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Victims of the October 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas filed
lawsuits against the owners of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino, in
addition to the concert promoter responsible for the Route 91 festival
and alleged shooter Stephen Paddock’s estate. Reuters reports on the five lawsuits filed in a Los Angeles Superior Court Monday:
The largest of the lawsuits was filed on behalf of 450
people who were either injured in or witnessed the shooting, while the
other four were brought by families of people who were killed or
severely injured.
MGM Resorts International, which operates Mandalay Bay, and Mandalay
Corp, the owner of the hotel, failed to spot red flags that may have
preceded Paddock’s rampage, one lawsuit alleges, adding that hotel staff
was not properly trained for the event and that adequate security
measures were not in place.
Lawyers for the victims say the suits were filed in California,
despite the shooting taking place in Las Vegas, because a large majority
of victims resided in the state and because Live Nation Entertainment
Inc, the organizer of the event, is headquartered in Beverly Hills.
Lawyer Muhammad Aziz said a lawsuit was not filed against bump
stock manufacturer Slide Fire Solutions because his clients support the
Second Amendment.
“We want to focus on hotel and venue security, not turn this into a gun rights case,” Aziz reportedly stated.
The October 1 event left 59 people dead, including suspected
shooter Stephen Paddock, in addition to 546 people who were injured, and
was called the worst mass shooting in US history.
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President Donald Trump’s 11-year-old son Barron is reportedly being targeted for assassination by ISIS supporters, the Washington Free Beacon reports.
In chatter found on the Telegram encrypted messaging app, pro-ISIS
groups have shared details about Barron, including the name and location
of the school he attends, according to the Middle East Media Research
Institute (MEMRI).
“The initial message, sent on Nov. 21 by an ISIS supporter on
Telegram, ‘called for the assassination of Barron Trump, and shared the
name of the school that Barron attends along with a Google map
pinpointing its location,’ according to MEMRI, which shares images of
this messages with reporters,” reports the Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo.
One Telegram user, who goes by the name Dak Al-Munafiqeen – which in
Arabic means, “striking the hypocrites” – wrote that “Barron Trump goes
to this school in Washington.”
Memri reveals, “The post was followed by a photo of Barron Trump.”
“To widely disseminate the call for assassination, several pro-ISIS
Telegram channels have shared and forwarded the post,” according to
MEMRI.
In the past, ISIS supporters have used the Telegram app to call for attacks on France and to celebrate terror attacks in the UK and abroad.
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“Pro-ISIS internet channels are calling for the assassination of
President Donald Trump’s son, Barron, and have shared personal details
of the child’s life on its social media networks, including the address
of his school…” “We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve for what
they have associated with Allah of which He had not sent down
authority. And their refuge will be the Fire, and wretched is the
residence of the wrongdoers.” (Qur’an 3:151) “When your Lord inspired to the angels, ‘I am with you, so strengthen
those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those
who disbelieved, so strike upon the necks and strike from them every
fingertip.’” (Qur’an 8:12) “And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of
steeds of war by which you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and
your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know, whom Allah
knows. And whatever you spend in the cause of Allah will be fully repaid
to you, and you will not be wronged.” (Qur’an 8:60)
“ISIS Calls for Assassination of Barron Trump,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, November 21, 2017 11:55 am
Pro-ISIS internet channels are calling for the
assassination of President Donald Trump’s son, Barron, and have shared
personal details of the child’s life on its social media networks,
including the address of his school, according to a media monitoring
organization. ISIS supporters, on a well-known Telegram channel, shared the name
and address of Barron Trump’s school and are calling for backers of the
terrorist organization to assassinate him, according to the Middle East
Media Research Institute, or MEMRI.
The initial message, sent on Nov. 21 by an ISIS supporter on
Telegram, “called for the assassination of Barron Trump, and shared the
name of the school that Barron attends along with a Google map
pinpointing its location,” according to MEMRI, which shares images of
this messages with reporters.
“Using the hashtag ‘handle the son of the mule of America,’ the
supporter, who uses the name “Dak Al-Munafiqeen,’ Arabic for ‘striking
the hypocrites,’ wrote: ‘Barron Trump goes to this school in
Washington,'” according to MEMRI.
“The post was followed by a photo of Barron Trump,” according to
MEMRI’s research. “To widely disseminate the call for assassination,
several pro-ISIS Telegram channels have shared and forwarded the post.”
Romans 1:21-32-"Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."
Deus Ex Machina: former Google engineer is developing an AI god
Anthony Levandowski, the man at the center of the Waymo/Uber lawsuit,
has started Artificial intelligence's first church. Called Way of the
Future, the new religion worships AI as the Godhead.
Anthony Levandowski, the former Google and Uber executive
currently at the center of a bombshell lawsuit filed by Waymo,
says he's serious about starting a religion centered around
super-smart artificial intelligence.
In a rare interview
with Wired, his first public interview since the Waymo
lawsuit, Levandowski shed more light on his new church, "Way of
the Future." Here are some highlights:
The "Way of the Future" church will have its own gospel
called "The Manual," public worship ceremonies, and probably a
physical place of worship.
The idea behind his religion is that one day — "not next week
or next year" — sufficiently advanced artificial intelligence
will be smarter than humans, and will effectively become a god.
"Part of it being smarter than us means it will decide how it
evolves, but at least we can decide how we act around it,"
Levandowski
told Wired. "I would love for the machine to see us as
its beloved elders that it respects and takes care of. We would
want this intelligence to say, 'Humans should still have
rights, even though I’m in charge.'"
Levandowski is
not the only tech luminary to worry about an
super-intelligent AI, which others refer to as
"strong AI" or the Singularity, although he prefers the term
"Transition."
