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  • Group gains against Electoral College

    04/07/2009 12:05:23 PM PDT · by BGHater · 26 replies · 978+ views
    The Washington Times ^ | 06 Apr 2009 | Valerie Richardson
    Seeks power of popular vote A movement to bypass the Electoral College and elect the president based on the popular vote is gaining steam, racking up almost one-fifth of the support needed to trigger the plan. National Popular Vote, a California-based group formed in 2006, has won commitments from four states to award their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote. Those four states — Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois and Hawaii — have 50 electoral votes among them. The goal is for states with a total of 270 electoral votes to enter into a compact in which they...
  • Dissenters in GOP rethink Electoral College [Fred Thompson joins those trying to destroy it]

    06/03/2011 7:25:02 PM PDT · by EternalVigilance · 176 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | June 2, 2011 | Valerie Richardson
    Popular-vote pact picks up steam A once-sleepy movement that would upend the Electoral College, reverse two centuries of constitutional practice and elect presidents by direct popular vote has quietly picked up momentum in recent days, with Republican Party leaders scrambling to stanch a steady stream of defections by GOP state lawmakers to the plan. *snip* Under the idea introduced in 2006 by Stanford University consulting professor John Koza, states that join the NPV compact pledge to give all of their electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote - even if a majority of the state’s...
  • Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion profile quietly removed from Stanford extremist group list

    06/30/2024 4:50:04 AM PDT · by delta7 · 28 replies
    Noir ^ | 29 June 25 | Sam Carlen
    The government-funded research project's mysterious removal of Azov’s profile was followed by a State Department decision to allow the controversial right-wing unit to receive U.S. military aid Stanford University’s Mapping Militants Project (MMP), a U.S. Government-funded initiative that conducts research on “violent militant or extremist organizations,” quietly removed their profile on the Azov Battalion early last month. The Azov Battalion (now known as the 12th Special Purpose Brigade “Azov”) is a Ukrainian National Guard unit infamous for its use of neo-Nazi insignia, recruitment of far-right foreign fighters, and alleged war crimes. The Stanford MMP’s mysterious removal of its Azov profile...
  • A CIA Officer Visits Moscow, Returns With Mysterious, Crippling Headaches

    10/29/2020 8:36:24 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 29 replies
    npr ^ | Greg Myre
    During 26 years at the CIA, Marc Polymeropoulos spent a lot of time in rough places, like war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. But he never suffered any harm until December 2017, when he was sound asleep at a Marriott Hotel in Moscow near the U.S. Embassy. "I was awoken in the middle of the night," recalled Polymeropoulos, 51. "I just had incredible vertigo, dizziness. I wanted to throw up. The room was spinning. I couldn't even stand up without falling down. I had tinnitus ringing in my ears." He suspected a bad case of food poisoning and carried on...
  • A major disinformation research center’s future looks uncertain

    06/14/2024 11:13:50 AM PDT · by The_Media_never_lie · 24 replies
    The Verge ^ | June 14, 2024 | Mia Sato
    The Stanford Internet Observatory, a small but prominent research group studying abuse on social media platforms, looks to be in crisis, according to a report by Platformer. Some key staff have departed recently, including founding director Alex Stamos and research director Renée DiResta, Platformer reports. A handful of staff have left recently after not having their contracts renewed, and other members have been told to look for other jobs. Platformer describes the turmoil as a “dismantling” of the research group. Stanford Internet Observatory research centers on some of the most pressing types of abuse online, including threats to democracy and...
  • Pro-Palestinian demonstrators arrested at Stanford University after occupying president's office ["An AP journalist on campus saw walls spray-painted political slogans calling for the destruction of the U.S. and Israel, as well as killing police."]

    06/05/2024 11:49:21 PM PDT · by grundle · 14 replies
    Associated Press via Yahoo ^ | June 5, 2024 | TERRY CHEA and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ
    STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Police arrested 13 people at Stanford University after pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied the school president and provost’s offices early Wednesday, causing what officials described as “extensive” vandalism inside and outside the building. The takeover began around dawn on the last day of spring classes at the university in California’s Silicon Valley, and ended three hours later. Some protesters barricaded themselves inside the building while others linked arms outside, The Stanford Daily reported. The group chanted “Palestine will be free, we will free Palestine.” Stanford students who participated in Wednesday's protest would be immediately suspended, and any seniors...
  • Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Top 50 Organizations to Know | The citizen's starter kit to understanding the new global information cartel

