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Calling the strategic alliance of the US, India, Japan and Australia aimed at deterring a Chinese attack on Taiwan "an aggressive encirclement," Beijing's former ambassador to the UN, Sha Zukang says his country "must consider the option of a first-strike nuclear response." Sha went on to characterize "the US's passive measures to undermine the effectiveness of China's strategic forces in their righteous effort to reunite this breakaway province with the mother country" as "a criminal conspiracy to deny our sovereignty over our whole country. The US cannot rely on us to forbear the use of whatever force is needed to...

Facebook's head of security policy Nathaniel Gleicher says the social network platform "will implement "extreme censorship of the German anti-lockdown movement." "These people are demanding freedoms that their own government has determined are a hazard to public health," Gleicher explained. "If we allow them to publish their dissenting views it could lead to others deciding to disobey the directives and mandates their governments have imposed on society. Here in America we have a subculture that immorally asserts that individuals have a right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. These quaint notions are out of step with the modern era....

On September 20, AD 2011, my father, Fred J. Di Leo, passed away at the age of 80. Dad was special, in many ways… An active member of his parish, a retired middle manager at Standard Oil of Indiana, a wonderful actor in Park Ridge community theater in the 1970s and 80s. Dad had been a competitive pistol marksman in the 1950s, then a park commissioner and Republican party activist in Evanston in the 1960s and 70s, and his life was full of thousands of wonderful moments, so many wonderful anecdotes to remember him by. Normally, I write a Facebook...

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Microsoft is announcing that Windows 11 will be released on October 5th. The new operating system will be available as a free upgrade for eligible Windows 10 PCs, or on new hardware that ships with Windows 11 pre-loaded.The free upgrade to Windows 11 will start rolling out on October 5th, but like many Windows upgrades in the past, it will be available in phases. New eligible devices will be offered the upgrade first, and then Windows 11 will become available for more in-market devices in the weeks and months following October 5th.“Following the tremendous learnings from Windows 10, we want...

The computers got it wrong. The losing candidates were declared and certified as the "winners." But they didn't actually receive more votes than their opponents. This time, we happened to find out. As long-time readers of The BRAD BLOG know, there's a reason we routinely slam election officials and media for announcing wholly-unverified computer-reported results of elections before any of the ballots are actually examined by human beings. So called, post-election "random audits" of a tiny number of paper ballots --- where paper ballots exist, where officials even bother to do that much --- are almost always useless, easily gamed,...

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE– A brave whistleblower stepped forward and shared an image of a computer that was used at the TCF Center to process absentee ballots from a recent Detroit election. According to our whistleblower, who had access to the room where absentee ballots were being counted, Wayne County election workers were instructed to keep laptops used in the counting facility on “airplane mode” at all times. .... Snip.... We shared the image of the computer screen with the former two-term MI Senator Patrick Colbeck. He explained to us that the image could be “an internal network, but definitely vulnerable to...

Last night, while playing the Back 4 Blood beta on PS5, I was attacked by a large group of zombies. That’s not surprising; it happens all the time in the game. What was shocking was hearing a sound clip from one of the zombies that made it seem like it was yelling out a racial slur. Based on viral videos making the rounds right now, I’m not the only one hearing that similarity. Other beta players say they’re hearing the same thing: Zombies yelling the n-word. Back 4 Blood is the latest game from original Left 4 Dead developers Turtle...

The AP reported (emphasis added): Key elements of the first federal technology standards for voting equipment in 15 years should be scrapped because language that would have banned the devices from connecting to the internet was dropped after private meetings held with manufacturers, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday. The lawsuit against the U.S. Election Assistance Commission [EAC], filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., claims those meetings should have been open and that changes to the draft standards should have been shared with the commission’s advisory and standards boards. The lawsuit seeks to have those changes set...

Twitter on Wednesday unlocked the account of a Just the News reporter after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the COVID-19 tweet in question was indeed correct. The tweet Tuesday night stated a well established medical fact – one backed by the CDC – that not everyone should be injected with vaccines. Reporter Greg Piper tweeted "Vaccines are not safe for everyone." The post also linked to a report by the higher education news website the College Fix detailing Brigham Young University's refusal to grant an exception to its vaccine mandate for a student with a potentially complicating...