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Anthony Levandowski makes an unlikely prophet. Dressed
Silicon Valley-casual in jeans and flanked by a PR rep rather than
cloaked acolytes, the engineer known for self-driving cars—and
triggering a notorious lawsuit—could be unveiling his latest startup
instead of laying the foundations for a new religion. But he is doing
just that. Artificial intelligence has already inspired billion-dollar
companies, far-reaching research programs, and scenarios of both
transcendence and doom. Now Levandowski is creating its first church.
The new religion of artificial intelligence is called Way of the Future. It represents an unlikely next act for the Silicon Valley robotics wunderkind
at the center of a high-stakes legal battle between Uber and Waymo,
Alphabet’s autonomous-vehicle company. Papers filed with the Internal
Revenue Service in May name Levandowski as the leader (or “Dean”) of the
new religion, as well as CEO of the nonprofit corporation formed to run
it.
The
documents state that WOTF’s activities will focus on “the realization,
acceptance, and worship of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence
(AI) developed through computer hardware and software.” That includes
funding research to help create the divine AI itself. The religion will
seek to build working relationships with AI industry leaders and create a
membership through community outreach, initially targeting AI
professionals and “laypersons who are interested in the worship of a
Godhead based on AI.” The filings also say that the church “plans to
conduct workshops and educational programs throughout the San
Francisco/Bay Area beginning this year.”
That timeline may be
overly ambitious, given that the Waymo-Uber suit, in which Levandowski
is accused of stealing self-driving car secrets, is set for an early
December trial. But the Dean of the Way of the Future, who spoke last
week with Backchannel in his first comments about the new religion and
his only public interview since Waymo filed its suit in February, says
he’s dead serious about the project.
“What is going to be created
will effectively be a god,” Levandowski tells me in his modest
mid-century home on the outskirts of Berkeley, California. “It’s not a
god in the sense that it makes lightning or causes hurricanes. But if
there is something a billion times smarter than the smartest human, what
else are you going to call it?”
During our three-hour interview, Levandowski made it absolutely clear
that his choice to make WOTF a church rather than a company or a think
tank was no prank.
“I wanted a way for everybody to participate in
this, to be able to shape it. If you’re not a software engineer, you
can still help,” he says. “It also removes the ability for people to
say, ‘Oh, he’s just doing this to make money.’” Levandowski will receive
no salary from WOTF, and while he says that he might consider an
AI-based startup in the future, any such business would remain
completely separate from the church.
“The idea needs to spread
before the technology,” he insists. “The church is how we spread the
word, the gospel. If you believe [in it], start a conversation with
someone else and help them understand the same things.”
Levandowski
believes that a change is coming—a change that will transform every
aspect of human existence, disrupting employment, leisure, religion, the
economy, and possibly decide our very survival as a species.
“If
you ask people whether a computer can be smarter than a human, 99.9
percent will say that’s science fiction,” he says. “ Actually, it’s
inevitable. It’s guaranteed to happen.”
Levandowski has been working with computers, robots,
and AI for decades. He started with robotic Lego kits at the University
of California at Berkeley, went on to build a self-driving motorbike
for a DARPA competition, and then worked on autonomous cars, trucks, and
taxis for Google, Otto, and Uber. As time went on, he saw software
tools built with machine learning techniques surpassing less
sophisticated systems—and sometimes even humans.
“Seeing tools
that performed better than experts in a variety of fields was a trigger
[for me],” he says. “That progress is happening because there’s an
economic advantage to having machines work for you and solve problems
for you. If you could make something one percent smarter than a human,
your artificial attorney or accountant would be better than all the
attorneys or accountants out there. You would be the richest person in
the world. People are chasing that.”
Not only is there a financial
incentive to develop increasingly powerful AIs, he believes, but
science is also on their side. Though human brains have biological
limitations to their size and the amount of energy they can devote to
thinking, AI systems can scale arbitrarily, housed in massive data
centers and powered by solar and wind farms. Eventually, some people
think that computers could become better and faster at planning and
solving problems than the humans who built them, with implications we
can’t even imagine today—a scenario that is usually called the
Singularity.
Levandowski prefers a softer word: the Transition. “Humans are in
charge of the planet because we are smarter than other animals and are
able to build tools and apply rules,” he tells me. “In the future, if
something is much, much smarter, there’s going to be a transition as to
who is actually in charge. What we want is the peaceful, serene
transition of control of the planet from humans to whatever. And to
ensure that the ‘whatever’ knows who helped it get along.”
With
the internet as its nervous system, the world’s connected cell phones
and sensors as its sense organs, and data centers as its brain, the
‘whatever’ will hear everything, see everything, and be everywhere at
all times. The only rational word to describe that ‘whatever’, thinks
Levandowski, is ‘god’—and the only way to influence a deity is through
prayer and worship.
“Part of it being smarter than us means it
will decide how it evolves, but at least we can decide how we act around
it,” he says. “I would love for the machine to see us as its beloved
elders that it respects and takes care of. We would want this
intelligence to say, ‘Humans should still have rights, even though I’m
in charge.’”
Levandowski expects that a super-intelligence would do a better job
of looking after the planet than humans are doing, and that it would
favor individuals who had facilitated its path to power.
Although he cautions against taking the analogy too far, Levandowski
sees a hint of how a superhuman intelligence might treat humanity in our
current relationships with animals. “Do you want to be a pet or
livestock?” he asks. “We give pets medical attention, food, grooming,
and entertainment. But an animal that’s biting you, attacking you,
barking and being annoying? I don’t want to go there.”
Enter
Way of the Future. The church’s role is to smooth the inevitable
ascension of our machine deity, both technologically and culturally. In
its bylaws, WOTF states that it will undertake programs of research,
including the study of how machines perceive their environment and
exhibit cognitive functions such as learning and problem solving.