    05/16/2024 3:40:58 AM PDT · by ransomnote · 13 replies
    racket.news ^ | May 10, 2023 | Susan Schmidt, Andrew Lowenthal ,Tom Wyatt and 5 others, Intro Matt Taibbi
    ransomnote: I posted Matt Taibbi's introduction to the article below. Follow the link for the core of the article.Susan Schmidt, Andrew Lowenthal, Tom Wyatt and 5 others provide a well organized overview to their extensive research. They describe 30 main players in the Censorship-Industrial Complex (CIC), and another 20 in the 'honorable mentions' catagory. I will put a hyperlinked table of contents in post #1. Illustration by mrmooremedia.comIntroduction by Matt TaibbiOn January 17, 1961, outgoing President and former Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower gave one of the most consequential speeches in American history. Eisenhower for eight years had been...
  • FOIA Files: Garry Kasparov Resigns from Aspen Institute Commission, Compares it to Soviet Committee

    05/23/2024 7:09:10 AM PDT · by george76 · 24 replies
    Racket News ^ | MAY 23, 2024 | MATT TAIBBI
    "If I'm being honest...This type of approach was common practice in the USSR.".. On April 22, 2021, the Aspen Institute — an influential civil society group that draws funding from several federal agencies and in recent years has become an odd hodge-podge of boutique-left ideas and hardcore security-state rhetoric — announced that a “Commission on Information Disorder” would be preparing a major report, one that: Aims to identify and prioritize the most critical sources and causes of information disorder and deliver a set of short-term actions and longer-term goals to help government, the private sector, and civil society respond to...
  • PROFESSOR SUSPENDED AFTER SUGGESTING COLLEGE PROTESTERS SHOULD MURDER SPEAKERS THEY DON’T LIKE

    03/28/2023 7:46:49 AM PDT · by ConservativeInPA · 53 replies
    Outkick ^ | March 28, 2023 | David Hookstead
    Wayne State professor Steven Shaviro has been suspended after allegedly suggesting college protesters kill campus speakers they don’t like. Stanford was recently engulfed by protests and chaos when federal judge Kyle Duncan was invited to speak to campus. Stanford University Law School associate dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Tirien Steinbach suggested Duncan’s speech was causing pain. She was later placed on leave, according to Fox News.
  • One third of Stanford students OK with violence to shut down speech: report

    05/08/2024 7:55:16 AM PDT · by george76 · 24 replies
    College Fix ^ | MAY 7, 2024 | Samantha Swenson
    Survey comes after federal judge shouted down on campus More than one third of Stanford University students say using physical violence to stop a speech is acceptable in at least some circumstances, according to a new report. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression conducted the survey after federal Judge Kyle Duncan’s speech on campus was shouted down last year. The report evaluated students’ perspectives about free speech on campus and protests in the aftermath of the event. FIRE Chief Research Advisor Sean Stevens told The College Fix the research found “considerably higher” support for canceling a speaker among Stanford...
  • 13 Federal Judges Say They Will No Longer Hire Law Clerks From Columbia University, Citing ‘Virulent Spread of Antisemitism’ and ‘Explosion of Student Disruptions’

    05/06/2024 11:43:22 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 13 replies
    Free Beacon ^ | May 6, 2024 | Aaron Sibarium
    Thirteen federal judges said Monday that they would no longer hire law clerks from Columbia College or Columbia Law School after the university allowed an encampment on its lawn to spiral into a destructive occupation of a campus building. The judges cited the "explosion of student disruptions" and the "virulent spread of antisemitism" at Columbia, which has now canceled its main graduation ceremony because of the unrest. Led by appellate judges James Ho and Elizabeth Branch, who spearheaded a clerkship boycott of Yale Law School in 2022 and Stanford Law School in 2023, as well as by Matthew Solomson on...
  • Stanford University submits photo of encampment protester wearing Hamas headband to FBI

    05/02/2024 12:38:04 PM PDT · by Tench_Coxe · 25 replies
    Officials at Stanford University submitted a photo of someone on campus wearing a green headband worn by Hamas terrorist fighters to the FBI as the school struggles to reign in anti-Israel protesters camping overnight on school property.Like at other universities across the country, anti-Israel students at Stanford have created an encampment in the White Plaza portion of the northern California college campus to protest Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip.A photo of someone at the encampment wearing a green headband, a face covering and glasses eventually came to the attention of school administrators.
  • DEI Conquers Stanford - The university now has at least 177 bureaucrats dedicated to left-wing racialism.

    05/02/2024 6:19:16 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 22 replies
    City Journal ^ | 29 Apr, 2024 | Christopher F. Rufo
    Stanford University, its campus lined with redwoods and eucalyptus trees, has long been known as a hub for innovation and entrepreneurship. But in recent years, another ideological force has taken root: “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” a euphemism for left-wing racialism. DEI, in fact, has conquered Stanford. I have obtained exclusive analysis from inside Stanford outlining the incredible size and scope of the university’s DEI bureaucracy. According to this analysis, Stanford employs at least 177 full-time DEI bureaucrats, spread throughout the university’s various divisions and departments. Stanford’s DEI mandate is the same as those of other universities: advance the principles of...
  • The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco [Left-wing editorial about counter-progressives]

