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This Breitbart article explains that some women in Saudi Arabia who are starting to learn how to drive are being harassed and threatened by groups of men in their neighborhoods, with some of the women even having their cars set on fire while they sleep.

What’s next?— Banning the word “peanut butter”?

The definition of “Milk” from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

“A fluid secreted by the mammary glands of females for the nourishment of their young.”
“Milk from an animal and especially a cow used as food by people.”
“A food product produced from seeds or fruit that resembles and is used similarly to cow’s milk — coconut milk — soy milk”

The head of the FDA Scott Gottlieb has announced that he intends to outlaw the use of the word “milk” for beverages that don’t originate from the mammary glands of lactating animals, despite the fact that the word “milk” has been used to describe non-diary beverages for centuries.

While dairy milk sales have dropped 11% over the past year, milk alternatives such as almond milk and soy milk are becoming much more popular, with hemp milk also potentially becoming much more popular due to it being more economical to produce than almond milk.

Gottlieb’s agenda stems from a failed legislative initiative called “Defending Against Imitations and Replacements of Yogurt, Milk, and Cheese To Promote Regular Intake of Dairy Everyday Act” (also called the Dairy Pride Act) that attempted to benefit the daily industry by imposing restrictions on non-dairy alternative products.

The Dairy Pride Act claims health benefits are associated with the consumption of dairy milk and it claims that consumers are being “misled” by plant based milks due to them potentially thinking that they are actually purchasing dairy milk, despite the fact that the packaging for non-dairy milks are clearly labeled as such.

Government and industry aligned nutritionists continue to tout health benefits of dairy, however many other nutritionists claim that plant-based diets are more beneficial.

Also see this Forbes article about the issue.

A leftist mob threw a man into a shallow concrete fountain because he was  protesting Islam at the site of the recent gun massacre in Toronto, while the police only looked on and made no arrests.

See this JihadWatch article about the issue.

Following is a summary of an article in The Australian: 

Traveling cyclists from the US and and Europe were killed and others were injured when they were attacked by ISIS militants in Tajikistan, where they were rammed by a car and then attacked by a gang armed with guns and knives.  Four people were killed and three others were injured.

Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan, who were killed in the attack, were a couple from the US who were on a trek bicycling around the world that they were documenting on their blog SimplyCycling.org.  Jay Austin was a “tiny house” aficionado who was featured in a 2015 Washington Post article as well as being featured in an online documentary.

Rene Wokke, a psychologist from the Netherlands, was killed, and his partner Kim Postma, a hospital administrator, was also injured in the attack.  Wokke was maintaining a blog of their journey as well.

Also Swiss cyclist Markus Hummel, who was killed, kept a blog of his journey with another Swiss national, Marie-Claire Diemand, who was injured in the attack.

[Article updated December 7, 2021]

In this video, John McAfee explains how anyone with a device called a “Stingray” can listen to all cell phone calls that are made within a quarter of a mile of where the device is located.

I posted this video a few years ago, but YouTube took it down.  I’m very concerned about talking on cell phones, and it hated it when I had to enter information such as account numbers on the keypad.  Supposedly your conversations cannot be listened to using that device if you are using an encrypted VOIP app on your phone, however.  Such an app can also allow you to converse over your home internet connection rather than over the air as well.

(Note that John McAfee was recently killed in prison after he was arrested on tax evasion charges.)

I’m seeing more complaints  about unfair treatment of conservatives by social media companies, but I think it would be easy to boycott and replace those companies with new ones.  For example, it would be practically effortless for a tech company to create a replacement for Twitter, of all things!

I think what needs to be protected is Net Neutrality though.  It seems strange that libertarians like Rand Paul have always been opposed to that.  I think Paul’s stance would be the correct one if the actual legislation has issues, but I think at least in theory Net Neutrality is important.

It would be good to see a specific summary of the actual Net Neutrality legislation, I think there would be much more support for it if people knew exactly what it entailed.

