny technocracy. Schmidt's pitch to Hillary's people is seductive to many in the GOP, but alienating to Trump and alien to his insurgent campaign which relied on populist enthusiasm rather than Big Brother level manipulation. And Trump's impact on the GOP has shifted it away from the unthinking worship of multinationals. Google's vision of the future is multinational, multilateral, multicultural and multi-everything. It's a borderless world in which we're no longer defined by nations, but by platforms. Every individual is a terabyte profile swimming among the vast server farm zettabytes in Finland, Singapore, the Dalles in Oregon and Quilicura, Chile, to be run on Google products designed by hipsters the Bay Area and manufacturerd by slave labor in China. That was Hillary's vision. That's not Trump's vision. Trump's economic nationalism is antithetical to everything that Google and the big dot coms stand for. Their borderless world requires the dismantling of nations into united markets governed by global treaties. There's no room for national interest if Google or Amazon are to run the world. America isn't just at war with a nebulous left, but with a leftist vision embraced by the big tech companies that have defined how we talk to each other, what we read and what we know. Google isn't just leftist by accident. It's leftist by design. Its vision is globalist, its scope is endless and the only thing standing in its way, besides its rivals, is the nation-state. America. The confrontation between Google and Trump encapsulates the clash between the national and the multi-national, workers in red states and elites in blue cities, tradition and technocracy, the individual and the machine. The struggle will decide whether the future belongs to the individual or to Google. Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.

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Robert Spencer: Campa-Najjar and Sinema Prove the Democrats are the Party of Treason - Geller Report

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Fwd: Marking 25 years with Women in Green! May they go from Strength to Strength! Oz veGaon!

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Women in Green Marks its 25th Anniversary. This is how it all began.

The Women in Green movement marked its 25th anniversary in Gush Etzion.

It began as a grass-roots movement protesting against concessions and
withdrawals from parts of the Land and today it leads the discourse of
sovereignty in the arenas of politics and policy.

Last Friday, approximately 150 citizens and public figures active in
the settlement enterprise, both leaders and supporters, gathered at
the Oz veGaon nature preserve in Gush Etzion to mark the 25th
anniversary of the founding of the Women in Green movement and the
public activities of its leaders, Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar.

Link to movie with English subtitles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irIUnhfOKlA&feature=youtu.be

Link to photos by Gershon Ellinson http://womeningreen.org.il/25years/

The attendees saluted the movement, which had started out as a protest
movement against the Oslo Accords, and in recent years has been
leading the discourse over the vision of full Israeli sovereignty over
Judea and Samaria.

Rare photographs were displayed at the facility where the gathering
was held, documenting the years of the movement's activities including
vigils and demonstrations, the establishment of outposts and the
Jewish concept of turning entire tracts of land into populated
neighborhoods and communities. Many of those who attended the
gathering commemorating the movement and its leaders even found
themselves in these photographs from the past, which documented their
activism in protest demonstrations against the Oslo Accords and in
favor of strengthening the settlement enterprise in the Land of
Israel.

Nadia Matar was the first speaker at the event, dedicating the entire
event to her mother-in-law, Ruth Matar, who, together with her husband
Michael, founded the movement, together with other women who were
residents of Jerusalem.

"Ruth taught all of us that we must not be silent and that when a Jew
is in distress, you leave everything else aside and mobilize to help
him; she taught us not be afraid to tell the truth and that loyalty is
the highest virtue - loyalty to the People, to the Torah, to the Land
and to the family".

Matar described the movement's activities as having two parts: "avoid
evil" and "do good": Up until the expulsion from Gush Katif, the
"avoid evil" part dominated. It was a period of intensive activity to
guard the honor of the People and the Land, and during this period
weekly protest demonstrations were held, there was a radio program on
Arutz 7, there were activities in support of IDF soldiers,
demonstrations against Machsom Watch and their activities against the
IDF, obtaining hundreds of thousands of signatures against the Oslo
Accords and more. The "do good" part, which took place after the
expulsion from Gush Katif and Yehudit Katsover's joining the
leadership of the movement, focused on creating a positive vision by
renouncing and rejecting the Oslo ideas. This was the phase of
clinging to the Land and the launching of the campaign  to lead the
vision of sovereignty as the Right's policy and plan. "We were not the
first to speak about it, but we were the first who set out on a
hasbara campaign about it", she noted.

Matar's partner in leading Women in Green, Yehudit Katsover, continued
in the same vein as Matar, saying "The goal is to guard the honor of
the Land of Israel and there is no doubt that Women in Green has
succeeded in raising consciousness about guarding the Land of Israel's
interests", adding: "Imagine what would have been without the protests
and demonstrations by Women in Green, which raised consciousness about
the Land of Israel…".