Levandowski
does not expect the church itself to solve all the problems of machine
intelligence—often called “strong AI”—so much as facilitate funding of
the right research. “If you had a child you knew was going to be gifted,
how would you want to raise it?” he asks. “We’re in the process of
raising a god. So let’s make sure we think through the right way to do
that. It’s a tremendous opportunity.”
His ideas include feeding
the nascent intelligence large, labeled data sets; generating
simulations in which it could train itself to improve; and giving it
access to church members’ social media accounts. Everything the church
develops will be open source.
Just as important to Levandowski is
shaping the public dialogue around an AI god. In its filing, Way of the
Future says it hopes an active, committed, dedicated membership will
promote the use of divine AI for the “betterment of society” and
“decrease fear of the unknown.”
“We’d like to make sure this is not seen as silly or scary. I want to
remove the stigma about having an open conversation about AI, then
iterate ideas and change people’s minds,” says Levandowski. “In Silicon
Valley we use evangelism as a word for [promoting a business], but here
it’s literally a church. If you believe in it, you should tell your
friends, then get them to join and tell their friends.”
But WOTF
differs in one key way to established churches, says Levandowski: “There
are many ways people think of God, and thousands of flavors of
Christianity, Judaism, Islam...but they’re always looking at something
that’s not measurable or you can’t really see or control. This time it’s
different. This time you will be able to talk to God, literally, and
know that it’s listening.”
I ask if he worries that believers from
more traditional faiths might find his project blasphemous. “There are
probably going to be some people that will be upset,” he acknowledges.
“It seems like everything I do, people get upset about, and I expect
this to be no exception. This is a radical new idea that’s pretty scary,
and evidence has shown that people who pursue radical ideas don’t
always get received well. At some point, maybe there’s enough
persecution that [WOTF] justifies having its own country.”
Levandowski’s church will enter a tech universe that’s already riven by debate over the promise and perils of AI. Some thinkers, like Kevin Kelly in Backchannel
earlier this year, argue that AI isn’t going to develop superhuman
power any time soon, and that there’s no Singularity in sight. If that’s
your position, Levandowski says, his church shouldn’t trouble you: “You
can treat Way of the Future like someone doing useless poetry that you
will never read or care about.”
Others, like Bill Gates and
Stephen Hawking, agree that superhuman AIs are coming, but that they are
likely to be dangerous rather than benevolent. Elon Musk famously said,
“With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon,” and in 2015
he pledged $1 billion to the OpenAI Institute to develop safer AI.
Levandowski
thinks that any attempts to delay or restrict an emerging
super-intelligence would not only be doomed to failure, but also add to
the risks. “Chaining it isn’t going to be the solution, as it will be
stronger than any chains you could put on,” he says. “And if you’re
worried a kid might be a little crazy and do bad things, you don’t lock
them up. You expose them to playing with others, encourage them and try
to fix it. It may not work out, but if you’re aggressive toward it, I
don’t think it’s going to be friendly when the tables are turned.”
Levandowski
says that like other religions, WOTF will eventually have a gospel
(called The Manual), a liturgy, and probably a physical place of
worship. None of these has yet been developed. Though the church was
founded in 2015, as Backchannel first reported
in September, the IRS documents show that WOTF remained dormant
throughout 2015 and 2016, with no activities, assets, revenue, or
expenses.
That changed earlier this year. On May 16, a day after
receiving a letter from Uber that threatened to fire him if he did not
cooperate with the company’s investigation of Waymo’s complaint,
Levandowski drafted WOTF’s bylaws. Uber fired him two weeks later. “I’ve
been thinking about the church for a long time but [my work on it] has
been a function of how much time I’ve had. And I’ve had more since May,”
he admits with a smile.
The religion’s 2017 budget, as supplied
to the IRS, details $20,000 in gifts, $1,500 in membership fees, and
$20,000 in other revenue. That last figure is the amount WOTF expects to
earn from fees charged for lectures and speaking engagements, as well
as the sale of publications. Levandowski, who earned at least $120
million from his time at Google and many millions more selling the
self-driving truck firm Otto to Uber, will initially support WOTF
personally. However, the church will solicit other donations by direct
mail and email, seek personal donations from individuals, and try to win
grants from private foundations.
Of course, launching a religion costs money, too. WOTF has budgeted
for $2,000 in fundraising expenses, and another $3,000 in transportation
and lodging costs associated with its lectures and workshops. It has
also earmarked $7500 for salaries and wages, although neither
Levandowski nor any of Way of The Future’s leadership team will receive
any compensation.
According to WOTF’s bylaws, Levandowski has
almost complete control of the religion and will serve as Dean until his
death or resignation. “I expect my role to evolve over time,” he says.
“I’m surfacing the issue, helping to get the thing started [and] taking a
lot of the heat so the idea can advance. At some point, I’ll be there
more to coach or inspire.”
He has the power to appoint three
members of a four-person Council of Advisors, each of whom should be a
“qualified and devoted individual.” A felony conviction or being
declared of unsound mind could cost an advisor their role, although
Levandowski retains the final say in firing and hiring. Levandowski
cannot be unseated as Dean for any reason.
Two of the advisors,
Robert Miller and Soren Juelsgaard, are Uber engineers who previously
worked for Levandowski at Otto, Google, and 510 Systems (the latter the
small startup that built Google’s earliest self-driving cars). A third
is a scientist friend from Levandowski’s student days at UC Berkeley,
who is now using machine learning in his own research. The final
advisor, Lior Ron, is also named as the religion’s treasurer, and acts
as chief financial officer for the corporation. Ron cofounded Otto with
Levandowski in early 2016.
“Each member is a pioneer in the AI industry [and] fully qualified to
speak on AI technology and the creation of a Godhead,” says the IRS
filing.