Following is an open letter that Rand Paul Wrote in 2015 about the matter, complaining that Net Neutrality will declare the internet to be a “public utility.”  Paul’s only concern in the letter is “protecting the free market” though, he doesn’t mention any specific issues with the legislation itself:

Dear Conservative,

Big government can’t seem to keep its hands off of anything.

The latest insult: President Obama and the Federal Communications Commission are going to take over the Internet on February 26th if we don’t do everything we can do to stop them right now.

A plan deceivingly referred to as “Net Neutrality,” involves declaring the Internet a “public utility” and gives the FCC the power to decide what Internet service providers can charge and how they operate.  This is not only a direct attack on the free market, but it will also result in an increase in Internet access fees for millions of consumers in America.  It’s a massive tax on the middle class, plain and simple.

The details are complicated but here’s the truth: If “Net Neutrality” is passed, for the first time ever, the Internet will be under the rule of an antiquated regulation designed for land line telephones.  President Obama wants to take something that’s working just fine, and tie it up in red tape–sound familiar?  We’ve seen this movie before–it’s called ObamaCare.

The FCC plans to vote on Feb. 26th on whether or not the government should take their usual heavy handed approach to controlling the Internet or do the right thing and leave it alone.

I need your help to tell President Obama and the FCC: “Don’t mess with the Internet!”

An unregulated Internet has been the single greatest catalyst in history for individual liberty and free markets on the planet.  It has created the greatest revolution since Henry Ford invented the Model T.

Let’s get this straight–technology has progressed because it has been driven by a free and open Internet–not because of DC bureaucrats.  This latest attempt to regulate the web threatens to interrupt that positive innovation, set the market back, and kill jobs.

A free, flourishing Internet is as important as anything man has ever created.  But those freedoms are under assault.

Please, stand with me and help protect Internet freedom by signing this petition today.

These attempts to regulate the Internet are a direct attack on the freedom of information and an innovative market.  The government needs to stay out of the way.

Free markets are worth protecting.  Please tell your friends, your families, that there’s nothing neutral about net neutrality.  We have to stop this aggressive, invasive, and harmful regulation and we need all the help we can get to do it.

Sincerely,

Senator Rand Paul

[Note:  March 8, 2020— I’m a vegan who doesn’t eat chicken, however I respect the good intentions of the store manager.]

The following is summarized from a DailyMail article:

A homeless man was selling CDs outside of a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Bowling Green, Kentucky, which prompted the manager of the restaurant to come out and give him a free bag of food with an offer to eat inside the restaurant.  She said, “Because of your sign we can’t let you solicit.  You are more than welcome to dine in and be our guest.”

The man who recorded the video said that he doesn’t know the manger but she has always seemed to act very professionally.

A strange article in the Village Voice newspaper entitled “The Sexual Assault Epidemic That No One Is Talking About” claims that one out of every four women who wear hijabs has been assaulted while riding in the subway systems of New York City.  However, I think that is almost certainly a false or exaggerated claim based on everything that I know about New Yorkers and the nature of the city’s subway system.

Even more strangely, the title of the article mentions “sexual” assaults, but the actual content of the article essentially doesn’t mention sexual assaults at all but rather it talks about how women are supposedly being attacked by having hot coffee thrown on them or by being pushed or shoved on the subway platforms.

The article claims that Muslim woman warn each other on social media after high profile Islamic terrorist attacks: “Be careful, be cautious, don’t walk too close to the platform edge.”— Saying that they are worried that people will actually push them onto the tracks or into the path of oncoming trains, but I doubt that is something for them to actually be concerned about.

So then, what are the characteristics of the people who the article claims are attacking the women?  It says “… New Yorkers from these backgrounds face high rates of bias-based harassment, discrimination, and violence, … our country’s growing climate of hate isn’t isolated to Southern cities or Republican strongholds.”— Oh I see, it’s conservative Republicans who physically attack people!  Also the article mentions “the 2016 election” a few times implying that it is some sort of a cause of a rash of “Islamophobic” attacks, which actually hasn’t happened.  Does video exist of any of the attacks that the article mentions?

So in other words, if the dubious claims that the article makes aren’t questionable enough, it then goes on to ridiculously imply that it’s Trump supporters who are the cause of the assaults!