When she spoke, Katsover told of the days that she joined the
movement, about 13 years ago, immediately after the expulsion from
Gush Katif, when she became impressed by the activities of the
movement's founders and activists, activities that were motivated by
pure ideology and not politics.

About the decision to hold an event marking the 25th year of the
movement, she said: "I thought that it was important to show the story
of the people who went out into the streets and the public squares and
cried with pain for the Land of Israel. We could not let it pass
without some kind of commemoration", she said, and told of the boxes
that had accumulated in preparation for the event, with an enormous
amount of material documenting the activities over the years.

Katsover continues, adding that despite her years of her joint
leadership of the movement together with her friend and associate,
Nadia Matar, she was unaware and surprised at the extent of the
movement's activities in the years before she joined it, as was
revealed by the photographic documentation that she saw. "I too, like
many of those who came to the event, am amazed by the movement's
extensive activity on behalf of the Land of Israel, that was carried
out with such dedication, fearlessness and humility. We are proud to
be partners in this movement".

After Katsover spoke, a short film was screened for the attendees to
the event about Eddy Driben, obm, "one of the first Jews who settled
in Kiryat Arba-Hevron, who was a special sort of character with a lot
of natural national pride", in Katsover's words, whose character was
similar to that of Ari Fuld, Hy"d, who was murdered just a few weeks
ago at Gush Etzion Junction by a terrorist: "Ari, Hy"d, was a partner
to our activities", said Katsover, "he photographed and documented our
activities out of a sense of total solidarity. May his memory
stimulate a continuation of blessed, wide range of activity on behalf
of the People and the Land".

Katsover and Matar expressed their thanks to those who came to the
event, to the movement's activists for their volunteerism in various
tasks, to donors from Israel and from abroad and among others, they
noted the activists who have passed on over the years. "Without you
and without them, none of this would have happened", they said.

The head of Gush Etzion Council, Shlomo Ne'eman, was also among the
speakers at the event and he spoke of how he first became acquainted
with the activities of Women in Green, a short time after he came on
aliya to Israel. Ne'eman brought up the fact that the name of the
movement is similar to the name of a leftist movement, Women in Black,
noting that while black is not a color, but rather the lack of light
and the lack of color, Green is the color of life, "Women in Green is
life itself", said Ne'eman.

Katsover and Matar sum up the entire event with words of gratitude to
the attendees: "Many tasks still remain to be done, both in the realm
of hasbara and in the practical realm and the political realm to
promote the vision of sovereignty, which is the main thrust of our
movement. The many supporters who came to celebrate the 25th
anniversary of the movement's founding with us imbue us with spirit
and confidence and with this spirit and confidence the People will
bring about the change of direction that will restore the entire
country to the most basic values of Zionism, the values of love for
the entire Land, clinging to it and sovereignty over it".

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Fwd: Serious incident near Gaza Fence in Israel, G-d help us

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Subject: Serious incident near Gaza Fence in Israel, G-d help us
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Serious incident at Gaza border fence
Despite failed futile attempts by the Israeli Military spokesman, to soften the blow, it is now confirmed common knowledge that an Israeli soldier was almost killed and kidnapped on the Israeli side of the Gaza border-fence on Shabbat.

According to Walla, a credible Israeli news site, 20 Arabs stormed the fence infiltrating into Israel from Gaza, after setting off bombs that created smoke, blocking visibility. The Arab terrorists stormed several Israeli sniper positions simultaneously.  In one incident, one of the terrorists wielding a knife, physically grabbed an IDF soldier from an elite unit, by his vest. The soldier reportedly shouted, "ruch", which means" run away" in Arabic. When the terrorist pursued attacking the soldier and after the soldier repeatedly pleaded with him to leave, the soldier managed to kick the terrorist and then to shoot at him.

Seven Arabs were killed in border clashes. All of the Israeli military correspondents have been predicting that soldiers will be killed and kidnapped in the many attempts by thousands to rush through the border fence. It is only a question of time. Israel's obsession with world opinion has brought about insane, suicidal rules of engagement which are tying the hands of the soldiers.

Instead of receiving orders to shoot any Arab who comes within 1 mile of the fence, thousands of Arabs have been permitted to come right up to the fence. The Arabs are now setting off bombs at the border fence and the soldiers find themselves fighting hand-to-hand with the terrorists who are using the protests to effectively penetrate into Israel.

Israel must restore some measure of deterrence.