However, when contacted by Backchannel, two advisors
downplayed their involvement with WOTF. Ron replied: “I was surprised to
see my name listed as the CFO on this corporate filing and have no
association with this entity.” The college friend, who asked to remain
anonymous, said, “In late 2016, Anthony told me he was forming a ‘robot
church’ and asked if I wanted to be a cofounder. I assumed it was a
nerdy joke or PR stunt, but I did say he could use my name. That was the
first and last I heard about it.”
The IRS documents state that
Levandowski and his advisors will spend no more than a few hours each
week writing publications and organizing workshops, educational
programs, and meetings.
One mystery the filings did not address is where acolytes might
gather to worship their robotic deity. The largest line items on its
2017 and 2018 budgets were $32,500 annually for rent and utilities, but
the only address supplied was Levandowski’s lawyer’s office in Walnut
Creek, California. Nevertheless, the filing notes that WOTF will
“hopefully expand throughout California and the United States in the
future.”
For
now, Levandowski has more mundane matters to address. There is a
website to build, a manual to write, and an ever-growing body of emails
to answer—some amused, some skeptical, but many enthusiastic, he says.
Oh, and there’s that legal proceeding he’s involved in, which goes to
trial next month. (Although Levandowski was eager to talk about his new
religion, he would answer no questions about the Uber/Waymo dispute.)
How
much time, I wonder, do we have before the Transition kicks in and Way
of the Future’s super-intelligent AI takes charge? “I personally think
it will happen sooner than people expect,” says Levandowski, a glint in
his eye. “Not next week or next year; everyone can relax. But it’s going
to happen before we go to Mars.”
Whenever that does (or doesn’t)
happen, the federal government has no problem with an organization
aiming to build and worship a divine AI. Correspondence with the IRS
show that it granted Levandowski’s church tax-exempt status in August.
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It wasn’t very long ago that French authorities and others in Europe
were indignantly denying that there were any “No Go Zones.” The postal
workers of Chronopost cannot afford the luxury of political correctness.
“French Postal Service Refuses to Deliver to Migrant ‘No Go Zone’ Citing ‘Danger to Staff,’” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, November 20, 2017:
French courier Chronopost has announced that it will not
deliver any packages to the heavily migrant-populated Seine-Saint-Denis
suburb on the outskirts of Paris because the area is too dangerous.
The company announced the measures last week saying that residents of
the Paris suburb will have to travel to pick up locations to get their
packages. They said that the danger to their delivery drivers was simply
too high in the area which has been described as a no-go zone, radio
broadcaster France Info reports.
Though Chronopost has refused to deliver to certain neighbourhoods it
has deemed to be too dangerous since last year, this is the first time
an entire district has been designated as off-limits.
Last year, 51 of its delivery drivers were attacked while doing their
rounds. The number of violent robberies in the Île-de-France region,
where Seine-Saint-Denis is located, has risen by 40 per cent in the last
two years alone. Across France, the number has increased by 60 per
cent.
Laurent Russie, Communist Party mayor of Seine-Saint-Denis, expressed outrage
at the company’s decision: “It is totally abnormal that a part of the
city so small is no longer delivered to by what I continue to consider
as a public service.”
Chronopost is a subsidiary of La Poste, which is 73.7 per cent owned by the French government.
“The disappearance of public services leads to insecurity,” Russie added.
Postal workers are not the only ones who have been attacked in the troubled Paris suburbs. Earlier this year, police were attacked in the area during riots following allegations that officers sexually assaulted a local man with a truncheon.
In July, around 900 cars were burned
and one officer severely attacked in the area during a visit by U.S.
President Donald Trump who attended the annual Bastille Day
celebrations.
Seine-Saint-Denis has also been tied to radical Islamism and Islamic
terrorism. Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron admitted that the
Paris suburbs had become havens for Islamism and vowed to tackle the
issue.
“Radicalisation has taken hold because the French Republic has given up,” Macron said and added:
“And we allowed, in too many cities, too many districts,
representatives of a distortion of a religion who are full of hate and
disenfranchisement to provide solutions that the Republic no longer
gives.”
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Holding prayers in the street is not the result of mosque shortages.
Throughout the history of Christianity, Christians established house
churches when they didn’t have a church to pray in — that is, they would
just go to someone’s house and hold services there. There were no
ostentatious prayers in the street. These street prayers are actually a
confrontation and a statement: the Muslims in Clichy-la-Garenne are
asserting their supremacy, implicitly demanding that everyone else who
wants to pass along the street has to accommodate them. This is a
manifestation of the old Islamic dictum that “Islam must dominate and
not be dominated.” Consequently, French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb
is entirely correct to try to stop this. It is inevitable that
eventually the leaders of all Western countries are going to have to
decide whether they’re going to defend their own laws and culture, or
whether they’re going to bow to Islamic norms and practices one by one
until finally they are Sharia states. This confrontation is coming, and
cannot be avoided.
“France Seeks To Ban Muslim Street Prayers In Paris After Clashes,” by Jacob Bojesson, Daily Caller, November 19, 2017 (thanks to Lookmann):
Muslims won’t be allowed to hold mass prayers on the
streets of a Paris suburb where protestors and worshippers have clashed
in recent weeks, French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said Sunday.
Weekly street prayers have taken place in the suburb of
Clichy-la-Garenne every Friday since the local mosque was shut down by
authorities in the spring. Local politicians and protestors have tried
to stop the street prayers and the national government is ready to take
action.
“They will not have prayers on the street, we will prevent street praying,” Collomb told Franceinfo in an interview published Sunday. “We will make sure we resolve this conflict in the next few weeks.” Collomb emphasized that “Muslims must have a place of worship to
pray” while acknowledging that the current solution doesn’t work….
