SKYE’S LINKS 03/04/21
Have you wondered why the 'Crat supporting media are reporting on Gov. Cuomo's "Me Too" moments instead of simply burying them, as they did with the Hunter Biden laptop emails story? Here is a plausible explanation:
Nolte: Media's MeTooing of Andrew Cuomo Is Really About Protecting Four Democrat Governors
Snowden on the tech oligarchs:
Big tech oligarchs plot to eliminate anonymity:
Bokhari: Microsoft and Friends Want to Destroy Online Privacy
Oklahoma is systemically invoking the 10th Amendment – let’s hope many states follow:
Oklahoma House Passes Bill Allowing Review, Veto of Biden Executive Orders
HOW WOKENESS CAPTURED BIG BUSINESS
What explains the greening of Wall Street with corporate CEOs becoming woke and dissing the system that made them rich?
“With every breath we take,” Apple CEO Tim Cook declared in the wake of George Floyd’s death, “we must commit to being that change, and to creating a better, more just world for everyone.”
There is indeed something nauseating about people claiming to be virtuous when they’re not, but to accuse Apple and Disney of hypocrisy would be to miss the point. Wokeness is directed at transforming America, using Wall Street and corporate America to help bring it about.
Stephen Soukup’s new book, The Dictatorship of Woke Capital: How Political Correctness Captured Big Business, provides the best account so far of how finance capital ended up on the woke side of the culture wars.
LOOKING INTO A BABY LEOPARD’S EYES
There are not many places in Africa where you can do this, where a leopard mother has no fear of your getting this close to her cub. The best place in all Africa is a region of Zambia called South Luangwa, where iconic African wildlife is in vast profusion yet uninhabited by people. And where you can stay in a safari lodge so luxurious it’s hard to believe you’re way out deep in the African bush.
I’ve been traveling to Africa for 50 years now – since 1971 – and have been to every country on the continent, so I know how unique a South Luangwa safari is. If you have a dream of experiencing an African safari once in your life, you might consider here. I can hardly wait to come here again this coming July. Care to join me, to look into a baby leopard’s eyes yourself? (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #117 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
TRUMP’S TRIUMPH AT CPAC
President Trump gave a memorable address on Sunday evening (2/28) to the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC). For such a boffo performance, the Emmy mistakenly awarded to New York Governor Andrew Pinocchio Cuomo should be retrieved and redirected to him.
In one mighty swinging oratorical stroke of 90 minutes, Trump asserted authority over his party, arraigned the new administration for the complete failure to accomplish anything useful in the first 40 of its vaunted 100 days, and then rolled through the Biden executive orders like a bulldozer.
[Note: please refer to the parts of POTUS at CPAC in italics regarding Lord Black’s specific references in the President’s speech.]
CHINA DECLARES GAYS ARE MENTALLY ILL – WHERE’S AMERICA’S WOKE LEFT?
Dissidents have been warning us for years about the nature of China's communist totalitarian regime. But unlike a lot of them, the dictatorship also has money and markets. In the West, especially in Woke America, that means quisling defenders, many with a snoot in the Chicom trough.
So here comes a pitched curve ball for China's clapping seals: courts there have declared homosexuality is a mental illness. This puts China's defenders, nearly all leftists, in an increasingly untenable position – from LeBron James, Disney and all Hollwood, to Apple, Eric Swalwell, and China Joe Xiden.
THE HANGING MONASTERY
The architectural wonder of the Hanging Monastery was built on a vertical cliff face by the Tuoba people of Inner Mongolia over 1,500 years ago (in the 490s). Devout Buddhists and brilliant engineers, they defied gravity by inserting huge wooden crossbeams deep into the cliff to suspend the monastery’s temples, shrines, and monks’ living quarters, connected with bridges, corridors, and boardwalks, out into space.
Liao Mongols in the 900s rebuilt and sustained it, and it has been carefully refurbished and restored in the centuries since. While it remains primarily Buddhist with statues and depictions of Sakyamuni (the historical Buddha of 5th century BC) and Maitreya (the future Buddha), the monks welcome reverence to Taoism and its founder Lao Tzu (4th century BC), as well as Confucius (551-479 BC). Thus you also see shrines and statues of them like nowhere else.
It is a unique and inspiring experience to be here. We’ll be here again in our exploration of Inner Mongolia next year. ((Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #116 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
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Well, thank you very much. And hello, CPAC. Do you miss me yet? Do you miss me yet? A lot of things going on. There’s so many wonderful friends, conservatives and fellow citizens in this room and all across our country. I stand before you today to declare that the incredible journey we’ve begun together, we went through a journey like nobody else. There’s never been a journey like it. There’s never been a journey so successful. We began it together four years ago, and it is far from being over. We’ve just started.
THE TERRACE OF INFINITY
Over a thousand feet on a mountain ledge above Amalfi on the Mediterranean, you’ll find the Terrazzo dell'lnfinito, considered by poets for centuries the most beautiful view in the world. It is part of the magnificent gardens of the 11th century Villa Cimbrone, in the hilltop town of Ravello, built by the Romans in the 5th century.
The Sorrentine Peninsula is a finger of land south of Naples sticking out into the Med’s Tyrrhanean Sea, off the tip of which is the legendary island of Capri. The main town of Sorrento is on the north side facing Naples and Mount Vesuvius. But it is the steep southern shore of the Amalfi Coast that is our planet’s most spectacularly scenic drive with its ancient ports of Amalfi and Positano.
Exploring this magical part of the world is an ultimate “bucket list” experience. And to top it off, on the way down from Naples, you get to visit Pompeii, the excavated Roman city buried and preserved by the ash of Vesuvius in 79 AD. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #115 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
THE DNA SOLUTION TO THE EQUALITY ACT
HR 5: The Equality Act of 2021, passed by the House 224-206 on February 25, 2021, amends the term “sex” meaning male or female to include “sexual orientation and gender identity” in the 1964 Civil Rights Act as currently amended.
Abraham Lincoln was fond of asking a question of people to test their intelligence: “If you call a dog’s tail a leg, how many legs does the dog have?” If a person answered, “Five,” Lincoln knew he was talking with someone not very smart. “No,” he’d reply, “the correct answer is Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”
We need, then, a solution to the Feds forcing Fake Reality upon us at the point of a government gun. Here it is. Feel fully free to send it to any coach, athletic department, school administrator, city council member, state legislator, or member of Congress you may know.