It is usually rare for people to be attacked in New York which is generally a very peaceful city for its size and population density.  Of course anything is possible, but overall it is a very diverse and tolerant place.  I think if someone were to actually attack a woman wearing a Hijab it would usually cause a commotion and quite a reaction.

The story is written based on the results of an obviously politically biased survey created by the “New York City’s Commission on Human Rights.”  Presumably the creators of the survey either altered the results of their findings, or when many women filled out the survey they may have simply embellished their claims thinking that it wouldn’t hurt to do so because perhaps it would somehow be helpful for their demographic in general.

I’m sure that most New Yorkers reading the article would just roll their eyes and skip to reading the next story, with few if any actually bothering to mention anything about it.  Therefore the article will continue to live on in the search engines to be used for backing up exaggerated claims of “Islamophobia” for the purpose of justifying harmful leftist agendas.

A 2001 UN Security document entitled “Replacement Migration: Is It a Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations?” outlines a strategy to “offset population decline and population ageing resulting from low fertility and mortality rates” by importing millions of migrants into various regions of the world each year including Europe, Japan, Russia, Korea, and the United States.  The plan seeks to bring 10.8 million migrants to the United States each year until 2050, bringing a total of 593 million by that time.

This Infowars article details the issue.

I’m seeing many news stories on the “Voice of Europe” website about migrant related issues in Europe over the past few days.

People in the United States should be terrified about voting for supposedly “well-meaning” leftist Democrats in the upcoming November elections, they work for the same political Establishment who brought the following problems to Europe.  The following are the sorts of situations that politicians associated with groups like the corrupt Establishment organization “Emily’s List” will bring to the United States if they are elected.

“UK: Three-year-old boy suffers serious burns after deliberate acid attack in Worcester” — A three year old child in the UK has been taken to the hospital suffering severe burns to his face resulting from a deliberate acid attack in a Home Bargains store, with the police releasing surveillance footage of three men who were responsible. — https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/07/uk-three-year-old-boy-suffers-serious-burns-after-deliberate-acid-attack-in-worcester/

“Very low sentences for African migrants after ‘bloody gang rape’ of 13-year-old girl in Sweden” — Four Somalian migrants raped a 13 year old girl in Sweden while making videos of it which they shared on social media, and a Swedish court has just halved their punishment from eight months to four and five months in juvenile detention while the fourth could not be punished because he was underage — https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/07/very-low-sentences-for-african-migrants-after-bloody-gang-rape-of-13-year-old-girl-in-sweden/

“Syrian migrant arrested for raping 13-year-old Swedish girl” — A 13 year old girl was raped on a beach in Skåne, Sweden by a 16 year old Syrian migrant, and a football team who was nearby on the beach subdued the attacker and held him down until the police arrived and apprehended him. — https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/07/syrian-migrant-arrested-for-raping-13-year-old-swedish-girl/

“Afghan migrant stabs 18-year-old Norwegian boy to death for no reason” — An 18 year old man in Vadsø, Norway was stabbed to death by an Afghan migrant while working in a supermarket. — https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/07/afghan-migrant-stabs-18-year-old-norwegian-boy-to-death-for-no-reason/

“Adult migrant men are marrying children to qualify for EU passports in Sweden” — Adult Muslim migrants are marrying child brides in order to quality for receiving EU passports in Sweden. — https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/07/adult-migrant-men-are-marrying-children-to-qualify-for-eu-passports-in-sweden/

“7-year-old boy chased and injured by knifeman in a Liverpool park” — A seven year old boy was chased and attacked by an 18 year old knife-wielding gang member in Worcester, UK, injuring the boy’s arm — https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/07/7-year-old-boy-chased-and-injured-by-knifeman-in-a-liverpool-park/

“UN already had plans to replace Europeans with 159 million migrants 18 years ago” — A UN report that was published in the year 2000 entitled “Replacement Migration: a solution to an ageing population decline” states that 159 million migrants should come to Europe by 2025 —   https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/07/un-already-had-plans-to-replace-europeans-with-159-million-migrants-18-years-ago/