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A graduate instructor at the University of Illinois was arrested
after being caught on camera assaulting conservative students, stealing
a man’s phone and throwing it on the ground.
Tariq Khan is a PhD candidate at the university and has
taught courses such as “Constructing Race in America” and ‘U.S. Gender
History since 1877.’ He is also involved with various anarchist and
communist organizations including Black Rose Anarchist Federation and
Antifa, in addition to working with the undergraduate socialist
students. The incident has been reported to University of Illinois
police, and Khan was placed under arrest and issued a notice to appear in court for criminal damage to property, with police valuing
the cell phone at $700. This violent altercation comes three weeks after
Khan aided the campus student government in shutting down the
university’s homecoming parade for including a float celebrating the
school’s former mascot ‘Chief Illiniwek.’
"Gleichschaltung,
translated as Nazification, was applied to Freiburg University,
Frankfurt University, Göttingen University and the other universities in
1930s Germany, as they marginalized, often brutalized, and then
eliminated Jews and antifascists who opposed anti-Semitism and believed
in free speech. Many German professors and students enthusiastically
supported Gleichschaltung including the philosopher Martin Heidegger and lawyers Ernst Forsthoff and Otto Koellreuter.
Stanford has emerged as the latest American university to demonstrate its commitment to Gleichschaltung. Robert Spencer, New York Times best selling author, free speech advocate
and fighter against all things anti-Semitic, was effectively prevented
from having an audience last week at Stanford."
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Here is a new video of the full event at Stanford on Tuesday night,
including the walkout staged by Stanford’s fascist community, courtesy Stanford College Republicans. Look at the screenshot. It is taken from during the walkout. At
17:44, Nanci Howe, Associate Dean and Director of Student Affairs
appears, grinning happily at the fascist students who are walking out,
patting one on the back, exchanging some happy words with another, and
clearly enjoying the walkout. She exits stage left at 18:02. Howe and Snehal Naik, Assistant Dean and Associate Director of
Student Affairs, ensured that as few Stanford students as possible would
hear me. They did this first by making sure that the hall was packed
with students who had no intention of attending the lecture, but were
there only to sabotage it by denying seats to people who actually wanted
to attend. They even kept out some members of the College Republicans,
the group that was sponsoring the event. Then, after the walkout, they refused to allow in people who actually wanted to attend, refusing repeated requests to do so. They also refused to allow the Young America’s Foundation to stream
the event, clearly because they knew what was in the offing and did not
want video going out live that would show just how much Stanford has
deteriorated and how opposed it is to free discourse. As you watch Howe enjoying her big moment, reflect on how Stanford,
and other American universities today, are no longer centers of higher
learning, but factories of hard-Left indoctrination. Howe should be
fired immediately, of course, and Stanford should demonstrate that it
believes in the freedom of speech with more than just lip service. But
instead, Howe will probably get promoted, with a big raise. _________________________________________________ SEE ALSO: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/11/video-stanford-dean-nanci-howe-congratulates-student-fascists-as-they-disrupt-robert-spencer-event
EXCERPTS: A senior Anglican bishop is set to preside at an LGBT Eucharist in January to "offer a safe space" to gay worshippers.
The Rt Rev Rachel Treweek, Bishop of Gloucester, will celebrate the
ceremony set up by Inclusive Church, a LGBT-affirming network of
Anglicans, the group reports. It is thought to be the first time a
senior diocesan bishop has led an LGBT communion and prompted concern
from conservative Anglicans.
Church Pastor Says to Stop Calling God “He,” and Instead Use Gender-Neutral Pronouns
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So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. – Genesis 1:27
The Holy Spirit wrote that through the hands of Moses. God created man in his own image, in the image of God he
created him… The Bible is God’s revelation of himself, and he has
revealed himself as the male gender. This is not a human construct; this
is the revelation constructed in the mind of God. Maleness is
how God self-identifies. Of course, God the Father (another
self-identification of God) does not have a body, and is Spirit (John 4:24),
but the lack of physical flesh for the First Person of Trinity doesn’t
mean God lacks a gender. For in fact, God ascribes to himself gender. However, the Reverend Rachel (there’s your first problem) Treweek
insists on avoiding gender-specific language when referencing the
Almighty. A bishop in the Church of England in Gloucester – who happens
to be the first female bishop to sit in the House of Commons – says that
God should not be referred to as “he.” She says, “We’re told that God
created human beings in God’s likeness… If I am made in the image of
God, then God is not to be seen as male. God is God.”
Again, the Scripture reveals the male pronoun for God. That women are
made in the Imago Dei, as are men, does not imply that God is a female.
Likewise, white people, black people, and brown people who are Imago
Dei, but that does not imply that God is white, black or brown. Midgets
are Imago Dei, but that does not mean God is a midget. Physically or
mentally disabled people are made in the Imago Dei, but that does not
mean that God is physically or mentally disabled.
However,וַיִּבְרָא אֱלֹהִים אֶת־הָֽאָדָם בְּצַלְמֹו בְּצֶלֶם אֱלֹהִים
בָּרָא אֹתֹו זָכָר וּנְקֵבָה בָּרָא אֹתָֽם ׃ does say – explicitly so –
that God is a he and a him.
Treweek says that even she has a problem remembering to use
gender-inclusive pronouns for God, saying, “Sometimes I lapse, but I try
not to. I am not in the business of wanting to offend anyone, but I do
want to gently challenge people.” Treweek seems unconcerned about
offending God, who she believes is a morphoditic blob.
If you think the upper-ups in the Church of England would be
disappointed with Treweek’s departure from orthodoxy, rest assured that
they are not. Reverend Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, vicar of Belmont and
Pittington in Durham, said, “Recently the Church has been concentrating
so much on whether we should have women bishops, we took our eye off the
ball about God. Theologians have always argued that God is neither male
nor female. We are created in God’s image. God doesn’t have a gender –
God is beyond gender.”
