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Australian lawmakers agreed Friday to enable world-first legislation that will make Alphabet’s Google and Facebook pay publishers for content. The news media code, which Google has complained is “unworkable”, makes Australia the first country to challenge the market dominance of the U.S. tech giants. “The bill will now be considered by the parliament from the week commencing 15 February 2021,” Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said in an emailed confirmation, Reuters reports. As Breitbart News reported, the Australian push to rein in media companies has been months in the making and led to claim and counter-claim by Big Tech operators that making...

With the Democratic control in Washington, there appears no chance that the next pandemic relief bill will include one of the most high-profile items from previous negotiations: virus-related lawsuit limits for responsible businesses. It looks as if businesses that simply did their best to stay open, scrape by, and serve consumers as safely as they could during the pandemic will have to keep waiting and hoping. And it is pretty easy to figure out why these businesses are being left out — commonsense lawsuit limits would run afoul of the nation’s trial lawyers, who are favored allies of Senate Majority...

Won’t someone think of the children? Perhaps, but it won’t be the teachers unions. They aren’t called the children’s unions, after all. Those union contracts negotiated not with someone representing taxpayer interests but the state government, which is uniformly Democratic and decides the salary/benifit increases knowing a portion is funneled back to the party’s campaign coffers, and round and round we go. The teachers unions are the reason students aren’t in school...but Biden is flagrantly disregarding infectious disease experts and federal health institutions while undermining their position among the public. And so, press sec. Psaki has been sent out day...

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has finally recognized that the masks they’ve had everyone wearing for the better part of a year are largely ineffective because aerosols easily go around the top and sides. Their latest recommendation is “placing a sleeve made of sheer nylon hosiery material around the neck and pulling it up over either a cloth or medical procedure mask,” or using knots and tucking to fit a mask closely to the face. They came up with these techniques in experiments with mannequins in a lab and have not tested them on actual humans. They have...

1. LONG - TERM PARKING Some people left their car in the long-term parking at San Jose while away, and someone broke into the car. Using the information on the car's registration in the glove compartment, they drove the car to the people's home in Pebble Beach and robbed it. So I guess if we are going to leave the car in long-term parking, we should NOT leave the registration/insurance cards in it, nor your remote garage door opener This gives us something to think about with all our new electronic technology. 2. GPS: Someone had their car broken into...

WASHINGTON - More than $50 billion in funding is on its way to New York State as part of President Biden’s enormous $1.9 trillion coronavirus rescue package, The Post has learned. The bailout includes $12.6 billion in New York state coronavirus recovery funding and $10.64 billion for local governments, Pelosi wrote in the letter obtained by The Post. Another $12.3 billion has been earmarked for the state’s shuttered schools while the Empire State’s run down transit system would receive an $8.8 billion infusion. New York airports are earmarked for $418 million in the aid bill and small businesses will be...

In a nutshell, the definition of socialism is not tax and regulation policies, but whether the government says it is a socialist government. As long as it doesn't use those words, it is not socialist. 100% taxation and 100% regulatory policies and it's not socialist, because it hasn't called itself that. Question: Is it true that it is okay in USA if someone said that they love the US healthcare system because they derive immense pleasure/gratification from seeing low income people suffer, but saying this is taboo in Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand? Me: No, but it is more...

Paraprosdokians are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected, and is frequently humorous. (Winston Churchill loved them.) 1. Where there's a will, I want to be in it. 2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you -- but it's still on my list. 3. Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until they speak. 4. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong. 5. We never really grow up -- we only learn how to act in public. 6. War does not determine...

At least six pirate skeletons were recently discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of Cape Cod. The remains were unearthed from the wreck site of the Whydah, which sank near the town of Wellfleet in 1717, according to The Boston Globe. Investigators at the Whydah Pirate Museum said the skeletons were identified in several large concretions, or hard masses of minerals, from the wreck site. They are now being examined by a team of archeologists led by underwater explorer Barry Clifford, who discovered the Whydah in 1984, the museum said.