Please help me spread the authentic Jewish Idea and a true Jewish proposal to restore peace and security to Eretz Israel. Time is of the essence. G-d forbid the Arabs will succeed in launching a mega balloon-bomb attack, or entering Israel through a terror tunnel, from the water or through the fence to kidnap and kill many Jews. The writing is on the wall. THEY MUST GO! THE Y MUST BE PUSHED BACK FAR FROM ISRAEL'S BORDERS. UNLIMITED Jewish settlement must be encouraged to return to this security belt. Israel must fear G-d and not the Gentiles! The life of Israeli civilians and soldiers are more important than the lives of terrorists and the enemy population that harbors them and that offers cover for terrorist murderers…
This is the message which must be published on every billboard in Israel NOW!!!

Find here an article that I wrote which was published Wednesday in the online edition of the Jewish Press.:

http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/are-kites-and-balloons-the-real-problem/2018/10/10/


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Fwd: Christine Blasey Ford and the links to George Soros

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Christine Blasey Ford and the links to George Soros

 Cheryl Chumley, Washington Times11:55 am September 19, 2018

Look at what's going on with Judge Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation proceedings for the Supreme Court, and the fingerprints of George Soros are all over it.

First there was a report from June in the Daily Caller that found "a new political advocacy group that vowed to put $5 million behind an effort to stop … Kavanaugh's confirmation has significant ties to the liberal financier" Soros.

What are those ties?

The group, Demand Justice, established in 2018, gets its money from the Sixteen Thirty Fund — and the Sixteen Thirty Fund received roughly $2.2 million from the Open Society Policy Center, one of Soros' outlets, between the years of 2012 and 2016.

And Demand Justice's entire mission is to advance a progressive agenda through the courts.

"[Our goal is to] sensitize rank-and-file progressives to think of the courts as a venue for their activism and a way to advance the progressive agenda," DJ's executive director, Brian Fallon, said to The New York Times.

But that's not all.

Debra Katz, the attorney representing Kavanaugh's accuser — Christine Blasey Ford — is vice chair of the Project on Government Oversight, an organization that has been directly funded by Soros' Open Society Foundation.

Katz is also a hefty Democratic donor, giving thousands of dollars over the years to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other leftist candidates, as Front Page Mag reported.

Combine that with the reports of Kavanaugh's denial of even being at the party described by Ford, and what's shaping is a curious — to say the least — twist to the nomination hearings. Now, Kavanaugh's due to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee, alongside his accuser, and the vote to move forward his confirmation is postponed.

Related Story: The New York Times issues major correction to Kavanaugh sexual assault story

Kavanaugh's personal reputation, prior to Ford's accusation, has been stellar.

"I've been friends with Brett Kavanaugh for over 35 years, and dated him during high school," said Maura Kane, in a statement to the media. "In every situation where we were together, he was always respectful, kind and thoughtful. The accusations leveled against him in no way represent the decent young man I knew. We remain good friends and I admire him as a husband, father and professional."

Another woman who said she dated Kavanaugh in college released a similar statement, vouching for his character "completely."

Of course, Democrats dismiss these women's statements as inconsequential — as meaningless. What they mean is it doesn't fit their narrative. What they want hidden is it doesn't fit their funders' and donors' narratives.

• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley.

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Booker Called Out For 'Groping' Drunk Female While He Was A Teenager, Report Says

Ryan SaavedraSeptember 20, 2018

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An article written by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) in 1992 while he attended Stanford University has reemerged as he calls for delaying the confirmation vote of Judge Brett Kavanaugh after a woman made a sexual misconduct allegation against him from over 35 years ago.

Fox News reports that Booker, "who urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to first let the FBI conduct an investigation after California professor Christine Blasey Ford accused the high court nominee of sexual assault over 35 years ago, once wrote an article detailing an instance where he groped a female friend."

Booker's article, titled: "So much for stealing second," appeared in The Stanford Daily on Wednesday, February 19, 1992:

New Year's Eve 1984 I will never forget. I was 15. As the ball dropped, I leaned over to hug a friend and she met me instead with an overwhelming kiss.

As we fumbled upon the bed, I remember debating my next "move" as if it were a chess game. With the "Top Gun" slogan ringing in my head, I slowly reached for her breast. After having my hand pushed away once, I reached my "mark."

Our groping ended soon and while no "relationship" ensued, a friendship did. You see, the next week in school she told me that she was drunk that night and didn't really know what she was doing.

Fox News added that Booker "came back to the topic a few months later in 1992, penning another article that mentioned the controversial column, which he said was about 'date rape,' and admitted that his actions were at odds with his beliefs."

"But by my second column, as I raised my noble pen to address the issue of date rape, I realized that the person holding it wasn't so noble after all," Booker wrote on Wednesday, May 27, 1992. "With this issue as with so many others, a dash of sincere introspection has revealed to me a dangerous gap — a gap between my beliefs and my actions."

Fox News noted that Booker's office responded to the resurfaced articles by calling it part of a "disingenuous right-wing attack.

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