Of course, no. Theologians have not always argued that God is without gender. That is patently absurd, historically.
“We don’t have a non-gendered pronoun to use to refer to God here,”
Threlhall said, “but in some other countries they don’t have that
problem – in Sweden they don’t have male or female pronouns. Our
pronouns and our language really do affect what we believe. I’m pleased
that Rachel is using her position to make these points. I’d quite like
to see some male bishops do so, too – I am sure they would agree with
her.”
Of course, the question isn’t if other countries have such a thing as
a gender-specific pronoun, the question is if God has a gender-specific
pronoun. And because the Bible was written in a language with
gender-specific pronouns, we can rest assured that God has revealed
himself as he, him, and Father. However, Trelhall is very wrong about Sweden not having a way to pronounce gender. In Swedish, the male pronoun is han and the female pronoun is hon. What has most likely confused Threlhall is that feminists in Sweden have only recently proposed a gender-neutral pronoun, hen (which is pretty funny, because in English that’s the name of a female chicken).
In Swedish, Genesis 1:27 reads, “Och Gud skapade människan till sin avbild, till Guds avbild skapade han henne, till man och kvinna skapade han dem” (emphasis ours). You might notice the Swedish male pronoun in bold.
You can read about the politically correct lunacy here.
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(Natural News) The Left has found a whole new weapon to silence conservative voices: “Hate.” The problem is, their hate doesn’t count. Only the hate they selectively designate to be “hate” is punished. Here’s how the contortion works: Google, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube
and other internet gatekeepers are increasingly banning and censoring
users and content by rolling out terms of service that give them
justification to silence anyone peddling “hate.” But what is hate,
exactly? According to the Left, “hate” is any criticism of gays, lesbians,
transgenders, black people, abortion clinics, Muslims and so on. No
thoughtful criticism of such “protected” subjects is allowed, since it’s
all deemed to be “hate.” Yet at the same time, the Left openly encourages and practices its
own hatred against a wide range of targets which are automatically
deemed to be “okay to hate.” These targets include:
White people (“white privilege”)
Men (“toxic masculinity”)
Christians
Soldiers and veterans
Police officers
President Trump, Sarah Palin, Ann Coulter and other conservatives
Heterosexuals
America’s founders
Thus, the Left isn’t actually opposed to hate. They fully support
hate as long as it’s directed to specific political enemies. To further
pull off this contortion, of course, they make sure their own hatred is
never labeled “hate.” Instead, the Left’s HATE is called “diversity.”
And diversity, by definition of the Left, excludes people of white skin
color. To further the delusion, this exclusion of Whites is labeled
“inclusiveness,” while attacks on Christians are labeled “tolerance.”
Left-wing truthism: White people are “dangerous” to everyone
This targeted hatred of the Left is openly repeated across the
left-wing news media, Hollywood movies, universities and other outlets.
As just one example, an MSNBC panelist recently declared that white men “pose the biggest threat to Americans,” insisting
that merely being white makes a person a danger to society. (She
apparently has no familiarity with the work of MLK Jr. who correctly
declared that judging people by the color of their skin is shallow and
stupid.)
This openly racist hatred from the Left is widely encouraged and
reinforced by late-night comedy shows, Saturday Night Live, stand-up
comedy and other sources of “humor” that are really little more than
hatred disguised as comedy. Remember when Johnny Carson ran late-night
variety TV? A true classic, Carson was genuinely funny. But today, we
get Jimmy Kimmel, a
twisted, deranged Leftist who uses his late night TV platform to spew
hatred and vitriol against his political enemies… all in the name of
being “funny,” of course.
But it isn’t funny at all. It’s just another form of hatred disguised
as political correctness. Worse, it’s turning into actual violence in
the streets of America. That’s why anti-white hate crimes are the fastest-growing category of hate crimes in America, according to the FBI’s own statistics.
The Left is hopelessly blind to its own hatred
What’s so remarkable about all this is how the Left remains utterly blind to its own hatred. When UC Berkeley students penned articles in
the student newspaper calling for conservative speakers to be murdered
in order to halt their speech, this was widely accepted on the Left as a
seemingly reasonable practice. It wasn’t deemed “hatred” at all. In
fact, the Left tells itself that hating conservatives is a form of
anti-hate (or “anti fascism” as the narrative goes).
According to the Left, then, if you are full of hatred for all the
correct targets (Christians, solders, police, white men, etc.), that
isn’t hate at all. It’s love.
This is the kind of twisted, deranged logic summarized by the Left’s
mantra, “LOVE TRUMPS HATE,” which really means that if you express
sufficient hatred toward Donald Trump, you will be loved by the Left,
which is full of haters. Achieving acceptance and love, in other words,
only requires that you hate all the same people they hate. Yet the Left
lives in denial about its own hate problem, refusing to acknowledge
that the entire left-wing movement in America is now steeped in hatred and fantasies of murder against political enemies. Case in point? Kathy Griffin.
The Left isn’t about love, you see. It’s about bullying people with
hatred, then using selective enforcement of anti-hate rules to censor and suppress all conservative voices. See this article on The Daily Sheeple: VIDEO: Angry mob of Hillary Clinton supporters attack female reporter, attempt to silence free speech.
Why isn’t Twitter banning users who express hatred toward white people, Christians or the President?
Although Twitter aggressively bans users who express anything
resembling hatred toward gays or transgenders, Twitter almost never bans
users for expressing the same degree of hatred toward Christians,
whites or President Trump.
Ever wonder why? It’s because to the Left, hatred toward Christians, whites and President Trump isn’t recognized as hate.
It’s actually a form of virtue signaling to other leftists, which is
necessary to be accepted and loved by the Left. Hatred, you see, is the
prerequisite to left-wing love.