The first ever mention of Sherlock Holmes came in A Study in Scarlet, published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual of 1887. Dr Watson is looking for lodgings, and meets an old acquaintance who knows of someone he could share with, but does not recommend. More than 130 years on, Holmes remains Watson’s, and our, almost constant companion. Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective landed a Guinness World Record for the most frequently portrayed human literary character in film and television in 2012, beaten only by the (non-human) Dracula. He remains enduringly popular on screen: when Benedict Cumberbatch plunged off the roof at the...

“The electric bills don't stop, the other bills don’t stop.”A country pub in Somerset is being forced to throw away £700 worth of pints as a result of the third lockdown in England. England entered its third lockdown on January 5, although The Crown Inn in Catcott was forced to close its doors under tougher tier restrictions from Boxing Day. This family pub, just off the A39 between Bridgwater and Glastonbury, is run by Daniel Kilduff, the son of Rowena Kingston, who ran it with her husband for 12 years. Mrs Kingston said: "Although we guessed the lockdown may be...

With the 20th anniversary of the Afghanistan war now just around the corner, Americans might reasonably wonder whether the nation’s longest war is ever going to end. After carefully considering the question, two retired four-star generals, two former U.S. senators, three ambassadors, a former national security adviser, and several other august personages have weighed in with an opinion: not if they can help it. Policy wonks who have been waiting with bated breath can now exhale: the congressionally mandated Afghanistan Study Group (ASG) has published its findings. The panel of grandees comprising the ASG has produced a most handsome document....

Gilly Regev says her 'hand sanitiser for the nose' is inexpensive and can be distributed to poorer countries to stop the spread of the virusThe Israeli co-founder of a nasal spray that kills 99.9% of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, has told Jewish News that she believes the spray will be a game changer in the fight against Covid-19. Dr Gilly Regev, who co-founded SaNOtize Research and Development Corp. based in Vancouver, Canada explained via telephone that “If you use it daily, I really believe you won’t be affected by Covid-19. We have shown in the clinical trials that the...

Rabbi Rebecca Birk takes a controversial topic from Jewish texts and looks at a progressive Jewish responseThe Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine at Falls Surgery on the Falls Road, Belfast, after injections of the coronavirus vaccine started in Northern Ireland GP practices on Monday. The Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine at Falls Surgery on the Falls Road, Belfast, after injections of the coronavirus vaccine started in Northern Ireland GP practices on Monday. One of the strangest things over the last year has been the doubters. From the flamboyant conspiracy theorists and the flagrant rejection of science to those resisting guidelines and safety measures, believing...

Police have named a 29-year-old graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a person of interest in the fatal shooting of a Yale University student last weekend. Qinxuan Pan, who was last seen at a hotel in North Haven, Connecticut is being sought for questioning in the death of 26-year-old Kevin Jiang. Pan “is not a suspect at this time,” New Haven police chief Otoniel Reyes said at a Wednesday press conference.

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar is rising on the House Foreign Affairs Committee as she steps into the role of vice chairwoman of the subcommittee with jurisdiction over Africa and global human rights issues. Omar's office said her new position was being announced Thursday in Washington. The panel's full name is the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations.

Testimony showing Ghislaine Maxwell claiming to have never given a massage to her perverted ex Jeffrey Epstein — or to anyone else — was unsealed in a civil case Thursday, after she lost a legal fight to keep it under wraps. The excerpt — which is at the heart of a perjury case against the British socialite and alleged madam — was part of a July 2016 deposition Maxwell gave in a civil defamation suit brought against her by Virginia Giuffre, who claims she was recruited by Maxwell to be abused by Epstein and his associates. “Did you ever give...

Answer:A Breitbart News Poll got this response...Yes-3.62% (937 votes) No-96.38% (24,952 votes).