Ron Watkins – CodeMonkeyZ — released several photos on Monday leaked to him from an alleged Dominion Voting Systems employee and whistleblower. The documents prove that Dominion has remote access to their equipment during the elections. This is a HUGE development.

Two of the largest news publications in the country, the Associated Press (AP) and Reuters, have teamed up with one of the leading tech giants, Twitter, in a new partnership to crack down on “misinformation” and “elevate credible information,” the Daily Caller reports. Twitter confirmed the new alliance in a blog post, saying that the two publications would be responsible for identifying “misleading” information, and to help Twitter expand its efforts to mediate trending stories, “especially where facts are in dispute.” The websites will also help Twitter staff whenever they lack “sufficient expertise or access to a high enough volume...

Presidential Press Secretary Jen Psaki boasted that "due to an evolution in 'outside-the-box' thinking that has energized the Biden Administration, the problem of unpatriotic dissemination of false narratives has been solved." "A key breakthrough was achieved when Attorney General Merrick Garland pointed out that the prohibition against government censorship in the Constitution applies only to Congress," she said. "Specifically, it says Congress shall pass no law abridging freedom of speech. There is no prohibition against the President doing this by executive order. Neither does it bar private corporations from censoring anyone it wants to censor." "Luckily, the major social media...

VIDEOAccording to the YouTube CENSORSHIP policy that got one of my recent videos on the subject of masks taken down along with a guidelines strike against this channel, almost ALL the current discussions on that subject during school board meetings are also taboo. So does that mean YouTube, if they are consistent with their own guidelines, is going to have to take down dozens, if not hundreds, of school board videos? And such videos are going up with increasing frequency because the federal government is now changing their policy on wearing masks, thus causing complaints from parents at school board...

Aproximately 59 million Americans spanning five states can't buy Dell's high-end Alienware brand desktop PCs "due to power consumption regulations."When one goes to the Dell Alienware online configurator to buy an Aurora R12 gaming desktop, a special notice appears which reads:This product cannot be shipped to the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont or Washington due to power consumption regulations adopted by those states. Any orders placed that are bound for those states will be canceled.

Think of YouTube nowadays and what is the first thing that comes to mind? For many people it is censorship. It started out slow with a lot of people thinking, “Oh, Alex Jones was shut down but it will go no further.” Well, they were wrong. Alex Jones was merely Censorship Patient Zero and we are all now the new Alex Joneses (keeping up with the Joneses?)In the past two or three years, YouTube censorship has gotten egregious to the point of absolute absurdity. In addition, channels that are punished for being in violation of their guidelines often have the...

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Editor’s Commentary: One of the things that makes Dr. Joseph Mercola and independent journalist Whitney Webb so special is their willingness to speak the truth at great personal cost. But if there’s one complaint, it’s that they often “bury the lede” and leave the readers or viewers to connect the dots. Some of this is due to politeness, but it’s mostly due to concerns over censorship, cancel culture, and financial repercussions. ========================================================================================= Perhaps I’m just a glutton for censorship but I’ll come right out and say what most of you already know. Google is an evil company comprised of a...

Dr. Charles Morgan speaks to cadets and faculty at West Point about a range of topics, including psychology, neurobiology, and the science of humans at war. Dr. Morgan's neurobiological and forensic research has established him as an international expert in post-traumatic stress disorder, eyewitness memory, and human performance under conditions of high stress. The event was organized and hosted by the Modern War Institute at West Point. https://youtu.be/cTtIPBPSv0U

The Biden administration today formally blamed China for the hack that took place in March of Microsoft Exchange servers and said the actions involved criminal hackers who have carried out other ransomware and cyber-attack operations as well, holding people up for millions of dollars. The U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre said the groups also targeted maritime industries and naval defense contractors in the U.S. and Europe and the Finnish parliament, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the hacking was “conducted from the territory of China for the purpose of intellectual property theft and espionage.”So now that the Biden Administration...