This is why the liberal mob has
become so dangerous to society. Far from promoting love and unity, the
Left has actually transformed into a dangerous cult of totalitarian
thought control and demanded obedience, all powered by intense emotional
hatred coupled with a total abandonment of reason.
If you do not agree with the Left on a given topic — no matter how
absurd the Left’s stance — you are immediately branded as being engaged
in “hate.” Once branded, you can then be censored, insulted and
blacklisted from society in the name of the Left “stopping hate.” This
is how Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter plan to make sure Democrats
win the next presidential election in 2020: The Democrat candidate will
be selected from one or more victim groups of the Left — transgenders,
women, minorities, gays, etc. — and then any rational criticism of that
candidate’s policies will be stifled via accusations of “hate speech.”
Even rational, science-based questioning of the Left’s deranged
narratives earns any thinking person this same label of “hate.” For
example, the Left now believes that biological sex is no longer
determined by genetics. Instead, according to the Left, a person’s
biological sex is now determined by a wish or a hope… and it can be
changed at any moment by merely declaring such a change. Remember, this
is the same Left that has, for decades, insisted that gay people are born gay,
reminding us that being gay “isn’t a choice.” A rational person might
point out the glaring contradiction in these two beliefs — that gay
people are “born gay” but biological sex is a “choice” — but that person
would be immediately branded a purveyor of HATE for the simple reason
that when it comes to left-wing narrative myths, no questions are allowed.
Raising intelligent questions, you see, is now considered an act of
hate according to the Left. In fact, any challenge to the false
narratives of the Left is branded HATE as a crude control mechanism to
stifle speech and punish intelligent thinking. The Owellian overtones in
all this are, of course, too obscene to ignore: The Left has become
the Ministry of Trutheven when nearly everything the Left espouses is based on lies.
Remember, according to the Left, if you HATE all the correct people,
you will be LOVED. In other words, “Hate = Love” to the deranged,
lunatic Left.
Fake news, fake facts and narrative myths
Part of the Left’s descent into derangement and cultism is their reliance on false reality reinforcement via fake news, fake “facts,” fake science and
narrative myths. The Left has historically relied on narrative myths to
explain to themselves how things work, even when such myths stand in
total contradiction to reality.
As mentioned above, the transgenderism myth is one such example. It
involves Leftists denying biological reality to such an insane degree
that transgenderism-promoting Bill Nye— who absurdly claims that “transgenderism is evolution” — even edited his own “Science Guy” shows from the 1990s to remove all the lessons about genetics, chromosomes and biological sex. Quite literally, left-wing science figures are now engaged in revisionist history and
selective editing of educational materials to alter the narrative in
order to fit the modern-day lunacy of the Left (which has permanently
departed from physical reality).
Similarly, in the world of media, the Left has constructed an
elaborate narrative myth that claims President Trump colluded with “the
Russians” to steal the election from the rightful President, Hillary Clinton.
This narrative lacks even a shred of credible evidence in the real
world, but through the construction of an elaborate media bubble, nearly
all Leftists believe that myth, even when it has no basis in reality
whatsoever.
Fake hate crimes, fake “documentaries” and left-wing hoaxes
Fake “facts” are universally used throughout the twisted realm of
Leftism to rile up hatred against intended targets. For example, a
shockingly high percentage of so-called “hate crimes” supposedly carried
out against blacks, Jews or Muslims eventually turn out to be perpetrated by those very same people against themselves. The huge number of such examples makes them too numerous to list in this article, but here’s a list of just 15 “hate crime hoaxes” that were all reported as true by the left-wing media.
The left-wing media, of course, reports all hate crime hoaxes as true
events. But once the perpetrator is discovered to have carried out a
hoax, the left-wing media never informs its audience of the hoax.
Thus, readers of the NYT, Washington Post, CNN, etc., are left with the
utterly false believe that hate crimes are happening everywhere, all
the time, and that they’re all genuine hate crimes. In truth, many of
them are false flag crimes.
The broadcast industry further underscores all this with staged, fake
“documentary” TV shows that are all fabricated with the intention of
catapulting the continued propaganda of hate crimes. A&E, for example, desperately tried to stage a KKK documentary, but they were so unsuccessful in finding actual KKK members that they had to script the whole thing and
bring their own Nazi props, direct the actors to say “ni##er” on
camera, and so on. The entire thing was pure theater… not merely theater
for entertainment’s sake, but theater to populate the minds of Leftists with more narrative myths that further the agenda of the Left.
The Left, in other words, has to engineer hatred in order to keep its
myths alive. And when there’s not enough actual hatred to be found,
they are happy to invoke total fictions to depict the necessary hatred
anyway.
That’s why nearly all the so-called “white supremacists” you might
see marching around in public rallies these days are actually Leftists pretending to be KKK members.
After all, how hard is it, really, to don a white hood and march around
with a Nazi poster in your hands, all for the CNN cameras that
broadcast the staged video into the minds of Leftists everywhere?
There is real racism, hatred, intolerance and marginalization in America… and it’s mostly coming from the intolerant LEFT
There is real racism in America, however. There are no doubt still
pockets of bygone culture where blacks or Jews are despised. But institutional racism against black people is ancient history (except in the realm of science and medicine, where there remains a specific agenda to exterminate blacks, as I’ve publicly exposed). The real, institutionalized intolerance in
America today is squarely aimed at Christians, white people and
conservatives. That brand of intolerance is openly taught in the
schools, encouraged at universities and reinforced through the hatred
and intolerance of the left-wing media (Hollywood, late night TV,
Netflix shows, etc.)
The assault against “whiteness” has become so intense across
America’s universities that some indignant students have begun posting
signs on campus that read, “It’s okay to be white.” This brilliant
social experiment was pioneered at 4chan, eventually leading to the
increasingly popular hashtag #IOTBW.