    04/29/2024 8:11:28 AM PDT · by nwrep · 28 replies
    The New Republic ^ | April 27, 2024 | Gil Duran
    <p>To fully grasp the current situation in San Francisco, where venture capitalists are trying to take control of City Hall, you must listen to Balaji Srinivasan. Before you do, steel yourself for what’s to come: A normal person could easily mistake his rambling train wrecks of thought for a crackpot’s ravings, but influential Silicon Valley billionaires regard him as a genius.</p>
  • Stanford scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don't have free will

    04/02/2024 5:31:02 AM PDT · by Lazamataz · 71 replies
    MSN ^ | 10/17/2023 | Story by Corinne Purtill
    Before epilepsy was understood to be a neurological condition, people believed it was caused by the moon, or by phlegm in the brain. They condemned seizures as evidence of witchcraft or demonic possession, and killed or castrated sufferers to prevent them from passing tainted blood to a new generation. Today we know epilepsy is a disease. It’s accepted that a person who causes a fatal traffic accident while in the grip of a seizure should not be charged with murder. That’s good, says Stanford University neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky. That’s progress. But there's still a long way to go. After more...
  • Barack Obama Calls at Downing Street for Mystery Meeting

    03/18/2024 10:43:31 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 57 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/18/2024 | OLIVER JJ LANE
    Former U.S. President Barack Obama called in at the British Prime Minister’s official residence on Monday, but the office is keeping tight-lipped about the purpose of the one-hour meeting. Barack Obama surprised when he turned up at Rishi Sunak’s front door on Monday, going inside the historic Downing Street residence for an hour and meeting with the Prime Minister. Former President Obama walked up to the famous black door alone but later emerged alongside the U.S. Ambassador to London Jane Hartley. Former US President Barack Obama has arrived at 10 Downing Street for a private meeting. pic.twitter.com/l9hZEHyYvp — Harry Stedman...
  • ‘Run by the Mob’: How Anti-Semites Took Over Stanford’s Campus

    02/16/2024 4:19:44 PM PST · by KingofZion · 19 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | February 16, 2024 | Aaron Sibarium
    On January 24, Stanford University held a forum on combating anti-Semitism. The event, which featured Stanford president Richard Saller and provost Jenny Martinez, was meant to reassure Jewish students that the university had their back amid the wave of anti-Semitism sweeping college campuses.... The events that transpired that night undercut that message. By the end of the evening, protesters had physically threatened Jewish students, harassed a rabbi, and told employees of the elite university that they would "find out where you live." David Schuller, 24, a yarmulke-wearing graduate student in Stanford’s physics department, found himself surrounded by a mob of...
  • Stanford Stories From the Archives

    02/13/2024 10:37:08 AM PST · by DallasBiff · 9 replies
    Stanford Libraries ^ | none given | Stanford Libraries
    Jesse Jackson and students protest Western Culture program on Palm Drive, photograph, 1987 By the mid-1980s, increasing dissatisfaction with the introductory humanities program known as “Western Culture” that had begun in 1980 came to the fore. The program was criticized for its lack of diversity and its predominantly Eurocentric readings. Students advocated for a curriculum that included ethnic minority and women authors. On January 15, 1987, as many as 500 students, along with the Reverend Jesse Jackson, rallied down Palm Drive chanting, "Hey hey, ho ho, Western Civ has got to go." The curriculum debate drew national attention, and in...
  • DISARM IS A DYSTOPIAN GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE TOOL TO IDENTIFY, CATALOG, AND COMBAT MISINFORMATION.

    01/20/2024 7:40:37 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 17 replies
    Sonar21.com ^ | 19 Jan, 2024 | Bob Bishop
    The keynote speaker of the World Economic Forum’s 2024 annual conference in Davos was Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission President. She stated the top global risk for the EU is disinformation and misinformation, declaring disinformation destroys trust and limits the ability to “tackle the big global challenges.” In plain English, trust can only be restored by censoring inconvenient facts and evidence. Below is a short clip (1:39) highlighting her disinformation sermon. The top risk in the WEF’s 2024 Global Risk Report is disinformation. If not controlled, societies will be polarized, elections will be disrupted, and there will be mistrust...
  • Want to stop disinformation? Censor the President

    12/01/2023 6:24:24 AM PST · by Starman417 · 10 replies
    Flopping Aces ^ | 12-1-23 | DrJohn
    Joe Biden is actively working to suppress or eliminate Americans' First Amendment rights. Government agencies have been weaponized to assist. The cadre of agencies has become known as the Censorship Industrial Complex. Today we got another look into those who would take everything from us. The Department of Homeland Security is looking to not only pry your First Amendment rights from you, but to change the outcome of elections. Now, newly released Department of Homeland Security (DHS) emails, obtained by the House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green and Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Chairman Dan Bishop, suggest...