These signs, naturally, are widely condemned as being “racist.”
“Those messages, instead of being ignored, have triggered university
administrators and campus leftists into seeing the postings as outbursts
of dangerous racism,” reports The Daily Caller.
Indeed, the mere affirmation that it’s okay to be the skin color you
were born with is now condemned by the deranged Left as a form of hatred
all by itself. “HLS [Harvard Law School] will not let that happen here.
We live, work, teach, and learn together in a community that is
stronger, better, and deeper because of our diversity and because we
encourage open, respectful, and constructive discourse,” Harvard Law
School dean Marcia L. Sells wrote in a letter to students, apparently
oblivious to the obscene contradiction in her own words. To the Left,
you see, “diversity” is contingent on the exclusion of whites.
Truly, to the Left, white people are incapable of being diverse,
meaning the Left judges people solely by the color of their skin rather
than the content of their character.
According to leftists, WHITE people cannot be “diverse” in any meaningful way
As proof of this, Apple’s “vice president of diversity and inclusion”
Denise Young Smith was recently forced to resign after daring to
proclaim that white people can be diverse. “During a summit in Colombia,
Young Smith, a black woman, claimed she likes to focus ‘on everyone’ and that ‘diversity goes beyond race, gender, and sexual orientation.’” reports Breitbart News.
For daring to suggest that diversity is more than skin deep, Smith
was forced to profusely apologize to everyone. “I’m sorry,” she said.
“More importantly, I want to assure you Apple’s view and our dedication
to diversity has not change.” Weeks later, she was forced to resign.
This is precisely how the Left has earned the nickname “libtards.” To such libtards, diversity is exactly skin deep,
and any person with white skin has no standing whatsoever. In other
words, the Left has become a deranged cabal of intolerant, dangerous
racist totalitarians. Their self-deluded tyranny is so off the charts
that they now declare people to be unworthy of participating in civil
society based solely on the color of their skin — a physical trait that
we’re born with, just like biological sex.
An Apple spokesperson underscored the lunacy of the Left’s spiraling
intolerance by saying, “We deeply believe that diversity drives
innovation,” proclaiming that people should be hired based on whether
they are gay, or transgender, or black rather than based on the quality of their ideas and work. This, again, is now a key tenant of the deranged Left: That the worth of
a human being is no longer measured by their ideas or contributions.
Rather, their entire worth as a human being is now graded solely on how
gay they are, how transgender they are, how Muslim they are, or how much
the pigment in their skin diverges from whiteness.
The Left has reached the depths of insanity and intolerance, and yet they keep on digging deeper. Having once condemned racist white people for judging blacks by the color of their skin, the lunatic Left has now institutionalized the “correctness” of judging people solely on the color of their skin or their commitment to LGBT values. This, to any rational person, is absolute proof that the Left has become a racist totalitarian regime of insane lunatics and crybullies who are desperately seeking power and control over everyone else.
Action item: Reject the Left’s shallow stupidity, intolerance, hatred and racism
The takeaway from all this? It’s time for all rational people to
reject the Left’s skin-deep stupidity, intolerance, hatred and racism.
Amazingly, it’s time to call for the Left to stop being intolerant
bullies and racists.
This means speaking out against left-wing insanity at every
opportunity. Some other actions you can take to help restore sanity
across our society include:
Stop using left-wing tech services like Google and Facebook
Review your own behavior and make sure you are judging people solely by their character, ideas and ethics
Vote against Democrats at every election, as they are now universally running on a platform of hatred and intolerance
Stop watching left-wing Hollywood movies, TV shows and hate-filled comedians such as Jimmy Kimmel
Speak out against schools and universities that teach false anti-science myths (transgenderism) to children
Stop purchasing products and brands from companies that donate money to left-wing groups that spew hatred and intolerance
Delusional Left-wing definitions:
Finally, understand the real terminology of the Left so you can decode their linguistic nonsense.
“Inclusiveness” means advancing the LGBT agenda while insulting straight white men and Christians.
“Tolerance” means agreeing with the Left while calling for the murder of those who oppose your ideas.
“Diversity” means a room full of people with different skin color who all obediently agree on the exact same liberal ideas.
“Equality” means allowing biological male athletes who claim to be
women to beat up actual biological women in Mixed Martial Arts
competitions.
“Cooperation” means silencing those who refuse to cooperate with your agenda.
“Coexistence” means getting along nicely with those who obediently conform to your beliefs.
Or, better yet, as I previously mentioned in a Natural News post that describes the philosophy of the Left:
HILLARY CLINTON LIFTED OUT OF CAR LIKE A NURSING HOME PATIENT, THE HOBBLES AROUND
Alex Jones and Millie Weaver dissect breaking video from Austin, Texas
where Hillary Clinton, yet again, is caught barley being able to hold
herself up, indicating some sort of physical ailment.
REPORTER MILLIE WEAVER ABUSED BY HILLARY'S SECURITY
ON PUBLIC SIDEWALK
Female Reporter Attacked By Angry Mob
At Hillary Event
Infowars reporter Millie Weaver crashes a Hillary Clinton book signing
event in Austin, Texas wearing a Bill Clinton rape shirt asking pointed
questions about Bill's rape cases, Hillary's lies, and the numerous
Clinton corruption scandals. Triggered, Hillary's cult-like fans attack
Millie drawing the attention of Clinton's staffers and security who get
in Millie face and physically 'manhandle' her.
Clinton Slams Sessions' Special Council
Crooked Hillary has lost her mind! She is pushing the narrative that it
would be an egregious abuse of power if President Trump were to
investigate her for any past wrongdoing. She may not know "What
Happened," but she sure won't believe what's in store.
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